Profile of Dale Jarvis

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• A ghostly burden
  A little while ago, I was asked for some ghost stories from Holyrood. I dug through my files, and came up with this gem.Towards the end of the ...
• Lighting the way, leading you astray
  Mysterious lights have a great tradition in Newfoundland and Labrador. There are numerous stories from around the province of an eerie light that ...
• The Viking corpse: dead men do talk
  At the end of this summer, I took a few days to explore the Northern Peninsula, including a trip to both the L’Anse aux Meadows National Historic ...
• Who haunts Masonic Terrace?
  For the past 14 years, I've been leading tours of downtown St. John's. One of the favourite spots is Willicott's Lane and Masonic Terrace, the ...
• An open and shut case
  In 2005, a woman named Noelle and her family were living in a house in Grand Falls-Windsor.“It was a bungalow with two apartments underneath,” ...
• Pet apparitions
  In my book “Haunted Waters” I wrote about the story of Pooh and Paddy, two pets who were owned by my friend Paula McDonald. When Paddy died, he ...
• Everyone’s a critic — even ghosts
  The Gordon Pinsent Centre for the Arts in Grand Falls-Windsor has an interesting history. It may also have a ghost.The building began life in ...
• Stories of hovering lights over Conception Bay
  For countless years, the skies over Newfoundland and Labrador have held strange craft, mysterious lights, and unexplainable phenomena. For ...
• Joseph and the Multiple Listing Service
  A friend of mine, Karen Moore, has been going through the process of selling her house in St. John’s. A while back, a few people had looked at ...
• White horse, black omen
  In my role as intangible cultural heritage development officer for the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, I often give workshops about local ...
• The hitchhiker that wasn’t there
  Deer Lake is home to a spooky story involving the old spillway bridge, located just after the power house in Deer Lake.Several years ago, there ...
• A token visit from Mr. Long Johns
  A little while ago, I met up with Carl Sooley of Heart’s Delight. I was interviewing Sooley about Bonfire Night memories, as part of the Heritage ...
• A pair of haunted harbours
  There is certainly no shortage of haunted coves, harbours, tickles and bights in Newfoundland and Labrador. With such a deep history, and such a ...
• Service with a ghostly smile
  As stories circulate in the weeks following hurricane Igor, the tales I like best are the ones about neighbours helping neighbours. Stories about ...
• The tragic story of Kitty Casey
  This year, Tourism Elliston is busy planning its Roots, Rants and Roars fall festival. Keeping with Elliston’s reputation as being the root ...
• Coffin keeps you awake
  About 10 years ago, I went looking for a ghost story from the town of St. Vincent’s, on the southern part of the Avalon Peninsula, for a local ...
• Things that go bump in the upper room
  One good example of this is a tale which was told to me by a man who had grown up in the downtown area of St. John's. He and his family had lived ...
• A mysterious light in the sky
  Over the years, celebrities such as Tom Cruise, Matt Damon, Woody Allen and Barbra Streisand have passed through. These visitors may have been ...
• Jersey Boys: the Burgeo version
  Jeremiah was a fisherman. He got up in the dark early hours every morning and made ready to head out for a day on the water.One morning, Jeremiah ...
• Tales of the Codroy lights
  Newfoundland unexplained - During the last week of July, storytellers from all over the world will be congregating in St. John's as part of the ...
• Ghostly couple haunts the beach
  Newfoundland unexplained - In October 2001, I was told a strange story by a woman from the community of Francois. This woman claimed never to ...
• Beware the old white house
  Newfoundland unexplained - Picture an old white house at the end of a dirt lane, a house which has been vacant for years, with weeds growing up ...
• Pirates get devil of a ride
  Newfoundland unexplained - The devil must be getting complacent in his old age, content to sit in his air-conditioned office somewhere in the ...
• Fairies, horses and the mane event
  Newfoundland unexplained - Last week I drove down to Trepassey to give a talk on intangible cultural heritage to the Southern Avalon Development ...
• Follow the dancing sun
  Newfoundland unexplained - One of my favourite Newfound-land storytellers will always be Mrs. Mary Power of Branch, St. Mary's Bay. Mary Power ...
• The empty room
  Newfoundland unexplained - A little over 40 years ago, a series of mysterious events were reported in a house in the community of Bishop's Falls. ...
• Have you tried fairy repellent?
  Newfoundland unexplained - Heritage fair season is upon us. For those of you who do not know a child in the elementary school system in our ...
• Taking a swing at the phantom woodsman
  Newfoundland unexplained - Last week, I shared a story with you about a phantom woodsman, whose ghostly chopping can be heard in the vicinities ...
• Phantom woodsman heard but not seen
  Newfoundland unexplained - Several years back, I had a chat with Mr. Ivan Young, of Barachois Brook, who shared a strange story of a phantom ...
• Ghostly Newfoundlands
  Newfoundland unexplained - Several years ago, I received a letter from "Pat" in Dawson Creek, British Columbia who had a story of a phantom ...