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2. Paranormal News | News submitted by: MoonSeeker
Several months ago in a previous edition of Newfoundland Unexplained, I related the story of a haunting that had taken place in August 1999 in the Masonic Temple on Cathedral Street in St. John’s.
The kernel of the story is that a wedding ceremony had been permitted to take place in one of the lodge rooms, due to the fact the groom’s grandfather had been a senior member of the Masonic order before his death.
During the wedding ceremony, a candle mysteriously blew out twice in the windowless room. Interestingly, the spot where this happened fell directly between two pictures of the groom’s grandfather, which hung on opposite walls.
The Masonic Temple, however, is not the only location in St. John’s with a ghostly grandfather! Another grandfather who refused to let death cut into his family time was reported 30 years earlier, in March of 1969.
The grandfather in question had recently passed away, leaving to mourn his wife, along with her daughter, son-in-law and two year old grandson. All of them lived in the same house.
One morning about 6 a.m., the grandmother woke up and could smell toast. Checking to see if her grandson was still sleeping, she discovered he was not in his bed. The house was quiet and no one else had left their beds.
Thinking that something might be burning in the kitchen, she went down to investigate.
When the woman reached the kitchen, she found her grandson eating toast at the kitchen table. The toaster itself was high up on a shelf, far out of reach of two-year-old hands.
Surprised, she asked him how he had made the toast himself. The young boy replied, “Nana, don’t you know that Granddad got it for me?”
At first she thought he was joking, but then soon realized there was no way he could have done it without the help of an adult. She woke her daughter and son-in-law, and asked them if they had made the grandchild the toast. They were as mystified as she.
Grandfathers, of course, do not have a monopoly on ghostly activity here in the province. Grandmothers have been known to get in on the act as well.
One of Newfoundland’s provincial historic sites, for example, has a ghostly grandmother. That site is the old Mockbegger Property in Bonavista, former home to Senator Gordon Bradley, one of the original signatories to the Terms of Union with Canada.
In 1981, the Bradley family donated the property to the Newfoundland Government. It was declared a historic site in 1988 and was officially opened as a museum in 1990.
While in Bonavista earlier this summer, I attended a reception at the Mockbegger Property, hosted by Gordon Bradley, the son of Senator Bradley. In conversation with him, he passed on a tale that was popular some time ago in Bonavista.
Years ago, there were stories told in the town of families from the Mockbeggar area who would pass along by that house late at night and see a strange sight. A light would be on in the window and passersby would be able to peer in and catch a glimpse of Bradley’s grandmother sitting in the rocking chair knitting.
Hardly remarkable, you might think, unless you knew that these sightings took place long after the lady had passed away.
Dale Jarvis can be reached at
info@hauntedhike.com ...
http://www.thetelegram.com/topstories/columns/columns.asp?sel=djarvis
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