From: "Evelynne Ritter" (e.m.ritter@worldnet.att.net)
To: obiwan@ghosts.org
Subject: Skugog Haunting
Date: Sun, 4 Jul 1999 23:13:06 -0500
I have a Great Great Grandmother who was born on Skugog Island; ADDA ELISA THOMPSON b: 07DEC1858, daughter of AARON and SARAH AMSBURY THOMPSON. Adda married my GG-Grandfather , AARON HAMMER BEALS on 08MAY1878 in either Canada or Tennessee. There is a notation with Adda's statistical data. Born on Skugog Island, Lake Skugog, Ontario, Canada. The Thompson's farm was near the haunted field.
We have always wondered about this cryptic notation until now. If the haunting was noted in the 1850's, then a motorcycle, may be another part of the legend, now it only takes a complete research to find out just how long the haunting has been around.
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I was not sure if my initial e-mail went through, as we had some power fluctuations the night I read about Skugog Island. I have a direct ancestor who was born on Skugog Island, there is a notation with our family research that no one was ever able to explain until now.
My ancestor was born in the 1850's, and there is a handwritten notation with the family group sheets, that she was born on "...the island of the "devil" lights." No other mention was ever made, nor has any ever been found as to who made the notation or when the original notation was made, possibly in the late 1800's?
