Category: True Hamilton Ghost Stories

Location: Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

The following report was sent into our website by Renee on Jan 15, 2014:

“One night I was hanging out in my brother’s room. He was playing video games and I was just walking around where his bed was. Right above his bed’s headboard was his window. So I decided to sit on his bed and stare out his window. As I was sitting there I was petting my dog who was laying right beside me. When you look out the window you can see my house’s driveway and the Canada flag hanging from my backyard’s fence.

I was looking at the driveway and that’s when I saw him, at least I thought it was a man. He was just standing there right in the middle of my driveway staring. So as the flag was moving with the wind I could still see him standing there. He was wearing a nice button-up coat and a scarf with a nice hat, like a top hat/ fedora hat something I would say an older man would wear. I couldn’t see his face, he was like a black shadow but you could clearly see what he was wearing.

So I kept watching. Then I got this weird feeling so I kept staring. But at this point I said to my brother “Umm can you come over here, there is a man standing in our driveway.” He then said “What are you talking about?” I then looked at him and said “come over here”. He never came over to the window because he thought I was nuts. So I looked out the window again to find that he was gone.

To this day I still think about that night and have since moved from there.”

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Location: Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

The following report was sent into our website on June 16, 2011:

“I am the type of person who doesn’t give a whole lot of thought about spirits visiting us and am really not sure even to this day if I really believe in them anyway, but this is my story.

After my wife and I had my son some strange things happened. Sometimes his toys, which were battery powered, would play sound by themselves. Not all the time but only some times and it would be more than just one toy. I didn’t let this get to me and shrugged it off as the batteries must be getting low but knowing full well that they were new and it was not always the same toy like I said earlier.

The thing that really changed my opinion was when one day early in the year my wife and I, along with my son, were in the living room and we were talking as my son rode his big wheel around in circles on the floor. At one point he stopped by the doorway into the living room and looked up for a few seconds, got off his big wheel and walked a foot over to the doorway and stopped, looked up like something was there and put his arms out as if to say pick me up. My wife and I looked at each other and she looked scared and I said to her did you see that? She replied yes and we were a little freaked out. He was only 2 and a half years old at the time and had a name for the whatever he saw but I cant recall what it was as this time. But it has made me think a little more seriously about spirits and the after life.”

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Location: Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

The following report was sent into our website by Dan on Dec 12, 2010:

“When I was young, my nextdoor neighbour and I went with his mother to visit his grandma. His grandpa had passed away in the home some years before. The house was massive. It was three floors, basement and an attic. My friend was telling me about the house and when he pointed to the basement, he told me how he never goes down there. He was too afraid. His grandma said, “you’re not afraid of Johnny”. I asked “who’s Johnny?” His grandma replied, “John’s my late husband”. I felt they were just trying to pull something on me and just shrugged it off.

Later that evening, my friend’s grandma asked his mom if she wanted to stay the night. His mom asked my friend and I about staying and of course we were excited. My friend’s grandmother and mother said they would be sleeping on the second floor and we could sleep on the third. Before bed, she told me that it was no problem leaving the seat up in the washroom if we used it during the night because it was just us two boys and each level had its own bathroom. Though my friend and I were talking, telling jokes and giggling, we eventually nodded off. Later in the night, I was woken by the sound of the toilet flushing on our floor. It was then I realized that my friend was still laying beside me and he had also woken up. We refused to get out of bed and check, though we rationalized that someone must have been using the washroom on our floor for some reason. After awhile, we both dozed off again.

Come morning, while sitting at the table for breakfast, my friend asked, “Who used the washroom on the third floor last night?” With a blank stare on their faces, his mother and grandma looked at each other, then his mom said, “I never used the washroom at all during the night” and his grandma likewise said, “I slept straight through the night”.

To this day we’re not sure who used the third floor washroom. But do you know what was really strange? Both the toilet seat and lid were down before bed when his grandma told us we could leave the seat up. By morning, the seat and lid were up, yet no one in the house used any of the washrooms during the night.”

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