Haunted Places in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia



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    Five Fisherman Restaurant

    Halifax, Nova Scotia

    The Five Fisherman Restaurant is housed in an 1800s building that was formerly a couple of schools and a mortuary that has laid to rest some "RMS Titanic" victims as well as victims of the Halifax Explosion. Folks here have noticed apparitions, doors and faucets that work by themselves, flying ...


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    Citadel Hill

    Halifax, Nova Scotia

    Citadel Hill, as locals tell it, is haunted by apparitions of Native Canadians as well as French, British and Canadian soldiers and their family members. Visitors here have reported being touched or pushed by unseen hands, footsteps, voices, shadow figures and eerie noises. There are also objects that move, electrical ...


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    Alexander Keith's Brewery

    Halifax, Nova Scotia

    Alexander Keith himself is said to haunt his brewery in apparition form, checking on the place. Witnesses here have also heard running footsteps, have seen a ghost of a bloody man, and have been approached by a running ghost boy with a misshapen face.


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    All Saints Cathedral

    Halifax, Nova Scotia

    The historic All Saints Cathedral, which opened in 1910, is rumored to be haunted by a former dean. The ghostly clergyman is most often seen standing near the altar.


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    Bedford Basin

    Bedford, Nova Scotia

    3.8 miles from Dartmouth, NS

    Bedford Basin is an enclosed bay that forms the northwestern end of Halifax Harbour, and it's haunted by a phantom rowboat. The sound of someone rowing has been heard on foggy nights, although the boat is never seen. Legend has it the ghostly sound is all that's left of a ...


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    Peggys Point Lighthouse

    Peggys Cove, Nova Scotia

    21.1 miles from Dartmouth, NS

    Peggys Point Lighthouse is rumored to be haunted by a European woman and shipwreck survivor named Margaret who lived here in 1800. So her story goes, her husband was attempting to cheer her up by dancing a jig on the rocks, but he slipped and died. Later, she walked out ...


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    Mahone Bay

    Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia

    42.9 miles from Dartmouth, NS

    The ship Young Teazer exploded and sank in 1813 here in Mahone Bay, and since then folks have reported a burning phantom ship with ghostly crewmen running about on the deck, aflame. The reports seem to come most often near the anniversary of the ship's sinking: June 17. The site ...


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    Acadia University

    Wolfville, Nova Scotia

    48.9 miles from Dartmouth, NS

    Acadia University is said to be home to a ghostly Baptist girl who hanged herself in the stairwell when she learned she was pregnant. Besides this, witnesses have reported lights that go on and off, doors that open and close, strange light anomalies, unexplained sounds, voices, moving objects, and having ...


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    Ghost Ship of Northumberland Strait

    Wallace, Nova Scotia

    90.1 miles from Dartmouth, NS

    For over 200 years, people have reported seeing a burning schooner sailing the waters through the Northumberland Straight. Numerous people have sighted the ship, some reports even make mention of rescue attempts mounted to assist the burning ship, only to have it vanish before they can get to it. ...


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    Grey's Island Cemetery

    Hillsborough, New Brunswick

    102.2 miles from Dartmouth, NS

    Grey Island Cemetery has a white stone statue of a lady with a legend. Locals say those who close their eyes and walk around the statue three times will see the lady looking back at them and crying tears of blood. She is said to be the murdered wife of ...


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    Capitol Theatre

    Moncton, New Brunswick

    114.5 miles from Dartmouth, NS

    The ghost of a little girl who died after falling down the stairs is rumored to haunt Capitol Theatre. Her ghost has been seen behind the ticket booth at night. Also, volunteer firefighter Alexander Lindsay was fighting a blaze in 1924 when the main stage fell on him. His ghost ...


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    Rebecca Lutes' Grave

    Moncton, New Brunswick

    120.2 miles from Dartmouth, NS

    Local legend has it that Rebecca Lutes was 16-year-old psychic who lived in the 1870s, and because of her natural-born sixth sense, she was hanged for being a witch, a vampire, or another such demon. She was buried near Gorge Road in the woods across from the cement and culvert ...


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