True Ghost Story: Cottage Seance
True Kawartha ghost stories – ghost report from Ontario, Canada sent into our website by Beth.
Location: Kawartha, Ontario, Canada
The following report was sent into our website by Beth:
“Many years ago, a group of about 6 of us stayed overnight at a friend’s cottage. It was located near a lake in the Kawartha’s just outside the Peterborough area. The cottage was fairly secluded with many trees surrounding it. It was also the dead of winter and we didn’t arrive there until 10:00 p.m. After settling in and starting a fire in the fireplace, it was decided by my boyfriend that we were going to try and summon a spirit by reciting from a book he had brought. I decided not to join in on this as I felt it was dangerous, and warned everyone that it was foolish to try to evoke a spirit when you have no idea what you’re doing or what you could possibly “invite”. No one was taking it very seriously so despite my objections, they decided it would be “fun” to try.
Everyone sat around the kitchen table, lit a few candles for effect, closed their eyes and joined hands. I sat away from them in a corner of the kitchen where I could see everyone without actually participating. Steve began reciting various passages from the book. This went on for about 15 minutes with the occasional laughter and teasing – but everyone settled down eventually and within a short time, one of the girls began to breathe quite deeply. I watched her closely. Her head was hung down and I could see her shoulders rising and falling with the deep breathing. Then, very slowly she began to lift her head so I could see her face more clearly. Her eyes were still closed and she made no noise, but tears were streaming down her cheeks. No one other than myself realized what was going on. I was getting extremely nervous at this point. Then she opened her mouth wide as if to scream. At that point I jumped up and told everyone they had to stop this NOW!! The girl had been holding hands with her boyfriend (who was quite large and very strong). She shook him off like he was a small child and jumped up looking very frightened and disoriented. When asked, she said she couldn’t really remember what happened during the last few minutes of the “seance”.
This rattled everyone and we spent the rest of the evening speculating what might have happened had we let this continue. Needless to say, no one got any sleep that night. I’ve never been involved in anything like this since – and I won’t even touch a Ouija board! I slept with the lights on for a month afterward!”