Showing posts with label ghosts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ghosts. Show all posts
Sunday, October 27, 2013
When Ghost Stories Come Out of the Woodwork
It's that creepy time of year when the nights are getting longer, there's a chill in the air, Halloween is just around the corner and ghost stories come out of the woodwork.
And, as with most years, it's the time of year when I am busy collecting (and telling) ghost stories.
I've picked up several stories over the past year.
A house on 6 Avenue South where the owner found the name Julia written on the mirror in the mist.
The Administration Building on the north side. The person telling me the story spoke of mischievous spirits who like to bother the cleaners and move objects -- often only to return them a short time later.
To the Lethbridge Lodge and the report of a woman dancing in Anton's all by herself -- and when there shouldn't be anyone there.
Or the Sandman Inn where the sounds of a young boy crying are heard.
Or a residential location in Lethbridge where a "tallish Dutch woman" is seen to wander.
To the Youth Treatment Centre where many strange things have been reported.
Or the one hospital in southern Alberta where many of the residents seem to have the ability to know when someone is going to die. One resident, who herself passed away a few years ago, would try to get staff and visitors to leave when she knew the "man in black" was visiting. The staff from the institution reported this she "used to come into the room, into the hallway and she used to tell us to get out of this building, get out, you gotta get out of this building. And she’d be pushing us all towards the door. She was 100 or so years old then. Pretty much bed ridden but she’d get up on those days that she knew someone was going to die. She’d say that man in black is back. And she'd be pushing us out the doors, trying to protect all of us."
It's been a good year of story collecting but I'd love to get even more. If you have some you want to share, send them my way. And, who knows what other stories will be created this Halloween season.
Sunday, October 30, 2011
Ghosts May not Sleep but Ghost Story Hunting Takes a Break, Sometimes
Someone asked me the other day if I picked up any new stories at all in the last while (maybe because I haven't been posting on the BLOG as regularly as I once did). I could only smile and say "well, only about 10 just this past week." While I haven't had much time of late to share stories, I have certainly had the opportunity to collect them.
One told to me in September was about the old Schweitzer Bakery building on London Road in Lethbridge. Two of the staff were working when one noted that a man walked past here and to the back of the building. She wasn't too worried because she knew another staff was back there and would redirect the man. The other person heard the man, went to speak to him but there was no one there (even though there was no other exit out of the room).
Just this past week I had another story told to me of a place along the Enchant Highway between Enchant and Vauxhall. Years ago, when I was in High School, I had heard some weird whisperings about this place. But this time I was told the complete story.
The house on the property had burned down years ago but there was a garage left. Two men, Bill and Clifford, were working on a car in the garage. They had a light on above the car which suddenly went off. When they went to check, they saw the light had been unplugged from the wall (though there was no one else around). They plugged it back in and returned to work -- only to have the light once again unplugged! After this occurred several times the two men decided that they had to get out of there.
They went outside and saw in the yard a woman completely dressed in white carrying two suitcases. As they watched, she floated upwards and disappeared. Considering that one of the rumours of the property was that the husband had murdered his wife and hidden the body they of course quickly left after that.
I was also told of a Daycare in Lethbridge that I should check into. A hotel. A restaurant. And quite a number of other buildings. The hunt for ghost stories of southern Alberta continues.
One told to me in September was about the old Schweitzer Bakery building on London Road in Lethbridge. Two of the staff were working when one noted that a man walked past here and to the back of the building. She wasn't too worried because she knew another staff was back there and would redirect the man. The other person heard the man, went to speak to him but there was no one there (even though there was no other exit out of the room).
Just this past week I had another story told to me of a place along the Enchant Highway between Enchant and Vauxhall. Years ago, when I was in High School, I had heard some weird whisperings about this place. But this time I was told the complete story.
The house on the property had burned down years ago but there was a garage left. Two men, Bill and Clifford, were working on a car in the garage. They had a light on above the car which suddenly went off. When they went to check, they saw the light had been unplugged from the wall (though there was no one else around). They plugged it back in and returned to work -- only to have the light once again unplugged! After this occurred several times the two men decided that they had to get out of there.
They went outside and saw in the yard a woman completely dressed in white carrying two suitcases. As they watched, she floated upwards and disappeared. Considering that one of the rumours of the property was that the husband had murdered his wife and hidden the body they of course quickly left after that.
I was also told of a Daycare in Lethbridge that I should check into. A hotel. A restaurant. And quite a number of other buildings. The hunt for ghost stories of southern Alberta continues.
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