Season 2, Episode 7 (Halloween Bonus 1)

When nights grow long and familiar paths suddenly lead you astray; when fog shrouds the coast in deathly gloom and strange lights flicker in empty bogs,

that’s the time when ghosts and ghouls explore this new found land.

Welcome to the Strange Truths & Tall Tales Halloween Special.

Title: The Thunder Growl

Time: 12 minutes

Locations: Elliston

Story: Night of the Thunder Growl

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About The Episode:

Halloween Bonus Episode Pt. 1

It’s October and the nights are getting noticeably longer. As darkness takes a hold. I’ve decided to embrace the ‘spooky season’ for some short Halloween episodes.

This instalment is a creepy true story from Elliston on the tip of The Bonavista Peninsula.

It’s a tale of an unwelcome visitor who showed up in town one frosty night some 200 years ago.

Listening Options

You can listen to the episode here or on your favourite platform.

• Apple Podcasts

• Spotify

• Amazon

• Google Podcasts

Credits

1. Tocatta & Fugue in D Minor (Bach) from orangefreesounds.com, Paul Pittman, public domain.

2. Thunder (bajko) and growling sound (raventhornn) from freesound.com, creative commons 0

Sources & Further Reading

1. Night of the Thunder Growl, Product of Newfoundland

2. Wandering Thoughts, Rev. Philip Tocque, 1846

3. The Thundergrowl Phenomenon, Newfoundland Weekly, Jan 03, 1931

4. Trinity, Evening Telegram, October 28, 1922

5. More Than 50%, Hilda Chaulk Murray, 1979

6. Elliston, Encyclopedia of NL

7. Newfoundland: As it Was, and As It Is In 1877, P. Tocque,