Some list this story under “Canadian folklore.” Others think it's scary but fake. Author Barbara Smith, include it in her “Ghost Stories of Alberta.” Some, like columnist Ken Liddel of the Lethbidge Hearld, interviewed someone in 1966 who knew the details.
Here's the thing: Everyone agrees on the ending; it's the story leading up to the ending that is so freaky and so in dispute.
But S. E. Schlosser claims he saw it with his own eyes and gives a pretty detailed account of a spooky

October 2017
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Features
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- Did “Buffalo Bill” Cody Ever Ride for the Pony Express?
- Western Events for October 2017
- Jack Swilling’s Arizona Adventures: Part II
- Jack Swilling’s Arizona Adventures: Part I
- The Serendipitous Birth of Blue Jeans
- The Old West in the Ozarks
- From Blood Brother to Broken Arrow
- The True Roots History of the Kansas Jayhawks
- Restaurateur Ike Clanton
- Chunk Colbert’s Deadly Grudge
- Ramblin’ Gamblin’ Ladies
- Tom Bullocks Railroad
- Alberta’s Ghost Train
- The Wretched Newspaper War
- Pancho Villa Pt. III: The Fall of Pancho Villa
- One Way to Save the Ranch
- Pancho Villa Pt. II: The Rise to Power
- The Teacher and the Badmen
- The Saga of Pancho Villa Pt. I
- They Headed Them North
- Mangas Coloradas’ Undue Fate
Departments
- What History Has Taught Me: Ron Lesser
- What Pistol did “Wild Bill” Hickok use to Kill Davis Tutt in 1865?
- Lords of the West
- “¡No Tire en la Casa!”
- Did Outlaws Shoot Locks Off Strongboxes?
- Did Old West Gunmen Wear Armor?
- What Are Needle Guns?
- Californios’ Legal Hero
- Buffalo Bill’s Saddle Pals
- Where was the Fort Located at Fort Collins, Colorado?
- Senior Citizens to the Rescue
- Did Wyatt Earp Live in the House Where the Statue Stands at the Corner of Fremont and First Streets?