Caledonia Mills
Caledonia Mills is a small community in Nova Scotia, Canada, in Antigonish County. It is famous for the Mary-Ellen spook farm, or the fire spook, a series of mysterious fires and poltergeist reports from 1899 to 1922. The story even drew the interest of Arthur Conan Doyle, the author of Sherlock Holmes. Mary-Ellen MacDonald, the daughter of John and Annie MacDonald and later adopted by Alexander and Janet MacDonald of Caledonia Mills, was at the center of the events. In 1922, Walter Franklin Prince of the American Society for Psychical Research investigated and concluded the fires were caused by Mary-Ellen in a dissociated state, finding inflammable liquid and signs that the fires were started by human hands. He noted the burn marks were only up to about five feet high, the reach of the girl in the family.
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