Local Haunts

[Spooky]

This is the thread to write about all the haunted or just plain creepy areas in your area.

[Spooky]

Here's one of my very few.....Cultus Lake

Cultus Lake, in the Fraser valley, is a well-known summer recreation spot for Vancouverites. The Chilliwack First Nation call the lake Swehl-tcha, which refers to a time when it was an empty basin that later filled with water.

This lake is reputed to be "bottomless." Before the events described in this story the Indians say that there existed here several small creeks which disappeared into an underground passage on the site of the present lake. Koothlak's dike partially blocked this passage. Another story tells of a young man who went swimming there and was swept from the sight of his friends by an underground current. "Sometime after, down there at Mud Bay between White Rock and Point Roberts, some young men were out spearing seals and they found this body drifting." (The body was identified by its decorations.) "They didn't know where this underground river was until this young man drowned and came out at Mud Bay." There are also reports of a three foot long devilfish and a fourteen inch blackfish (both saltwater fish) found on the Cultus Beach by Chilliwack Indians.

Both the belief that it is bottomless and the strange, unexplained occurrences at the lake have led to its present name. This is further supported by the Chilliwacks' tradition of supernatural monsters, or shla-lah-kum, living in the lake.

Ok, ok so it's not haunted but it believed to be bottomless (which is cool in itself!) and may have underwater tunnels. Who knows the evil that could lurk in there. We go here every summer for day trips and are going camping this summer with the preschool there. I hope to find a sea monster. Most people here call it "the good for nothing" lake. You can read why in the link.

www.folklore.bc.ca/Cultuslake.htm

[Spooky]

Wouldn't mind going for a hike through the Forbidden Plateau either.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forbidden_Plateau