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These strange events took place almost two centuries ago, but are still considered one of the brightest, most active and diverse manifestations of poltergeist. Moreover, this poltergeist was deliberately summoned for revenge, probably with the help of witchcraft
Today on the site of a tiny Scottish settlement Baldun in southwestern Ontario, there is only a plaque. It contains basic information about this village, but for some reason not a word is indicated about the otherworldly events that glorified Baldun throughout the district in 1829.
At the same time, the locals still remember these events well, and in the 1970s, the popular play "Baldun's Secret", written by eminent Canadian screenwriters, was even staged based on them.
These events represent an extremely vicious and active poltergeist who haunted the family for three years. John McDonald … John was the eldest son of Donald and Flora MacDonald, who came to Canada from Scotland and in 1804 became one of the first settlers of Baldum.
In 1826, after his marriage, John bought himself a farm on a very good plot, which in addition to him was claimed by many other settlers. The elderly Mrs. Buchanan, who lives in the neighborhood, offered John good money many times for this land, but he refused her all the time.
On October 28, 1829, John's wife, along with the neighboring girls-helpers, was stacking straw in the barn. The barn was built of logs and had a log ceiling. Suddenly one log fell from the ceiling and miraculously did not touch the girls. They marveled at this, but continued their work. However, after a few minutes, the second log fell from the ceiling.
At this point, the women left their jobs and began to examine the ceiling. They could not understand where these logs were falling from, because there were no holes in the ceiling and all the logs in it were sitting tightly and firmly. But as soon as they started work again, a third log fell from the ceiling and almost knocked one girl down. Then everyone ran out of the barn at once, screaming.
Since then, at MacDonald's farm, devilry of all kinds has begun. Stones began to fly out from somewhere, aiming at family members, sometimes they broke windows. When these stones were picked up and examined, it turned out that they were wet, as if pulled out of a river flowing near the farm.
Then water began to flow from the ceiling in the house, and this happened when there was no rain. Then all over the house, one after another, small fires broke out, sometimes in ten places at the same time.
A few days after the fires, an extremely hard blow struck the house, so that even its base shook, and pots and pans fell from the shelves to the floor. The cause of this blow has also not been found.
Museum of the first settlers of Baldun
Local resident William Stewart said:
“During these troubles, I lived near this place and often saw strange things with my own eyes. a bag into the center of the river to the deep bottom, and after a short time the same balls flew through the window again.
I was there when the barn caught fire and when Priest Harmon came. At this time, a large stone flew through the door, breaking some thing, and then rolling right under the feet of the priest. The stone was wet, as if it had just been taken out of the water. A search was carried out, but the thief was not found. I also saw a loaf of bread coming off the table by itself and dancing in the room on the field. I know the owner of this house, John MacDonald, he is a very respected man."
Weeks, months passed, rumors about the intrigues of evil spirits on MacDonald's farm spread more and more, and now they even came here from distant cities to see flying stones or moving objects with their own eyes. Journalists also came here, and the Globe Toronto newspaper also wrote about the poltergeist.
At first, when the pilgrimage began here, John MacDonald even helped advertise his farm himself and invited curious people here. Because he took good money for watching. But then John realized that sooner or later his whole family may be under threat of death and this is not a joke at all.
This happened when the poltergeist began to attack and injure animals. For example, a certain Mr. Drulard personally saw a heavy cast-iron pot fly out of the oven by itself, flew into the yard and began to chase and beat the dog. From each blow with the pot, the dog whined loudly in pain and could not convince from him in any way.
The same Drulard saw how a large butcher's knife flew towards a crowd of 50 people, flew through the entire confusion and only miraculously hit no one at high speed into the wall. This was in 1830.
John MacDonald summoned the priest again, but when the Reverend McDorman arrived at the house and began to read prayers, the poltergeist became even more bitter. Now healthy animals began to suddenly die of unknown reasons. The next morning in the stable they found dead horses, the ox, which was dragging the plow in the field, suddenly fell on its side and died. Pigs, chickens and even small chickens died en masse.
At night, the MacDonald family began to wake up to the sound of loud footsteps in the kitchen. On hearing it sounded like a heavy man in boots walking there.
One day Robert Baker, a schoolteacher from Michigan, came to MacDonald's farm. He read a lot about witchcraft and decided to ward off the poltergeist with the help of a horseshoe nailed over the door and prayers read at the door. This did not help at all, and the local authorities opened a case against Baker himself for "an attempt at witchcraft." He was tried and sentenced to 1 year in prison, but then the local governor pardoned the unlucky teacher.
By that time, the summer of 1830 had come and the poltergeist began to molest the newly born baby MacDonald. One day, his crib began to sway violently and the baby began to cry. Two men barely kept the bed from swaying before the baby's mother could take him in her arms.
After that, fires began to break out in the house again and now they were much stronger. One day the whole house and the shed next to it burned down in an extremely short time and no one could do anything about the fire. The MacDonald family managed to escape, but all their good was lost. They only had their clothes left in which they ran out of the house.
Fortunately, the local residents helped the MacDonald with things and household items, and for a while the family settled in the house of John's son-in-law. After some more time, John began to rebuild the house again, but as soon as he raised it by about a quarter, things began to move again and fires began. And this time in the house of John's son-in-law.
Fearing that this house would also burn down, John and his family began to seek another refuge. They built a temporary hut, but there it all continued. They moved to a new place and dug a dugout, but even there the poltergeist did not leave them alone.
By winter, it became clear that it was better to burn out than freeze overnight in the field, so John and his family decided to return to their unfinished new house. And then once again they decided to call the priest to drive out the demons. But the prayers of the priests did not help this time either.
It was already the third year that the MacDonald family suffered from this scourge, when John accidentally found out about a girl from the city of Long Point, about whom it was said that she was gifted with unusual abilities. This girl was only 15 years old and her name was Dina Trojner. John managed to meet her and he told her his story, after which the girl retired to her room and said that she needed time to communicate with the moonstone.
Three hours later, Dina came out and looked tired and worn out. However, she received an answer. According to her, in a certain "log house" there is an "elderly lady" who considers John's house to be her property and therefore drives people out of it.
She also told how John can recognize the intrigues of this lady. To do this, you need to carefully look around and see a goose that wanders around the farm just from the moment all these troubles began. John beamed and said that yes, he had noticed this strange goose many times. Then Dina told him to cast a bullet of pure silver and shoot the goose.
According to the girl, as soon as John does this, all his troubles will end immediately.
The next day John came home and did everything as Dina said. He cast a silver bullet, and then loaded it into a rifle and went to look for a goose. He found him in a field by the river and hit him in the wing with the first shot. The goose screamed as if he were a man, and then disappeared into the dusk in the reeds.
The next day, all the devilry stopped and the house finally became quiet and calm. Happy John and a few of his friends went to celebrate the business in a pub and at one point passed a log cabin owned by Mrs. Buchanan.
Suddenly they saw Buchanan sitting on the porch, whimpering in pain, clutching his broken arm to his chest. They did not associate it with the shot goose, but later it dawned on John that it was Dinah who had told him about her and that Buchanan was very angry when John refused to sell her the farm.
This whole story is amazing not only for the events described, but also for those. that she has a lot of evidence. A large number of people personally saw the manifestation of poltergeist in MacDonald's house, and 40 years later, a journalist from Wallaceburg News interviewed the descendants of John MacDonald and 26 of his eyewitness neighbors, after which a long and detailed article was published in the newspaper.
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