On Regatta Day in 1932 parts of Newfoundland’s Avalon Peninsula received a whopping 20cm of hail.

How bad can a Newfoundland winter get? How about snow drifts in the governor’s bedroom? Not that the governor complained much - he couldn’t, he ended up pickled in a barrel of rum.

It’s often said Newfoundland’s first legislature was held in a tavern. What’s less-well-known is that they failed to pay their tab and that the owner, Mary Travers, collected her due in a way the government wouldn’t soon forget.

Not every mummer story has a happy ending. In 1860 a group of mummers killed a man in Bay Roberts , NL — that was only one incident in a string of violent behaviour.

On Dec 12, 1942, 99 people died in a tragic fire at the Knights of Columbus Barn Dance— and it may not have been an accident.

Murder, macabre justice and mayhem! In 18th century Newfoundland there was a punishment worse than death — the gibbet.

There are mysteries in the deep but from time to time the come to the surface — here are 10 times Newfoundland sea serpents and lake monsters made the news.

Haunted, historic and open to the public — five of the most convenient places to encounter a ghost in Newfoundland.

A little more than a century ago a newspaper’s bizarre tale of a pirate treasure and spectral dogs on the shores of Quidi Vidi created a sensation in St. John’s, Newfoundland.

On September 14, 1896 St. John’s city workers made a gruesome discovery under Military Road.

In 1905 something shiny and new — in the form of an unusual iceberg — appeared outside of St. John’s harbour and some people were convinced it was a miracle.

Newfoundland’s rabbits (aka snowshoe hare) and George Street United Church have exactly one thing in common — the Hon. Stephen Rendell.