Haunted Canada: Ghost stories and the unexplained

Jesse Tretick has never known what it’s like to really be alone. His entire life he has been followed. No matter where he went from his childhood bedroom, to apartments to the home he now shares with his wife and son, something has also been there. In this episode Jesse joins Nadine to share how a lifetime of paranormal activities have shaped his identity, from his early years all the way to what...

Hype Chocolate looks like the last place you would expect to find supernatural occurrences.  Located in Vancouver’s East Hasting in the historic Strathcona neighbourhood, it’s a bright,playful chocolate factory and ice cream shop. In this episode, Nadine Bailey is joined by co-founder Marlayna Pincott who says there’s an entity living within the building that causes chocolate bars to fly off...

What happens when the past refuses to stay buried? In this episode, Nadine Bailey and Kate Almeida explore the stories of strange encounters, unexplained sounds, eerie sightings, and paranormal activity said to linger within the historic walls of Ireland House. They delve into the legends and firsthand accounts that have given Ireland House a reputation for being more than just a historic building...

Behind a wall of stacked mirrors in a New Westminster gallery, something has been waiting since long before the art went up. In this episode, Nadine Bailey sits down with Jay Groening, Cree and Saulteaux artist and founder of Native Art Renaissance, to talk about the hidden tunnel, and the wooden cross they found  behind the hundred-year-old wall. Along the way, Jay opens up about building an...

Backstage of one of British Columbia’s oldest surviving music venues, some of its former residents are still waiting for the next song to play. In this episode, Nadine Bailey and paranormal investigator Amanda Quill, star of the APTN series Unsettled Spirits, step inside Metro Hall to explore its colourful past, the people who passed through its doors, and the paranormal legends that have made thi...

Perched along the windswept coast of Northern Ireland, Ballygally Castle is a place steeped in centuries of history. In this episode of Haunted Canada, Nadine Bailey steps inside the legendary Ghost Room to uncover the tragic story of Lady Isabella Shaw, whose spirit is said to roam the castle to this day.  On her journey she is joined by the Duty Manager, Norma Craig to find out what really...

Just outside Hamilton, Ontario, water still tumbles over Albion Falls  but the town that once surrounded it has all but vanished, wiped off the map by a highway and swallowed back into the forest. Founded by Loyalist settlers in the late 1700s, Mount Albion earned a reputation as one of the roughest corners of the Niagara Escarpment, and that reputation followed it long after the mills went q...

Deep beneath the rugged shores of Bell Island, Newfoundland, lies a mine with a dark history. In this episode, Nadine Bailey is joined by Teddy McCarthy, Executive Director of the Bell Island Mine #2 Tour and Museum,  as they explore the abandoned Bell Island mine, uncover its history, the tragedies that shaped the community, and the ghost stories that have made it one of Newfoundland’s most...

Built in 1787, the Cossit House Museum is one of the oldest surviving homes on Cape Breton Island. Once the residence of Reverend Ranna Cossit, this beautifully preserved Georgian house offers a glimpse into 18th-century life. According to staff and visitors, it’s also a place where history refuses to stay in the past. In this episode of Haunted Canada, host Nadine Bailey is joined by Michaela Rya...

Behind the black basalt walls of Crumlin Road Gaol in Belfast, Northern Ireland, 150 years of history refuses to stay buried.  Once the county gaol for Antrim, "the Crum" as it was known is Northern Ireland's only remaining Victorian-era prison. It operated from 1845 until its closure in 1996. It imprisoned thousands, including suffragettes, murderers, and political rebels, and now functions...

Inside one of Cape Breton's oldest surviving homes, history and the paranormal seem to share the same address. Locals call it the House of Whispers and in this episode, Nadine Bailey is joined by  Roberta Lynch, Bennett McIntyre and Emily Maroon from the Jost House to dig into 240 years of history and explore the mysteries inside the Sydney, Nova Scotia, beautifully preserved 18th-century hom...

The Oshawa Museum's Henry House has stood since the 1840s, and staff, students, and visitors have reported unexplained encounters for decades. In this episode, Nadine Bailey is joined by Lisa Terech from the Oshawa Museum to share the Henry family's history and the paranormal encounters that keep giving her reason to doubt herself.  Guest info: Lisa Terech, Communications Coordinator Oshawa M...

Behind the weathered walls of the Albert County Museum in Hopewell Cape, New Brunswick, history refuses to stay buried. Once the county courthouse and jail, this site has become the center of chilling paranormal encounters. Visitors and staff have  felt an unsettling presence in the old jail cells. In this episode, Nadine Bailey and the Managing Director, Janet Clouston, explore the museum's...

The Playboy Mansion's hauntings continue in Part Two of our conversation with Bridget Marquardt , Ghost Bunny podcast host, certified paranormal investigator, and former star of The Girls Next Door. This episode uncovers the mansion's original ghost story, the legend of Mrs. Letts, said to have fallen to her death from the balcony just outside Bridget's old bedroom, and the decades of strange enco...

Before she became one of the most recognized faces on reality television, Bridget Marquardt lived inside one of the most famous and allegedly most haunted estates in the world.  In this episode the former Playboy Bunny, Girls Next Door star, and Ghost Bunny podcast host shares the paranormal stories, legends, and unexplained encounters linked to America's most famous mansion. Guest info: Bridget M...

Cronquist House in Red Deer, Alberta has been haunted since before anyone was willing to say it out loud. Built in 1912 by Swedish immigrant Emanuel Cronquist on land with centuries of Indigenous history, this iconic Victorian mansion at Bower Ponds is now home to something that doesn't want to leave and paranormal investigator Thomas Martell has the evidence to prove it. In this episode of Haunte...

Built in 1819 to house the commander of the Royal Navy's North American fleet, Admiralty House in Halifax, Nova Scotia has sheltered admirals, survived the largest pre-nuclear explosion in history, and according to its curator  never lets its dead go.  In this episode of Haunted Canada, Jennifer Gamble, curator of the Naval Museum of Halifax, takes us inside one of Halifax’s most  haunted historic...

On the northwestern shore of Prince Edward Island stands a Victorian mansion that has never truly emptied. The Yeo House was built by one of PEI's most powerful shipbuilding dynasties but long after the family was gone, staff and visitors began reporting a woman on the second floor, doors opening by unseen hands, and a whisper in a kitchen where no one stood.  In this episode, Nadine Bailey sits d...

Deep in the heart of British Columbia's Cariboo Gold Rush country sits a community museum with a sixty-year history — and one very famous resident who has never technically been alive.  Her name is Mandy. She is a cracked-faced composition doll dating back to the early 1900s, and since arriving at the Quesnel Museum and Archives in 1991, she has allegedly made a child faint dead in front of her ca...

Deep in British Columbia's Cariboo region sits a museum built from the logs of a horrible crime  where over 60 people were killed, their gold stolen, their bodies buried.   More than 150 years later, the money is still missing and the dead refuse to leave.  In this episode of Haunted Canada, Nadine Bailey speaks with Dave Scott, host of Spaced Out Radio and founder of Haunted 108 Ghost Tours, abou...

Tucked away in a leafy Kitchener, Ontario neighbourhood, is one of Canada's most quietly extraordinary haunted locations. It was once home to Homer Watson — Canada's first internationally recognized landscape painter and a man admired by both Oscar Wilde and Queen Victoria. However, the Homer Watson House and Gallery holds more than art.  In this episode of Haunted Canada, Nadine sits down with Ra...

Since the dawn of time, humanity has been at war.  Conflict in one form or another has been part of our existence since we first walked the earth.   In this first episode of a four-part series, join military historian David Borys as we travel back in time to Iran, where we chart how a modern monarchy, which was armed, wealthy, and globally backed, lost control. On our journey, we'll be helped by h...

A restored 18th-century manor house stands as a monument to Canada’s Loyalist past in the quiet riverside village of Williamstown, Ontario. It was built in 1784 by Sir John Johnson,  and it is said that something inside its walls still lingersIn this episode, Nadine sits down with the Sir John Johnson Manor House Paranormal Events Coordinator - Brent Lafave, as he shares stories  from decades of e...

Episode description: Joshua Bates was a wealthy merchant who arrived in Smiths Falls, Ontario with big dreams in 1861. He had built mills along the Rideau Canal, courted the railway, and then constructed a beautiful home  where he could greet the world from any direction. Sadly, he only lived in it for six months and when he died, his rival moved in. Then, Joshua Bates was erased from his own stor...

There's a grand stone building in Fergus, Ontario, that has stood for nearly 150 years. It was built as a poorhouse in 1877 — a place for the destitute, the sick, the aged, and the forgotten. But according to staff who work there today, some of those who lived and died within its walls may never have truly left. In this episode of Haunted Canada, we speak with Katie Clark, heritage programmer at t...