Most Haunted Places in Alberta

Grace Hospital

Calgary, Alberta

Grace Hospital, now called the Riley Park Health Center Building, is home to the ghost of Maudine Riley who is holding a baby in the delivery room. Maudine and the baby died in childbirth in a room on this spot in 1962. It is said that the ghost banged pipes and opened windows, and caused pregnant...

Rosedeer Hotel

Drumheller, Alberta

The 1913 Rosedeer Hotel in its tiny, almost-ghost town is rumored to be haunted, at least on its third floor, which is closed. Reports say this bit of the Old West, complete with bullet holes as well as more traditional memorabilia, is haunted by the ghost of a man who was beaten to death there...

Yates Memorial Centre

Lethbridge, Alberta

Genevieve E. Yates Memorial Centre has a graveled storage area nicknamed Pebble Beach that is frequented by two ghostly little girls. The girls have been seen coming from the storage area and heading for the restroom late at night. Once in there, they vanish. The dressing rooms and green room also...

Galt Museum and Archives

Lethbridge, Alberta

The historic museum was a former hospital, and a patient who passed away there has been heard walking through the hallways of the museum late at night. Doors will fly open by themselves when people walk past. (Submitted by Callum...

Mark’s Work Wearhouse

Calgary, Alberta

At this department store chain Mark’s Work Wearhouse location, staff members have reported shadows in the store and in empty dressing rooms, heard footsteps, smelled a wet-dog smell, and felt cold chills. Objects have been moved or tossed, and all these event usually occur before the store opens...

Banff Springs Hotel

Banff, Alberta

The 1880s Banff Springs Hotel is grandly magnificent, and still in operation. It doesn't only house living guests, though. Some say its ghosts include a 1932 bride who tripped on her gown and broke her neck on the stairs on her wedding day. She appears dancing alone in the dining room, and then she...

Firkins House

Edmonton, Alberta

The Firkins House is believed to be haunted by three apparitions. The first is a woman in a white dress who has been seen floating on the staircase. The second is a ventriloquist doll who moves around by itself and has been known to make strange noises. The third apparition is a young boy, who...

Community Cultural Centre

Brooks, Alberta

Community Cultural Centre has several ghosts, including a young boy with a backpack, an elderly janitor who still cleans the rooms, and an elderly woman who has been seen and heard by children. She reads stories to them. Staff say there's also a ghost boy, age 9, who plays with the toys in the...

Sam's Bar and Grill

Calgary, Alberta

The bathroom of this restaurant is said to be the site of a somewhat friendly haunting. No one seems particular scared of this ghost, though it is said that workers at the restaurant leave a beer on the counter each night just for him. Maybe that's why he doesn't raise too much of a...

Heritage Park Historical Village

Calgary, Alberta

Heritage Park Historical Village is a historical park and living history museum rumored to be haunted. One rumor says the apparition of a beautiful, smiling lady with a baby is seen on the third floor of the Prince House. Another says the ghost of an elderly gentleman nicknamed Sam appears in the...

Strathcona County Museum and Archives

Sherwood Park, Alberta

Strathcona County Museum and Archives, the items in displays move, an open bible's pages are turned, and lights come on at night. Folks have reported phantom licorice, matches and cigar smells near the jail, and a heavy jail door once slammed shut in front of a museum...

Rogue Restaurant

Calgary, Alberta

Seen on the TV show Creepy Canada, the Rogue Restaurant in Calgary is reported to have a playful ghost girl who often runs around the rooms or hangs out either in the kitchen or by the fireplace. The apparition of her father has been seen watching over...

The Cat 'n Fiddle Pub

Calgary, Alberta

Voices and footsteps have been heard at this pub, which supposedly was once a mortician's office. Some staff believe it is the old mortician himself that still haunts the...

Bow Valley Ranche Restaurant

Calgary, Alberta

Bow Valley Ranche Restaurant was built over a century ago and is haunted. The ghost is believed to be Charlie Yuen, a former chef who perished in a car accident in 1938, and whose dying wish was to be buried near the restaurant where he had been employed all his life. Although he was buried in...

Bank of Nova Scotia Building

Calgary, Alberta

Constructed in 1930, the Bank of Nova Scotia building is said to be hone to a ghostly woman who appears in the upper-story window. Folks say she's the spirit of a lady who was stabbed in the restroom here during the...

Knox United Church

Calgary, Alberta

The historic Knox United Church is said to be haunted by several ghosts, including one that once slapped an organist for making a mistake. Witnesses also have heard footsteps and seen apparitions of women who walk through doors, pray, knit, and chat together. The spirits are said to be largely...

Fort Saskatchewan

Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta

Many ghosts are said to appear at Fort Saskatchewan, including some of the convicts who were hanged here. Only one of the ghosts is female: Florence Lassandro, aka the Mob Princess. The site was featured on Creepy...

Jasper Park Lodge

Division No. 15, Alberta

A staircase in one of the cabins 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...

McKay Avenue School

Edmonton, Alberta

McKay Avenue School, now the Edmonton Public School Archives and Museum, is believed to be haunted by a construction worker named Peter who fell off the roof in 1912. The ghost has been known to move carefully placed chairs around the room and open drawers and scatter their contents. Ghost...

Fairmont Palliser Hotel

Calgary, Alberta

The 1914 Fairmont Palliser Hotel, Calgary's oldest, is home to some ghosts, as guests have reported after seeing spectral figures walking in the...

Concordia University College of Alberta

Edmonton, Alberta

Concordia University College has a ghostly men's choir that can be heard singing from the walls in the boys' dorm. The ghost of an African-American teacher from the 1960s walks the hallways, and witnesses have also reported slamming doors, cold spots, strange lights, disembodied voices, shadow...

Calling Lake School

Calling Lake, Alberta

Calling Lake School, on the site of a centuries-old Aboriginal graveyard, is said to boast shadowy figures, footsteps, disembodied voices, and feelings of unease as if visitors are being watched over by the Aboriginal...

Bowman Arts Centre

Lethbridge, Alberta

Bowman Arts Centre is reportedly haunted by a young Chinese girl who can be heard crying out from the women's restroom. Although visitors and staff have gone in to try to help the crying girl, no one has ever found...

Charles Camsell Hospital

Edmonton, Alberta

Residents who died and were otherwise traumatized at this hospital, which was a former tuberculosis ward. Various paranormal teams have visited the hospital and claim to have captured ghostly voices and a woman screaming on...

Frank Slide

Crowsnest Pass, Alberta

People who live in the town of Frank claim that the site of a devastating rock slide that killed almost a hundred residents of the town is now haunted. Residents report seeing glowing lights and mists in the area where the rocks came down and buried part of the town in...

La Bohème Restaurant Bed and Breakfast

Edmonton, Alberta

Legend states that the original owner of the house murdered his wife there and fed her to the furnace, piece by piece. Although there are no historical records to back up this claim, guests and staff at the bed and breakfast report hearing strange noises, as well as objects moving and in one case,...

Zellers - Target - Forest Lawn

Calgary, Alberta

The former Zellers Forest Lawn, now Target, is said to be haunted by a ghost staff members call George. He knocks things off of shelves, turns up the music, and has been known to play bagpipes out of the clear...

Calgary Stampede

Calgary, Alberta

Legend has it that the famous Calgary Stampede is haunted by a construction worker who was killed when he fell into wet concrete while the grandstand was being built. Folks have heard footsteps at night, seen doors close by themselves, and noticed water and electricity coming on when no one is...

The Rose and Crown

Calgary, Alberta

The Rose and Crown has some ghosts, perhaps because its building operated as a funeral home until the 1980s. According to witnesses, windows open by themselves in the attic, lights come on at night, and a ghost boy resides in the basement...

Heritage Inn Hotel

Taber, Alberta

Heritage Inn has a ghost called Charlie who plays tricks on the living. Some storytellers claim Charlie was a guest who died in a fire here in 1979. Others say he's a man who had a heart-attack in Room 125 in the late 1980s. His body was discovered in the tub, and rumor has it that shortly after...

Lougheed House

Calgary, Alberta

The Lougheed House museum, aka Beaulieu, was built in 1891 and expanded in 1907. It was the mansion of Senator James Alexander Lougheed, his wife Lady Isabella Hardisty, and their six children. The house is said to be haunted by members of the family. Lady Isabella's apparition has been seen as an...

CKUA Building

Edmonton, Alberta

At the CKUA Building, witnesses say a ghost named Sam, who may have been a security guard or a maintenance man, haunts the place. So the story goes, Sam died on the job, and his body was found in the building. His apparition has been seen along with strange feelings of being...

High River Heritage Inn

High River, Alberta

High River Heritage Inn is believed to have a spirit called Dave, a former manager who committed suicide in his room, Room 203. He has a table in the dining room, Table 12, and has been known to play tricks when someone he doesn't approve of uses his table. Dave's apparition has been seen sitting...

Suitor House

Calgary, Alberta

Suitor House, the former home of Robert Suitor, is a house museum that once belonged to a railroad worker who was killed. The railroad man's wife died shortly thereafter, and is said to remain in the home. Visitors claim to have seen her apparition in the...

Deane House

Calgary, Alberta

This is the first Canadian residence added to the website, and is also believed to be one of the most haunted. While the historic building was a boarding house, it was the scene of many murders. The apparition of a ghostly man who was gunned down on the front porch has been seen by visitors., as...

University of Alberta - Pembina Hall

Edmonton, Alberta

The University of Alberta's Pembina Hall, built in 1914, is said to be haunted by a young nurse who died during an influenza epidemic. Stories say her beloved died around the same time she did, and her ghost is trying to find...

Multicultural Heritage Centre

Stony Plain, Alberta

Strange things folks have noticed at the Multicultural Heritage Centre in Stony Plain include misty white figures in the main building and ghostly women in 1940s garb that show up briefly at the corner of your eye. Something unseen has moved objects and stacked stools at night. Also, footsteps,...

Drumheller Cemetery

Drumheller, Alberta

We don't have any specifics on the "whos and hows" of this haunted cemetery, we've just been told that it is, indeed, haunted. If you have any other information please let us know via the comments section...

Walterdale Playhouse

Edmonton, Alberta

Walterdale Theater Playhouse was a 1920s fire station until it became a playhouse in the 1960s. A ghost is said to visit usually around the beginning of each play run, often seen in the back stairwell or the green room. Witnesses have felt cool gusts or noticed unseen hands steadying them on the...

Doll Block Building

Calgary, Alberta

At the restored 1907 Doll Block building, formerly Louis Henry Doll's sandstone jewelry shop Doll’s Diamond Palace where a great diamond heist took place in 1910, there is said to be a ghost. Folks believe it's Mr. Doll's wife, who sits at the curving bay...

Empress Theatre

Fort MacLeod, Alberta

The 1912 Empress Theatre, fully renovated in 1982, puts on stage shows, concerts and first-run movies. It's haunted by a ghost who is believed to be either a former manager, Dan Boyle, or Ed, a former janitor. The janitor theory is the most common, perhaps because apparitions of the man often come...

Coste House

Calgary, Alberta

Eugene Coste's regal 1913, 28-room mansion has been said to be haunted by the ghost of Dr. Carmichael. Although it's unclear just who he is (was) or how he got there, previous tenants have said the ghost floats through rooms and hallways and around the stairway. Current owners have reported that...

Rouge Restaurant

Calgary, Alberta

Rouge Restaurant, previously the home of A.E. Cross, is believed to be haunted, according to witnesses who have seen and heard strange things. Among them are ghosts, moving cookware, and the disembodied sound of a child...

Lake Minnewanka

Division No. 15, Alberta

Named "Lake of the Water Spirit" because town officials thought the name "Cannibal Lake" which the natives called it was a bit too grim. Natives believed that a Water Spirit that was half fish and half human lived in the lake and dragged the unwary to their deaths. People report a lot of strange...

Fort Kent

Fort Kent, Alberta

Fort Kent is said to be the site where, at around the turn of the century, a windigo once possessed a town doctor who was suffering from postwar trauma. Cattle were slaughtered, folks became horribly ill, and the doctor eventually died from the effects of his demon. The site has been featured on...

Hose and Hound

Calgary, Alberta

Hose & Hound was a former fire station that is now a pub, and its ghost is, believe it or not, a monkey. Named either Barney or Jocko, depending on the story, the monkey was the pet of fire chief James “Cappy” Smart. The monkey was put down after it attacked a child, and since then, objects...

Hotel Mcdonald Fairmont

Edmonton, Alberta

On the upper levels of the historic hotel building, the sounds of a horse drawn carriage moving through has been heard by guests and staff. (Submitted by Callum...

Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Village

Chipman, Alberta

Seen on Creepy Canada, the Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Village, aka The Village, is a living history museum and recreation of a Ukrainian Canadian pioneer settlement complete with pioneer ghosts. A spectral wagon driver wheels through town looking for workers. Other strange activity, such as...

Odd Fellows Hall

Calgary, Alberta

The Odd Fellows Temple was once the Calgary Chamber of Commerce, built in 1912. A ghostly elevator operator has been spotted inside the...

Nanton Auditorium Hotel

Nanton, Alberta

The historic Nanton Auditorium Hotel has a ghost named Rex Irwin, who died in a destructive 1983 fire. Rex is said to move furniture and emit a phantom aroma of smoke and...

The Guilty Martini - Karma Lounge

Edmonton, Alberta

The former Guilty Martini, now the Karma Lounge and Nightclub, in a circa-1900 building that was once a carriage house, is haunted by Dapper Dan. Reports say Dapper Dan doesn't like the alcohol and loud music in the club, and he has been known to knock ashtrays over, pull employees' hair, clank...

William T. Ogden House - Stirling Haunted Mansion

Stirling, Alberta

Stirling Haunted Mansion is a privately owned home that's been a popular locale for ghost tours. Owners have reported electrical anomalies as well as several apparitions of a little girl, a teen girl, and an older lady and gentleman. The older man is believed to be William, the original owner, and...

Old City Hall

Calgary, Alberta

The historic 1911 sandstone city hall and clock tower used to be a jail, and it is said to be haunted by ghostly prisoners who have been seen walking through the...