The Bus Tour

As you know from reading our blog, we took a trip yesterday with Haunted Hamilton, who were running a bus tour to several locations in the Niagara Region and New York. All I have to say about this that if you get the chance - take the trip. It's worth it.

We visited many locations throughout our trip yesterday:

Niagara Falls Area:
- Customs House
- Screaming Tunnel
- Niagara on the Lake

New York:
- Fort Niagara

The trip was quite good. We started out at around 11:00am and headed off to our first location. I guess I should tell you about the people we met first...before I get into one of the stories.

Stephanie and Dan - These guys run Haunted Hamilton and organise bus tours all over the place. They are very knowledgeable about the Niagara area and provided some great commentaries.

George the Ghost Guide - A very nice man. Told us many stories and legends, while dressed in costume (he even wore a cape!), and kept us entertained throughout the trip.

HH Mom - HH Mom is Haunted Hamilton Mom - she's Stephanie's mother and made sure that we all behaved on the bus and on the tours of the locations we entered. She's quite a friendly person, and offered us all a hug if we needed one, if we got spooked out or somethin' like that. She also had an impressive collection of tools that she was selling, like crystals, rods and necklaces.

So ...back to the stories... we left Hamilton at around 11:00am, and headed off to the first location, Screaming Tunnel. The story behind the tunnel is that if you walk to the tunnel at midnight, alone, and light a match inside it, you can hear a girl screaming. Haunted Hamilton has an excellent writeup on the tunnel here. Believe it or not, it's actually a rite of passage for young people in the area to go into the Screaming Tunnel and hear the voice.

We left the Screaming Tunnel after a mini-lecture from George the Ghost Guy (GGG), about the tunnel and why it was built and the stories surrounding the tunnel itself. Then we were treated to a box lunch of a sandwich and several goodies in a treat bag.

Now, I'm not going to go into great detail about everything and everywhere that we visited, because I think it's important that if you want to have a true ghost experience that you need to go and check it out for yourself. They can be found at http://www.hauntedhamilton.com/. They run several events at this time of year including a Niagara on the Lake ghost walk (which is also very good!).

We'll have some photo's up shortly of our trip. We're not sure how many are going to turn out... once again our equipment started to act up, and we're beginning to think that when it does wierd things (like our cellphone batteries completely draining themselves in under an hour, and our EVP equipment constantly locking itself out and then unlocking itself again once we're away from a location) is a sign that there's some sort of interference. Could it be? Possibly. We'll never know for sure, but we're going back to double check the operating instructions to make sure we're not doing anything wrong.