Ghost Walks
After the ghost hunt we ended the night. Going through recordings over the next few days. It yielded another first for me. The EVP!
In case you don’t know. An EVP, or Electronic Voice Phenomenon. It’s ghost voices over tape. These are recordings said to pick up details the human ear cannot. Means the Merritt House was full of them.
Happened throughout the night at the Merritt House. A male energy from within the house harassed Kate. She and Michele asked for a name, and the thing only mocked them. We didn’t know it’d end in possession.
Said to call it, “Booger”.
A small investigation happened at the Merritt House in 2001. The events from this night changed the way I saw ghosts.
Changed the way they answered the question, “Can we investigate the house?”
Ghost Guide Daniel – – The following experience happened to a customer. While using the second floor woman’s washroom inside Toronto’s Keg Mansion.
It’s very confusing. Why any ghost chooses to haunt a washroom.
Inside the haunted Keg Mansion of Toronto, Lillian was the only daughter of Hart Massey. She was educated at the Wesleyan Woman’s College in Hamilton (where the Royal Connaught is today). Eventually becoming Matriarch of the family and mistress of the house.
Dying in 1915. Only 6 years after her husband.
According to the infamous legend … the death of the Keg Mansion Maid happened just after Lillian’s death.
Article by Ghost Guide Daniel
LEGEND | ORIGIN? | GHOST | HOUSE HISTORY
Strange thing to say about any historic and gothic structure. Looking from outside, you’d expect this house to be teaming with ghosts. We’re not saying this!
Ghosts are hard to come by in Auchmar Mansion due to the house’s history. Here’s a break down…
Ghost Guide Daniel – – This was provided to us years ago by a local Niagara historian. He talked with the only living descendant of the village once behind the Screaming Tunnel.
She has disdain for the brutal legend. Then telling a story. Her take on the real reason it’s called, “Screaming Tunnel”.
For over 100 years the legendary Screaming Tunnel in Niagara-on-the-Lake has stood hidden at the tip of the Niagara Escarpment. Legend and ghost stories giving the location it’s infamy.
I knew the legends going into this professional visit. Part of a bus trip I helped coordinator over a decade ago. Yet I remember like it was yesterday. Not cause of the spooky excitement. Instead, due to sheer disappointment.
For over 100 years the legendary Screaming Tunnel in Niagara has been a right-of-passage for St. Catharine’s youth.
Are they brave enough to go inside this terrifying place at night? Hold up a wooden match. Face the ghost of a murdered girl. Those who take part are accepted. Those who fail… meet social ruin.
Directly across the road from the Ohio State Reformatory once stood a wood farmhouse. Locals remember the lilacs and a beautiful lily pond owned by Phoebe Wise.
It’s the late 1800’s. The townsfolk think she’s insane.