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Stories from Prince George and northern BC

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  • Mandy: The Quesnel Doll That Became a Haunted Legend

    Mandy in her display case at Quesnel Museum, October 2024.JimmyDude27 · CC0 · Retain attribution and licence. Any adaptation must follow the source licence.
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    Photographed: 2024-10-05

    Original title: Mandy The Haunted Doll.jpg

    A donated doll, a disturbed workroom and a television appearance: how an ordinary museum object acquired an extraordinary reputation.

    3 min read
  • The Other Downtown: Prince George's Ghost Stories After Dark

    An evening sky over downtown Prince George in June 2012. This city view provides the setting for local stories; it is not a photograph of a reported apparition or a specific haunted building.Andrew Kurjata · CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 · Noncommercial use only. Preserve the full frame and attribution; derivatives must use compatible share-alike terms. Recheck rights before any commercial use.
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    Photographed: 2012-06-19

    Original title: downtown Prince George at night

    A ghost walk turns familiar downtown blocks into places to stop, listen and notice the city’s overlapping lives.

    3 min read
  • Barkerville After the Footsteps Fade: Ghost Stories in a Gold Rush Town

    Barkerville’s cemetery in a black-and-white photograph made in spring 2006. The graves are part of the historic town’s real landscape, not evidence of its ghost stories.Steve Sarjola · Public domain · Retain creator credit, source and licence. Display full frame.
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    Photographed: 2006 spring

    Original title: Barkerville BC Cemetery; Black & White.jpg

    A theatre, a saloon keeper and a Halloween dog with a film credit: Barkerville’s ghost stories are woven through a town with a lively history of performance.

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  • A Night at the St. George: Barkerville's Hotel and Its Haunted Reputation

    The Saint George Hotel in Barkerville, photographed by Anton Bielousov and published in his 2021 account. The original image retains the photographer’s watermark.Anton Bielousov · Author permission for personal or non-profit web resources, with attribution and link · Personal or non-profit use only; retain visible Anton Bielousov credit, active source link and original watermark. Commercial use requires separate permission. No such permission was requested.
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    Original title: St. George Hotel, Barkerville, BC

    The St. George combines an intimate historic-town stay with a haunted reputation. The businesswoman associated with its name is a remarkable story in her own right.

    3 min read
  • Agnes McVee: Searching for the Woman Behind the Murder Hotel Legend

    The Post House at 108 Mile Ranch Heritage Site, September 2019. The building is part of the documented site history; the crimes attributed to Agnes McVee remain unsubstantiated.Gillfoto · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Retain attribution and licence. Any adaptation must follow the source licence.
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    Photographed: 2019-09-23

    Original title: 108 Mile Ranch 4116.jpg

    The roadhouse was real. The alleged killer is much harder to find. At 108 Mile, the most absorbing mystery may be how a story became attached to a place.

    3 min read
  • Witch's Butter: The Strange Yellow Thing on a Fallen Branch

    Witch’s butter (Tremella mesenterica) on a dead branch, January 2021. The photographer combined 21 exposures in a focus stack; the location is not established.Agnes Monkelbaan · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Retain attribution and licence. Any adaptation must follow the source licence.
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    Photographed: 2021-01-15

    Original title: Gele trilzwam (Tremella mesenterica) op dode tak van een eik 15-01-2021. (actm.) 02.jpg

    A yellow jelly fungus can reveal a second fungus, a microscopic encounter and the reason a fallen branch deserves a closer look.

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  • Fairy Rings: Who Drew Those Circles in the Grass?

    A ring of Chlorophyllum molybdites mushrooms in a lawn in Mesa, Arizona, September 2025. It illustrates the ring form; it is not a Prince George observation or an edible-mushroom identification.peterwchen · CC BY 4.0 · Retain attribution and licence. Any adaptation must follow the source licence.
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    Photographed: 2025-09-09

    Original title: Chlorophyllum molybdites-fairy ring.jpg

    A circle of mushrooms looks arranged, almost deliberate. Under the grass, a slow-moving organism has been drawing the pattern for far longer than the mushrooms have been visible.

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