In Gravenhurst Ontario, theres an old abandon sanatorium thats pretty dam creepy, its close down and now is called the Muskoka Centre, its were the opp K9 units train, theres about 8 different buildings One 5 story hosptital (sanatorium) and one 3 story building and about 6 houses you guys should investigate it cause ive heard alot of storys about it and its prettty creepy. This video was filmed in 2008 so you could only imagine what its like now.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qi_1FbokAKc

August 23^rd, 2011

Troy

An Old House

Our story begins roughly 2 in a half years ago. We live in a relatively old house in downtown Toronto. We've been experiencing some paranormal activity since, like mentioned earlier, two years ago. The first thing that I personally have experienced was when my parents had a few friends over. I was told they were staying the night so I was told to go get some blankets from my bedroom located on the second floor. As I approached the top of my stairs i saw a cloudy like figure sitting at the end of my bed looking almost like he was inviting me in. Me being how I am, instantly ran downstairs and told everybody. Eventually the situation got pushed aside and forgotten. Since that experience we've had numerous amounts of weird things happening in our home, Some examples are, drawers mysteriously flying across the room when everyone is sleeping, bruises on our arms shaped like the human hand, lights and TV's being turned on and off, along with fans. We have two computers in the house and both my brothers have been woken up to the sounds of footsteps and a typing like noise coming from the computers. We would really appreciate your help if you guys are willing to come. We would like to get to the bottom of these chain of events.

Sincerely yours,

May 15^th, 2011

Savannah

Doors…

Dear C.H.A.P.S,

        We recently bought a new house in our town. I have heard many stories from our friends that it is haunted. But they have no proof. About a month ago, I was sent upstairs by my mom(it is a three story house). When I reached the second floor, I could hear footsteps over top of me. So I stopped, and they immediately stopped to, so I figured it was the echo of my footsteps, so I kept going...I stopped again, and they kept going....i immediately ran downstairs.

Another time...(to this day) We always lock every door in the house, when we go somewhere. We don't live in this house yet because renovations need to be done. The only person who has a key is the electrician, who is away on vacation somewhere. All the doors seem to be unlocking...in no pattern but randomly. Me and my friend went to check if the doors were locked one day, and they were. Before we left, I decided I would check a door at the top of our stairs outside. witch is blocked off by a no trespassing sing. because of a broken stair. I went up and to my surprise it was open.

                                                            Worried girl,

                                                                    Savannah <name removed>

P.S. My mom has looked into the history of the house and asked around, My mom was widowed a year and a half ago. Every person who has owned this house has either been widowed or has never married...coincidence? You tell me.

Thank you :D

May 4^th, 2011

D. Mah

skeptic, now a believer

Living in Toronto for most of our lives, my parents wanted something new and we all decided to buy a family business. We had located a small house in Cornwall Ontario. it was used as a small cornerstore and it had a tiny room upstairs and one at the bottom, right next to the business itself. And it being a cheap listing, we took it for a better life for all of us. Me and my sibling's did not like this house because of its appearance, and also because we had to walk outside of the business and walk around the house and go up external stairs into the living space above. most of the time at night. we would hear little scratches here and there, footsteps and knocks.  i slept next to the business on the main floor because of the lack of space upstairs. it was a tiny bedroom. every so often at night i would go out and have a cigarette, and on numerous occasions, id open my door, and there standing in front of me, is a cat.  they would LITERALLY just sit and stare at the house, like a statue. id yell at them and scare them away and id sit and smoke away wondering what this was all about. my younger brother then one day had the same thing happen. this time he had a sudden panic attack and we took him to the hospital (they told him to stay away from caffeine). but yet, me my mom and dad all shrugged it off and continued business as usual. my siblings were terrified of walking out at night. in the dark of the night, the house just emitted an aura that is different than any other house down the street. being a sceptic, i did not believe in such "nonsense". one night i was sleeping in my room after closing at 10. i could not fall asleep, i had just felt like i had a rush of energy and i could not get myself to close my eyes. i was unafraid, yet unusually not tired. now 3am in bed, i had saw a can of coke on my desk just move  a foot to the right. i laughed to myself. i didn’t know what to think. i was on the edge of believing, so i went under the covers. I then started to hear children playing outside my window, but i knew there was no one there. by this time i was shaking and sweating in my sheets. i stayed underneath for at least 30mins, i didn’t flinch or make any movement. i then argued with myself that my mind was playing tricks on me and tried to go to sleep. out of disbelief, i heard a thunderous noise from upstairs. as if someone had fallen through the roof. i was petrified. i ran to my cellphone and called upstairs. mom answered yawning and said all 5 of them were fine and they didn’t hear a thing. she sent my brother down while i lay underneath the blankets. he came down and told me that as he passed the store he could see a figure sitting in a corner. i went up with him and after i told my story to everyone in amazement, finally went to sleep. after about 2 hours later, my mother had run into my room and woke me up and asked me to hurry and take a look at something in the store, tired i ran in and she showed me a metal shelf that was taken out of its slots, and bent out of shape. we couldn’t believe what we saw. there was never anything that we put on that shelf. nothing heavy enough to cause that much damage. we were all convinced this house had some paranormal activity. days passed, an old lady had come to our store one afternoon and had told us quietly that this was her first visit here after a very long time. she told us of a murder that happened just the previous summer, in the exact corner where the shelf had been bent. she had also mentioned that i had slept in the suspects room. we did not tell the lady of our experience, but we did learn the victims name, and everytime i step into my room, i address her and have short convo. we’ve since moved from there. but i left with an experience that changed my perception of life after death.

March 6^th, 2011

Shayne

Grace Hospital

Hi there, my name is Shayne <name removed>. In 2000 I was at the Old Grace hospital which is now Health resource center to get back surgery from Dr. Miller. I was told to arrive the day before and spend the night to prepare for surgery first thing in the morning. I was shown my room by the nurse and put my belongings in there. She told me to go grab a bite to eat then come back and settle for the night. I went down the street and grabbed a burger and fries then returned to the hospital. I went into the hospital and up to my room. When I was walking back to my room I turned to step in but I saw a lady with dark brown hair and a white outfit on sitting in one of the chairs. I kinda stopped because I thought I was walking into the wrong room. So I glanced at the next room to it to double check that I was in the right room. When I went to turn back in my room it was empty she was gone. So I did probably a triple take to just try to make a little sense of it. I just figured I was just seeing things and discounted it. A little bit later I was ready for bed and laid down to sleep. Through out the night I kept waking up because I thought the nurse kept coming into my room. I felt somebody lightly touching me and I could feel someone sitting on my bed, it was a very weird sensation because absolutely nobody was in my room. I was a little baffled and thought it was just because I was sleeping in a different bed. Anyhow the next morning the nurses got me up and prepped me for surgery. There were about 6 or 7 other patients just laying together in our beds beside each other waiting. One of the nurse asked the other nurse if she had seen her pen because she just had it. The other nurse said maybe it was the ghost and us patients giggled. She said seriously there is a ghost who wanders the halls looking for her baby because she died giving birth to it and things go missing all the time. So at that time it clicked in what happened to me I was seriously thinking about what I saw and felt. I did not tell anybody because I was still trying to process it. I absolutely saw a lady in my room and she was gone seconds later. I definitely felt somebody sitting on my bed and I had my eyes open. This was a very real experience and I remember it vividly. I was thinking about it and was curious about other stories and I saw your website. I figured I would email you and tell you about my experience and wondering if you had any other reported regarding this hospital. So if you have any other stories regarding this hospital.I would really appreciate if you could get back to me if you have any other info or details. 
Thank you very much

Shayne <name removed>

February 9^th, 2011

Karyn

King St/Bridgeport St, Waterloo, Ontario

Back in 1995 I had a friend that was renting an apartment that is attached to a house on the corner of King St and Bridgeport Street in Waterloo, Ontario.  At the time the house was an Irish pub (today I think it's insurance) so we were hanging out there with this friend.  He told us the place (a house with a long attachment on it with apartments in it) used to be an illegal abortion clinic in the early 1900s and over a dozen girls died from hemmorging in the waiting room down in the basement (where there was laundry facilities for the tenents).  He also said the room that houses the laundry facilities used to be the operation room!  After hearing this we HAD to see it.  Sure enough, there was a huge room with laundry and a very narrow, very dark hallway leading to the waiting room (which I did not see myself)  I was working up the courage to go into the dark hallway when the furnace turned on so I looked to my right in a reflex and caught a young woman with a white gown on and long brown hair floating towards me with arms out to embrace me and a very white face that had the look of utter shock/fear in it.  I screamed and ran outside never to go back in.  If you look into it please contact me as I'd love to face my fear!  I hear the apartments on the side of the house have screams and cries being heard.  This was where the young, pregnant girls were housed before abortion.  Creepy, no?

January 14^th, 2011 

Sarah

Creeped Out

Hi well I'm Sarah I live in Toronto Ontario, and kind have a story/ question.

So my mum has lived in the house we are in since she was maybe three years old. When she was younger maybe twelve in the basement in the stairs she saw her great grandmother standing there (mind you she was dead) just smiling and telling her not to worry about anything.

In the past my best friend has seen an older woman in the basement just smiling and then vanishing or telling her to “go back to bed sweetheart".  Now I don't mind if it's her, it’s the other presences that really bother me. In my room for the last ten years I have felt a heavy, dark, and creepy feeling, making falling asleep an issue. By my closet I and my best friend have seen a shadow (and when my room is dark it’s nearly pitch black) standing, but hunched over and almost bent, just staring, like almost if grinning. We both feel this is a man. I fear turning over to lie on my side because as soon as I face the wall I can almost feel that someone is standing right by my bed side, blocking the light of the TV If I have it on. I also feel like I have to rush or almost run when going to the bathroom, or kitchen to get a drink of water, because I feel and out of the corner of my eyes see something rushing up behind me. I have cats and sometimes it’s them, and they scare that absolute u know out of me, but when it’s them I don’t feel pressured.  It feels as though it follows me in the house.  Now lately in the last two and a half months it’s become unbearable.

I just got a new kitten during the summer, and he was asleep on my chest, when around the base boards or my room a large cat shape ran across the wall, and I sleep with my door closed and no other cats where in the room with me at the time and Milo was passed out. About a week and a half later a music box I haven’t used in about eight to ten years in the middle of the night just started playing. It woke me up, and I immediately assumed it was my cell when I discovered what it was, So I flicked on the light and it is so unwound the pin my fall out.  Now just this week it topped it off. I was lying in bed, and the cap of my hairspray (on my desk) popped off, flew in the air about a foot and fell on the ground. I picked it up put it back on crawled in bed and text my boyfriend. About ten min later I felt cold fingers along my forehead and then it was gone, and I was sweating that night (heat was on high).

Now nothing seems to happen when matt is here but as soon as it’s me or Sarah (my best friend... I know odd we have the same name, ask our parents) stuff, happens. And that’s why I feel the presence is a male. My grandfather just died 2 years ago, and he was a ww2 veteran, and the man down the road committed suicide.  Other than that, I know of no men that have died recently in my area.

 so yeah my story

October 17^th, 2011

Angela

Knocking

Well i have always thought of myself to being pretty open with spirits, I’ve seen alot growing up. but mostly have someone coming around me more when i was having addiction issues...One night my ex and i were sleeping in one room with the kids....no one else was around and the hallway was long and all the rooms were on the one side wall.....we kept hearing knocking very loud up and down the hallway, even on my bedroom door,,,, when i asked my boyfriend at the time to check ....sure enough nothing was around. so he closed the door and came back to bed, it was like in the minute the knocking started again he told me just to go back to sleep, i was so scared i wasn’t to sure on what to do...we also heard the internet connection dialing up when the computer wasn’t even hooked up...many times I’ve had bad times in the house..

September 7, 2010

Mem

I was always intrigued by the supernatural, even as a child. My father has told me a few stories about me being "sensitive" but he never goes in detail. I think it's because he fears the unknown. It's always a touchy subject with him, though he's always encouraged me into discovering the truth. When my parents divorced my sister and I went to live with our mom in Quebec in one of our grand-parents properties. 

Early on until the moment we moved out, my sister and I experienced paranormal activity in the house. My sister is an extremely skeptical person and refuses to believe in any "force", but oddly enough she experienced things with me during the time we lived there. Often at night time, we'd be alone in the house and I would constantly hear people coming up the stairs of our porch. It was loud enough for me to get up and go look outside if anyone was there.

I would never see anyone. Then my sister would get up and look though the windows, curious, and she would see people walk across the porch. They would disappear rapidly. 

We also had a very young spirit who would turn the bedroom door knob, open the door and close it after. We think it was a child who wanted to play because as we got older it resided and eventually stopped.

On two occasions I thought I had seen a blond girl dressed in white next to me, I would turn around thinking it was my sister, but then no one would be there and my sister would be way across the house in our room.

Our friends have encountered the spirits as well, one of our friends was spooked out enough by the door opening that she did not return to the house for years.

That's my story for our childhood home. We lived right next to a highway and a lot of people died in accidents nearby our home. That and the property belonged to our family for a very long time and people have passed there. Our grand-mother told us of a blond 8 year old sister of hers that had died there. We think it was her that was visiting us the most often.

I believe the little was a caring, peaceful spirit, the others I think were just walking by or curious. I never felt anything negative in our house. Everyone has always felt it like a welcoming place.

I have a lot of stories, but I picked this one because I haven't experienced a haunting after the family house. This isn't something that was surrounding me being a little "sensitive", but something I shared with more than one person.

Peace out :)

August 12, 2010

Chels

I am 13 and i have had five interactions with a ghost i was sitting in my computer chair and then i felt a hand on my shoulder and i look over to my soulder and nothing was their i slowly moved my hand toward my shoulder and kinda fliked it away and it left. Another one is i had a bowl of cerial and i was putting the bowl with the cerial in it on the counter and i felt hands under my own i was scared at first i put it down then picked it up again nothing was their. This one happend shortly after the first one i was still sitting on the chair and i herd my name being called i went upstiars to see if my grandpa called me and he said no why and it was only my grandpa and i home. I was liying down in my bed and i say at the corner of my eye a kinda furry shadow and this was three days ago i got a bit scared and fell asleep. Two days ago i was putting boxes in the trailer for storage i herd my nme i turned the corner and nobody was there to call my name and i was like paranormal five. My grandma also died in this house four years ago and they had a dog named bandit that died when i was little.

July 28, 2010

Melissa  from Maniwaki, Quebec, Canada:

I would love to tell you about my story, what I have experienced at my dad's.

My dad lives on the native reserve Kitigan Zibi Anishnabeg, and he lives pretty far out in the woods.

On a cold winter night, my aunt asked me to babysit my two little cousins at my dad's while they left for a party. It was about 2AM and my cousins fell asleep on the couch. I was getting tired as well, so I took my cousins to bed, and I went back in the living room to lock the door. I made sure that it couldn't open and all.

Then, I sat down on the couch, and I watched a bit of television when I saw from the corner of my eye the door opening slowly. I was watching, a little too scared to even move. Then, it closed super fast, making a loud noise that woke up one of the girls.

I was frozen on the spot, and my little cousin came in the living room, asking me what happened. I didn't want to tell her so I said the wind opened the door and she went back to bed. When I was sure she wasn't there, I opened the door, and I went to check outside to see if there was any footsteps or anything that could have given me a logical explanation. I couldn't, so I just went to bed, and I could feel a bit nervous.

I woke up because my cousins wanted to eat breakfast. While they were eating, my aunt came to pick them up, and I took her aside to talk to her about what happened. She looked at me with big eyes, and she told me "It happned to you too?" (Because before my dad moved in that house, she lived there). I said yes, sinc i'm telling you it happened. She then said "That's a bad sign. Someone you know is going to die soon." I told her that was ridiculous, but exactly a month later, my Grandfather died.

I was in shock. It was a little scary. But I never liked the energy in that house... It always gives me goosebumps. But my fears are even higher now because of my experience. Since then, I hear a lot of noises from the basement (I never go down there) and my dad tld me he heard my grandfather cough in his room, after he died.

And I brought a friend once (she claims to be sensitive to paranormal stuff) and I neevr told anyone about my experience, except to my aunt and dad, but when we left, my friend told me: "There's spirits in your house. I get a negative aura." I was freaked out, but it seems like things are getting better since my dad lights a candle every night.

February 6, 2010

Koko from Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada:

I am writing on behave of my 10 yr. old daughter who has experienced things uin herbedroom. She will be playing and she will hear voices and she yells at us to see if we were calling her, because she could hear someone calling her name. Also while she is playing she sees black images moving around in her room. Numerous times she has complained about seeing a woman in white with a dress almost to her ankles and looks like she is wearing a apron of some sort, but could never make out her facial features. And when you stand at the bottom of the stairs and look towards her bedroom door she has these hanging butterflies in her door and you can see them moving. She is quite disturbed with this but we have assured her that if it is anything it can't hurt her. Now I wonder being that our house is a old wartime home if that has anything to do with it. Thinking of getting her room blessed.

January 7, 2010

Ashly from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada:

Hello I actually am going to tell a story that my friend told me.

Okay I live in Edmonton Alberta, and I have recently come to know about about a haunted hospital by the name of Charles Camsell.

The Charles Camsell Hospital is located in Edmonton, Alberta, and the building that stands originally opened in 1967. Since 1996, the building has been abandoned since the hospital shut its doors. The original part of the building that no longer exists was a tuberculosis sanatorium that reached its peak in the 1950s. Some of the patients in this sanitorium were put there by force, and other patients that had certain defects were sterilized without the patients approval. The hospital has bore witness to many deaths and tragic events, including in 1982, when a man working on the roof fell to his death.

The hospital is believed to be haunted, and people who just even walk past it feel as though there are hundreds of eyes looking at them through the boarded up windows. Satanic symbols and graffiti are a plethora on the fences, not helping the sites reputation as a dark and scary place. The fourth floor of the hospital was home to the psychiatric ward during its existence. On a recorder, the scream of a young woman has been captured there. A psychic believed this was the spirit of a teenage girl who had ripped her nails off from her fingers. The second floor was the surgical wing, and to this day there are still blood stains on the floor in one room. In the morgue, the elevator has been known to go up and down on its own accord. Footsteps are often heard, indicating that some of the patients still walk the halls, even in death.

OKay I have a friend who has a friend that is I guess has some psychic abilities and wouldn't go near that hospital so I guess as a kind of joke my friend and her friends decided to drive him by the hospital and he looked over and said "I need to leave right now, I can't be here" and he just started to freak out.. So they finally left, when they asked what was wrong he said that he could see spirits standing on the roof and in the windows and there was a room that was just full of body parts and the spirits were not happy. That really freaked out my friend so she doesn't go by the hospital anymore.  I personally haven't seen it but I hope to go soon.