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Episode 247: In January of 1922, the first of a series of fires broke out on a farm in the small rural community of Caledonia Mills in Antigonish County, Nova Scotia. The family who lived at the farm, Alexander, 70, and sixty-nine-year-old Janet MacDonald, 69, and their 15-year-old adopted daughter Mary-Ellen, claimed the unexplained blazes, 30 in all, had begun in rapid succession in places not close to either wood stove. The fires and other terrifying occurrences that drove them out of the home, they believed, were caused by a malicious poltergeist bent on their destruction and focused around Mary-Ellen. News of the events brought renowned international investigators of things paranormal, even catching the attention of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, author of the Sherlock Holmes detective stories.\nSources:\nCaledonia Mills: The Mary Ellen Spook Farm Case\nFire Spook by Monica Graham - Ebook | Scribd\nGhost Stories of Canada by John Robert Colombo, Jillian Hulme Gilliland - Ebook | Scribd\nThe Mary Ellen Spook\nFolklore | Visit Antigonish\nCaledonia Mills - Wikipedia\nFolklore of Nova Scotia by Mary L. Fraser\nAntigonish Heritage Museum - The Old Train Station News - Newsletter 8, Oct 2009\nHobgoblin - Wikipedia\nApparitions Of Black Dogs\nBlack Shuck: The Legendary Devil Dog Of The English Countryside\nInvestigating the Antigonish Fire Spook Haunting\nPSICAN - Paranormal Studies and Inquiry Canada - Caledonia Mills Fire Spook\nAmerican Society for Psychical Research\nA look back at the mysterious haunting of an Antigonish County farm, 100 years later | CBC News\nMore Canadian Poltergeists\nThe Mysterious Fire Spook of Caledonia Hills\nPhantoms and Monsters - Real Cryptid Encounter Reports - Fortean Researcher Lon Strickler\nSeeks Ghosts: Poltergeist: Fire Spook, Part l\nDark Visions: Personal Accounts of the Mysterious in Canada - John Robert Colombo - Google Books\nLe cas curieux de la ferme Mary Ellen Spook - PREUVES DU PARANORMAL\npoltergeist | Chambers Dictionary of the Unexplained - Credo Reference\nspr.ac.uk |\nGlossary | spr.ac.uk\nLexscien: Library of Exploratory Science\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices