Ghost Guide Daniel

Come along with me for a deep dive into two lesser-known haunts of Canada.  In British Columbia exists one of Canada’s most creepy haunted dolls (next to Lizzie of Niagara, of course).  Then up into the Northwest Territories, and a gruesome mystery.  Why did the bodies have no heads?  It’s not as simple as the famous poem may say.

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A rare opportunity seized!  I got to tour Toronto’s Legislative Building, aka Queen’s Park, at night.  A free ghost tour was offered and filled very quickly.  Here’s my breakdown.  Was it worth it?  Which two ghosts are the main ones of the government building?   Also, how to be the first to know next year?

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New creepiest experience ever for me… at the Hermitage Ruins.  A unique night of the Full Moon.  Warn, gusts of wind and only 4 days before Halloween.  Never had I’ve felt such energy!  Leading up to a new ghostly experience in the back of the Ruins.

Plus, a little love all around from an amazing Halloween month!

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I got stood up!  Article writer was set to call, and then didn’t.  Breaking my heart!  Well, maybe not that dramatic.  But assumed she was fired.  Instead, the article was posted on a different site.  Perfect time for a review.  Would I have chosen this Top 5?  Are there mistakes?

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Feature interview with Andrew Mrozowski of McMaster University's Silhouette Off the Pages Show. Featuring the Halloween season, past and present. General Hamilton spookiness featuring new stories at the Hermitage. Along with views on horror movies and much more.

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First, the real.  A house in Hamilton on Victoria Avenue.  Crazy story shared by Tony about a local gangster knowing his house was haunted.  And what about the basement gravestone!?!  Then, the fake.  Daniel tears apart ‘scare haunted houses’ for their reliance on jump-scares.  How easy? 

WARNING: He jump-scares you!  The best and worst.  And how to fix them.

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Why Daniel switched back to "Ghost Guide Daniel". Failure of Ghostly History.

Then he watched the documentary, Ghosts & the Afterlife currently on Prime in Canada.  Some thought-provoking ideas, and a heap of cheese. 

Plus, one location he hadn’t heard of, a creepy haunted tree with a violent past in California.

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NOTE, show is every 2nd Wednesday until after the Halloween season

Finally, a Ouija episode.  Featuring 2 never-before-told stories from Fort Niagara and his own home!  And why Daniel respects the board...

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NOTE, show is changing to every 2nd Wednesday until after the Halloween season

Can't believe it hasn't been covered. The famous Toronto haunt now featured! Daniel discusses the history behind the real woman from the 50's. Her tragic end inside the building validating the ghost now haunting it, named Dorothy.

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Ghost Guide Daniel faces his fears.  The most terrifying ghost ever in the Irish Banshee.  Taking an overview of knowledge and terrifyingly diving into the details.  Different banshees, good and evil.  And two chilling experiences, one told to Daniel by Irish women in Niagara-on-the-Lake.

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Six Haunted Places in the big city of Toronto. As reported by Narcity! GG Daniel breaks them down with personal knowledge and stories. Plus, talk about the next two episodes.

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Interview with the author of Under Attack: Surviving in a Haunted House.  Based on his experience in a believed to be cursed house as a child in Salt Lake City, Utah. 

Over-the-top experiences from a legit source.  Daniel believes in Edward Olsen!  Even changing a long-held view on the most extreme fear about ghosts.

GHOST GUIDE DANIEL - - A recent survey shows more and more Canadians are believing in ghosts.  This episode is Daniel’s attempt to make the number higher.  Why he believes in ghosts!  And a story from Hamilton’s Custom House as an example of his theory.

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HOSTED BY GHOST GUIDE DANIEL - With a history reading like a Horror Movie Script, West Virginia Penitentiary is a truly haunted place.  This episode is dedicated to a lighter spot, but the history is dark in a much stranger and terrible way.

Dark history of the prison.  What it’s like to visit, and the State’s storied past around executions.

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Why do amazing legends start with love-lost, or deranged one-sided love never had?  The main point leading into the Legend of Sobbing Sophia Shaw in Niagara-on-the-Lake.  How a writer took on the subject which historians shoot down constantly. 

The famous Legend and Ghost, along with connections in real history.

Ghost Voices (aka EVPs) from some very haunted locations in the United States and United Kingdom. Featuring some history and the main ghosts of the locations. Along with world-famous EVPs!

All ending with a great EVP sent to Ghost Guide Daniel by an investigator friend. This one inside Fort Niagara, from the haunted chapel. A place he knows all too well from hearing a voice.

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Times of EVPs in Show...

1. Los Angeles Abandoned Hospital - 11:51 mins
2. Manchester Café Sports House - 15:40 mins
3. Athens Lunatic Asylum - 20:07 mins
4. Dublin Hellfire Club - 22:53 mins
5. Grand Cane, LA's Village Salon - 26:07 mins
6. Queen Mary Haunted Ship in CA - 29:53 mins
7. Marty's EVP from Fort Niagara - 36:16 mins

All ghost photos episode prompted by one taken during our Niagara-on-the-Lake tours.  Starting with that recent one, a face staring down from the second floor.  What makes me think it can be true, from a ghost story about a mother and daughter being disturbed at night.

Then from the first classroom-school in all of Canada.  Hamilton’s Central School, and a ghost photo caught during a Dark History tour.

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It’s the most beautiful building in Canada’s Most Haunted Town.  Then why so desperate?  Desperate to not be demolished, and ghosts really wanting to be noticed!  This week… Ghost Guide Daniel dives into the stories behind Niagara-on-the-Lake’s Courthouse.

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The beautiful house in Cleveland is considered one of Ohio’s most notoriously haunted.  A family’s death curse leads to many legends.  And ghosts remain as a reminder of the family’s challenges.

The infamous Murderess of Fall River, Massachusetts creates haunted dark tourism.  The Borden family home turned into a Bed & Breakfast.  Allowing regular folks, like me, to stay overnight in the house where Lizzie (allegedly) murdered her parents.  Dark history and ghost stories around Abby and Lizzie.

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Mature trees, playgrounds and water parks. Also, violence and hangings. Now this is a park! The Obscure Haunts Show goes to Saskatchewan. The site of a brutal prison now a park where the little kiddies play. Featuring the dark history of two hanged men, and Ghost Guide Daniel trying to figure out if it's really so haunted.

Why this place was the worst jail in Canada.  Time served there was increased because it was Hell on Earth!  As proven by the Boyd Gang’s escape, and a guy killed over a bag of chips. Featuring the Lady of the Don!

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In the distant future, if you could choose… how do you want to shuffle off this mortal coil?  Including Daniel’s own way to go.  Yes, it’s on a tour!

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More haunted places to visit in Ontario.  All driving distance from Toronto!

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The scapegoat from the Battle of Ridgeway.  It wasn’t Alfred Booker’s fault, yet the outcome still ruined him.  Leading into the historic North Hall of Hamilton's Armouries.  The old fashion way to punish the soldiers.  Related to a once balcony, since removed. 

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Spirituality episode related to getting closer to ghosts.  Energy signatures and focus to be more psychic.

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The dream of Sir Henry Pellatt became his nightmare.  How wanting a medieval castle in the middle of Toronto ruined one of its best investors.  Being right isn’t enough.  The world still got him… along with WWI and Sir Adam Beck.

But, is Henry haunting Casa Loma?  The ghost experience of a young boy at a Garden Party might prove it.

Daniel answers Ghost Questions…

What’s the most haunted place we can visit in Toronto?

Are there any GOOD! Books on Toronto history? 

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The world gets a turn!  Daniel travels all over, talking about the freakiest Myths and Ghosts.

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Fort Niagara is one of the most historically haunted places in all of North America.  And next to the infamous well… the “Jesuit Chapel” holds much energy.  History leading to a freaky experience during a major event / night investigation.

With Ghost Questions!

1. Why consider Fort Niagara one of the most haunted places?
2. What was it like investigating Fort Niagara? 

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Can Daniel prove this is Canada’s Most Haunted House.  Ghosts of Penetanguishene’s Beck House.

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Why are theatres just more haunted?  The superstitions of performers, supporting how energy can be raised for ghosts to thrive.  Leads to a ghost story from Toronto’s Winter Garden Theatre.  The Lavender Woman - mysterious murder… she blames the employees!  And a beautiful method of torture.

Personal Theatre related Ghost Questions include…

1. How would you feel if experiencing the Lavender Woman?
2. Are you an actor?
3. What is your favorite theatre ghost?

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A Canadian phantom of the (Orillia) Opera (House). As discovered by famous ghost author, Terry Boyle. My interaction with him, and complete respect for the man. That time he tried to film a new TV show at the Orillia Opera House, and the active ghosts.

Then, a brutal bit of dark history in Cayuga, Ontario. John Young’s public hanging for murder. And how the execution messed up… but that was normal and fine.

Only one ghost question this week…

1. My family says I have spiritual gifts with spirits how do you really know if you do or if your just crazy?

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The little known mysterious murder of an innocent woman on Hamilton Mountain. Have you heard of the “Barton Murder”? A deep dive into dark history with the help of an article from local historian, Brian Henley.

Then, will Mount Pleasant in Toronto prove to Daniel that cemeteries are actually haunted? The suspense is killing us! The ghostly experiences try to sway him.

Also, Ghost Questions returns. Daniel answers the following…

1. What happens if you punch a haunted house actor?
2. Who do I call about the ghost in my house?
3. Would you live in a haunted house for a week?

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Now an hour long!  More Daniel to love. Starting with the most haunted boat in the world, the Queen Mary. Sans Sam & Colby, this is about the ship itself. And the experience of an actor on the set of Paramount’s 1923.

Then, the attic of Hamilton's Custom House for a new story not previously told. From ‘back-in-my-day’, when a few bricks in the caretaker’s old apartment freaked Daniel out. Featuring, how do ghosts move bricks.

Finally, the new segment… ghost questions! Featuring answers to the following…

1. Can Ghosts See Me?
2. Why, as a child you can see ghosts, but not after growing up?
3. Why do some ghosts stay where they died, and others where they’re buried?

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Diving into some Underground Railway history with a Niagara-on-the-Lake burial ground. Why the heck haven’t they restored it yet? The story around a Toronto filmmaker that made national news. Along with some important history on the line.

Then, more cemetery fun with a ghostly experience from Ruthven. The once town of Indiana, swallowed up by Cayuga, Ontario. And in the Thompson Family cemetery exists a spirit ready to freak out one of our guides in a very unique way.

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Daniel reads his recent article on one of the most haunted cemeteries in the world, Bachelors Grove Cemetery in Chicago.

Sadguru is well-known and followed by many. One day, he was asked about ghosts (spooky, not spiritual). Giving a well thought out answer. And some advice for which Daniel completely disagrees.

Then, time to visit one of the most haunted toilets around. This one’s inside the Jester’s Court Restaurant in Port Perry, Ontario. How the town is cursed.  And what they thought was the resident ghost… being overshadowed by the woman in the washroom.

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An imaginary friend is poorly named. Cause, what if they’re not imagination at all. How one young lady brought peace to her tortured aunt, by talking with her little friend Michael. Turned out to be the ghost of her cousin!

Then, Toronto Island’s Lighthouse is the second oldest still standing in Canada. And the only one with an infamous legend. Was the Keeper murdered? The dark history behind the legend. A real trial and amazing newspaper quote from the time. Daniel separates truth from legend before talking ghosts!

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Science takes a front seat on the Podcast again. This time, it’s lack of sleep causing you to believe in ghosts. But really? No… Daniel suckered again by click-bait.

Then, such dark history in the area known as Queenston Heights. Location of a violent War of 1812 battle, and terrorist activity affecting the corpse of our most famous General, Isaac Brock. The story, along with ghostly occurrences on the hill.

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Daniel gets his gossip-on, after hearing two young paranormal investigators on the famous Joe Rogan podcast. How one story sent up his BS detectors, and why it didn’t seem legit. And why it’s important to prove ghosts are real.

Then, the spirit of a famous historic figure in the City of Toronto. Why the man was great, and how he returned to the news media 60 years after his death… inside this house.

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Warning... It's a brutal legend!  Article Read from the Ghost Walks website. 

Daniel talks about three of the most famous ghosts (real or not) in the entire world. Including, the tragic “friendly ghost” who couldn’t find a friend. Also, ghosts related to theatres. Very fitting, because the second segment is about a rare nice, theatre ghost.

From “Canada’s Most Haunted Town”, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario. In the town’s oldest theatre, The Royal George. How this once amazing Shaw actress helps new performers from beyond the grave.

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Daniel returns to his horrific dream. The night before getting trapped inside a haunted house on Wolfe Island. The violent dream on a porch… which turned out to be real!

Staying with Island Ghosts. A historic ghost story from a former resident of PEI.  And a famous Myth around the most historic church in Charlottetown, PEI. Daniel talks about his visit.  And the story leading to 4 long dead women ringing ship bells from the tower.

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Read of Daniel's article from the ghostwalks.com website.

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