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0Acadia University
Wolfville, Nova Scotia
5.8 miles from Avonport, NS
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 having ...
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Bedford Basin
Bedford, Nova Scotia
41.1 miles from Avonport, NS
Bedford Basin is an enclosed bay that forms the northwestern end of Halifax Harbour, and it's haunted by a phantom rowboat. The sound of someone rowing has been heard on foggy nights, although the boat is never seen. Legend has it the ghostly sound is all that's left of a ...
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Peggys Point Lighthouse
Peggys Cove, Nova Scotia
45.1 miles from Avonport, NS
Peggys Point Lighthouse is rumored to be haunted by a European woman and shipwreck survivor named Margaret who lived here in 1800. So her story goes, her husband was attempting to cheer her up by dancing a jig on the rocks, but he slipped and died. Later, she walked out ...
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Citadel Hill
Halifax, Nova Scotia
45.3 miles from Avonport, NS
Citadel Hill, as locals tell it, is haunted by apparitions of Native Canadians as well as French, British and Canadian soldiers and their family members. Visitors here have reported being touched or pushed by unseen hands, footsteps, voices, shadow figures and eerie noises. There are also objects that move, electrical ...
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Mahone Bay
Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia
45.4 miles from Avonport, NS
The ship Young Teazer exploded and sank in 1813 here in Mahone Bay, and since then folks have reported a burning phantom ship with ghostly crewmen running about on the deck, aflame. The reports seem to come most often near the anniversary of the ship's sinking: June 17. The site ...
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Five Fisherman Restaurant
Halifax, Nova Scotia
45.5 miles from Avonport, NS
The Five Fisherman Restaurant is housed in an 1800s building that was formerly a couple of schools and a mortuary that has laid to rest some "RMS Titanic" victims as well as victims of the Halifax Explosion. Folks here have noticed apparitions, doors and faucets that work by themselves, flying ...
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All Saints Cathedral
Halifax, Nova Scotia
45.6 miles from Avonport, NS
The historic All Saints Cathedral, which opened in 1910, is rumored to be haunted by a former dean. The ghostly clergyman is most often seen standing near the altar.
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Alexander Keith's Brewery
Halifax, Nova Scotia
45.8 miles from Avonport, NS
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 face.
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Stem at Stern Bed and Breakfast
Bridgetown, Nova Scotia
53.4 miles from Avonport, NS
Stem at Stern Bed and Breakfast is a Victorian inn that has a ghost man who appears at the window when the house is empty. Very cold spots and tapping at the windows in the middle of the night have been reported by guests, as well as a spooky apparition ...
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Grey's Island Cemetery
Hillsborough, New Brunswick
60.9 miles from Avonport, NS
Grey Island Cemetery has a white stone statue of a lady with a legend. Locals say those who close their eyes and walk around the statue three times will see the lady looking back at them and crying tears of blood. She is said to be the murdered wife of ...
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Ghost Ship of Northumberland Strait
Wallace, Nova Scotia
68.8 miles from Avonport, NS
For over 200 years, people have reported seeing a burning schooner sailing the waters through the Northumberland Straight. Numerous people have sighted the ship, some reports even make mention of rescue attempts mounted to assist the burning ship, only to have it vanish before they can get to it. ...
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Capitol Theatre
Moncton, New Brunswick
72.9 miles from Avonport, NS
The ghost of a little girl who died after falling down the stairs is rumored to haunt Capitol Theatre. Her ghost has been seen behind the ticket booth at night. Also, volunteer firefighter Alexander Lindsay was fighting a blaze in 1924 when the main stage fell on him. His ghost ...
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Rebecca Lutes' Grave
Moncton, New Brunswick
78.3 miles from Avonport, NS
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 ...
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Holland Cove
Rocky Point, Prince Edward Island
92.2 miles from Avonport, NS
It was in 1764 that the first European settlers came to Holland Cove. Dutch surveyor Captain Samuel Holland brought his bride, Racine, a tall French beauty. When Captain Holland was away on a surveying trip, Racine fell through some thin ice and died. Her apparition has been seen wandering the ...
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Yeo House
Tyne Valley, Prince Edward Island
104.3 miles from Avonport, NS
Historic Yeo House is part of the Green Park Shipbuilding Museum and is said to be haunted by former residents the 1800s James Yeo family, who watch over the place. Cold spots and the feeling of watchful eyes have been reported, along with female voices.
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Scotch Fort Cemetery
Mount Stewart, Prince Edward Island
107.8 miles from Avonport, NS
Scotch Fort Cemetery is said to be haunted by a ball of fire. As legend has it, Peter MacIntyre, a Scottishman who came to the area in 1773, was at a bar when the men there were discussing the ghostly ball of fire. MacIntyre declared he didn't believe spirits could ...
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