Gibraltar Point Lighthouse, Canada

It was a highlight of student field trips to the Island School, and could give you shivers even on the warmest summer day. And now that the Island Park is open again for the summer, a new generation of Toronto kids can learn the spooky story (and the rest of its not-so-spooky history) behind the Gibraltar Point Lighthouse.

The lighthouse is the oldest one left on the Great Lakes and the second oldest in Canada. It was built in 1808 and guided ships to Toronto’s harbour from what was then a sandy peninsula until it was decommissioned in 1958. And any building that old has its secrets.

The lighthouse was there during the Battle of York in 1813, when American ships invaded the town of York, which culminated with the burning of the Parliament Buildings. The British retaliated later in the War of 1812 and burned the White House down. During the war, the first lighthouse keeper, J.P. Rademuller (sometimes spelled Raden Muller, Radelmuller, or Radelmüller), a German immigrant to Upper Canada, kept watch at Gibraltar Point for enemy ships and friendly vessels returning to a safe harbour. But he didn’t live to see the end of the war.

Rademuller disappeared under mysterious circumstances on January 2, 1815. The story goes that he was murdered by two soldiers who had been enjoying his home-brewed beer. Versions of the story differ slightly (one version told in the mid-2000s was that Rademuller was killed after the soldiers bought the beer, but saw it freeze on the cold winter night and assumed that the alcohol content was so low that the lighthouse keeper was trying to rip them off). But most agree that Rademuller was killed that night and dismembered by his killers, who buried his body in a few graves near the lighthouse. His ghost is said to still haunt the site.

The story was recorded by John Ross Robertson in 1908 in Landmarks of Torontoand has become a staple of spooky local lore ever since. Even in his telling, Robertson raises skepticism that the murder ever occurred, but he writes that he heard the story from the current lighthouse keeper, George Durnan, who had apparently gone looking for a body and had dug up a coffin with a jawbone. The plaque at the lighthouse mentions the ghost story and the jawbone, although this was a somewhat controversial decision.

The lighthouse has a non-ghostly history as well. It sits on Gibraltar Point, although silt buildup means that the the tower is now slightly inland from the shore (although the flooding on the Islands may change the coastline yet again). It was named Gibraltar, after the famous British-owned point at the edge of the Mediterranean, by John Graves Simcoe, Ontario’s first lieutenant-governor and the founder of the town of York, who also chose it as the site for one of the new lighthouses he was planning along the Great Lakes. The tower is built from limestone quarried near Queenston and the light on the top changed a few times over the years. It started off running on whale oil and became electric in the winter of 1916/17. The light was turned off for the last time by lighthouse keeper Dedie Dodds in 1957.

The 10 keepers of the lighthouse, including George Durnan and his father, James, who kept watch there from 1832 to 1908, saw many changes from Gibraltar Point. The city grew, new immigrants arrived in ships, the peninsula became the Islands when a storm fully separated the sand bar in 1858, families moved from the mainland, and, in more recent years, the Islands became a park and a favourite summer destination. The lighthouse keepers saw it all, and as a 2008 Heritage Toronto plaque at the site points out, “the keepers and their families formed the nucleus of a growing island community.”

Although the lighthouse is no longer in use and is usually locked, it still has a keeper. Manuel Cappel, also from Germany, has been the honorary keeper since 1999, when he volunteered to keep the lighthouse tidy.

Koh-i-Chiltan Peak – Balochistan

Brain-child of the Brahvi language, the story about 40 children who would send tourists astray to their death has been around for decades. They say that these children would misguide tourists on purpose and make sure they never found their way back. The question arises, why would children misguide tourists? That again, is part of the frightening myth.
               

Legend has it, that there was a very poor couple that lived near the Chiltan mountain range, living a barren life with no children whatsoever. They were so grieved of not having any children that the couple prayed and begged God for a child every single day. Miraculously, the couple did have children some time later.. and it wasn’t to be just one or two kids, they gave birth to 40 children!

Since the couple was poor and not able to provide for the 40 infants, after discussing and keeping a huge stone on their heart, they decided to leave 39 children in the forest and keep one child to raise for themselves. They knew the 39 children would die, but they were so happy for the one child that they didn’t think beyond.

However, Mother Nature had a different plan for those 39 infants. Instead of dying, she decided to raise them. After a couple of years, when the parents went to visit the jungle, they were sure that all the children would be dead. They left the only child they kept for themselves alone for a little while and he vanished into thin ether. Legend again has it that 40th child was taken by his siblings, who had all survived instead of dying and now possessed lightning reflexes and supernatural powers.

It is said that the children still haunt the forest of Chiltan today and misguide tourists who stop by to ask them for directions. There have been numerous cases when people have not returned from the mountains of Chiltan. The “children of the forest” from Game of Thrones give a striking resemblance to the Chehel-Tan myth of Balochistan.

 Monte Cristo Homestead 

This beautiful Victorian building was built by Australian pioneer, Christopher William Crawley in 1885 & is located in the town of Junee in New South Wales in Australia. Although the house looks like a comfortable family home in the daylight, the night tells a different story as it is believed to be the most haunted building in Australia.

Mr Crawley worked his way up to be a successful entrepreneur from a poor farmer & raised his family in this house. He died in 1910 & his wife reputedly became quite the recluse after his death, only leaving her home twice. She later died in 1933 but the home stayed in the family until 1944. The house was left in the care of caretakers who lacked in their duties leaving the house open to vandals & quickly fell into disrepair.

That time' house

In 1963, the house was bought by Reg & Olive Ryan who spent years restoring the property back to its former glory. The Ryans caught many ghosts on camera & opened the house as a ghost tourist attraction. Take a look at the pictures of the house inside to see the decor frozen in time.

Christopher & Elizabeth Crawley.

Mrs Ryan has had reports on her tour of a ghostly Mrs Crawley, seemingly grieving & crying, walking around the house. But there have been numerous reports  of strange lights, disembodied sounds, & even unexplained mutilated animals on the property. These occurrences are attributed to several incidences that took place on the grounds. A murder of a former caretaker in the caretaker’s cottage, & a mentally ill man imprisoned for 40 years in the onsite dairy. Also a maid who was reputedly pregnant with Mr Crawley’s love child, jumped to her death from the balcony of the upstairs bedroom, a boy who burned to death in a fire in the stables, & a child who was “dropped” down the stairs & killed.

Inside House

In Present

Paranormal Activity

Real story behind Annabelle Doll

Photo of real and fake annabelle doll

You might have heard about the Annabelle doll by your friends or by the Annabelle movie But now here you are going to read a truth “Story” about the most cursed doll in the world “Annabelle”

“Story you are going to read is all based on true events happened with Donna and Angie”

Annabelle Higgins ( the little girl )

Donna a college student got Annabelle doll from her mother in 1970s as a gift her mother bought this used doll at a antique store. At that time Donna was living with her roommate named Angie, first time when they saw this doll they didn’t find anything special or wrong in the doll. But after some time they noticed that Annabelle doll changes her place on her own at first Donna and Angie both didn’t take this thing seriously. But after sometime movements of the doll started becoming more weirder. The girls would leave the apartment with Annabelle doll on bed and return home to find it on the couch. This thing was just a start of something very dark coming in future. Donna and Angie’s friend always hated the doll ever since he saw it first. He thought there was something very wrong with it, something very evil and dark, but the girls were modern women and didn’t believe in these kind of things. But soon Annabelle doll started to become more scarier. Donna began to find pieces of paper in her house with messages written on it.

“Help me” or “Miss me”

Letter Written By annabelle Like this
One night Donna returned home from her college and find Annabelle doll on her bed bleeding,The blood was coming from the doll itself. That was enough for Donna. She started researching about the doll and tried to know its history. After some time Donna finds a terrifying story or maybe the answers of these spooky things going in her life. long before their apartment complex had been built there was a field on that property.A seven year old girl named Annabelle Higgins had been found dead in that field.But unfortunately her spirit remained, and when the doll came into the house the spirit possessed the doll .her spirit found Donna and Angie to be trustworthy. Her spirit just wanted to stay with them because they were both nursing students and always cares for everybody that’s why Donna and Angie agreed to let Annabelle’s spirit stay with them.
“And because of this everything become worst for them”

Annabelle

Latter on Lou “Friend of Donna and Angie” started having nightmares, where Annabelle doll trying to kill him these nightmares made him wake up terrified.After this incident many more weird things happen to lou like burn marks on his chest, cuts on his back for no reason and much more. Latter on they called Ed and Lorraine Warren to help them.“Ed and Lorraine Warren was a very famous paranormal researchers at that time They claims that they solved more than ten thousand spooky cases in their life”It didn’t take the Warrens long time to come on a conclusion that there was no ghost in this case.There was an spirit or a demon attached to the doll. And the main target of the spirit was actually Donna’s soul. After that a priest performed an exorcism on the apartment and the Warrens took of the Annabelle doll with them. Annabelle doll now sits in a glass case inside the artifact room of Ed and Lorraine Warren.

“it is blessed by a priest twice a month”