On a moonlit January night in 1870, 16-year-old Elfreda Pike began a walk home from Harbour Grace—unaware it would be her last.

More than 200 years ago a Sarah Singleton trekked miles through the woods to find her missing brother and came face-to-face with an axe murderer.

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.

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