Matthew Liebenberg
Southwest Booster
A unique night tour at the Morse Museum and Cultural Centre will provide an opportunity for participants to look for signs of paranormal activity in the historic old building.
John Griffin, curator of the Morse Museum and Cultural Centre, said this fundraising event is hosted by the Morse Cultural and Heritage Association in partnership with Canadian Paranormal Expeditions.
“On this exclusive tour, you are the investigator,” he noted. “Under the expert guidance of the crew from Canadian Paranormal Expeditions, guests will get to scour the museum for signs of paranormal activity.”
Three time slots of two hours each are available for the tour during the night of Sept. 19. Each time slot is limited to 20 tour participants.
The time slots are scheduled for 7-9 p.m., 9:30 to 11:30 p.m. and from midnight to 2 a.m. Participants for each time slot are asked to arrive 15 minutes early for orientation and group division.
Tickets are available at $50 each. According to Griffin there has been a good response since tickets went on sale. The midnight time slot has been the most popular and only a few tickets are still available. Half of the available tickets for the 9:30 to 11:30 p.m. time slot have already been sold and only a handful of tickets have been sold for the earliest time slot.
The members of Canadian Paranormal Expeditions have an interest in the paranormal. They investigate unexplained activities in different buildings and locations through observations and the use of a variety of instruments and equipment.
The devices that they might use include a REM Pod device to detect changes in electromagnetic fields and temperature, an electronic voice phenomenon device, vibration activated light spheres, a spirit box, audio recorders and cameras.
Tour participants will not only be guided by Canadian Paranormal Expeditions during their investigation of the museum building, but they will also have an opportunity to learn about and use the group’s equipment. The group’s goal is to provide participants with a real experience of looking for the paranormal with no scripts or tricks.
This will be the second time that members of Canadian Paranormal Expeditions will be spending time in the building at night. They carried out a paranormal investigation at the museum on June 20 and a video of their experience can be viewed on the group’s YouTube page. The video describes their visit to the museum as one of their most active investigations of 2026.
“They go to all different places in Saskatchewan doing these investigations and tours,” Griffin said. “They found some interesting activity and reached out to us to see if we’d be interested in having them come do a tour as a fundraiser for the museum. We jumped on the opportunity, because it sounded like a good thing and some people would enjoy it.”
The majority of funds raised will go to the museum to support programming and upkeep of the building. Canadian Paranormal Expeditions will also receive a portion of proceeds to cover their expenses.
The Morse Museum and Cultural Centre is located in a building originally constructed in 1912. It was used as a school from 1913 to 1979 and became a museum in 1981.
Griffin has a skeptic attitude towards the paranormal and has not experienced anything unusual in the building.
“It’s over 100 years old,” he noted. “There are creaking floors and when the wind gets going through the belfry it has quite an eerie sound to it.”
However, stories have been told over the years of some unexplained incidents that occurred in the building. Griffin recalled a story about an employee who arrived for work in the morning and heard what sounded like the buttons of a tape recorder fast-forwarding and rewinding. The person thought the summer student was already working in the archives room, but was surprised when the student only walked into the building shortly afterwards.
Jackie Wiebe, a director on the board of the Morse Cultural and Heritage Association, recalled an incident while she was leading a school tour in the homestead room. An old phonograph that has not been working for many years suddenly began to spin very fast.
“This thing just started going all by itself,” she recalled “Nobody turned the handle to get it going. It was a weird thing. I don’t know how it started, but it got everybody rattled.”
The only story told to her came from another board member, who observed that the dolls in the 1950s exhibition room sometimes appear to have been moved around. The members of Canadian Paranormal Expeditions focused a lot of their investigation during their June visit on this particular room in the basement.
“There’s always been a story here as long as I can remember that there is a ghost that lives in the basement of the museum,” Wiebe said. “But he or she is a friendly ghost. Nobody’s been scared.”
Tickets for the paranormal investigation tour can be purchased online under the events tab on the Morse Museum and Cultural Centre website or by contacting the museum directly by telephone or e-mail.
