Note: This book is another in Altitude’s “Amazing Stories” series. Johanna Bertin’s contribution is based on the loss of the Frances at Sable Island in 1799. The tale of Mrs. Copeland - her missing ring, her butchered finger, and her wandering ghost - has turned up in many writings about the island and is the most commonly told Sable ghost story. A lively version of this legend was published in 1853 as one of the Sam Slick stories written by Thomas Chandler Haliburton. Mrs. Copeland was a passenger on the Frances enroute from Portsmouth, England, to Halifax, Nova Scotia. None of the crew or passengers aboard the Frances survived the incident, so no one knows anything about its transatlantic voyage, how the ship ran afoul of Sable Island, or what actually happened when it did. In acknowledging this, Johanna Bertin concludes her chapter with a postscript stating “…the Copelands’ story, and all dialogue, is a re-creation…”, and adds “The ghost of Mrs. Copeland was last seen in 1947 by a member of the Sable Island Lifesaving Establishment”.