Portage Place in downtown Winnipeg has a ghost girl who may be responsible for items mysteriously falling off of shelves or moving by themselves.
Portage Place
MTS Centre
MTS Centre in downtown Winnipeg was once Eaton’s department store but is now an arena. A spectral woman in black has appeared here, along with disembodied footsteps, objects that move by themselves, strange light phenomena and the sound of your name being whispered or called.
Preston Springs Hotel
Preston Springs Hotel is said to be haunted by apparitions, poltergeist activity, unexplained lights, shadows, and more.
Mackenzie House
Mackenzie House was the final home of William Lyon Mackenzie, Toronto’s first mayor, who died in the house in 1861. It now operates as a historic house museum of 1860s Victorian life. Its three ghosts are thought to be an elderly lady in the Rose room, a bagpipes player, and a little girl named Elizabeth.
Bala Bay Inn
Bala Bay Inn is rumored to be haunted, and was the locale where E.B. Sutton died (in Room 319) and lay in state. Ghostly activity reported here includes poltergeist activity, including rumbling and rattling doorknobs, unusual sounds and TVs working that were not plugged in.
Gravenhurst Opera House
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 more.
Century Manor
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 Healthcare. Still nicknamed Century Manor and no longer open to the public, the building is said to be haunted with cries, orbs, apparitions and other strange activity.
Dundurn Castle
Dundurn Castle is an 18,000-square-foot, 72-room house completed in 1835. It is open to the public, its rooms restored to match its state in 1855 when owned by Sir Allan Napier MacNab, 1st Baronet. Folks have reported aparitions of elderly women with candles and little girls, plus the sounds of screaming, banging, running footsteps and doors slamming.
Academy Theatre
The Academy Theatre is said to have several ghosts, including one the staff calls Mary, who fell on the stairs and broke her neck, and a man with a limp.
Watson's Mill
The 1860 Watson’s Mill, a working mill and museum that still sells stone-ground whole wheat flour, has a ghost story. The spirit here is Ann Crosby Currier, the wife of Joseph Merrill Currier, a mill co-owner. At a party there on March 11, 1861 to celebrate their honeymoon, Ann’s dress caught on a mill turbine, and she was flung against a pillar and killed. Ann’s ghost has been seen here many times since.
