Legends 55: Different Paths (ad-free)

Some regions of North America might have taken different routes through history to our own, but that doesn’t mean the legends they’ve collected are any less terrifying.

Narrated and produced by Aaron Mahnke, with writing by Alex Robinson and research by Cassandra de Alba.

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• “1 man dead, 1 seriously injured after falling into water off Peggys Cove.” CBC News. April 12, 2022. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/peggys-cove-rescue-recovery-1.6416713 

• “The 17 Most Haunted Places in Canada.” Haunted Rooms America. [n.d.] https://www.hauntedrooms.com/canada/haunted-places 

• “Bridegroom Kills Himself.” The Reading Daily Times and Dispatch. November 15, 1900. https://www.newspapers.com/image/46393986/ 

• Bundale, Brett. “Ghost stories from the Halifax restaurant that once served as the Titanic’s morgue.” Global News. May 8, 2017. https://globalnews.ca/news/3434202/eerie-encounters-at-the-five-fisherman-a-historic-halifax-eatery/ 

• Burden, George. “Exiled On Devils Island – For About Two Hours.” Life as a Human. October 6, 2011. https://lifeasahuman.com/2011/arts-culture/culture/exiled-on-devils-island-for-about-two-hours/ 

• “Canadian War Brides.” Government of Canada. November 15, 2021. https://www.veterans.gc.ca/en/remembrance/history/second-world-war/canadian-war-brides 

• “Cavalier Building.” Parks Canada Directory of Federal Heritage Designations. [n.d.] https://www.pc.gc.ca/apps/dfhd/page_fhbro_eng.aspx?id=6937 

• Chan, Emily. “Creepy Canadian haunts where tourists might encounter a ghost.” CTV News. October 28, 2015. https://www.ctvnews.ca/5-things/creepy-canadian-haunts-where-tourists-might-encounter-a-ghost-1.2629828 

• Creighton, Helen. Bluenose Ghosts (McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1957).

• Degarthe, William E. This is Peggy’s Cove (Read Books Limited, 2013).

• “Devil’s Island Lighthouse.” Lighthouse Friends. [n.d.] https://www.lighthousefriends.com/light.asp?ID=1422 

• Ferguson, Bekah. “The Grey Lady of the Cavalier, Nova Scotia.” Storyteller Bekah Ferguson. May 30, 2020. https://www.bekahferguson.com/the-grey-lady-of-the-cavalier/ 

• “Five Fishermen Restaurant.” Atlas Obscura. January 5, 2017. https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/five-fishermen-restaurant 

• “The Four Citadels.” Government of Canada. [n.d.] https://parks.canada.ca/lhn-nhs/ns/halifax/culture/histoire-history/citadelles-4-citadels 

• “George Edwards.” Find a Grave. [n.d.] https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/74282171/george-edwards 

• “Ghost Cases: The Terrifying Haunts of Titanic.” Shiver. March 4, 2021. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rkvnm3BBKZ4 

• “‘Ghost of the Grey lady’ Halifax NS.” Nova Scotia Ghost Stories, Folklore and Legends. November 2016. https://caretakersparanormalinvestigations.blogspot.com/2016/11/grey-lady-of-citadel.html 

• “Halifax careful to commemorate, not celebrate, anniversary of Titanic’s sinking.” CityNews. April 14, 2012. https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2012/04/14/halifax-careful-to-commemorate-not-celebrate-anniversary-of-titanics-sinking/ 

• “Halifax explosion.” Encyclopedia Britannica. November 12, 2024. https://www.britannica.com/event/Halifax-explosion 

• “Halifax Harbour.” All The King’s Men. [n.d.] http://novascotiafolkloreandhistory.blogspot.com/p/captain-rous-henneberrys-and-devils.html 

• Hanc, John. “When Nova Scotia Almost Joined the American Revolution.” Smithsonian. June 5, 2017. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/when-nova-scotia-almost-joined-american-revolution-180963564/ 

• “Haunting Secrets Unveiled: Ghost Tours at Citadel Hill | The Story of The Grey Lady | Halifax | NS.” Destination Earth. July 7, 2023. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKE2NWQDw2k 

• “History.” 5 Fishermen. [n.d.] https://www.fivefishermen.com/history/ 

• “Investigation: Devil’s Island, Nova Scotia.” Nova Scotia Paranormal Events. August 28, 2011. https://nsparanormal.blogspot.com/2011/08/investigation-devils-island-nova-scotia.html 

• Jessome, Bill. Maritime Mysteries and the Ghosts Who Surround Us (Nimbus Publishing, 1999).

• Kinsman, Brian. “Ghosts.” The Friends of McNabs Island Society. April 1995. https://mcnabsisland.ca/ghosts 

• “News of the City.” The Evening Mail [Halifax, NS]. November 12, 1900. https://www.newspapers.com/image/775785945/ 

• Nicolson, E. “Ghosts of the 1917 Halifax Explosion.” HubPages. March 31, 2010. https://discover.hubpages.com/religion-philosophy/Ghosts-of-the-Halifax-Explosion-1917 

• “Peggy's Cove ‘Ghost of the Lady in Blue.’” Caretakers Paranormal. [n.d.] https://ns-ghost-stories.wixsite.com/folklore-and-legends/post/peggys-cove-ghost-of-the-lady-in-blue 

• “Searching for wayward spirits on Halifax’s Citadel Hill.” CTV Atlantic. October 28, 2017. https://atlantic.ctvnews.ca/searching-for-wayward-spirits-on-halifax-s-citadel-hill-1.3653606 

• Smith, Amy. “The ‘Ordinary man’ Who Died for Strangers When the Mont Blanc Exploded.” CBC News. December 3, 2017. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/vincent-coleman-telegraph-halifax-explosion-train-dispatcher-1.4425343 

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• “Suicide Chose His Coffin.” The World [New York City.] November 15, 1900. https://www.newspapers.com/image/50557163/ 

• “Suicide Rather Than Become A Bigamist.” The Evening Mail [Halifax, NS]. November 14, 1900. https://www.newspapers.com/image/775786174/ 

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• “Tragedy at Halifax.” Semi-Weekly Free Press [Winnipeg]. November 19, 1900. https://www.newspapers.com/image/777918592/ 

• “The TRUE Story of Peggy of the Cove.” Discover Halifax. September 17, 2016. https://discoverhalifaxns.com/things-to-do/outdoor-activities/the-story-of-peggy-of-the-cove/ 

• Van Beck, Todd. “Call to Duty: The Funeral Director’s Response to the Titanic Disaster – 1912.” Todd Van Beck. June 18, 2017. https://www.toddvanbeck.com/call-to-duty-the-funeral-directors-response-to-the-titanic-disaster-1912/ 

• Vernon, Steve. Where the Ghosts Are: A Guide to Nova Scotia’s Spookiest Places (Nimbus Publishing, 2018).

• “Vincent Coleman and the Halifax Explosion.” Maritime Museum of the Atlantic. https://maritimemuseum.novascotia.ca/what-see-do/halifax-explosion/vincent-coleman-and-halifax-explosion  

• Ward, Mariellen. “Titanic feast proves Halifax’s seafood supremacy is unsinkable.” Vacay.ca. June 7, 2012. https://vacay.ca/2012/06/a-titanic-feast-proves-halifaxs-unsinkable-seafood-supremacy/ 

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