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Haunted Canada 3: More True Ghost Stories
More true ghost stories collected from across Canada! These creepy stories are perfect for around the campfire and at Halloween. Will you be able to read them all?
128 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 2007
About the author
Pat Hancock
46 books10 followersPat Hancock’s five Haunted Canada books combine spooky stories and eerie illustrations with interesting facts about Canadian history. Readers will be thrilled and chilled by her hair-raising stories! Haunted Canada: True Ghost Stories garnered the Saskatchewan Silver Willow Award in 2004. A longtime collector of funny but true facts about Canada, Pat is also well-known for her three collections of Crazy Canadian Trivia books.
Pat spent much of her life teaching science and English, until she retired and became a full-time parent. She says that reading to her three children sparked her interest in writing. She continues to teach English courses at the University of Toronto and Ryerson, and also leads writing workshops.
Pat spent much of her life teaching science and English, until she retired and became a full-time parent. She says that reading to her three children sparked her interest in writing. She continues to teach English courses at the University of Toronto and Ryerson, and also leads writing workshops.
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October 4, 2019
I enjoy Pat Hancock: prolific and eclectic authoress of regional Canadian facts. She usually combines our history with hallowed or haunted locations but has also published books of “Crazy Canadian Trivia”. Those make great gifts for us, new immigrants, and worldwide friends. My favourite was her first in 1992, introducing special animals I had not heard of: “Creatures Of The Night”.
“Haunted Canada 3: More True Ghost Stories” is from 2007 and I did not wait to obtain volume 2, to settle in and treat myself to this. I loved it! It feels like a coup to find the good ones, because I have bought these for years. Authors have different approaches; some being too cheesy or wordy, for example, which I consider inappropriate regarding something as sacred as spirits and the conclusion of lives.
Another weakness is recycling the same common stories Canadians recognize, in our respective provinces. There are books in which it is obvious legends were pasted in, without a sense of compilers having made the effort to visit the places, or research fresh details. There are authors who did not take care to balance their findings; so that British Columbia, Ontario, and Québec are not dominant or worse: that our three prairie provinces are not generalized into one outrageously disparate territory.
Pat discussed Manitoba turf at least twice and relates familiar lore her way. However, I was thrilled to learn of a phantom music incident in December 1953, that was news to me! I don't know St. John’s Anglican church. One presumes brief manifestations are not widely printed. An unexpected surprise pertains to early “24 Sussex Drive” residents: home of our Prime Ministers. I am impressed: every province is represented nicely. I also enjoy the chapters, set by similar paranormal demonstrations. This series is a keeper!
“Haunted Canada 3: More True Ghost Stories” is from 2007 and I did not wait to obtain volume 2, to settle in and treat myself to this. I loved it! It feels like a coup to find the good ones, because I have bought these for years. Authors have different approaches; some being too cheesy or wordy, for example, which I consider inappropriate regarding something as sacred as spirits and the conclusion of lives.
Another weakness is recycling the same common stories Canadians recognize, in our respective provinces. There are books in which it is obvious legends were pasted in, without a sense of compilers having made the effort to visit the places, or research fresh details. There are authors who did not take care to balance their findings; so that British Columbia, Ontario, and Québec are not dominant or worse: that our three prairie provinces are not generalized into one outrageously disparate territory.
Pat discussed Manitoba turf at least twice and relates familiar lore her way. However, I was thrilled to learn of a phantom music incident in December 1953, that was news to me! I don't know St. John’s Anglican church. One presumes brief manifestations are not widely printed. An unexpected surprise pertains to early “24 Sussex Drive” residents: home of our Prime Ministers. I am impressed: every province is represented nicely. I also enjoy the chapters, set by similar paranormal demonstrations. This series is a keeper!
November 3, 2021
Although I find that the first books of a given series sometimes do tend to be a bit superior to later instalments, with the Haunted Canada series rather the opposite seems to be occurring for me.
For yes and indeed, when I consider the first three Haunted Canada books, if I recall my textual reaction to the three anthologies of reputed to be true Canada-wide ghost stories as they have been collected (chosen) and retold by author Pat Hancock, well in my humble opinion, Haunted Canada 3: More True Ghost Stories really and truly is both with regard to Hancock’s writing and her presented contents and thematics not only considerably more engaging and more necessarily spooky and creepy but also considerably more factually realistic feeling and thus of course also more actually believable with regard to the claims of true and bona fide hauntings than both Haunted Canada: True Ghost Stories and even more so than Haunted Canada 2: True Tales of Terror (with both books in my opinion showing far too many stories which feel more like imaginative yarns than like true ghost and hauntings stories and with Haunted Canada 2: True Tales of Terror also containing a sizeable amount of monster and even UFO tales, accounts that in my opinion do not really belong in a book primarily about hauntings by ghosts and phantoms).
And definitely, with Haunted Canada 3: More True Ghost Stories, Pat Hancock has in my humble opinion managed to achieve what she has rather failed to do with her two previous books of supposedly true Canadian ghost stories, and namely, that Hancock has managed to pen all of the ghostly visitation accounts featured in Haunted Canada 3: More True Ghost Stories with an engaging and entertaining narrative flow that equally presents just the right balance between spookiness and not being overly frightening for the intended age group, for older children from about the age of eight or nine onwards (and something that in my opinion is definitely not the case with both Haunted Canada: True Ghost Stories and Haunted Canada 2: True Tales of Terror, with unfortunately both of them showing interesting stories content wise but sadly having been written by Pat Hancock in a manner that instead of being a bit spooky and freaky is mostly just mundanely factual and therefore pretty much non-frightening, whereas Haunted Canada 3: More True Ghost Stories is certainly sufficiently creepy in style to be a bit spine chilling but without ever becoming truly terrible and horrifying).
For yes and indeed, when I consider the first three Haunted Canada books, if I recall my textual reaction to the three anthologies of reputed to be true Canada-wide ghost stories as they have been collected (chosen) and retold by author Pat Hancock, well in my humble opinion, Haunted Canada 3: More True Ghost Stories really and truly is both with regard to Hancock’s writing and her presented contents and thematics not only considerably more engaging and more necessarily spooky and creepy but also considerably more factually realistic feeling and thus of course also more actually believable with regard to the claims of true and bona fide hauntings than both Haunted Canada: True Ghost Stories and even more so than Haunted Canada 2: True Tales of Terror (with both books in my opinion showing far too many stories which feel more like imaginative yarns than like true ghost and hauntings stories and with Haunted Canada 2: True Tales of Terror also containing a sizeable amount of monster and even UFO tales, accounts that in my opinion do not really belong in a book primarily about hauntings by ghosts and phantoms).
And definitely, with Haunted Canada 3: More True Ghost Stories, Pat Hancock has in my humble opinion managed to achieve what she has rather failed to do with her two previous books of supposedly true Canadian ghost stories, and namely, that Hancock has managed to pen all of the ghostly visitation accounts featured in Haunted Canada 3: More True Ghost Stories with an engaging and entertaining narrative flow that equally presents just the right balance between spookiness and not being overly frightening for the intended age group, for older children from about the age of eight or nine onwards (and something that in my opinion is definitely not the case with both Haunted Canada: True Ghost Stories and Haunted Canada 2: True Tales of Terror, with unfortunately both of them showing interesting stories content wise but sadly having been written by Pat Hancock in a manner that instead of being a bit spooky and freaky is mostly just mundanely factual and therefore pretty much non-frightening, whereas Haunted Canada 3: More True Ghost Stories is certainly sufficiently creepy in style to be a bit spine chilling but without ever becoming truly terrible and horrifying).
April 20, 2016
These were my personal favorites:
-Dream Warning
-The Ghostly Galley
-A Ghost Asks Why
-The Invisible Friend
-Blood in the Barbershop
-The Voice of Evil
-The Ship that Wouldn't Die
-The Invisible Beast
-The Phantom Train
-The Woman at the Window
-The Talking Statue
-A Ghostly Guest Appearance
-The Maybe Ghost
-Dream Warning
-The Ghostly Galley
-A Ghost Asks Why
-The Invisible Friend
-Blood in the Barbershop
-The Voice of Evil
-The Ship that Wouldn't Die
-The Invisible Beast
-The Phantom Train
-The Woman at the Window
-The Talking Statue
-A Ghostly Guest Appearance
-The Maybe Ghost
October 19, 2019
Another great addition to the Haunted Canada series! A must-read for anyone who likes spooky stories but not anything too scary.
September 25, 2022
Haunted Canada 3: More True Ghost Stories by Pat Hancock
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💀 This haunted Canada book was more like book 1 so I liked it a lot more than book 2. It was back to the ghost tales and less of the UFO type books. Scary level is not high so I think it would be find to let younger children read the stories too.
💀It is produced by scholastic so I don’t think they are crazy scary because of that. So if you have a tween looking for scary books consider this series.
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💀 This haunted Canada book was more like book 1 so I liked it a lot more than book 2. It was back to the ghost tales and less of the UFO type books. Scary level is not high so I think it would be find to let younger children read the stories too.
💀It is produced by scholastic so I don’t think they are crazy scary because of that. So if you have a tween looking for scary books consider this series.
November 1, 2010
Haunted Canada 3 by Pat Hancock. This book is about people who are tormented by spirits from the living dead and strange occurences that have happened throughout Canada. Some stories are about places that spirits have haunted because they have died in the place or their are some of spirits that diliberately haunt people for no aparrant reason. This book is very frightening and creepy. I would recommend this book to anyone that likes a bone chilling true story.
The best thing about the book is being scared when you read the stories. The worst thing is that the stories were so short, I wanted to keep reading.
The best thing about the book is being scared when you read the stories. The worst thing is that the stories were so short, I wanted to keep reading.
March 15, 2021
Bien fait pour les jeunes, mais j'adore ce genre d'histoire, ce lit bien en 2e lecture avec un autre livre ou un entre-deux. Aussi non vos pré ados/ados vont bien aimé.
October 16, 2019
Good but not as good as others. I felt that the author started adding more filling and boring background info to pad it out. Maybe that's why another author took over the series after this volume. Definitely a few really intriguing stories though.
October 16, 2013
Haunted Canada was a really really good book. I really liked it because i'm the kind of person who likes more scary/horror things. Haunted Canada is a book with scary ghost stories, and murders that happend in the past in Canada.
August 3, 2017
Would be great for people around the ages of 9-13 or something. I did get some interesting Canadian trivia from it. A couple of the illustrations were nicely creepy. Not Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark level, but I especially like the red eyed woman on the bridge.
August 3, 2025
Haunted Canada 3: More True Ghost Stories by Pat Hancock is a spooky read.
This collection of short stories includes ghost trains, tours conducted by ghosts, and other paranormal occurrences from all over Canada. Each story in Haunted Canada 3 is connected to a Canadian province and town.
For readers who like stories that make them think and ask questions, Haunted Canada 3 is for you.
This collection of short stories includes ghost trains, tours conducted by ghosts, and other paranormal occurrences from all over Canada. Each story in Haunted Canada 3 is connected to a Canadian province and town.
For readers who like stories that make them think and ask questions, Haunted Canada 3 is for you.
September 13, 2022
This was another book I read to understand what my students are interested in. I can understand the appeal. This book features short chapters with high interest ghost stories. It’s a little gimmicky at times, but it delivers what it promises.
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December 5, 2021Good
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January 19, 2025Entertaining
August 4, 2009
it was scary!!
February 16, 2016
I love the way he wrote the book I also love that there is a series of these scary true story's
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June 12, 2017It was pretty good. The writing could have pulled me in more, but it was very good. Not as scary as I might have hoped, but nonetheless, good.
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