“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”
Ray Bradbury
A Family Secret: The Disappearance of Captain Allison Day
It’s fair to say that the farms in the Bjorkdale district of Saskatchewan in 1925 were pretty isolated. Which is probably why no one paid much attention to the fact that Captain Allison Day left his family in October of 1925, and failed to return. It happened sometimes. Husbands left their wives and families, looking…
The Haunted Skull of the Kerrobert Courthouse – Revisited!
I recently had the great pleasure of being a guest on the podcast, ParaGhoul Paranormal: Discoveries from the Dark, hosted by Keely Kulpa. (You can listen to it here or watch it here.) On the episode, I told the story of the murder of Scotty McLachlan at Beechy, SK. I’ve told this story on my…
The Murder of Ernest Fouquette
Leask, SK – July 27, 1935 Cecille Fouquette was in a bit of a jam. She was stranded at the YWCA in Saskatoon, unable to pay her bill, with her boyfriend held by police on several charges of theft. Unsure of what else to do, she called her dad and he agreed to help her.…
Melanie Cole 