Hmm, that could be the movie I’m thinking about. If it is, I’ve grossly misremembered its sequence of events.
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It’s possible I conflated Blackbeard’s Ghost with this episode of Are You Afraid of the Dark? Truly wonderful, the mind of a child is.
Ah, ‘Are You Afraid of the Dark’, another Canadian staple. YTV was great back in the day.