Ghost Stories of Ontario

by John Robert Colombo

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 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 Goderich, Hamilton, London, Toronto, Niagara-on-the-Lake, North Bay, Oakville, Oshawa, St. Catharines, and Sarnia! Perhaps there is a ghost near you...

Genres: Paranormal, Nonfiction, Canada

240 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1995

About the author

Also called “Canada’s Mr. Mystery”, Mr. Colombo lives in Toronto with his wife. In addition to writing and running a publishing company, Mr. Colombo has appeared on both television and radio.

Reviews

[Kaitlyn · Rating 2 out of 5]

To be fair, I didn't go into this book expecting much, but a surprising number of the stories were outright dull or only tangentially related to ghosts. There were a handful that were interesting and surprisingly funny, but if this was something I was reading on my own (versus reading out loud with my wife), I probably wouldn't have bothered finishing it.

[S.B. (Beauty in Ruins) · Rating 4 out of 5]

Easily one of my most valuable sources, not to mention a great read for a stormy night. Colombo allows his subjects to tell much of their own stories, adding a welcome sense of authenticity to the tales collected here. From the heartwarming to the bone-chilling, there's enough variety to interest just about everyone.

[Tara · Rating 2 out of 5]

I usually enjoy John Robert Combo’s work, my favourite being Haunted Toronto, but this one didn’t do it for me. I love anything and everything supernatural but I found this to be very slow. Though there are several interesting stories within the book I just couldn’t connect with it.

[Marysa Nunes · Rating 2 out of 5]

Good as a casual read, was really bored at some points and definitely took me a few weeks to get through