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Moncton's Most Haunted!
This is a multi cache designed to introduce geocachers to some of
the most haunted spots throughout Moncton. This cache will take you
just under an hour if you have a car. To find the final cache, you
will have to visit two haunted waypoints and record the values
given in each to enter in as co-ordinates to the cache itself. Use
the key below to add the waypoints together:
N 46° A(**).B(***) W 064° C(**).D(***)
Checksum N = 25 W = 43
***Capital Theater Box Office (N 46° 05.294 W 064° 46.751)***
A="Heritage Building Plaque" Take the year capitol was established
and add all the digits together, then subtract 8. B="Heritage
Building Plaque" Take the year empress was established, then
subtract 1567.
Original Theatre was called Dominion, built in 1911. the Empress
Theatre was built on the foundations of the Dominion in the 1920's
and in 1922, the Capitol Theatre was built right next to the
Empress. A huge fire damaged the Capitol and the Empress on March
6, 1926 and killed Moncton Firefighter Alexander H. Lindsay who his
now known as the Capitol resident ghost. Capitol was a vaudeville
theatre until 1953, then became a movie theatre. The theatre was
quite neglected and finally closed at the end of the 1980's while
the Empress closed in the 1960's then became a teen night club,
then was used for storage then, was just abandonned. The City
bought the Capitol and the Empress in 1991 and with help from
experts in Theatre restoration, restored the Capitol. The original
paintings of Emmanuel Briffa (the best Theatre decorator from the
1920's until his death in 1953). The Empress was renovated and is
now used as well but not much was able to be restored due to the
way the place was built and the poor state of the theatre.
After the 1926 fire, the exterior walls of the Capitol were rebuilt
with the same bricks, saved from the fire debris. The ghost of a
fireman who was killed there in 1926 is supposed to exist. He is
the only fireman to have been killed in Moncton in the line of
duty.
Also, It is said that when the Capital Theatre was a movie
theatre, a girl fell down a flight of stairs and was killed. To
this day people have reported seeing a young lady behind the ticket
booth late at night.
***Moncton High School Tower (N 46° 05.685 W 064° 46.808)***
C=Take the year the corner stone was laid and add all the digits
together, then add 29.
D=Take the year it was laid minus 1146.
There is a Phantom that haunts the basement of the theater stage.
When under the trap door(to get to the basement) you get a feeling
that your not wanted there!
Also, when I was a student at MHS they always spoke about an
indoor swimming pool that used to be in the school but when someone
drowned in it, They covered the swimming pool with todays
auditorium. Maybe this is the ghost that haunts MHS Auditorium.
FINAL CACHE
This area is close to La Grange - Universite de Moncton.
****Read Story Below****
Cache is a medium sized container with traders, logbook, pencil
and sharpener.
Have fun finding this cache!
Enjoy, and let us know if you see any ghosties!!
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The story surrounding the death of Sister Fidel changes, depending
on the story teller, but the general idea remains constant. One
student believes it was 50 years ago in the place now called La
Grange, in the Taillon… a part of the University on the site that
once housed a Quebec religious group called the soeurs du bon
Pasteur. These women worked a farm, planting crops and raising
healthy animals, including a flock of chickens whose coop was
heated by a wood stove in the winter.
One January night a young religious of about 18 years of age opened
the stove door to add some wood when suddenly her black robes
caught fire. She quickly tried to put out the flames before they
set fire to the entire barn, finally running outside to the snow.
But the fire was out of control and she burned to death.
This is the basic story. The age of the nun varies anywhere from
18 to 30 years old and there are those who maintain that the stove
was a gas stove, not a wood stove but otherwise there is general
agreement who she was and what happened to her.
There is also no doubt in anyone’s mind that she haunts the
Grange, where the university theatre department is located. She has
been seen or sensed by both faculty and students.
Jeannot Boudreau recounts numerous experiences. Three professors,
Bernice Goguen, for five years costume designer for the theatre
department. Louise Lemieux lighting instructor and Allian Tanguay,
set designer are all named in the paper but not all their remarks
are specifically attributed.
Sister Fidel is said to show her presence most often on the second
floor of La Grange where the costume department is housed but it is
not a presence in any physical way. It is sensed, sometimes as a
movement, sometimes as light and other times just by the feeling of
an unidentified presence. It could be a sudden noise in the
corridor, a rustling but no one is there. It is described by many
of the students and professors as a feeling that someone else is
there with you even if you are alone.
There are shadows that go very fast, so fast you’re not sure you
saw anything and instances where students were frightened by these
happenings, although the consensus is that her presence is
benign.
One of the professors talks of the night he was working late and
decided to sleep at La Grange in order to start work early the next
morning. He woke suddenly from a sound sleep and with the feeling
that someone was “right in his face”, literally. He jumped up and
felt an energy close to him but could see nothing.
Another night, the same professor was positive, in fact “distinctly
remembered” turning off the lights when he left La Grange but, when
he went back to get something he had forgotten, the lights were
on.
This is referred to by numerous people; lights will go off and on
for no apparent reason.
One of the students claims she was in the sewing room late one
night, waiting for a taxi to come, when suddenly the door in the
big iron cupboard began to open and close, “click, click, click.”
She was very frightened and called but no one answered so she ran
to the room next door and all the students were there, no one could
have come into the room without seeing them.
Another student was in the same room about 2:00am in the morning,
they were rehearsing for a La Saquine play, when she suddenly heard
a sound as if someone was trying to open the outside door. She went
to the door, opened it and looked outside but there was no one
there and, she maintained, they would not have had time to
leave.
One of the students was making coffee for herself and a friend
when a noise she called “freakish” like a hammer or a brick being
thrown on the floor, started up and there was no one anywhere near
her. She ran so fast into the sewing room that there was hardly
anything left of the two cups of coffee she had prepared. She and
her friend then looked around the area but there was nothing and no
one there that could have made the noise. Her friend said that
maybe it was the crack of the heating system but the student said
it just wasn’t that kind of noise.
The closest anyone has come to seeing this ghost was one night
when a professor went to La Grange to pick up something that had
been left there by mistake. When he opened the door there was a
moving light bouncing on the walls that suddenly disappeared. He
described it as being bright at first, then fading. There was no
other light anywhere else in the building, no mirrors. It was as if
someone was playing with a spotlight….but it was impossible for it
to be that!
Those who have sensed her are sure it is the ghost of Soeur Fidele
and everyone has accepted her presence as a part of La Grange. They
feel that she likes the theatre and doesn’t mind any of the
presentations. She has never caused any technical or other
problems.
In turn, the students believe Soeur Fidele has an important role
in the theatre, that she is a part of the initiation. Like the
presence said to exist in Moncton’s Capitol Theatre, where the
ghost of a fireman is supposed to exist.
That presence is felt in the sound of chairs and other furniture
being moved. No one ever sees it move but it starts out in one
place and ends up somewhere else.
The elevatore can be heard going up and down by itself with noone
on it.
Although it doesn’t appear to have anything to do with the
haunting of the Moncton Theatre, people have claimed they can hear
a baby crying in the basement.
At La Grange in the Arts Pavillion at the Universtite de Moncton
the consensus is that two theatres in one city, each haunted by
people who have been burned in the line of duty, is an unnatural
thing.
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