The 5 Most Haunted Places We Have Ever Camped | Episode 12

Because we’re feeling the chill of fall and getting close to Halloween, we’re detailing four of the most haunted places we’ve ever camped, and stay tuned to the end of the show when I share a bonus story about which island in Ontario we refuse to go back to…it’s not a camping story, but it is a travel story and a weird one at that…

Sadly, this week Dan is away on business so you’re stuck with me regaling you with all of the ghostly places we have stayed.

I actually wanted this to be episode 13 next week for obvious reasons, but I guess, if you include our Podcast trailer this technically IS the 13^th episode, even if it doesn’t say so on the description – so I guess it’s kind of like in the elevators of high rises and old hotels where there’s no button for the 13^th floor.

In actual fact – according to records held by Otis elevator company – who my grandpa used to work for – an estimated 85% of building elevators don’t have a named 13^th floor.

St Augustine Lighthouse

Listen to find out about four prominent specters that apparently haunt the lighthouse and grounds as well as tales of music boxes that start by themselves!

Selkirk Provincial Park

Captain William Francis – was an American Loyalist who fled to Canada and was awarded 200 acres in 1800. He was a quartermaster in the King’s American Dragoons before coming to Canada and ended up carrying intelligence for Governor Simcoe, under the guise of being a horse trader.

He was captured in during the war of 1812 by American sympathizers and taken to Buffalo. William and his son then testified against others, presumably to be let off the hook, only to be rounded up by a gang of friends and supporters of those they testified against, was shot in the head through his bedroom window and his property was razed to the ground. His body was buried under a pine tree on the bank of spring creek above the house, within the park boundary and his remains are still there. Some say, on a foggy day, you can see him where spring creek meets the mighty Lake Erie. Check out our Park Guide to Selkirk

Inverhuron Provincial Park

Less of a ghost story and more of a ghost town. Inverhuron was settled in the 1840s by William Gunn – Scottish Immigrant. Becmae a booning town with a school, library, post office mills and a 600 foot pier.

April 13 1882 fire struck the grain houses and the pier – arson suspected but never proven, and in 1887 nearly the entire town burned to the ground and by 1901 was virtually a ghost town. A few buildings remained, however the shifting sand dunes slowly reclaimed buildings and foundations and the yellow brick school house was torn down in 1990

The entirety of the old town sits within the boundaries of the provincial park including the Pioneer cemetery, dating back to the 1850s which was overgrown and forgotten, much like the provincial park which was closed to the public from 1973 to 2005 due to concerns from the neighbouring heavy water plant, which ceases operations in 2000. By 2005 the park had reopened for camping which is great.

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Bronte Creek Provincial Park

Spruce Lane Farmhouse – Built in 1899 and home to the Breckon Family until the 1950s. Interesting side note, my mum’s aunt was born in that house. Not at all relevant to the story (well maybe but shes been dead a long time so I can’t verify any of these stories one way or another)

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Used as an interpretive center and museum on Victorian farming – the park offers tours and field trips, but it also offers evening ghost tours during the month of August. They house is lit by kerosene lamp to give it an eery authenticity that makes it feel like you’re stepping back in time.

And what can you expect to find? maybe nothing – but there are several reports of occurrences from visitors and staff alike that will send chills down your spine.

When someone died, Victorians covered up mirrors as it was believed that spirits of the dead could get caught in the reflection and result in hauntings.

Who knows – maybe one of the covers on the mirrors slipped off at some point and some ghosts were left behind…if you’re interested you can check out our Park Guide to Bronte Creek Provincial Park

Pismo Beach

There are two pretty vague ghost stories surrounding Pismo Beach but those are the kind that I love because it reminds me of the kinds of story we used to tell around the campfire as a kid. Listen closely and perhaps you’ll find similar ghost stories to what you heard growing up.

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Wolfe Island

Finally we get to an RV Canucks original ghost story that happened in 2007 in Kingston, ON. It still gives me the creeps to write about it, so listen in to hear the whole story but it certainly made our 5th anniversary one for the books.

(and I am still searching for the images from that trip – I know they have to be around somewhere)

Roadtrippers

When I talk about Roadtrippers’ travel guides, this is the typs of stiff I live for. Pre-made trips that follow a theme and let you tour around and discover weird, wacky and wonderful things, like this page which is FULL of 27 ghost guides in different cities.

Of course, we use Roadtrippers for WAY more than ghost hunting. It’s our prime planner for every single trip we take. There is a free version that allows up to 8 waypoints on a trip, but if you want more (and you will), you can get Roadtrippers plus for $24.99 when you use our RV Canucks Discount Code if $5 off. To take advantage of all that Roadtrippers Plus has to offer, like offline maps, ad-free planning and great mileage and gas estimates will all the places you want to see – you can sign up here, and use code RVCANUCKS to get your discount.

Melina (5s): Welcome Ghostly travelers to episode 12 of the RV Canucks podcast, because we’re feeling the chill of fall settle over. Most of Canada and we’re getting close to Halloween. We are detailing five of the Most Haunted Places We Have Ever Camped and stay tuned to the end of the show. When I share a bonus story about which Island in Ontario Dan and I both or refuse to go back to, it’s not a camping story per say, but it is a travel story. And its a really weird one at that. So if you’re new to the show, welcome, I am Molina and together with my husband Dan and our tween and teen, we are the RV Canucks a Motley crew of Canadian are veers who travel North America far and wide and bring back tips, tricks and stories from the road that helps you see more of this great continent as a weekend Wanderers and part time our veers, you can follow our adventures on Instagram and Facebook at RV Canucks. Melina (1m 2s): And if you listen to us on Apple podcasts, we would really appreciate it. If you would leave us a review on Apple and let us know what you think of the show, sadly Dan is away this week on business. So you’re stuck with me, regaling you with all of the ghostly Places we have stayed. I actually wanted this to be episode 13, which would be next week for obvious reasons. But I guess if you include our Podcast trailer, this is technically the 13th episode. Even if it doesn’t say So on the description. So I guess it’s kind of like in elevator’s of high rises and old hotels where there’s no button for the 30th floor, we are in actual fact, according to records held by the oldest elevator company who my grandpa actually worked for an estimated 85% of building elevators. Melina (1m 45s): Don’t have a name to 13 floor, but before we get into it, I actually wanna share a super, really quick best tip for sightseeing when you super short on time. So we’ve done a lot of travelling like for business and stuff, where we might be in a city for 24 hours. Like you, you have a very, very short amount of time to see a city in one evening and my best tip and its very apt to mention it On this episode, but my best tab is to take a ghost tour. So whether you’re in like London, England, or Washington DC or Toronto Ontario or some tiny little town in the middle of nowhere, usually there some sort of historical society that runs. And even if it goes to her and these are, we have found are fantastic ways to really get the history of a place in a very short amount of time, you know, like a half an hour, an hour long tour, we’ll give you all kinds of insight into the actual history of the town, which are intertwined with some of these really interesting stories about some of the people who used to live there and have died there. Melina (2m 39s): And it’s a really good way to see a Citi if you’re super short on time. So that’s one tip. I always love to give people. And with that said, let’s get started. We are going to start down South in Florida with a st. Augustine lighthouse in the city of st. Augustine. So Saint Augustine’s itself has actually the oldest city in America. It was founded in 1565 by explorers and it has its own stories and bloody history. And its also one of my favorite places on the planet to visit. So there’s so many go stories about it. It’s hard to know where to start, but still right is this episode is Haunted Places because we’ve Camped were gonna take you one mile from the ranger station at Anastasia state park to the st. Melina (3m 20s): Augustine lighthouse, which was on the North end of Anastasia Island. So the current light house that was there, it was built between 1871 and 1874. There was a light house also previous to that, which was built in 1824 and was billed as Florida’s first lighthouse. But that’s a little bit misleading because as territorial governments who have had control in Florida, mainly Spain and Britain, there have been a series of lights and beacons along the coast since like 1565. So st. Augustine light house, it is a, it is a beautiful building, very, very tall black and white striped kind of candy Stripe up the, the lighthouse. So there are apparently several resident goes to take up residence in the st. Melina (4m 3s): Augustine lighthouse. One of them being Peter Rasmussen, who was one of the first light keepers of the current lighthouse. And Peter was known as a man who was very meticulous about maintaining this lighthouse and the standard to which that was capped. So naturally people say that in death, he wanted to continue watching over the lighthouse. And Peter was known as somebody who was an avid cigar smoker, a very distinctive cigar or a lot of visitors, not even knowing about Peter will report that once they visited the lighthouse, they’ll a report smelling cigar smoke during their tour, which is interesting because of the building is obviously no smoking, but a that’s something that seems to follow the spirit of, I guess, Peter, who was, who is said to still roam the property, keeping an eye on it. Melina (4m 47s): Second is that right? Most of Joseph, Andrew who was right the other later like a lighthouse keepers and he actually fell from the top of the tower while painting the exterior of the lighthouse. And it has been said, and it has been observed that Joseph Stan’s at the top of the lighthouse tower. And if you actually Google st. Augustine light house ghosts, there are a tonne of images. Whether you have a look, I have a Google and you can decide for yourself if you think the real or not. But there is a ton of images where there’s supposedly captured on film images of a man standing on the edge of the lighthouse rim at night. Melina (5m 26s): So keep that in mind, because at the end of the Episode, when I talk about our Island experience in Ontario, there is there, it does have something to do with a photograph. So keep that in mind as we go on and more tragically and probably most famously there is apparently the ghosts have two little girls, sisters who haunt st. Augustine lighthouse. And that is a, the ghost of Eliza and Mary PITI who were daughters of a, has a, kind of a pity who was hired in Victorian times, the late 18 hundreds to maintain the light house or to it. And they were apparently playing in, in some kind of a kart that was used to fairy material’s back and forth from the work site to wherever they were loading materials. Melina (6m 7s): And apparently the girls hopped in this car, which broke away from the building and hurdled down into the Bay and neither girl could swim and they both perished, you know, a watery depths. So apparently you can either see the ghost of Eliza who floats around the grounds, apparently in the same blue dress that she died in. Or you can hear the laughter of two girls coming from a top the tower late, late at night. So aside from that, and a, these are reported mostly by staff members who have worked the tower, but apparently there’s music boxes in the gift shop. And they turn on by themselves, which gives me the absolute creeps. And as you’ll see with a lot of ghost stories, the tower door, when, when staff members will lock up, they will close and lock the tower door. Melina (6m 52s): But in the morning when they come back to the tower, a door is always left open. So that is apparently probably how Peter Rasmussen likes it. So maybe they would just be best to leave that door open at night. So definitely worth a visit st. Augustine, we will do probably a full episode on it because it is, like I said, one of my favorite places to visit. And there was just so much history and so much information there about the town’s. So we will leave Saint Augustine. Then we will travel North too Canada and we will talk about three Ontario provincial parks worth visiting, who also have a pretty creepy stories behind them. So the first is Selkirk Provincial park, and we actually have a Park guide to that on our website@rvcanucks.com. Melina (7m 33s): We visited there actually for the first time, this August, and apparently the ghost of captain William Frances, who was an American loyalist. He fled from America to Canada and he was actually awarded 200 acres of land in 1800, I guess, in return for loyalty to the crown. And part of that parcel of land is or sell Kirk Provincial park sitz. So when he was in America, he was a quartermaster in the Kings American Dragoons before coming to Canada. And what he ended up doing was he ended up carrying intelligence for governor co under the guise of being a horse trader during the war of 1812. Well, he was captured during the war by American sympathizers, and he was actually taken to Buffalo with his son and there William and his son testified against others, presumably I guess, to be led off the hook and to be able to return home. Melina (8m 25s): However, in 1814, he was rounded up by a gang of friends and supporters of those that they testified against in court. He was shot in the head through his bedroom window on his and his property was burned. It was raised to the ground. So his son was not home at the time. So his son kind of escaped that fate. However, they did find him and his charred and burned body was buried under a pine tree on the bank of spring Creek, above the house, which is within the park boundary. So his remains are still, but some do say on a foggy day, you can see him where spring Creek meets Lake Aerie. I can kind of a test. We went down there one night, late at night, on our last night to really have a look at the Creek and a, and take some of the Backwoods trails through there. Melina (9m 11s): And I got to say, it was super creepy. I’m not gonna lie. I don’t have anything visual to report, but I will say, you know, you just like walk in a place and you get a feeling where you’re like, I don’t know that I should be here right now. Definitely had that feeling at South park provincial park. So, you know, take that for what it’s worth. But from there, we are going to move on to Inver here on So in Iran is less have a ghost story in more of a ghost town. And this is probably bar none. Our favorite Park two camp that hands down, we love it. Dan’s grandparents owned a cottage on, on Lake Huron in, in regards to on, and, you know, we pretty much spent the majority of our marriage camping there. Melina (9m 51s): Umm, it’s a fantastic, Park tons to do lots of history and you would actually never know unless you were looking for it. That in we’re here on was a bustling community. It was settled in the 1840s by a Scottish immigrant named William Gunn. And it kind of became a booming town. It had a school at had a library, ah, the first library in the County, actually I think it had something like 39 volumes of books, which is fantastic for back then it had a post office, it had a couple of mills, it had a 600 foot pier, you know, estimates on how many people live. There are varied, but some were up to about 500 in April of 1880 to fire struck the grain houses and the pier. Melina (10m 31s): And you know, a lot of these structures were, would it, it wasn’t uncommon during the time to have some of these fires. However, our son was highly suspected, but it was never proven. And after that, the town, you know, stumbled on some Fishing operations opened up, but the pier was never a rebuild. But then shortly thereafter in 1887, the entire town virtually burned to the ground. And by 1901, it was essentially a ghost town. So a few buildings remained. However, the shifting sand dunes, which are on the, on the coast of Lake Huron, kind of just slowly reclaimed those buildings and foundations. And there was a yellow brick school house there, which did remain standing, but it was torn down in 1990. Melina (11m 12s): So the old town, the entirety of the old town actually sits within the boundaries of the Provincial part. And there’s also a pioneer cemetery there, which date backs to the 1850s. And it was overgrown and forgotten for years. And actually that was the case with the entire Provincial park. So the park was actually close to the public in 1973 because of concerns from the neighboring nuclear plant who was producing a heavy water and the heavy water plant closed at ceased operations in 2000. So the park open back up eventually, but not until 2005. So basically from 1973 to 2005, the entire Provincial park, as well as the town was a ghost town in 2005, the park reopened. Melina (11m 54s): It’s a fantastic place. Now they’ve actually just in the last, you know, five or seven years opened up a third camping loop in this park. So I highly recommend it. You really, really, really have to go look very, very closely for evidence of the old town. So sometimes you can still find the odd yellow brick in the sand dunes that belong to the school house. There is a concrete markers throughout, but you have to kind of walk back into the sand dunes. You’ll find them underneath trees, kind of half overgrown. And the concrete markers are stamped with the home sites have who lived there and what building was there. And its just a really fantastic place. If you love exploring ghost towns and really looking for evidence of the past, probably one of our favorite places ever to go. Melina (12m 38s): So from there, we are going to head to South Western Ontario and were going to go to the Bronte Creek Provincial Park, which we also have a Park guide on, on our website@rvcanucks.com and ah, go check that out because there is some great pictures of the places we’re talking about here. And namely were talking about the spruce lane farmhouse. So the spruce lane farm house was built in 1899 and it was home to the Brecon family until the 1950s and this farmhouse and accompanying barns and paddocks and whatnot. Sit in the day use area of the park interesting side note. And my mom’s aunt was actually born inside that house. So its not at all relevant to the story. Well maybe it is, but she’s been dead or a really long time. Melina (13m 20s): So I can verify with her and you have these stories one way or another, but now this house and barns and whatnot are used as an interpretive center and in museum, which focuses on Victoria and farming. So the park offers tours, they offer field trips, but it also offers evening ghost tours during the month of August. So they do it at about eight or nine at night when the sun is setting, they like the house with kerosene lamps to kind of give it that eerie authenticity. That makes it feel like you’re stepping back in time. And what can you expect to find there? I don’t know maybe nothing, but there are several of reports of occurrences from visitors and staff alike that will send a chills down your spine. But one of them is that several of visitors report that in the upstairs bedrooms they’ll pop their head in and you know how they usually have like ropes around where you can’t walk fully into the room. Melina (14m 4s): They’ll see kids in there playing hide and seek and to like turn it around and be like, would I like, what are these kids are doing behind the road? And then they’ll turned back around and the kids are totally gone. Several staff members. Additionally, we talk about like doors opening and closing lot. So there’s a door to the smoking porch from inside the house, which staff members will come in. And if the house has been closed up, they will throw open all the doors and windows and just kind of air it out. We’ll go downstairs and change because they’re clothed interpreters two the time period and they’ll come back upstairs and that door that was open, we’ll be close and it will be locked or the opposite. They will close it and lock it at the end of the day and they will go upstairs and they we’ll, you know, make sure all the windows and doors and, and whatnot or close and then they’ll come back down and that door is unlocked and wide open. Melina (14m 45s): So the smoking porch a door is consistently on the opposite of the way it’s set. There was a maintenance worker in there who reportedly one time had the dining room table it’s usually set. So you can kind of see what a table setting would look like back in the day. And so he had removed all of the dishes and they were stacked on the floor and he had flipped the table over to work to fix it because a leg. And he said that he was just like as well, absolutely overwhelmed with fear. And he got this feeling like the house was like angry at him because he had taken the dishes and put them on the floor. And he basically finished the work like lightning fast. He turned the table back over. He like set it and trying to make sure that it was like exactly the way it was when he walked in and then he left and he refused to go back from it right a week because he was just like, yes, no I’m okay. Melina (15m 30s): You did not like that feeling at all. Its interesting because I know in terms of the house records, Henry Breckon, who was one of the homeowners, he died in 1930, won and as is typical for the time he was laid out in the parlor for several days during his week. And I’m sure with like several of their members of the family that, you know, dating back to 1889, that was just a common practice kind of late people out and have a family and friends to come pay their respects. But the Victorians believe like they were a super superstitious Bunge. They actually believe that when somebody’s dyed, you had to cover up the mirrors with some kind of fabric or something because it was believed that Spirit’s of the dad would get caught in the reflections, right. Have the mirrors and it would result in haunting. Melina (16m 11s): So who knows maybe one of the covers on one of the mirrors slipped off at one point in, there is a couple of spirits that haunt this Bruce Lane farmhouse, but we shall see, I don’t know if anybody it takes a visit or if anybody has been there, please leave us a message and leave and let us know what you thought. If you got the creeps when you were over there. I S I know I certainly did, but I get that a lot. So one other interesting point about Bronte Creek, and I’ve mentioned this on one of our other podcasts, when we talked about camping in the Park, is that behind this Bruce farm house is the half-moon trail, which is actually snakes. It’s a way down 115 feet into the bottom of the Gorge, which is, were brought up. Melina (16m 51s): The Creek actually is. And the town of Oakville actually lets you scatter ashes on the half moon trail, which I thought was absolutely fascinating. And I think it’s really cool for people who have a history or a fond memories of that park and its a different feeling than that kind of go slowly spruce lane farmhouse type of feeling like when you’re walking through the half moon trail, I don’t know something about it. Like you just kinda have this like feeling that’s the same feeling I get when I like walk into a cemetery where you just it’s hallowed ground. It almost feels like right. And I was feeling that when Fiona and I were hiking in it this summer and I came back and I actually didn’t see the sign stating that ashes were allowed to be scattered there until we were on our way out. Melina (17m 34s): And I was like, that is so funny Because I was feeling that way the whole time. Like it just felt like hallowed ground. I thought, Oh well its, you know, God’s bounty, it’s like a beautiful locale and, and, and its, you know, shady and its is just a stunning place. And I just thought it was funny when came up and I saw that sign. Cause it, it, it totally made that feeling make sense. So that’s the Roundup have the three Ontario Parkes that we have visited this summer and often that we like to go back too and that’s their stories, but I added a fifth one just because this is also one of my favorite places in this is in Pismo beach, California, which is in central California. And the reason I love this is because of these, these two stories are like that. 2 (18m 15s): So vague, but it’s like these vague, Melina (18m 17s): Those stories that I grew up with on the West coast have like, Ooh, it’s a dark night and you’ll see a traveler on the road, but he will disappear. And the headlights and its kind of like, these are just weird, vague traveler stories that I love to hear. And, and it reminds me of the campfire stories we told growing up. So the first is that there, of course it’s California, there’s a ton of piers up and down the coast and that I’m sure there’s probably resident ghosts on all of them, but there is a ghost, a very visible ghost on the pier at Pismo beach. So a lot of people have said, and I was reading one account of somebody who was taking a picture in December. So there was a, there’s a Christmas tree there. And they went to take a picture of the Christmas tree with the PIR in the background and they put the cameras up to their I and somebody was walking down the pier and they were waiting for them to kind of get out of frame so they can have this beautiful shop where nobody was on the pier. Melina (19m 7s): And then so they waited so long. They, they took the camera away from their eye and when they took the camera away from their home, that person was no longer there. And when he put the camera back up to his eye, he could see the, a figure walking out a frame. So totally nobody there could only see this through the of the camera, which I think is just fascinating and lovely. And finally there is apparently a man and a young boy who Haunted the highway, highway 41 just out on Pismo beach. And a lot of people say they see this man and this, this child walking down the highway late at night and people will pull over and they’ll be like, yo, do you need some help? I like, is your car broken down? Melina (19m 48s): And every time somebody stops to talk to this person there I’s or dead ahead, or they don’t acknowledge You they just keep walking. And there was one account of a, like a group of teens who came across this and they pulled over to kind of see if this guy for you to tell, but it was really late at night in this kid was small and they were a little concern. So they pull over and started talking to the guy and were like, well, what the heck, man? I’m like, why aren’t you acknowledging us? And then they just like, they stopped after this man just kept walking past them. And they all looked at each other in the car and their like what? And then they look back out the front window gone completely gone. But the funny thing about this story is the person who wrote this said that her brother, like years later was driving down the same road late at night. And he saw the exact same man. Melina (20m 29s): And so on like exact same clothing, everything. And as I’m telling you this, I’m getting goosebumps on my arm. Probably not the show for me to just be doing by myself right now. But I just think that that is like Uber or the craziest story. So yes, that is the Roundup. That is the Halloween Roundup for you. Which I dunno. I love stuff like this. I love kind of seeking out really cool. Neat. Haunted are supposedly Haunted, location’s just Because I think there’s a lot of really cool history attached to them and I just think it really enriches the travel experience to be able to see a lot of these. So with that said, I want to tell you a story of something very specific that happened to Dan and I, and this was back on our fifth anniversary, so we’ve just had our 18th anniversary. Melina (21m 13s): So this was sometime ago, but we decided to head up two Kingston for the weekend in Kingston, Ontario, which was about three and a half hours of where we lived at that time. And I had never been there and I knew just knew it was a fascinating place. There’s a lot of history there. It was kind of like the hub of upper Canada back in the day and there’s, it just looks like a beautiful city. So I thought, okay, we’ll just do like a nice bed and breakfast for our fifth anniversary. We will drive up there in September it’s fall, we’ll enjoy the colors is great. And so I tried to find us like the coolest fanciest bed and breakfast, which was in the heart of Kingston, however it was sold out. So I found the second coolest, most awesome bed and breakfast. Melina (21m 54s): And it was on Wolf Island, which is just across the channel from Kingston. So you actually have to take a ferry to get there. And I booked it like sight unseen. I was like, wow, this place looks amazing. Like it’s such a huge mansion. It’s awesome. So I booked it and then I thought, Oh geez, like I booked it. I paid for it. It was like a big anniversary surprise. And then I thought, as soon as I booked it and I thought, Oh crap, like I, I hope that it doesn’t have awful reviews thought. OK. Like I want to make sure that it’s were getting quality here. So I Googled it as soon as, as soon as I was done booking it. And like literally the first thing that came up was, you know, Haunted Canada is the Wolf Island Manor is one of the most haunted places in the country. And I was like, Oh, okay, awesome. Melina (22m 34s): And then I was like, okay, well maybe I should cancel. And then my inner voice was like, no, don’t be ridiculous. Don’t cancel. It’s so silly. Its a bed and breakfasts. So when you go to a bed and breakfast, like the person who owns it lives there, it’s fine. There’ll be other guests. It’s not a problem. So Dan and I roll up and it was still light out at this time. Like it was, you know, like the sun was starting to fade. It was probably like five, five 30, six o’clock at night. And we show up and we were greeted at the door by the owners of the bed and breakfast. And this was a Friday night that we got there and we were staying Friday night, Saturday night and we’d walk in and it’s massive. It’s beautiful. And is right behind this old Catholic church and the, this huge Manor house used to be the rectory for the church where the priest would live and we walk in and we’re greeted and there are really cool. Melina (23m 17s): A couple of really neat and they show us around and they’re like, OK. So if you need anything, we live in the house out back and they have built themselves as separate house behind the breakfast. And there were like, okay, so you’re the only, guest’s in the house tonight. You’ll have the whole place for yourself. There’s a two hour, there’s another couple coming tomorrow night. But for tonight don’t worry about it. You’ve got everything right here and Dan, and I would just kind of both look at each other. I’m like, okay. And then they left. They, they went and they went back outside to house. So we did some walking around and we actually took the ferry back over to Kingston proper and we got dinner and we did a ghost tour because like we said, it’s a fantastic place to start a historical deep dive into the city that you are visiting. Melina (23m 59s): So we have a great dinner. We caught the last fairy back and there was basically like, I think there, it was like one streetlight on the Island. We got off the phone very, and there’s like one lonely little light on the dock. And that was it. Like the rest of the Island was like super dark. And this was like, we didn’t have fancy phones back then, but right flashlights. So we walk up the dock and that everything is pitch black. So we are basically you like a feeling our way back to the house and we walk into the house and Dan was like, well, let’s go off to the widow’s walk. There was this, widow’s walk up at the top of the house that they’ve built, but to get to it, have to go through the creepy addict up two, the widow’s walk out. So we go up to the widow’s walk to get photos and we are halfway up the widow’s walk stair. So we’ve got up through the attic up two, the widow’s walk stairs. And I realize, I forgot my camera and I want to try to take some pictures. Melina (24m 41s): So I run back down some stairs, which was a terrible choice. And I know that I saw something in that have had to come my way back down and I grabbed my camera out of our room and I ran back as fast as I could. And Dan says the, he heard noises in the attic when I was clearly on the floor below that. Right. Which is just like gives me the heaps because Dan does not believe in any of this kind of stuff. So we go up to the widow’s wok. It was great. We had a nice way. Right? So we’re just gonna go back down and talk into our room. Even though we could have explored this whole house, we were just not feeling the vibe. So we go down into our room, which was massive. It was huge. We have the floor to ceiling windows in this room and not one window covering. So you kind of felt like, or something weird was just like standing outside the floor to ceiling windows, those and staring and staring at you. Melina (25m 23s): And I kid you not like, I just felt like we were being watched right. All night. Like we didn’t sleep a wink and not cause of it. Not because we were doing other stuff, but we, we didn’t seem to the people we, and we woke up in the next day and we sit up in our room and we go to the back of the room and look out the window and there’s this cemetery like directly outside underneath the windows. So it was like, Oh, well let me make sense. Why? I felt like I was being watched by a thousand different spirits because there’s literally a cemetery out there. So then the next day we walk around the property, we’re just taking notes. This picture’s is beautiful. And when we got home and I downloaded the photos from my camera camera, there was definitely a, Oh, definitely a face in the attic window and I’m not even kidding. And I showed it to somebody at work and they just like, could not believe it. Melina (26m 6s): And now I have to find this, I have to find this photo and I will put it on our social media when I find it. And I think I’ve since put it on like an interest. No, harddrive where I’ve put old photos. So right now going to drive through and trying to find this photo, but I kid you not like I think about it now. And I still, Oh, I can’t even this year, the place is crazy. And the whole Island felt weird to me. So yeah, that was our experience. We’ll with Wolfe Island and we’re probably never going to go back there, but on an interesting note, and one thing we did discover during this, a ghost tour of Kingston is that somebody was on the tour who grew up there. And he was kind of saying there was a park in the other end of town that used to be a cemetery and the town at some point, decided that they wanted to exume and move all the bodies out because they wanted it to be a park in the middle of town. Melina (26m 49s): So they started exhuming bodies and they actually found that there was like five or six or seven bodies to a plot where there should have been one. And it turned out when they went back through the records that they discovered, there were some kind of like crazy sickness, influenza type respiratory illness. And they just had this mass Def right. And to keep up with it and keep the disease to a minimum, they just started opening up existing graves and just dumping bodies in the town decided instead have to leave it as a sanitary. They left all of the bodies there and basically they knocked down all the tombstones and they put like six inches of topsoil on top and it is now a park. So we actually found this park and we can see, and this guy who was their, who grew up their set, I remember that like when we were kids, we used to like pry up old headstones and we used to use them as basis to play baseball. Melina (27m 33s): So it was kind of a cool thing. That’s like a great example of how you can see some of these ghost tours and get some cool history. So that was kinda neat. One more thing I will mention before I sign off on this creepy crawly Episode is I’m going to mention to you Roadtrippers now I talk about this all of the time. We know that it’s my favorite app. I plan every trip with it, but one of the great things I love to use on it is the extensive filter’s. So when we’re going somewhere and we’re planning a trip and I’m feeling particularly in a creepy mood, I will filter down for abandoned places and haunted places. And when I do that, I find some really cool little places along our roots that we can stop where maybe in our destination city’s, but there’s actually being October. There’s a ton of Trip guide’s on there, which are, which are pre-made trips from people who use Roadtrippers than they can make their trip guides public, or there’s blogs on the road trippers app. Melina (28m 22s): That we’ll take you to like real Haunted places. Like if you just Google, you know, Roadtrippers Haunted or Roadtrippers ghosts, you will see all of these really cool Trip guides that you can take, which we’ll give you travel times that will give you maps. That will give you directions. That will give you a few reviews photos though. There was one that I’m looking at now called real Haunted Places and it’s America’s top 20 real haunted places that you can actually visit the places that have tours that you can go inside. So if you are feeling it, if you really want to take some time, this fall and winter, and look at places in Canada, all over the U S where you can go and do some creepy tours, if any are open in these COVID times or plan for next year, I highly recommend checking out road trippers as always road trippers allows you a free account. Melina (29m 7s): You can put up to eight way stops in there, which are fantastic locations that you want to pin, that you want to visit on your trip. If you want more than eight, you can sign up for Roadtrippers Plus. It is 29, nine nine nine a year, and you can put up to 150 way points. And I use it, like I said, extensively. I spent all winter at my computer planning trips for next year, and we are going to do a doozy of a Trip next summer, which will take us all of the way to Vancouver on the West coast. We’re hoping to go up to Alaska and back home through the Yukon in the Northwest territories and back down, or maybe even catch some of the Dakotas as we loop around home. So we’re still deciding on those final trips, but I will definitely share that trip guide with you when we’re done. Melina (29m 48s): If you’re interested in trying out Roadtrippers plus we do have a coupon code on the show notes for $5 off. So you can get the whole shebang for 25 bucks and give it a try, but it’s definitely worth it. But check out the show notes for that coupon code that’s specific to RV Canucks listeners. So with that said, I hope you all have a lovely Halloween. I hope wherever you are, that kids are still able to go out trick or treating. But if not, maybe you can sit around and regale your kids with some of the stories we’ve talked about today. And if you have any have your own, please, please comment too us on Instagram, send a message on Facebook, send us an email to hello@rvcanucks.com. And tell me your encounters. Melina (30m 28s): Tell me your story’s because I love to hear some of the staff and if you have great stories, I’ll share them with the listeners and I’ll put them on our list for the next time we had to where you’re at. So with that said, thank you so much, Dan. We’ll be back next week. I’m sorry. You didn’t get to hear his lovely voice. I know we all miss him here a whole lot and we will talk to you next week when we start our four Episode journey down route 66. So you don’t wanna miss it. We will talk to you then see you later, guys. Bye 3 (30m 53s): .

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