Winnipeg paranormal activity.

 

T.G. Hamilton was one of Winnipeg’s stranger characters to say the least.  He held many seances in his Henderson Hwy home.  It is near Hespeler.  Sherlock Holmes author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle made a visit to the house in the early part of the century. 

Below are some pictures taken at the house of ectoplasm.  To me it looks like early photo-shop.

Thomas Glendenning Hamilton (November 27, 1873 – April 7, 1935) was a Canadian doctor, school board trustee and member of the Manitoba legislature. He is best known however for the thousands of photographs he took during séances held in his home in Winnipeg in the early 1900s. His wife, Lillian May Hamilton, and his daughter, Margaret Hamilton Bach, were co-researchers and continued this enquiry into life after death after he died.

Ectoplasm  is a term coined by Charles Richet to denote a substance or spiritual energy “exteriorized” by physical mediums.  Ectoplasm is said to be associated with the formation of ghosts, and asserted to be an enabling factor in psychokinesis.

Another building in Winnipeg purported to be haunted is the Demon Hotel on Hargrave between Assiniboine and Broadway. 

Esteemed demonology historian Nad Deene gives this description of the history of the Demon Hotel:

It is believed to be haunted by the damned souls who died within it’s walls. They say they had to close it down when tenants were driven to madness by paranormal activities.

 

There are stories of homeless squatters who have gone in and never been seen again. Sometimes when you walk by, you can see the faces of tortured souls at the windows pleading for salvation. But they say nothing, because their tongues have been cut out.

 

It all began when the Victorians built that Dalnavert house on the site of an ancient Indian burial ground.  The natives buried their insane there, who had been possessed by evil spirits. The house became haunted, and many of the family died under mysterious circumstances. Because of this the house was empty for almost a century. Then they built that museum around the house. The demonic spirits can’t stay in a place that is active and alive, so they fled to the nearest “dead” structure they could find: The Demon Hotel. Now they wait, for the unwary person who foolishly enters this abode of the damned.