Bonfires and Ghost stories from Gitchee Gumeee

Bonfire on the shore of Silver Island on Lake Superior

The Perfect setting for some good old fashioned Ghost stories here on Gitchee Gumee …

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and the Silver Island Ghost …

The prolific Scottish author first stopped off at the Colonial Theatre in Port Arthur to deliver talks on spiritualism – a belief in the survival of the spirit after death and in our ability to communicate with these spirits.

Trained in medicine at the University of Edinburgh and a licensed physician, Conan Doyle took solace in spiritualism …. He was even a member of the Ghost Club, a paranormal investigative organization founded in London in 1862. (Today’s modern ghost hunters are not the first to investigate psychic phenomena.)

Conan Doyle was far from isolated in his beliefs. On that first trip to Silver Islet, he was accompanied by his publicist, his publicist’s secretary, and my great-aunt Muriel, all of them devout occultists.

In fact, it was Aunt Muriel who persuaded Sir Arthur to visit Silver Islet. Her late stepfather, James Cawdor, was buried in the cemetery there, and she wished to contact him….

More ; https://www.lakesuperior.com/the-lake/335-sir-arthur-conan-doyle-and-the-silver-islet-ghost/