Ghost Stories of Ontario

by Colombo, John Robert

• ISBN13: 9780888821768
• ISBN10: 088882176X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1995-05-01
• Publisher: Dundurn Pr Ltd

Summary

Here is a book to thrill and chill you!It brings together sixty-nine stories of haunted houses, ghosts, poltergeists, apparitions, and other eerie events and experiences.What is amazing is that all the stories are true - they actually happened - and they happened in Ontario!Did Sir John A. Macdonald give advice from the dead?Did William Lyon Mackenzie King engage in a friendly conversation with a veteran newspaperman at Kingsmere two years after his death?Is Ottawa's Laurier House haunted?What happened in Toronto's Mackenzie House?Did an apparition of Walt Whitman appear in Bon Echo Provincial Park?Does a beautiful lady in white haunt old stone houses in the north Woodstock area?What was behind the Baldoon Mystery and the Dagg Poltergeist?Do such things happen? Are they happening today?In these pages there are ghosts aplenty. They appear in the villages, towns, and cities of Ontario - among them: Goderich, Hamilton, London, Toronto, Niagara-on-the-Lake, North Bay, Oakville, Oshawa, St. Catharines, and Sarnia!Perhaps there is a ghost near you...

Table of Contents

Introduction	6	(13)
Acknowledgements	19	(2)
The Great Turtle	21	(4)
The Baldoon Mystery	25	(3)
A Lumber Merchant's Story	28	(3)
The Spirit-Rapper	31	(5)
A Human Magnet	36	(3)
The Humberstone Poltergeist	39	(4)
The Dagg Poltergeist	43	(3)
Sir John A. Macdonald's Advice from the Dead	46	(4)
Appearance of the Lake Steamer	50	(3)
The Bluish Light	53	(2)
The Vision of Walt Whitman	55	(3)
An Early Morning Visitor	58	(2)
The Light that Night Saved My Life	60	(2)
I Saw the Outline of the Head	62	(2)
The Forerunner	64	(3)
Mackenzie King, Spiritualist	67	(2)
I Talked with Mackenzie King's Ghost	69	(6)
An Anecdote about Mackenzie King's Mediums	75	(2)
The Crystal Ball at Laurier House	77	(2)
The Haunting of Mackenzie House	79	(6)
Out-of-Body Experience	85	(2)
Three Ghostly Experiences	87	(4)
An Ottawa Apparition	91	(2)
Poltergeist in the Attic	93	(2)
Ghost in the Hallway	95	(2)
A Well-Loved Persian Cat	97	(2)
The Beautiful Lady in White	99	(2)
Past Life Vision	101	(2)
A Very Vivid Apparition	103	(2)
Haunted House on Pape Avenue	105	(6)
Someone Else in the House	111	(3)
"Betty Louty"	114	(3)
An Apparition and a Visitor	117	(5)
The Philip Phenomenon	122	(6)
The Root Cellar	128	(2)
I Heard a Lady's Voice	130	(4)
The Shapeless Ghost	134	(2)
A Lady Beside the Bed	136	(3)
The Gibson Ghost	139	(3)
A Thanatological Experience	142	(4)
The Scarborough Poltergeist	146	(4)
The Farmhouse Poltergeist	150	(3)
The Apparition of the Cat	153	(3)
Grandmother's Ghost	156	(3)
Ghosts During Bereavement	159	(3)
The Ghost in the Attic	162	(5)
Ghost of Grandmother	167	(4)
The Ghost in Bed	171	(2)
Blue Boy	173	(3)
A Scarborough Poltergeist	176	(4)
Spirits of Niagara-on-the-Lake	180	(6)
The Haunted Farmhouse	186	(2)
Ghost of an Elderly Woman	188	(2)
The Shuter Street Poltergeist	190	(4)
The Feeling of a Presence	194	(3)
Bertha's Spirit	197	(2)
The Spirit of Amity	199	(3)
The Vision of a Crime	202	(3)
Supernatural Occurrences	205	(3)
Vision of a Large White Persian Cat	208	(2)
Believing in Ghosts	210	(3)
The Sticky Man	213	(3)
Duel of the Spirits	216	(2)
A Ghost Called Matthew	218	(5)
George or Helen	223	(4)
Ghost of the Great Dane	227	(3)
Hunting Henry's Ghost	230	(1)
Short Circuit	234	(4)
The Most Beautiful Woman in the World	238