Is East Vancouver's Lord Selkirk Elementary haunted?

The hallways of Lord Selkirk Elementary School in East Vancouver are said to be haunted by a ghostly girl named 'Selkirk Sally'.

It's a rumour that dates back almost 100 years. 

"They say they see her floating about," said Marlyn Shearer, who attended the school in the 1940s.

The school opened its doors in 1908 with two storey wooden buildings. It was then expanded to include a larger brick building next door. That's when legend has it things took a turn for the worst.

During the 1918 flu pandemic, the building was turned into a hospital with a men's ward on one floor and a women's ward on another and the basement was the morgue. 

"Of the 100 patients, 22 passed away," said Darrell Cavanagh, the school's principal.

"As the story goes, one of the students was named Sally and she's the one that haunts the school," he said. 

In the school hallway hangs a photo that is said to prove 'Selkirk Sally's' existence. 

"If you look in the corner, you see an image of someone that looks ghostly. Not like everyone else in the image here. The myth goes that it's Sally," said Cavanagh. 

To hear the full interview listen to the audio labelled Ghost rumoured to haunt elementary school with the CBC's Rick Cluff on The Early Edition.