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
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.
Raytek laser temperature probe (2)
Kodak DCS5650 digital camera, 5 pixels (1)
Sony digital video camera with Night Vision (1)
Olympus digital voice recorders (2)
Gauss EMF meter (2)
35 mm cameras (2)
Owl Night Vision scopes (2)
Weather/Moon phase
-10°C/Waning moon
Team Members
Ben
Rona
Additional: Stephanie, Morgan, Megan, Darin Feth, co-owner of Guilty Martini was also present.
Time of investigation
Sunday, December 14, 2003
10338-81 Avenue, Edmonton, Alberta
8:30 pm – 1:00 am
Additional Notes:
Digital Audio Recorder – Cell Sensor EMF meter thermometer temp readings – upstairs 19-20°C no extreme drop in temperature. EMF readings – 9:30 pm no readings upstairs – 10:30 pm no readings downstairs
History of building
Turn of the century building, used to be a carriage house at one time. Owned at one time by Scott W.J. and Son Carriage Parts. More historical data needed. In the last 5-8 years, gone through many businesses.
Staff have reported different phenomena at different times of the day and night:
Shoulders have been touched
Hair pulled
Ashtrays pushed off edge of tables
Extreme drop in temperature changes in certain areas
Bottles and glasses rearranging themselves
Bottles clanking together
Distinct outline of a person appeared behind a curtain and no one was there
Black shadows seen going across the wall
Black wraith-like shadow passed between two people talking
Lights going on and off with no one touching the switch
Sounds of a person going up and down the stairs
Note: Pictures of upstairs lounge area on eastside show human face poking through the curtain and some kind of animal type face like a rabbit in the wall. This was discovered one week after the investigation. There was also a knock downstairs from behind the bar during the middle of the investigation. There was no activity that we could determine in the crawl space or in the storage area in back of kitchen. Rona had some feeling something was “there” in the right side staircase but nothing concrete.
Megan interviewed Darin and got his thoughts, the reports from his staff, and some facts about the building. While she was interviewing him, Rona wrote down her impressions of “what” was in the room.
Man, 35-40 years:
Dapperly dressed, pressed suit (plaid or pattern on it)
High collar white shirt with tie
Brown hair, black-brown eyes and mustache
Very picky, dark, brooding, fastidious, likes everything in it’s place.
We called him Dapper Dan!
Notes by Rona
After Megan finished interview with Darin, Megan and I compared notes on the entity in the main part of the bar. Megan had also picked much of the same characteristics. Darin stated that the stairwell to the right of the bar was the one where the most activity happened. I had a definite pull to the other stairwell and I felt something either wanted to come down the stairs or was up the stairs.
The Stairwell to the roof – 2nd entity
Greatest pull was here. When I started up the stairs I had a feeling of oppression. There was a feeling also of “you shouldn’t come up here”. At this time Megan was at the bottom of the stairs and she called to me to move to the other side of the stairs. I didn’t know why at the time. When I got to the top I had started to take a couple of pictures, then I swung around sharply and snapped a picture going down the stairs. When I checked on the screen for what I had, I saw I had captured a vortex cascading across the picture screen.
Megan then told me she wanted me to move to the other side of the stairs because a black shadow was coming up the wall behind me.
Megan was doing a “sit” at the top of the roof top stairs to see if she could pick anything up. I had gone over to the other staircase to take some EVP recordings. When I came over to her staircase she was starting to come down. Morgan and I decided to go up the stairs and open the door to the roof. We tried the latch several times and it would not budge. It was like it had been welded together. Then we had commented that we should get Darin to give us a hammer so we could give it a couple of blows to loosen it, when a huge “thud” came through from the other side of the steel door. It took us completely by surprise.
Note: The thud apparently was not captured on tape.
The impression that I have of this entity is that it is not truly human-like. It is trapped in this one area and can’t go to the other parts of the building. There is a lot of despair and anger coming from it.
Sitting in the upstairs lounge trying to tap into whatever resides in the building. The only impression I could get is the name “rabbit” or “bunny”. Don’t know quite what this means. Nickname? Someone had a hutch of rabbits on the roof at one time? This person killed the animals up there with a baseball bat or some kind of thick wood object and bashed them through their wire cages. Now they are attached together.
There were 2 female spirits also residing in the Guilty as well as the fractured “not-human-like” spirit in the stairwell.
Upstairs Lounge with Light Anomalies
Beautiful Clear Orb
Spirits like to watch the club goers
The bar where Dapper Dan liked to move glasses and bottles around
Paranormal Rona trying to contact the spirits
Ladies experiencing Dapper Dan
Close-up of coloured orb
Orb by the owner’s Porsche
Ectoplasm streaming across the staircase -The fractured spirit who hurt the animals in their cages
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