Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents: Champlain's fish and other lake monsters. -- The sasquatch walks the Pacific Northwest. -- The flesh-hungry wendigo. -- Leif the Lucky and the Yarmouth stone. -- William Shakespeare, Marie Antoinette and the money pit. -- The massacre of the Donnellys. -- The mad trapper of Rat River. -- He who flies by night. -- Sir John Franklin, the Terror and the Erebus. -- The final voyage of the Marie Celeste. -- Ambrose Small exits the stage. -- The strange case of Brother XII. -- Tom Thomson on Canoe Lake. -- Harry Houdini's final curtain. -- The murder of Sir Harry Oakes. -- The execution of Wilbert Coffin. -- The suicide of E. Herbert Norman. -- La Ciorriveau and her cage. -- The headless woman of Griffintown. -- The Shag Harbour UFO.