Later, Graham and Wendy took a house across the street from the building that by now had been turned into a tea room and store One winter day about 1984, before they had opened for afternoon tea, the waitress approached Wendy who was in the kitchen and said, "Where did that guy come from?’

"What guy?" Wendy asked.

"There was a guy sitting in the tea room and I don’t know how he got there."

Wendy asked what the man looked like, and the waitress described someone slightly balding with dark hair. He was wearing a dark trench coat, unbuttoned, over a 1940s-style suit. One the table was an open briefcase from which he had evidently removed some papers that he was studying.

"Well," Wendy said, "he’s been there for the whole week and he’s been driving me crazy." Although she was able to see him out of the corner of her eye, she noted, "Every time I’d spin around, he’s be gone, but the chair would be slightly ajar so I knew he’d been there."

After a few minutes, Wendy went across the street to her house where her mother was baby-sitting. When she told the older woman about the incidents, her mother admitted that the previous day, when she had gone to place flowers on the tables in the tea room, she had seen a man sitting there. Her description of him tallied with what her daughter and the waitress had seen. At the time the building was again undergoing renovations, and Wendy feels that this was the reason for the ghost’s appearance.

By 1988, the furniture store was closed and a pub and a restaurant opened in its place. The dining room, particularly, is the centre of many strange happenings. In the morning before the first patrons are shown to their seats, the staff often report hearing a clinking sound, as if a teaspoon is being struck against the side of a cup. Staff also report the sound of footsteps walking upstairs, while Wendy has heard children crying at times when no youngsters have been on the premises.

Probably the most ancient ghost to haunt the site is that of Jake Matteson who, sometime after 1850, was the first European to own the land. Matteson, it was said, kept his savings in gold down a well on his property. He intended to use the money to build a home there before sending for his sweetheart in Scotland, but died suddenly before he could being his project. The gold was never discovered, and there are some who believe that Jake is still watching over his money.

A later ghost believed to haunt Four Mile House is that of Margaret Gouge who lived at the roadhouse during the second half of the 19^th century. She was known for her love of flowers, and has been seen looking down from what is now the laundry room into the well-maintained garden. She is wearing a full length gown and appears entranced by what she sees.

Although she doesn’t haunt the premises itself, another ghost has been seen not far away. She is known as the Lady in White. When her sea-captain husband sailed away she apparently came to stay with the Calvert family who were relatives. She would spend many hours walking the rugged shore near the inn as she waited for her husband’s return. Sadly, she became ill and died before his ship came home, and her ghost has been seen near Thetis Point standing upon the rocks and looking vainly out to sea. In the Four Mile pub there is a beautiful stained-glass image of the Lady in White. It is a poignant reminder of a time when ships sailed from Victoria into the vast, silent waters of the North Pacific never to be seen or heard from again.