My great grandfather “Papa Kelly” knew a magician, Bill King, who lived in Glace Bay. Bill King was considered the “Houdini” of Cape Breton. He would always do magical acts around Cape Breton and especially in his hometown, Glace Bay. People would tell stories of him, about how he could constantly make things happen by only using his mind. For example, people say that one night at the Savoy theatre, which is a small theatre in Glace Bay, there was a magician who came in from out of town to perform and while he was on stage trying to hypnotize certain members of the audience he said he was unable to, due to someone in the crowed with greater “mind-strength”, and apparently it was Bill King. I know this because people say to this day that as soon as Bill left the Savoy, the out-of-town magician was able to properly continue his hypnotises performance.
Over the years while Bill King was alive, a lot of people did believe he had magical powers, but of course, there were some sceptics. To set the record straight and to prove the sceptics wrong, Bill King declared to people of Glace Bay that the day he dies “the earth is going to shake”. In November, 1929, Bill King died. That same day, after he was found dead, the only known Glace Bay earthquake took place.
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