Sue Darroch and Matthew Didier's Paranormal Blog

Four, yes that is four, separate emails came in this week asking for exact addresses, and one for email or contact information for all of the people who have ever contacted us from a specific area.

This despite that we have clearly put up the following on our FAQ page:

Question:

"I want the exact address of that report I saw on your website or I want the contact information for the people who write to you"

Answer:

Our organization/s are compliant with the Ontario Privacy Act of 2004, as well as other Canadian privacy laws and we provide the people who report to us complete anonymity, and confidentiality.

We do not give out exact addresses of private buildings nor do we ever give out contact information. We would hope that you understand, and respect the privacy of those who contact us.

Sorry people, not only is this made VERY clear on our website would you want a company or organization to give out YOUR private information to any stranger that sends them an email. I don't think so....so please stop asking.

Please read, and please use your common sense.

Enough said.

Each Friday we will have a look at the stories and experiences that have been related to us over the years that are amongst our personal favourites. These will include Crypto, Ghosts, Hauntings, UFO's, and other strange events that may be considered Fortean, from in around the Toronto, Canada area .... and since they are from our own personal files will likely not be found elsewhere on the web .... enjoy!

In the late 1980s I moved with my family to Ajax Ontario. We lived in the area just north of the 401 & Harwood Avenue in a two story townhouse on Cedar Street. The townhouse had three bedrooms, and my younger sister who was then in college moved in with us. At the time I was married to my ex, and my kids were all very small.

The first 6 months in the townhouse were uneventful until one day my sister, and a family friend were getting ready to attend a funeral for an elderly lady who was the grandmother of another close friend. I came up the stairs and immediately was overwhelmed with the smell of roses. I asked my sister, and her friend if they had broken a perfume bottle or had gone spray happy? They answered no, and both were as puzzled as I as to where the smell was coming from. It seemed to be heavily concentrated in my sister's bedroom. After a few minutes the intensity of the smell started to dissipate, and soon was forgotten.....until a few days later.

This time I was in the living room area of the house when the air began to fill with the smell of roses. Again it was very strong and this time I decided I was going to find out what was causing it. I asked both sets of neighbours that our unit was attached to if they used rose scented perfume or possibly fabric softener (figuring the smell could be coming in the window from a dryer vent) and both answered in the negative. They also both said they had not experienced anything similar. I then looked around outside for a possible source. The only rosebush I could find at the time was by a church (I later found out it was originally a dance hall in the war days) but even I had to admit that this was quite a stretch, and in fact impossible.

The smell of roses continued to plague us. Many people witnessed it from family to friends, to the kids friends. It would happen at anytime of day in all of the rooms. Sometimes it was so bad I would open the doors and windows....even in winter!!!!

Other things began to happen. Little things at first. Items would go missing, keys, jewelry, little things, only to reappear where the kids had no access, and where the other adults swore they never put them. I soon realized that these were places that I knew I had already checked. Some days I still felt like I was losing my mind.

One day my mother who was babysitting nearly had a heart attack (her words) when she heard my oldest child screaming her head off. My Mom (already an older lady at the time) ran up the stairs to where the terror filled screams were coming from. My oldest was pointing to a large mirror that we had and staring as if transfixed. Her screams subsided as soon as she saw her grandmother, but I was told she was sobbing about the lady who she saw in the mirror. The lady had a cut on her head, and she was bleeding. My mother saw no one. To say she was unnerved would be putting it mildly.

Soon afterwards my two older children complained of feeling as if they were being watched especially in the upstairs area. My ex, my sister, and I all tried to rationalize their fears away, and make them feel better, but I too felt as if someone were always watching.

A few times I thought I heard a woman singing.....when no one else was home nor was there any rational way I could explain it away.

One day as I washed the dinner dishes, and watched the older kids playing outside through the kitchen window the smell of roses started up again. Very strong and very close. I was alone yet I could feel someone standing behind me. I felt as if I could put my arm back I would touch a solid person. And I started to cry. Out loud I said the words (and I'm not even sure why) "please stop you are scaring me." And it was as if everything shifted. The entire atmosphere of the room changed. The sensation of someone standing behind me was gone, and the very heavy smell of roses started to dissipate.

This was the first time I acknowledged to my self that I encountered a ghost. To this day I believe it was trying to make contact, and had I turned I would have seen it.

After this incident things quieted down for about a year. My sister moved out, and my youngest was moved into her room. It was at this point that she started talking about the lady on the ceiling or would wave to the lady who would be either walking up or down the stairs. We never saw this lady.....but the rose smell became a problem again, and so did things going missing.

When my favourite ring (a present from my sister) disappeared from the kitchen counter (I had been preparing burgers, and took my rings off just minutes before) I yelled out to "give it back." I searched everywhere, and never found it. The creepy thing was that it was a pinky ring, and I had put it inside a larger ring....yet poof!

I decided to investigate a bit. I was convinced I was going to find out we lived in some murder house etc. This is what I found out. The people who had lived in the unit before us were there for 10 years (so I assume were not too troubled if they even were) and then I found the original tenants! They were alive, and well living in an Ajax senior citizen residence. I hit a dead end.

Just before we moved my ex and I were already having some serious problems and he usually slept on the couch in the downstairs living room area. One morning I came down the stairs to find him white as a sheet smoking a cigarette. He said he had been woken up by some calling his name, telling him to get up, and was shaking him rather violently on the shoulder. The voice was female so he thought it was me. When he got up he was shocked to see he was alone. He told me he could feel the fingers on his shoulder. It was the shaking that initially woke him up. When he checked upstairs and saw that the kids and I were all fast asleep he got very freaked out. He never believed in ghosts nor haunting before this incident despite everything that had gone on before. He always had a good excuse for what was going on until that night..........

Before closing off I do want to say other then our nerves none of us were ever harmed by this lady. That is why we stayed for nine years. Most of the time nothing was happening. I am still peeved about the ring that I never found. And I often wonder who she was, and what was her story. I'll probably never know.

Do you have a real life ghost story, an encounter with a UFO, or other paranormal experience/s you'd like to share? If so, we'd love to hear from you! Post your own experiences in our comments section or send us an email. Please post only true life experiences ... we love good fiction, but there are other fantastic blogs out there to post fictional accounts to.

Have I told you lately how much I loathe the TV show Most Haunted...no...well in case there is any doubts I think it is the worst show depicting the paranormal ever!

Yes, legitimate investigators of the paranormal were somewhat vindicated when an investigation of Most Haunted was ordered by the Television Regulator in the UK, Ofcom, in which the show was cleared of any deception of its viewers, in which it stated that "Most Haunted is an entertainment show, not a legitimate investigation into the paranormal, and should not be taken seriously." Finally, a bit of the truth.

However, this show has done a great deal of disservice to real investigators, and credible researchers by making a mockery of us, and our study in my opinion.

And now, thanks to more shoddy research a disservice to historical study as well. You can read about that via Most Haunted Trashes History .... what more can I say, but yuck!

1934 Photo Supposedly of The Loch Ness Monster

What are your thoughts on the Loch Ness Monster? Is it possible that a sea monster of some sorts haunts the famous Scottish Lake? Or is it all just wishful or fanciful thinking?

Happy Wordless Wednesday! Thank you for stopping by! Please note that this entry is for both the Tuesday, and Wednesday editions of WW.

For a list of other Wordless Wednesday participants please click here.

Yesterday I had the opportunity to do a bit of work on the blogs, which included checking out all the links in my sidebar. I was quite surprised to discover that out of the paranormal ones only two were being kept up and current. In fact there were three I removed because the blogs were gone. They had been completely deleted!!! The majority however were just not being kept up on with months even a year in one case with zero updates. I realise bloggers burn out, but I have noticed a very high amount of paranormal themed blogs are neglected as opposed to just regular journals.

Any thoughts?

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Hope everyone is having a safe & happy long weekend!

If you are interested in UFOs and their relation to being reported in the vicinity of power plants you will want to surf on over to the ParaResearchers.org website, and check out the front page story of yet another Pickering Nuclear Generating Station UFO Sighting. The report includes a detailed sketch made in the witness' phone book on the day of the event, and a photo depicting the location.

If you check out the report you will find resource links to even more UFO reports involving PNGS in Pickering, Ontario.

Ghosts and real estate are something that tend not to go too good together, and this is being taken into account by the state of Arkansas legislators as new laws are coming out that will make full disclosure of real estate agents ghostly experiences a must.

Here is a snippet from the news item:

"Tim Grooms, a real estate lawyer for the Arkansas Realtors Association, said a “ghost-buster bill” prevents buyers from suing sellers and their agents on the grounds of paranormal activity.

The 2003 law, Arkansas Code 17-10-101, protects real estate agents for failing to disclose “any fact or circumstance or suspicion of the existence of any fact or circumstance that indicates that the real property is psychologically impacted.” The law defines a “psychologically impacted” property as one that “was at any time suspected to have been the site of a homicide, suicide or felony.” Jeb Joyce, a lawyer with the Quattlebaum, Grooms, Tull & Burrow law firm, said “psychological impact” covers hauntings.

Ethan Nobles, a spokesman for the Arkansas State Realtors Association, said such a disclosure might seem extreme, but a real estate agent has a responsibility to the buyer."

Full News Item Here

Would you buy a reportedly haunted house?

If a home had very well documented occurrences of paranormal activity from credible source and I could afford to buy it as a working lab absolutely. Would I buy one to live in heck, NO! That would be way too much stress on my family.

Each Friday we will have a look at the stories and experiences that have been related to us over the years that are amongst our personal favourites. These will include Crypto, Ghosts, Hauntings, UFO's, and other strange events that may be considered Fortean, from in around the Toronto, Canada area .... and since they are from our own personal files will likely not be found elsewhere on the web .... enjoy!

The following is a series of reports sent in to us by one of our readers, and involves Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario.

I would rather you not use my name or my e-mail when telling this story. there are many place's in my town that are haunted and no one will talk about them, because not everyone believes in ghost's here. I know of five out of nine place's that are honestly haunted. I know because three of these place's I have lived in and one I worked in, also because I'm not the only person who has seen and felt what has happened in these place's. And the fact that I'm still living in one place, where it's still happening. I can prove what I'm going to tell you is true and the other people who have felt and seen it will tell you this has really happened and still is happening in the place where I live now.

1. this was a hotel use to be called The Windsor Park Hotel on Queen Street in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. It's now called the Windsor park retirement home. About nine year's ago a friend of mine and her mom were working there as maid's, they got me, my sister and my mom job's there as maid's. I was told about the hotel's history my first day working there but like most people didn't, believe it at first. As part of the job we had to push large metal stands full of sheet's towels' etc .. as any maid would use to clean room's, my first day on the job I was told about the second and fourth floor of this hotel, the second floor had one large suite called the Victoria room it was being used for large meeting's, it was said that a young woman was killed in their and that her spirit never left, I was told that no matter how hard the hotel tried to rent that floor out no one would stay on it. The 4th floor was famous for a ghost everyone called Joe I was told shortly after the hotel was bulit he had stayed on the 4th floor and died from a gas leak he died in his room. I was also told you could tell when he was near by because you would be able to smell heavy cigar smoke and hear whistling whether it was on the floor or in the room or in the elevator, Once again I didn't believe it my first shift I had to clean the fourth floor, there were only four room's on that floor and not one guest in any of them. In all the time that I worked there I had cleaned the room where Joe died. I had experienced the heavy cigar smoke, the whistling and once I couldn't get the door to open even thought it was not locked and there were no other people on that floor when I finally got ready to leave for the day I was told everyone that worked there went thought the same thing I had.And that it was very rare when someone agreed to take, a room on the 4th floor.

2. There 's a place in town a museum we locals call the old stone house it's said that in the basement people have felt cold chill's and that the spirit of a young boy breaks every light bulb that has been tried to be changed, not sure if this one is really true. It' also located on Queen street.

3. This is were it starts to get personal , this is one place I grew up. It was on Victoria road on Carpin Beach road in Sault. Ste. Marie, Ontario. There were two beaches around the house where I grew up, at the end of my street . Every once in awhile there was chunk's of wood and tree's all over the road, it's said that a monk has been seen on the road and where he stop's that's where the water level will come up to that part of the road. I remember I was only between 5-7 yrs old when we lived there, but everyone once in awhile I remember walking on the road and seeing this wood and where the water had ended even thought it had not rained for day's. Second time was when we had learned the house we lived in well living out there was built on an Indian burial ground one night my uncle claims he thought my dad was playing a joke on him. he had seen someone crawling on the floor on their hand's and knee's towards him, so he got off the couch and started crawling towards what he thought was my dad. my uncle said the next day he wouldn't tell anyone what he had seen that night all he would say was it was something that wasn't my dad. My uncle later bought a house on that same street and later he was told the house he had bought so cheaply, was because a man had killed his wife in the shed and put her body into trash bag's after cutting her up. He no longer lives there.

4.A place where I lived from age 5-6 was on Wallace terrace here in Sault Ste. Marie Ontario, we lived in the upstairs apartment, which had a long stair case on the back roof that lead to the ground and one inside the apartment that lead to the front door and one small apartment downstairs. my mother use to tell me I would tell her of people in the closet crying , later she said she had heard that a man had killed his two small children in my closet and then killed himself in their, I had lived in this place again many year's later and I moved out not to long after moving back in. This place has now been turned into four apartment all in the same house.

5. My grandmother's house was where I spent most of my childhood, she use to tell me that she had seen a ghost of a woman in grey in her basement all the time, one time when I was there the snow had just started falling and we heard footprint's in her porch so we went out to look there were no footprint's. that's when the phone rang and my grandmother had said no one was answering when she said hello, she hung up two minute's later the phone rang again this time it was a call saying my mom's friend was killed in a car accident two minute's after the first call had come in. My grandmother did have an Ouija board in the house she tried throwing it in the furnace an hour later she opened the furnace the board and pointer came flying out it wasn't even burned. five people watched her put in the furnace same five people watch ed it come out, no burns on it. The back door at my grandmother's house would sometimes open for no reason by it's self.

6. My family was renting a townhouse, on Boston avenue. My son was having horrible night's when he stayed in his room saying something in the room was trying to get him, thinking this is only because he was a small child at the time didn't give it much thought. One night I heard my dad mention he and my uncle both had seen a mist like fog going up the stair's, I was in the kitchen and thought I heard my sister call my name I went to where she was to ask what she wanted she was sleeping. One day I went up to her bedroom she had an Ouija board out she said she had been trying to contact a friend of my mom's who had passed away, and that she was talking to a female spirit on the board I don't remember the name she said it was, what I did find odd was my sister turned and said I knew you were coming here she told me , I hadn't been able to contact my sister and thought about not showing up but I showed up. My sister then said the spirit knew who I was and knew thing's I had never told anyone ever in my life, my sister had also said the spirit told her it knew my father and followed him around work my dad mentioned later that night he had felt like he was being followed at work for sometime.

7.---- First Avenue in Sault Ste. Marie Ontario, I spent most of my life growing up there a lot of different people that would come there would experience different thing's and hear thing's. I've heard it was built during the war, that's all the history I know of the place. Living there was a nightmare, light switch in the basement would constantly turn on and off, when you went into the basement there was always a cold chill. The bathroom door always sounded like someone was trying to get in especially when you were alone in the house. As soon as my parent's walked in the house they would start fighting for no reason at all, the closet door in my room would always open by it's self, people have told my parent's they'd hear music and people laughing when they came to the house when no one was home. the house was always cold in the basement and all the bedroom's. The night my child was born I had seen a very large dark figure standing in the corner of my bedroom after ten minute's I looked again it was gone I almost lost my child that night because I hemorrhaged well still being pregnant, my dad claims he's heard us call him and when he comes to check on us we're sleeping. I heard that another family moved in and had the same problem's didn't stay long. the house has been put up for sale a few time's. This place has been fixed up a bit since I last time I lived there. my sister has expressed interest in seeing the place again to see if or what it was is still there. Other people have said they heard voice's in the house.

8. -- Wawanosh avenue is another place where I lived , I lived in both the upstairs and downstairs apartments. I noticed when I moved upstairs no one was living in the downstairs, that when I turned off all the light's downstairs and locked the door, a few hour's later the light's were on downstairs. my cousin would say she heard people talking and music, when we went to check out the door was locked no one was in there.

9. I'm not listing the address for this place because I stll live here. I've had alot of company and very few people will stay here for long or spend the night anymore. people have told me the hear voice's, footstep's.in the one apartment, second apartment a figure of a man has been seen walking to the kitchen sink then disappearing. my cousin had stayed over one night she was sleeping one on my couch and said she felt someone touching her all night we were the only two home. in my bedroom you can hear someone sitting on the bed it creaks when you sit on it even thought no one is in the room, people say when they use the bathroom or take a shower they feel like someone watching them. One day after showering I smell a heavy smell of rose's we have no rose bushes near us it was a heavy scent of rose's and baby powder.

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Do you have a real life ghost story, an encounter with a UFO, or other paranormal experience/s you'd like to share? If so, we'd love to hear from you! Post your own experiences in our comments section or send us an email. Please post only true life experiences ... we love good fiction, but there are other fantastic blogs out there to post fictional accounts to.