Some years ago two museums (the Museum of Man and the Museum of Nature) here
in town (Ottawa, Canada) shared a venerable building (the Victoria Memorial
Museum Building, built in 1905) each having half for exhibits. The building
has an interesting history of its own and has had a number of notable
tenants over the years, aside from the two museums. In 1916 after a fire in
the Parliament buildings it acted as the temporary offices for the House of
Commons and the Senate and when Prime Minister Sir Wilfrid Laurier died, his
body lay in state in the Museum's auditorium.

The Museum of Man used to have "difficulties" with an exhibit on the top
floor featuring North American Indian artifacts. Late night cleaners and
security doing their rounds, would be "spooked", there would be cold drafts,
elevators would travel between floors without being called, artifacts would
be found rearranged in their sealed display cases etc. At the time, the
museum in question did not talk publicly about this haunting activity (and
still don't really), but did apparently have experts brought in to help
settle a disturbed spirit.

Eventually the Museum of Man moved out of the Victoria Memorial Museum
Building and into a new building and the Museum of Nature spread out into
the rest of the building without incident.

In terms of advertising the haunting, I don't think either museum publicly
acknowledge it, but a local cable tv station did a feature on local
hauntings and the Museum of Nature (who now are the sole occupants of the
Victoria Memorial Museum Building) allowed the film company in the building
for filming, and the tales are featured as part of the local ghost walk
tour.

Carol Reid
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