Haunted Canada 9

[Celedonio Miranda]

Thisis a list of locations in Canada which are reported to be haunted. Many have been featured by television programs such as Creepy Canada, The Girly Ghosthunters and Mystery Hunters. It is in alphabetical order by province or territory, then by the name of the location.

Ghost stories are a worldwide phenomenon, and Canada is no exception. There has been no shortage of ghastly ghost sightings, strange apparitions and unexplained happenings in cities and towns across the Great White North.

Out of the way in interior British Columbia is the Quesnel and District Museum and Archives, home to an infamous toy doll named Mandy, who looks quite sweet and innocent but has a much more ominous past.

Now, the site is believed to be haunted by not one, but two resident ghosts. One is a cranky old man who lives in the basement and has been reported by staff and visitors to make rude remarks directed at women (Sir, this is 2023!).

The former research facility is thought to be haunted by a rather friendly ghost named Murray, who is believed to be a former caretaker of the station. Staff and students at the U of M have reported strange phenomena at the hands of Murray, including doors and windows opening and closing without human help, chains rattling and lights going on and off in the building when no when was inside.

Today, people are still fascinated by the mysteries inside Nahanni National Park Reserve. Be it allegedly headless ghosts walking riverside or reports of UFO sightings, The Valley of the Headless Men may just be as paranormal as it is breathtaking.

Several employees at the fire hall have claimed to experience chills and see ghostly apparitions while on site. Two rumoured apparitions are of an older man and a young girl who allegedly haunt the halls. The ghosts have been said to appear and disappear in the blink of an eye. Firefighters have also said they witnessed objects being thrown around or knocked off surfaces in the fire hall without cause.

Resident artist Jude Griebel in 2007 compiled the ghost stories from previous residents of Macaulay House into a book, Footsteps in The Macaulay House. One artist told Griebel they came face to face with the ghost of a child that approached their bed in the middle of the night.

Eventually, in 1893, the City of Kingston decided to turn the packed cemetery into a park. Instead of removing the dead, officials opted to knock over tombstones and cover the grounds with soil and newly planted grass.

Today, French Fort Cove in Miramichi, N.B., is a beautiful nature park popular for kayaking and canoeing. But in the mid-1700s, the area was overrun by war as the British and French battled over what would eventually become Canada.

She quickly gained the respect and admiration of the townspeople, so much so that when British soldiers started marching on the settlement, the Acadians begged Sister Marie to take their valuables and bury them somewhere secret to keep them safe. Sister Marie obliged, but her unshakeable loyalty to the settlers would prove to be her downfall.

One night, Sister Marie was ambushed by British soldiers who demanded she reveal the location of the buried treasure. In some versions of the story, the would-be looters were pirates or madmen. But the ending is always the same: Sister Marie refused to give up the location of the treasure and paid for it with her life. The soldiers beheaded the nun and threw her decapitated head into the waters of French Fort Cove.

Visitors to the hollow know it tends to be quite foggy there, no matter the time of year. And sometimes, in the mist, people swear they can see the apparition of a woman who was murdered there nearly 200 years ago, still moaning in pain.

The first verse reads:

In Lyndale there once lived a maiden,

And fair was the cottage she stayed in.

But light was her way and short was her stay,

She was borne to the graveyard so early away.

She was borne to the graveyard so early.

In 1542, a noblewoman from France, Marguerite de La Rocque, was bound for Canada with her uncle after he was appointed lieutenant-general of New France. Marguerite, a young, unmarried woman, fell in love with a male passenger on the ship during the voyage. The two had an affair and Marguerite became pregnant out of wedlock.

Today, staff at the 5 Fishermen are accustomed to odd goings-on in the historic building: glasses flying off shelves, faucets turning on by themselves and cutlery inexplicably falling to the floor. Though the ghosts are mischievous, they are mostly harmless, the restaurant owners say.

One apparition that has been spotted multiple times is that of an older gentleman with long, grey hair, dressed in an old-fashioned overcoat that betrays he is not from our time. According to one story, the spirit was spotted by a staff member after he heard an ashtray smash in the kitchen when no one else was around. Another staff member once tried to seat the man at a table, only for the phantom to vanish.

Strangely, there are many intriguing places which are haunted in Canada. From castle-like motels to seafood restaurants to common parks, spooks, specters, and spirits run rampant. From frontlines to fortresses, there are many historical attractions that are counted as haunted places in Canada, with many Canadian scary stories built around them.

Business Tycoon Charles Melville Hays hired Fairmount Chteau Laurier but tragically died a few days prior to the grand opening of the hotel in 1912 on board the Titanic. Since then, the spirit of Hays has been widely speculated to be seen wandering around the property. If we had invested our time and money in the construction of the lavish castle, only to die a few days before it was completed, we would probably be inclined to return.

It seems that the ghost of a train driver still plagues this popular restaurant established on the old underground track. Unfathomable chilly drafts and unaccountably rearranged table configurations are the departed conductor's calling card. Truly turning things upside down is a photo of the dismantled electric trolley in the dining room of the restaurant in the 1950s. The picture shows hints of an eerie figure, assumed to be the train conductor, standing on the trolley steps.

The dearly departed seem to love the city slyly called "new-wed and almost-dead" place. The Maritime Museum, once the site of the city's prison and guillotine, is located in Victoria's famous Bastion Square. Some people say that when you look through the windows at the doorway to the museum, you can see a shadowy, lithe Van Dyke-bearded figure zipping down the main staircase. It is thought to be the mysterious specter of Sir Matthew Baillie Begbie, the notorious "Hanging Judge" of Victoria.

The image of a lighthouse, shrouded in the gloom, evokes all kinds of scary premonitions. Reports have long simmered that the first lighthouse keeper, Willie, haunts the nearby West Point Lighthouse Inn. Talk about a service you'd never want!

This 200-acre park was founded in 1882 and is a gem of downtown Victoria. The park was christened after two masts on a hill, which act as a beacon for sailors approaching the inner harbor of the city. Gorgeous and well-kept, with overpasses, lakes, creeks and lawns, Beacon Hill Park has a dark underbelly as well. The Screaming Doppelganger appears on a rocky outcrop close to Douglas Street and Superior Street corner. This is the specter of a woman who was killed in the vicinity and is frequently seen at sunrises.

Ann's Academy is a former convent school now wholly owned by the B.C., and is situated on Humboldt Street in Victoria. it was the first Roman Catholic Cathedral of Victoria, constructed in 1858 and then moved to the school in 1886. People claimed that nuns were wandering the grounds early in the morning. The original graveyard remains on the ground, after all, and nine sisters are buried inside. Visitors also said that they saw the apparition of Emily Carr, the celebrated artist and writer of Victoria. Emily Carr is said to haunt many city locations, like her government street home and the James Bay Inn.

Hatley Castle is located in the middle of Hatley Park, Royal Roads University grounds. The castle was finished in 1908 and presently exists to serve as the university's administrative centre. If Hatley Castle seems familiar, you probably saw it both on film and on TV. It was most notably depicted in the X - Men series. While not home to mutants, the Dunsmuir family, which commissioned its construction, haunts this abode. Personnel reported some extremely noir-ish incidents. They include a white figure drifting through the building, a woman pulling the blankets of cadets sleeping, pots clanging.

The St. Francis Xavier University was originally built back in 1853 and merged with Mount St. Bernard College (a local Catholic girls ' school) in 1894. It was one of the nuns working on Mount St Bernard who fell in love and had a relationship with St Francis Xavier's priest. Since her religion forbade this sort of thing, she was humiliated. Unable to live with the guilt it was reported that she jumped from the balcony in Gilmore Hall to her death. Employees and students now call her the Blue Nun. It is believed that she hunts the halls and residences of the campus, turns on the hoses, knocks on the doors, knocks down books and sometimes even appears!

The site of one of the first fur trading posts in Alberta, Dunvegan Provincial Park is claimed to house many supernatural activities. One of the most common statements is a woman's ghost, who is assumed to have chilled to death one terrible night while looking for her husband during an endless snowstorm. Many eyewitness reports claim that a lantern was sighted flickering some distance away, where the woman's body was found.

Excited already? Plan a trip to the USA and head to Canada to experience a spooky rendition of the horror stories you are fond of reading in the dead of night. There are many more haunted locations not mentioned here, and who knows, perhaps that cute little inn you stop by on your trip may turn out to be another addition to this list!

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