The summer of 2001 I was working at a place called Haddon Hall Inn (Nova Scotia) on the groundskeeping crew. Apparently the place is haunted by not just one ghost, but a few and in different locations. One room in the main building is bad enough they put a lock on it so you can "lock it open" as it were because many people have gone in and had the door shut and lock behind them and had to wait for help to get out. There's all kinds of stories about things that have happened that I can't recount at this moment, but judging from the crazy ole bat that ran the place when I worked there, you're never sure what you should believe when it comes from her. But the workers had stories, too. I ended up with one of my own.
Haddon Hall Inn is located atop Haddon Hill. At the base of entry to the Inn there is a building that used to be the Gatehouse. Now all the buildings are converted to rooms for the Inn but back in the original days of the place, a woman lived there and she had a child who was either born dead or died right after birth. Bear with me here as some of the details of the story are cloudy now, but apparently the woman died there at the Gatehouse as well and she haunts the place to this day.
We were mowing that area one day and my brother-in-law (who I worked with that summer) went to dump the grass so I just took a quick break and sat on the patio. I looked back in the wooded area and then as I looked away I saw the image of a woman in a long white gown moving with her arms cradled like she was holding a baby. I quickly looked back but saw nothing. It was only a brief flash and to be 100% honest with you guys, I didn't even know the story of the woman until later that summer. My bro-in-law and I were in the shed talking about this place being haunted one day and he told me the story of the woman and it kind of freaked me out. Every time I think about it I get cold chills. I never did believe in ghosts and still don't, I think someone just slipped some drugs in my water jug that day.
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