Vancouver’s got its fair share of ghost stories, and October’s the perfect time to get up close and personal with some of the city’s creepiest (ex-) residents.
Take your pick of haunted tours – like Forbidden Vancouver’s Lost Souls of Gastown offering, Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m. This after-dusk stroll includes details of a gruesome, unsolved murder and stories about the not-so-nice people and events that helped shape this town.
You can also opt for a 90-minute walk with Ghostly Gastown Tours, departing from Waterfront Station on October 18, 25 and 31 at 7:30 p.m. Learn about the terrible curse that was placed on the original town of Granville and visit notoriously haunted sites throughout the neighbourhood.
The Haunted Vancouver Trolley Tour gives those who like to feel the hairs stand up on the backs of their necks another ghoulish option. From October 15 to 31, this nightly ghost ride rolls through Stanley Park and past the Fairmont Hotel Vancouver, Mountainview Cemetery and other supernatural sites before making its final stop at the city’s first morgue, where 15,000-plus autopsies have been performed.
Brave enough to venture out on your own? Download paranormal researcher Greg Mansfield’s Ghosts of Vancouver ebook – a collection of ghost stories featuring 20 spiritually inhabited locations in and around downtown, along with a primer on ghosts, maps and tips on taking a self-guided walking tour of your own … if you dare.
