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Large rock flung at two hikers visiting Mount Uniacke Lake
Two companions went after dark to a reportedly haunted bench area by a lake. A heavy rock flew across in front of them from a grassy field or trees and splashed into the lake, audibly striking rocks underwater. The reporting witness turned on a flashlight but saw no one, and the pair left feeling followed.
Hiker startled by violent tree shaking and possible ground stomping near Uniacke House Museum
The witness was photographing nature along a loop trail behind a museum when repeated violent shaking of branches followed by loud ground thumps was heard from dense cover without any source being seen. After a third occurrence the witness left quickly and, after covering several hundred yards, heard a very loud thump about 80 feet behind. The witness then ran back to the museum, briefly losing the trail before finding the markers again.
Growl in Nova Scotia (1992)
The witness was sent to clean up his brother's campfire in a field behind the house. He heard a loud growl that he felt in his chest, then heard something crashing through the woods toward him. He dropped everything and ran to the house feeling it chase him on two feet, and the food was found scattered the next morning.
Paranormal encounter in Nova Scotia
After taking over his brother's bedroom, the witness repeatedly saw a black shadow figure with a top hat standing in the hallway watching him late at night. It never entered or spoke and would vanish. Years later his brother said he had seen the same figure in that room.
Animal behaviour in Nova Scotia
The witness was riding a four-wheeler behind two friends on an open trail in daylight. Something grabbed his right shoulder and twisted him, causing him to turn into a tree. When they stopped and looked around, nothing was visible.
Dogman sighting in Nova Scotia
While walking home at dusk in fog, the witness saw a huge wolf-faced biped at the end of a cemetery driveway. It stared at him, sniffed the air with mouth open, crossed the road in two steps, then dropped to all fours and ran into the woods.
Unidentified sound in Nova Scotia
Around 11 p.m. the witness and a female partner ran to a reported break-in with fighting above the post office after the janitor said someone was being beaten. The upstairs apartment was abandoned with cobwebs and dust showing only their own footprints. They searched tactically and found no one.
Paranormal encounter in Nova Scotia
On patrol around 3:30 a.m. in winter the witness and his partner saw a shirtless man airboxing in the middle of the road. They stopped and drove toward him but he was gone after a dip in the road. Fresh snow showed no footprints and follow-up found nothing.
UFO sighting in Nova Scotia
About three years ago on a winter morning the witness's wife woke him about a bright light in the neighbor's back field. He watched a streetlight-bright light that did not illuminate the ground and appeared to swirl within itself for about 25 seconds before it vanished. In daylight there was no new light fixture and snow showed no footprints near the barn.
Footsteps in Nova Scotia
Years later in his first apartment far from home the witness again heard the same shuffling footsteps approaching. A fellow officer staying with him, who had not been told the story, separately reported hearing footsteps come to his head. Nothing was heard after that.
Footsteps near Cape Breton, Nova Scotia
Over multiple nights the witness heard shuffling coming down the hall to his basement bedroom, with the door moving, books sliding off, blankets pulled far away, and scratches appearing on his arm. Once he looked and saw a three-foot grinning gargoyle-like figure that vanished when he swung at it. A marble-like hit to the neck in daylight was part of the same period.
Paranormal encounter near Cape Breton, Nova Scotia
About a week later the witness walked to the barn for his motorcycle with no thought of anything spooky. He saw a semi-transparent white lower half of a person moving erratically by the barn door. He threw his helmet at it and it ran toward him then turned and ran toward the cabin.
Door or window contact near Cape Breton, Nova Scotia
The next day the witness was alone upstairs tidying the cabin where the board had been left. He idly moved the planchette and asked if the board was evil or good, then felt his arm move on its own. Immediately there were two loud bangs on the front door but no one was visible outside.
Footsteps near Cape Breton, Nova Scotia
At about 14 the witness and a couple friends slept in a backyard cabin and used a homemade Ouija board. After joking turned serious they heard a thud and slow shuffling footsteps outside. Everyone stopped using the board and nothing else happened that night.
Paranormal encounter in Nova Scotia
While working alone with a dispatcher around 3 a.m., the witness saw a hooded figure on the outside camera by the back parking lot. He quickly opened the back door expecting the person to be there. No one was there and the figure was gone.
Dogman sighting near Cape Breton, Nova Scotia
Years later the witness told a friend about his sighting and then told the friend's father. The father said he had seen the same thing on all fours by the woods while looking for a car part. The father thought it was the devil and fled.
Dogman sighting near Cape Breton, Nova Scotia
The witness stopped his small scooter on a rough power-line road during summer break. Everything went silent and he saw a lion-like maned creature with large black eyes watching him from down the path. After a tense stare the creature backed into the woods and the witness fled past on his bike to the road.