You've felt it in the crisp autumn air. You've seen the little cobwebs decorating your favourite cafe, a Scorpio you know is acting up, PUMPKINS are all over... yes, my friends, it's spooky season.
If you're someone who likes their spooky season with an emphasis on SPOOK, there's no shortage of real-life horror movie locations across Canada to get you in the (literal) spirit.
User u/SkellingtonsDontReal posed this question to fellow Torontonians: "What are the creepiest places in the city? Do you know of any allegedly haunted locations in Toronto?"
"Is there somewhere that gives you the creeps? Urban legends and personal ghost stories are much appreciated."
1. "Keg Mansion. Such a creepy feeling when I used to walk by it every day."
2. "Casa Loma's underground tunnels are up there. Plenty of stories about the whole castle also."
3. "The Gibraltar Point Lighthouse on the islands. The first lighthouse keeper was supposedly murdered there."
4. "St. Mikes Hospital! No personal experience but I know people that have experienced creepy things."
5. "The basement of the UofT physics building. I went down to the lower level to get equipment a few times. As I walked over a grate, I noticed a hole actually led to another floor about two more stories down. Looking down through the grate, I saw a single light bulb and a chair. I went back to return and retrieve the equipment multiple times and that light and chair were always down there."
6. "I've heard Humber College Lakeshore Campus is on the site of the old Mimico psychiatric hospital. Sounds very haunted."
7. "Elgin Theatre. It has those old elevators where an attendant slides the door/grate closed and pulls a lever to get it moving. Sometimes on the way up, it doesn't stop at the second floor as it's supposed to and continues on to an upper floor, which is used for storage. Legend has it there is a ghost up there that calls the elevator."
8. "The gravestones across from Colborne Lodge in High Park are creepy. They have old wrought iron spikes and look especially gnarly. Plus the ghost story is that the woman in Colborne Lodge went crazy after her husband died and was confined to an upper room and the window could look down on the site where she would be buried."
9. "The abandoned dentistry building on the George Brown campus. Legit saw a ghost there."
10. "Ireland Park statues at night."
11. "Went on a ghost tour in downtown and I think the only place I felt someone – something? – pinch me was at Mackenzie House and that was just standing outside the building."
12. "The Frog and Firkin on Yonge and Sheppard. There are reports of people seeing a ghost when going to the washroom."
13. "In the late 80s, I had a friend who worked in the Bank of Montréal on the corner of Yonge & Front. It's now the Hockey Hall of Fame. She swore it was haunted. She and her co-workers avoided the second floor."
Well! The list of places I'll be avoiding in this city has just got longer! What about you?! – Will you be checking them out?
