The Grey Lady of Stony Beach
On a dark misty night when the fog is wispy and close to the ground, one can imagine why the Granville Road in Annapolis County, Nova Scotia, is known as one of the province's most haunted spots. My little community, Granville Beach, once called Stoney/Stony Beach, is the setting for one of the more famous of our area's ghost stories, the Grey Lady. Known to locals since her sightings in the 1800s, her story has been told and retold by many. The Dentaballis Marsh in what was known as Stoney Beach One of the earlier printed accounts of the Grey Lady comes from Isabella Ann (Farish) Owen's series newspaper columns she wrote for the Halifax Herald titled, "Ghost Stories of Nova Scotia", in 1897. These columns were popular and copied by other newspapers, including the Bridgetown Weekly Monitor . The Monitor ran the column in their 22 December 1897 issue. The following is the section of the column that discusses the Grey Lady. " All...
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