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Legends, a a subset of lore

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episodes that explore the strange

1:17

tales we whisper in the dark.

1:19

Even if they can't always

1:21

be always be the history books. the history

1:24

books. you're ready. you're ready, let's

1:26

begin. They

1:41

They left the old world for Canada, but

1:43

but little did they know. A piece A

1:45

piece of it. with them. came with

1:47

them. settling into after settling the their

1:49

new home, were all the the gathered

1:51

all gathered together, eating dinner. Then

1:53

their evening was interrupted by

1:56

an unearthly wail. wail. The

1:58

family looked out

2:00

the window, they

2:02

but they couldn't... see

2:04

anything. The horrific whale continued for

2:06

another moment, echoing through the night

2:08

and sending goosebumps down their spines.

2:10

And then? It vanished. The Ogrades

2:13

asked around and some of their

2:15

neighbors told them that they had

2:17

heard the sound as well, but

2:19

none of them knew what made

2:21

it. Disquieted, the family went to

2:23

bed and just tried to forget

2:25

the whole thing. The next morning

2:27

the eldest son went on a

2:30

long awaited fishing trip with his

2:32

father. The rest of the family

2:34

waited for them to come back,

2:36

laid in down with their catch,

2:38

but the hours passed by, and

2:40

the father and son never came

2:42

home. Once dinner time arrived, the

2:45

Ogrades sent messengers to the beach

2:47

to look for their missing family

2:49

members, but those messengers returned without

2:51

news, and the family was left

2:53

astue in their worry. Finally, they

2:55

saw approaching torches. Laded the family

2:57

dashed to the door, but it

3:00

wasn't their family who knocked. It

3:02

was a group of their neighbors.

3:04

and they were carrying two dead

3:06

bodies. The father and son had

3:08

both drowned, and the banshee that

3:10

had trailed the O'Grades from Ireland

3:12

had tried to warn them just

3:15

the night before. You probably don't

3:17

have a banshee to follow you

3:19

around and alert you of impending

3:21

doom, and hopefully you won't need

3:23

one. But you don't need a

3:25

banshee scream to tell you that

3:27

the echoes of folklore are everywhere.

3:30

The sound of our ancestors' beliefs

3:32

ring throughout our lives. and they

3:34

don't always have a supernatural source,

3:36

and all you have to do

3:38

is listen. I'm Aaron Mankey, and

3:40

this is Lore Legends. In fact,

3:42

if someone had a fever, then

3:44

I would wager that a bell

3:47

was the last thing they wanted

3:49

in the room. You see, bells

3:51

a long history of getting tangled

3:53

up in superstition, and some of

3:55

those superstitions were pretty negative. Over

3:57

the years, bells of all kinds,

3:59

church bells, dinner bells, and even

4:02

handbells have been linked to omens.

4:04

The good, the bad, and the

4:06

deadly. According to one superstition, if

4:08

you break a dinner bell, then

4:10

death will come to your home

4:12

soon after. Another claims that hearing

4:14

a church bell during a wedding

4:16

meant that the bride or groom

4:19

would soon die. and if you

4:21

ring a bell for no reason,

4:23

then it could lead to bad

4:25

luck and eventually even death. Of

4:27

course, another superstition says that accidentally

4:29

ringing a bell could lead to

4:31

happiness. Plenty of these beliefs contradict

4:34

themselves. That's one of the complicated

4:36

things about superstitions. Depending on where

4:38

they originated from, the same action

4:40

could be interpreted in widely different

4:42

ways. Even so, bells have frequently

4:44

been tied to death. In many

4:46

cultures a bell was wrong when

4:48

someone died, both to scare off

4:51

demons and to lure the deceased

4:53

soul away from the body. And

4:55

it was a pretty important ritual

4:57

too. In one instance, in Huntingtonshire,

4:59

a newborn died and was buried

5:01

and no bells were rung. One

5:03

neighbor said that she was devastated

5:05

for the mother and I quote,

5:08

because when anyone died, the soul

5:10

never left the body until the

5:12

church bell was wrong. But while

5:14

the bell could kill you. It

5:16

could also bring you back to

5:18

life. Bells have been used in

5:20

necromancy rituals for centuries. For example,

5:23

in 18th century France, in order

5:25

to bring a person back to

5:27

life with the bell, that bell

5:29

had to be made on the

5:31

same day and at the same

5:33

hour as the deceased was born.

5:35

The bell would be carved with

5:37

a number of symbols and magical

5:40

words, and then left in a

5:42

cemetery for seven days. At the

5:44

end of that time, the bell

5:46

would have the energy it needed

5:48

to revive the dead. The supernatural

5:50

uses of bells usually depended on

5:52

the region that these superstitions came

5:55

from. For example, in China they

5:57

were once used to keep dragons

5:59

and evil spirits away. Some nobles

6:01

even believe that ringing bells during

6:03

an eclipse would make the sun

6:05

disappear from the heavens. And in

6:07

Bali, bells were once tied to

6:09

birds' feet so that they could

6:12

dispel air spirits as they flew

6:14

through the skies. Bells once had

6:16

significance in the Christian church as

6:18

well. In medieval Europe people believe

6:20

that thunderstorms were caused by demonic

6:22

spirits, but they also believe that

6:24

ringing bells could chase them away.

6:27

So whenever a thunderstorm started gathering

6:29

in the distance, bell towers would

6:31

ring, hoping to dissuade the storm

6:33

from coming any closer. Some bells

6:35

were even baptized, presumably so that

6:37

they would have even more of

6:39

a divine power to chase those

6:41

storms away. Many French bells were

6:44

inscribed with phrases that can be

6:46

translated to something like, it is

6:48

I who dissipate the thunders. And

6:50

some had even less catchy inscriptions,

6:52

like one that read, Whensoever, this

6:54

bell shall sound, it shall drive

6:56

away the malign influences of the

6:58

assailing spirits, the horror of their

7:01

apparitions, the rush of whirlwinds, the

7:03

stroke of lightning, the harm of

7:05

thunder, the disasters of storms, and

7:07

all the spirits of the tempest.

7:09

It's a mouthful, to say the

7:11

least. And because of this superstition,

7:13

it should come as no surprise

7:16

to us that a lot of

7:18

people died ringing church bells during

7:20

thunderstorms. It took a long time

7:22

for people to realize that metal,

7:24

particularly metal in high places, attracted

7:26

lightning. Between 1750 and 1784, just

7:28

in Germany, 122 bell ringers were

7:30

killed by lightning. In 1786, Paris's

7:33

government actually outlawed ringing bells in

7:35

the middle of a thunderstorm. But

7:37

old superstitions always die hard, and

7:39

the practice continued until the 1820s.

7:41

Church bells occupy an odd place

7:43

in the world of folklore. In

7:45

some stories they fight storms, but

7:48

in others they act as a

7:50

warning bell, and in yet others

7:52

they provide nothing more than the

7:54

echo of a memory. One of

7:56

the more interesting legends about a

7:58

church bell comes from Beaumier, a

8:00

village in Shropshire, England. According to

8:02

the story, the village was once

8:05

inhabited by people who scoffed at

8:07

the Christian God. They may have

8:09

been Saxons or Romans, it's never

8:11

specified in the stories, but they

8:13

worshipped a whole pantheon of deities,

8:15

and they weren't terribly interested in

8:17

converting. Not that they weren't invited

8:19

to convert, they were, often. An

8:22

old priest tried to win over

8:24

their hearts and when he failed

8:26

he always warned the villagers that

8:28

God would punish them. But the

8:30

villagers didn't listen. They just made

8:32

fun of the old priest and

8:34

chased him off time and time

8:37

again, pelting him with mud and

8:39

stones. Despite the abuse, the priest

8:41

never gave up on saving their

8:43

souls. He begged and pleaded, but

8:45

the villagers still refused to pray

8:47

to his God. Well, one year,

8:49

the winter brought heavy rain, and

8:51

on Christmas Eve, buckets of rain

8:54

fell all day long. While the

8:56

villagers spent all day celebrating their

8:58

gods, the priest and his fellow

9:00

parishioners took vigil at a midnight

9:02

mass, and during that mass, one

9:04

of the things they did was

9:06

ring the sanctus bell. It was

9:09

the last thing that any of

9:11

them would ever do. All of

9:13

a sudden, upon ringing the bell,

9:15

the villagers heard a roar. And

9:17

then, before they could react, a

9:19

rush of water swept down into

9:21

the village. The entire town, including

9:23

the chapel, flooded. And then, just

9:26

as quickly, every building was washed

9:28

away. In a matter of moments,

9:30

Beaumier had been divinely wiped off

9:32

the face of the earth, as

9:34

punishment, they say, for never turning

9:36

to the Christian God. The only

9:38

thing left was a deep pond

9:40

where the church once stood, known

9:43

today as Beaumier Pool. A legend

9:45

claims that if you sail over

9:47

the pond on Christmas Eve, you

9:49

can still hear the sanctus bell

9:51

ringing. Now today we know that

9:53

Beaumier is situated in a floodplain

9:55

where flash floods are common. It's

9:58

more likely that any devastating flood

10:00

events in the town's history can

10:02

be chucked up to nature. rather

10:04

than retribution from God. Also, experts

10:06

believe that Beaumier Pool was formed

10:08

at least 15,000 years ago, far

10:10

too long ago to have been

10:12

formed this way, as the story

10:15

claims. Even so, locals continue to

10:17

hear the bell on Christmas Eve,

10:19

a bell that's ringing, for all

10:21

the lost souls. They

10:31

say the devil died the day that

10:33

Christ was born. Now this isn't official

10:35

theology. If you've ever attended a church

10:37

service, then you know that most clergymen

10:39

believe that while the devil's cause was

10:41

lost as soon as Jesus was put

10:43

in that manger, he is still currently

10:46

operational in our world. But according to

10:48

the medieval church and the modern day

10:50

congregation of the Dusbury Minster Church of

10:52

All Saints in Yorkshire England, Satan was

10:54

struck dead the moment Christ came to

10:56

earth. And so to celebrate this momentous

10:58

occasion, the Dusbury Minster Church, tolls their

11:00

bells every Christmas Eve. The bell rings

11:02

once for each year that's passed since

11:04

Jesus' birth, then it's meticulously timed so

11:06

that the bells tolling will end at

11:08

midnight. They call this practice the Devils'

11:10

Nell. The Devils' Nell isn't done with

11:12

just any old bell though. The church

11:14

has a very special one up in

11:16

their bell tower that they ring on

11:18

Christmas Eve, one that was made because

11:20

of a murder. And no, we're not

11:22

talking about the devil's murder this time.

11:25

I mean the killing of an actual

11:27

flesh and blood human being. The story

11:29

is a bit vague. The oldest version

11:31

of this legend claims that many years

11:33

ago in the little town of Soot

11:35

Hill, there was once a bad-tempered blacksmith

11:37

who was master of an iron foundry.

11:39

One day in a fit of passion,

11:41

he threw a little boy into one

11:43

of his furnaces, killing him. If this

11:45

had happened today, the blacksmith would have

11:47

been put away for life, but hundreds

11:49

of years ago. Soot Hill gave him

11:51

a much lighter sentence. The blacksmith

11:53

was required to

11:55

make a a for

11:57

the the town's church steeple. So he

11:59

he did was it

12:01

was deemed that

12:04

crafting a bell for

12:06

the Lord wiped away

12:08

his sins version of another

12:10

version of this story claims that the

12:12

killer wasn't an at all, at all, but

12:14

a nobleman. It's believed that in the

12:16

13th or a man named century, Sir a man

12:18

named Sir Thomas de Soothill committed a

12:20

murder. Who exactly he did murder is

12:22

unclear. Most versions don't say, and the

12:24

one that does just says that he

12:26

drowned a serving boy in a pond.

12:28

a pond. But with a name like like Soot a

12:30

town called Soothill, it's clear that Sir

12:32

Thomas was too important to be jailed for

12:34

his crime. be So his crime. So, he gave

12:36

the bell to the the bell to the bell

12:39

was and the bell Black named Black Tom. To

12:41

this day, Black is the bell that

12:43

has is every Christmas Eve. Eve. It's It's

12:45

fitting, a a dark history for a

12:47

bell that annually celebrates death, no no

12:49

matter how justified the devil's death might

12:51

be. be. Funily enough, there may

12:53

even be some truth to the legend behind

12:56

the bell. bell. The Dewsbury Church dates

12:58

back to the 11th century, well

13:00

before any little boys were allegedly

13:02

thrown into any into or ponds.

13:04

or According to the to official

13:06

bell official the current iteration of

13:08

Black Tom is not the original

13:10

is Tom. The bell was recast

13:12

in 1820, and then again

13:14

in 1875. 1875. The 1875 version

13:16

is the one that still rings

13:18

out today. ringers also also that

13:20

that the bell was actually

13:23

gifted by a man a man named Thomas

13:25

De Suttel. Now, whether or whether or not

13:27

Sir Thomas actually existed, let let alone

13:29

if he murdered someone, much is much

13:31

harder to confirm. The original version of

13:33

the legend didn't include any dates,

13:35

and the dates that we do have

13:37

don't have much evidence to back

13:39

them up. to According to one the

13:42

the bell has been ringing in the

13:44

steeple since the the 13th or 14th century, century, while

13:46

while another says that the murder that

13:48

inspired the bell happened five or six

13:50

hundred years ago. ago. Some newspapers throughout

13:52

the years have claimed that the

13:54

murder happened during a few specific years

13:57

in the 15th century, but but they

13:59

never provided proof. that. And on top

14:01

of all of that, over the centuries,

14:03

the last name, Sutt Hill, has had

14:05

many different spellings, making Sir Thomas de

14:07

Sutt Hill a difficult man to track

14:09

down. And because Thomas was a common

14:12

name, there had been multiple Thomas Suttills

14:14

tied to nobility. The best we can

14:16

say is that there were Thomas Sutt

14:18

Hills in Yorkshire, but we can't say

14:20

if any of them were actually murderers.

14:22

And this, by the way, is a

14:25

little glimpse into just how difficult the

14:27

research process can be when studying when

14:29

studying folklore. The farther back we go,

14:31

the harder details become to pin down.

14:33

And that tug-of-war between belief and skepticism

14:36

becomes more and more of an epic

14:38

struggle. And that's not to say, of

14:40

course, that the process isn't fun. But

14:42

here's the thing. Folklore doesn't have to

14:44

have a real event behind it. In

14:46

the end, whether or not a man

14:49

once killed a boy and paid for

14:51

it with the church bell, doesn't really

14:53

matter. What matters is what people believe.

14:55

Black Tom is a treasured relic for

14:57

that community for that community. and whether

14:59

the tolling bell is dressed up with

15:02

the blood of the innocent or is

15:04

just an old bell, the story it

15:06

tells still rings the same. Major

15:18

Edward Moore had just returned home from

15:20

a Sunday church service on February 2nd

15:23

of 1834 when his servants told him

15:25

that the house's dining room bell had

15:27

rung several times while he was gone.

15:29

But here's the thing. No one aside

15:31

from the two servants had been in

15:34

the home at the time. As far

15:36

as they could tell, the bell had

15:38

rung on its own. Now, Moore's house

15:40

was a large manner. Built in 1775,

15:43

Beeling's house became Moore's home in 1806.

15:45

And in the nearly 20 years that

15:47

he had lived there, he had never

15:49

heard any of the house's nine Butler

15:51

Bell's ring without someone's hand being attached

15:54

to the other end. And before I

15:56

move on, let me clear up what

15:58

a Butler Bell is. You've seen the

16:00

television show Downton Abbey and you remember

16:02

scenes where the servants sit around their

16:05

table down beside the kitchen and have

16:07

their meals and there's a wall with

16:09

a bunch of bells on it. Those

16:11

are the butler bells. Each one of

16:14

those bells in that kitchen area is

16:16

connected to a room somewhere else in

16:18

the house. So someone in those rooms

16:20

could ring the bell there and down

16:22

in the kitchen the corresponding bell would

16:25

ring for the servants. Think of it

16:27

as a rudimentary intercom system in a

16:29

time before electricity. Edward Moore, though, shrugged

16:31

off the mysterious dining room bell. It

16:34

was a large house after all, and

16:36

even though only two servants had been

16:38

inside at the time, it was easy

16:40

for Moore to just assume that someone

16:42

else had come in at some point

16:45

and messed with the bell. The next

16:47

day, the same Butler bell rang again.

16:49

And again, Moore shrugged it off. But

16:51

when he returned home on Tuesday afternoon,

16:53

his servants immediately told him that, then

16:56

I quote, all the bells in the

16:58

kitchen had been ringing violently. When Moore

17:00

went down to the kitchen to investigate,

17:02

the cook told him that five of

17:05

the nine butler bells had been ringing.

17:07

At this point, the entire staff was

17:09

afraid. They had been the only ones

17:11

in the house when the cacophony started,

17:13

and they hadn't been able to find

17:16

the person responsible. As Moore stood there

17:18

and examined the butler bells, the same

17:20

five started to ring again. According to

17:22

him, their movements were, and I quote,

17:25

so violent that I should not have

17:27

been surprised if they had been shaken

17:29

from their fastenings. And the bells rang

17:31

out again and again, kicking off every

17:33

10 or 15 minutes. And then, later

17:36

that night when Moore and his son

17:38

were eating dinner, the bell that was

17:40

in the room with them started ringing

17:42

as if swung by an invisible hand.

17:44

The bell peeled every few minutes all

17:47

throughout dinner, with Moore looking on, dumbfounded.

17:49

The bells of Beeling's house continued to

17:51

ring on their own power for nearly

17:53

two whole months. During that time, Edward

17:56

Moore conducted an investigation into the matter.

17:58

At one point he gathered the entire

18:00

staff into one room to ensure that

18:02

no one was sneaking off and playing

18:04

a prank with the bells. He also

18:07

wrote down... how the Bell's movements differed

18:09

when they were wrung by a hand

18:11

and when they were wringing on their

18:13

own. He even checked on the Bell's

18:16

wiring, which had been in perfect working

18:18

order and kept track of the weather

18:20

conditions each day it happened. Moore came

18:22

up with every conceivable possibility to explain

18:24

the phenomenon. Perhaps a family of nesting

18:27

blackbirds were jostling the Bell's wiring. Maybe

18:29

it was mice, maybe the metal that

18:31

the Bells were made of was expanding

18:33

and contracting, but nothing seemed to fit.

18:35

Desperate, Moore wrote about his situation to

18:38

a newspaper called the Ipswich Journal. In

18:40

his letter, he asked for readers to

18:42

suggest what they thought could be causing

18:44

his butler bells to ring nonstop. And

18:47

it paid off. Well, kind of. You

18:49

see, the responses that he got weren't

18:51

very good ones. One reader asked if

18:53

it could be an electricity issue, while

18:55

another asked if it could be caused

18:58

by the shift in the wet soil

19:00

under the house's foundation. Yet another suggested

19:02

that Moore should invite everyone he knew

19:04

to his house, lock them all in

19:07

the same room, and see if the

19:09

Bells rang then. If not, then it

19:11

would mean that he had caught the

19:13

prankster. In the end, Moore never figured

19:15

out what had happened to his Butler

19:18

Bells. He wrote a book about the

19:20

entire experience, concluding, and I quote, if

19:22

I had a year to devote to

19:24

such consideration and the promise of a

19:26

thousand pounds in the event of discovery,

19:29

I should despair of success. I would

19:31

not, indeed, Today, the Beelings House is

19:33

still standing, but the bells don't ring

19:35

on their own anymore. They've been disconnected

19:38

from their 19th century wires, and now

19:40

they simply exist as a reminder of

19:42

the house's mysterious past. Some people have

19:44

chalk the entire event up to a

19:46

poltergeist. After all, the easiest explanation was

19:49

that a mischievous spirit was wreaking havoc

19:51

in the halls of the Beelings House.

19:53

Historian Ronald Piercell said that the bells

19:55

were a classic example of pure poltergeist.

19:58

Still, most people don't believe that the

20:00

supernatural was the answer here. They believe

20:02

that someone was... bringing the bells deliberately,

20:04

and that perhaps Moore himself was either

20:06

just unaware or in on it the

20:09

entire time. It's easy to get caught

20:11

up in a story, and for that

20:13

story to spread like wildfire, until it's

20:15

parts of the cultural consciousness. Take for

20:17

example that long-held belief that ringing church

20:20

bells dispelled thunderstorms. If anyone had thought

20:22

objectively about it, they might have realized

20:24

that more people died from being struck

20:26

by lightning while ringing those bells than

20:29

they would have if they had just

20:31

weathered the storm. But the folklore told

20:33

them that bells chased away thunder, and

20:35

so they looked for any evidence they

20:37

could find. to confirm their biases. The

20:40

same thing may have happened in the

20:42

Beeling's house. After Moore published his account

20:44

of the self-ringing dinner bells, a whole

20:46

host of Suffolk County residents piped up

20:49

and said, now that I think about

20:51

it, something similar happened to me once.

20:53

But it's doubtful that a high number

20:55

of locals also had a bell-ringing poltergeist

20:57

inside their own homes. Folklore's power of

21:00

suggestion is strong, and it can be

21:02

even more so when it comes to

21:04

sounds like a ringing bell. Suddenly, something

21:06

innocuous and commonplace can easily become something

21:09

suspicious. As for more, historians believe that

21:11

the Ringing Butler bells actually had a

21:13

simple explanation. Some scholars have suggested that

21:15

someone really was playing a practical joke

21:17

on Moore somehow and sneaking into his

21:20

house and rigging the bells to ring.

21:22

But others have gone so far as

21:24

to say that the Ringing bells just

21:26

never existed at all. The entire ordeal

21:28

could simply have been a prank. Not

21:31

on Moore, but on the rest of

21:33

us. Some have suggested that Moore made

21:35

the whole story up, just to get

21:37

a kick out of tricking his neighbors

21:40

into believing that he had a ghost.

21:42

After all... When it comes to pulling

21:44

off a hoax, all the hard work

21:46

is spent on the planning and implementation.

21:48

Getting people to believe the lie is

21:51

often just as easy as ringing a

21:53

bell. There's a beautiful amount of variety

21:55

to the stories and a certain purity

21:57

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22:00

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the biggest catastrophe in Prince Edward Island's

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27:32

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27:34

the kind of place that you would

27:37

never expect anything truly terrible to happen.

27:39

A haven sheltered from the harsh realities

27:41

of the world. And I do mean

27:43

that literally. Situated just north of Nova

27:45

Scotia Canada, the island is separated from

27:48

the mainland by a thin strip of

27:50

water called the Northumberland Strait. And five

27:52

months out of the year, that strait

27:54

is completely frozen over. That meant that

27:57

before the invention of telephones. The Prince

27:59

Edward Island was cut off from the

28:01

rest of civilization for nearly half of

28:03

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28:05

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28:08

the island's main way to get mail

28:10

and supplies to and from the mainland.

28:12

It was important enough that by the

28:14

1840s, a regular steamboat service was established

28:17

to carry both passengers and mail across

28:19

the strait. In 1853, the original steamboat

28:21

was retired and it was replaced with

28:23

the brand new ferry queen. And this

28:25

is where the trouble started. On October

28:28

17th of 1853, the ferry queen was

28:30

scheduled to make a standard trip from

28:32

Charlottetown Prince Edward Island to mainland Canada.

28:34

Aside from the crew, the boat would

28:36

be ferrying a handful of passengers and

28:39

several bags full of mail. Everyone was

28:41

eager to get going, but that day

28:43

the wind was particularly strong and the

28:45

captain postponed the journey for six hours.

28:48

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28:50

delayed them long enough and he ordered

28:52

the ferry queen to set sail. But

28:54

even though the wind may have died

28:56

down, the churning seawater had yet to

28:59

do the same. Only a short while

29:01

after leaving harbor, the ferry queen was

29:03

hit by a barrage of intense water.

29:05

waves, breaking some of the equipment on

29:08

board. And then, the engines stopped running.

29:10

The pumps stopped working, and the ship

29:12

started to take on water. Most of

29:14

the passengers didn't realize that anything was

29:16

wrong until the crew started to act

29:19

differently. But they weren't trying to get

29:21

the ship running again, or getting the

29:23

passengers to safety. No, they were doing

29:25

as little work as possible. According to

29:27

one passenger, and I quote, a few

29:30

of the crew worked well, but generally

29:32

speaking they could not be got to

29:34

work except only at short intervals, ceasing

29:36

as soon as the passenger's backs were

29:39

turned. The crew appeared to be in

29:41

an undisciplined condition, the captain having no

29:43

command over them. You see, the sailors

29:45

just needed to do enough to save

29:47

their own skins. Nobody else mattered. So

29:50

the crew neglected the passengers. refusing to

29:52

round them up or show them to

29:54

the lifeboats. Instead, they took the ship's

29:56

two lifeboats for themselves. The boats had

29:59

enough room to carry everybody, but the

30:01

crew filled the remaining space with the

30:03

mailbags that they were delivering. The captain

30:05

climbed in, the rope was cut, and

30:07

the crew dropped a safety, leaving everyone

30:10

else on board. The abandoned passengers did

30:12

the best they could to find a

30:14

way off the ship, but it was

30:16

no use. The best they could do

30:18

was to frantically ring the fairy queen's

30:21

bell, hoping that someone would hear it

30:23

and come to their rescue. But nobody

30:25

ever did. Eventually a strong wave tore

30:27

the ship apart. Some people managed to

30:30

cling to the wreckage as a sort

30:32

of life raft, but others weren't so

30:34

lucky, sinking down into the depths of

30:36

the Northumberland Strait. Those who had found

30:38

something to hold on to were forced

30:41

to hold for hours, withstanding the battering

30:43

waves and wind, because otherwise they would

30:45

be next. According to one testimony, finally

30:47

after eight hours of exposure to the

30:50

storm and cold, they were cast ashore

30:52

on the north side of Marigamish Island,

30:54

some 12 or 15 miles from the

30:56

scene of their disaster. In the end,

30:58

five passengers survived and seven died. Meanwhile

31:01

Meanwhile, the captain

31:03

and the entire crew

31:05

made it out

31:07

safely with their They never

31:09

They never went

31:12

back to save the

31:14

people they had

31:16

left for dead, and

31:18

they never faced

31:21

any punishment for their

31:23

actions. for It was

31:25

a senseless loss

31:27

of life, loss a

31:29

tragedy a every sense

31:32

of the word. of the

31:34

word. it turns out,

31:36

out, one that had

31:38

been forewarned. the On

31:41

the morning of

31:43

October before the before the

31:45

fairy queen left

31:47

the a a disturbance

31:49

had occurred at a

31:52

local church on

31:54

Prince Edward Island. The Kirk

31:56

of St. James

31:58

was the oldest Presbyterian

32:01

church on the on

32:03

the island, but its age,

32:05

they never seemed

32:07

to have problems with

32:09

ghosts hanging around.

32:12

That is, not until

32:14

that fateful day that

32:16

October. day, in The

32:18

morning of the disastrous

32:20

journey, two two heard

32:23

what sounded like

32:25

the peel of a

32:27

ship's bell. bell. The

32:29

bell told eight times, like

32:32

just like it

32:34

would have on any

32:36

seafaring vessel. But But

32:38

the bell's sound

32:40

wasn't coming from a

32:43

boat. was It was

32:45

coming from the

32:47

Kirk of St. James

32:49

itself. So they went to the

32:52

church to went to

32:54

the church to investigate.

32:57

The whole time they were walking over, over,

32:59

the church bell continued to ring. ring. When When

33:01

they arrived, they found something odd. There There

33:03

were three women, all all dressed in white.

33:05

women The women didn't seem to notice or

33:07

hear them approach. It It was as if

33:09

they were entirely in a separate world. men

33:12

fetched The men fetched the church and when and

33:14

when they all returned, they saw that

33:16

the three white women were entering the Kirk

33:18

the Kirk, with woman ringing the bell in the

33:20

tower. the But when they finally got to

33:22

the top of the tower, top of the was

33:24

empty. empty. The The men probably thought that the

33:27

apparition would never be explained. But in the

33:29

end, the mystery didn't take long to

33:31

solve. Later that same day,

33:33

solve. of the that congregation of the

33:35

died on the Fairy Queen,

33:37

died on the the ship's bell

33:40

in desperation, bell hoping for a

33:42

savior. a Savior. This

33:58

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