Tag Archives: Ghosts

Ghost At The Door

It was Family Day in Ontario earlier this week, and I was looking at some family photos. This one reminded me something I wrote here in 2016, but at that time I didn’t have this picture, taken in 1896, to go with it. I thought it might be nice to go with a repeat today […]

Ghost At The Door

Families frequently have secrets. Sometimes not even deliberate ones. Once upon a time of my mother’s “secrets” scared me. Or should that be scarred me? In the summer of 1967, when I was 11 years old, my family lived in Montreal. It was Canada’s centennial year and the centrepiece of the celebrations was Expo ’67, […]

Ghost Walk

I don’t believe in ghosts, but I do enjoy a good ghost story. Ghost stories and tales of haunted houses speak to what we are as humans, revealing our fears of death and the unknown and allowing us to confront them on one level or another. We like to be scared, a little bit anyway. […]