Sue St.Clair and Matthew Didier's Paranormal Blog

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, 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!

We have masked the hospital in this account in order to protect the past, and current staff members who have written to us, and so that current, and future patients are not made uncomfortable by their stay at this facility.

One of our readers writes:

"I was shocked to see that there was not one report regarding the former [Name Witheld] Site.

When I was in University, 8 years ago, I had worked as a security guard at the above mentioned hospital. At this time the whole place was being renovated, and at night there was only 3 of us in the entire place, 2 guards and a Kidney Dialysis tech who worked an on-line support. My duties were to do an hourly patrol, which was more like a bi-hourly patrol, which consisted of a walk through the entire facility. This was a creepy endeavor even during the day, so one can imagine what fun it would be at night.

There appears to be at least three places of activity, that I know about, the first being the basement washroom. This place seems to have toilets that flush themselves while you are in earshot, and upon inspection the door was locked with a padlock, on the outside, and when opened no one to be seen. The toilets by the way are manual flush which require someone, or something, to push down to activate.

The second place is the main lobby. At least 4 times I myself saw a shadow, from the reflection of the lobby doors which were in front of the reception desk which I was stationed. When I checked the CCTV, there was no one there, and the other guard was nowhere near the main lobby, which I determined by the CCTV cameras.

The third place is in the basement, where the doors leading to the shipping door seen to slam by themselves at irregular intervals, and always when you are walking away from the area.

It took me 4 weeks to transfer to another location, and it couldn't have happened a day to soon. To this day I still can't even drive by the place, cause I still have recurring nightmares about it. I think it would be a great place for an investigation, as long as I'm not leading it. If you find other guards who worked there they could enlighten you to probably more places, cause I heard stories from some other guys who worked there."

Our thanks to the witness for sharing her experiences with us. Please note that since we have had so many new readers over the past year I thought that it would be nice to replay some of our faves in a Best Of Series.

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.