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The Baldoon Mystery

Documented folklore from the Club 49 map, told straight and sourced.

The story

In the 1820s a Scottish settler family at Baldoon, in southwestern Ontario, was tormented for years by a poltergeist: stones flew, fires lit themselves, the house shook, and a lead ball fired at a black goose was said to break the curse of a jealous witch next door. It is one of the oldest and best-documented poltergeist cases in Canada, written down while the settlers who swore to it still lived.

The ground it haunts

Baldoon, near Wallaceburg (Chatham-Kent, Ontario). Source: One of Canada’s oldest documented poltergeist cases, 1820s. The Club 49 map pins this legend at its documented country, beside the real mines, active claims, land status and modeled honey holes of the same ground. Open the free map and go stand in the story.

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