There are many anecdotes told by the parishioners of the old times when their ancestors, lately settled in Rustico , would venture out from their cabins of the adjacent district of Tracadie , where they would plant wheat in the clearings. They would steal through the woods to reap the fruits of their industry, which they threshed with flail on mud floors, and conveyed in boats to Rustico . It often happened that while they were in the act of threshing or conveying the grain to their homes, their old enemies the English would make their appearance. Such was the terror with which the poor Acadians regarded their conquerors that they would take to the woods for safety and leave their hardly earned harvest to the prey of their enemies. Another storey or legend of old times in Rustico , cannot be better given that in the words of Bishop Plessis : "Here is a fact which will be scarcely credited by those who read it for the first time. For about six years in all the Acadian chapels of He St. Jean, that of Bay Fortune (or ) excepted, there have been heard voices, or more correctly speaking, a voice, sometimes singing, and sometimes sighing, by hearing which, some persons have been singularly affected. The sighing voice is that of a person in heavy and deep affliction, the singing voice is that of a woman or child, which makes itself heard above that of the chanters, for it is while the office is being sung that he hears that squealing voice, especially during the chanting of the litanies of the Holy Name of Jesus, which it is here customary to sing on Sundays during All the assistants do not hear this voice at the same time, those who have heard it one Sunday in one church will not always hear it in another church on the following Sunday. There are some who have never heard it. Sometimes it is heard by one person and not by another in the same place, yet some are so affected by the sound of the groaning voice that on hearing it they fall into a fainting fit. If this rested only on the testimony of women and children, we might attribute it to a heated imagination, but among more than a hundred persons who have heard it in the church of Rustico alone, and perhaps sometimes in , there are people of all ages, of strong and solid minds, all of whom agree in their report without having any interest in doing so, for they are wearied and terrified of it. This uniformity gives weight to the recital.