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Gather round the campfire, here's three that people have shared with me.
I've left them in their own words for the most part. If you have any stories
to share from Vancouver (or anywhere in the Pacific Northwest for that
matter!), please e-mail me at jyoung@radiant.net . Hope you enjoy these
ones:

1. There was or is a very old Row house at 2nd and Clarke that I was told
was
haunted. I was told by the resident that all of a sudden one night he heard
a
crowd of partyers coming up his stairs and into the bedroom except no one
was
really there.

2. The  Hammersley house is in North Vancouver and it was a restaurant but I
think
it may have gone out of business. I know from the former owner that it was
haunted. The most famous ghost was the woman in white that appeared in an
outfit in white from the 1920's. She would be seen coming down the stairs
and other customers would look up from their table and see her sitting at
tables from her. The next time they would look up again she would be gone.

3. No kidding.  I was living for a while in a home on Broughton, which is a
bit on
the downside these days but was originally a fairly gracious family home.
It became a gas victims' hospital/hospice after World War I, which perhaps
lends it some of the miasma that keeps it "low end" today.

How it went from being a home to a hospice, according to the house legend,
is that the homeowner, who was a high-flying local speculator, was
slaughtered by his wife and her lover after a night out at the Panorama
Roof or some other black-tie joint.  Decapitated, although his ghost
doesn't appear that way.

But it does appear, and some who live in the house claim to have seen him;
others to have actually had him come in and sit down and strike up a
conversation - still in black tie or tuxedo or whatever.