Haunted Ontario 3. Terry Boyle
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Название: Haunted Ontario 3
Автор: Terry Boyle
Издательство: Ingram
Жанр: Эзотерика
Серия: Haunted Ontario
isbn: 9781459717671
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This five-storey stone building is powered entirely by a large, wooden overshot waterwheel. The mill machinery includes two runs of stones to grind wheat, lotting reels for sifting flour, and elevator belts to move grain and flour.
Roblin’s Mill, 1842
Although there is not a sensational example of spirit activity in the building, Black Creek employees have believed for years that the mill is haunted by the “old ones.”
Catherine alluded to one experience at the mill.
“Employees at the site have seen the big wheel turning when it has been disconnected for the winter, as if unseen hands were still going about the business of making flour.” Other eerie phenomena and superstitions are also associated with the mill. For example, when pigeons [that roost in the mill’s rafters] are restless and coo incessantly, a change in weather is believed to be on the way.
Poet Al Purdy may have gotten it right about the ghostly workers when he stated the following:
Those old ones
you can hear them
lost in the fourth dimension
what happened still happens
a lump rises in your throat.
Burwick House
~ Black Creek Pioneer Village ~
All windows should be opened at the moment of death
so that the soul can leave
Come. Don’t be afraid. Open the door and enter. Now close the door. Turn around and embrace a world of unexplained occurrences that reach beyond your rational mind. In fact, just take one step beyond the veil of time and space and explore Burwick House at Black Creek Pioneer Village.
According to Catherine Crow, “The most famous and publicized spirits at Black Creek Village reside here, in Burwick House.”
The home was built in 1844 in Burwick, Ontario (now Woodbridge). This dwelling, suitable for a country gentleman, is complete with fine furnishings made in Upper Canada and a selection of imports from Britain and the United States. A substantial stable and a landscaped yard and garden, reflect an owner with comfortable circumstances.
A number of staff members who have worked in the Burwick house have reported many cases of paranormal activity.
The Burwick House, 1844
Catherine stated, “Several members have reported unexplained activity, including knocking sounds, moving objects, hearing footsteps and feeling cold spots throughout the house.”
“One young worker reported looking up from the kitchen table he was sitting at to see the dark shadow of a woman standing in the kitchen doorway. She [the shadow] disappeared shortly after that.”
Another employee has claimed to have seen the same dark shadow of a woman on the central staircase.
In June of 2005, authors Maria da Silva and Andrew Hind highlighted the haunting of Burwick House in an article they wrote for Fate Magazine :
“It was late into the evening by the time Marlee and a co-worker began the short walk back to the administrative building after one of the park’s nighttime events. Marlee found her eyes drawn towards the second floor of the building, where a pale white light illuminated one of the windows.”
A staff member described the light as flickering, like a candle sputtering on its own wax. That employee thought someone might have forgotten to extinguish an oil lamp and decided to investigate.
“Pushing open the front door, Marlee and another employee felt an ominous presence that caused Marlee to pause in her steps. Regaining her composure, she began to climb the creaking stairs but her knees grew weaker with each step taken. She reached the landing, exhausted by the short ascent. There was no lamp burning, but Marlee suddenly caught sight of a black figure, a shadow that walked across one of the upstairs bedrooms and vanished. Marlee fled the building!”
According to Maria and Andrew, one psychic shed some light on the woman who appears as a dark shadow. “Upon entering the building, the psychic was overcome by the presence of a distraught woman. As she slowly climbed the stairs to the second floor, four rooms came into view: a child’s room, a sewing room, another child’s room, and then, the one she felt the most drawn, to the adults’ bedroom. A crib stood to one side and mourning clothes were laid upon the bed.”
Was her spirit still looking for her child more than a century later? Who designed the room and chose to lay a mourning dress on the bed and to place a crib in the room; and did they know something?
Energy is felt around the crib.
The psychic said, “The details were clear. It was a woman between twenty and twenty-eight. Her pain was overwhelming to me and I felt the need to reach out to the grieving mother. To everyone else present there was nobody in the bedroom, but I knew differently.”
A lovely old grandfather clock graces the interior of Burwick House. This is no ordinary clock — it is enchanted. Although the grandfather clock no longer works, it has a tendency to chime when visitors arrive on the second floor and stops when they vacate the premises.
“When the mother and daughter first began to climb the stairs, the pair felt nothing out of the ordinary. Soon after they had reached the second floor, they began to feel cold and unwelcome. The young girl in particular was ill at ease. She felt a soft hand gingerly touch her face and momentarily cup her chin. And then the clock began to chime. It wasn’t the peaceful ringing that is so endearing about grandfather clocks. Instead, it sounded ominous somehow, almost agitated. The mother took her child’s hand and fled downstairs. Once there, the clock stopped chiming.”
In 2003, Jennifer Fulton, an employee at Black Creek Pioneer Village, had a paranormal experience.
“I was working in the Burwick House. On this particular day I was alone in the parlour. There were workmen working outside on the building. I started to walk through the hallway to the kitchen when I suddenly heard men talking downstairs in the basement. I couldn’t make out what they were saying. I did know that the staff room was located in the basement. I just thought they were employees taking a break.
“I was still in the kitchen when I saw the livestock girls go downstairs. I told them there were people down in the basement but according to them that was impossible. The staff room was locked up. We went downstairs together and indeed the room was locked and [there was] no sign of anyone. I know I had distinctly heard men’s voices in the basement.”
One former employee said she felt a very protective energy in the kitchen and up the back stairs. She felt it was a male presence.
In July of 2006, a visitor sensed sadness that seemed to linger in the house. Toronto Ghosts and Hauntings Research Society СКАЧАТЬ