Most Haunted Places in Canada

Grace Hospital

Calgary, Alberta

Grace Hospital, now called the Riley Park Health Center Building, is home to the ghost of Maudine Riley who is holding a baby in the delivery room. Maudine and the baby died in childbirth in a room on this spot in 1962. It is said that the ghost banged pipes and opened windows, and caused pregnant...

Rosedeer Hotel

Drumheller, Alberta

The 1913 Rosedeer Hotel in its tiny, almost-ghost town is rumored to be haunted, at least on its third floor, which is closed. Reports say this bit of the Old West, complete with bullet holes as well as more traditional memorabilia, is haunted by the ghost of a man who was beaten to death there...

Windsor Park Hotel

Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario

Those who visit Windsor Park Hotel may want to pay close attention while on the elevator. The buttons are said to often be pressed by an unseen hand, usually causing the elevator to go to the fifth floor. Footsteps, electrical anomalies and unusually cold air also have been reported, as if the heat...

Gravenhurst Opera House

Gravenhurst, Ontario

Gravenhurst Opera House has a ghost called Ben, a former a lighting man who fell from a catwalk. Ben is blamed for poltergeist activity, cold spots, light anomalies, footsteps and...

Canadian Museum of Nature

Ottawa, Ontario

It is rumored that late at night on the fourth floor of the Canadian Museum of Nature, things move about by themselves. Native masks and artifacts have moved or rotated, and lights have been known to come on or off by themselves. Unexplained noises, such as howling, and cold spots have been...

Old Masonic Temple

Winnipeg, Manitoba

The Old Masonic Temple building has been home to many businesses that have experienced an untidy ghost. Witnesses say it often moves or knocks over objects and flickers the lights. Also, according to reports, there is a chair on the third floor that has a mysterious connection to the...

Fort Garry Hotel

Winnipeg, Manitoba

The second floor of the large and castle-like 1913 Fort Garry Hotel is said to be the most haunted. That's where Room 202 is, where guests sometimes wake to find a dark figure at the end of their bed and where maids have reported seeing blood dripping from the walls. Why all the gore? It's said...

Woodland Cultural Centre

Brantford, Ontario

At Woodland Cultural Center, its neighbors say, translucent figures walk all over the property, sometimes accompanied by the sound of murmured voices, and simply disappear. The occurrences are so frequent and harmless that the locals accept them without fear. The main complex of the cultural center...

The Algonquin

Saint Andrews, New Brunswick

The 1889 Algonquin Resort is home to many ghosts. One is an old bellhop who has been known to assist guests to their rooms, telling them about the hotel and town, but disappearing before he can be tipped. The hotel also has a phantom night watchman whose keys clank as he makes the rounds, an...

Century Manor

Hamilton, Ontario

Century Manor was once an 1870s institution called the Hamilton Asylum for the Insane (aka Ontario Hospital). Patients are said to have been abused and cruelly experimented on. The site became Century Manor, a museum, in the 1980s, and later the Margaret and Charles Juravinski Centre for Integrated...

Henry Harrison House - Grey Goat Pub

Newmarket, Ontario

The Henry Harrison House - Grey Goat Pub was built in 1865 and was once a funeral home. Add to that, the original owner is rumored to have died in the house. It is said to be haunted by a ghost who makes sounds in the basement, slams doors, and appears as the outline of an elderly...

Regina Mundi Catholic College

London, Ontario

Regina Mundi Catholic College was built in 1963 as a junior seminary, but it also has been a boys' boarding school, a co-ed day school and a high school. The ghost of a priest who died here when it was a seminary has been seen, as well as that of a janitor who hanged himself in the building. Legend...

Galt Museum and Archives

Lethbridge, Alberta

The historic museum was a former hospital, and a patient who passed away there has been heard walking through the hallways of the museum late at night. Doors will fly open by themselves when people walk past. (Submitted by Callum...

Yates Memorial Centre

Lethbridge, Alberta

Genevieve E. Yates Memorial Centre has a graveled storage area nicknamed Pebble Beach that is frequented by two ghostly little girls. The girls have been seen coming from the storage area and heading for the restroom late at night. Once in there, they vanish. The dressing rooms and green room also...

Discovery Harbour

Penetanguishene, Ontario

Discovery Harbor, considered to be the farthest station out in the boonies back in the 1800s, is said to be haunted by spirits of soldiers who were sent here. Some died of illness, and some of grief as they said goodbye to all that was dear to them. As well as apparitions, witnesses have noted...

Carl Beck House

Penetanguishene, Ontario

All the houses built by late-1800s lumber magnate Carl Beck of Beck Industries, those constructed for himself and for each of his daughters, have a signature tower-like structure on one corner; this building now houses apartments. Beck's daughters are said to haunt the Beck houses on Fox Street and...

Buck Hill

Renfrew County, Ontario

Buck Hill has a legend about a logger's family during the Depression. The daughter vanished one night while chasing the pet dog, who had run off. Theh logger searched for her and eventually went mad. His ghost still searches for her, and his lantern is seen as ghost lights in the area. The balls of...

Christ Church Cathedral

Fredericton, New Brunswick

Christ Church Cathedral is said to have a veiled female specter who walks down Church Street and comes in at the west door. She is said to be the second wife of the Rev. John Medley, who built the cathedral in the 1800s. Some witnesses have seen and/or heard the ghost playing the...

Mary Ellen Spook Farm

Antigonish, Nova Scotia

The "Fire Spook" at Mary Ellen Spook Farm is a popular local legend that began in 1922, when farmer Alexander MacDonald and his wife and adopted daughter Mary Ellen left their farm in a hurry after experiencing poltergeist activity, including 30 little fires that had broken out in their home that...

Acadia University

Wolfville, Nova Scotia

Acadia University is said to be home to a ghostly Baptist girl who hanged herself in the stairwell when she learned she was pregnant. Besides this, witnesses have reported lights that go on and off, doors that open and close, strange light anomalies, unexplained sounds, voices, moving objects, and...

Old Spaghetti Warehouse

Vancouver, British Columbia

The ghost of a train conductor visits the Old Spaghetti Factory Italian restaurant, according to local legend. He is said to have perished in an underground railway accident decades ago involving the very trolley car that's on display in the...

Jester's Court Pub and Eatery

Port Perry, Ontario

Jester's Court Pub and Eatery, a former private residence, is believed to be haunted. The ghost is an elderly woman in a blue dress who is blamed for blowing out candles, turning lights on and off, moving glasses and slamming...

Mark’s Work Wearhouse

Calgary, Alberta

At this department store chain Mark’s Work Wearhouse location, staff members have reported shadows in the store and in empty dressing rooms, heard footsteps, smelled a wet-dog smell, and felt cold chills. Objects have been moved or tossed, and all these event usually occur before the store opens...

Washington Avenue Grill

White Rock, British Columbia

Two ghosts are said to visit Washington Avenue Grill: one, a young woman who died in a car accident in front of the establishment, and two, her beau, who committed suicide out of grief upon losing her. It is said that the woman's ghost comes out of the cemetery next door and walks through the...

Port Perry Ghost Road

Port Perry, Ontario

The Ghost Road legend begins around 1968 with a young man who crashed on a motorcycle and, in some versions, was decapitated on a rusty barbed-wire fence. Now, a big round white light speeds down the road before turning into a small red light, sometimes accompanied by the sound of a...

Wabana Iron Ore Mines

Bell Island, Newfoundland and Labrador

Seen on the TV show Creepy Canada, the Wabana Iron Ore Mines began around the turn of the 20th century. The mines included 6 shafts and operated for 71 years; the mines closed in June 1966 after producing 79 million tons of iron ore. It was tragic mining accidents that led to the haunting here:...

Alexander Keith's Brewery

Halifax, Nova Scotia

Alexander Keith himself is said to haunt his brewery in apparition form, checking on the place. Witnesses here have also heard running footsteps, have seen a ghost of a bloody man, and have been approached by a running ghost boy with a misshapen...

Banff Springs Hotel

Banff, Alberta

The 1880s Banff Springs Hotel is grandly magnificent, and still in operation. It doesn't only house living guests, though. Some say its ghosts include a 1932 bride who tripped on her gown and broke her neck on the stairs on her wedding day. She appears dancing alone in the dining room, and then she...

Harbour House Hotel

Capital, British Columbia

At Harbour House Hotel, the ghost of Walter Herzog, murdered here in 1973, is said to walk. Moaning, strange whispers, and faulty electronic devices have been reported...

Breckenridge-Ure Mansion

Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario

This historic house has sat abandoned for over half a century but is currently for sate. The house was originally built in 1823, and there are stories of witches and slaves living in a barn located in the back garden. The slaves are rumoured to haunt the property, and people have reported weird...

Vogue Theatre

Vancouver, British Columbia

The 1940s-era Vogue Theatre closed in 1987, but rumor has it that the ghosts don't mind. It's said to be haunted by a pregnant woman who committed suicide and a man who sits in the theater seats, and sometimes brings friends along. Shadow figures have been noticed in the projection room, and...

Cornwall Jail

Cornwall, Ontario

The Jail which was in operation until 2002 runs the gamut of haunted claims. People claim to have seen full body apparitions, usually of a woman and child, hear male voices and one that hums. People also say they often hear "operational sounds" of the jail, such as carts going up the hallways or...

Fort George

Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario

Featured on both "Creepy Canada" and "The Girly Ghosthunters," Fort George was an important War of 1812 stronghold. Soldiers ghosts are said to roam here; reports say a tour guide saw a small boy having a conversation with someone invisible, and the boy described his friend as a man wearing the...

Black Nugget Museum

Ladysmith, British Columbia

At the Black Nugget Museum, folks have reported footsteps, ghostly pranks, a piano that plays itself, and a ghostly man with a handlebar mustache who appears in an upstairs window, say neighbors. A medium once declared that the spirit of a Native woman lingers in the...

Old Fort Erie

Fort Erie, Ontario

At Old Fort Erie, American and British soldiers are said to roam, and battle sounds have been heard: cannon and musket fire, and commanders shouting orders to the troops. Battle scenes have been reenacted by ghosts, and visitors have been touched or pushed and heard an unpleasant voice say "Get out...

Nahanni National Park Reserve

Fort Smith Region, Northwest Territories

Mystery surrounds the Nahanni National Park Reserve, where in 1906, the gold-mining McLeod brothers were found decapitated near the river. Nine years later, another prospector named Martin Jorgenson suffered the same fate. Then a trapper named O'Brien. And the mystery may have begun many years...

L'Anse aux Meadows

Saint Lunaire-Griquet, Newfoundland and Labrador

L'Anse aux Meadows, the earliest European settlement in North America (led by Leif Ericsson in the 1000s), is said to be haunted by phantom Viking ships and the sounds of Viking horns and native warriors' cries, especially on June...

Auberge Le Saint-Gabriel

Montréal, Québec

The 1754 Auberge Le Saint-Gabriel, the oldest inn in North America, is rumored to be haunted by the ghost of a little girl who perished in a fire during the 19th...

Château Frontenac

Québec, Québec

Château Frontenac is haunted by 17th-century governor Louis de Buade, who is said to be looking for his fiancée because she was away in Europe at the time he passed away. The ghost has been seen in period dress sitting on window sills, walking in hallways or the ballroom, and in guest rooms...

Qualicum Heritage Inn

Qualicum Beach, British Columbia

Qualicum Heritage Inn, originally a 1937 boys' college, is said to be home to several apparitions, moans, voices, cries, chanting, laughter, and lights that go on and off by themselves. One ghost has been nicknamed...

Pinnacle Playhouse

Belleville, Ontario

Formerly the D.L. Storey Centre, Pinnacle Playhouse is haunted by a ghost nicknamed Ophelia, after Hamlet's beloved in the Shakespeare play. There are many ways Ophelia makes herself known: A lady in black appears in the control booth, figures sit in the auditorium seats, green eyes appear in the...

St. Andrews on the Red

Division No. 13, Manitoba

The old stone church St. Andrew's on the Red, built in the mid-1800s, is said to be haunted by two apparitions: a man in black and woman in white. The two ghosts are reported to float through the cemetery at night, and a phantom car with glowing red eyes is rumored to come out of...

Riverview Hospital

Coquitlam, British Columbia

Although it closed in 2012, Riverview Hospital, a mental health facility, was said to be haunted by former patients and staff members. Witnesses noticed voices, shadow figures, footsteps, strange lights and objects that move by themselves. Some witnesses were poked, touched, or felt they were being...

Firkins House

Edmonton, Alberta

The Firkins House is believed to be haunted by three apparitions. The first is a woman in a white dress who has been seen floating on the staircase. The second is a ventriloquist doll who moves around by itself and has been known to make strange noises. The third apparition is a young boy, who...

Orillia Opera House

Orillia, Ontario

The Orillia Opera House is said to be haunted by ghosts who make footsteps, slam doors, create moans and shadows, and drop the room temperature. Investigations have determined that the ghosts are a female who played piano during silent movies, a woman who worked in the ticket office and a patron...

Headless Ghost of Queen's Road

Saint John's, Newfoundland and Labrador

At Queen's Road, a 1740s legend tells a spooky story about a headless ghost. So the story goes, Samuel Pettyham was being driven home in a carriage one night when the horse abruptly stopped. Pettyham opted to walk the rest of the way, and when he got near home, he saw someone walking with a...

Royal Victoria Hospital

Montréal, Québec

The Royal Victoria Hospital, nicknamed "Royal Vic" or "The Vic," is home to the apparitions of deceased patients, disembodied footsteps, voices, strange lights and nurse-calling buzzers that sound from empty...

Hotel Rialto

Victoria, British Columbia

The 1911 Hotel Rialto was originally Hotel Douglas up until December 2007. A mysterious knocking sound comes from the door to the basement, set in an area where only employees can reach it. According to reports, the ghostly knocking has come about because the basement was once used as a...

Merritton Tunnel - Blue Ghost Tunnel

Thorold, Ontario

The blue misty ghost at Merritton Tunnel, aka Blue Ghost Tunnel, has been known to touch or push people or even make them violently ill. Witnesses have reported footsteps, strange lights, the sound of children crying, whistling, and disembodied voices having...

Mount Pleasant Cemetery

Toronto, Ontario

Reports say the active spirits at Mount Pleasant Cemetery once pushed an employee right off of a lawn tractor. Other strange things reported here include voices, unexplained noises, shadowy figures, objects that disappear, disturbances that cause malfunctions in electrical devices, and heightened...

Demon Hotel

Winnipeg, Manitoba

Demon Hotel is the nickname for a building that was reported, in a tongue-in-cheek story, to be exorcised in hope of getting rid of its ghosts, who keep the building from being renovated by scaring away renovation...

Brockamour Manor Bed and Breakfast

Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario

There are reports from both guests and employees at this historic bed and breakfast of a sobbing woman in period clothing roaming the mansion. Others have also seen her former husband, who has been seen in various rooms dressed in a red waistcoat. (Submitted by Callum...

Old Arviat Health Centre

Arviat, Nunavut

There are reports of the apparition of an elderly woman roaming the old health centre, which is no longer in use. Staff would hear the noises of two men shouting in the basement, and would also see a shadowy man walking through the hallways. Chairs and other furniture would be thrown at employees...

White Row

Iqaluit, Nunavut

These buildings were the scene of a recent fire, in which two students boarding there died. Tenants have reported for years the sighting of a hanging man in their rooms, as well as hearing disembodied footsteps and strange noises. (Submitted by Callum...

James Cowan Theatre

Burnaby, British Columbia

The James Cowan Theatre and adjacent mansion the Ceperley House lie atop the former site of an orphanage run by cult leader William Frank Wolsey, a convicted bigamist who fraudulently called himself Archbishop John I. The man abused the boys at the orphanage in every way, and their spirits are said...

Rankin Inlet Fire Department

Rankin Inlet, Nunavut

There are reports by fire-fighter's in the fire department of an evil entity, which throws objects at people. Others have reported hearing the sound of heavy breathing when no one is around. (Submitted by Callum...

Gorge Road Hospital

Victoria, British Columbia

Strange white lights and a ghostly lady have been reported at Gorge Road...

Sam's Bar and Grill

Calgary, Alberta

The bathroom of this restaurant is said to be the site of a somewhat friendly haunting. No one seems particular scared of this ghost, though it is said that workers at the restaurant leave a beer on the counter each night just for him. Maybe that's why he doesn't raise too much of a...

Walker Theatre - Burton Cummings Theatre

Winnipeg, Manitoba

The century-old Walker Theatre, aka Burton Cummings Theatre, has ghosts whom workers have heard applauding from inside the theater. The ghosts are also said to speak, whisper, and move 200-pound steel doors. According to some, the ghosts are former actors Laurence Irving and Mabel Hackney, who...

Pyramid Cabaret

Winnipeg, Manitoba

Pyramid Cabaret is a bar with a ghost of a Native woman who ahs been seen going into the restroom after closing time. When she is followed into the room, no one is there. Another unexplained incident that occasionally happens here is a loud bang that comes from somewhere under the stage...

Charlotte County Court House

Saint Andrews, New Brunswick

The Charlotte County Court House (called in French the Palais de justice du comté de Charlotte) is the oldest one still in continuous use in Canada, built in 1840. It's haunted by convicts who were executed here, who materialize as cold spots and a feeling of being watched. One angry male ghost...

Churchill Mansion Inn

Yarmouth, Nova Scotia

Churchill Mansion Inn, circa 1890, was once the private residence of a Captain Churchill and according to legend, is haunted by his wife. The lady's ghost has been seen in a rocking chair by the window, waiting for her husband to come home. Sometimes a rocking chair there will rock by itself. The...

Heritage Park Historical Village

Calgary, Alberta

Heritage Park Historical Village is a historical park and living history museum rumored to be haunted. One rumor says the apparition of a beautiful, smiling lady with a baby is seen on the third floor of the Prince House. Another says the ghost of an elderly gentleman nicknamed Sam appears in the...

Delta Bessborough

Saskatoon, Saskatchewan

Delta Bessborough is a 10-story, four-star hotel built by the Canadian National Railway from 1928 to 1932. It looks like a castle, and is nicknamed "The Bess" (pronounced "bez"). The marble in the lobby has a crack with a legend. Some say it is from a former employee who fell seven stories and died...

Hopkins Dining Parlour

Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan

Hopkins Dining Parlour is housed in a mansion once owned by Edward Nicholas Hopkins. The ghost of his wife Minnie is said to linger here, seen most often in the attic. Minnie is blamed for levitating candles, banging doors, and throwing food in the dining rooms. The site has been featured on Creepy...

Courtyard Restaurant

Ottawa, Ontario

At the Courtyard Restaurant, workers have reported the sound of disembodied footsteps at night, and a woman's apparition has been noticed peering from the second-story windows. Local lore says she is the ghost of a woman who was trapped in the building during a long-ago fire, and is still watching...

Elmwood Cemetery

Winnipeg, Manitoba

Elmwood Cemetery is said to have a ghost toddler named Joseph, who died in 1912. He is said to play in the cemetery, and may be the reason for an unexplained fog that sometimes rolls...

Clifton Hall

Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan

Clifton Hall, a private residence and historic mansion, is rumored to have a ghostly girl in white who appears on the balcony. Rumor has it that she died in the house. Witnesses also have reported cupboard doors opening, chairs moving, and lights that shake or turn on and off by...

Saskatchewan Hospital

Denholm, Saskatchewan

Saskatchewan Hospital, the area's first mental hospital, had 4,000 patients during its busiest time in 1946, but by 1980 had fewer than 300 in its care. Ghostly activity here includes unexplained sounds, mists, lights and whispers from behind the headstones in the cemetery at night; a 1930s burn...

Fairacres Mansion

Burnaby, British Columbia

Fairacres Mansion, aka the Ceperley Home or Burnaby Art Gallery, was built around 1910 and is said to be haunted by the ghost of Mrs....

Community Cultural Centre

Brooks, Alberta

Community Cultural Centre has several ghosts, including a young boy with a backpack, an elderly janitor who still cleans the rooms, and an elderly woman who has been seen and heard by children. She reads stories to them. Staff say there's also a ghost boy, age 9, who plays with the toys in the...

Preston Springs Hotel

Cambridge, Ontario

Preston Springs Hotel is said to be haunted by apparitions, poltergeist activity, unexplained lights, shadows, and...

Tranquille Sanatorium

Savona, British Columbia

The 1907 Tranquille Sanatorium was a tuberculosis hospital until it became a mental institution in 1959. It closed 1983; plans are for the building to be razed and the site turned into a resort area. The building and grounds are said to be haunted by former...

Rebecca Lutes' Grave

Moncton, New Brunswick

Local legend has it that Rebecca Lutes was 16-year-old psychic who lived in the 1870s, and because of her natural-born sixth sense, she was hanged for being a witch, a vampire, or another such demon. She was buried near Gorge Road in the woods across from the cement and culvert company site,...

Marr Residence

Saskatoon, Saskatchewan

The Marr Residence, built in 1884 for stonemason Alexander "Sandy" Marr, was used as a field hospital during the North-West Rebellion. However, the hauntings here seem unrelated to the war. The two ghosts known to reside here are that of a small child whose face appears inside an orb and a male...

Craigdarroch Castle

Victoria, British Columbia

The late-1800s Craigdarroch Castle is large and haunted, just as a castle should be. It has 39 rooms in over 25,000 square feet, and was built for the family of coal magnate Robert Dunsmuir, although both he and architect Warren Heywood Williams died before it was finished. Its ghost is a lady in a...

Glanmore National Historic Site

Belleville, Ontario

Glanmore Mansion National Historic Site, built in 1883, is a house museum complete with ghosts. A former owner saw the apparition of a soldier in red with a white hat. She also heard the piano play by itself, and saw doors open on their own. She believes the place is haunted by her grandmother,...

The Bent Mast

Victoria, British Columbia

The Bent Mast bar, inside an 1870s Victorian house, is said to be haunted by a ghost who touches, pinches and pushes folks. In, some reports say it's haunted by three ghosts: A man and two...

Riel House

Winnipeg, Manitoba

Riel was built and owned by the Riel family 1865. Louis Riel, renowned politician and leader of Metis rights and freedoms, didn't live in the house, but was placed in the living room for a few days after his execution. His wife died in the house half a year later. It was turned over to the...

Newcastle Island Park

Nanaimo, British Columbia

Newcastle Island Park is said to be haunted by those who have died in the mines beneath Newcastle, and by the ghost of Peter Kakua, a Hawaiian who murdered his wife, in-laws and baby daughter with an axe. His ghost is seen on the beaches at...

Helmcken House

Victoria, British Columbia

Helmcken House was the home of Dr. John Sebastian Helmcken, first speaker of an elected assembly in BC, who lived there from 1853 to 1920. Cecelia Helmcken is suspected to be the ghost who haunts it; ghostly piano playing is heard along with occasional...

Peterborough Lift Lock

Peterborough, Ontario

Peterborough Lift Lock has a ghost and a curse set by an unknown woman who was burned at the stake in the 1840s. The ghost has been known to attack men, and the curse is said to have caused many accidents here. Ghosts of those who have committed suicide here have been seen. Witnesses also have...

Keg Mansion

Toronto, Ontario

Keg Mansion is said to be haunted by Lillian, a maid who hanged herself in 1915 on the premises. She was employed by its owner, industrialist Hart Massey. According to one story, after the death of Massey’s daughter, Lillian was so aggrieved that she hanged herself. Another story said Lillian was...

Strathcona County Museum and Archives

Sherwood Park, Alberta

Strathcona County Museum and Archives, the items in displays move, an open bible's pages are turned, and lights come on at night. Folks have reported phantom licorice, matches and cigar smells near the jail, and a heavy jail door once slammed shut in front of a museum...

St. Louis Ghost Light

Hagen, Saskatchewan

Some say that the St. Louis Ghost Light, which is known to appear at night, is the spirit of a drunken railroad brakeman who was decapitated by a train and is now searching for his head with a...

Centracare

Saint John, New Brunswick

At the Centracare, ghosts of former patients and staff have appeared in the park, as well as shadow figures. The phantom sounds of crying babies, voices and whispers have been heard, and some folks have noticed a feeling of being watched or the sudden malfunctioning of electronic devices. Strange...

Old Don Jail

Toronto, Ontario

Old Don Jail, aka the Toronto Jail, opened in 1864 and is now a rehabilitation hospital next to the jail. It's one of the oldest remaining pre-Confederation buildings in Toronto, and many hangings were held here since 1908. The place's most well-known spirit is that of a ghost is that of a female...

Nutty Chocolatier

North Bay, Ontario

The Nutty Chocolatier is an old-time candy shop that has a ghost. Employees have heard the wrought-iron ice-cream shop chairs sliding around by themselves in the back when no one was there. The location was once a fire station but stood empty for years before becoming a candy...

Indian Head Screaming House

Indian Head, Saskatchewan

The square stone house just off the Trans Canada highway, known as the Screaming House, was built in the 1800s for a family. So the local legend goes, one of the children was playing on the railroad tracks and was hit and killed by a train as the helpless mother looked on from the window. The...

Fulford Place Museum

Brockville, Ontario

The turn-of-the-century Fulford Place 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...

Glendon College

Toronto, Ontario

Glendon College, a bilingual liberal arts college with about 3,000 students, lies on what was once the 1900s estate of well-known financier Edward Rogers Wood. Its spirits include a little girl who materializes near a willow tree (she may have fallen to her death from this tree), a little boy seen...

Kingston Penitentiary

Kingston, Ontario

Kingston Penitentiary has a ghostly prisoner, George Hewell, who was, in life, a handful for the guards. He was known for attacking guards and other inmates, and in one incidence in 1897, a guard was forced to kill Hewell in self defence. Hewell swore as he lay dying that he would avenge himself....

Four Mile House Bar and Grill

Victoria, British Columbia

Many ghosts are said to appear at the Four Mile House Bar and Grill, including Margaret Gouge (who appears in the gardens), a man in a suit, and Jake...

Fan Tan Alley

Victoria, British Columbia

Theh ghost at Fan Tan Alley, Chung, is said to have killed a sing-song girl who spurned his advances. Chung has been known to push people asie as he comes...

Pioneer Square Park - Quadra St Cemetery

Victoria, British Columbia

Pioneer Square, aka the Old Burying Ground, is where, between 1855 and 1873, thousands of bodies were buried with tiny tombstones. The ghost of a woman has been seen here, along with one of a prominent man, R.B. Johnson, a founding father of Victoria. His ghost re-enacts his death: He stands before...

Bow Valley Ranche Restaurant

Calgary, Alberta

Bow Valley Ranche Restaurant was built over a century ago and is haunted. The ghost is believed to be Charlie Yuen, a former chef who perished in a car accident in 1938, and whose dying wish was to be buried near the restaurant where he had been employed all his life. Although he was buried in...

Schooner Restaurant on Second

Tofino, British Columbia

Schooner Restaurant on Second has a ghost called Morris, who was a resident here in the 1970s. Morris always made the restaurant's chowder. The ghost is said to play pranks and keep watch over his old...

The Cat 'n Fiddle Pub

Calgary, Alberta

Voices and footsteps have been heard at this pub, which supposedly was once a mortician's office. Some staff believe it is the old mortician himself that still haunts the...

Rogue Restaurant

Calgary, Alberta

Seen on the TV show Creepy Canada, the Rogue Restaurant in Calgary is reported to have a playful ghost girl who often runs around the rooms or hangs out either in the kitchen or by the fireplace. The apparition of her father has been seen watching over...

Knox United Church

Calgary, Alberta

The historic Knox United Church is said to be haunted by several ghosts, including one that once slapped an organist for making a mistake. Witnesses also have heard footsteps and seen apparitions of women who walk through doors, pray, knit, and chat together. The spirits are said to be largely...