The phantom era that took people out on darkened roads at night held many weird and hair-raising stories. Several told of footsteps and the hoof beats of animals that one could identify with through sound. It was not unusual on those dark and narrow roads, back then, to call out "is that you Paddy or Pierre" and receive a "Yes" answer, which would be absurd today. So when strange lights were seen or unusual noises heard, people were anxious to find out who traveled the road with them. This brought to light a true ghost story of a man who turned out to be the ghost himself. He was Irving, the railroad man, who carried his lantern through a pathway that he designed for himself, to get to his late shift at the roundhouse each night. Leaving home on his mile trek to the train, he entered a wooded area where he would stop and light his faithful railway lantern to guide him along the dark trail. Then on he would go through a graveyard, humming and swinging his lantern, as all railway men did back in those years. His footsteps and light from the lantern made some scary looking shadows, and with his dark railroad attire, he became known as the devil in the graveyard. So as a devil ghost Irving was not easy to track down. As the story kept growing over time many strange and unusual sights were seen in the old graveyard. Until one night the light had just mysteriously disappeared and was seen no more. This kind and loving gentlemen had retired and passed his lantern on to his son Elmer who worked as an engineer on the same Canadian National Railroad on Prince Edward Island for fifty-seven years. 123