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There is something cathartic about revisiting the city where you spent your formative years and discovering that there was something different about how you saw the world around you. For writer, podcaster, and ghost-walk flâneur Ian Gibbs, he developed a keen sense of something extra while growing up in Stampede […]
There is an afterlife for Brennan Storr’s homage to his hometown Revelstoke, British Columbia. The Victoria resident’s book A Strange Little Place, which was originally published in August 2016 by Llewellyn Worldwide, went out of print in April 2022. Storr, one of the founding members of The Ghost Story Guys […]
What haunted writer Ian Gibbs while pulling together ghostly tales for his new book Vancouver’s Most Haunted: Supernatural Encounters in BC’s Terminal City was his writer’s block. The Victoria native, and The Ghost Story Guys podcaster, found it challenging to research and write during the COVID-19 pandemic, especially when he […]
Historian and Discover the Past’s Ghostly Walks host John Adams has had a long working relationship with the Fairmont Empress Hotel in Victoria, British Columbia. It has not always been about acquainting oneself with the resident spirits inside the Châteauesque structure built between 1904 and 1908. The 71-year-old worked in […]
Victoria’s Most Haunted: Ghost Stories from BC’s Historic Capital City by Ian Gibbs Touchwood Editions, Canada, 2017 3.5/5 As I dipped my mental toe into the waters of Ian Gibbs’ Victoria’s Most Haunted, I realized the opening vignette was very familiar. Back in 2013, my wife and I had stayed […]