Tales of Mystery Unexplained. (Tales of Mysteries Unexplained Book 2): Tales of Mystery Unexplained Podcast by Steph Young

Author:Steph Young [Young, Steph]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 2020-05-06T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen:

Who was the mysterious Showman?

In 1885, a young girl arrived to live on a rural farm in Shawville, Pontiac County, Quebec. She had been adopted by the family who lived there, farmer Mr. George Dagg and his wife Susan, who lived on the farm with their children. The farm itself was located a few miles north of the Ottawa river and it was set among a rich and vast forest of pine trees. The Dagg family had emigrated from Ireland and they now lived in this farmhouse, which was actually just a wood cabin comprising of three rooms. The family had two daughters, Mary aged five, and Eliza Jane four, and an eighteen-month old son called Johnny. There was also a young orphan boy called Dean who helped at the farm doing chores. Mr. Dagg’s parents lived a couple of miles away.

In 1885, Mr. and Mrs Dagg had adopted the 9-year-old girl from a placement home in nearby Belleville. Her name was Dina Burden McLean. It seemed that she settled in very well with her new family, and according to all accounts, she was treated very well by them and was considered to be as much a part of the family as Mr and Mrs Dagg’s biological children. There are certainly no reports of any problems, and Dina wrote to her own mother to say she was happy there. Four years later however, the circumstances were to unexpectedly and dramatically change for the worse. One day, while Mr Dagg was out working on the farm, Mrs Dagg returned home from running some errands to find a trail of excrement lining the floor of their wooden home. It seems that the mother and father, for some reason, believed this had been done by their farm hand, the young orphan boy. In fact, they would take him before a magistrate to deal with him and have him answer for his actions.

This however did not resolve the issue, after similar incidents happened again. Excrement continued to be found, thrown around the house but the magistrate did not find any grounds for blaming the orphan boy and he was exonerated. He was very upset to be accused however, and he left the farm, never to return. Mr. and Mrs. Dagg expected this to be the end of the matter, but really, this was just the beginning. One day, shortly after the boy left, the family were all inside their cabin when one of the glass windows suddenly, violently shattered inwards. Naturally, the father immediately believed someone had thrown a rock at their window from outside, and he ran out to apprehend them, but he found no-one there. Rather than returning back inside, Mr. Dagg decided to hide outside behind a barn, where he waited expectantly for the hooligan to return.

Instead, he watched in horror as another glass window shattered; yet no person was there to have caused it to shatter. On another occasion, one of the children was hit hard on the head when a large stone appeared to be thrown by an invisible hand through the open door of the cabin.

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