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Even More Ghost Stories of Nova Scotia
170 pages, Paperback
Published October 1, 2025
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Vernon Oickle
43 books13 followersVernon Oickle lives in Liverpool, Nova Scotia. He studied journalism in Lethbridge, Alberta and upon his graduation in 1982, he returned to his hometown to begin his newspaper career. Since then, Vernon has won many regional, national and international awards for writing and photography. In 2012, he won the International Society of Weekly Newspaper Editors’ Golden Quill Award for best editorial writing, becoming only the third Canadian and the first Nova Scotian to win this honour since it was first presented in 1961.
Today, he is the editor of the nationally award-winning newspaper, The Lunenburg County Progress Bulletin in Bridgewater. Since October 1995 he has been writing the popular and award winning column, The Editor’s Diary. Helping to shape and influence public opinion on a wide range of topics that over time, his writing increasingly touches a populist nerve by airing topics important to his readers.
In addition to being an award winning journalist and editor, Vernon is the author of 18 books, many of which collect and preserve the heritage and culture of Atlantic Canada. In 2010 he launched a series of novels that get their names from a Maritime folklore rhyme about seven crows.
Today, he is the editor of the nationally award-winning newspaper, The Lunenburg County Progress Bulletin in Bridgewater. Since October 1995 he has been writing the popular and award winning column, The Editor’s Diary. Helping to shape and influence public opinion on a wide range of topics that over time, his writing increasingly touches a populist nerve by airing topics important to his readers.
In addition to being an award winning journalist and editor, Vernon is the author of 18 books, many of which collect and preserve the heritage and culture of Atlantic Canada. In 2010 he launched a series of novels that get their names from a Maritime folklore rhyme about seven crows.
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August 15, 2025
I do not really believe in ghosts, but after reading Vernon Oickle's 2015 Ghost Stories of Nova Scotia in 2017 during a summer visit to Cape Breton, I must admit that I am now most definitely more willing to consider that paranormal occurrences might well and indeed exist, that this could actually be something realistic and not imaginary, not invented (although to be honest, I would still have to in fact experience a haunting myself in order to be fully convinced that ghosts and the like are or can be real), and just to say that I am also hugely glad to have now in my possession the two sequels as well, More Ghost Stories of Nova Scotia (2019) and Even More Ghost Stories of Nova Scotia (2025).
Now the main reason why Even More Ghost Stories of Nova Scotia has and just like with Ghost Stories of Nova Scotia and More Ghost Stories of Nova Scotia (well, at least in my humble opinion) a pronounced and textually intriguing tendency towards potential and often even towards more than probable authenticity and reality attached is that the majority of Oickle's featured tales, they represent firsthand ghost (et al) stories from the current, from the actual (modern-day) and more often then not also named (identified) owners and residents of supposedly haunted buildings, eyewitness reports from individuals who have come across ghostly encounters, eerie sights, sounds etc. in Nova Scotia (both urban and rural, both outside and inside), and which makes Even More Ghost Stories of Nova Scotia marvellously different from, say, urban legends (as the latter generally are anonymous and often have someone telling a tale they have heard from the friend of a friend of a friend, and which certainly does not tend to be the case with Even More Ghost Stories of Nova Scotia).
Furthermore, none of accounts shown by Vernon Oickle in Even More Ghost Stories of Nova Scotia therefore tend to feel artificial to and for me (delightfully straight-forward, not overly creepy, they are mysterious but always believable and authentic sounding, as well as never gratuitously violent and horror-filled either), that Even More Ghost Stories of Nova Scotia certainly NEVER textually sounds like its tales could perhaps be either hoaxes or simply the outpourings of overly active imaginations, but stories of hauntings, of strange occurrences, of spiritual apparitions which the people giving and relating these accounts to Oickle have actually and truly experienced (or at the very least totally and absolutely believe to have experienced), and that yes, with many of the ghostly encounters, weird sounds, strange lights and the like being shown and presented in Even More Ghost Stories of Nova Scotia, these equally have often been occurring for many many years, for decades and sometimes even for centuries (if not millennia).
And every ghostly tale of Even More Ghost Stories of Nova Scotia also and for me hugely delightfully includes Vernon Oickle's well-researched and generally soundly solid background information on the history of the featured Nova Scotia ghost stories and on the places, the people and events that shaped them (and which generally appear to be error free and historically accurate as well, with me especially enjoying the stories regarding hauntings in the Yarmouth Jail, at and in the Halifax Citadel and the mysteries about possible pirate and other treasures on Oak Island, not to mention that the accounts in Even More Ghost Stories on Nova Scotia about so-called forerunners by ways of three distinctive and loud knocking sounds preannouncing death, diverse white and blue women and multiple sea-wrecks are both entertainingly engaging and also really engender a wonderful feeling of geographic place, as well as showing why Nova Scotia's vehicle license plates depict the famous schooner The Bluenose and the claim that Nova Scotia is Canada's ocean playground).
So indeed, Oickle's approach in Even Ghost Stories of Nova Scotia of presenting actual (and as such specifically named and identified) people and of also for the most part equally showing historical and cultural backgrounds, in my opinion, this also makes the feeling of reality in Even More Ghost Stories of Nova Scotia totally and absolutely strong, totally and absolutely believable should thus also should make (at least for even skeptics at least consider the possibility of authenticity, of truth, and of ghosts and the like possibly being something possibly and maybe even probably real. Four stars for Even More Ghost Stories of Nova Scotia, warmly recommended, and while Vernon Oikle has not specifically penned Ghost Stories of Nova Scotia for children, More Ghost Stories of Nova Scotia is definitely also more than suitable for younger readers (for basically anyone aged eleven or so onwards) as well as (and happily so) also not ever being overly creepy, not being majorly frightening either (and as already repeatedly being alluded to above), but upped to five stars since unlike with Ghost Stories of Nova Scotia and More Ghost Stories of Nova Scotia, in Even More Ghost Stories of Nova Scotia, aside from acknowledgements, Oickle also includes an appreciated dictionary (a glossary) of ghost and paranormal terms.
Now the main reason why Even More Ghost Stories of Nova Scotia has and just like with Ghost Stories of Nova Scotia and More Ghost Stories of Nova Scotia (well, at least in my humble opinion) a pronounced and textually intriguing tendency towards potential and often even towards more than probable authenticity and reality attached is that the majority of Oickle's featured tales, they represent firsthand ghost (et al) stories from the current, from the actual (modern-day) and more often then not also named (identified) owners and residents of supposedly haunted buildings, eyewitness reports from individuals who have come across ghostly encounters, eerie sights, sounds etc. in Nova Scotia (both urban and rural, both outside and inside), and which makes Even More Ghost Stories of Nova Scotia marvellously different from, say, urban legends (as the latter generally are anonymous and often have someone telling a tale they have heard from the friend of a friend of a friend, and which certainly does not tend to be the case with Even More Ghost Stories of Nova Scotia).
Furthermore, none of accounts shown by Vernon Oickle in Even More Ghost Stories of Nova Scotia therefore tend to feel artificial to and for me (delightfully straight-forward, not overly creepy, they are mysterious but always believable and authentic sounding, as well as never gratuitously violent and horror-filled either), that Even More Ghost Stories of Nova Scotia certainly NEVER textually sounds like its tales could perhaps be either hoaxes or simply the outpourings of overly active imaginations, but stories of hauntings, of strange occurrences, of spiritual apparitions which the people giving and relating these accounts to Oickle have actually and truly experienced (or at the very least totally and absolutely believe to have experienced), and that yes, with many of the ghostly encounters, weird sounds, strange lights and the like being shown and presented in Even More Ghost Stories of Nova Scotia, these equally have often been occurring for many many years, for decades and sometimes even for centuries (if not millennia).
And every ghostly tale of Even More Ghost Stories of Nova Scotia also and for me hugely delightfully includes Vernon Oickle's well-researched and generally soundly solid background information on the history of the featured Nova Scotia ghost stories and on the places, the people and events that shaped them (and which generally appear to be error free and historically accurate as well, with me especially enjoying the stories regarding hauntings in the Yarmouth Jail, at and in the Halifax Citadel and the mysteries about possible pirate and other treasures on Oak Island, not to mention that the accounts in Even More Ghost Stories on Nova Scotia about so-called forerunners by ways of three distinctive and loud knocking sounds preannouncing death, diverse white and blue women and multiple sea-wrecks are both entertainingly engaging and also really engender a wonderful feeling of geographic place, as well as showing why Nova Scotia's vehicle license plates depict the famous schooner The Bluenose and the claim that Nova Scotia is Canada's ocean playground).
So indeed, Oickle's approach in Even Ghost Stories of Nova Scotia of presenting actual (and as such specifically named and identified) people and of also for the most part equally showing historical and cultural backgrounds, in my opinion, this also makes the feeling of reality in Even More Ghost Stories of Nova Scotia totally and absolutely strong, totally and absolutely believable should thus also should make (at least for even skeptics at least consider the possibility of authenticity, of truth, and of ghosts and the like possibly being something possibly and maybe even probably real. Four stars for Even More Ghost Stories of Nova Scotia, warmly recommended, and while Vernon Oikle has not specifically penned Ghost Stories of Nova Scotia for children, More Ghost Stories of Nova Scotia is definitely also more than suitable for younger readers (for basically anyone aged eleven or so onwards) as well as (and happily so) also not ever being overly creepy, not being majorly frightening either (and as already repeatedly being alluded to above), but upped to five stars since unlike with Ghost Stories of Nova Scotia and More Ghost Stories of Nova Scotia, in Even More Ghost Stories of Nova Scotia, aside from acknowledgements, Oickle also includes an appreciated dictionary (a glossary) of ghost and paranormal terms.
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