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Item #486

Ghosts, True Stories from British Columbia, Robert C. Belyk, 1990, photos, notes, biblio, index, 152 pp $13.95

An excellent collection of factual, mostly contemporary stories The Chilliwack house where the owner painted a horrifying portrait of the ghost. Room 415 in the Burn Unit of Vancouver General Hospital where "Douglas," a courageous young man who died of his burns, helps other patients cope. The murdered bride, Doris, who haunts the Victoria Golf Course. A phantom group of Indians dancing at Valdez Island. An apartment building haunted by children from the Woodlands School for the mentally disabled. Why? Because their headstones were turned into a walkway for the apartments. Uncommonly diverting stories!

Item #487

Ghosts II More True Stories from British Columbia, Robert C. Belyk, 1997, photos, notes, biblio, index, 159 pp $14.95

Another superior collection of varied and interesting stories from Belyk. Ghostly riders at Elinor Lake who seemed surprised to see a group of living riders. A mortuary haunted by a ghost in mismatched clothes. A Chinese lady phantom hitchhiker with a ghastly porcelain-white face. Haunted theatres, houses, health-care facilities, pubs and highways.

Hitchhikers are not always what they seem, a child's doll decides to assert itself, and stairs are places to be avoided in Mosher's haunted world. The ghostly child who cried on the stairs. Drowned Marianne, who waited to go on until her little brother joined her. A plastic skull that destroyed several lives. An entertaining mix of folklore and fiction.

Toronto is one of my favorite cities and this book is the ideal ghostly guidebook. Arranged by city area, Colombo gives addresses, bless his haunted heart, so you can walk or drive to the sites. Is Mackenzie House haunted or not? The ghost of Sister "Vinnie" at St. Michael’s Hospital: her white wimple framing a blackness where her face should be. The Hockey Hall of Fame, haunted by Dorothy, a bank teller who shot herself in a restroom when the building was the Bank of Montreal. As an organist, I was fascinated by the sightings composer Healey Willan had of the Grey Lady in St. Mary Magdalene Church. A few of these tales are extremely short with little detail; a few are disappointingly nonexistent: the story about Casa Loma not being haunted, for example (I’ve been there and I disagree…) Great photos, though, and some fascinating stories.

Atmospheric photos enhance this spellbinding collection of supernatural tales from Cape Breton. The headless ice skater, a visitor from hell, the mysterious feu follet.

The unearthly creature who threatened, "Esther Cox, you are mine to kill!" A tombstone with a secret drawer. A pair of clutching hands at Wolf Point. Sixteen cases combining realism and strangeness in a most unsettling way.

Nearly all contemporary, eye-witness accounts and some real chillers among them! Ghostly splashing sounds from a bathtub—where a man died of a heart attack. A Banff apartment haunted by a horrifying stench like a rotting body. "Poltie"—a young man in a dark, bomber-style jacket—who wreaks havok at an Edmonton radio station. One employee was hurled off his stool when Poltie tried to possess him. Smith makes a good point about nonfictional ghostwriting: the ghost stories are rarely tidy; they don’t always have solid, satisfying endings, because sometimes we just don’t know… Highly recommended.

Entertaining, folk-type tales of ghosts, the Wendigo, loups-garous [werewolves], witches, and other dark legends from the lumber camps. When I first saw the book, I thought it might be for older kids, but this older kid enjoyed it just fine! It’s a mixture of true stories and folktales and it’s curious that the ones that sound like folktales are true and vice-versa. A dripping sailor who came back to accuse timber baron George Usborne of causing his death. The lovely, ghostly head of Mah-Nah-Tah rising out of a haunted lake. The blasphemous ghost of Tousant who cursed in sign-language.

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