by Will Johnson - Nelson Star posted Oct 13, 2016 at 11:00 AM
Apparently ghosts like to drink too.
Late one night at the Nelson Brewing Company building on Latimer Street, as a staff member was locking up and turning off the lights, they spotted a solitary apparition suds-sipping in the shadows.
“Their first reaction was: somebody’s broken in and is drinking our beer,” paranormal investigator Chris Holland told the Star. “But as they got closer they realized nobody was there, and then suddenly the coldest breeze they’d ever experienced washed over them.”...
...“At different points there were people living in there, while it was abandoned. They would crash and flop and I think that brought some extreme energies. But then there’s also all the good times the brewery brought, all the people who are devoted to that place and have good memories of it.”
Holland shared one story about a staff member who spotted a ghost at the end of a hallway, walking away, but it evaporated the moment they gave chase.
“They’re not thinking ghost. They’re thinking I need to protect my business, but then they turn the corner and nobody’s there. All the doors are locked.”
All of this to say he believes the ghost is benevolent, like many of the so-called caretaker ghosts in the area, and is keeping the Nelson Brewing Company protected.
“The Latimer Street building is new on the radar, and I would say right now it’s the number-one target for paranormal investigations. My assumption is that it’s a benevolent protector, and like with a lot of the homes in Nelson you get a feeling that the ghosts really love the building. The fact it’s still running is a testament.”
From the Nelson Star