Things that go bump in the night

Each year around Halloween, we like to do something spooky. We usually go on one of the many ghost tours around the city... some are good, some are less good. Victoria is supposedly a very haunted city... maybe because it is older than most Canadian cities. Other theories say that ghosts (if they exist) are found closer to sources of water, and Victoria is surrounded by water, except to the north. Who knows. In any case, we love to learn more about the ghosts in Victoria... the spookier the better. We have gone on ghostly walking tours of downtown on Halloween night, ghost bus tours around the city, tours of the haunted Maritime Museum, ghost tours of Point Ellice house, and more. This year we decided to go on a ghost tour of St Ann's Academy, an old convent and Catholic school. It was lame. No other way to say it. It just wasn't scary. It was more of a historical tour, which would be OK, but that's not what we were looking for. We wanted spine tingling ghost stories. We got weak ghost connections, at best. The tour guide would take us through a portion of the building, tell us about the history of it for 10 or 15 minutes, then, almost as an afterthought, say something like, "Oh, and someone thought they saw a ghostly figure over there once." Ummm.... lame. We both agree that the absolute scariest one was the tour of Point Ellice House. Darn freakin' scary. I wouldn't let Steve leave my side. I also would totally go on the ghostly walking tours again. The picture above is of Steve and Sam in front of St. Ann's Academy. Even Sam wasn't scared.