House ghosts

The Ghosts of the Fireside Grill

by Eve Lazarus on October 28, 2017

The Fireside Grill is situated on a ley line that runs down West Saanich Road, through Wilkinson Road, toward the Four Mile House—a reputedly haunted inn—to the Portage Inlet and Esquimalt Harbour. This story is an excerpt from Sensational Victoria.

Tim Petropoulos, co-owner of the Fireside Grill since 2000, is a self-described skeptic when it comes to ghosts, but even he can’t discount all the sightings and odd things that have happened over the years and the first-hand accounts from his staff.

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Tags 4509 West Saanich Road, Fireside Grill, Glastonbury Zodiac, Hubert Savage, John Maltwood, Katharine Maltwood, ley lines, Maltwood Museum, University of Victoria

The Grain Elevators, a Fire and a Ghost Story:

by Eve Lazarus on October 24, 2015

A little before 10:00 am on October 3, 1975, David Samson, an inspector with the Canadian Grain Commission, was walking down the tracks to the Burrard Terminals when he saw a few of the workers he knew moving quickly away from the grain elevators.

The full story is in Vancouver Exposed: Searching for the City’s Hidden History.

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Tags Barney Chapman, North Vancouver Grain Elevators, VGH Burn unit

Vancouver’s Salmagundi West

by Eve Lazarus on January 17, 2015

There’s a female ghost who haunts Salmagundi. She hangs out downstairs and begs the odd customer to look through old photos, find one of her and take it home. Once a customer told owner Anne Banner that a ghost wanted her to take an antique doll out of a birdcage. Anne, who has never experienced the ghost herself, is not one to tempt fate.

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Tags 321 West Cordova, Anne Banner, Gastown, Kat Thorsen, Salmagundi West, vision board

The North Vancouver Ghost

by Eve Lazarus on October 31, 2014

Happy Halloween. And, in honour of my favourite non-holiday, here’s a completely true ghost story from the pages of Sensational Vancouver. When Jennifer, Patrick, Graham, 6 and Angus, 3 moved into their home, they didn’t realize they’d be sharing it with strangers. But to Jennifer, an interior designer, it soon because obvious they were not alone.

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The Chilliwack Hostess with the Ghostess

by Eve Lazarus on October 24, 2014

Now a Cold Case Canada Podcast: Halloween Special – Three Ghost Stories and a Murder

For over six decades a large white house stood at the corner of Williams Street North and Portage Avenue in Chilliwack. The stately old manor had a three-storey tower with a turret topped off by a witch’s hat roof, and for a while, the house put the town on the tourist map.

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Tags Chilliwack, Chilliwack Progress, Douglas Frederickson, Hetty Frederickson, Royal Hotel

The Ghosts of Mole Hill

by Eve Lazarus on October 18, 2014

This totally true ghost story took place in the West End’s Mole Hill. The full story, and those of other haunted houses appeared in Sensational Vancouver

Mole Hill:

In the 1960s, the City of Vancouver started buying up a mixture of Queen Anne and Edwardian houses along Comox Street in the West End, intending to bulldoze them and double the size of Nelson Park.

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Tags 1025 Comox Street, Blair Petrie, Henry Mole, Mole Hill, Sensational Vancouver

The Ghosts of Townsend Place

by Eve Lazarus on October 14, 2012

Ghosts are said to be attracted to houses where there is a lot of activity. For Jim, a carpenter, and Lou, a massive renovation of their Queen Anne home on Townsend Place, in New Westminster, seems to have awoken them.

Townsend Place:

Whatever the reason, for a few years the old house was haunted.

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