What’s Halloween Without a Ghost Story?

Not even an ‘atmospheric river” kept people away from the Old Cemeteries Society’s annual ‘Spiritualism in Victoria’ tour, this past Sunday.

Other than guide John Adams, umbrellas were de rigeur until the sun broke through the clouds for the first time in three days.

Spiritualism and ghosts are almost one and the same; at the very least, they have the same strong attraction, as was confirmed by the turnout for Sunday’s drizzling tour of Ross Bay Cemetery.

For the upcoming October 27th tour, the Society will pull out all the stops. Its phenomenally popular Annual Ghost Tour is based on ghost stories linked to people buried at RBC and, “On some of the graves, the occupants might even seem to come to life and tell their tales. Extra guides will be on hand for large numbers,” advises the OCS promo.

Extra guides, is right. Nine of them! Previous turnouts have been so great that the usual single guide and leisurely, 90-minute tour just isn’t possible.

And it has to be the best entertainment bargain in town: $5 for non-members, $2 for OCR members. (The annual membership fee is only $25 so, at $2 per tour, you can recoup your investment through the February-early December season.) Tours are given regardless of weather!

You can learn more at https://oldcem.bc.ca/about-the-society/

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PHOTO: Rain or shine, the Old Cemeteries Society tours of Ross Bay Cemetery draw a crowd; here, guide John Adams addresses a crowd of umbrellas. —Author’s photo