The Caledonia Mills Poltergeist

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🗓️ 5 December 2022

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Episode 247: In January of 1922, the first of a series of fires broke out on a farm in the small rural community of Caledonia Mills in Antigonish County, Nova Scotia. The family who lived at the farm, Alexander, 70, and sixty-nine-year-old Janet MacDonald, 69, and their 15-year-old adopted daughter Mary-Ellen, claimed the unexplained blazes, 30 in all, had begun in rapid succession in places not close to either wood stove. The fires and other terrifying occurrences that drove them out of the home, they believed, were caused by a malicious poltergeist bent on their destruction and focused around Mary-Ellen. News of the events brought renowned international investigators of things paranormal, even catching the attention of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, author of the Sherlock Holmes detective stories. Sources: Caledonia Mills: The Mary Ellen Spook Farm Case Fire Spook by Monica Graham - Ebook | Scribd Ghost Stories of Canada by John Robert Colombo, Jillian Hulme Gilliland - Ebook | Scribd The Mary Ellen Spook Folklore | Visit Antigonish Caledonia Mills - Wikipedia Folklore of Nova Scotia by Mary L. Fraser Antigonish Heritage Museum - The Old Train Station News - Newsletter 8, Oct 2009 Hobgoblin - Wikipedia Apparitions Of Black Dogs Black Shuck: The Legendary Devil Dog Of The English Countryside Investigating the Antigonish Fire Spook Haunting PSICAN - Paranormal Studies and Inquiry Canada - Caledonia Mills Fire Spook American Society for Psychical Research A look back at the mysterious haunting of an Antigonish County farm, 100 years later | CBC News More Canadian Poltergeists The Mysterious Fire Spook of Caledonia Hills Phantoms and Monsters - Real Cryptid Encounter Reports - Fortean Researcher Lon Strickler Seeks Ghosts: Poltergeist: Fire Spook, Part l Dark Visions: Personal Accounts of the Mysterious in Canada - John Robert Colombo - Google Books Le cas curieux de la ferme Mary Ellen Spook - PREUVES DU PARANORMAL poltergeist | Chambers Dictionary of the Unexplained - Credo Reference spr.ac.uk | Glossary | spr.ac.uk Lexscien: Library of Exploratory Science Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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