Haunted Waters: Tales of the Old Coast

Ann Turner is the financial and budget manager of the University of
British Columbia Library.

Master storyteller Dick Hammond recounts these 13 tales from the remote
coastal inlets of the B.C. mainland as they were told to him by his
father. No one knows where or how they started, but there is a sense
that they, or their like, have been passed on in the oral tradition by
the settlers and Native peoples of the area for a long time. Logging,
hunting, and fishing are the order of the day, and they afford ample
opportunity to experience the mystery and power of raw nature, and
perhaps the supernatural. These lively, engaging tales contain enough
day-to-day details of coastal life to be believable, yet there is always
an element of the unexplained.