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Photo by Scott Graham / Submitted

That’s when he noticed a red dot in one of the topmost windows and decided to zoom in for a closer look.

Photo by Scott Graham / Submitted

There she is. (Maybe.) Let’s zoom in even further still.

Photo by Scott Graham / Submitted

Is this a case for Fox Mulder and Dana Scully? They’ll be in Vancouver this summer, filming Season 11 of the X-Files, according to reports — maybe someone can send them over to the Fairmont. The skeptic Scully would probably suggest it’s simply a hotel guest in a red top. That seems the most logical explanation, of course. But that window is on a floor that’s off-limits to guests right now as the hotel undergoes renovations.

“There’s always ongoing maintenance at the hotel and that’s just one of the areas we’re working on right now,” said Nancie Hall, the Fairmont’s regional director of public relations.

Hall relayed one of the previous sightings of the Lady in Red, which, coincidentally, came during the filming of an episode of The X-Files at the hotel during the show’s initial run in Vancouver. According to Hall, a cameraman came back from a break and said, “I saw the strangest thing. I saw this woman in a long gown.” Hall says she told the man it was the Lady in Red, “our resident ghost.”

“He went absolutely white and he would not come back on the job,” she laughed.

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The historic hotel’s employees are much less spooked. After getting calls about this most recent sighting, they even went up to check for themselves. “We went up to look and there was nobody there,” said Hall.

It’s a shame. If you’re going to encounter a ghost, the classy Lady in Red sounds like the type you want to see.