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Kidd’s Stone
I love a good mystery. Cape Breton is filled with stories and myths of days gone by. One I have recently heard involves the Mira River, pirates, a secret shipyard from the 1800’s and a stone which pays homage to Captain Kidd.
We are issuing a Moosebait challenge. Anyone who can find and post, to our Facebook page, a photo of the alleged stone reading, “Captain Kidd died without mercy.” Gains bragging rights and will go down in moosebait history.
Props go out to Liam Hussey, who posted this great photo of the Kidd Stone. He wouldn’t let on to it’s location so it is still a mystery to me.
GOOD SHOW LIAM, YOU ARE A TRUE MOOSE.
Here are a few pieces of the puzzle to get you started:
WHISTLE DOWN THE WIND – pg288
“At Glen Margaret, BG, in Cape Breton there was a rock marked simply enough with three lines and the words, “Kapt Kit”. A few hundred miles away at Marion Bridge, near Fortress Lunenburg, is another tombstone shaped rock bearing the legend ‘Captain Kidd died without mercy.’ ”
CAPE BRETON’S MAGAZINE – pg43
“They knew about the shipyard which had ceased operation around 1810; between 1810 and 1820 it had been briefly used as a sawmill, but abandoned because of ghosts!”
“About 15 miles from Mira Gut down the Mira there is a carved stone memorial to Captain Kidd, obviously carved by someone sympathetic to him since the inscription reads ‘Deprived of mercy 17O..’ ”
So there you go, 15km down the Mira, stone reading, “Captain Kidd died without mercy.” How is that for a challenge?