Profile of Dale Jarvis

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• The phantom locomotive
  On a rare fine evening in the second week of the second month of the year 1907, the local reverend in Clarke's Beach, Conception Bay, decided to ...
• An anniversary haunting in a small fishing cove
  Among its many strange ghost stories and the like, Newfoundland and Labrador has a great tradition of what is known as "anniversary hauntings." ...
• A ghost that lost its head
  Everything about Josephs day had been grey. The sky was like worn flannel and the ocean that undulated underneath it was much the same. Even ...
• Dog that couldnt leave the basement
  Only a short number of years ago, a family lived in a small, wooden house on Livingstone Street. The family had a young son. On those days when ...
• The ghost who didnt like gambling
  I have an excellent ghost story from an old house in Trinity, said the letter from Sandra Hallett. With an opening like that, how could someone ...
• Strange tales surround the loss of the SS Lion
  The SS Lion was one of the first wooden-wall steamers to be used in the Newfoundland seal fishery, making her first voyage to the ice in 1867. ...
• Different ways to deal with the Old Hag
  Last week, I received an interesting e-mail from Jennifer Doyle, a Newfoundlander living in Edmonton. Doyle had read something I had written ...
• A hospitable Spanish ghost
  In 1983, a Newfoundland woman by the name of Catherine received word that her father had suffered a stroke. At the time she was living with her ...
• A friendly spirit wishes a couple well
  Catherine Herrera (nee Collins) currently lives in Camden, Delaware, but is originally from Buchans. When Herrera and her husband celebrated ...
• Ghosts are also part of our heritage
  Last week, Canadians celebrated Heritage Day, which falls on the third Monday of February each year. And each year, it is an opportunity to ...
• Even the skeptics sometimes change their minds
  In the years I have been collecting true Newfoundland and Labrador ghost stories, I have met many people who claim to be believers in the ...