He’s Convinced He Saw The Ghost Of A Girl Who Went Missing In 1913
This man’s family is originally from a tiny fishing town called Catalina, Newfoundland. About four or five miles north of the village is a smaller town called Little Catalina. Tiny ponds and bogs surround the two towns.
In 1913, his great-grandma was around 13, and a dance was held in Catalina for kids in the area.
His great-grandma went to the dance, and so did another young girl who walked several miles from Little Catalina to get there. Unfortunately, as the story was passed down over the years, he doesn’t know the girl’s name.
On the night of the party, it was darker than usual, and a fog traveled into the area from the North Atlantic.
At around 9 p.m., the dance ended, and everyone left to return home. The following morning, the girl’s parents rode through Catalina and stopped at residents’ homes to ask if they’d seen their daughter because she hadn’t come home after the dance.
They wondered if she’d stayed overnight in Catalina with a friend or family member. A boy told them that after the dance, he’d seen the girl wandering down the road toward Little Catalina.
Later, they assembled a search party and looked for the girl for two weeks. Men who lived in the area looked through the woods and bogs, and fishing boats searched the coastline. Unfortunately, they never found the girl.
“Eventually, everybody came to the grim conclusion that she must have gotten lost in the dark and fallen into a bog hole, which, like quicksand, will suck you down. Months later, one man claimed to have seen her ‘floating’ over the bogs one evening,” he said.
According to the man’s story, he tried to save the girl, but she vanished into the woods. He assumed that no one believed the man because he was an alcoholic. In the early 1920s, his great-grandma and her sister were berry-picking the bog.
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“She looked across the bog and saw a girl ‘floating’ steadily and smoothly over the ground. She said her movement was so smooth that there was no possible way that it was a person walking,” he explained.
Over the years, his great-grandma saw what could have possibly been the ghost of the missing girl on several more occasions.
His great-grandma sadly died in 1991. In 2008, he was 16 and in Little Catalina for the summer with his grandpa and other family members. Since he was old enough to drive, he hung out at the swimming hole almost daily.
“One evening, I was driving back with a distant cousin, and as we were passing the bogs, he pointed out the windshield and said, ‘What’s that?’ When I looked over, I saw a girl standing in the bog,” he shared.
She was around 40 yards away from them, but she looked to be about seven feet tall. His cousin lived in the area, and he slowed the car down and asked his cousin if he knew who the girl was. In response, his cousin told him he didn’t.
Moments later, the girl turned and glided away from them behind the trees. He and his cousin were terrified and drove back to the house.
After arriving home, he explained the story to his grandfather. This was when he first learned about the history of the missing girl and that his great-grandma had seen her ghost over the years.
As his grandpa told him the story, he told him that even though he’d heard tales of residents who’d seen the ghost in the bogs, he’d always assumed people made the story up to scare children out of playing in the bogs because they were so hazardous.
Have you ever seen a ghost?
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