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Famous Haunted Charles Camsell Hospital in Edmonton, AB

Posted by Paranormal Rona on April 3, 2014
Posted in: Canada, Investigations. Tagged: abandoned, Alberta, Edmonton, ghosts, haunted, hospital, scary. 17 Comments
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Don't know if this is light play or something ghostly
Don’t know if this is light play or something ghostly
Getting ready to go in
Getting ready to go in
Ben in one of the operating rooms
Ben in one of the operating rooms
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Gymnasium where unhappy aboriginal spirits reside
Gymnasium where unhappy aboriginal spirits reside
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Gym
Hallways were in good condition
Hallways were in good condition
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Séance anyone?
Séance anyone?

The Paranormal Explorers went into the Charles Camsell Hospital in the summer of 2005. Before a certain architect bought it and started gutting it, and before floors started falling and broken glass and barbed wire were scattered everywhere. There was a LOT of paranormal activity in that building, everything from elevators without power going on their own; hearing footsteps above us when there was a 3 ft. concrete ceiling separating the floors; unearthly scream on the Psych ward floor; walkie-talkies saying strange things and the list goes on.

Everyone involved in the investigation either fell sick or had incredible nightmares after they got home from the event. We still have the film/video from the investigation and we need to convert it to digital and post parts of it on our You Tube channel. The shell of the building that is left needs to have a heavy duty spiritual cleansing. There are countless numbers of aboriginal spirits, a young female spirit from the Psych ward waiting for her parents to pick her up (asking for her parents and scratching up her arms), and other sad entities who need to cross over. It was an amazing investigation.

The Charles Camsell Hospital was originally built in 1913 in Edmonton, Alberta in the Inglewood area. It was a Jesuit College until 1942 when the American Army took it over. They added a number of buildings on the property and the facility was used for personnel and engineers constructing the Alaska Highway.

The American Army left in 1944 when the highway was finished. The Government of Canada then took it over and RCA Medical Corps used it for a military hospital. Eventually the hospital was turned into a tuberculosis hospital (1946) and aboriginals were forced from their lands (First Nations groups in Alberta, Yukon and Northwest Territories) in to the hospital. Some with tragic circumstances. (The hospital was named after Dr. Charles Camsell, one-time geologist and Deputy Minister of Mines and Resources from 1920 to 1946).

In 1967 it became a regular functioning hospital and lasted until 1992. It was shut down in 1993.

All the death, pain, despair, hurt, sickness and loneliness started to leach out of the walls and into the halls of the hospital. 

*NOTE: Please do not attempt to go into the current Charles Camsell hospital. #1, you are trespassing if you do; #2, floors are missing, and glass, barbed wire and asbestos are around; and #3, some very scary and creepy spirits are just waiting for people to come in so they can try and attach themselves to you.

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Guardians of the Dead

Posted by Paranormal Rona on April 1, 2014
Posted in: Paranormal Topics. Tagged: cemeteries, corvids, crows, Edmonton, graves, Myths, Native American, Norse, paranormal, ravens, spooky, Trickster. Leave a comment

Guardian of the Dead

Crows and Ravens are always in the cemetery.
They have a job that is not of our physical world.
They are sentinels, guardians of the spirits.

This little guy was frozen on a headstone in an Edmonton, Alberta cemetery. I got so close to him, I could feel his feathers on my face. Then I started to take photos of him (I did ask his permission) but the close up ones didn’t come out too well. He would NOT leave that headstone. It’s like he was waiting for someone special.

The Welsh thought that Ravens were portents of death while the Indigenous Native Americans saw Ravens as a Trickster and The Stealer of Souls. The ancient Greeks and the Norsemen had them in their religion and also used them for divination purposes.

When we go to the cemeteries in different parts of North America, the UK and Europe, I always see crows and ravens. And always in odd numbers. They are highly intelligent and remember if you have done something negative or positive in their presence or to other crows and ravens. They have always been very nice to me and I love seeing them.

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Photo from the website: http://www.ajaalto.com

 


Some info and video on Corvids:  http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/a-murder-of-crows-crow-facts/5965/

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The Arlington Apartments

Posted by peanutgnome on April 3, 2013
Posted in: Places, Submissions. Tagged: Alberta, Edmonton. 5 Comments
West side of apartment

West side of apartment

Arlington apartments, 10524 100 Ave NW, Edmonton

Built just before WWI in 1909, the Arlington purportedly housed Edmonton’s first serial killer James “Bluebird” P. Watson, who lived in the Arlington from 1914 to 1918, killing nine of his 20 victims during the same period. He resided in Suite 14. He ran a collection agency in Edmonton from 1914 to 1918. His love letters were found in a storage locker at the Arlington and were used as evidence in his trial in California.

In the 80’s, a group of practicing black magic witches allegedly lived in the building and were evicted from their apartments. A building supervisor was downstairs in the boiler room after the group left and apparently found little hex dolls of everyone in the building, with something personal from each of the tenants bound to the dolls. It was reportedly in a hidden panel in the wall. You wonder what they were so pissed off about or maybe they just had no sense of humor with their neighbours.

Ghosts of an elderly couple were spotted entering the elevator that sometimes didn’t work. They would enter the elevator and it wouldn’t go anywhere. When the doors were opened, no one was present inside. No one knew if they were previous residents or just a couple of fun elevator-riding ghosts.

South Facing Front of Arlington

South Facing Front of Arlington

Enlargement of South Facing Window

Enlargement of South Facing Window

The Arlington Apartments suffered a suspicious fire on April 5th, 2005 and eventually in 2008 it was torn down when it was deemed unsaveable. Since it was a historical building, it was very sad to see it go. I never had the chance to enter it, but I did take photos at night, and had some unusual phenomena. It felt as though there was a couple of beings watching through the windows. The hoofed beastie thing in the picture is just one of those odd spirits that could be there because of the negative witchcraft in the apartments.

It’s too bad I can’t find more information about Mr. Watson and his nasty activities. That’s a piece of history there should be more about.
We would have loved to be able to have conducted a paranormal investigation in the Arlington. I have no doubt we would have come up with some amazing stuff.

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