The Purple Phantasm

*Trowbridge Falls - Investigation planned Spring of 2014

 

The bridge is the main place that people have reported spirit photography, sightings, and even being physically pushed.  As I understand the entire area is said to be haunted.  

 

Trowbridge Falls in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada - Many people have died right here and throughout the area over the years due to accidents while adventure-seeking, or due to suicide. People report hearing unexplained noises and seeing movement throughout the surrounding forest, being touched and pushed by unseen entities, light anomalies are seen, mysterious mists form & disappear

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOFM8TFD3Ow

http://www.thunderbay.ca/Living/recreation_and_parks/Parks/Campgrounds/Trowbridge_Falls_Campground.htm

http://www.torontoghosts.org/index.php?/20080819293/Northern-Ontario/Thunder-Bay-Trowbridge-Falls.html

 

*Econo Lodge (Circle Inn)

The Thunderbay Econolodge has reports, especially in room 216.

 

http://hauntednorthamerica.net/all-locations/all-locations-canada/thunder-bay/

http://www.ghostvillage.com/ghostcommunity/index.php?showtopic=28387

 

*Neebing Floodway

Floodway, the whole east end has reports of hauntings both outside and in the houses.

http://www.ghostvillage.com/ghostcommunity/index.php?showtopic=28387

http://www.pararesearchers.org/index.php?/20090428650/Ghosts-Hauntings/Neebing-Spooklights.html

 

*Prince Arthur Waterfront Hotel

The Prince Arthur Hotel is haunted. There was someone, I think it was one of the cooks who committed suicide in the basement. And the ghost of a well-to-do man who lived there haunts room 203, the people at the hotel call him Ol' Harvey. This was decades ago and he is now deceased. Apparently room 203 is the room that Harvey used to live in. Years later when employees took down photos of Harvey that were in room 203 the room flooded. funny enough, it didn't leak down to the other rooms and it was the only room to have a flood in it. The flooding stopped when the photos were put back up in the room. People have also said that you can smell cigar smoke on the 2nd floor. I took a tour of the place and it does have a smell of cigar smoke which goes away as soon as it comes. 

http://psican.org/alpha/index.php?/20100512478/Psychical-Phenomena-ESP-PK-RSPK-Remote-Viewing/Disturbing-Dreams-In-Thunder-Bay.html

 

*Thunder Bay Museum

Located in a historic building, which once served as a Police Station and Court House, the Thunder Bay Museum offers visitors six galleries of local, regional and national heritage.

http://www.thunderbaymuseum.com/

 

*Pioneer Village & Founders Museum

Thunder Bay Paranormal Society have been out at the Founder's Museum and Pioneer Village over the past several weeks investigating reports of strange and unusual happenings at the musuem.

Don McCauley of Thunderstryker Films documented the investigation on video.

The claims of spirit activity on the premise, including footsteps, music, voices and other phenomenon have been reported at Founders by staff members and visitors.

Ontario 61  Thunder Bay, ON P7C 4V2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBZhG2p4lnY

http://www.founders.ca/

 

*Leeblain Ghost Town

The town was Leeblain was created back in 1893 as a stop on the Port Arthur, Duluth and Western Railway (mile 83). It was located on a small bay on the north/Canadian shore of Gunflint Lake, in the district of Thunder Bay. Leeblain was named after two Toronto businessmen who were important investors in the railway, A.B. Lee (Rice, Lewis & Son) and Hugh Blain (Eby, Blain & Co.). It was hoped that the town would grow into a “metropolis” because of the business generated by the iron mines immediately across the border in Minnesota. The railway planned for Leeblain to be its major terminal point outside of Port Arthur, with a roundhouse and other maintenance facilities.

The town of Leeblain never expanded from its original form. The railway constructed a 40 by 24 foot, two-storey building that was described as a “hotel.” The site also contained several small log structures, a 1200 foot siding and several nearby rock ovens, which were used by the construction crews to bake bread. The town itself had very few permanent residents; most of the people living on the lake tended to congregate near the border at the Gunflint Narrows, 2 ½ miles to the west.

Leeblain only existed for 10 years, from 1893 to 1903. After 1903, the railway stopped running trains to Gunflint Lake due to a lack of business and what few people lived there left. From 1903 to 1909 the Government of Canada operated a customs house 4 ½ miles away at the eastern end of the lake to serve a logging railway called the Gunflint and Lake Superior which transported logs from Minnesota. It was located at “Leeblain.” When a forest fire burned a nearby trestle and severed the line to Gunflint Lake, the government closed thecustoms house and the name Leeblain was never used again.

Today, very little exists of the town of Leeblain. The rails were lifted in the area c.1915 and nature took over. The only things visible were the rock ovens (two at the site, and the best preserved just to the north). In 1991 the Ontario Federation of Snowmobile Clubs cleared the right of way to use as part of theirtrail network, and Leeblain became accessible once again. Besides the ovens, the railway siding and the indentations of the buildings were visible. Unfortunately, the area was hit by a massive windstorm in 1999 that caused large blowdowns. In 2000 the area was logged to remove the deadfall, which damaged the site. In 2007, the Gunflint area was burned over by a large forest fire.

http://www.ontarioabandonedplaces.com/upload/wiki.asp?entry=1924

 

*Fort William Historical Park

 

1350 King Road Thunder Bay, Ontario P7K 1L7 

http://www.fwhp.ca/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1

*St. Andrew's Cemetery

Lat: 48° 25' 49"N, Lon: 89° 15' 14"W
To reach Saint Andrew Cemetery, turn west from the Trans Canada Highway 17 onto Oliver Road and drive about 3 kilometres. Thunder Bay University will be on your right. Riverside Cemetery and then Saint Andrew will be on your left when you reach Balmoral Street.
This Catholic cemetery was established about 1885 and is owned and operated by the Roman Catholic Diocesan of Thunder Bay, Pastoral Centre, 1222 Reaume Street.

http://www.ghostvillage.com/ghostcommunity/index.php?showtopic=21499

 

*Burchell Lake

 

Burchell Lake is a company mining town, built in the 1950's, and abandoned in the 1960's after Burchell Lake mine closed.  Burchell Lake is situated about 120 km east of Thunder Bay. At:  

 

N48°35.6710' W090°35.2951'

 

The town itself is behind numerous no tresspassing and warning signs. The picture above shows the gate. We didn't want to venture straight through the threatening signs, so we looked for another way into the town. We did find another way that did not go past any no trespassing sign. From the main gate, go on the side road on the right. This road has a trench dug through it at some point to make it unpassable. Keep going to the gravel pit at:

 

N48°35.7828'W090°35.3639'

 

Go through this gravel pit, and up the hill, and you are in the townsite.

http://matt.wandel.ca/burchell_lake/

 

*Abandoned Farmhouse

There is an abandoned farmhouse is the O'Connor township. If you go down Hwy 595 you can see it. It has been abandoned for decades and apparently it is known as the old Sitch Homestead. 

http://www.ghostvillage.com/ghostcommunity/index.php?showtopic=28387

 

*C.D. Howe School

30 Wishart Cres Thunder Bay, ON

I was in the bathroom on the top floor and I was at the sink washing my hands. I looked out into the hallway and there was this girl that was just standing there staring at me. She didn't say anything and I didn't think that anything was unusual because she did not appear transparent. All of a sudden she began to vanish in a swaying back and forth type motion! I screamed and I got in trouble for making noise in the bathroom. Of course no one believed me when I told them that I saw a ghost!

Twenty years later I now have a job that in the same building. The school now has a daycare in the basement. I work in the infant room and sometimes when I am working, I will hear the door of the sleep room rattle, and I think 'well that's strange because all of the babies are in their cribs, no one can be playing with the door!' 

I shrugged it off though and thought it was just my imagination, until I talked to some of my co-workers...they laughed because they all know that I am a paranormal enthusiast and ghost hunter. 
One said, "Oh I'll bet you are happy that you are working in that room because it's haunted!"
I said, "Don't even tell me that it's the sleep room!" "Yep, the door shakes when no one is around."

http://www.ghostvillage.com/ghostcommunity/index.php?showtopic=31237

 

*Other Sites

 

Nelsons Road has reports of a Ghost Light.

http://www.ghostvillage.com/ghostcommunity/index.php?showtopic=28387

 

The Landmark Inn, especially it's loading dock.

http://www.ghostvillage.com/ghostcommunity/index.php?showtopic=28387
 

Onion Lake Road:  

Up onion lake road there is an old house surrounded by barns in the back, someone just bought the property and demolished the trees in the fields but me and my 1 other friend who has had paranormal activity seem to follow her around went walking through there, and we always had a creeped out feeling.. we heard knocking on the windows and when we would knock on them and ask them to copy us.. they would.. then finally when we were ready to go, my friend asked it to do something really loud to prove it was there.. and an old school phone started ringing.. but when we searched the house, there was no phone or phone line. and the power had been cut off to the house a long time ago.. the next day we went back in the day time to look again for any sort of phone but even when we searched the barns and such, there was nowhere for a phone to be.. so if you want to get scared, go find the house at night, whoever bought the property doesnt live in the house, and the doors and windows are boarded up now, but the door was pried open last time i went there, so you might have luck getting in.. 

http://www.ghostvillage.com/ghostcommunity/index.php?showtopic=28387

 

http://www.ontarioabandonedplaces.com/search.asp?city=Thunder%20Bay%20District

 

Battle Island Light House

Location: Located on the western end of Battle Island, 9.7 km (6.1 miles) offshore from Rossport.
Latitude: 48.751789
Longitude: -87.556765

http://www.lighthousefriends.com/light.asp?ID=1562

 

 

Neys Provincial Park

Location	Thunder Bay District, Ontario, Canada
Coordinates	48°45′00″N86°35′00″WCoordinates: 48°45′00″N 86°35′00″W
Area	5,383 hectares (13,300 acres)
Established	1965
Governing body	Ontario Parks

 

Coldwell

The ghost village of Coldwell, which lies just outside the east boundary of the Neys Provincial Park, was home to an old railway and fishing community until the 1960s. All that remains of the village now are a few foundations, shipwrecks in the harbour and a cemetery. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neys_Provincial_Park

 

The Lornehurst House

http://www.thunderbay.ca/Assets/Living/Heritage/docs/Lornehurst.pdf

 

Mount McKay Abandoned Ski Resort