Haunted Canada 10 by Joel A. Sutherland

Author:Joel A. Sutherland [ Sutherland, Joel A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781443175791
Publisher: Scholastic Canada Ltd
Published: 2020-08-01T00:00:00+00:00

THE GHOST OF FAN TAN ALLEY

Victoria, British Columbia

Charlene White was running late. She’d been shopping in Chinatown with a friend when she realized they’d lost track of time. So they decided to take a shortcut and pass through Fan Tan Alley. It was a decision they’d soon regret.

The night was dark and cool. Other than Charlene and her friend, the alley was practically deserted. But then someone pushed Charlene hard into one of the brick walls and ran past her. Charlene was hurt, scared and more than a little angry.

“Hey!” she shouted. “Watch it!”

The young man — he looked like a teenager — ran out of sight without slowing or stopping to apologize.

“That kid nearly knocked me over,” Charlene told her friend.

“What kid?” her friend asked, confused. She’d been walking slightly ahead of Charlene and hadn’t seen the collision.

“That kid.” Charlene pointed at the far end of the alley. “The kid who just ran by.”

Her friend looked from one end of the alley to the other with a frown on her face. “There’s no one there.” She didn’t see a soul.

“I just saw him,” Charlene said, a note of uncertainty settling into her voice. Had she seen someone? She could have sworn she had, but her friend had been with her the entire time and the alley was so small that it would have been impossible for her to miss anyone else passing by. Maybe no one had run through. But if that was so, who had shoved Charlene into the wall?

On another cold, dark night, a different woman had a nearly identical experience, but this time more than one person saw the teenaged boy run through the alley. Stacy Keller was walking through Fan Tan Alley with her friend when something suddenly broke the silence: footsteps pounding the pavement behind them, approaching fast. Stacy and her friend had just turned to look for the source of the commotion as a young man ran between them and shoved them both against opposite walls. The women turned back around and were shocked to discover he’d disappeared. Terrified, they ran back out in the direction they’d entered the alley only moments before.

Fan Tan Alley is easy to miss unless you know where to look for it, between a small café and a gift shop on the south side of Fisgard Street in Canada’s oldest Chinatown. At its narrowest point — a gap of 1.2 metres — a child could touch both walls at the same time. Running the length of only one block, the alley has more than a dozen independent stores packed together tightly. It’s clean and safe these days, but that wasn’t always the case.

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