Stanley Park at Night // Canadation D-9+10
Greetings, spooky travelers!
I've taken some time off journaling here about our trip, and it felt good. We've explored Vancouver for the last few days with my dear cousins that I hadn't seen for more than two years, so I thought it was a good idea to enjoy these moments. Now we're flying off to our next and final destination in this amazing trip, and I hope you enjoy the photos I have for you today.
The feature presentation of this post is the adventure me and my brother experienced on the night of the 2nd. Having just gotten to the city that day, we decided to walk around the city at night to have some good bonding time alone, without our parents. That's how we eventually reached the famous Stanley Park.
It was a chilly but nice evening, and the rain had just given us some dry time. We went deep into the park, passing by a couple of people walking their dogs, jogging and biking. It felt so safe and normal that we just kept going naively further.
This post's header photo was the view we eventually found ourselves looking into, completely Silent Hill style. My brother suggested we tried to reach the "pier" near the water at the left, and I agreed.
As we approached it, we realised it was just our eyes and minds tricking us: it was an enormous pool, only open during Summer. If you look closely into the header image, you'll be able to see even the big and colorfoul sliders where we thought the "pier" was.
We found ourselves in a beautiful beach after passing the optical illusion, where eventually my brother asked me if I wanted to go back. I agreed, and took the photo bellow just before starting to head back.
As we passed the closed pool, we started hearing some wolf cryings. However, I'm pretty sure it was human-made. But it was oddly bizarre, to the point that we started walking faster.
A few moments later, my bro told me he'd just read on Reddit about strange happening during the Park at night: people that went missing, and presumed other crimes that happened there. What a great timing to search about that, huh? He said it was to verify if we should've kept going, but I honestly think it was obvious that we should have not. Plus, the "Someplace at Night Dangers" search is one that will definitely make you more paranoid than you were before doing it, trust me.
The sounds started to be more intense, and eventually turned into some sort of growl. We were walking really fast at the point. And I swear a man wearing all black clothes seemed to just spawn in front us, completely silent, and walked past us to sit in the playground to our right in the most uncomfortable way possible. At that point, we just wanted to get out of there.
As we left, there was a small washroom that had its lights on, and strangely had music playing inside it. We hurried past it. There was also a completely dark tunnel bellow a part of the road we passes through that was so stupidly terrifying that I don't think there's an amount of money that could've made walk inside it at that time. Okay, maybe 1BTC could've done it. Thankfully I won't have to find out.
Me and my brother were talking loudly at that point, to calm our nerves down. We were back to the well lit part of the Park, and again crossing by people with their dogs and doing their night-time physical activities. I just needed to get back to our room safely to get a good night's sleep.
We assume that the happenings on the park were due to the unfortunate situation in Vancouver with substance abuse, that has led a lot of people to act in unusual ways. Whichever the case might be, I don't recommend that you try to uncover it by yourself. I can definitely say that it was a singular bonding moment I had with my dear brother.
I wrote a poem that night, that I ended up posting here.
The next day we went to meet with our dear cousins, and we experienced taking the local train for the first time.
It was an incredible day, and as the better days go, I tried to keep my cellphone usage to a minimal. At least I was able to take this amazing photograph bellow, one of my favorites in this trip.
Take care, travelers,
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