Why a Booktrail?
Anytime – If you’re brave enough, you might want to go on this ghostly booktrail!
Haunted Ontario 4
What you need to know before your trail
Terry Boyle has now written four books on the ghostly goings on in places he’s visited and this time he’s determined to go further afield and to include more places. Where the last book was focused on Black Creek Pioneer Village, then this book takes you far and wide to meet some very interesting places and to visit some very interesting people and sprits.
Not for the faint hearted especially if you decide to go on the trail as the author himself did but an interesting guide to the true ghost stories, of which there are many, across the province.
Travel Guide
Now Ontario is a beautiful Canadian province, with a sparkling and modern Capital of Toronto. However there is a dark and shadowy side to this part of Canada and Terry Boyle is the man to show you when, where and who…
This is a great guide to Ontario and its ghosts – As well as Toronto, other cities big and small are included such as Burlington, Straftford, Gravenhurt and French River. The research and interest with which Terry has traveled around and visited each of the sites is clear from his insight and descriptions.
Did you know that the ghost of Marilyn Monroe came to the French River seeking sanctuary from fame and fans? Or that Scarborough has some underground tunnels? And a lift with a mind of its own? Or that there are still dozens of lost souls wandering the corridors of Ottawa’s Carleton County Jail.
The locations and sightings are extremely varied and they’re not all places you might associate with ghosts or creepy things. Are you brave enough to see for yourself?
Makes you want to be a ghost hunter for yourself just to test the theories and with the websites and details of each hotel, inn, theatre, guesthouse that is on the trail there is more than enough to keep you scared and looking for things that go bump in the night for a long while yet.
Streetview Maps
2) Canada, Toronto Elgin Theatre
The ghost of gangster John Dillinger haunts here
The ghost of gangster John Dillinger haunts here
4) Canada, Missassauga - Old Barber House Restaurant
There's more than food on the menu apparently..ghosts too.
There's more than food on the menu apparently..ghosts too.
Booktrailer Review
Susan @thebooktrailer
If you have been to Ontario and been to some of the places in the book then the feeling that you have when you go to them afterwards is chilling to say the least. Even if you haven’t, the book gets you wondering and testing what you believe and what you don’t. I loved it how this book gave you a potted history of Ontario and the various sites and it really was like walking around with the author. If I can get a potted history of a place in a new and novel way then things stick with me more and I remember a lot of these places now for the people I didn’t see when there but who will stay with me. The stories of familiar places in this new and spooky light was a real eye opener and I’m not usually one for spooky tales. Terry has written a few of these books now and I would recommend them for seeing places and discovering others in a new way.
Toronto in particular is such a sunny and nice place, friendly and vibrant – who knew that it has and had so many ghosts!?
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