Haunted Places in Canada
The following accounts are provided by The Shadowlands. Do not visit the listed locations without permission of the owner.
Alberta - Banff - Banff Springs Hotel - A bride was coming down the main staircase on her wedding day. The staircase was filled with beautiful candles to celebrate the special event. The train on her dress caught on one of the candles and the dress caught fire. In her panic, she tumbled down the stair breaking her neck. Today, she still be seen wandering through the halls of the Banff Springs in her wedding dress. The stairs, although still there have since been blocked and there were no other weddings in that area of the hotel.
Alberta - Banff - Banff Springs Hotel - The missing room, 873 - The walls have been extended over the door; however you can clearly see where the door use to be. Employees of the Hotel claim that they are not allowed to speak of it. The rumor is that a family was killed in the room and guests regularly see the ghosts. Mean while no matter how much they cleaned the mirrors a little girl?s fingerprints return, so they blocked off the room.
Alberta - Blairmore - Old Hospital - There are reports of a woman?s silhouette in a window, lights, singing and other noises.
Alberta - Boyle - Old Cemetery - This place is in the middle of nowhere, it has graves dating back to the 1800?s and whenever someone walks through the gates, fantastic chills run down the back of your neck. An old school/church is across the road in the middle of the field, coinciding with the graves.
Alberta - Brooks - Community Cultural Centre - This was an old hospital in the 1940?s, and many people died here. There are repeated sightings of an older janitor of the building going from room to room to clean, a young boy with a back pack wandering the halls, and many kids have heard an elderly woman read them stories. Through the use of a Ouija board, staff members have communicated with the young boy, who is 9 years old, and afraid of being there. He often plays with the toys in the daycare in the basement, and has told the staff members that there are a total of 75 ghosts in the building.
Alberta - Cadotte lake - Cadotte graveyard/ the Lake - It is a reserve an hour from peace river, at times when you walk by the graveyard at night you have a feeling of being watched, it is said that if you fool around in it after dark, a tall dark figure will chase you out, also at times weird lights will be seen at night over the lake since the graveyard is right next to it. At one point a few hundred years ago before it was a community it used to be a battlefield, as where probably why strange things sometimes happen.
Alberta - Calling Lake - Calling lake School - It is a small native community about 1hr and 45min outside of Edmonton, it has been said that the school was built over an old native burial ground it also been reported that a dark shadow like figure seems to hang around in the library day or night and there is always a feeling of being watched in the school.
Alberta - Calgary - 22X highway - There is no speed limit in the highway so lots of people have gotten car accidents or death. People have sworn to see ghosts pop out while driving then end up having accidents. Please if you are going anywhere else trying to pass the highway, drive with care.
Alberta - Calgary - It?s a really old mansion in old downtown. Now a restaurant and gift place. People swear that they see a woman walking around the upper floor of the house (which is closed to the public). She seems peaceful and has never presented a threat.
Alberta - Calgary - Abbydale SE - In a blue and white two story house lies a family of four with an incident involving a black figure like blur. Before all this there was a cold chill by the basement cellar. Even though the heat was on the beds where always ice cold and the moaning coming from the cellar sounded like a man with a deep voice. From there on in this sound was like a confession of some sort or a plea to god. Still today the family doesn?t know what the mumbling is trying to say because it is in a foreign language that hasn?t been heard before. The sightings of the black blur was seen on a regular daily bases but only to have come so far to a person then suddenly vanish.
Alberta - Calgary - Abandoned schoolhouse - Go onto International avenue, off of 52nd street. Take a left at the first set of light?s you see after passing the 68th street intersection. Go down that road about half way and keep looking to you?re left. This is how the story goes. You will only find a half of this very historic schoolhouse. Back in the day there was a fire that started in a hallway, and it claimed the lives of three children. Witnesses report the sound of children playing, laughing, & a child fall down. But after their death?s, they tried to tear the building down,(It was left standing for almost two years afterwards.) during their first attempt , almost half of the Calgary city workers fell awfully sick. There second attempt, they brought in a Wrecking ball, but the motor just up and died, they couldn?t find the reason why. Although back at their construction site, it was in fine working condition once again. Third attempt, the wrecking ball actually fell off while the group was still looking at the plans to carry out.
Alberta - Calgary - Bow River - A figure of a middle-aged woman is seen sometimes she is very peaceful looking, but it is still believed that she drowned in the Bow River. Some have even said in the early 1900?s. This woman is seen walking near a shallow area where one other almost drowned, but was saved. She can be easily seen from the bike path, but be wary she?s often seen on the bike path standing there.
Alberta - Calgary - C.O.P. - When ever you go there if you ride the ski lift during noon hour as soon as you get off and start to go down the hill you go faster. but when you try and stop you feel 2 sets of hands pushing you harder and harder until you fall down.
Alberta - Calgary - Cross house garden caf? - This one is already posted, but with not much detail:
Alberta - Calgary - The Deane House - History includes murder and suicide. Glass cabinets shatter on their own, guests at the house reported seeing an Indian man, possibly Chief Deerfoot in the basement during a murder mystery party. Other spirits have been spotted as well in upstairs bedrooms, such as a young woman.
Alberta - Calgary - Ernest Manning high school S.W - In the past of 2000 there was a incident that involved a girl who supposedly hung herself using her backpack to hang herself, on the top floor of Ernest Manning high school. She now known to be heard crying in agony, in the very last stall near the wall. Students reported that they?ve heard toilets flushing, sinks not properly working and thought that they saw a glimpse of a human figure behind them. Now the last time I?ve looked into this, there was a report that a janitor was passed out over night when a teacher discovered him in the morning.
Alberta - Calgary - Forest Lawn Chicken Coops - in these houses we have seen many ghosts waking around the house watching our every.
Alberta - Calgary - Grace Hospital - A woman was seen cradling a child in her arms in a delivery room. She would bang pipes and open windows, but wasn?t much of a threat to anyone. However, she did make it so that a woman in labor who was placed in that room would have a long and difficult labor, often ending in a caesarean section. The ghost is that of a woman named Maudine Riley. The Riley?s owned the land, which the hospital is built on. Maudine Riley died in childbirth in one of the rooms of her house. The room she died in was almost in the exact position where the haunted delivery room is now located. Her child perished with her. It seems that she is afraid of letting women give birth in that room, because she thinks they might suffer her fate. Across the street from the hospital is Riley Park. There?s a monument erected there in memory of Maudine and her child.
Alberta - Calgary - The Grandstand, Stampede Park - It has been said that during the building of the grandstand, that a construction worker was killed by falling into the concrete being poured for the thick outer walls on either side. There have been reports of footsteps at night, water taps and lights being turned on and doors closing.
Alberta - Calgary - Heritage Park - there has been sightings of a beautiful woman holding her baby smiling, on the third floor. They shut the place down, and took out the electricity on the third floor, and at night there have been sightings of a bright glow on that floor. People still see the ghostly woman there at times.
Alberta - Calgary - Lac La Biche - It is said that the ghost of the priest that died in a tornado at Lac La Biche settlement ground is seen walking in and out of the church. One witness has a picture of the ghost. Some people who work their claim they feel someone watching them from the churches windows. The ghost?s name is unknown but he does not harm anyone.
Alberta - Calgary - Mark?s Work Warehouse-Macleod Tr. S. - Employees over the years have seen shadows on the sales floor and fitting rooms, The sounds of walking on wooden floors, Eerie feelings, Cold chills followed by the foul scent of a wet dog and small items being tossed across the sales floor with no one there. These events happen in the early morning when there are fewer customers and after closing.
Alberta - Calgary - Mount Royal - Apparitions seen accompanied by a rotting smell.
Alberta - Calgary - Sears at North hill mall - An old janitor is heard and seen walking around the stare turning on TV?s and toys he has been known to communicate with people from the catalogue department and he doesn?t appear to be bad
Alberta - Calgary - St. Mary?s College - In the woods next to St. Mary?s College, it is haunted. There is no activity reported in the daytime, but in the nighttime, weird things usually happen. One witness reports his arm rose up on its own, and his partner couldn?t push his arm back down. Others felt hands around their neck.
Alberta - Calgary - Symons playground - An abandoned school in the NE little ways out of the city. Late at night, sounds of children laughing are heard. Inside the school, there have been numerous reports of actual glimpses of the ghostly children playing. It has been said that 2 teens went in the school and were never found again.
Alberta - Calgary - Zellers Forest Lawn - In this store we have a ghost everyone calls George. He likes to throw things off of shelves and to turn up stereos. Just recently we were all around the front of the store for our nightly meeting. All of the music was off and suddenly, from a part of the store in which no music or stereos were located, bagpipe music started to play. Everyone new it was George.
Alberta - Canmore - Canmore ice arena- a man is often seen watching the late night staff from a watching area. If somebody enters the room, the ghost is gone, but yet still visible through the windows down below.
Alberta - Crowsnest pass - Frank slide rocks - Mist and forms have been seen and when you look at the slide your sense of awe is replaced with an eerie feeling. Under the rocks is the old town of Frank and maybe 75 people died in the slide. It may be more due to the fact that the population was always shifting and the records were buried with the town.
Alberta - Dunvegan small settlement/missionary enclave - The ghost that is said to inhabit Dunvegan is that of a Catholic nun who died under mysterious circumstances. The ghost is said to appear as a gray form that descends from the hillside toward the settlement. The ghost is known as the gray lady and local guides mention the story and sightings have been periodically reported. The sightings are usually of a gray form descending from the hills as one crosses the bridge over the Peace River.
Alberta - Drumheller - The City Grave Yard - There is told to be a couple of ghosts it the yard and apx.3km around it.
Alberta - Edmonton - Concordia College - On certain nights you can hear a choir sing in the boys dorm areas that seems to be coming from the walls. Late at night, there are sounds of slamming doors even though no one is around. An African American female teacher has also been seen wandering the halls, and has been figured that she was a teacher in the 1960?s era. Schwarman hall is another area that has reports of being haunted. From class doors that slam before your eyes to being able to see your breath.
Alberta - Edmonton - Edmonton General Hospital - This hospital is composed of Y, C, A and B wings. The A wing was constructed early in the 1900?s or late 1800?s and the others followed. The B wing houses the old Operating Rooms and despite being closed and unused for 10yrs still smell of sick people. On the 8th floor (old pediatrics) children be heard to cry - this floor is also closed and vacant but before being shut down housed Alzheimer?s patients who often complained of children crying. In the basement of the B wing an electrician was killed during construction and has been seen in the hot house working in the same pit as the tragedy happened. A mother wanders the 6th and 8th floors looking for her dead child? She disappears when approached but her sobs do not.
Alberta - Edmonton - John A. McDougall Elementary school - During the lunch hour a young girl can be seen climbing up and down the stairs. Rumor has it the girl died when she was sliding down the banister of the stairwell and she was pushed off backwards.
Alberta - Edmonton - La?Boheme Bed and Breakfast - Old Gibbard Block in northeast Edmonton. Built in 1912. It was an upscale apartment building. Woman employee was murdered and dragged down three flights of stairs to basement where she was dismembered and fed into furnace. The sound of her head bouncing off each stair can be heard at night. The original furnace is still in use.
Alberta - Edmonton - The Macdonald Hotel- A horse and carriage often be heard running through the halls of the top floor. They are never seen only heard.
Alberta - Edmonton - Old Strathcoa Guilty Martini - You will see a man approach you during the evening around 10PM other times throughout the evening you will feel a cold touch on your shoulder or someone flicking your hair?most evenings the bottles will rattle and clink together with no explanation as the bottles are not even close enough to touch?cold spots and Shadows will appear where it is virtually impossible to see shadows? Nothing bad has ever happened and most all staff has experienced this ghost who they describe as a gentleman in black?
Alberta - Edmonton - Victoria School of Performing and Visual Arts - The school?s theatre, the Eva O. Howard, is inhabited by the ghost of Eva O. Howard. She is often seen before every school performance. Other spirits inhabit the school, many were lost during renovations.
Alberta - Edmonton - Walterdale Theater - This was originally built as a fire hall in the 1920?s, it was converted to a non-profit theatre playhouse in the 1960?s, though not absolutely sure. Many people have seen the resident ghost(s), and have been spooked right out of the building. The back stairwell, where the actors and technicians go through was especially laden with their presence. The hauntings tend to occur more closely to a play run beginning, especially in that stairwell, as well as the Green room. You feel hands helping when you go upstairs, or cold breezes in closed rooms. Props would move, and lights would be turned off.
Alberta - Fort Macleod - The Empress Theater - There?s a resident at the Empress who never goes home for the night. The Empress, once a vaudeville theater in Fort McLeod, has ghostly sightings and activities, downstairs?and sometimes upstairs.
Alberta - Fort McMurray - The Syncrude Towers - On the third floor of the mews. Two condos are known to be haunted. In the first condo you can here what sounds like a baseball being dropped and then rolled on the floor. It is usually heard when people are downstairs at around 11pm, the sound comes from above them on the second floor. In the second condo a teenage girl was grabbed by the arm while she was sleeping, she woke up realizing no one but her was in the room.
Alberta - Grande Prairie - Alden Arms Apartment complex - was said to be a woman who?s abusive husband killed her in the kitchen with a butcher knife. Sightings show her dressed in all white and she walks across the living room and kitchen she is said to be a friend of women but not of men.
Alberta - Grande Prairie - Prairie Mall - Reports of a disfigured old man roaming the office area hallway in the evening. Also an elderly woman who choked while eating in the food court is seen wandering around there.
Alberta - Grande Prairie - Old Movie Theater - A movie theater full of people burned down. If you walk by you feel like your being watched and you hear whispers. If you get too close you will hear footsteps running away. If you go inside you will hear screaming and what seems like fire. You see burning ghostly figures out of the corner of your eye.
Alberta - Highprairie - townpark - Reports of hearing a chime of a bell and little children?s voices it would normally happen around 10:00 or 11:00 then it would stop around 1 am.
Alberta - Jasper - Jasper Park Lodge - An extremely steep staircase leads up to a very old wing of the dated hotel. As a man was climbing the stairs, he fell and broke his neck. He haunts the old staircase without being seen. He pushes people down the stairs, causes cold wind gusts and leaves and eerie feeling in the stairway and the hall it leads to. Animals will not enter the stairway. & An old couple often be seen sitting at a table or dancing in a dinning room wearing old clothing.
Alberta - Lethbridge - At the Galt museum a man died in the elevator shaft when the museum was still a hospital. Now you hear his slippers walking around at night. Objects get moved if left over night and the elevator opens and closes mysteriously by itself.
Alberta - Lethbridge - Catholic Central High School - It?s been said that a chemistry teacher was killed during a freak explosion during an experiment. He now roams the halls, knocking on classroom doors as he passes them. This ghost is known as Kireef. It has been featured on the city news.
Alberta - Lethbridge - Yates Center - Kids can be seen running up and down the stairs and through the seats. Some say that kids were playing with a ball when it went into a storage room and when they went in to get it they got locked in.
Alberta - Lethbridge - The Galt Museum - A man died in an elevator accident many years ago when it was a hospital. Now people have reported hearing his slippers in the middle of the night. And once they put a bed board in the basement over night to find it turned around and upside down the next day. Also some times the elevator Opens for no reason when someone walks by it.
Alberta - New Sarepta - Old mans Territory - Feelings of being watched. Reported sightings of a girl that looked scared of something. Rumors are that an old man in a shack in the bushes murdered the girl in the late 1980s.
Alberta - New Sarepta - The High School of New Sarepta - a 1963 grade 11 student still lurks the gymnasium, where he was supposedly killed when he crashed his car in the parking lot during a school dance, in his Corsica. Students say they see his scarred, one legged, body crawling the gym on the same night of the dance.
Alberta - Red Deer - Lee and Short Law Office - This building was a hospital over 100 years ago. It was also the doctor Parsons home. Many people died there from a super flu, including nurses and the doctor?s wife. Over the years many different groups have tried to run in the house. All eventually left because of unusual activity. When the house was under renovation for the currant tenant many workman saw nurses upstairs in the attic. The night janitor quit on her first evening when she saw a woman on the back stairs, which tried to push her down. The motion sensor alarm goes off all the time for no reason. Doors lock by themselves. And a child was said to have been tickled.
Alberta - Rest stop near Canmore - Gas station - Screaming of a woman in extreme pain be heard until it sounds as if it is right in front of your face, then will suddenly stop.
Alberta - Stony Plain - The Multicultural Heritage Center - This Museum was featured in the ?ghost stories of Canada series? a few years back. In the main building which is the old stony plain high school people can be seen walking the halls ever so often shadows, white figures, many of the major cases stem from renovations. When the new kitchen in the basement was built things would get moved lost and found again when no one would even touch them. Stools have been reportedly been placed on top of the tables when no one has been there the entire night. Sometimes you will see out of the corner of your eye a woman in a 1900?s dress if there is a lot of activity. In the second building, which is called ?The Oppershauser house? the staff call their live in ghost ?George? after the previous owner of the house. things there can be pretty quite at times.. maybe you?ll hear footsteps or a few things may jump off the walls but if you put something in the closet upstairs you may not get it back! People who have left items in the closet have lot them or they have been moved to different parts of the house. Also watch for faces looking out the windows or voices at nighttime.
Alberta - Taber - The Heritage Inn - Room 203 - Reported to be haunted by a man that died there. He moves and hides things in the room and walks around the bar area.
BC - Abbotsford - Tretheway - House Museum - The house dates back to the early 1900?s, and has been converted into a museum. The Tretheways were one of the founding families of Abbottsford. It is rumored that there are up to 4 ghosts living here.
BC - Burnaby - Ceperley House - Burnaby Art Gallery - Ceberley house is believed to have been owned by a family of the same name. Built in 1910, the grounds are composed of the house itself, remains of an old barn, and the still standing carriage house. It is now an art gallery. Hauntings have been seen as paintings moving off the walls and ?following? people, faces of children seen in upper windows from outside of house, banging noises, the house ?shivering?. It had been rumored that in 1927, a family member died from an untimely illness and the spirit walks the halls.
BC - Burnaby - Central Park - Many ghosts have been lurking the lake, the stadium, and the forest. A ghost was caught in the forest walking on camera one night in October. Some people say they sometimes see a little boy playing by the lake at night, then he disappears. At the stadium, people occasionally report a woman calling in a gibberish language. It is told that a woman lost her kids one night sometime in the 30?s.
BC - Burnaby - James Cowan Theatre, Shadbolt centre for the performing arts - The Shadbolt Centre for the performing Arts is right beside the Burnaby Art Gallery which is also haunted, Rumor of a girl who acted at the theatre. She had some personal problems and ended up drowning in Deer Lake by the centre. Since then she has haunted the theatre, doing many little things, some things not so little. There was a time when a girl was dancing on the stage, and when the song came to a part that was about spirits and ghosts, all the power in the theatre went off, all of it, all at once, and just like that, it came back on. The same girl saw the woman who drowned in the back room. Other things such as things being moved to other locations when no one moved them (which severely messed things up during plays), doors being opened when no one was around.
BC - Cumberland - Pioneer Museum- Cumberland Sightings of young boys and girls have been reported in the school room and sometimes the player piano in one of the houses turns on without warning.
BC - Erickson - Rolling River Reserve - dark figure of a man. Follows you when you walk around at night or evening usually in the bush while you walk follows you for a long distance most people in the community say he watches over you when your alone and mostly in a certain area of the reserve it has been seen for years.
BC - Fort St. James - Vander hoof - Chinlac Massacre site - Back in the 1780?s there was a group of Natives camped at the junction of the Stuart and Nechako rivers in Central BC. The men went out down the river hunting and the women and kids stayed back at camp to berry pick and tend the camp. A war party of Chilcotin natives from further south came up the rivers to the camp and massacred all the women and children, even going as far as cannibalizing some of the corpses. The story goes that the men came back to their camp, found their families slaughtered and went out for revenge. The site even today has a very cold creepy feeling to it. You can only get to it by boat or float plane, but the area still does not seem to support any vegetation around where the massacre occurred, and canoeists have tried to camp overnight at the site and most of them had to leave in the dark down the river. People who have visited the site to do archaeological studies have even reported feeling very uneasy and frightened. This is an actual site in the provincial archives, and their is numerous evince to support the massacre actually happening. It can be found on the BC Ministry of Forests recreation maps for the Vanderhoof Forest District.
BC - Kamloops - Hatte Creeke Ranch - This historic museum type place is located just out of Kamloops. Stories follow as seeing curtains moving inside the old roadhouse and banging and scratching noises on walls. A transparent spirit nears the front door and a glowing orb. Experiences are of hearing the anvil being slammed by a hammer in the very early morning. Still yet horses be heard traveling along the trail beside the ranch but in the morning no tracks or debris is left behind.
BC - Kamloops - McQueen Lake- It was said that when the McQueen lake dining hall was first built there was a huge party. The cook had been alone in the hall so he could make dinner while everyone else was cleaning up. At around 7:15pm he was brutally murdered. Now a day at around 7:20pm you can hear him scream and hit the ground. But now one has ever seen it.
BC - Kelowna - East Kelowna/orchard - Its said that a women killed her five young children with a knife then killed herself. Witness? say that if you go to the orchard at night you can hear the little children?s voices.
BC - Kaslo - Langham Cultural Centre - built in 1896 as a hotel and named after the Langham hotel, Portland Place, London, England(also haunted ). It went through a number of incarnations and during the 1940?s it housed quite a number of Japanese Canadian internees. There is a story that one of the little Japanese Canadian children, a 10-year-old girl died while living in the Langham. People have heard footsteps, lights go on and off at odd times, and the sound of a ball bouncing down the stairs has also been heard. This is one of the versions of how she died-chasing her ball down the main staircase. She seems to be a benevolent ghost and not one to be scared of- just a little trickster at times. The Langham now houses various business, artist studios, 2 galleries and a theatre as well as a photographic display and one room reconstructed as living quarters from that time to commemorate the Japanese Canadians who came Kaslo during the Second World War.
BC - Mackenzie - There was a young girl who drowned in Morfee lake and in the night you can here this girl screaming and sometimes you can see this white shadowing thing
BC - Mission - Herritage Park - There are rumors of an angry spirit wandering the ruins in the park. Anyone there alone at night feels as though someone wants them to leave. Also there is a graveyard where cult rituals and animal sacrifices have been preformed. Hardly anyone ever goes to the graveyard twice because of the chills and terror you feel when you enter it.
BC - New Westminster - 12th street - The most recent haunting of New Westminster. 12th street is located west of New Westminster. Some people have spotted a 13-year-old girl who committed suicide on 12th Street in 2002 at night. They see her walking up to Burnaby, which is north of New Westminster. An older ghost sighting on this street is at the recording studio. People have been reported screams coming from the studio.
BC - New Westminster - Irving House - House built in early 1860?s by Captain Irving, who also died in his bed at home. Noises have been heard, and the walls shivered in the dining room, a voice called ?say my name?- nobody else was in the room, nor was any radio playing. The house had been made into a museum. As people walked upstairs on the museum tour, trophy heads of a moose, and a caribou seem to be watching you. Accounts have been heard of these animals ?actually slightly turning their heads? to watch you. In the master bedroom, where Capt. Irving had actually died, there was an indentation in the bed, much in the shape of a human lying down on it.
BC - New Westminster - Glenbrook Ravine Park - A ghost was spotted several times walking across the hill. He was described as a glowing figure, and was shot in the park in the late 1980?s. Some people have heard gunshots on top of the hills. Nobody who lives along the hills owns a gun, and some think it?s the gun that killed this man.
BC - New Westminster - The Keg Steakhouse - The Keg in New Westminster BC was an old train station in the 1800?s. It was turned into a restaurant around the mid 60?s. When the restaurant was empty once, besides the manager, she was working downstairs, when suddenly, she heard running footsteps coming from upstairs. She ran there, and no one was there. Then, she heard it again. And in less than a minute, she ran upstairs, and all chairs were turned around! In the basement, there is a boarded passageway, leading to where the train would run. The tunnels still stand today, and go under New Westminster.
BC - New Westminster - New Westminster Secondary School - In the early 1970?s, a boy drowned to death in the pool which lies in the basement of the school. The security guard has reported to seeing a boy floating on the pool, and a man shooting in the archery range, which also lies in the basement. The security cameras in the music room have caught orbs flying around the place. A boy died in the late 1980?s in the woodworking shop, and the security cameras have caught a glimpse of a boy walking around the room at night every once in a while.
BC - New Westminster - Queens Park - Known as the oldest area in town, and historical district, many ghosts have been reported playing or walking. Some have been spotted around Queens Park Arena, near the petting zoo, Sinclair Park, and Tipperary Park.
BC - New Westminster - Sapperton - there?s an area where the state prison used to be. When it was still standing in the early 80?s, people spotted men looking out the windows of their jail cells. Now that its torn down, and they built a neighborhood over it, people have been seeing ghosts, or catching orbs on tape in this neighborhood.
BC - Prince George - Buffalo Brewing Company - creepy feeling as soon as you walk in the door. a sense of being watched in the basement area. This place was originally a church and it?s said that a priest had hung himself from the rafters, the exact spot is unknown, but it?s a fact that every business that has started up in that place has never survived that long. And not only do you feel like someone?s watching you downstairs but it get very cold in some spot.
BC - Qualicum Beach - Qualicum College Inn - Believed to be haunted by a ghost of a young boy wearing a school uniform. Guests wake up in the night to hear a young boy crying and as they explore to try & find him, end up in room 453 for a tour of the Inn. This young boy has been seen running through the halls, laughing & playing, however, when one tries to catch up with him?. he is gone!
BC - Surrey - Fleetwood elementary - Doors swing shut, orbs can be seen in basements shower room. Janitor has seen ghosts in the boiler rooms. Cold spots and touching also. Could be of an old teacher who was murdered on way home from school.
BC - Surrey - Grosvenor Rd - Every often late at night, some have seen a mysterious young boy dressed in white jumping around on the side on the road. Couple years ago a grocery store (Fung?s Market)was burned down and it killed a little boy. Wonder if the ghost was the little boy in the burned grocery store.
BC - Vancouver - British Columbia Regiment (Beatty Street Armory) - Various sounds can be heard in the night, items and book falling from walls and shelves, the image of a man has been seen in the Senior NCO?s and Officer?s Messes. Sounds are also hear emanating from what ids known as ?the dungeon?? footsteps, voices etc.
BC - Vancouver - Gastown - The Old Spaghetti Factory - The most haunted area of the restaurant seems to be near the old trolley car. A couple of employees have reported a ghostly figure sitting in the trolley car, and many have had experiences with the ghost calling their names.
BC - Vancouver - Hotel Vancouver - The hotel?s elevator often stops on floor 14 and as the elevator door opens on its own, a lady in red is seen gliding through the hallway.
BC - Vancouver - Officer?s Row - While these office buildings were being remodeled, ghostly activity started occurring. People have reported various supernatural encounters such as footsteps, cold spots, touching, and unplugged phones ringing.
BC - Vancouver - The Orpheum - (opened in 1927) is said to be haunted. There was a acrobat that was part of a vaudeville act that died there. His ghost is still said to haunt the place.
BC - Vancouver - University of British Columbia - 16th Avenue West - It is said that a woman was left on the road by her boyfriend because the two had an argument. It was raining and no public transit was present then. The woman was walking and hitchhiking east on 16th Ave. West when she was struck and killed by a motor vehicle, soon after her funeral reports of a young woman hitchhiking was reported to the police and some even try to pickup and try to help her from getting home and to keep her dry from the Vancouver rain. If a driver is accompanied by a passenger and offered the hitchhiker a lift home she would just ignore them and continue walking, and if a lone male driver stops and offers the hitchhiker for a ride she would not hesitate and jumps in the rear seat, the driver would then ask the hitchhiker where home is and of course there would be no answer, because the woman is not there.
BC - Vancouver - U.B.C. - Main library is said to be haunted by old lady in white dress.
BC - Vancouver - The Vogue Theatre - This theatre was built in 1941 (which is considered relatively old by Vancouver standards) and to this day is said to be haunted by at least one ghost. Often staff members have reported unexplained noises such as footsteps etc. But there have also been apparitions of a tall man in a white tuxedo and black bow tie, who one time was even seen in the aisle by a well known performer while he (the performer) was doing a dance onstage in the middle of a performance.
BC - Vernon - Beairsto School - In the gym, there is a backroom where a presence is often felt, and sometimes seen. The school was used as an internment camp for Japanese during one of the wars. Also, in the tall tower, there are two or three spirits. Sometimes the janitors hear voices after school hours.
BC - Vernon - O?Keefe Ranch - There have been reports that at O?Keefe Ranch, a well-known tourist attraction in the Okanogan, are haunted in the O?Keefe mansion. Various people have sighted a lady peering out of the upstairs window and then disappearing a few moments later. Also, staff at O?Keefe ranch has said that when they are in the mansion alone at nights they sense a woman walking past them in the hall.
BC - Vernon - Vernon?s Towne Cinema - The actual theatre building was built in 1928, and was originally constructed as a dance hall and live theatre. In 1938 the Famous Players Corporation converted the live theatre to a movie theatre. There have been many strange and odd occurrences in the theatre for years, many of these occurrences have been detailed in the book, Ghosts II, by John Belyk. It is said that the ghost of a long dead projectionist walks the theatre at night after the final curtain falls. Mysterious footprints appear on clean, newly washed floors, often the print of a naked foot appears as the floor is being washed and there have been many witnesses to this phenomenon. Hair being pulled, an apparition of a man, Items being moved, rattling doorknobs, doors being locked, employees hearing their names called, have all been reported. Odd occurrences have become so common that the staff have even given our mysterious ghost a name, he is affectionately know as ?Lloyd? and whenever something happens its just old Lloyd acting up again. Ever the owner now, has had to stay the night there, and has woken in the middle of the night not being able to move feeling a heavy weight on him
BC - Victoria - Craigdarroch Castle - When the Castle is closed for the day, the piano in the ballroom plays by itself. During the winter months, a woman dressed in white has been seen standing in the ballroom window.
BC - Victoria - Fairfield Health Centre - The spirits of Nuns and patients seen and heard wondering the old halls which are no longer open to the public. Taps turned on and toilets flushing. Doors banged and slammed. One female spirit calls out the name ?Peter.?
BC - Victoria - James Bay Inn - Reports of feeling a presences, cold spots, and electrical malfunctions. One witness reports, ?my phone rang probably six or seven times through out the night & when I would answer, there was no one there, and also during my stay, I would leave my television on at night, while I would drift off, just to be awaken in the middle of the night to the volume being turned up loudly.? When they mentioned these incidents to the clerk the next day & they would mention something about the presence of ?Emily Carr?, who was a well known artist, who had been a resident years prior to her death.
BC - Victoria - McPherson Playhouse - The ghost of the gray lady haunts the theatre. Several performers have seen her floating back and forth across the balcony in front of the projection booth.
BC - Victoria - Melbourne - Milano?s Restaurant - This restaurant is haunted by a young girl named Tilly. Staff members have often heard their names being called, doors slamming by themselves, and mysterious footsteps. The building used to be a hotel where Tilly stayed quite often. It is believed that the manager raped and killed her, then dragged her body through an underground passage leading to the beach. This is where he buried her. Her body was discovered many years later.
BC - Victoria - Ross Bay Cemetery - In the cemetery at any given time of the day and see people weeping in grief then look away and back again and they are gone! Also a lady has been sighted there looking for her child in a panic and then seemingly just suddenly disappears in front of the observer!
BC - Victoria - Royal Victoria Golf Course - the April Ghost was Doris Gravlin, killed Sept. 22 1936 by her ex-husband Victor, who then apparently killed himself. There is no bell ringing associated with her. Sometimes she appears as a misty female shape, others time in an old fashioned brown suit and often in a flowing white dress, like a wedding gown. When she?s in the suit she appears most real, and can be seen walking on the course or waiting to cross the road. She?ll often reappear to cross in front of the same motorist (from the same side of the road) several times. She can be most frightening in the white dress or mist form as she moves suddenly and quickly and seems to target people. She is said to most often show herself to young couples, and those that see her are destined not to marry. One person reported walking with a group to see her and having a woman take her hand. She thought it was a member of the group who was very frightened because her hand was so cold, but then she saw the rest of the group ahead of her and the hand slipped from hers.
BC - Wells - They say that the Jack O Clubs casino was haunted. It burned down and someone took a picture, many objects can be seen in the flames. ex. a horse and rider, a girl with long hair and a ghostly looking figure coming out of the chimney. When the casino burned down the people who owned it built a new one right on top of it. People who work there say that doors open by themselves and lights go out automatically. And on stormy nights music and feet tapping to the music can be heard.
BC - Windfield when driving past the Windfield graveyard there are a set of about 3 tree?s and then the Canada flag you can sometimes see a man in his 50?s standing either below the flag or on the edge of the grass over looking the highway. It is reported by a grandchild of Ronald Hayward that Ronald is the ghost.
Manitoba - Holland Landing - Anchor Park - Apparently a young girl was murdered there some time ago. Her body was draped over one of the swings on the swing set. It is said if you go there after dark the centre swing chains will move in and out as if some one is swinging, also the seat feels lumpy if you sit on it.
Manitoba - Portage la Prairie - Nurses Residence at the old Manitoba School - There is, or was, a ghost who could often be seen wandering the upper halls of the Nurses Residence. She has been described as a pretty blonde girl in a pageboy (a little like the old Prince Valiant cartoons) haircut and wearing a baggy white sweater. Most often seen near the top north sunroom and in a couple of the top floor rooms.
Manitoba - Selkirk - There is a church called St. Andrew?s on the Red, with a graveyard in the back. It is said that if you are there during the night you see a man in black, a women in white, a ghost car coming out of nowhere, and two little red eyes following you. Also after you have been there during the night you start to have nightmares and dreams with the church?s gates rattling.
Manitoba - Selkirk - Young Minds Program - It is said that the basement of the building on 222 Manitoba Avenue has had several sightings of a hunchbacked old man hanging from the men?s washroom. He would whisper ?get out?, ?leave now?, while staring at you in the eyes. It is believed a homeless man once lived in the abandoned basement, until he was forced to vacate because of construction. He hung himself before construction could begin.
Manitoba - Whitby - Whitby Psych (old location) - Said to be haunted by previous patients. When adventuring, it was reported that there was screams coming from cells in the basement where dangerous patients were kept.
Manitoba - Winnipeg - Brandon - Brandon Art Gallery - Footsteps heard by night cleaners when building is known to be empty. Eerie feeling of being watched frightens people there to leave.
Manitoba - Winnipeg - Delta Marsh - Scientific Observatory - Manitoba, north of Winnipeg there is a biology research facility; there is a construction worker from the 30?s wonders the halls of the main housing. There were a lot of wandering men looking for work in the 30?s and this one in particular died when they where laying the foundation. He has been seen turning on lights and standing in windows when the facility was closed for the winter.
Manitoba - Winnipeg - Eaton?s department store - Around 1:00 am when the stare was closed a janitor who was moving some empty boxes felt a weird presence. He turned to see a woman wearing all black standing a couple of feet away from him. She stood there for about 2 minutes just staring at the janitor. The janitor was so scared he couldn?t move. The woman then slowly backed away and slowly disappeared into thin air. The janitor then looked around he started hearing a faint woman?s voice calling his name but turned and saw nobody he then ran out of the building as fast as he could. The next day his supervisor called him and asked why he hadn?t moved the boxes he explained that he had moved half of them. The supervisor told him that they were scattered all over the place. The janitor then quit on the spot.
Manitoba - Winnipeg - Euglid house - off main street on Euglid is an old boarded up house that is surrounded by a high chain link fence. It is said that a family once lived in it and one of them murdered all of them and killed themselves, no one knows how the story went.. And right beside it is an apartment, which is also said to be haunted.
Manitoba - Winnipeg - Fort Garry - Two cleaning ladies were cleaning cubbies in the fur trade house in Fort Garry as they were cleaning, the objects from the cubbies started flying out at them and they were on either side of the cubbies.
Manitoba - Winnipeg - Fort Garry Hotel - Brenda Chamberlain (Liberal MP for Guelph-Wellington) traveled to Winnipeg for a Liberal caucus retreat and requested (for a little Halloween fun) to stay into a room that the hotel staff believes is haunted by either a young woman or man. Perhaps both? Sometime during the night, Chamberlain- who is a non-spiritual believer- was awoken by a disturbance consistent with someone getting into bed beside her. Keep in mind that her husband was not with her in Winnipeg. Chamberlain ignored it thinking she was half asleep and dreaming when this disturbance occurred and went back to sleep. About half an hour later, she felt her ?invisible bedmate? start to move around again as if trying to get comfortable. Also, Maids have reported seeing blood trickle down the walls of room 202, where a woman hung herself in the closet after learning her husband just died in a car accident. She has been seen crying in the corner after she?d ask a worker to give her a cup of water in the bar/lounge.
Manitoba - Winnipeg - Little Mountain Park - Just a few minutes on the outskirts of Winnipeg located by little mountain park right beside the parking lot and right beside the dirt road is supposedly a haunted tree called the kkk tree. It?s a big tree and there is a branch that sticks straight out and there are like 3 marks were it looks like rope was tied. The story behind it is that people were hanged there and it is suppose to be really haunted. It pretty famous Winnipeg story. There are a lot of stories of that place being haunted.
Manitoba - Winnipeg - Manor House Court - Around 1 to 5 in the Morning you would hear voices calling you one time I was sleeping and woke up seeing a black cloud entering my room.
Manitoba - Winnipeg - Mother Tuckers Restaurant - a mans face seen in the mirror in one of the rooms
Manitoba - Winnipeg - Portage Place Mall - There are things that get thrown around in stores, no one knows why. You hear a little girl crying in the back of the San Francisco store and you here things fall down really hard out of nowhere..
Manitoba - Winnipeg - Ruckers on Regent Ave - an employee at Ruckers, which is a fun center with arcade games, and for the past while when they close (about an hour after the places is closed to public for the night) they have heard music come from the main phone behind the counter while they?re talking on the cordless phone. They have heard a male voice say ?Hi Shawn?, but their name isn?t Shawn. They have seen movements in the corner of the eye (all the games and lights are shut off when this happens. Also get this weird feeling that they?re not the only one there (there is only one person working on each shift).
Manitoba - Winnipeg - St. Mary?s Catholic School - Doors have been seen opening and slamming shut on their own accord. Rumors of a ghost baby.
Manitoba - Winnipeg - St. Norbert Monastery - There?s an old monastery in the Winnipeg community of St. Norbert. It?s sometimes called the ruins because the building itself is in ruins. People have said that if you walk around the monastery you can feel presences watching and following you wherever you go. People also say that voices can be heard.
Manitoba - Winnipeg - St. Vital hotel - The hotel is located on Mt. Mary?s road close to the junction of St. Mary?s RD and ST. Anne?s RD it is very old and some what rundown but it is still in Operation some have seen figures, shadows and other unexplainable events there. A man was killed in a fight outside the back door in the 1970?s there have been sightings of the man and sightings of a woman. There are many hidden rooms and a blocked off tunnel that apparently goes for miles but the entrance is has been bricked up.
Manitoba - Winnipeg - The Walker Theatre - Eerie experiences have taken place here. Mysterious applauding in tiers of seats, which are unoccupied at the end of a performance sometimes, is heard. Steel doors close on their own they weigh at least a couple hundred pounds, and when a reporter did research in the theatre with a well known psychic in the night they set up a tape recorder for a few hours only to find they couldn?t hear anything?until they played the tape back to hear loud banging sounds and hammering, footsteps across the floor to and from the tape recorder then more towards the tape recorder sounding like somebody was whispering ?please? into it?.this tape would play sometimes but other times appear blank?dressing room doors that were supposed to be closed would be opened the next time the guard would make his rounds. The wedge of wood he had used to prop open the doors would appear to be kicked out?the guards dogs would mysteriously bark at the air and be by his side all night, Which was unusual because they were very outgoing dogs. The suspected presence is said to be maybe acting team Laurence Irving and Mabel Hackney who died in 1914 less than a week after performing at The Walker.
New Brunswick - Bathurst - Baie des Chaleurs - The ghost ship as it is called haunts the waters of the shores of Bathurst N.B. Legend tells of a boat of settlers which was set on fire by the British army. Year round you can see strange lights at sea. Some people have seen the boat from up close and have made out people burning on deck. As they got closer, the boat disappears
New Brunswick - Bathurst - Bathurst High School - There is a Phantom that haunts the basement of the theater stage. When under the trap door(to get to the basement) you get a feeling that your not wanted there!
New Brunswick - Fredericton - Christ Church Cathedral - Ghost of Margaret Medley (a past bishops wife) has been seen praying, walking, and doing other minor disturbances.
New Brunswick - Hillsborough - Grey Island Cemetery - Statue seen looking at you with ?real? eyes and crying.
New Brunswick - Lakeville - Lakeville General Store - In this store there is an antique shop upstairs. There have been reports of a girl in a rocking chair reading and old magazine. When you touch her she disappears.
New Brunswick - Miramichi - The ghost of the headless nun is said to be seen on the footbridge that leads from one side of the cove to the other.
New Brunswick - Miramichi - St. Michael?s building - voices can be heard on the stairs leading upstairs to the 2nd floor. Ghost in the girls bathroom in the basement, she disappears after you look in the mirror. Sounds of children laughing can be heard in the gym downstairs. A little girl and boy haunts the room on the 1st floor.
New Brunswick - Miramichi - St. Michael?s church - Voices of children and a nun screaming is to be heard in the church.
New Brunswick - Miramichi - Skyway - Massive ghosts, over a 100 of them. there is a girl named lily that killed herself after finding her mom dead in her room. There?s stuff going on in the bathrooms. An axe murderer in the basement. Just a whole bunch of stuff going on over there.
New Brunswick - Monoton - The Capital Theatre - It is said that when the Capital Theatre was a movie theatre, a girl fell down a flight of stairs and was killed. To this day people have reported seeing a young lady behind the ticket booth late at night.
Newfoundland - L?Anse Aux Meadows - Supposedly spanning from the Iceland story of the Vikings, people have calculated how long it would have taken Vikings seen around Iceland to take to get to Newfoundland. People watch and watch but something happens, on June 23rd 20 days after the Iceland sightings at 2am one longboat is seen in the distance and a Viking horn is heard blowing. If you stick around until about 4-5 am, screaming warriors (Thought to be Natives) are heard in the forest to the rear. After the screaming is heard nothing else happens until the same date next year. Things like this have been recorded since the 1700s. L?Anse Aux Meadows is the first European settlement in North America dating to the 1000s. Leif Ericsson led his Viking expedition to North America almost 1000 years ago.*See Haunted Places Section for Iceland, Reykjavik
Newfoundland - St. John?s - The Majestic - There?s said to be ghosts of people who were hung on the site. There is said to be moaning, screams, the moving of stationary objects, and he feeling that someone is behind you.
Newfoundland - St. John?s - Newfoundland East End Fire Station - Said to be haunted by the ghost of a young girl who committed suicide in or near the building. Reports have included disembodied footsteps, cold spots, and the eerie sensation that someone is right behind you when you?re alone.
Nova Scotia - Antigonish - St. Francis Xavier University - Mount St. Bernard College - Objects move around rooms. There is a spiral staircase where a man will watch you climb the stairs. Reports of the elevator moving with no one in it, people walking up and down the halls in the night when there is no one out there, voices in the bathrooms & hallways, toilets flushing , and shadows.
Nova Scotia - Antigonish - St. Francis Xavier University - Mount St. Bernard College - Games Room - Reports of screaming are heard, as well as apparitions of nuns.
Nova Scotia - Antigonish - St. Francis Xavier University - Mount St. Bernard College - Gilmora Hall - She fell off the balcony, and now she haunts it.
Nova Scotia - Bridgetown - Stem at Stern B & B- Circa 1868 - Victorian Bed & Breakfast. When this house was empty several people had said they had seen a man standing in the window. The owner of this Inn was living here for just a week, she was awoken by what she thought was the wind. She came down stairs to get a drink of water, passed the door of a room that must have been for storage, noticed that it was quite cold, and heard a tapping sound at the window. Stepping into the room she glanced out thru an old weathered window, and there hanging by the neck, swaying back and forth, was a large dark what she believed to be a man, as if an attempt to hang him had failed. She stepped back, and when she looked again, not a thing there. On several occasions a man with a distorted face and a twisted neck has reportedly visited guests in the Inn, usually after noticing a drop in temperature.
Nova Scotia - Caledonia Mills - The Mary Ellen Spook House - In the early 1900?s, a family who lived outside of Antigonish Nova Scotia adopted a young woman named Mary Ellen. Once this child was taken home, strange things began to happen. Fires began to light themselves around the farms with no apparent cause. The local authorities were called and after some intense investigation, it was assumed that the newest member of the family was setting these fires. However, in many cases, Mary Ellen was not present on the farm when the fires were set. In addition to the fires, a strange dog began to be seen around the house. Not only outside, but also once the grandmother of the family woke up and this large, hulking dog was sitting at her beside. The grandmother got a terrible fright and cursed the dog in the name of the Lord. Details get fuzzy on this point, but it was ?felt? that the dog was the devil, or another demonic spirit. After this incident, other strange things began to happen. The usual ?disembodied footsteps?, doors opening and shutting by themselves voices, and of course the fires. After the police were at a loss for an explanation, the local Priest was called. He came and conducted an extensive investigation with a famous parapsychologist. These investigations were done with the whole family, and a ?ghost writer? was used. A man or woman who permitted the ghost to contact the family by the use of pen and pencil. The message that the ghost left was very dark and nasty. Eventually, the family moved out and the house burned to the ground. There have been several documented cases of people who have traveled to the Spook House who have taken a shingle or a piece of wood back from the farm. Reportedly, fires broke out in the homes of those who stole the wood, and persisted until the artifact was either returned or ceremoniously buried.
Nova Scotia - Cape Breton - Fortress of Louisburg - Haunted by at least four ghosts. One main one of a sea captain is helpful and has stopped people from falling on stairs and has greeted people or passed them even during the day and disappeared. Another ghost of a nurse is in the unobstructed part of the fortress and walks the grounds by the old hospital. Weeping is said to accompany her appearance. A violent poltergeist is haunting the king?s bastion bakery and has moved and damaged property there as well as locking doors and moving big bread holders, which weigh approximately 300 pounds each. A ghost of a child has been seen crying for its mother and is accompanied by gun and cannon fire and screams of men in battle.
Nova Scotia - Coldbrook - Evergreen Home for Special Care - Alarms turned on and no evidence of anyone was there. Radios and lights were turned on and off.
Nova Scotia - Halifax - During the great explosion in Halifax harbor a man was blasted through an upper floor window in St. Paul?s Church. To this day his profile appears in the glass of that window. Over the years the window and/or glass has been replaced, but the darkened silhouette reappears.
Nova Scotia - Halifax - Brewery Market - Fast-paced footsteps be heard late at night when no one is there. The concierge claims a bloody and butchered man is seen in the mirror of the washroom but when you turn around, no one is there.
Nova Scotia - Halifax - Five Fisherman Restaurant - There is quite a bit of literature available about this ghost - An employee, trapped by the unseen force of the ghost in this second floor restaurant. When a co-worker attempted to assist her in getting to the first floor, the ghost injured him - throwing something at him.
Nova Scotia - Halifax - Kings College - This place is incredibly haunted. First, there?s a ghost of a janitor in the Pit. He is wearing a yellow uniform, and he disappears as soon as you look away.
Nova Scotia - Halifax - NS Sheriff Hall - It is haunted by a woman who hanged herself on the top floor many years ago. Her ghost is seen walking on this floor.
Nova Scotia - Halifax - St. Michael?s Church - Various accounts of the organ playing by itself. Certain members of the clergy say they?ve witnessed an elderly man kneeling at a pew but when they approach him, he vanishes.
Nova Scotia - Kentville - Subdivision - In one of the subdivisions in Kentville, Nova Scotia a house has been reported to have lights go on and off, cupboard doors and doors open and close, and shutters to open and close. The people that lived there moved out when the slams and noises grew to plate smashes and moans of a young girl crying.
Nova Scotia - Kingston - Penrose Mental Institute - Unsettling feelings are reported here.
Nova Scotia - Kingston - Pine Ridge middle school - pine ridge middle school is a middle school for children anyways there was a murder of 3 teachers and 7 students all were hung or tortured. The murderer was also a schoolteacher after killing he killed himself. There are said to be sightings of him and the people that were killed and you can hear the cries of the students and screaming of the teachers. Other teachers and students have reported that when walking in the halls they get a cold feeling of something or doors to classrooms slam shut and a man laughing is heard.
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