Local Regina club boasts ghosts

Halloween is a time for creepy crawlies and ghost stories – and without knowing it, you may have already been to one of the most haunted places in Regina.

Kerri Van Loosen is the president of the German Club on St John Street, and has been part of the club since she was seven. It hosts fundraisers, weddings, and the German pavilion for the Mosaic festival.

According to Van Loosen, the club is haunted, and has been for a while.

“I’ve seen apparitions of what appears to be, or feels to me to be, like, a man walking from the lower level bar entrance, all the way through to the kitchen, up the back stairs.”

She said she’s also seen a lot of orb activity in photos and on camera, and that people have heard voices. She said they got a taste of that once when they were cleaning up after a banquet.

“You can’t really prove it necessarily, in some ways you can. But I just say if you feel something, it’s probably legitimate.”

“You’d hear, like, people moving around in the hall. As if there’s feet ‘kinda shuffling, and background music, and light conversation, where it almost sounds like there’s a little social activity.”

Van Loosen also tells a story about an odd incident in the bathrooms when he husband was doing some renovations.

“He’d locked up the upstairs bathroom because we don’t have that open to the public …. he was into the men’s washroom down (on the main floor), and he heard water running, and he’s like ‘well, that’s weird.’ So he went upstairs, unlocked the men’s bathroom, and here the men’s toilets were all flushed and the flanges were all pushed down.”

Van Loosen thinks the haunting are perhaps long-time members of the club.

“I just think that the come back because it’s like this is their second home, this was a home, this is why they built this club, it was their safe zone, their family time.”

“I will haunt this place,” she said, laughing.

A local paranormal team, Saskatchewan Paranormal and Supernatural Team, has investigated the club as part of their new series on Access 7. Van Loosen said they told her the most evidence they’d ever found was in her club.

Many people are non-believers when it comes to ghosts and spirits. So, what does she say to skeptics?

“You can’t really prove it necessarily, in some ways you can. But I just say if you feel something, it’s probably legitimate.”