Ontario Ghost Stories (Ghost Stories (Lone Pine))

Rating:
Summary: Entertaining, but are the stories valid?
Review: This book was certainly entertaining and contained a number of stories that I plan on delving into further, but the book is really a mixed bag. Some of the stories are too vague to really warrant inclusion in the book. References are also a problem: there is a bibliography, but half of the short list are not ghost related; and those few references to contemporary newspaper reports are, sad to say, questionable. The one that I was able to check on was in relation to the "Baldoon Mystery," which the author devotes a number of pages to. She claims that there was an article in the Spetember 26, 1894 Toronto Globe in which the girl Lettie McDowell relates an encounter... but I couldn't find it. So either the date is wrong, or the reference is bogus.

Rating:
Summary: Entertaining, but are the stories valid?
Review: This book was certainly entertaining and contained a number of stories that I plan on delving into further, but the book is really a mixed bag. Some of the stories are too vague to really warrant inclusion in the book. References are also a problem: there is a bibliography, but half of the short list are not ghost related; and those few references to contemporary newspaper reports are, sad to say, questionable. The one that I was able to check on was in relation to the "Baldoon Mystery," which the author devotes a number of pages to. She claims that there was an article in the Spetember 26, 1894 Toronto Globe in which the girl Lettie McDowell relates an encounter... but I couldn't find it. So either the date is wrong, or the reference is bogus.