Three Knocks: An Atlantic Ghost Story

Three Knocks: An Atlantic Ghost Story

Author: Pretty Wicked | Southern Gothic Media June 17, 2026 Duration: 57:04
Forerunners that knock before a death. A fish that spoke the language of the dead. A phantom ship still burning on the same stretch of water two hundred years on. And a woman who walks a beach made of bones. These are the ghost stories of Canada's Atlantic coast, where the sea takes what it wants and sometimes sends it back. SHOW NOTES 🖤 FOLLOW PRETTY WICKED New episodes every Wednesday. Subscribe so you never miss one. Instagram: @prettywickedthepodcast If you loved this episode, leaving a review means the world and helps other listeners find the show. Pretty Wicked is hosted by Megan Alda. 🖤 SOURCES & FURTHER READING Here is everything used to research this episode. 🔗 WEB SOURCES Helen Creighton Folklore Society - Significant Stories Saint Mary's University - Modernity, Myth and Memory on Nova Scotia's Devil's Island NS Ghost Stories - Devil's Island, Where Spirits Still Roam NS Ghost Stories - Peggy's Cove, Ghost of the Lady in Blue Friends of McNabs Island - Devils Island MyNewBrunswick.ca - Legend of Money Cove MyNewBrunswick.ca - A Pirate Ghost on Grand Manan Maclean's Archive - The Fiery Phantom That Sails Bay Chaleur, 1951 Fox Harb'r Resort - The Ghost Ship of the Northumberland Strait NUVO Magazine - The Flaming Ghost Ship of Prince Edward Island PEI Lighthouse Society - West Point CBC News - Are old lighthouse keepers haunting West Point? CBC News - Sable Island: Shipwrecks at the graveyard of the Atlantic Mysteries of Canada - Doppelganger Stories from Canada 📚 BOOKS Helen Creighton, Bluenose Ghosts (Ryerson Press, 1957) Helen Creighton, Bluenose Magic (1968) Julie V. Watson, Ghost Stories and Legends of Prince Edward Island (1988) Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables (1908) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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