Mysteries of Ontario

By John Robert Colombo

Book Overview

Mysteries of Ontario brings together, for the first time, some five hundred accounts of strange events and eerie experiences, each keyed to one of 250 places in the province. It turns out that, far from being a humdrum part of the planet in which to live and work, Ontario is a province that is alive with ghosts and spirits, mysterious disappearances, and peculiar happenings enough to make your hair stand on end, turn your blood cold, and send shivers up and down your spine

John Robert Colombo has been collecting materials for this book since 1967. Even so, more than two years were devoted to researching, writing, copy-editing, and photo editing Mysteries of Ontario. The reader is invited to peruse the great historical mysteries that have moved Canadians in the past from LaSalle's missing Griffon to the peculiar disappearance of Ambrose Small, from the spiritualistic legacy of the Fox Sisters of Consecon to the appearance in the 1990s of "ghost walks," "haunted hayrides," and "boo barns." This is a book that unites folklore and scholarship, the supernatural and the speculative, culture and mysticism, the occult and the peculiar, the psychical and the cultural, the human and the non-human.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0888822057
• ISBN13: 9780888822055
• Release Date: May 1999
• Publisher: Dundurn Press
• Length: 340 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.5" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

WORTH BUYING!

"Mysteries of Ontario" is the best source on hauntings and other mysteries in the province. The material is well researched and superbly presented. The 500 sites include: Gibraltar Point Lighthouse (Toronto) Mackenzie House (Toronto) Screaming Tunnel (Niagara Falls) Lundy's Lane (Niagara Falls) Angel Inn (Niagara on the Lake) Hermitage Ruins (Ancaster) Albion Falls (Stoney Creek) House of Commons (Ottawa) Taunton Castle (Pickering) Whitby Courthouse (Whitby) Inn at the Falls (Bracebridge) White Otter Castle (Ignace) McAfee Cemetery (Fort Erie) Sir William Mackenzie Inn (Kirkfield) John Robert Colombo even provides an explanation for the famous ghost light on Scugog Island! Entertaining and informative.