By Caitlin Brezinski

Ghost stories hit home

Oct 31, 2014 | 5:23 PM

Prince Albert has its fair share of ghost stories and legends, from the old City Hall building to the Historical Museum.  Those stories have become a reality for some people.

When Shauna May was a tour guide at the Prince Albert Historical Museum, she and other guides experienced a terrifying situation.

“There were footsteps and we all did scream that day and then run out because we thought no one was there,” she said.  “We were in the basement and we heard footsteps on the floor above us.”

May said this had happened on a few different occasions and recalls times when she saw displays sticking out from the wall when they weren’t like that before.

Although May said she’s a bit of a skeptic, another situation left her feeling speechless.  She heard about the legend of the ghost train near the St. Louis train tracks and went to look for it with a friend of hers.

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“I remember kinda shrieking because I was not expecting to see it and then we did and I’ve always heard there’s been explanations for it but it looked like nothing I’ve ever seen,” she said.

She described it as one bright light on the horizon that blinked on and off and looked like it was coming towards her. 

“I know I’m looking at something that makes sense, but inside you’re kind of like, ‘what is this? It’s too weird,’” she said.

For Max Wasyliw, one unforgettable experience happened when he was at home. 

“We could hear from the third floor somebody walking down the stairs and across our bedroom floor and come back down to the main floor,” he said. “At first I thought I was just hearing things but when the cat jumped up and was looking over the arm of the couch, right at the bottom of the stairs where we heard all this, then my hair kind of stood up.”

Wasyliw said once the cat started to walk over to the source of the sound, he heard the footsteps go back up the stairs and slam the third floor door.

The house was built in 1910 and Wasyliw said he’s experienced many strange occurrences since moving there in 1995.

“We had a couple of windows that you couldn’t open by hand yet somehow they would open overnight and I’d have a hard time trying to close the windows back up again,” he said.

Wasyliw said he screwed one of the windows shut then soon after found it open again with the screws bent over.  He said he often hears footsteps above him when he’s working downstairs and had a musical box that would constantly turn on by itself. 

“They haven’t bothered us and I think they’re probably happy with the renovations we’re doing,” he said.

Wasyliw used to look after the boilers at the Arts Centre, the former City Hall building.

“There were times that I could swear that there was somebody up in the top floor and there was a few times I went up and checked and nothing was going on,” he said. “One time, I could hear a piano playing and when I went up there was still a dust cover over top the piano.”

He said he’s not a skeptic when it comes to ghost stories.

“I believe there’s things out there that are unexplainable,” he said. “I was probably more of a skeptic before I bought the house.”

According to a document put together by the Prince Albert Historical Museum, other places in the city with ghost stories attached to them are the Forest Centre, Hans Bridge in Little Red River Park and 28th Street which is now Kinsmen Park.

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