The midnight mass

Published November 8, 2011

Just two months ago old man Charles, created quite a stir when he forced Ma Tessie to swallow the Holy Communion in Church one Sunday. “Tessie Vallaeyi !”  He ...

Tax and the cemetery spirit

Published November 1, 2011

The night began rather simple enough. Tax drank his normal shot of zayeed, took a long drink of water to chase it down and headed to bed. The night was punctuated ...

Ti John and the loogawoo at the court ho...

Published September 13, 2011

Ti John shrieked with delight, as he jumped up and down and whooped like a child at Christmas.  His Grandmother Ma Rose who was busy frying titiwi accra rushed out ...

Jumbies in the jungle

Published June 28, 2011

It was the last day of class before school closed for Christmas. Excited to be out school, I ran right out the school gates as soon as the bell rang to signal the ...

The Mama Glo at Deep Blue

Published May 24, 2011

The allure of Deep Blue was overwhelming and powerful. Deep Blue was a huge basin of water carved out of by the swift flowing Gullet River and was a perfect natural ...

The sacrifice

Published May 17, 2011

As the old man lay dying, in his heart was an old secret that he longed to reveal to his middle aged daughter and her ex best friend. Would that revelation create ...

Three nights later

Published May 10, 2011

The night was quiet as if the whole world was holding its breath, waiting for something to happen. The moon looked so big and hung so low it looked as if you could ...

The spirit inside Cynthia

Published May 3, 2011

Cynthia spied the glass jar on the top of the short concrete step to her small modest home and thought nothing of it. It looked like just an ordinary glass jar that ...

The jumbie in Elvira’s house

Published April 19, 2011

When Elvira burst her big toe in her yard one Friday afternoon she knew it was not a good sign. Fridays were not good days because on those days soukouyans could ...

Mercury’s fight with the jumbie

Published April 12, 2011

It was the third time this week that Mercury had that same bad dream. It started after his brother John got that night job as a watchman at the Grapefruit Packing ...

The jumbie in the house

Published April 5, 2011

As a teenager I had long since heard my mum talking about the jumbie that inhabited the house two doors down from us. Our house, along with the next three along ...

Josianne the tormented spirit

Published March 29, 2011

It was your typical last-day-of-school Friday afternoon.   We kids could hardly wait for the beautiful sound of the school bell to signal the end of the school ...

How Calamee and Poong killed a soukouyan

Published March 22, 2011

Very few people saw the strange light the first time because it all started happening very late at night. Those who saw it said what looked like a flashlight ...

The house that Baptiste built

Published March 15, 2011

For many years Baptiste was the most popular person around although there were many strange stories that swirled around him. Maybe it was because he was such a ...

The soucouyan from Marie Galante

Published March 1, 2011

It all started couple of months before hurricane David in 1979 and Avandale was the first to see it. Avandale always went to bed late because he ate dinner late and ...

Mabel and the de Laurence ring

Published February 22, 2011

When she saw it, she should have turned her head and go along her merry way, but Mabel was not that kind of person. She lived by the philosophy of “whatever dog ...

My encounter with Bruno

Published February 15, 2011

Living in the lush green rain forest of Dominica can be breathtaking and refreshing; however, it can also be frightening.  A river ran along the yard at the back ...

GHOST STORIES: Rufus and the la diabless

Published February 8, 2011

Excitement was in the air. The annual domino competition was about to begin and everyone that could walk or crawl had gathered in Mr. Nwell shop for the occasion. ...

GHOST STORIES: The eyes and the smell of...

Published February 1, 2011

I can remember this like it was just last night. The day I found out something was following me while walking home from night classes. I used to live upper Kings ...

GHOST STORIES: The soucouyan on the roof

Published January 25, 2011

It all began one moonless country night long before the advent of electricity in our part of Dominica. It was one of those nights in which everything appeared to be ...