Alongside its golden wheat fields and shimmering northern laskes, Saskatchewan holds a rich folkloric collection of ghost stories; until now, no one has paid much atention to these tales. Geographically, they range from Kenosee Lake, where the resident ghost of a local dance hall had strong objections to renovations, to Shell Lake, where the identity of a mass-murderer was revealed to a group of teenagers through a Ouija board. In nature, they vary from charming spirits haunting a community arts centre to the menacing presence that drove a Rockglen family to burn their home to the ground. This eerie collection showcases Saskatchewan's most intriguing ghost stories: accounts of misty apparitions, unexplained noises, violent poltergeists, and startling premonitions. Together, the stories create a fascinating addition to the province's colourful history and disprove the notion that for there to be ghosts, there must be traditional old world settings. Saskatchewan's spirits haunt its weathered prairie farm homes and nondescript suburban bungalows, its overgrown cemeteries and tidy small-town churches, its hospitals and museums, and its very landscape. It's proven in these pages: you needn't look far to find a ghost in the haunted province of Saskatchewan!

Ghost Stories of Saskatchewan

Politics & Social Sciences

Christensen, Jo-Anne

Social Sciences

Dundurn Press

It has been called Canada's most haunted province. While such a claim is impossible to prove, British Columbia does abound with tales of the supernatural. Ghost Stories of British Columbia is a comprehensive collection of these tales, drawing from the province's history, its archives, and its people. There are ghosts from the distant past, and ghosts from the present day. Legends that are familiar to many, and accounts that, to date, have only been heard by a few. Shady apparitions from the coastline, the interior, and the isolated north. And each story is a true account of someone's experience with a ghost. In Burnaby, a young child is repeatedly urged by two spectral visitors to follow them back "to the other side." The dedicated publisher of the Surrey Leader returns to check on the new issue - weeks after his death. The image of a screaming young woman haunts a grove of bushes in Beacon Hill Park - years before a woman matching the image is murdered there. Barkerville - a town designed to bring the history of the gold rush to life - truly hosts the "spirit" of the past. Victoria honours its British past - with two of its own haunted castles. In Creston - an eccentric stonemason's spirit occupies the unusual home he once planned to be buried in. They are the mysteries, the unexplained, the eerie, and amazing stories meant to be told by campfire or candlelight. They are the true ghost stories of British Columbia, and they wait for you in these pages.

Ghost Stories of British Columbia (The Ghost Stories Series)

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

This album is a collection of sentimental journeys into Edmonton’s past - a time when a dime was all that was needed to see a movie, and couples skated across the glassy surface of a frozen lake that is now gone. These photos illustrate many important historical events and changes in Edmonton, from its fur-trading beginnings through decades of tremendous growth. Through the lens of a camera we revisit soldiers returning home from war; the first train rumbling into town; the first school, hospital, and business; the building of the Legislature and demolition of the original fort; the desperation of the "Dirty Thirties"; and the success of the initial oil boom. More than one hundred and fifty black-and-white images allow us to travel back in time to revisit Edmonton’s growth and its people. Through these photos, moments in Edmonton’s past are captured eternally, rich with details that characterize the era. An Edmonton Album is the city’s memory - in pictures.

An Edmonton Album: Glimpses of the Way We Were

Arts & Photography

Shappka, Dennis

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Lauren, a ranking member of North San Diego County's real estate cartel, The Frenemies' Club, and her colleagues are stunned by a suicide, an attempted murder, a rape and a tragic hit and run accident. Evidence and poisonous suspicion point to the Frenemies in the cartel, an exclusive, secretive and unofficial coalition ruled by ambition, retribution and greed. Despised, loved, envied and feared, Lauren is the most visible and successful Realtor in the furious world of selling, buying and investing in Southern California real estate. Unlike her dynamic career, Lauren's personal life is an unqualified fiasco. Betrayal, intrigue and high voltage sexuality explode as her life veers starboard, propelling her onto a new course both professionally and personally, when her new business model threatens to leave careers and lives awash in the flotsam and jetsam that swell in its wake.

Deadly Closing

Romance

Contemporary

JoAnne Christensen

The history of Illinois is permeated with mysterious and ominous tales, from the streets of Chicago to the gentle curves of the Mississippi. Disembodied whispers behind walls and fading screams from across the water have given rise to ghostly legends and folklore around inexplicable events:
* Al Capone's victims return in ghostly forms to drive him crazy * The spirit of Abraham Lincoln is felt, both in the White House and in his native town of Springfield * A beautiful young lady flirts in Chicago ballrooms and hitchhikes through the Southwest Side, but invariably vanishes behind the gates of Resurrection Cemetery when pursued * Farmers along the Mississippi feel their blood run cold when they encounter a grim, taciturn boatman -- with the face of a corpse * Pedestrians on the Clark Street Bridge in Chicago hear the screams of the hundreds of pleasure-seeking passengers who plunged to their death when the steamboat Eastland capsized -- in 1915 * A Headless horseman riding a coal-black steed terrorizes citizens near Lakey's Creek * Visitors to the old Hickory Hill Slave House tell of a shapeless terror that lurks in the attic there, recreating the horrors of the Reverse Underground Railroad * From snowball-throwing spooks to grisly ghosts of vengeance, amazing apparitions arise in Decatur, Dallas City, Warsaw, Joliet, Bloomington, Peoria, Gurnee, Moline, Lewistown, Naperville, Monticello, Equality, Canton, Jonesboro, Woodstock, Normal, Charleston, Alton, and many little towns along the Mississippi.
Murder and tragedy are woven together with mystery and misfortune in this chilling collection of paranormal tales.

Ghost Stories of Illinois

Ghost House Books

Jo-Anne Christensen's first book of Saskatchewan ghost stories triggered a flood of personal stories from all over the province. Jo-Anne collected and researched her readers' accounts. The result is this new collection, which includes everything from a phantom hitch-hiker to homesteading ghosts to haunted trailers. The book covers almost 50 inexplicable occurences in over 30 locations, from the major centres of Regina and Saskatoon to such smaller communities as Weyburn, Prince Albert, Estevan, Kindersley and Yorkton.

Ghost Stories of Texas

A collection of riveting short stories about four of the best-known creatures in paranormal mythology--witches, werewolves, vampires and ghosts. While the accounts are dramatized, each is based on events believed to be true. Above all, they're fun to read, full of memorable characters.

Ghosts, Werewolves, Witches and Vampires (Ghost Stories)

This collection of dramatically recreated true stories demonstrates that even ghosts have a weakness for the magic of Christmas. Journey with snowbound travellers through the Rocky Mountains, and warm yourself by the woodstove in a simple log home on the prairies. Celebrate the holidays with tales of generosity and fellowship from coast to coast. These Christmas ghost stories from across the nation capture the true spirit of the season.

Ghost Stories of Christmas

Saskatchewan and ghost stories. They go together like a grinning scarecrow in a whisper-dry October field. In 1995, Dundurn successfully published and reprinted numerous times the original Ghost Stories of Saskatchewan. Since that time, an eerie wealth of supernatural accounts have surfaced in this seemingly quiet prairie province. In this third collection, a quiet cemetery apperas to be a portal between the worlds of the living and the dead, a Victorian mansion-turned-restaurant in Moose Jaw remains occupied by the spectral image of the original lady of the house, and a weary traveller near Flaxcombe stops for coffee in a diner that burned to the ground a decade earlier. There are historical tales and personal accounts, legends and lore. And there is much to keep the dedicated ghost fan awake late into the night. Here the reader will find triple the history, mystery, and chills from one of Canada’s established authors int he paranormal genre.

Ghost Stories of Saskatchewan 3

Religion & Spirituality

New Age & Spirituality

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