We’re going to Vancouver, BC this summer. Dean has a conference, I like luxury hotels and Clare and her boyfriend are joining us. Clare let us know last night that they are going to stay in a “super old super haunted house” belonging to her boyfriend’s “punk Vancouver friend.”
She sent me a link to a blog post about a man posing as a doctor in 1931 who set up a hospital in a house in Vancouver (the house where Clare will be spending about 4 nights). He then talked ill people (and now residents of the house/hospital) into making him their beneficiaries. They died shortly thereafter. Apparently this happened to about 20 people. He was eventually caught and hanged.
Anyway, after reading about the house and murders, I selected a link in the blog post and found a book that I think Helen (maybe Maureen too?) would like: Blood, Sweat and Fear by Eve Lazarus. The story about Clare’s boyfriend’s punk friend’s house is Chapter 10.
Hell, I think I would like it too!
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Definitely one Maureen would like.
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Just reserved it from the library, thanks for the recommendation! I hope Clare and her boyfriend survive the super-haunted house.
And by the way, I like your straightforward declaration about liking luxury hotels. I take it you and Dean are giving the super-haunted hotel a miss, so maybe you can stay here? http://dailyhive.com/vancouver/haunted-hotel-vancouver-lady-in-red
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Damn. No just the Hyatt Regency. However, the Fairmont is part of the conference so perhaps Dean will run into the Lady in Red.
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Oh, you brave people.
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“I like luxury hotels” made me laugh. I do too. A lot! Definitely more than haunted houses. Though I did stay in a supposedly haunted castle in Poland. No ghosts, though I looked when I got up in the middle of the night.
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