Every country has it’s list of weird and wonderful place names, but we’re not sure that anywhere quite does creepy (in such volume) as Canada.
From east coast to west coast we’ve scoured the provinces to bring you the internet’s most comprehensive list of sinister, malevolent, and down-right weird names of places that are or were inhabited or visited by living humans.
With a nod to everything from disfigured limbs to gruesome buffalo heads here’s 25 spooktacularly named places that actually exist.
1. Axe Point, Northwest Territories
2. Dead Creek, New Brunswick
3. Coffin Cove, Newfoundland & Labrador
4. Bloodvein, Manitoba
5. Burnt Arm, Newfoundland and Labrador
6. Burnt Head, Nova Scotia
7. Butchers, Newfoundland and Labrador
8. Deadman’s Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador
9. Desolation Sound, British Columbia
1. Devil’s Gate, Alberta
11. Dead Man’s Flats, Alberta
12. Destruction Bay, Yukon
13. Grave Flats, Alberta
14. Gore, Quebec
15. Ghost Lake, Alberta
16. Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump, Alberta
17. Hitchcock Bay, Saskatchewan
18. Pain Court, Ontario
19. Phantom Beach, Saskatchewan
20. Phantom Lake, British Columbia
21. Salem, Ontario
22. Serpent River, Ontario
23. Skull Creek, Saskatchewan
24. Sleepy Hollow, Saskatchewan
25. Spirit Lake, Yukon
