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


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