Haunting
It is an alleged paranormal site. A young bride, who died of a broken neck on her wedding day in 1932, has also reportedly been seen within the hotel grounds. Dressed in her wedding gown, she was descending a staircase. She tripped on her gown and fell down the stairs. Her ghost can reportedly be seen dancing alone in the dining room only to burst into flames. The apparitional resident is reportedly a former employee of this hotel. A bellhop died after announcing his retirement in 1976, Sam Macauley has lived on in the eyes of some guests and staff members, who claim to have seen visions of the man in full uniform, helping out guests just as if he had never left. Hotel guests and staff have reported sightings of a bartender's ghost telling customers that they have drank too much and need to go to bed. An apparitional headless male bagpiper has been reported on occasion.
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Front View of Banff Springs Hotel
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RHS View of Banff Springs Hotel
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Grand staircase in the main lobby
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Light fixtures in the Bow Valley Grill on the second floor
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An interior staircase
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Famous quotes containing the word haunting:
“And my youth comes back to me.
And a verse of a Lapland song
Is haunting my memory still:
“A boy’s will is the wind’s will,
And the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts.””
—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1809–1882)
“Let us consider that we are all partially insane. It will explain us to each other; it will unriddle many riddles; it will make clear and simple many things which are involved in haunting and harassing difficulties and obscurities now.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)
“You go to my head and you linger like a haunting refrain.”
—Haven Gillespie (1898–1975)