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The following account was submitted to PSICAN and forwarded to O.S.I. August 2010:

    "While working at gateway entertainment center me and at least 5 co-workers picked up on the presence of more than one entity in the building. They weren't menacing or harmful, just sort of there. Some nights when you closed you would hear your name being called or bowling balls rolling across the floor when the only other person in the building was sitting right in front of you. I worked in the kitchen there and recall a day when the ghost(s) was really messing with me and my manager. I sat down to eat my dinner and not even a minute later felt as if my chair had been kicked out from underneath me. It flew at least 5 ft! Later, my manager had set her cell phone on a counter and headed into the dish pit and as she was doing dishes she looked into the water only to see her phone at the bottom of the sink! I watched her set it down and there was no explanation as to how it got there. That same night a bucket was thrown at my manager, I was grabbed fairly hard on my hip, and we heard footsteps and felt the vibrations as one or two people ran through the kitchen and out the back door. These are just our experiences. The bar manager, bowling counter staff as well as security have also had their own experiences with the ghosts. Seeing shadows, laughter, cold spots, touching and usually when everyone is sitting in the bar area or comedy factory (I don't like it up there, the bathroom is sooo creepy. As soon as you go up the stairs to the comedy factory your hair is up on end). Usually when you ask them to stop they do, for at least a few days. they seem to like pranking people or doing things as if to say "I'm still here"."

    O.S.I has attempted to contact this individual since receiving this report and are awaiting response.

The following account was submitted to PSICAN and forwarded to O.S.I. July 2010:

    "The house I'm renting was built in 1901. A baby was murdered by the farmer next door. A man hung himself in another situation. Supposedly another man O.D.' d on drugs in this house. These ghosts are physically hurting my body by making me spasm badly in bed, rashes, hurts my neck, very painful pins/needle sensation on the right check of my butt. Knocks over large fake plant onto my bed when I'm sleeping. Also follows me to my work places. Makes knocking noises to get my attention. Up to 20 people have witnessed this in this house. I have stayed in hotels and same occurs. In my work place other office employee has asked me if I know of any deaths in their office and that he sees and hears ghosts."

    We have tried to contact this woman to help her due to the severity of her situation but have received no response. We sincerely hope she is doing well and encourage her to contact us to update us on her haunting and her well being. We again would like to thank this individual for coming forward with this frightening account of paranormal activity.

The following account was submitted to PSICAN and forwarded to O.S.I. June 2010:

    "Our house is haunted. Since moving in there have been so many things happen there would not be enough space to write them all here. Just a few examples are.. one day while cutting the grass, I noticed a man walk through our hedge. The funny thing was there wasn't a space to walk through there and there shouldn't have been a man. That year that particular spot in the hedge died. When I talked to someone who used to visit here as a child, he was describing the yard as it used to be, and where the hedge had died, was the direct path to where their barn used to sit. When my God-daughter was 1, she offered one of her cookies to someone on the couch. However there wasn't anyone on the couch. A few days after we moved in, my sister phoned me crying(she lives in Edmonton) she had a dream that a little girl wanted us to rip up the floor in our upstairs hallway. The really weird thing was I had had the same dream. My son and I actually took out some of the floor boards but realistically couldn't rip up the entire floor.We didn't really find anything but a small child's drawing. Of 2 stick figures, one with the name violet. I could go on and on but you can probably get the picture from this, most of this is just fairly normal around here but lately I hear a lot of babies crying. That really bothers me, and a lady who lived here previously, very reluctantly admitted to our neighbor that she often heard babies crying. Before I go to bed at night I say "ok everyone out, no ones allowed in here while I am trying to sleep" I told my daughter in law to do the same thing in the yellow room. This is where a lot of stuff seems to originate from."

    "I think there is an older gentleman and a little girl here.We recently found out that people have actually fled this house in terror. I find that rather bizarre. There is no sense of anything harmful here to us at all. I think this may be because we take great pride in our ownership here. We have done a lot of painting and general maintenance and people always comment how much better kept the place is. Our house is close to 90 years old. I think whoever is here had the same pride in ownership."

    We have been in contact with the witness and it appears as though the family is very accepting of this activity and quite adept at doing their own research. We hope they will continue to share their stories with us as well as their fantastic historical findings pertaining to the property and who or what could be haunting their home and the surrounding land.

The following account was submitted directly to O.S.I. Via our website in May 2010:

    A family in northern Alberta contacted us after several strange things had happened to them. The young boy in the family had lost his father suddenly in an accident a year and a half prior and the family had begun to have experiences gradually increasing in frequency. The young boy had been in the laundry room when he heard a voice whisper his name and for obvious reasons he fled upstairs and told his mother. He was so frightened he spent the night at a friend's house. Unfortunately he received no reprieve from the activity as he and the two the boys witnessed the apparition of a bald man in the doorway that night. Within the next two days the boys stepfather came running into the bathroom to interrupt his wife's shower in an obvious panic. He then proceeded to show his wife four deep scratches running parallel along his back approximately 5 inches long each. To this day the scratches have not been accounted for or figured out. The clothing he was wearing at the time around this incident showed no evidence of tearing or bloodstains. Aside from these frightening experiences the family has also sent us several pictures with peculiar orbs around the boy only in certain photos. These "bubbles" as the mother puts it, seem to be hovering around her son during certain activities like when he is playing soccer for example.

    We remain in contact with the family and it seems the activity has all but stopped. We thank them for their courage to come to us for assistance and wish them all the best in the future.

The following account was submitted to PSICAN and forwarded to O.S.I. May 2010:

    "It happened to me personally twice. There is an old abandoned camp area North of High Level, Alberta, about 23 km on the east side of the highway. I had been working in the area and after a long day of work in Red Earth I was driving out. I was starting to fall asleep as I got on the highway and it was late so I looked for a spot where I could pull over to sleep. I found the old camp and pulled in. You could see that it was an old construction or oilfield camp of some sort by the trail type of openings and lanes through the trees. I slept for about 4 hours and then for some reason woke up. When I sat up from the seat and looked out the window, it was dark. Not just dark as you see it, but, it felt dark ( don't have any other way of describing it). I got out to relieve myself and felt like I was being watched. I was uneasy to say the least because there are some very big bears up there. I had done my morning thing and was about to get back in the truck when this guy came out of nowhere yelling at me. He was about 5'10" blond and in his 40's. He was wearing a jean jacket and blue jeans carrying a black briefcase. This guy was right up in my face immediately asking what I was doing there and began a search of what was in the back of the pick up. He kept asking questions over and over for about two or three minutes while he was trying to go through my truck. At first I felt scared but as this little pipsqueak of a guy got under my skin I got mad, turned to close the truck door and as it slammed I turned back and faced an open clearing. I mean real open, there was no one there. I completely circled the truck in case he was hiding on the other side looked underneath and in the box. I was alone. What I did notice was that the tall grass all around was still dew coated. None of the grass around the truck had any of the dew knocked off by someone walking through it. I looked, for a few minutes, shrugged it off and got in and drove away. About seven years later I was with my brother in law and his little brother going hunting. It was late and we had driven from Calgary (16 hours south) so we pulled in and slept the night.   Same thing. I don't know what wakes me up, so, I get up to relieve myself. I am feeling uneasy as I unzip the tent there is this guy standing just outside, the same guy. I am completely freaked out as he starts yelling and asking what I am doing and making a commotion. It wakes my in laws and they get up to see what's going on while I'm trying to keep the guy from searching the truck. I really have to go, and my brother in law is dealing with him and the guy is now hassling his little brother. I was watching from the other side of the pick up and as the guy starts to lift the tarps in the back of the truck. (name omitted), my brother in law got mad and turned to go get his gun in the tent to scare this guy off. (name omitted), his little brother was following him and I looked down from the guy for a second to zip up and when I looked back he was gone. All of us were freaked that the guy just disappeared."

    "I told my brother in laws about my prior experience and they laughed when I said I think, he is a ghost. I have always told this story as my one and only ghost story. It has impacted myself enough to remember things like how the guy was dressed and how both times when he starts to search and gets up on you he doesn't bend to put down his briefcase it just is not in his hands. The way he disappears is the same too, as soon as someone got mad he is gone and there is no indication of where he came from and which way he left. It happened both times, just before sunrise, when the sky is still dark and you kind of just notice that the sky is light right after he disappears. It's a noticeable feeling from before you see him it feels heavy and scary and then after he is gone it feels different like something happened, but you don't know what."

    This is one of the best ghost stories we have heard in a long time. We would really like to know if anybody has had a similar experience along this stretch of highway or if anyone knows about the camp this witness describes. Please contact us if you have any information.

The following account was submitted to PSICAN and forwarded to O.S.I. April 2010:

     "I would feel always like I was being watched and especially when I would be in the shower. My baby girl was always laughing and looking in a direction like someone was playing with her. I was always sick with something and tired and grumpy. I was approached by a man in black crawling on my bed towards me when I was pregnant with my daughter. I would see balls of light all the time at night. They would show up in pictures I took. I still have one picture. I could hear whispers all the time, my husband would tell me he could see things in the corner of his eye's and sometimes would smell rotten fish as he put it. My spoons would go missing and be put back later, the cupboard doors would open and slam at times..........."

O.S.I has tried to contact this individual but has been unsuccessful up to this point. If anyone knows anything about this case please feel free to contact us.

The following account was submitted to PSICAN and forwarded to O.S.I. February 2010:

    "I was living in a basement suite near Red Deer. Over a series of weeks a number of strange things happened in my apartment. I was settling in to bed one night and thought I saw something move past my door. I didn't think much of it and went to sleep. Later that night I woke up and could feel something moving on top of my covers. I lived alone and had no pets so I tried to write it off as lucid dreaming. Then suddenly there was a large weight on my chest and I couldn't breathe or move, after a brief panic I said loudly "leave me alone" and the feeling went away. Over the next few weeks there were unexplained power outages or lights turning on and off, the phone would ring and only static was on the other end. I tried to ignore these events and chalked it up to living in an old house.   One morning I woke up and all of the food had been removed from my fridge and placed on the counter. After that a series of dead birds appeared on my front step ranging in size from sparrow to grouse. All of which the wild animals in the neighborhood were totally disinterested in. Some of the indoor events I think could be chalked up to sleep walking or night terrors, I don't have a history of those though."

    We have been in contact with the witness and have discovered some further information to add to this account. These incidences occurred over a 4 month period during 2004, during which the witness resident in a basement suit for an 18 month period.

    "I guess I would have to say that the events I described were concentrated in an approx. 4 month period. They began shortly after I moved in. I'm not certain if the people upstairs had anything odd happen to them, they were not the owners of the property and I had little interaction with them. There were other things odd things that happened after that four month period, but nothing as significant as what I described. Mostly innocuous occurrences, like doors opening and closing on their own, and lights flickering on and off. It's difficult to describe, and really nothing more than a feeling, but there always seemed to be something territorial about what was happening, which is my reason for believing the location was haunted before I lived there, I would assume it is still. "

The following account was submitted to PSICAN and forwarded to O.S.I. December 2009:

The witness indicates the following occurred outside of Millet, Alberta, Canada, on highway 2a before Pipestone creek southbound in December 2009 around 12:30 am;

    "It was snowing late at night, three of us in a truck traveling on Highway 2a going to Hobbema from Edmonton. Hardly any traffic, before Pipestone creek we saw a hitchhiker on the right. As he came closer we could see him clearly, He had on a buckskin jacket with fringes, a white t-shirt and blue jeans.He had shoulder length light-brown hair, possibly Metis,with straight white teeth. As he got closer he was see-thru...still with his thumb out. As we passed him he Jumped out in front of the truck. Mouth open an screaming.We swerved to avoid hitting him an stopped. We exited the truck to investigate. We saw no one. With fresh snow falling we only saw our tire tracks our own footprints an no other tracks or footprints as if there had been no hitchhiker."