Somewhere in the Cape Breton area, in Nova Scotia, lie the ruins of a once very lively town. Today all that remains of Broughton is crumbling walls on a foundation sticking out of the ground. Only the ruins, by which it is impossible to discern what kind of house stood here, remained from the once luxurious Broughton Arms Hotel for these places and the heyday of Broughton. At one time, soldiers and officers of the Canadian army stayed here, preparing to be sent to Europe to the front of the First World War, and the main population of the town was made up of miners.
But, as it turns out, not everyone left this now deserted place. Eleanor Anderson, who is fond of local history, is not entirely sure, but it seems to her that someone is walking on Broughton … or something mystical.
“I don't know myself if I believe in ghosts, but something in my thoughts, in my dreams and visions haunts me. Something that still “lives” here,”says Madame Anderson, interviewed by CTV reporters (video).
The town flourished in 1906. Then it was home to about a thousand people. The central government had plans to provide another 10,000 Canadians here, but unfortunately they did not materialize. The city lost its economic attractiveness and quickly faded away by the end of the First World War.
“It's a ghost town today,” Anderson repeats.
Paranormal researcher Jason Murphy from the organization Haunts from the Cape joins her opinion. He's been to Broughton more than once, and he knows what he's talking about. According to him, if you listen, you can hear some voices that clearly do not belong to animals. Once, as he claims, he managed to ask an invisible ghost the question: “who are you”? And he heard in response - "I was a soldier." Was !?
“We feel a certain energy,” says Murphy, who even used special equipment to capture otherworldly waves. "I think over time we will still learn what it is."