Lower Fort Garry

This is Giving Up the Ghost podcast, and this is the second episode for this week.

This, uh, episode is when we were sitting at Lower Fort Garry and taking some ghost stories from people before they headed out on their haunted tours.

Such a wonderful venue to go to.

If you've never been, you gotta check it out.

The haunted walk, I guess is what it's called, or haunted tours at Lower Fort Garry.

It's so cool at night, so creepy, so cool.

Check it out.

It's still all very surreal.

In any event, today's episode is just a couple quick ghost stories, and I'm hoping to get, uh, a ramble-sode from Frazelda on, as well as, uh, go enjoy yourself at the haunted tours at Lower Fort Garry.

Friends of Lower Fort Garry are putting that on.

That's pretty fabulous.

They were on TV this morning.

More remote workers continue to be ordered back to the office.

Is that a good thing or a bad thing? Small town salute, ghost tours at Lower Fort Garry, and inspired by a random screw we found on the floor in our studio, we asked you about the stuff you're scared to get rid of.

I'm Brett McGarry, alongside Greg Mackling.

We are Mackling and McGarry, and this is the Thursday, October 8th podcast for The Start.

Good morning

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Friends of Lower Fort Garry.

So for how long have you been a friend of Lower Fort Garry? How long have you been going there and, and ad- admiring that wonderful resource?

Um, I wasn't like, there's certain people who grew up in the MMF literally being the children of ministers of, like, in the cabinet, and, um, yeah, there's a lot of that in the MMF where, uh, yeah, children grow up attending the meetings and, and all of that.

But, um, how I sort of entered into the MMF was, uh, my grandfather finally told my mom, uh, where his mom was from, uh, which was, um, St. Andrews, a, a town called Mapleton, just, uh, very, like the next little neighborhood north of Lower Fort Garry on the Red River settlement.

Um, [clears throat] so he told her that's where, um, his mom had grown up, uh, she'd also, she'd been born in Kenora, so she'd grown up going back and forth between St. Andrews on the Red River all the way up to Winnipeg River, like through the Lake Winnipeg up to the Winnipeg River down there all the way into the English River, uh, the literal superhighway of the Les Voyageur.

Um, and so she was like, "Oh, shit, we should get a Manitoba Métis Federation, uh, citizenship." Um, and she, she was like, she kinda realized why we lived in Grand Marais where my grandfather had retired.

What a fabulous presentation.

And they're going to have a fabulous season at Lower Fort Garry with their haunted tours.

So definitely check that out.

We will be there on Saturday night, their opening weekend.

Yeah, so it's a crazy week coming up.

In preparation for this... upcoming week.

Today's episode is actually our interview that we had with Carolyn from Friends of Lower Fort Garry.

She came out to our August Spirits with Spirits and told us all about the creepy cool ghost stories that you may have heard or may not have heard that happens on the Lower Fort Garry.