Ghost Stories

Have a Haunting Good Time

Vernon is well known for its haunted locales. Up first is the Vernon Towne Cinema, reported to be one of the most haunted locations in Western Canada. Ask the locals and they’ll tell you about the ghost that lives at the iconic Caetani Cultural Centre. Take a heritage tour and explore the secrets and rumours of this 125 year old heritage house. It has a colourful history, complete with a distinguished aristocrat and scholar from an ancient royal Italian family and a young daughter held a prisoner in her own home for over 25 years.

Be brave and take a guided ghost tour with Ghost Tours of Vernon. They offer a night of humour and the macabre for one week at the end of July, and another around Halloween in October.

A ghost that is frequently seen and/or felt is the ghost that lives in the nursery at the mansion at Historic O’Keefe Ranch. One moment the nursery door is locked, and the next, it is open, and yet, you’re the only one there! Many a visitor has left much faster than they went in. Also at O’Keefe is the Field of Screams that runs through October.