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The Lady in Red at the Fairmont Hotel Vancouver

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In the old classic Fairmont Hotel Vancouver a certain Lady in Red is said to haunt the upper floors of the place she used to go ballroom dancing in the 1940s. Still to this day guests report seeing her in the lobby as well as their rooms and she has even been seen passing through walls and locked doors. 

The Fairmont Hotel Vancouver is located in downtown Vancouver, and this haunted hotel is not to be mixed up with the haunted hotel in Ottawa bearing the same name. The place on West Georgia Street opened in May 1939 after being delayed for many years because of the Great Depression. 

Once a Japanese family called up the front desk and asked if they had double booked the room. When they had entered their room on the 14th floor. The front desk said they had not, probably well knowing that the woman dressed in a red dress was not a living guest at the hotel. 

The hotel is known as the Castle in the City because of the modern fairy tale-like tower and is also the home of the Lady in Red said to haunt the hotel. 

The Legend of the Lady in Red

The story of the ghost of The Lady in Red is that a woman dressed in a long and fancy red dress is supposedly haunting the 14th floor of the hotel, although she has also been seen in other places of the hotel. 

Today, most of the staff at the Fairmont Hotel Vancouver know of her and in the hotel bar they even have named a drink after her, at least around Halloween season. 

The Dancing Socialite with a Tragic Death

In life she went by the name Jennie Pearl Cox and she stayed at the hotel many times with her husband Harold according to the stories. She was a Vancouver socialite that attended hotel events and dances in the 1940s when the hotel was new and fresh. 

Her stay at the hotel ended abruptly though when she was 25 years old and she got into a car accident in 1944 at the corner of Burrard and Georgia and died, but never really checked out from her favorite hotel.

The Haunted Hotel

Soon after her death the ghost of the Lady in Red started appearing in the lobby in the stairway and dancing in the ballrooms, especially on the 14th floor as many guests learned of the hard way according to the stories. 

She can be seen walking through walls and locked doors as well and has become a well known ghost in residence at the hotel. 

Not everyone is as used to seeing her as the senior staff at the hotel and when the tv-series X-Files were filming in Vancouver, one of the crew even claimed to have seen the ghost of a woman wearing a red dress.

The Ghost Captured on Camera

A couple of years ago, the legend got another boost when one of the upper floors’ windows got covered in red, but it was perhaps not the most convincing evidence, even if it made the news. 

But was she even real like Jennie Cox? Or was she as real as the red dress that turned out to just be a tarp covering the window?

Some say she is just a figment of the hotel’s imagination, imagined to help promote the hotel and it is just an urban myth as there are no grave stones, birth certificate or even pictures from this socialite to claim she actually existed. 

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The Lady in Red The Ghost of the Fairmont Hotel Vancouver – SunCruiser 

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The Creepy History of The Haunted Old Spaghetti Factory

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Take a journey through the macabre and spooky history of The Haunted Old Spaghetti Factory in Vancouver, a family restaurant where you get a ghost story served with your meal. 

Right before opening time, a waitress was walking in the back of the restaurant to check if all the tables were set. She suddenly saw a little boy under one of the boots and went over to him to see if he was alright. Suddenly the books on a bookshelf fell out with a bang and she looked away for a couple of seconds. When she looked back at the boy under the table he was gone. 

She had just seen one of the residential ghosts she had heard stories about in all her years working there, and now she had seen the ghost herself. That was her last shift at the Old Spaghetti Factory. 

Are you ready to explore the chilling history of The Haunted Old Spaghetti Factory? The haunted restaurant is located in Vancouver in Canada, and these eerie walls have been home to tales of ghosts, ghouls, and strange occurrences throughout the years as well as pasta. 

From strange noises and flickering lights to sightings of mysterious shadows, there’s no telling what secrets this haunted restaurant has hidden away.

The Old Spaghetti Factory in Vancouver

Located in Vancouver, The Old Spaghetti Factory is well-known for its alleged hauntings and is located in the cobbled streets of Gastown, the oldest parts of the city. 

The Haunted Old Spaghetti Factory opened its door in 1970 and is located in the Malkin Building on 53 Water Street in Vancouver, Canada. The building has been a staple of the local landscape since 1887. 

Its mysterious energy and eerie vibes have attracted many people to investigate its depths – some of whom claim to have experienced terrifying supernatural encounters while they were there and the former owner of the building, William Harold Malkin is said to haunt, not only the building, but Gastown as a whole.

The Haunted Old Tram, Number 53

Inside of the restaurant there are many old and vintage decorations, like an old trolley cart from 1904 that used to be on the streets of Vancouver. 

One of the most notorious tales that haunt The Haunted Old Spaghetti Factory is that of the old trolley car, Number 53. At first glance it looks like it is just a part of the restaurant’s rustic decor, but this is the thing that makes it so haunted.

Some people claim that it is the ghost of the conductor that once worked in the tram that is haunting the restaurant and the tram he once worked in and that the hauntings first started when they put the tram inside of the restaurant. 

Many visitors to The Haunted Old Spaghetti Factory have reported seeing a strange ghost in uniform inside of the tram after closing time. 

The Little Red Man Pulling Pranks

Another ghost that is said to haunt the restaurant goes by the name of The Little Red Man or Looky-Loo and is the mischievous ghost with auburn hair or red clothing, depending on who tells the story.

He is said to be running around the kitchen and creeping out the staff by calling out their name. He has also been known to scare women in the restroom.

The Young Boy Scaring Staff to Quit their Jobs

The third ghost is said to be a young boy around 11 or 12 with blonde hair wearing blue overalls. The staff have eventually named him Edward and he runs around in the restaurant after closing time or is seen trying to bend the cutlery or unscrew the light bulbs. 

“We asked, ‘Can you swing a lamp or move some cutlery or move a chair right now to prove that you are here?’ Five seconds later a fork lifted up off the table, swiveled around, and dropped back onto the table. A lamp started swinging and chairs collided. This was all visible and audible to us,” Kris Newson, a former staff member in the restaurant, said in an interview.

One story goes that a waitress saw the young boy on her first closing shift and got so spooked out by the experience that she quit that very day. 

The Girl with the Balloon Looking for her Mom

There is also a legend about a young girl sitting by herself at a table, holding a balloon that no one knows. A friend of the general manager is said to have talked with her for a long time and said she had told him she was looking for her mother. But when another came over to the table, she apparently vanished right then and there. 

The Dark Vortex the Reason for the Paranormal Happenings?

Once the restaurant had a psychic that came and inspected the place to understand why there was such a presence of ghosts there. The psychic claimed that the ghosts were attracted to the place because of a vortex in the back of the restaurant as well as the spirits attachment to the decor of the restaurant. 

Some say the concentration of ghosts in this single restaurants is because of the long history of both the building and the area. 

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