Haunted Vancouver: Fairmont’s Hotel Vancouver Famous Lady in Red

Our next haunted Vancouver tale takes us to the elegant Fairmont Hotel Vancouver. Not only is it one of the nicest buildings in town, it’s also home to what many believe is the nicest ghost in the city, the famous Lady in Red. She’s been around for half a century and the hotel doesn’t deny her supernatural existence, in fact they embrace it. They have named a cocktail after her and she is widely known by hotel staff.

Her name was Jennie Pearl Cox. She was a regular visitor of the hotel’s ballroom in the 1930′s and early 1940′s. Apparently she took up residence at the hotel after a fatal car crash in 1944.

She’s been seen passing through elevator doors on the first and fourteenth floors. Her main floor of choice is the 14th.  She has also been seen in rooms as well as the hotel bellman have claimed to witness the Lady in Red enter rooms just as they are checking in hotel guests. So if you’re afraid of ghosts the next time you book a room there, book 15th floor or above.