Beban House
We have updated the Beban House information with some of our findings and will add more soon.
VIPS Announcement
Vancouver Island Paranormal Soc. is stepping down from all investigations and will be a research group only.
The VIPS website will remain up for the forseeable future as an informative resource for Vancouver Island Hauntings but due to our inablity to dedicate time to complete the Beban House investigation VIPS is dropping taking on any future investigations until we can really be sure that we have the time and manpower to do things properly. We wish to thank Beban House for allowing us to investigate the location and some of us did have some experiences that I will try and get written accounts of and still have hours of video footage to run through.
We have learnt that trying to run a group like VIPS takes allot of time and effort and dealing with an unexpected death and subsequent aftermath of this event had taken us away from the groups focus however this has in recent days has come to some sort of a conclusion for us, VIPS is a group of like-minded amateur paranormal enthusiasts trying to pull of a professional group and perhaps this has caused us to bite off more that we are able to chew.
We appreciate we have a following from other people interested in the paranormal and hauntings and will maintain this site for those of you that visit the website.
VIPS sincerely apologizes if we have misled anyone.
We wish to send seasons greetings to all of our registered users and other guests.
Still reviewing evidence and g…
Still reviewing evidence and going to England for 3 weeks, hope to visit some of my old Haunts. (Rob Turner)
Beban House Investigation – Reviewing evidence
Well, the investigation we completed recently on the 4th of July night in Nanaimo was at Beban House, a house built by Frank Beban which resides in Beban Park and is now the Nanaimo Tourist Information Centre for Nanaimo.
It was an interesting night, some experiences to document and tonnes of video and audio to review, sometimes not the most interesting part of the job but we are working through it.
It would be nice to hear from people who have had experiences in Beban House as this may be useful in helping us should we find anything.
We will update the site and post any findings online after we have reviewed it all.
2009-07-16 – Rob Turner
Nanaimo based Investigation to…
Nanaimo based Investigation tonight… Getting everything packed and checked.
Calling Ellie Robson
I was reading a Story By Ellie Robson and she seems like someone Vancouver Island Paranormal would like to be in contact with. We have been approached by a lady that rents out a house near where we live and is having some interesting reports form independent tenants of a haunting.
We would like to consult with Ellie about residential hauntings.
Three more Bigfoot sightings reported
Originally Published: November 19, 2008 8:38 AM
Source: http://www.bclocalnews.com/news/Three_more_Bigfoot_sightings_reported.html
Brian Vike, Director of HBCC UFO research is still trying to verify three sasquatch sightings in Moricetown.
“Since I got the initial call, I’ve had no other information,” Vike said. “ As near as I can tell, the sightings all happened after the end of September but I have called and called but no one is calling me back.”
The lady who called on the morning of Halloween, told Vike that there had been a rash of sightings on the native reserve. Unfortunately without talking to someone who could give a first-person account, Vike said the information is hearsay at best.
Vike got the details from the first account from the woman’s mother.
“Allegedly, she was walking out to the mailbox and this thing walked in front of her,” Vike said. “But I called and called and got nowhere so I am thinking this is a little fishy.”
Another women apparently told friends that she had seen a sasquatch peeking in someone’s window.
The last report allegedly involved a school bus driver who saw the creature standing in a field.
The sightings follow a summer filled with reports throughout the Pacific Northwest.
Sightings in late July and August brought about speculation from paranormal specialists as to what the creature might be up to.
In addition to sightings in the Bulkley Valley, Larry Sommerfield, a self-proclaimed sasquatch hunter from Terrace had a cast that he claimed was a sasquatch print.
Vike said the area has always had some connection to the paranormal.
“In 2002-2003, this area was dubbed the UFO capital of the world,” Vike said. “There was just so much activity between here and Burns Lake. Now it seems to be sasquatches.”
Vike said he has gotten calls from the Discovery Channel and the Life Network about the amount of paranormal activity.
A sighting in Houston in late July by Delores Harrie garnered the attention of national media outlets.
Harrie saw the creature out at her home on Buck Flats Road on July 28.
At 5:45 a.m. that morning, Harrie heard her dogs barking at the door. When she went down to investigate she saw that someone or something was rattling the door handle.
She eventually opened the door and the dogs were out like a shot, sniffing out something on he east side of her property.
When she looked out at the side of her house, she saw a creature that was walking on two legs.
“It was huge and it had long hair, not fur — kind of like the kind you see on an ox and a reddish brown, the colour of the trees that are killed by the pine beetle,” said the woman. “And it moved so fast, by the time I opened my door it had run from the porch to the other side of the house.”
Once outside, the dogs pursued the creature it continued along a dried-up ravine and disappeared into a forested area. Her oldest dog didn’t return for three hours.
“I was worried but what do you do, tell people your dog is chasing bigfoot?” she asked. “I drove up and down the road, looking for him and eventually he came back.”
After Harrie’s report, there was a report on Telkwa High Road and some sightings in Campbell River.
Vike said all the attention around UFO and sasquatch sightings is good for the area.
“It’s gets peoples attention because — whether you believe it or not — it is different,” he said. “I think it’s good for all the communities in the area.”
Saanich News – Camosun hauntings tracked by intrepid ghostbuster
By Vivian Moreau – Saanich News
Published: October 29, 2008 1:00 PM
Updated: October 30, 2008 8:56 AM
“Ghosts are sensitive to renovations.”
It’s the kind of comment that makes you check to see if the person is yanking your chain. But Camosun college student Ed Sum is serious. He’s talking about the outside east wall of the Young building, a 1914 three-storey brick structure said to have ghosts. The building was renovated in the 1990s, which likely annoyed some spirits, Sum says. The first-year applied communications student is a self-professed “paranormal enthusiast.” He talks about ghosts as easily as others might speak of eccentric relatives.
“Ghosts don’t perform for us,” he says about why he doesn’t try to capture apparitions on film. Instead, with electromagnetic field detector in hand, he scouts out the halls of the Young building late at night. He’s checking out stories he’s heard from former and current students as well as staff. Tales of unusual sounds and events that take place in the building that has served as a schoolhouse and a military hospital before becoming a university and college campus. Sounds of shuffling feet in the building’s clock tower and mysterious background voices in media students’ recordings are just some of the odd happenings Sum and others have run into.
Val Mieras was a communications student in the early 1980s. She stayed on with the college and is now a spokesperson. She remembers working with classmates into the wee hours in the Young building.
“You’d hear thing, mostly creaks and bangs. We always thought the third floor was haunted,” she says. “But honestly it was probably pigeons walking on the skylight or the wind.”
Sum knows there are other explanations for readings that appear on his detector, a device said to pick up on energy fields emitted by ghosts.
“From a sceptic’s point of view, there is a window that points straight down Hillside and Shelbourne,” Sum says about background voices that show up in tape playbacks. But one voice, recorded in a late night scrum that Sum and fellow paranormal buddies took part in, defies explanation. Scouring a floor of the Young building used for surgery during the Second World War, the group paused. One of them asked what time it was. On playing the tape back later, an ethereal voice can be heard sharply breathing out the hour: “Eleven!”
Another floor once housed a morgue. Another houses a cemented-in swimming pool. It all adds up for Sum, who thinks the Young building is a logical place for ghosts to reside. That ghosts exist also seems logical, he says.
“It’s mostly just (me looking for) a validation that there is something in the next emanation of life,” he says. “I’m just trying to find out if there is something more than simply us.”
vmoreau@saanichnews.com
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I found another article online from the archives of the Martlet, some information otherwise not known in my Hatley synopsis. I’d like to look around a little and find some corroborating stories. Check out the Hatley Castle link.
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