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Weddings, corporate events, festivals and trade shows, you will find everything you need to insure the smooth running of the day. We offer many possibilities thanks to our adjustable stages and floors, whether it is to create a dance floor or to supply a levelled ground to your guests. Our advisors will know how to guide your choices.In a burst of streaking flame. That’s how the Ottawa Valley’s legendary talking poltergeist is said to have vanished 125 years ago. The dramatic farewell was apparently witnessed on Nov. 18, 1889, by the children of farmers George and Susan Dagg, on their farm in Clarendon, 10 kilometres from Shawville, Que. A flight of youthful fancy, perhaps? But harder to explain is the witness statement signed by George and 16 farmers and community leaders — from local politicians to clergymen — outlining the spirit’s three-month campaign of torment on the Dagg farm. Those manifestations attracted media coverage and wagonloads of curiosity seekers.
Especially when the phantom started speaking. “There are loads of ghosts around, but this is the only one that talked,” explains Venetia Crawford, an author and historian with the Pontiac Archives. “And lots of people heard it talk.” Citizen photographer Darren Brown and I visited Crawford in Shawville as part of our mission: To track down the notorious farmhouse, and find out whether any trace of the Dagg poltergeist lingers today. Between official records, media coverage, gossip and local lore, there are many variations to the eerie tale. But two things are consistent: the disturbing events centred around 11-year-old adopted orphan Dinah McLean, and they began on Sept. 15, 1889, escalating through to the fall. “Dinah was the magnet that drew the ghost,” Crawford says. According to the 1889 group statement, Dinah’s presence attracted everything from unexplained, spontaneous fires — eight once occurring in a single day, it is said — to such objects as a water jug, butter tub and wash basin being tossed around the property by an “invisible agency.”
Other happenings included stones being thrown through windows, a mouth organ playing on its own and an empty rocking chair moving vigorously. “When the child Dinah is present, a deep gruff voice like that of an aged man has been heard at various times, both in the house and outdoors,” the witnesses attested. “And when asked questions (it) answered so as to be distinctly heard, showing that he is cognizant of all that has taken place.” The Dagg spirit was the subject of 1957 National Film Board movie, The Ghost That Talked. In 1889, it found its loudest voice upon the arrival of Percy Woodcock, a journalist who covered the strange events for the Brockville Recorder & Times. Woodcock engaged the spirit in an epic debate, according to Greg Graham, a local playwright and amateur historian. “With witnesses gathered, Woodcock … argued for the soul of Dinah or asking this ghost — or whatever it was — to leave her alone,” he says. “They began debating about philosophy, theology, the nature of God, and right and wrong.
And when he made the ghost mad, Dinah would react as if she was slapped, kicked, hit, punched or scratched. It got very violent against Dinah and he’d have to back off.” We visited Graham at Coronation Hall Cider Mills, which Graham operates in nearby Bristol. He wrote and staged a play called The Dagg Haunting here in 2010. “There would be a small, thriving industry around this story if we were in the U.S.,” Graham says. “Maybe there will be yet?” Indeed, this tale could make for some creepy souvenirs. The spirit only ever physically appeared to the children: Mary, 4, John Dagg, 2, and the troubled Dina. It took on various guises: A tall man with a cow’s head, cloven feet and horns; a big black dog; and finally as an angelic figure with long white hair and a crown, Crawford says. “He wanted to upset everybody there and he did a good job of it, so whatever he could think of that was unusual that day, he did,” Crawford says. “He had a very unique personality … he was such a strange ghost.”
The mischievous spirit also appeared to have an identity crisis. At various points, it claimed to be a devil, The Devil, a spirit of a man who died 20 years earlier, and later — before its dramatic exit — it even claimed to be an angel, Graham says. In most incidents, the spirit seemed like a mischievous prankster. In others, a terrifying force — such as one account in which it asked one of the Daggs’ children, “Would you like to go to hell with me?” or a woodshed encounter with Woodcock in which it claimed, “I am the devil and I’ll have you in my clutches.” It even had a sense of humour, once advising a clergyman trying to perform an exorcism that “he’d better stick to photography,” according to a Nov. 25, 1889, report in the Ottawa Free Press. “I don’t think he was either good or bad,” adds Crawford. “I think he was whatever he wanted to be in the moment.” Toward the end, witnesses heard the spirit’s voice change from demonic to angelic, and join in the singing of hymns.
Graham says no more disturbances were noted after its fiery disappearance into the sky — an act intended to prove its heavenly nature to the Dagg children. But the spectre may have its mark on the family. Some say John Dagg died during the First World War, and that the phantom had predicted it. Dinah herself mysteriously disappears from the history books — with no marriage or burial records, Graham says. But there is a tale of her working as a teen on different farm, and being called upon by a mysterious man one night and never seen again. While those mysteries can never be solved, we could answer one question in 2014: Was the Dagg poltergeist still up to his old tricks? Armed with a map, an old photograph, and rough directions from Graham, we sought out the old Dagg home. Our journey under a cold, grey sky was met with seemingly endless fields, roughshod gravel roads and a few wrong turns. Finally we spotted the familiar old white farmhouse. It was now or never. Ghost hunting is not for the faint of heart.
As we pulled to the end of the long, winding driveway, nothing seemed to move. Even the day’s wind had subsided. A rusted old swing seat sat ominously in the yard. A brief jostling of the window curtains offered a sign that someone — or something — waits for us inside. Of course, I’ve watched too many X-Files episodes. My photographer wasn’t the least bit perturbed. He’s the Scully to my Mulder. We knocked on the door and were met with Charlene Labombard and her adult daughter, Danielle, who have lived in the home since 1984. They were amused by the ongoing local interest in their property. But Danielle was the first to admit it could still be home to things that go bump in the night. She recalled hearing, as a teenager, someone climb the creaky old stairs and stop outside her door. Thinking it was a sibling prank, she flung the door open — only to find herself alone. Her siblings claim an upstairs door also had a habit of opening-and-closing of its own volition.
“I don’t have a superstitious mind,” Charlene explained. The family matriarch said she has never felt or seen anything. But some of her children claim to have seen what appears to be a little girl in a white gown or dress come down the stairs in the original part of the hold farmhouse, and cross down the hall through the kitchen door. Charlene’s late husband swore he saw the apparition once, too. Pointedly, some Dagg family stories indicate that a young daughter, Eliza Jane, died at the farm under mysterious circumstances, scalded by a pot of boiling water. Though most lore places that event after the famous haunting, the tragedy has been linked in spirit. The only other oddity noted by the Labombards, a strange sound of crawling and scratching in the attic, solely focused above the original house, and not the extension. If the world’s chattiest ghost is still hanging around, he’s taken a vow of silence. Are the odd happenings reported by the current residents some strange remnant of the Dagg haunting?