Profile of Dale Jarvis

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• 'Gong' and not forgotten
  Newfoundland unexplained - The impressive Government House, a building which historian D.W. Prowse once went as far as to describe as "a huge ...
• The legend of the Legend AS
  Newfoundland unexplained - A few weeks ago, I found myself standing in a very unlikely place to find column material for Newfoundland ...
• Creepy feeling in an old building
  Newfoundland unexplained - The Anna Templeton Centre for Craft Art and Design on Duckworth Street in St. John's honours the memory of Anna ...
• Pirate ghosts and hidden treasure
  There are numerous locations across Newfoundland and Labrador that boast piratical phantoms. The community of Boxey on the south coast of ...
• Motorists report roadside apparitions
  Newfoundland unexplained - If you are out in your car exploring the countryside this summer, keep your eyes peeled. If you are lucky, you might ...
• Face in the fire
  Newfoundland unexplained - Last November, and again this spring, Canadian storyteller Dan Yashinsky visited Newfoundland, sharing stories on both ...
• A spookiness that hides on Signal Hill
  Newfoundland unexplained - On a warm summer evening in 2006, a woman named Shoorah, her boyfriend Josh and her friend Amanda were sitting near ...
• What's in the water?
  On May 27, local media reported that a production company from Montreal will travel to Robert's Arm, Green Bay, to produce a show about a local ...
• Eerie voices in the fog
  Newfoundland unexplained - Over the past week, we have been beset by fog here in St. John's. Airplanes have been grounded, and travellers ...
• Led astray by the little people
  Newfoundland unexplained - I am in debt for this week's edition of Newfoundland Unexplained to Clarence Dewling of Trouty, Trinity Bay, who ...
• The corpse that sat up and spoke
  Newfoundland unexplained - Newfoundland has a great tradition of what are known locally as death tokens. A death token is where a person becomes ...
• The cold touch of a warm ghost
  Lexi Knight-Doucette grew up in Kelligrews, Conception Bay South. As she describes it, it was "a town that was small enough that we didn't lock ...
• Finding new voices to tell old tales
  On the first weekend of March, I attended the 2008 Youth Cultural Conference at Carbonear Collegiate, hosted by the Baccalieu Trail Tourism ...
• Unusual experiences in an old outport home
  Kiersten and her husband bought an old house in a Conception Bay community in 1998. Within a year of living there, the woman began to have ...
• Singer/folklorist raises memories of the Candlemas...
  Newfoundland unexplained - A few weeks ago, I attended one of the regular ballad night sessions at the Crow's Nest Officer's Club in downtown St. ...
• A haunting beat of the drums
  Newfoundland unexplained - Lark Harbour is a fishing community on the north shore of the Bay of Islands, near its southwest entrance. According ...
• A ghostly glow over the water
  Stories have a way of sticking in our memories in a way that facts and figures do not. Good stories are contagious; stories spread from person to ...
• An unlikely meeting on a woods trail
  Back in 1922, the Newfoundland Power and Paper Co. Ltd. made a decision to establish a pulp and paper mill on the west coast of Newfoundland. The ...
• Winter winds may bring fairies ... or fiends
  We tend to think of the fairies as summer creatures, but there are several Newfoundland stories of the little people that took place in the ...
• Whistling at the Northern Lights
  "At night the heavens are starry and black, up here on top of the world, across the sky northern lights dance, reds and greens a-twirl. The ...
• Voices in the closet
  In the late 1960s, a local man by the name of Reg lived in a house with some particularly chatty spirits. As he explained it to me, "I've had the ...
• Four men and a coffin
  There are many stories in the province about strange burials. Some are of people who were buried alive, or like the famous ghost story of Ellen ...
• A bedside visitor
  Earlier this month I collected a story from a 36-year-old woman from the community of Clarke's Beach, Conception Bay, located only a few minutes ...
• Spooked in Stephenville
  In February and March 2002, a young Stephenville man and his friends were caught up in a series of strange events in a local apartment. Richard ...
• Fairy stories alive and well in province
  Recently, I was telling a group of people some traditional Newfoundland, Irish and Scottish stories about the fairies. When I was finished, there ...
• A ghost waiting at the end of a driveway
  One summer night in 2004, a couple of tourists exploring the Great Northern Peninsula on their motorcycle had a run-in with a phantom in ...
• Tucked in by a ghost
  A little while ago I received an e-mail from Paddy Druken of Paradise. In the e-mail, Druken shared with me a story concerning one of St. John's ...
• A polite ghost asks for a favour
  The idea that ghosts may return if their final resting place is disturbed is a recurring theme in ghost stories and local legends, but I have ...
• The black stag
  The Black Stag is arguably one of Newfoundlands most well-known, and oft-repeated, ghost stories. I think you would be hard pressed to find an ...
• A Newfoundland bigfoot?
  In 1980, a researcher named Michael Taft published an article entitled Sasquatch-Like Creatures in Newfoundland. He includes a rather remarkable ...