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One of the sites we investigated over a four-year period was at a place known to locals as Fort San or the San, a Tuberculosis (TB) Sanatorium. The San was like a small village in its day, holding the main hospital and pavilions, but also staff housing, powerhouse, agriculture, theatre, school, and much more, it was a self-sufficient entity. The san ran as the TB hospital from 1917 to 1972, during the time before antibiotics hundreds of people died there each year. Tuberculosis was dubbed “The White Plaque” and was an epidemic, thus the reason for sanatoriums. This particular san is located outside the small resort town of Fort Qu'Appelle, Saskatchewan, Canada.
Once the San closed in 1972, it was reopened as the Summer School of the Arts, after that the Echo Valley Conference Centre as well as a summer camp for Sea cadets, until it closed its doors permanently in September 2004. Through out all those years many people experienced paranormal events there.
From our many investigations of the san, we have hours of video footage some of which contain orbs, EVPs and an apparition in the shape of a woman, whom we believe to be a nurse. There are many stories of paranormal events that happened to people who stayed at the complex. Some of the stories are the same except to different people over years. Most common events are sightings of the “Blue Man”, “Nurse Jane”, and the little girl who runs up and down the halls of the Children's Ward in the middle of the night. We have produced a documentary of our footage and interviews from people that had paranormal experiences happen to them at the san. [ Spirits of the San - A Documentary of the Paranormal]
In March of 2005 we participated in a ghost hunt at Fort San for a TV series called “Beyond”, produced by Steven Rumbelow of Renegade Motion Pictures. The investigation lasted approximately 12 hours. We split into four different groups and went to various locations throughout the vacant complex. During this investigation we encountered ectoplasm, evps, orbs, and an angel. It seemed the ghosts were desperate for company as we encountered as much and more in that one night then we had on single investigations in the past. One of our crew was grabbed around the neck by unseen hands in the morgue crawl space, was the undertaker trying to remove her body from the space? Another member saw a bent figure walk in front of the camera. The sound of a sewing machine in another area got the attention of three investigators while they were filming orbs in the main complex, close to the laundry and sewing rooms. While that was going on, another group encountered what they believed to be an angel; 7 people including three psychics saw the wings. Another group heard sounds that they could not make out, but later when they watched the footage it proved to be EVPs. [ Beyond - episodes called Ghost Hunters and EVPS both aired on Canada's Space Channel].
The San now sits vacant waiting for redevelopment. The ghosts sit quietly by waiting for the living to once again return.
[Our second documentary of Spirits of the San, may shed some light on the identity of the Blue Man, this is a work in progress.]
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