Padova, Tranquille, haunted? UFO activity?
Or is this abandoned village simply that, just a group of outdated buildings located 15 minutes out of my hometown, Kamloops BC Canada? Either way, there is a security guard of some kind who patrol's the location. I was just out there on Saturday and saw a minivan with a woman and a small girl open the gate and drive out.
I have no idea what this place is about now, but I do know it started out as a small gold mining town, then later turned into a tuberculosis hospital, and then a mental health hospital, which shut down in the mid 1980's. Since then it has been purchased up to 3 times with plans to be turned into a resort (to be named Padova), a vineyard, maybe more, all plans for development fell through but there is more with 4 new owners at the moment.
A youtube video of the location:
A crappy phone image I took of the location (click for full size):
Wraiths, a group of self proclaimed paranormal researchers explored the site, here is a link to their write-up (by far the most interesting):
http://www.wraiths.ca/padova_i.htm
Image gallery from the Infiltration Zine:
http://www.uer.ca/forum_showthread_archive.asp?threadid=21844
UFO activity(?):
Quoted from HBCC UFO Research:
I grew up in Salmon Arm. One of the things we often did was drive the hour and a half to Tranquille on the Lake aka Padova just outside of Kamloops. As you probably already know, Tranquille is a old town that used to serve as a TB ward in the 1920's, and later was turned into a Mental Asylum. It is now unfunctional, and I believe that the police are using it as some sort of training grounds. Anyways, when we were in highschool we would go to this place, sneak in, and explore. It is a really creepy place and it has a very odd energy field.
One of the things we usually did before we snuck in, was drive up the mountain a bit and park where it overlooked this place to scope it out. So we were sitting there in the car, overlooking this place when we noticed this light that was hovering above, but behind this place. It was obviously dark, so we couldn't see the shape of it. So the four of us sat there, starring at this light wondering what it could be. It was white and it was going around in circles. We probably watched it for about 5 minutes then we noticed this blue light and it was horizontally coming towards the white light. So we sat there anticipating what would happen when they meet. Once they met, the lights both shot off into our direction towards our vehicle.
We all screamed, and the driver stepped on the gas and we took off down the mountain. Then all the sudden there was a deer in the middle of the road. It was one of the creepiest experiences. This happened about 3-4 years ago. Like a year ago, I was watching this UFO show on TLC about UFO sightings. This guy came on and described exactly the same thing we saw, but he saw it in daylight. And what he saw was the white light hovering over a lake, and a blue light coming towards it, and when they met they both shot off. He saw the shape of the craft and described it as looking almost like a blimp.
Anyways, So I went back to Tranquille in the day, and sure enough where the white light was hovering there was a lake.
I'm not too sure where this site is situated, etc but Tranquille on the Lake / Padova in Kamloops, BC Canada is a definitely a hot spot for the paranormal. It is hard to find information about this place because it is heavily censored. Rumor has it, that there has been some crazy stuff that has happened there.
Also there is apparently over 300 images of the location taken and offered free simply by emailing this person (gdroder@hotmail.com).
My personal opinion about the location? I simply think it is just a bunch of outdated asbestos filled buildings which need to be torn down. What I do find cool about the place is that all buildings are actually connected with underground tunnels (for steam heating), if the place wasnt asbestos ridden it would make a great paintball yard!