Haunting Research
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Top stories
places of interest
- Algoma University
- The Windsor Park
- Camp Korah
- Hiawatha Falls
- Old Stone House
- Steelton Library
- Plummer Hospital
Calendar of events
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June 21, 2009
1st. Annual Ghost Walk
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July 1, 2009
Canada Day - more to come
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October 31, 2009
Halloween - but of course
Windsor Park Retirement Home
It is believed that when the Windsor Park was still a Hotel, that some of the staff at that time had some strange things going on that they could not explain. I've heard stories from seeing shadows to TV's going off and on. I've been there a dozen times or more and I find the nostalgia of the hotel is very strong. I know of no documented tragic history with ghostly attachment. Historical research would definitely help with understanding why there would be a ghost at the Windsor Park. Here is a blurb that is worth a read ... The Windsor Park Hotel on Queen Street in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. It's now called the Windsor Park Retirement Home.
About nine year's ago a friend of mine and her mom were working there as maid's, they got me, my sister and my mom job's there as maid's. I was told about the hotel's history my first day working there but like most people didn't, believe it at first. As part of the job we had to push large metal stands full of sheet's towels' etc .. as any maid would use to clean room's, my first day on the job I was told about the second and fourth floor of this hotel, the second floor had one large suite called the Victoria room it was being used for large meeting's, it was said that a young woman was killed in their and that her spirit never left.
I was told that no matter how hard the hotel tried to rent that floor out no one would stay on it. The 4th floor was famous for a ghost everyone called Joe I was told shortly after the hotel was built he had stayed on the 4th floor and died from a gas leak he died in his room. I was also told you could tell when he was near by because you would be able to smell heavy cigar smoke and hear whistling whether it was on the floor or in the room or in the elevator, Once again I didn't believe it my first shift I had to clean the fourth floor, there were only four room's on that floor and not one guest in any of them.
In all the time that I worked there I had cleaned the room where Joe died. I had experienced the heavy cigar smoke, the whistling and once I couldn't get the door to open even thought it was not locked and there were no other people on that floor when I finally got ready to leave for the day I was told everyone that worked there went thought the same thing I had, and that it was very rare when someone agreed to take, a room on the 4th floor.