Waterfronts Flapper Ghost. - [Ghost/Urban legend.]
• About This Ghost: A mysterious and mischievous flapper girl, often blamed for strange occurrences at night by the guards, sighted on the west side of Waterfront Station, Gastown, Vancouver BC. Security Guards who encounter her have described hearing faint 1920 style music and the sound of footsteps dancing, she appears in the flesh, swaying to the ghostly music, but when approached, the music abruptly stops, she giggles and vanishes. - whilst on transit in the evenings, you may catch a brief glimpse of her from the stations large windows, behind one of the west most pillars.
• History & Earliest Encounters: Beyond the simple description passed down by "Haunted Vancouver" & more frequrently continually spread by our local "Ghost Tours" there sadly isnt much to say a bout this ghost. - The earliest description of the which I can find on record about this one is from "Weird and Wild Vancouver" [2012], later [in 2014] the flapper ghost was breifly mentioned in the province papers...
- later a more elaborated take on the story popped up in Scholastic books "Hated Canada 6" [2016] - since then, several websites and authors have claimed to be the person who interviewed the "one guard" in question, but there's no solid proof of that, so it seems like a bit of a "friend of a friend told me this happened" situation. still fun though.
[the entry in "Weird and Wild Vancouver" 2012.]
I've noticed an uptick in articles telling about this spirit so i thought i'd draw her, but with it being the 20s again; perhaps its more likely that the spirit of the roaring 20s is back to haunt us.
• Parallels: Vancouver has no shortage of train and trolly ghosts. a couple off the top of my head are the famous above mentioned "headless breakman" a legend dating back to 1928 and famously featured on stamps and coins in 2014 as part of "Haunted Canada" event. Perhaps the ghost of the conductor who haunts the trolly in the old spaghetti factory.