Hopkins Dining Parlour — the haunted restaurant of Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan

Hopkins Dining Parlour in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, occupies a heritage building that was featured on Creepy Canada. The restaurant, set in the downtown core of this small prairie city, has been the subject of ghost reports from staff and diners for many years. Employees have described hearing dishes clattering in the kitchen when no one is working, seeing chairs pull themselves away from tables, and encountering a cold presence in the wine cellar that seems to follow them up the stairs. Some diners have described seeing a figure seated at a table in the corner of the dining room who vanishes when they look again. Moose Jaw itself has an underground history — literally. The city's network of tunnels beneath the downtown core were used by Chinese immigrants in the early 20th century who were evading the racist head tax, and some were used as bootlegging routes during Prohibition. The Hopkins Dining Parlour may sit above some of these historical tunnels, and some investigators have connected the restaurant's haunting to the suffering that occurred below the streets. Moose Jaw's location on the flat Saskatchewan prairies, where the sky dominates the landscape and the winter wind howls unimpeded, gives even the most ordinary building a quality of stark isolation.