Almost 52 years to the day it was opened, the former Drumheller Hospital on Riverside Drive has been reduced to a pile of rubble.
The history of this facility goes back to 1963 when authority was granted to renovate a wing of the existing hospital. This made way for new operating rooms, a surgical ward, as well as an area for administration; relocation of the lab and x-ray department were also planned as part of this renovation. They soon found the cost of renovations exceeded the cost of a new build.

In1969, approval for demolition of the old hospital complex was confirmed. In September of that year, patients were relocated. By October, the first concrete was poured for the new hospital. A year later, the hospital was in use and a grand opening was held in 1971 with then Premier Harry Strom attending.
The Drumheller Hospital served the community until 2002 when the Drumheller Health Centre, on North Dinosaur Trail, was opened. The former hospital site has remained vacant since.
McColeman and Sons Demolition was awarded the $689,743 contract and has been on site since the beginning of October carrying out demolition. The site draws onlookers reminiscing about their memories at the facility.

While this is going on, Sunshine Lodge is also in the midst of an approximately $5 million demolition and construction project.
At the beginning of October, the Drumheller and District Seniors Foundation announced it will be demolishing the old 500-wing of the lodge and building eight 1-bedroom self-contained units to better serve local seniors. The old wing has been demolished and construction has begun on the new facility.

Halloween is a time when ghosts come out to haunt, but for Mary Proctor, her haunting began shortly after moving into her Carbon area home and doesn’t appear to be slowing down.
She has been documenting the phenomenon on her TikTok account, and her story will soon be featured on the Travel Channel television show Paranormal Caught on Camera.
“We bought the house three years ago, and the day after they accepted the offer, the owner passed away. He was an older gentleman, so it was a weird coincidence,” she explains. “We started noticing small things like lights being turned on that weren’t turned on or, three times the bathroom faucet was running and no one was there to turn it on,” she explains. “We had baby monitors set up for my children and that’s where I caught the first video.”
This was a strange video where it almost appears a doll slaps her child.
“That is when I started looking at the videos and seeing all the toys either being knocked over or moving around,” she said.
While most would be terrified, Proctor has learned to live with it.
“It is and it isn’t (scary). When you live with it for a long time, it is not as scary as people make it out to be. It’s actually more intriguing,” said Proctor.
She began documenting these occurrences to her TikTok account.
“I just post things that are kind of weird or might be weird or might be nothing. There are orbs flying across that could be dust or bugs, I’m not ruling anything out, but it is just for people to decide because I love hearing people’s ideas of what is going on,” she said.
The video captured all kinds of occurrences, such as books flying off shelves, dolls tumbling, lights turning on, and doors and cabinets opening by themselves.
She said the television show out of the United States, connected with her and is going to be using some of her footage, and telling her story in an upcoming episode.
“Ideally, I would love one of the ghost-hunting shows to come and do an investigation,” she said.