WEYBURN – Voices and flickering lights were some of the manifestations of the paranormal experienced in Weyburn’s Heritage Village, after Estevan ghost hunters Curtis and Nathan Riersgard stayed the night last weekend.
Curtis and his uncle Nathan stayed in three different houses on the night of July 17-18, including the John Stutt house, the Knibbs house and the tea house.
The pair make videos for their YouTube channel, Purgatory Adventures, and have posted the video from their overnight stay. (It can be found at )
“We started communicating with a spirit in the John Stutt house through a device we have, an electromagnetic field (EMF) device, and he was talking to us,” said Curtis.
He said they would ask questions, and the device lit up in response to some questions, such whether they should leave or stay in the house.
In their visit to the Knibbs house, Curtis said there was one point when his name was uttered in their “spirit box” device.
“We got some really good stuff. In the video I could hear my name crystal clear,” said Curtis.
The video of this incident seems to back this up, but the name is said quickly with no other words or responses given.
“With the spirit box, we don’t catch a whole lot, it’s not really a conversation,” Curtis explained, adding of the flicking lights in the Stutt house, the responses appeared from questions they asked. There is no electricity to that house.
He also noted that with the camera, left on at the Stutt house, the device seemed to capture the image of a figure. It wasn’t visible to the naked eye while they were there, he added.
In a tour of the houses prior to the night-time video, one of the village tour guides noted that John Stutt had died in that house, and in the tea house, both tour guides said they’ve heard footsteps in the upstairs part when no one else was in the house.
In previous visits to Weyburn, the pair have spent the night at the Soo Line Historical Museum, and in the Tommy Douglas Centre for the Performing Arts, and videos from both of those visits are on the YouTube site.
“Weyburn is very, very haunted,” said Curtis.
He said possible visits here in the future might include a night in the former Signal Hill Arts Centre, now privately owned, or maybe another night at the T.C. Douglas Centre.
