Mallard Lodge & Delta Marsh Field Station — Manitoba's isolated haunting

Mallard Lodge and the Delta Marsh Field Station near Portage la Prairie, Manitoba, sit on the southern shore of Lake Manitoba in one of the most important wetland areas in North America. The lodge, which was featured on Creepy Canada, is associated with multiple ghost reports spanning decades. The most commonly described phenomenon involves a woman who appears at the windows of the upper floor, looking out toward the marsh. Staff and researchers staying at the field station have described hearing footsteps on the lodge's creaking wooden floors at night, doors opening and closing on their own, and the sound of a woman weeping in the attic. Some guests have reported waking to find their personal belongings rearranged or their room temperature inexplicably dropping to near freezing. The marsh itself, with its vast expanse of reeds and water stretching to the horizon, is an inherently atmospheric landscape — particularly at dawn and dusk when mist rises from the water and the silence is broken only by the calls of waterfowl. The isolation of the location, accessible only by a long gravel road through agricultural land, means that witnesses to the phenomena are typically researchers, bird watchers, or hunters who have no prior expectation of encountering the supernatural.