List of reportedly haunted locations in Canada

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There are numerous reportedly haunted places in Canada. This list is alphabetized by province or territory these places and then alphabetically within each province or territory.

Alberta

  • Concordia University College of Alberta in Edmonton. Spooky sounds include a men's choir coming from the walls in the boys' dorm and doors slamming in empty buildings. A spectral African American teacher from the 1960s based on her clothing is seen by witnesses in the halls. There are doors that have been slammed by an unseen force right in front of people and cold spots to such a degree that one's breath can be seen by witnesses in Schwarmann Hall. Other paranormal activities are light anomalies, disembodied voices, shadow figures and a general feeling of unease.
  • Dunvegan Provincial Park in Fairview. There are many mysterious things that happen in Dunvegan Park, including sightings of ghosts. One ghost is that of a woman on the top of the North Hill. It is said that you can see the flickering of her lantern still. Many years ago in the middle of winter this woman's child came down with a fever. The father left to bring back the doctor but he was taking so long that the woman set out to see if she could spot them. She took her lantern and in the middle of the snow storm, climbed the North Hill to try to spot her husband. The husband returned to their home with the doctor to find his wife missing. He went in search of her hand found her at the top of the hill frozen to death with her lantern still flickering. Another ghost is the priest in the rectory. He has been seen standing in the window of the rectory, and seated at the desk in the room. A pen has also been seen writing by itself at the desk. There have also been occasion when people have entered the rectory and it was as though they were seeing what it looked like in the past. Then there is the ghost of the lady on the bridge. This ghost has been seen in a long, white hooded cloak and bare feet. She has also been seen in the mists coming from the river. The first sighting of her was shortly after the Dunvegan bridge was completed. Next is the Nun on the hills. A nun, in her habit appears as a dark mass walking up and down the hills picking berries and rosehips. Those are just the main ghosts spoken of in Dunvegan. There have been other sightings in Campshacks, by the river, and of course at the Maples, but no one has been able to put a name to those ghosts. There is a feeling of unease and of being watched that comes from different areas of the park.
  • Fort Saskatchewan. Many male convicts were hanged at the Northwest Mounted Police outpost on this historic site in May 1923, but only one woman. Florence Lassandro was dubbed the "Mob Princess", and her specter is one of many apparitional figures seen wandering the grounds and in the preserved buildings. It was featured on Creepy Canada.
  • Frank Slide in Crowsnest Pass. Paranormal activity includes mysterious mists and glowing lights are shown over the rockslide tragedy from April 29, 1903. Travelers feel intense sadness and awe at this site.
  • Lake Minnewanka in Banff. An ancient Stoney Aboriginal Canadian legend says that a demon half-fish and half-man is inside this lake. It has taken the lives of many tribal members from the lake's shores. A white mustang's apparition has also been seen by visitors on the shores. There is also a report from visitors about a spectral First Nations warrior who wanders the lake edge still looking for skulls left over from a major battle between two tribes long ago in this area.
  • North Hill Centre in Calgary. The Sears is haunted by a janitor. He frequents the electronics department, and is reported to turn the televisions on and off.
  • Walterdale Playhouse in Old Strathcona. The residential specter is "Walt". He is most active in the back staircase and the Green Room. He has been known by visitors to develop chilly breezes, help people up the stairs, turn lights on and off, move props, play the piano and create apparitional footsteps. Patrons of the theatre have also reported the strong smell of horse manure in the part of the building that used to hold stables for the fire hall.[1]

British Columbia

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The original entrance to Empress Hotel is closed. The main entrance (and driveway) is now to the left of the main facade.
  • British Columbia Penitentiary in New Westminster. The former penitentiary was active for 102 years, until decommissioned in the 80's. Not much of the building is left, save for the Boot Hill graveyard. But, in the neighbourhood of apartments and homes on its former location, there are reported hauntings. Slamming doors, phantoms, bizarre weather, have been reported, amongst others. In Boot Hill, hidden near a ravine, 47 men are buried. Its location is near to the memorial for the Woodlands Institution cemetery.[2]
  • University of Victoria in Victoria. It is rumoured that a young girl dressed in white roams the dorms, knocking on doors and even occasionally entering into locked rooms. It is thought to be the ghost of a second year girl who died in 1979 by throwing herself off a third floor balcony.
  • Maritime Museum of BC in Victoria. This museum is haunted by the hanging judge, Sir Matthew Baillie Begbie.
  • Morfee Lake in Mackenzie. A young girl drowned in this lake after dark one summer night, and it is alleged that this girl's ghostly screams can be heard by visitors echoing over the tranquil lake at night. A white misty apparition is also seen by visitors both in and over the lake.
  • The Old Spaghetti Factory in Gastown. Legend has it that a train conductor who lost his life in an underground railway track during the 19th century. His specter wanders the trolley car within this Italian restaurant which has been open since 1970.
  • Riverview Hospital in Coquitlam. Apparitions of former patients and staff, shadow figures, the tunnels beneath the hospital are said to be so filled with energy they are nearly impossible to enter, feelings of being watched, general unease, not being wanted and being followed, phantom footsteps, disembodied voices, objects being moved on their own including doors and windows being opened and closed, touches, pokes and tugs by invisible presences and light anomalies.

Manitoba

The Fort Garry Hotel in 1913.
  • Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba in Brandon. Paranormal activities in this art museum are mysterious footsteps being heard by evening janitors when this building is empty and an eerie feeling of being watched by specters.
  • Fort Garry Hotel in Winnipeg. The most notorious level of this hotel is the second floor which locates Room 202. Guests to the room have reported waking up to find the dark silhouette of a figure in a robe or cloak standing at the end of the bed, which vanished before their eyes. There are also stories of maids cleaning the room reporting blood seeping from the walls, as this was the location of the rumored suicide of a woman named Kate because she learned that her newly wed husband lost his life in an automobile accident. Though something of a focal point for the reports of paranormal activity on the floor, the entire second floor has something of a ghostly reputation. Other reports have a woman in a ball gown appearing at the foot of a bed or wandering the hotel's hallways. In 1989, an employee reported seeing an apparitional figure named Theodore sitting at a table in the dining room, busily consuming away at a ghostly meal and apparently unaware of the employee's presence. This man visited many times because he was in love with the lounge singer. He was shot in the back of the head by his brother because they both loved the same woman. Employees also report strange moaning noises that seem to echo from nowhere and a phantom light is said to be sighted floating down the halls throughout the hotel. For the most part, the claims of haunted activity throughout the hotel seem to indicate a friendly presence of some bygone customer enjoying their stay in the afterlife. It was featured on Creepy Canada.
  • Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre in Winnipeg. This theatre has a ghost that migrated from the original theater that stood in this location, Dominion Theatre. George was the wheelchair-bound son of the Dominion’s caretaker, and he makes himself known by playing pranks. His antics often tell whether or not he approves of a particular show or performer.

Newfoundland and Labrador

  • Trinity. A red-cloaked woman's specter and an apparitional hearse haunt a local cemetery. This ghostly woman is believed to be Nancy Coyle. Her occupation was to prepare the unwanted dead for interment during the 1840s, but many locals claimed she was a sorceress who could resurrect these corpses. It was featured on Creepy Canada.

New Brunswick

The Algonquin Resort in the 1920s
  • The Algonquin in St. Andrews. The old man helps guests to their room as he tells them about the hotel and the town. The visitors have to leave tips at the desk because the bellhop disappears before he can take the money. However, the bellhop is not the only specter. Guests have heard a former night watchman walking up the back staircase and clanging his keys on the railing as he makes his rounds. 473 is known as "The Bride's Room" where a ghostly bride (who was perhaps stood up at the altar) is often heard crying. An older apparitional lady, thought to be a senior staff member, is often seen in the dining room at night rearranging the table settings. Various ghosts have been seen in rooms 308 and 373. The Algonquin's tower has been closed for years, but a light has been noticed there and also a woman dressed in white. A laughing and playing apparitional child has been heard throughout this hotel. Other strange occurrences are items that go missing on the fourth floor and door knobs that turn by themselves on the second floor.[3] It was featured on Creepy Canada.
  • Blackville. The Dungarvon Whooper haunts this Dungarvon River, which runs in Miramichi near the Bartholomew River. It is a terrifying apparition, involving a young Irishman named Ryan who was working as a cook in a lumber camp at the time of his murder. According to the tale, Ryan's ghost makes a loud whooping and yelling noise each night in the forest at the location of his death. Any young person from Blackville, or the surrounding area is likely to have been told the story, either to simply scare them or perhaps to scare them away from going deep into the dense forests that surround Blackville, for their own safety. It was featured on Mystery Hunters and Creepy Canada.
  • Fireship of Baie des Chaleurs is a 16th-century ship of forty Portuguese settlers that was set on fire by a British army. All year long, there have been strange lights reported by mariners at sea. Some of those witnesses who have dared to get closer have seen the ship and the actual settlers burning. When they got too close however, the ship disappeared.
  • Nordin. The Headless Nun was once an 18th-century resident of the French Fort Cove area named Sister Marie Inconnue (Inconnue being the French for 'unknown') who was subsequently beheaded. Details of the legend vary: in one version, a "mad trapper" cut off her head and ran into the woods with it. In another story, two sailors cut off her head after she refused to divulge the location of a treasure. This haunting story holds that Sister Marie's head was never found, resulting in her ghost forever roaming the area in search of it. Today, "Headless Nun" tours are among the tourist attraction offerings in Nordin. It was featured on Creepy Canada.

Northwest Territories

  • Deline. Although unidentified flying object sightings have been occurring all over Northwest Territories since World War II, the largest amount of sightings have been seen from 1995 to 1997. Flashing lights have been discovered in the sky and although people would like to say they are resulting from planets or stars in the sky, none were proven to be in the sky at that time. Some people have claimed being followed by these lights. Once the UFO passed over the car it wouldn't start until the flying object flew by that car. There are many sightings reported daily.
  • Fort Battleford. This area was originally the capital, but land speculators successfully transferred it to Regina, Saskatchewan in 1883. The Spring of 1885 was terrifying to many of the settlers here. The settlers were under siege by the local Native Canadians and were all confined to the commander's headquarters until help could arrive. Eventually, it did in the form of militiamen commanded by Lieutenant-Colonel William Dillon Otter, but not before many lost their lives. Today many of the buildings are available for tour. The officer's quarters are haunted by a surgeon who committed suicide with a rifle during this tragic and frightening time. His location is upstairs. Creepy noises, mysterious footsteps, apparitions, and objects moving by themselves have all been reported by witnesses.
  • Nahanni Butte. The Nuk-luk is very much like the big-foot of so much acclaim, but that this one is considered less ape like and more neanderthal in resemblance. Nuk-luk is a word meaning "man of the bush" as named by the Inuit tribe. He is broad, has long hair, and is said to smell quite rank. Some have claimed that the Nuk-Luk have made their own versions of boots and sharp tools. The first official sighting was in 1964 by John Baptist, several other men, and a boy named Jerry. Paranormal investigators have reported that the Nuk-Luk have been living up there for over three-thousand years. Nuk-luk is at least between six and eight feet and is to weigh about three hundred to four hundred pounds. In addition, this area has been haunted by rumours of a lost gold mine, and along with a report about twenty-five deaths as well as mysterious disappearances.
  • Nahanni National Park Reserve in Fort Simpson. It has been a place of strange and unusual happenings since the first gold prospectors decided to lay down their wagons here. The McLeod brothers were said to have found gold here in 1906. Unfortunately their decapitated bodies were found by the river here shortly thereafter. Martin Jorgenson, a Swiss prospector, was also found decapitated nine year later. Shortly after Jorgenson's murder, a trapper by the name of O'Brien was found decapitated as well. A tribe by the name of Naha had also completely vanished from the face of this planet years before the prospectors came. Beautiful, but deadly, this national park has claimed many lives. Whether by human, environmental, or supernatural forces this place is one to be feared. Strong men decapitated and many found missing.

Nova Scotia

Citadel Hill, circa 1870. Cannons facing the harbour.
Fortress of Louisbourg's fortifications
  • Acadia University in Wolfville. An apparitional Baptist girl who found out about her pregnancy in the 19th century hanged herself in "The Well", a large open area on the second floor surrounded by banisters and under a skylight. Her ghost is most often seen by faculty staff members on the back stairwell at Seminary House's campus. Other paranormal activities are people having strange visions in this location, lights that turn on and off by themselves as well as doors opening and closing on their own, light anomalies, disembodied voices, objects moving by themselves and strange unexplained noises.
  • Alexander Keith's Brewery in Halifax. Alexander Keith's apparition wanders around his old brewery checking to make sure everything is neat. The other paranormal activity in this brewery market is anonymous spooky running footsteps walk through the halls at night. There is also a report from witnesses about a spectral man covered in blood. And a tourist claiming that he saw a boy running towards him with a horribly distorted face.
  • All Saints Cathedral in Halifax. This church is allegedly haunted by one of the former deans. He is mostly standing at the altar.
  • Bedford Basin in Halifax. The apparitional sound of a rowboat is heard by witnesses on foggy nights, but no boat ever appears. The legend is that a dory filled with fisherman overturned in the bay and that they now forever try to find their way back to shore.
  • Citadel Hill in Halifax. This site is haunted by specters of Native Canadians, French, British and Canadian soldiers and family members. There are touches, pushes and pulls by invisible presences, light anomalies, apparitional footsteps, disembodied voices and other unexplained noises, shadow figures. There are also feelings of being watched, not wanted, unease, fear and physical illness, objects moving on their own, objects disappearing inexplicably, doors opening and closing on their own, lights blinking on and off on their own, electrical disturbances, mysterious mists, time slips and pretty much any other paranormal activity.
  • Fortress of Louisbourg on Cape Breton Island. This massive fortress was constructed in the 1700s. The apparitions of settlers who died of smallpox or lost their lives in battle have been seen on the grounds and in the tunnels of this fort. It was featured on Creepy Canada.
  • St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish. The paranormal activities are objects moving around the room on their own, an annonymous ghostly man watching college students as well as lecturers climbing a spiral staircase, an elevator that moves from floor to floor on its own, sounds of footsteps walking the halls at night when they are empty, disembodied voices in the bathrooms and hallways, toilets flushing on their own, and shadows without bodies. Frightening screams have been heard by witnesses in the games room and apparitional nuns wander this campus. Gilmora Hall is said to be haunted by a nun who fell to her death from a balcony and a priest hanged himself. Both of whom died while attending Mount Saint Bernard College.
  • Young Teazer at Mahone Bay. Paranormal incidents have been reported by witnesses since it sunk on June 27, 1813. This ghostly burning schooner is seen by mariners on this bay. There have even been reports about crewmen on fire running and screaming on the decks. It is most often seen by visitors near the anniversary of this ship's fatal explosion in its historical location. Most witness reports state once seen it then just vanishes into thin air. It was featured on Creepy Canada.

Nunavut

  • Arctic Winter Games Arena in Iqaluit. This old ice-skating arena is rumored by its staff members to be haunted, but the source of the haunting remains a mystery. Witnesses have reported to the media about hearing disembodied voices and loud banging noises, and seeing a tall shadowy apparition standing on the far side of the ice rink.

Ontario

Château Laurier seen just after dark
Royal York circa 1930
  • Albion Falls in Hamilton. Jane Riley's specter has been seen since her suicide and some tourists have witnessed her fatal fall repeating itself. Other paranormal activities are disembodied voices and there have been reports of Riley herself, speaking to some people, light anomalies, general feeling of unease and of being watched. It was featured on Creepy Canada.
  • Bytown Museum in Ottawa. This building is said to be haunted by Colonel John By, the builder of the canal, and his assistant General Duncan McNab. The reported paranormal activities issue with electronic equipment including televisions going on and off by themselves and strange messages appearing on computer screens in empty rooms. Male voices yelling and saying "get out". Anonymous female visitors have been pushed hard in empty rooms. In the doll exhibit, children have been heard crying, the dolls have seen moving and winking at witnesses. It was featured on Creepy Canada and The Girly Ghosthunters.
  • Canadian Museum of Nature in Ottawa. There have been reports of eerie sounds, doors opening and closing on their own, electrical equipment unplugging themselves, elevators moving without anyone pushing buttons, and "cold spots" located on the fourth floor. One theory is that there is a set of aboriginal clothing belonging to a Cree warrior on display, and it is the spirit of this Cree warrior who haunts the museum.
  • Château Laurier in Ottawa. Charles Melville Hays, one of the sinking RMS Titanic victims, haunts this hotel. He never saw it come to completion. His specter is seen by guests and staff members throughout this hotel as well rattling walls and moving objects are credited to him.
  • Fairmont Royal York in Toronto. An apparitional senior man walks in the halls of the eighth floor, the specter of an employee who hanged himself in the stairway leading to the roof, the closed Crystal Ballroom where the elevator will go to on its own and chandeliers shake and guests of this hotel below the room have complained about noise and loud music, lights turn off and on on their own, ghostly children have been heard laughing and screaming in the hallways but disappear when a door is opened.
  • Fort George in Niagara-on-the-Lake. It was one of Canada's strongholds during the War of 1812. Thousands of British and Canadian troops who spent their entire lives here suffered enduring hardship, sudden death and loneliness. Many of their specters are seen by visitors wandering the grounds to this day. A tour guide once approached a young boy who was talking into thin air. The boy identified his imaginary friend as a soldier wearing yellow facings (the same color as soldiers once stationed here). There have been dozens of reports about a woman, in period clothing combing her hair, reflected in one of the mirrors in the Officer's Quarters. Oddly, people are now reporting the same woman sitting in the room as if she somehow escaped from the mirror and is now free to roam this building. Mysterious reports have also emerged from the tunnel that leads to a powder magazine located outside its walls. Two tour guides once found themselves locked in the bunkhouse after they had spotted strange shadows moving around the ground floor bunkroom.[4] It was featured on Creepy Canada and The Girly Ghosthunters.
  • Fort Henry in Kingston. Nils von Schoultz's specter (the leader of a failed American invasion hanged for treason) is seen wandering this fort. The gallows on which he was hanged is also still seen by visitors; although they were torn down over one hundred years ago. Other paranormal reports are objects move by themselves, doors open and close by themselves, feeling of being watched, apparitional footsteps, disembodied voices and light anomalies.[5] It was featured on Ghost Hunters and The Girly Ghosthunters.
  • Fort York in Toronto. It is known by tourists as a site with a fair amount of ghostly activities, which are presumably attributed to its military history (and the associated deaths which took place there when it was attacked on various occasions by American forces during the War of 1812). Visitors have reported peculiar noises of battle including cannon fire and gun fire, on the grounds and in the buildings, as well as sightings of apparitional soldiers (both British and American). Fort York was used as a military establishment until 1880 and again during both World Wars. The site is currently operated by the City of Toronto as a museum that welcomes locals, tourists, and small and large groups throughout the entire year. As far as ghostly sightings go, a woman is often seen walking around the officers' quarters as well as a red-coated guard who is seen both in the barracks and near the Fort's entrance.
  • Fulford Place in Brockville. Fulford Place's museum is the former home of George Taylor Fulford, senator and manufacturer of the famed Dr. William’s Pink Pills for Pale People. His wife Mary was a spiritualist who held séances here, and it is she who is believed to haunt the mansion today. Mary was afraid of thunder, and now during thunderstorms, witnesses have heard pounding on the main door as if something wants to be let in out of the storm.
  • Gibraltar Point Lighthouse on Toronto Islands. The first lighthouse keeper, John Paul Radelmuller, was murdered by soldiers from nearby Fort York looking for bootlegged beer on January 2, 1815. They chased him up the stairs where he was knocked unconscious and then his body was chopped up and buried. These soldiers were charged with murder but eventually acquitted. A coffin was found in 1893 buried in the sand with a jawbone in it but it is not clear whether this was part of the lighthouse keeper's remains or not. There have been reports by witnesses of moaning on foggy nights and Mueller's apparition has been seen by visitors wandering the grounds. It was featured on Creepy Canada.
  • Glendon College in Toronto. This college is affiliated with Toronto's York University, the third largest university in the country. Glendon is classified as a bilingual liberal arts college with a student population just shy of three thousand. It is located on the former estate of Edward Rogers Wood who was a very prominent Toronto financier in the early nineteen hundreds. The Glendon College campus is home to several ghosts that have been recognized by the Toronto Ghosts and Hauntings Research Society and they are said to haunt both the manor house and the grounds it sits upon. A little girl has been periodically spotted playing near the campus's willow tree. She is believed to have lost her young life either by falling down stairs or from falling from the tree itself whilst climbing it. A small boy (a fitting ghostly companion for our little girl) has also been spotted playing by the campus fountain. An angry, malicious spirit haunts a gazebo that lies closest to the campus ravine. It has been suggested that he or she must have died in or near the water. Passersby report feeling as if they are being pushed whilst strolling through that particular area. Lastly, a young woman who had committed suicide on campus is said to haunt the college's library, appearing in photos taken on the campus grounds. She makes herself visible staring out of both the first floor and basement windows.
  • Grand Theatre in London. Ambrose Small's apparition roams this theatre. It was featured on Mystery Hunters and The Girly Ghosthunters.
  • H. B. Beal Secondary School in London. Paranormal activities are a ghostly old woman wandering the third floor, apparitional footsteps and the feeling of being watched and followed by annonymous specters on that same floor. Rumors and sightings of a man in a suit walking around the second floor accompanied with the sound of footsteps, and a janitor who allegedly died from a fall off a ladder in the auditorium who now haunts the seats that was his death location.
  • The Hermitage in Ancaster. Disembodied whispers and voices are heard by visitors in the forest surrounding the house. William Black is still heard by witnesses weeping near the crossroads where his body was laid to rest. The house has been seen completely restored and filled with lights and the sounds of a party taking place. Multiple apparitions have been wandering on the property including that of Alma. Other paranormal activities are light anomalies, apparitional footsteps, mysterious mists, a general feeling of unease and of being watched and screams, bangs and other unexplained sounds. It was featured on The Girly Ghosthunters.
  • Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto. An apparitional female teller named Dorothy wearing 19th century clothing is seen by tourists; usually near the old vaults or where the offices were long ago. Other paranormal activity includes lights turning on and off by themselves and doors opening, closing and locking on their own, cold spots and breezes, a general feeling of unease and light anomalies.[6]
  • Kingston Penitentiary in Kingston. A spectral prisoner named George Hewell swears revenge on the security guard who took his life in 1897. Hewell was not a model inmate. He would frequently attack both security guards and inmates. On one such occasion he chose the wrong guard. In order to protect his own life, the security officer was forced to take the life of the insane prisoner. With his dying breath, Hewell swore revenge on his killer. The security guard thought nothing of this threat; that is until one day, while making his rounds. It was featured on Creepy Canada.
  • Merritton Tunnel in St. Catharines. The famous blue mist/apparition which gives the tunnel its name, "Blue Ghost Tunnel". Paranormal activities include people becoming violently ill in certain spots here, light anomalies, sounds of children crying, spectral footsteps, disembodied voices including entire conversations, sound of whistling, feeling of being watched by this spirit and not wanted and people have reported being touched and pushed by this spirit.[5]
  • Mount Pleasant Cemetery in Toronto. Disembodied voices and unexplained noises are frequently reported by tourists at this location. Witnesses have described feelings of being watched and of unease – sometimes to the point of fear (although that could also be the person's natural sense of fear in a cemetery; especially one so large). Other paranormal activities include light anomalies, electrical disturbances, touches and tugs by invisible presences (including one story where an employee was pushed off of a lawn tractor), shadow figures and objects disappearing.
  • Old City Hall in Toronto. This massive Romanesque Revival structure was designed by famed Canadian architect Edward James (E.J.) Lennox and opened in eighteen ninety-nine. It was originally home to Toronto's city council from 1899 to 1966 and was designated a National Historic Site of Canada in nineteen eighty-four. The building's rear staircase is the supposed dwelling place of a ghost that is said to playfully grab onto the robes of unsuspecting judges who are passing through its hallways. The ghost also walks the staircase at all hours of the day and night, frightening visitors by the loud sounds of its footsteps. The building's cellar was originally used as a holding area for prisoners and their moaning can still be heard to this day if you're standing within the vicinity of that room. Also, the Northwest attic is said to contain a ghostly presence but no one is sure who or what it is. People who have been in the attic claim they are often suddenly overcome with a peculiar 'feeling.' Perhaps the most active room in Old City Hall is Courtroom 33 which is believed to be haunted by the spirits of the last men condemned to hang in Canada. Because this is said to be the most haunted room in the building, many paranormal researchers and journalists have attempted to spend the night in this room every Halloween, as a tradition, of course! According to John Robert Colombo's Haunted Toronto, one group of reporters managed to make it through the night only to abandon their mission prematurely at 4:00 AM claiming they witnessed "cool fogs" and heard weird noises that left them "glued to the floor."
  • Old Don Jail in Toronto. Officially known as the Toronto Jail, construction on this building was completed in 1864 and was used to house remanded offenders. It has since been renovated to serve as the administrative sector of Bridgepoint Health, a rehabilitation hospital located next to the jail. Designed by William Thomas in 1852 it is one of the oldest pre-Confederation structures that remain intact in Toronto. Before capital punishment was abolished in Canada, the jail was the site of quite a number of hangings with the building's first execution taking place in January 1908. The jail's most famous ghost is that of a former female prisoner who hanged herself in her tiny cell. She is said to float around the building's main rotunda and is believed to be a very angry spirit due to her frequent outbursts and screams. Visitors have claimed to have experienced heightened emotional feelings within the confines of the jail that are otherwise completely unlike them. Many of these visitors have either completely shut down emotionally whilst in the building or have burst into tears for no apparent reason at all.
  • Old Fort Erie in Fort Erie. Paranormal activity reports include apparitional former soldiers (both American and British) are seen throughout this fort on the ramparts and in the grounds surrounding this fort, apparitional sounds of battle including cannon and musket fire as well as men screaming orders has been heard by visitors, disembodied voices throughout this fort and grounds. In addition, spectral reenactments are seen apart for the real ones done for the tourists every summer. Other paranormal activity reports are being touched and pushed (one of our own team members was pushed to the ground while hearing a rather nasty voice say "get out of the way"), electronic devices malfunctioning, light anomalies, mysterious mists, shadow figures, feelings of unease, being watched and not being wanted by specters, spooky screams near where the Bastion exploded and objects moving on their own.[5] It was featured on Ghost Adventures.
  • Ottawa Jail Hostel in Ottawa. Many prisoners met their death while remaining in this jail. When individuals lost their lives within the prison, they were often burned and buried in a makeshift cemetery that was located in the back of the establishment. There was also a "Death Row" which many feel is haunted by several ghosts that were put to death there. One example of a ghost that is considered to lurk among this area is a man whose name was Patrick James Whelan. Many tourists have said that they have seen his full apparitional writing, wandering in the area, and walking towards the area that was considered to be the "gallows" when this structure served as a prison. It was featured on Creepy Canada and The Girly Ghosthunters.
  • Peterborough Lift Lock in Peterborough. This site is cursed by an anonymous woman who was burned alive at the stake in the 1840s. This curse was responsible for the large number of accidents. Disembodied faces have been seen looking out of the tunnels by tourists. Other paranormal activities include light anomalies, spectral footsteps, unexplained smells, spectral footprints and disembodied voices and screams. Men have been attacked by the burned woman's spirit who may be the sorceress. Apparitional suicide victims are seen both in and at the Lock by tourists. It was featured on Creepy Canada.
  • Queen's Park in Toronto. Apparitions of a woman in tattered clothes and hanging by a rope have been seen by investigators. Spectral screams as well as calls for help have been heard by tourists and visitors in this building. There are approximately half a dozen spirits that currently haunt the Legislature Building at Queen's Park. Among these restless spirits is believed to be World War I hero Charles Rutherford who was awarded the Victoria Cross and died in June 1989. A mysterious woman in white is also said to haunt the park's Legislative Building and many people have claimed to have heard her moaning and/or crying on the building's third floor. The grand staircase has seen a flurry of ghostly activity in the past, often in the form of floating spirits that seem to hover above the steps. Paranormal investigators seem to think that the majority of these ghostly beings were, at one time, patients of the lunatic asylum that stood on this site prior to the building of the Legislature.
  • White Otter Castle in Turtle River. James Alexander McOuat's apparition has been seen by tourists both in the castle and in the surrounding area since his tragic death in 1918 due to drowning while netting fish. Mysterious noises are reported by investigators to come out of this castle.
  • Screaming Tunnel in Niagara Falls. There is a legend in which a nearby farm caught on fire, and a girl (who also caught on fire) ran to this cave to extinguish the flames on her, but then she died. However, some say her enraged father set her on fire because he lost custody of his children in a nasty divorce battle. Other say a girl was raped in this tunnel and her body was burned to hide the evidence. Depending on which story you believe, if you find yourself in this tunnel and you light a match, it immediately goes out on a girl's screams can be heard, hence its name.

Prince Edward Island

West Point Lighthouse
  • Deblois. The railroad tracks have been torn up since the snow storm in February 1932. This site is now part of the Confederation walking trail. People have reported the apparitional sound of a train whistle at this location since shortly after the accident. A ball of light has also been reported speeding down where the tracks once were. It speeds toward the scene of the accident and then suddenly slows to stop right at the accident scene before speeding off again down the former tracks. The light is thought by witnesses to be either a spooky recording of the accident itself or possibly the spectral engineer still desperately trying to avoid the accident.
  • Ghost Ship of Northumberland Strait is described as a beautiful schooner that has three masts (sometimes four masts, as reports vary) with pure white sails, all of which become completely engulfed in flames as onlookers watch.[7] There never seems to be a predetermined place for where the ship will appear; sightings tend to happen when least expected.[7] Sightings have occurred throughout the seasons, but seem to be more prevalent from September to November.[8] These visions are also apparent before a northeast wind, and folklore has it that this brilliant ghost ship is a forewarning of a storm.[8]
  • Lennox Island. A vengeful dark ghost haunts this island. An apparitional Native Canadian has been seen by tourists. There are also legends of people disappearing in the woods forever.

Quebec

Château Frontenac
  • Auberge Le Saint-Gabriel in Old Montreal. This site is allegedly haunted by a 19th-century little girl who lost her life in a fire.[9]
  • Château Frontenac in Quebec City. The apparition of 17th-century governor, Louis de Buade, is frequently seen by staff members and patrons to be on an eternal search for his fiancée, who was in Europe at the time of his death. He is seen in period clothing sitting on windowsills, wandering the hallways and the ballroom and staring at sleeping guests in their rooms. A woman's ghost with long hair dressed in a sleeping gown in seen in many guest rooms; she has even been known to lie down in bed with guests.
  • Fort de l'Île Sainte-Hélène on Saint Helen's Island. Witnesses report that it is to be home of eight hundred soldiers who lost their lives when their General purposely put them in the line of fire of enemy sharpshooters. They are buried in a mass grave on the island. Apparitions of the soldiers walk on this island. Other paranormal activities are spooky footsteps of soldiers and objects disappear only to be found in other places at a later time, ghostly mists, light anomalies and disembodied voices.
  • Les Fusiliers de Sherbrooke in Sherbrooke. Paranormal activities include apparitional former soldiers, intense feelings of sadness and loneliness, light anomalies, general feelings of unease, shadowy figures and a feeling of being watched by specters.
  • McGill University in Montreal. Some of the descriptions include: cadavers on campus including that of the founder James McGill located in front of the iconic Arts building, hauntings in the old Arts building itself, the ghost of an old man haunting the sixth floor of the McLennan Library Building, unexplained events in the Faculty Club and Duggan House, the dark past of the Macdonald-Stewart Library Building and that of the Allan Memorial Institute as part of the Royal Victoria Hospital.[10]
  • Montmorency Falls in Beauport. The Lady in White's apparition is seen by tourists through mist falling down the falls in a white dress similar to a wedding dress. Her legend involves a love story between herself and a young soldier. She and the soldier were engaged, and during the midst of their wedding preparations, he was called away to battle. The lady was quite worried and feared that her fiancé would be killed during the summer military campaign. The young soldier lost his life during a battle in 1759. The lady was suffering tremendous grief at her loss, and as the story goes, went out each night calling the young soldier's name in a vain hope that he may somehow return to her. The following year the lady got dressed in her wedding gown and committed suicide by throwing herself into these falls. Her body was never recovered.
  • Mount Royal Cemetery in Montreal. This site is said by witnesses to be the most active. Apparitions have been seen walking through this cemetery as well standing on the edge of the high rock cliffs on the edge of the cemetery. The most recognized ghost is an Algonquin Native Canadian warrior.
  • Plains of Abraham in Quebec City. Numerous ghosts have been seen on the site due to the number of soldiers losing their lives during the battle in 1759. The spectral soldier most often seen by visitors is at the entrance to Tunnel 1 on warm evenings. His sightings are often combined with the smell and sound of cannon fire. Other sights and sounds of the battle are felt by tourists throughout this historic site. The smell of sulfur has also been reported by witnesses. It is most active on cold nights in September.
  • Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal. This hotel is allegedly haunted by a "woman in white". Her apparition wanders the halls and staircases of the hotel. She also occasionally roams in guest's rooms. People have been touched and pushed by invisible presences, unexplained noises include disembodied voices, unexplained bangs, mysterious knocks and footsteps. Other paranormal activity includes a feeling of being watched by specters has been reported by staff and guests as well as cold spots.
  • Royal Victoria Hospital in Montreal. The paranormal activities are apparitional former patients, mysterious footsteps, buzzers that go off in empty rooms, disembodied voices and light anomalies.
  • St. John's Shrewsbury Anglican Church in Gore. Paranormal activities include disembodied voices, mysterious footsteps, feelings of unease and of being watched by spectral spirits, and light anomalies.[11]

Saskatchewan

Government House with adjacent visitor and administration centre.
  • Delta Bessborough in Saskatoon. In the marble hotel lobby there is a large crack that legend says is from a former employee falling seven stories to his death. This is rumoured by hotel guests and staff members to be the origins of the "Man in Gray", an apparitional figure who is seen wearing a gray suit and a fedora. This spectral figure is completely silent and merely smiles at anyone who sees him. He is, in fact, usually thought to be a living person unless the witness is aware of the legend.
  • Fort Battleford in Battleford. This area was originally the capital of Northwest Territories before land speculators successfully transferred it to Regina in 1883. The officers' headquarters are said by tourists to be haunted by a surgeon. The town hall has a specter who has been referred as "Charlie" prowling the second floor which once was an opera house. There have been reports about ghostly smells of chocolate chip cookies baking in the council chamber as well as of cigar smoke around desks in the office area. Apparitional war cries have been heard by tourists in the area around the fort. Other paranormal activities are light anomalies and a general feeling of unease.[12]
  • Fort San in Fort Qu'Appelle. A spectral nurse nicknamed "nurse Jane" is seen by witnesses wandering the halls and grounds. Other paranormal activities are unexplained voices, spooky footsteps, reports of hearing your name called, apparitional former patients, abiotic figures seen staring out of mirrors, feelings of being watched and not wanted, light anomalies, mysterious mists, feeling of being choked and the sounds of wheelchairs rolling through the hallways.
  • Government House in Regina. Over the years, several anonymous staff and former students have observed strange occurrences here. Doors have been said to open and close repeatedly with no one near, the sound of crying babies and laughing children have been heard late at night with no one around, and other witnesses have claimed to see eerie faces next to theirs when looking into mirrors. One particular apparition of note is "Howie", believed by tourists to be the former cook of Lieutenant-Governor Archibald McNab. Many witnesses believe that his ghost roams the house; his footsteps often heard by visitors shuffling through the halls. He even has a say in the interior decorating—witnesses have inexplicably found objects shifted or moved from one room to another.[13]
  • Hotel Saskatchewan in Regina. The seventh and the eighth floors seem to be the most active and many hotel staff members refuse to work on these floors. There have been numerous guests complaining of spectral noises in their room on all floors though. Apparitions have been that just disappear before people's eyes. A cupboard once opened and a vase flew across the room in the Royal Suite.
  • Marr Residence in Saskatoon. There are two ghosts associated with this location. One is seen by tourists as an orb with a small child's face inside. The other is a male presence who is known for tormenting women who enter the house. According to reports from visitors, these ghosts seem completely unaware of each other. It was featured on Creepy Canada.
  • Prince Albert Arts Centre in Prince Albert. Paranormal activity includes anonymous spectral figures being seen through the windows by tourists as well as mysterious lights when the building is empty.
  • St. Paul's Hospital in Saskatoon. Spectral nuns walk the corridors of the basement. Paranormal activities are disembodied voices and spooky footsteps in that same basement. Hospital staff members have reported intense feelings of unease.[14]
  • St. Louis. Although the railroad tracks are abandoned, this ghost light appears in this area after nightfall. There are a number of paranormal and natural theories as to why it happens, but the legend is the ghost of a drunk brakeman who lost his head on the tracks due to a train passing by him searches for it by lantern light.
  • Saskatchewan Hospital in North Battleford. Paranormal activity includes apparitional sounds, mists and lights are witnessed in the cemetery at night as well as whispers from behind the headstones. One of the wings of the hospital had a terrible fire in the 1930s and one patient died from her burns. She can still be seen wandering the burnt out wing at night. In the tunnels under the facility, apparitions disappear once they pass a living person. Other paranormal activities are light anomalies, disembodied voices, screams and bangs, mysterious footsteps and the feeling of being watched by spectral spirits especially from the windows.
  • Souris Valley Mental Health Hospital in Weyburn. It was reported that apparitional former patients wandered the defunct asylum. The asylum was demolished in 2009. Other paranormal activities are disembodied voices on the grounds and in the surrounding trees, spectral screams, mysterious bangs with other unexplained noises, light anomalies, feelings of being watched and of unease as well as shadowy figures.

See also

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