
Category: MYSTERIES, MYTHS & MONSTERS


GLOOSCAP LEGENDS – Chenoo – A cannibal with an icy heart
Another legend from “Glooscap Legends” Excerpt from The Glooscap Legends Click through to read the entire book online or buy a printed copy. Continue reading GLOOSCAP LEGENDS – Chenoo – A cannibal with an icy heart

MYSTERIES: Fundy Mystery – Can You Identify This Object?
These images are of an object found on the beach below Friar’s Head at Campobello. Because the object predates the island’s aquaculture industry, it may have been used in the weir fishery. Older area residents can likely identify it if … Continue reading MYSTERIES: Fundy Mystery – Can You Identify This Object?

EXPLORE – This Map Of Ghost Towns Across Canada Will Guide You Through The Ultimate Haunted Road Trip
You’ll need brave friends to embark on this journey… Alexandra Toutant If you have a penchant for horror, the grotesque and the macabre, chances are you already have a special place in your heart for abandoned building. There’s something thrilling about … Continue reading EXPLORE – This Map Of Ghost Towns Across Canada Will Guide You Through The Ultimate Haunted Road Trip

MYSTERIES – Halifax, NS – Bayer’s Lake Mystery Walls
THE STORY The Bayers Lake Mystery Walls are a series of stone structures and walls of unknown origin and uncertain age in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The ruins consist of walls outlining a small five-sided building and a 150-metre wall with … Continue reading MYSTERIES – Halifax, NS – Bayer’s Lake Mystery Walls

NOVA SCOTIA: Is the cougar mystery finally solved?
What do you think? Does this solve the question about the presence of cougar in the Maritimes? Continue reading NOVA SCOTIA: Is the cougar mystery finally solved?

MYSTERIES: New Hampshire mystery stone baffles the experts
Lake Winnipesaukee Mystery Stone at the New Hampshire Historical Society For its size New Hampshire seems to have a large number of mysteries and many of these are found in numerous writings online and offline. The current situation is keeping me close … Continue reading MYSTERIES: New Hampshire mystery stone baffles the experts

MYTHS & MONSTERS – Evolution of the Myth Atosis.
Evolution of the myth Atosis. Click below to review publication. Order resources at Teachers Pay Teachers Continue reading MYTHS & MONSTERS – Evolution of the Myth Atosis.

EXPLORE: Where to Find the World’s Best Hometown Monsters
Seems every area has their own myths and monsters. My home area has the LAKE UTOPIA MONSTER. More about that later. In the meantime enjoy these creatures from other areas! Art MacKay A “sea devil” from Icones animalium … Continue reading EXPLORE: Where to Find the World’s Best Hometown Monsters

MYSTERY: 150 years ago the Ghost Ship Mary Celeste was found empty and adrift at sea. What happened?
This great article outlines the mystery of the Mary Celeste … a vessel from Atlantica that was found abandoned on its way to Italy. There are many theories. What do you think happened? Art MacKay *********************** On December 4, 1872, … Continue reading MYSTERY: 150 years ago the Ghost Ship Mary Celeste was found empty and adrift at sea. What happened?

MYSTERIES: The 500 Year Old Chinese City on Cape Breton Island
The Story: Back in 2002, architect, amateur historian and native Cape Bretoner Paul Chiasson went for a hike up Kelly’s Mountain on Cape Dauphin near Sydney on Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia. What he found has been the subject of … Continue reading MYSTERIES: The 500 Year Old Chinese City on Cape Breton Island

MYSTERIES: Can you find the lost city of Norumbega … Is it somewhere in New England?
PLANNING YOUR SUMMER? How about a trip to Norumbega? This fantastic and great Native American city, Norumbega, was first discovered by a lost Englishman back in the fifteen hundreds and folks have been looking for it ever since. It is … Continue reading MYSTERIES: Can you find the lost city of Norumbega … Is it somewhere in New England?

MYSTERIES: The Coleman Frog … Real or Hoax?
Reblogged from the York Sunbury Museum. The York Sunbury Museum’s most well known artefact is the taxidermy remains of the Coleman Frog. This frog lived in Killarney Lake just north of Fredericton (New Brunswick, Canada) in the late 19th-century. When … Continue reading MYSTERIES: The Coleman Frog … Real or Hoax?

MYSTERIES: What’s A Woggin? A Bird, a Word, and a Linguistic Mystery
Great Auks, drawn by John James Audubon in Birds of America. UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH/PUBLIC DOMAIN On December 20, 1792, … Continue reading MYSTERIES: What’s A Woggin? A Bird, a Word, and a Linguistic Mystery

PIRATES: How the Jolly Roger came into being!
Seeing Red? ************************************* The first written record (in a pirate’s log book now part of the permanent collection at the Bibliothèque National de France) of the use of a Jolly Roger flag occurred on this day in 1687. … Continue reading PIRATES: How the Jolly Roger came into being!

MYSTERIES: If Champlain’s Anchor was found on Grand Manan, where is it now?
One of our excellent author-historians published a great book many years ago called History Continue reading “MYSTERIES: If Champlain’s Anchor was found on Grand Manan, where is it now?”

HISTORY: Did You Know? The Calais Observatory provided the final piece of the puzzle required to establish longitude values around the world.

MYSTERY: In 1872 the Mary Celeste was found adrift at sea. What happened?
This great article outlines the mystery of the Mary Celeste … a vessel from Atlantica that was found abandoned on its way to Italy. There are many theories. What do you think happened? Updated December 1, 2021 *********************** On the … Continue reading MYSTERY: In 1872 the Mary Celeste was found adrift at sea. What happened?

The Norse: An Arctic Mystery
Buried under the tundra on a windy cape of Baffin Island lies one of the most important archeological finds in Canada. An untrained eye would miss it—but not scientist Pat Sutherland. Her new work here at the place they call … Continue reading The Norse: An Arctic Mystery

CREATURES: The Black Cougar. Does It Really Exist?
Reported year after year, some say it doesn’t really exist. But is that true? LEARN MORE WITH THIS PACKAGE Click to access the-black-cougar-does-it-exist_.pdf Continue reading CREATURES: The Black Cougar. Does It Really Exist?

MYSTERY: A Staircase to Nowhere in Madame Sherri’s Forest, NH?
There are indeed strange and wonderful things out there to discover. Thanks for this one New Hampshire Nana. All of the original sites I used for this story are now gone (2021). But here is our remnant for you enjoyment … Continue reading MYSTERY: A Staircase to Nowhere in Madame Sherri’s Forest, NH?
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