Ghost Stories
The midnight mass
November 8, 2011 | Comments: 29Just 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
November 1, 2011 | Comments: 24The 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 house
September 13, 2011 | Comments: 19Ti 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
June 28, 2011 | Comments: 19It 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
May 24, 2011 | Comments: 18The 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
May 17, 2011 | Comments: 38As 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
May 10, 2011 | Comments: 37The 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
May 3, 2011 | Comments: 28Cynthia 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
April 19, 2011 | Comments: 18When 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
April 12, 2011 | Comments: 31It 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
April 5, 2011 | Comments: 27As 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
March 29, 2011 | Comments: 28It 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
March 22, 2011 | Comments: 48Very 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
March 15, 2011 | Comments: 34For 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
March 1, 2011 | Comments: 48It 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 ...