Ghost Stories of Ontario (Personal Accounts)

by John Robert Colombo

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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 show more 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... show less

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John Robert Colombo, the Toronto-based author and anthologist, has been collecting accounts of supernatural and paranormal experiences as reported by Canadians for more than twenty years. Dubbed Canada's Mr. Mystery, he has previously published The Big Book of Canadian Ghost Stories, The Big Book of Canadian Hauntings, and Strange but True, among show more dozens of other books. show less

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Ontario, Canada
Original language
English

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Nonfiction, History, General Nonfiction
DDC/MDS
133.1Philosophy & psychologyParapsychology & occultismSpecific topics in parapsychology and occultismApparitions
LCC
BF1472 .C2 .C65Philosophy, Psychology and ReligionPsychologyOccult sciencesGhosts. Apparitions. Hauntings
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