Inside the Old Spaghetti Factory in Vancouver - Date/Photographer unknown.

31 October 2012

Most Haunted Places in Canada Include Spaghetti Trains and Hotels

Canada - Halloween is finally here and America can enjoy scaring themselves with tales of ghosts and things that go bump in the night.
 
For Canada, it will be no different, and our northern neighbors also have a number of haunted places to visit for a good fright.
 
The historic Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel in Alberta has at least two ghosts including the tragic bride who fell down the staircase to her death and Sam the bellman who disappears when a guest asks for assistance.
 
There is also the hidden mystery room which is inhabited by a ghostly family.
 
In Victoria there is the landmark Fairmont Empress Hotel with a number of spooky apparitions.
 
Guests have seen a ghostly chambermaid and a missing woman.
 
There is also the frightening spectre of a little girl and of a carpenter who committed suicide.
 
For decades there have been tales of the St. Loius ghost train in Saskatchewan and the phantom lights along the missing rail line.
 
Believers think it is either a ghost train or the spirit of a headless conductor searching for his lost head.
 
According to TripAdisor.Com, these are the most haunted places in Canada:
 
1. The Old Spaghetti Factory, Gastown, Vancouver, British Columbia - If you are looking for eerie eating in Vancouver, check out the Old Spaghetti Factory in the Gastown neighborhood. You may hear stories of inexplicable cold drafts and moving table settings, shenanigans attributed to the ghost of a certain train conductor who met his end during a tragic collision on the underground railway track upon which the restaurant is built. Enjoy the delicious food, but watch that your cutlery doesn't float off on you!
 
2. Banff Springs Hotel, Banff, Alberta - A blocked off stairway, said to be haunted by a tragic bride, and a mystery missing room, rumored to be locked forever to contain the family of ghosts that inhabits it, give rise to multiple tales of hauntings and eerie events in this historic and beautiful chateau hotel.
 
3. St. Louis Ghost Train, St. Louis, Saskatchewan - If you pass through the village of St. Louis, Saskatchewan, late at night, be on the lookout for the phantom lights out on the dirt road where the train tracks used to be. Whether these lights are a paranormal phenomenon or the perfectly natural occurrence, the curious appearance of these lights nearly every night has attracted curious onlookers for over thirty years. Some say the light is a ghost train, others the lantern held by the spirit of a conductor who lost his head on the tracks and searches eternally to find it. The realists claim that it is simply a refraction of headlights from the highway a few miles off.
 
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Editor's Note:  Article abridged, non-railway related spooks removed for your safety.