To his community, Peter Vasilyevich Verigan was known simply as “Petyushka.” To others outside the tight-knit Doukhobor family, he was “Peter Lordly.” His leadership of an exiled group of pacifists to a new land in Canada ended in a train explosion – the motive of which remains unexplained to this day.

You’ll find a few buildings from the former town still standing, but nothing there now would indicate the carefully planned 100-acre city that thrived for fewer than 20 years a century ago.

We headed up the mountain on a dark and stormy night hoping to catch a glimpse of the Headless Woman. What we actually found was quite different, but no less creepy.