The Haunting of Vancouver Island
The Haunting of Vancouver Island

Author: Shanon Sinn

Publisher: TouchWood Editions

Published: 2017-10-10

Total Pages: 317

ISBN-13: 177151244X

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A compelling investigation into supernatural events and local lore on Vancouver Island. Vancouver Island is known worldwide for its arresting natural beauty, but those who live here know that it is also imbued with a palpable supernatural energy. Researcher Shanon Sinn found his curiosity piqued by stories of mysterious sightings on the island—ghosts, sasquatches, sea serpents—but he was disappointed in the sensational and sometimes disrespectful way they were being retold or revised. Acting on his desire to transform these stories from unsubstantiated gossip to thoroughly researched accounts, Sinn uncovered fascinating details, identified historical inconsistencies, and now retells these encounters as accurately as possible. Investigating 25 spellbinding tales that wind their way from the south end of the island to the north, Sinn explored hauntings in cities, in the forest, and on isolated logging roads. In addition to visiting castles, inns, and cemeteries, he followed the trail of spirits glimpsed on mountaintops, beaches, and water, and visited Heriot Bay Inn on Quadra Island and the Schooner Restaurant in Tofino to personally scrutinize reports of hauntings. Featuring First Nations stories from each of the three Indigenous groups who call Vancouver Island home—the Coast Salish, the Nuu-chah-nulth, and the Kwakwaka’wakw—the book includes an interview with Hereditary Chief James Swan of Ahousaht.

Haunted Vancouver, Washington
Haunted Vancouver, Washington

Author: Pat Jollota

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2020

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 1467145513

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Sprawling along the banks of the Columbia River, the city of Vancouver has grown from a remote fort to a metropolis. Home to the first operating airfield in the United States, it's seen triumphs and tragedies by air, land and sea. Shades walk across bridges and disappear, shadows haunt the courthouse and voices echo through empty barracks. Ghostly mules, once used for army transport, have been spotted near their old barn on Fifth Street, and the scene of a plane crash from more than fifty years ago sometimes looks as fresh as the day it happened. Join author and historian Pat Jollota as she uncovers the fascinating stories behind the unexplainable.

Vancouver’s Most Haunted
Vancouver’s Most Haunted

Author: Ian Gibbs

Publisher: TouchWood Editions

Published: 2021-10-05

Total Pages: 127

ISBN-13: 1771513195

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In his new collection of ghost stories, Ian Gibbs combs the Terminal City for its spooks and apparitions, from Gastown to Grouse Mountain, West Van to New West. In his new collection of ghost stories, ghost-walk guide and podcaster Ian Gibbs investigates the greater Vancouver area in search of the city’s paranormal. These thirty stories cover more famous hauntings like Waterfront Station and the Orpheum Theatre as well as private houses and the apartments of friends and readers. Gibbs’s research style balances history, personal experience, and input from residents, employees, local mediums, and paranormal experts. Among others, you’ll learn about the footsteps at the Irish Heather the spirited tunnels at Riverview the pranksters of Hycroft Manor the haunted washrooms at the Alibi Room the ghost of Grace Ceperley at Fairacres Mansion the murmurings at the Cannery and “The Tall” and “The Small” of the Royal Crown Castle From Gastown to Grouse Mountain, West Van to New West, Gibbs combs the Terminal City for its apparitions and presents his findings in a conversational style that meets readers where they are, whether history enthusiast, interested skeptic, or supernaturally sensitive.

Ghosts of Vancouver
Ghosts of Vancouver

Author: Greg P Mansfield

Publisher: Independently Published

Published: 2018-10-26

Total Pages: 214

ISBN-13:

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Tales of true hauntings from Vancouver, British Columbia, including the ghosts of Gastown and such well-known places as Hycroft Manor, Hotel Vancouver, and the Vogue Theatre. Maybe it's the rainy weather. Perhaps it's because its history is rich in colourful characters who ran ramshackle saloons and busy brothels. Or maybe it's because the locals just don't want to leave this beautiful city. Whatever the reason, Vancouver has its fair share of ghostly inhabitants. In the latest edition of this collection of spine-chilling stories, 39 haunted locations are featured. In these pages, you'll encounter: The lady in white who terrifies security guards in an old office building The spirit of a trolley-car conductor who startles restaurant patrons The ghostly chef who hangs out near the bar in one of the city's oldest pubs The phantom of a rail worker who eternally searches for his lost head A spectral soldier who plays bagpipes in an old armoury The lady in red who glides through elevator doors and greets hotel guests The restless spirits of a former native burial ground Theatre ghosts who appear on stage and in the audience Phantom firefighters who haunt a modern firehall The ghost of a hotel caretaker who plays pranks on the unsuspecting And more! The original and best book about the haunted places of Vancouver, B.C. Photographs, maps, and suggestions are included to help you explore many of the haunted places of downtown Vancouver.

Ghosts of Vancouver
Ghosts of Vancouver

Author: Greg P Mansfield

Publisher: Independently Published

Published: 2021-11-25

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13:

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Previously published as Ghosts of Vancouver: 41 Haunted Locations by Greg P. Mansfield. In this latest edition of his spine-chilling collection of true hauntings, Greg Mansfield takes you on a tour of Vancouver, British Columbia to reveal its ghosts. Meet the spectral inhabitants of this beautiful city and its suburbs with Greg Mansfield, Vancouver's leading authority on its haunted places. Come face-to-face with phantoms in 41 different locations, including such well-known places as the Hotel Vancouver, the Vancouver Art Gallery, and Waterfront Station. You'll also visit some little-known sites, including a haunted office tower and a modern firehall. Mansfield reveals the facts to give you the fascinating histories and real-life ghost stories of the spooky spots. At the many haunted places, you'll get to know... The ghosts of Gastown's Old Spaghetti Factory The Red Lady of the Hotel Vancouver The many spirits of St. Paul's Hospital A mysterious man who roams the Vogue Theatre The ghostly chef of the Lamplighter Public House The restless wraiths of Deadman's Island A spectral soldier who plays bagpipes in Seaforth Armoury The revenants of Riverview Hospital And much more! Now with a foreword by Robb Demarest of Ghost Hunters International fame, many of the stories appear here for the first time in print. Photographs, maps, and suggestions are also included to help you do your own walking tour of haunted locations in downtown Vancouver!

Victoria's Most Haunted
Victoria's Most Haunted

Author: Ian Gibbs

Publisher: TouchWood Editions

Published: 2017-04-25

Total Pages: 144

ISBN-13: 1771512148

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Ghost stories from Canada’s most haunted city, including tales from iconic sites such as the Empress hotel, Hatley Castle, and Ross Bay Cemetery. Beautiful, charming Victoria is world renowned for its seaside attractions, flourishing gardens, and breathtaking ocean views. But looming behind its picture-perfect façade is a city shrouded in mystery, with restless, disembodied beings that whisper ghastly tales of mystery, violence, and horror. Known as British Columbia’s most haunted city, Victoria is teeming with a plethora of spirits. Through this brand-new collection of disturbing tales, you’ll come face to face with: The Grey Lady who chills hotel guests to the bone A decorated World War I soldier who protects tenants from something sinister An inconsolable child who haunts the pool area of a defunct hotel The blood-soaked spectre who runs through the infamous Fan Tan Alley to escape capture The ghost of Robert Johnson, who perpetually re-enacts his own suicide The phantom of a cranky hermit who plagues a beautiful lake house A spinster who gives tours of her childhood home And many more Get to know Victoria’s best-known hauntings along with some you may have not have heard before.

Ghost Forest
Ghost Forest

Author: Pik-Shuen Fung

Publisher: One World

Published: 2021-07-13

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 0593230973

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This “powerful” (BuzzFeed) award-winning debut about love, grief, and family welcomes you into its pages and invites you to linger, staying with you long after you’ve closed its covers. “Quietly moving . . . connected by a kind of dream logic . . . deeply felt . . . There is joy and tenderness in . . . Fung’s elegant storytelling.”—The New York Times Book Review How do you grieve, if your family doesn’t talk about feelings? This is the question the unnamed protagonist of GhostForest considers after her father dies. One of the many Hong Kong “astronaut” fathers, he stays there to work, while the rest of the family immigrated to Canada before the 1997 Handover, when the British returned sovereignty over Hong Kong to China. As she revisits memories of her father through the years, she struggles with unresolved questions and misunderstandings. Turning to her mother and grandmother for answers, she discovers her own life refracted brightly in theirs. Buoyant and heartbreaking, Ghost Forest is a slim novel that envelops the reader in joy and sorrow. Fung writes with a poetic and haunting voice, layering detail and abstraction, weaving memory and oral history to paint a moving portrait of a Chinese-Canadian astronaut family. “Ghost Forest is the tender/funny book we can all appreciate after a hellish year.”—Literary Hub

Ghost Stories of British Columbia
Ghost Stories of British Columbia

Author: Jo-Anne Christensen

Publisher: Dundurn

Published: 1996-09-01

Total Pages: 193

ISBN-13: 1459726499

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A comprehensive collection of supernatural tales drawn from the provinces history, its archives, and its people.

In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts
In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts

Author: Gabor Maté, MD

Publisher: North Atlantic Books

Published: 2011-06-28

Total Pages: 522

ISBN-13: 1583944206

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A “thought-provoking and powerful” study that reframes everything you’ve been taught about addiction and recovery—from the New York Times–bestselling author of The Myth of Normal (Bruce Perry, author of The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog). A world-renowned trauma expert combines real-life stories with cutting-edge research to offer a holistic approach to understanding addiction—its origins, its place in society, and the importance of self-compassion in recovery. Based on Gabor Maté’s two decades of experience as a medical doctor and his groundbreaking work with people with addiction on Vancouver’s skid row, this #1 international bestseller radically re-envisions a much misunderstood condition by taking a compassionate approach to substance abuse and addiction recovery. In the same vein as Bessel van der Kolk’s The Body Keeps the Score, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts traces the root causes of addiction to childhood trauma and examines the pervasiveness of addiction in society. Dr. Maté presents addiction not as a discrete phenomenon confined to an unfortunate or weak-willed few, but as a continuum that runs throughout—and perhaps underpins—our society. It is not a medical “condition” distinct from the lives it affects but rather the result of a complex interplay among personal history, emotional and neurological development, brain chemistry, and the drugs and behaviors of addiction. Simplifying a wide array of brain and addiction research findings from around the globe, the book avoids glib self-help remedies, instead promoting a thorough and compassionate self-understanding as the first key to healing and wellness. Dr. Maté argues persuasively against contemporary health, social, and criminal justice policies toward addiction and how they perpetuate the War on Drugs. The mix of personal stories—including the author’s candid discussion of his own “high-status” addictive tendencies—and science with positive solutions makes the book equally useful for lay readers and professionals.

Green Glass Ghosts
Green Glass Ghosts

Author: Rae Spoon

Publisher: arsenal pulp press

Published: 2021-04-27

Total Pages: 172

ISBN-13: 1551528398

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At age nineteen, the queer narrator of Green Glass Ghosts steps off a bus in downtown Vancouver, a city where the faceless condo towers of the wealthy loom over the streets to the east where folks are just trying to get by, against the deceptively beautiful backdrop of snow-capped mountains and sparkling ocean. It’s the year 2000, and the world is still mostly analogue—pagers are the best way to get ahold of someone and resumés are printed out on paper and dropped off in person, and what’s this new fad called webmail? Our hopeful hero arrives on the West Coast on the cusp of adulthood, fleeing a traumatic childhood in an unsafe family plagued by religious extremism, mental health crises, and abuse in a conservative town not known for accepting difference. They’re eager to build a new life among like-minded folks, and before they know it, they’ve got a job, an apartment, and a relationship, dancing, busking, and making out in bars, parks, art spaces, and apartments across the city. But their search for belonging and stability is buried in drinking, jealousy, and painful memories of the past, distracting the protagonist from their ultimate goal of playing live music and spurring them to an emotional crisis. If they can’t learn to care for themselves, how will they ever find true connection and community? With haunting illustrations by Gem Hall that conjure the moody, misty urban landscape, Green Glass Ghosts is an evocation of that delicate, aching moment between youth and adulthood when we are trying, and often failing, to become the person we dream ourselves to be. Ages 14 and up. This publication meets the EPUB Accessibility requirements and it also meets the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG-AA). It is screen-reader friendly and is accessible to persons with disabilities. A Simple book with few images, which is defined with accessible structural markup. This book contains various accessibility features such as alternative text for images, table of contents, page-list, landmark, reading order and semantic structure.