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A flickering light, a running faucet, an unexplained sound or smell, or just the accumulation of years in a quirky building? Edmonton has no shortage of spooky stories, ghost-stalking believers and skeptics.

Photo by Greg Southam / Edmonton Journal

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1. Charles Camsell Hospital (12815 115 Ave. NW)

The Camsell is best known for flickering lights, screams at night and security guards posted to keep would-be ghost hunters away.

The hospital opened in 1945 at a Jesuit college, becoming a federally operated tuberculosis sanatorium for Inuit and First Nations patients.

The current asbestos-lined structure was erected across the street in 1967, evolving into a general acute-care hospital by the 1970s.

It’s unlikely the haunting is spectral-voiced Roy Orbison, though the crooner checked in with bronchitis for more than a month in 1984.

It was shuttered in 1996, and plans to retrofit the facility repeatedly fell through. The building eventually sold for $3.6 million in 2004.

Vacant for the past 15 years, the building’s mystique has been bolstered by rumours of rampant abuse and legends of a mass grave.

Photo by Greg Southam / Edmonton Journal

2. Alberta Block (former CKUA building, 10526 Jasper Ave.)

Tens of thousands of 78-rpm records, LPs and CDs are ferreted away in the elegant 1912 Alberta Block building, but albums and radio waves aren’t the only recorded voices.