Natasha and I joined some visiting friends on a haunted walk of Ottawa! I’m probably the last guy you’d want to invite on a haunted anything, but I bit my tongue and had a lot of fun. I learned a few things too – did you know that the east end of Sparks Street is built over an ancient cemetery, and that there are still bodies being dug up during construction projects? (I imagine this is less likely to be an issue now given the depth that most of the building foundations go to, unless corpses were buried REALLY deep)

The tour took us past a few familiar buildings on Elgin – allegedly the Fridays restaurant, crazy drooling fish fountain in Confederation Park, and Teacher’s college are all visited by strange apparitions. The real nexus of paranormal doom is – the dreaded Lisgar High School. It is said that the attic is home to the creepy spirit of a maintenance worker who met his end falling off the roof.

I wasn’t prepared to believe any of it, but when I developed my photos, I saw something crazy I hadn’t seen before!

Our guide (the living one, in the black cape) was great, her speeches were a bit rehearsed, but she was clear and easy to keep up with. It was good to get out for a walk downtown, so I’d recommend it. At $13 it’s about the price of a scary movie, but you get some exercise thrown in. And you might see something ghastly!