Case file · Haunting
The Baldoon mystery
From 1829 to 1831 the McDonald family farm in the Baldoon settlement near Wallaceburg, Ontario, was beset by stones and lead balls flying through windows, fires and moving objects; neighbours blamed a witch.
1829 CE · 42.59, -82.39 · status: legend
The account
A 'witch doctor' named Troyer is said to have advised shooting a silver bullet at a black goose; a local woman suffering a wound to her arm was then blamed. The account was published by Neil T. McDonald, the farmer's son, in 1871.
The sceptical view
The main source is a family account written forty years later with collected testimonials; human pranksters fit most of it.