Miꞌkmaq

Yeah, yeah.

And I know one time we even had somebody on who covered the Micmacs.

And they were showing their idea of our creation and a lot of their symbolism.

And then showed Norse mythology symbolism and their whole layered thing and put it next to each other.

And then you hear, and then you hear in, in, in old Micmac, in old Micmac, like supposed, uh, you know, myths or stories that there's, you know, and some of their stories that the head tribes guy is a tall dude with red hair and white.

Yeah.

I mean, now you're explaining, you know, so it was somehow with a noise and the Micmacs actually, I mean, who knows, but somehow

Druid, um, markings here in New Hampshire at the, um, what is it? The, uh, Yeah, but you see the various markings, you know, it was global travel long before, you know,

Because this place is supernatural, just in general.

And the reason why there is a burial ground in there is because these people who used to live there, these Mi'kmaqs, they realize that...

They do say Mi'kmaq, but that has sort of been corrected over time.

It's Mi'kmaq.

The management is all white.

We were situated, like, right next door to the Uyghur reserve, the Mi'kmaq reserve.

And then also seeing the dynamics between how those folks were treated versus, you know, You know, the more material privileges that the white people in the village experience, even though on the whole, I would call the entire village somewhat economically depressed, right? Like most of the folks, the only jobs are like to go out west.

And then maybe you have health care and like folks work in the school system, right? So I think it, it, there was definitely a lot of like, uh, learning through lived experience.

I'm your host, Rafe Wright, and in this episode, we invite you to let your mind be taken back to your childhood by the side of a campfire as we explore and discuss some of the creepiest ghost tales this island has to offer.

Firstly, we'd like to acknowledge that this podcast is being recorded on the unceded, ancestral, traditional, and contemporary Indigenous homeland of the Ebegweg Mi'kmaq, who have occupied this land for 12,000 years and continue to be its caretakers past, present, and future.

Now, it's not hard to find a good ghost story in PEI.

In fact, I would argue most families would have at least one or two tales of an encounter which couldn't be logically explained.

And something that I picked up on, and again, I just like to see if my speculation is correct because there is a trail marker where, it's carved in the tree and then of course at the end of the movie you do see it again and it's present throughout the movie it's basically an hourglass an hourglass with no base so from what I've read this is supposed to represent when the triangle at the bottom is left open or disconnected it merely it alters the meaning to indicate disruption structural danger or an unsafe path ahead is that kind of in the vein of being right or does it represent something a little bit different

Our location and the peoples of that time who lived there, the Ojibwe, and my writing partner is a guy named Peter Vickery, who's Mi'kmaq, which is an Eastern band.

And Peter found this, and he went through a...

A very deep dive because he's a not so amateur historian.

And the dad was very upset.

So he went to go try to bury him in the Mi'kmaq ground.

Yeah.

And he did.

I mean, I feel like he he had like morphine and ready to kill Gage if he needed to.

Yeah.

What Judd ends up telling him also is that, you know, like he he thinks that maybe he didn't even want to give it like bring him to the pet cemetery, to the Mi'kmaq grounds.

But like it was like beyond his control.

And they talk about hearing this creature and stuff in the woods, and it can shape-shift.

The original Pet Sematary movie, that's what it's based on because you have the Mi'kmaq Indians, and they believed in the Wendigo.

and they would bury their dead on this land, and they would come back to life, and the Wendigo would be part of that.

They kind of edited it out in the movie, but if you actually read the Pet Sematary book, there's a lot more to the Wendigo.