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There are numerous reportedly haunted places in Canada. This list alphabetizes by province or territory these places and then alphabetically within each province or territory. ==Alberta== * Banff Springs Hotel in Banff is an alleged paranormal site. An anonymous young bride, who died of a broken neck on her wedding day in 1932, has also reportedly been seen by patrons within these grounds. Dressed in her wedding gown, she was descending a staircase. She tripped on her gown and fell down the stairs. Her ghost can reportedly be seen dancing alone in the dining room, only to burst into flames. The apparitional resident is reportedly a former employee of the hotel. A bellhop who died after announcing his retirement in 1976, Sam Macauley, has lived on in the eyes of some guests and hotel staff members who claim to have seen visions of the man in full uniform, helping out guests just as if he had never left. They have reported sightings of a bartender's ghost telling customers that they have drank too much and need to go to bed. An apparitional headless male bagpiper has been occasionally haunting here. * Bowman Arts Centre in Lethbridge. Apparitional sounds of an anonymous young Chinese girl's cry is heard from the women's washroom inside this building by staff members, but the crying girl's spirit is never found.〔http://lethbridgelivingonline.com/previous-articles/item/7-southern-alberta-ghost-stories〕 * Calling Lake School in Calling Lake. This site was once an Aboriginal resting place for many centuries. Paranormal activities include shadowy figures, apparitional footsteps, disembodied voices, feeling of being watched by Aboriginal specters and a general feeling of unease.〔http://www.hauntedplaces.org/item/calling-lake-school/〕 *Charles Camsell Hospital in Inglewood. Paranormal activities include a feeling of being watched from the many windows; screams have been recorded on the 4th floor, which was once home to psych ward. Also on the 4th floor, a psychic has identified the ghost of a teenage girl who has torn all of her fingernails out. Other activity includes spectral footsteps are heard in the hallways, patients still cry for help from their rooms, general feeling of unease and numerous light anomalies.〔http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:-2bBO3bkm4wJ:unmyst3.blogspot.com/2011/08/charles-camsell-hospital.html+&cd=5&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us〕 The hospital was decommissioned in 1996. The building is in the process of being renovated as a residential building with 230 units.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/camsell-hospital-construction-to-start-in-spring-says-developer-1.2780840 )〕 * Community Cultural Centre in Brooks. Apparitions of an old janitor still cleaning rooms and a young boy with a backpack wandering the halls. The disembodied voice of an elderly woman has been reported by children, she reads them stories. Staff members have talked to a spectral nine-year-old boy who seems to be afraid of being there. He plays with toys in the daycare located in the basement.〔http://www.psican.org/alpha/index.php?/Alberta-Ghost-Reports/Brooks-Community-Cultural-Centre.html〕 * Concordia University College of Alberta in Edmonton. Spooky sounds include a men's choir coming from the walls in the boys' dorm and doors slamming in empty buildings. A spectral African American teacher from the 1960s based on her clothing is seen by witnesses in the halls. There are doors that have been slammed by an unseen force right in front of people and cold spots to such a degree that one's breath can be seen by witnesses in Schwarmann Hall. Other paranormal activities are light anomalies, disembodied voices, shadow figures and a general feeling of unease.〔http://www.psican.org/alpha/index.php?/Alberta-Ghost-Reports/Concordia-University-College-of-Alberta.html〕 * Deanne House, Fort Calgary in Calgary. Among the many ghosts which roam this building, the most notable are an elderly man who still sits in his room, smoking his pipe and listening to his victrola. The other apparitional figure is a woman who was murdered by her enraged husband. Traces of tobacco smoke and drops of blood are among the many remnants of these tortured departed spirits. A spectral elderly Aboriginal man roams in the basement.〔http://www.ghost-story.co.uk/index.php/haunted-houses/209-the-deane-house-hauntings-alberta-canada〕 It was featured on ''Creepy Canada''. * Dunvegan Provincial Park in Fairview. There are many mysterious things that happen in Dunvegan Park, including sightings of ghosts. One ghost is that of a woman on the top of the North Hill. It is said that you can see the flickering of her lantern still. Many years ago in the middle of winter this woman's child came down with a fever. The father left to bring back the doctor but he was taking so long that the woman set out to see if she could spot them. She took her lantern and in the middle of the snow storm, climbed the North Hill to try to spot her husband. The husband returned to their home with the doctor to find his wife missing. He went in search of her hand found her at the top of the hill frozen to death with her lantern still flickering. Another ghost is the priest in the rectory. He has been seen standing in the window of the rectory, and seated at the desk in the room. A pen has also been seen writing by itself at the desk. There have also been occasion when people have entered the rectory and it was as though they were seeing what it looked like in the past. Then there is the ghost of the lady on the bridge. This ghost has been seen in a long, white hooded cloak and bare feet. She has also been seen in the mists coming from the river. The first sighting of her was shortly after the Dunvegan bridge was completed. Next is the Nun on the hills. A nun, in her habit appears as a dark mass walking up and down the hills picking berries and rosehips. Those are just the main ghosts spoken of in Dunvegan. There have been other sightings in Campshacks, by the river, and of course at the Maples, but no one has been able to put a name to those ghosts. There is a feeling of unease and of being watched that comes from different areas of the park. * Firkins House, Fort Edmonton Park in Edmonton. An anonymous young boy is one of many apparitions which roam in this early 20th-century home. In the study area, there is one particular piece of furniture that attracts a ghost to it. An anonymous female figure usually shows up in pictures taken there, often in the middle of the bookcase. The rest of this park has paranormal reports from tourists about spooky footsteps, and the feeling that someone or something is directly behind them. It was featured on ''Creepy Canada''. * Fort Kent. A windigo possesses this town's doctor, as he wreaks havoc on his small settlement. At the turn of the century, a young doctor moved here with his young bride. Cattle were soon going to be mysteriously slaughtered, and most of the townsfolk became critically ill. The doctor, still psychologically affected by his horrendous term of service in World War I, is powerless to help, and, in his illness, succumbs to the spirit. It was featured on ''Creepy Canada''. * Fort Saskatchewan. Many male convicts were hanged at the Northwest Mounted Police outpost on this historic site in May 1923, but only one woman. Florence Lassandro was dubbed the "Mob Princess", and her specter is one of many apparitional figures seen wandering the grounds and in the preserved buildings. It was featured on ''Creepy Canada''. * Frank Slide in Crowsnest Pass. Paranormal activity includes mysterious mists and glowing lights are shown over the rockslide tragedy from April 29, 1903. Travelers feel intense sadness and awe at this site.〔http://www.hauntedplaces.org/item/frank-slide/〕 * Galt Museum & Archives in Lethbridge. When this museum was a hospital, a man named George Bailey lost his life in an accident inside the elevator in 1933 while being wheeled to the operating room for a routine appendectomy. Apparitional footsteps of a man in slippers have since been heard by patrons and museum staff members walking through the halls at night. The elevator has also been known by patrons to mysteriously open when a living person walks nearby. * Grace Hospital in Calgary. A 20th-century apparitional woman named Maudine Riley cradles a child in a delivery room. She lost her life due to childbirth in one of the rooms of her house in 1962. The child died with her. Riley's specter would bang pipes and open windows. However, she did make it so that a woman in labor who was placed in that room would have a long and difficult labor, often ending in a caesarean section. The Riley family owned this land when the hospital was in construction. The room where she lost her life in was almost in the exact position where the haunted delivery room is now located.〔http://psican.org/alpha/index.php?/Alberta-Ghost-Reports/Grace-Hospital.html〕 * Hotel Macdonald in Edmonton. An unseen apparition of a horse-drawn carriage is heard through the halls on the top floor in this hotel.〔http://www.psican.org/alpha/index.php?/Alberta-Ghost-Reports/The-Macdonald-Hotel.html〕 * Jasper Park Lodge in Jasper. There is a very steep staircase in one of the signature cabins, Point Cabin, that is haunted by a housekeeper who fell and broke her neck on it. She has been known by visitors to push people on the staircase as well as being responsible for the chilly winds that sometimes blow down it. People have also reported a feeling of being watched on the staircase and in the connecting hall and animals are said to be very hesitant about going on the stairway. Security guards have claimed to receive phantom calls from the cabin only to arrive and no one is there. A senior couple dressed in old-fashioned clothing have been seen by patrons either dancing or sitting at a table in one of the restaurants. Children's hand prints appear on the window in the main ballroom and people have noted an eerie feeling of being watched in the ballroom.〔http://www.psican.org/alpha/index.php?/Alberta-Ghost-Reports/Jasper-Park-Lodge.html〕 * La Bohème Restaurant Bed and Breakfast in Edmonton. Legend has it that a female employee in the building was murdered and dragged down three flights of stairs to the basement. She was dismembered and fed piece-by-piece into the furnace there. The original furnace is still in use and the sound of her head banging on the floor down three flights of stairs can be heard by patrons at night. * Lake Minnewanka in Banff. An ancient Stoney First Nations legend says that a demon half-fish and half-man is inside this lake. It has taken the lives of many tribal members from the lake's shores. A white mustang's apparition has also been seen by visitors on the shores. There is also a report from visitors about a spectral First Nations warrior who wanders the lake edge still looking for skulls left over from a major battle between two tribes long ago in this area.〔http://www.therealbanff.com/the-merman-legend-of-banff-alberta/〕 * Multicultural Heritage Centre in Stony Plain. White misty figures have been seen in the main building. During the reconstruction of the kitchen in the basement objects would be moved or disappear and reappear elsewhere on their own. An apparitional woman dressed in 1940s clothing is occasionally seen in the corner of people's eyes. Stools have stacked on tables at night when no one was present. There is also a second smaller building called "The Oppershauser Building" that is also active. The spectral figure has been referred as "George" after a former owner of the house. Paranormal activity includes spectral footsteps are heard and objects have flown off the walls on their own, objects placed in the upstairs closet have a way of disappearing and reappearing elsewhere in the house. Disembodied faces have also been in the windows at night as well as spectral voices.〔http://www.hauntedplaces.org/item/multicultural-heritage-centre/〕 * North Hill Centre in Calgary. The Sears is haunted by a janitor. He frequents the electronics department, and is reported to turn the televisions on and off. * Rogue Restaurant in Calgary. Staff members have encountered an anonymous spectral young girl both in the kitchen and sitting by the fireplace. She is playful. Her enjoyment is to run around this restaurant's rooms playing like any child. She feels free to do this because her father's apparition is by her side watching over her.〔http://www.avenuecalgary.com/September-2010/Calgarys-Haunted-Houses/〕 It was featured on ''Creepy Canada''. * Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Village in Tofield. Most famous of the ghosts is a wagon master who rides through town pulling a wagon seeking for workers to go on a ride with him. Other paranormal activities are light anomalies, spooky footsteps, disembodied voices and glimpses of apparitions.〔http://www.ehcanadatravel.com/blog/2013/10/21/20-of-the-most-freakiest-ghost-destinations-in-canada/〕 It was featured on ''Creepy Canada''. * Walterdale Playhouse in Old Strathcona. The residential specter is "Walt". He is most active in the back staircase and the Green Room. He has been known by visitors to develop chilly breezes, help people up the stairs, turn lights on and off, move props, play the piano and create apparitional footsteps. Patrons of the theatre have also reported the strong smell of horse manure in the part of the building that used to hold stables for the fire hall. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「List of reportedly haunted locations in Canada」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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