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Canadian Automotive Museum

Listen to our EVP from that night

November 4th, 2005

We got permission from the Canadian Automotive Museum in Oshawa to do an investigation! This was Amanda and Donny’s first overnight stay. We got there at about 8pm and got our equipment ready. The Museum is fairly large and two stories high. We were accompanied by Jack, Jordon, Kim, her niece and her friend.

We got the initial tour of the museum and took pictures of everywhere we went. We were informed by Brenda that there was a particular ghost by the name of Cameron who offered to be our guide for the evening. He told us that the spirits of the museum were quite excited about our visit and were getting ready for us. . As we entered the room, Brenda’s face was brushed by the invisible hand of Cameron who said “I had a daughter just like you”. He is described as 6’3” tall, stocky, harmless. When we took a picture of her at the time there was an orb that showed up beside her. Brenda believes he was a worker many years ago. As we made our way around the upstairs level you could feel a definite temperature change in the the far back room. Kim told us that she always feels extremely uncomfortable in this room and does not go alone. As you enter the room there is an uneasy feeling and goosebumps arise. Brenda tells us that there is a hostile spirit with a chip on his shoulder. We are told not to go anywhere alone because he may lock us in.

Brenda picked up on two names Ray and Elliot. There is a man who paces the hallway on the first floor. He wears black pants and black boots. She also heard the radio dial changing to a song but she couldn’t quite make it out. The man Ray is 33 or 34 years of age, not very educated and smoked players tobacco unfiltered. Another spirit was a woman named Belle from the 1920’s and was quite in high society and was chauffeured around in one of the cars. She is described as thin, wiry, young and was considered a spinster in her time. She also had brown hair with bangs which rolled under and wore a tight fitted long dress. Belle always had one pleat on the right and wore laced boots. There was also a man present who was mugged who was connected to the building. Another spirit that Brenda picked up on was of a man who wears a long white apron and walks in front and wipes his hands a lot from late 1920’s or early 30’s. Jack confirms that the apron man was from when the building use to be a Drug Company.

In the back room Brenda contacted another spirit named Billy who we found was the daughter of Mr. McLaughlin. There was also a motorcycle in the back room who she says belonged to a man who bailed out from World War 2. Brenda also picked up that Mrs. McLaughlin walked around in that building about the same time she got her cancer. She also picked up on a car that was owned by Sam McLaughlin which was confirmed by Jack.

Our group decided to split up into two groups. One group was positioned upstairs and one downstairs. The second floor team consisted of Amanda, Barbie (niece) and her friend, Donny and Jay. We were equipped with a flashlight, blanket, cameras, and an audio recorder. We set up and turned on the recorder, all the lights were turned off. Donny and Jay decided to leave and go downstairs to consult with the other team. While they were gone, Amanda and Barbie both picked up on a spirit of a woman. She was average height, her hair brown hair in an up-do, in her 20’s, dressed in earlier 1900’s clothing. We kept getting an eerie feeling from the back room, a man who was quite intimidating us. Barbie sensed a man who was very saddened by the death of his wife, who felt somehow it was his fault.

Later in the night at around 1am both the groups gathered into one again on the main level of the Museum. At this point one of our walkie-talkies ran out of battery power and turned off. The one was left on in Rachel’s lap. We were all talking when all of a sudden the walkie-talkie came alive! Over the walkie-talkie a female child’s voice rang out “Cameron” at first we were unsure of what it said. Then again “Cameron” and a third time “Cameron”. Listen to it now just click here. We were shocked because there wasn’t another walkie-talkie and our whole group was together. We tried to rule out different explanations for this. We questioned…what child is up at 1am in the morning in downtown Oshawa with a walkie-talkie to come on the frequency? Also what are the chances that they would happen to call out the name of our ghost guide for the night? Also our walkie-talkie’s are only basic models that cannot pick-up long rang. It would have had to come from the building itself.

Beside the spot we had set-up there was a motorcycle on the wall. At one point it started swinging on its own. Later that night Brenda started channeling the spirit of a military man who was pacing the main floor.

As we ventured together into the basement, Brenda and Amanda felt a heaviness of energy walking down the stairs. Almost like their legs were weakened. There was one room which Donny and Jay started to explore but as Brenda, Rachel and Amanda decided to follow Brenda warned us to halt. She heard the spirit of a man who said “Oh, another blonde”. She believes this man was a hostile spirit who in the past may have raped women while being employed in the location when it was something else. She said that there were a lot of things that happened that no one knows about and if Mr. McLaughlin would have found out he would have had a fit! There was another storage room where Jay and Jordon go into where we capture orbs flying by them on film.

We also encountered a lady at the top of the stairs to the second level who waved to us to come up the stairs. In total Brenda picked up on 1000 spirits in the Museum. At one point in the back of a car there was a little boy and girl who said that we weren’t allowed to look at them and then stuck their tongues out. Brenda says that they are connected to the land and they were walking with us.

We have more to share on this location but will be posting the rest at a later time.