A famous ghost purported to haunt the Fairmont Hotel Vancouver is the talk of the town after a social media user snapped a spooky picture of something – or someone – looming near a window. Legend has it the ritzy downtown hotel is sometimes inhabited by a well-dressed spectre dubbed the “Lady in Red.” She’s said to be the ghost of Jennie Pearl Cox, a socialite who frequented events in the hotel ballroom in the 1940s before dying in a car crash. On Friday, Scott Graham shared an image of the hotel on Twitter and suggested he had spotted her floating figure from outside. “She’s in this picture in a window near the top right. No Photoshop,” Graham said. CTV News visited the hotel and found there is something red in a window near the top floor, though it appears to be a curtain or a tarp used for renovations. The Fairmont did not respond to requests for comment. Ghosts of Vancouver, a website dedicated to local paranormal history, said most sightings of the “Lady in Red” have taken place on the 14th floor, but she has also sent a chill down the spines of people in the ground floor lobby. “She sometimes passes through elevator doors on those floors and glides along the hallways,” the site reads. A family from Japan also once encountered the spirit in one of the rooms, according to Ghosts of Vancouver, and called the front desk to ask if it had been double-booked. With files from CTV Vancouver’s Ben Miljure
