The Real Haunted Story Of Dunvegan Provincial Park

Lurks around the corner. Mighty peace tourism calls it spooky season. Halloween films and TV programs include ghosts, ghouls, and other supernatural creatures. Did you know? Mighty peace includes ghost stories.

Mighty peace tourism recommends 5 local ghost tales to get you in the mood. Are first tails come from Don Vegan Valley, one of Canada's most haunted regions? Historic Don Vegan Provincial Park is 90 kilometers north of Grande Prairie in Don Vegan Valley. In 1805, the Northwest Company founded Fort Dunvegan as a fur trading station on satin Beaver property.

Charles Roman, Catholic and. Saviour Anglican missions were there, beginning in the 20th century, fur trading stations and missions ceased. The Knights of Columbus and locales maintained the property. The valley last had market gardens in the 1940s. Dunvegan became a provincial park in 1956. The ferry service was replaced by the Dunvegan Suspension Bridge. Several historic structures in the area are claimed to be haunted. Dunvegan Valley and Rectory are renowned. Get cozy with blankets and use flashlights to create frightening shadows. Many have heard of the Grey lady of Dunvigen. A ghostly apparition that fades into the mist. Let's clarify her narrative.

Two guys drove across the icy valley in November 1960. Soon after the bridge was finished. They were astonished to see a lady bending into the whirling snow with her head behind a hood as they carefully crossed the bridge. Though her cloak was comfortable, her bare feet were free. The guys slowed down to help, but she ignored them to avoid stopping on the bridge.

They crossed and stopped. One guy called out as he returned through the snow to check on her. However, the bridge was vacant. He had followed their tire tracks into the snow, but only saw his own. Both guys saw her despite no proof they returned numerous nights with buddies to work on the bridge in hopes of seeing her again. They observed the guy again up a hill. Gathering berries in the snow. They believed she was a spirit then. Another done vegan bridge Ghost story is much more obscure, according to legend.

A Spirit River man had a terrifying encounter with the ghost lady and never talked of it again. The ghost is often described as a nun since she wears a nun's habit rather than a cloak. Why would a nun from dungeons past haunt a late 1950s bridge? Why would somebody haunt Dunvgan Bridge? Another Dungeon Ghost is reported to haunt the ancient rectory in ancient Don Vagan Provincial Park.

Legend has claimed that a visitor had retrocognition on the building's opening day after taking a pen from the Bishop's second floor bedroom desk, she saw the room as it was, with a bearded priest writing a letter. Locals believe he is Alfred Campbell Garcia, the rectory priest till 1891.

As an author, Gary Och was the most famous of the 1113 priests who served the church before it dissolved his 1929 novel A Hatchet Mark. In duplicate recounts his experience in Dunvigen.

Others have seen lights in the second floor, windows and. A priest's figure. Or felt watched in the park. Many have attempted to photograph Dungann's ghosts, but their camera shy. Perhaps fittingly, historic, Dungan has a few ghost tales as it holds Albertas second oldest fur trading structure, village of Hines Creek, lies near Dunvegan Valley.

Hines Creek, named for early fur buyer Jack Hines, was a northwest company trapping site on the Peace River in the mid 1800s. Hines Creek and Jack Creek were named after him by the indigenous people. In 1930, Heinz Creek Railroad defined the town site's position.