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 Picture by Doris Weir. Crisp air, vibrant fall colours, a picnic lunch, and probably the last use I’d get out of my well-worn hiking boots -- we tossed water bottles and phone charger into the car. I wanted to capture all those colours to get us through the long winter ahead.
Though there are many covered bridges in Albert County, we’d never made the trek to Crooked Creek # 3. There’s the 45 Road, Sawmill Creek, Midland Road, and others -- we’d even ventured out to King’s County to visit more of those long-standing icons of New Brunswick. But the more strenuous hike up the old logging road to see #3 kept putting me off; I love scenery, but not exertion and sweating.  The Turner House on Mary Point's Road. Picture by Alison Elias. Earlier this month when the impressive house finally came up for tax sale, I was beyond excited -- we’d heard the amazing history, learned about the significance of the landmark and about the contributions of the shipbuilding industry in Albert County -- and now we were the proud owners of what everyone else called the Turner House and Shipyard Park.
The following ghost stories and legends were compiled by Mary Majka in her book "Fundy National Park," which was published in 1977 by Brunswick Books. These have been reprinted courtesy of David Christie.
I might as well tell you right up front that we were having a few drinks. If you knew the rogues I was drinking with you’d say, ‘Oh yeah, they definitely weren’t sipping lemonade.’
It was the summer of 1981 or 1982, if memory serves, and there had been a magnificent show of the Aurora Borealis (Northern Lights) the night before. I was living in Hopewell Cape, Albert County, New Brunswick and a couple of guys and I were having a few cold ones in the house and having a sing-song. Somebody went outside—it might have been Hubert, just to see if the Northern Lights were going to favour us again tonight. No luck. When he came in, however, he remarked how nice it was outside—warm, not a breeze, and a million stars in the late evening sky. So we all decided to go out and sip our ‘lemonade’ on the deck and out in the driveway. There was me and Blair, Hughie and Gary if I remember right and we stood out there in that darkening Albert County evening, telling stories, gossiping—like you would, and enjoying a few laughs. As night came on down the sky was even clearer, the backdrop to the stars even darker. It was a starblanket from horizon to horizon and being under a major flyway, we watched multiple jets go over, four or five miles high. We also watched a satellite or two. I was out in the driveway now, away from the little bit of inside light that was coming onto the deck and looking up I saw something I have not seen before or since.  Thick raindrops smacked against the gravestones. Ursula grabbed the rubbings she'd made and dashed for the dubious shelter of her rusted Camry. Thunder growled across the sky. Lightning followed. Autumn leaves scattered in the wind.
She saw it on the edge of her vision and froze. A small, crooked gravestone. Her own name inscribed upon it. Ursula Pendlethwaite. Died 1814. Ursula shivered. The wind tore the rubbings from her grip. A ghostly poem to start our series of ghoulish tales....
The tide was out, the water low; the sun had set, twas time to go. We set our poles about knee deep, at the entrance of Gray Brook Creek. To catch a cod, we were hoping for, as they often followed the tidal bore. We climbed the bank to the high tide mark, and to Gray’s Island, we made our start. Three teenage boys out having fun with the hope of a catch in the November run. |
Spooky Stories - 2017This page is part of a special project by Connecting Albert County in partnership with the Albert County Museum. Explore this page to find stories of ghosts, UFOs and other paranormal events that are said to have taken place in rural Albert County or are written by local residents. ArchivesCategories
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