Today the Greater Moncton Paranormal Society was fortunate to tour the Musée de Kent, in Bouctouche, NB. Having lived much of my childhood in the area, I was very interested to hear the stories and paranormal experiences that visitors and guides had about the Musée. Since I was quite young, I have heard story after story about experiences the locals told about the Bouctouche area, and legends they'd heard from their elders too.
Personally, I can say my own paranormal experiences in and around Bouctouche are quite extensive.
The architecture at the Musée de Kent is beautiful, carefully kept up and you can strongly sense the history of Acadians with its look and feel. My psychic sensitivity wasn't really triggered at first when the guide was showing us the main floor, but immediately when I climbed to the second floor, the dizziness started. We later found out this was where the infirmary was.
this small bedroom was reputed to have its "look" changed regularly - pillows moved, bed suddenly unmade, ect... no explanation for it, according to our guide, Stéphane.
apparently this book disappeared - mysteriously - for 2 weeks... then mysteriously reappeared out of nowhere. The room it was in made me feel almost out of breath when I walked in.
I took a moment and stood near the window after leaving this room, feeling suddenly calm and "tuned in" with the energies in the building. I immediately felt as if the Musée, once a convent and school for girls, had secrets. My impression was that something or someone was kept safe and secretly in this building, awaiting transition from one place to another. The guide could not confirm this hunch.
the ethereal presence of a young boy was seen in this room by the guide, and strange photos were taken by previous visitors.
As we were walking toward the chapel, I heard the echo of someone sobbing... I knew I wasn't imaging this - apparently one of the visitors with GMPS was so emotionally overwhelmed when she entered the chapel area (for no explainable reason), she had to leave the Musée altogether, and did not come back.
we then visited the 3rd floor, where the girl's dormitory had been. It is now full with small and large historical Acadian items - asides from a heaviness in the room, I didn't feel anything odd. The guide, however, shared that once he had felt pushed strongly down the top flight of stairs down to the first landing - since that day, he wears stones with reputed spiritual properties on a necklace for protection.
Incidentally, he was wearing hematite - one stone I also acquired after the strange and pretty spooky incidents at our previous investigation at the Albert County Museum Gaol.
After a very interesting discussion with one of our GMPS group members about his own experiences with a negative spirit, we were very fortunate to tour the location of strong energies in the building: the basement, where a nun committed suicide a very long time ago. According to our guide, the rumours were that she was pregnant at the time.
Immediately, as I walked down the stairs, I was overwhelmed by the feeling of baking bread. I asked the guide about this and he responded, "Of course, this is where the cafeteria was."
After a few unsuccessful attempts at trying to get a ghost to audibly grace us with its presence, I separated from the group and was taking pictures of the area when I heard someone react strongly to something behind me... the GMPS researcher, who very rarely has had paranormal experiences, saw this rope - by itself - start to move wildly. Asides from random sensations - heaviness in the chest, hairs on our arms standing on end, the sensation of being touched - this was the only phenomena we experienced at the Musée de Kent. We have requested to do an official investigation of the building with our equipment, and hope to have a positive response soon.
