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The Legend of Ghost Road

We have visited Ghost Road many times and each time we go, we encounter something new. Some say that Ghost Road is all Myth, but others say it's where a young man met his death on his motorcycle, along with the visitations of many UFO's. More history may be viewed near the bottom of the page.

Our Experiences

Date: November 3, 2007
Time: 7:00pm
Members: Amanda, Donny, Jay & Rachel
Equipment: 2 Digital Cameras, 1 Audio Recorder

It was a wind-chilled night down at Ghost Road.  We hadn't been to Ghost Road in quite a long time. We had heard someone was up there saying that they were us! So we decided to take a little trip up there for the ghosts and to see if we would come face-to-face with our impostors! ha ha

We always park on the side of the road where the rock is.  We meet so many people who park their car on the other side, but if the so-called rider died at the rock...he would be riding towards it! Think about it? Anyways, we don't usually go up for the rider. Adjacent to the rock is a fenced in area of the forest. Here is where you might find some interesting paranormal activity.

As we drove down the dark road, Jay and Amanda spotted an unexplainable figure cross their path in a quick flash. Just before we got to the Road Amanda picked up on a little girl with long brown wavy hair.  She was aged about 10 years old and was wearing a pretty blue dress with a sash. Then she picked up on the ghost of a little boy aged about 8 years old who was just a bit shorter. The two were holding hands and Amanda was not sure if they were just friends or related in some way.  The little boy was covered in dirt, as if playing outside all day. He liked to do things all little adventurous boys enjoy, like playing with worms, mud and frogs. The little boy gestured to us to come and said "Come on, lets go play!". She feels he died about a decade ago and lived on a farm. The little girls spirit became strong once more, explaining her death. Amanda saw visions of her on the ground, her arms scrambling everywhere, trying to fight back. In the process her tights got ripped and dirty. Amanda says that the way she looks, reminds her of Mary from the TV show 'Little House on the Prairie'.

Jay and Amanda spotted three shadow figures peering over the fence at us. They weren't very tall, so they must of been other children. Jay also spotted a man in a hooded robe down further by a tree. His appearance reminded Jay of a wizard. 

 

December 2005

On this night Brenda, Jay, Rachel, Amanda, Donny & Shelley visited the road for the final time. We parked facing North to see the light. We were in and out of the car as it was very cold this evening. We arrived around 9pm. As in our previous experiences we encountered the ghost children of the road, which is more prominent than the motorcyclist. As soon as we pulled up beside the rock Brenda, Shelley and Amanda felt a negative presence on the other side of a wooden fence. We took a lot of pictures as both Brenda & Shelley were in contact with some kind of demonic negative energy, who controlled the children. Together Brenda and Shelley were able to send 6 or 7 children to the light and trapped the negative presence which kept them at the road. They described him as the one the children feared the most, that he was the one who collected the children.

As you can see from pictures 1, 2 and 3 we caught some children on camera. One image shows a ghost yelling or screaming with it's hands on it's head. The night before Amanda had a dream of a little girl with long blonde hair in a blue dress asking for help. Brenda opened a portal to the light for the children to enter, not all left. Then the natives told Brenda that they would keep the evil presence from praying on any others. Brenda is part Ojibwa and feels the deep connection of her ancestral roots on the land. They took the negative presence to be judged. It was then they agreed to protect all in the group that night from further contact with the negative entity that no one was to return to the road again, and that if they do so they do so on their own risk and the agreement would not stand true for that particular group member no more.

Another amazing experience took place that night was that as Brenda gave thanks to the spirits Shelley was contacted by a small girl from the portal that was still open to the light. She came down to find her daddy and wanted Shelley's help to do so. Brenda explained to Shelley it was her father that was murdered here hundreds of years ago. We were able to help her find her dad. Together Shelley and Brenda sent them both into the light - Brenda and Shelley are highly trained psychic's. We all left that night feeling peaceful and that we were able to pay back the respect that many spirits were never given, although many spirits are still on the road...oh yes one final word---Brenda says the man that is suppose to ride the motorcycle; his name is David Sweetman. His father had a delivery service at one time on the Island…but the lights were there since the early 1800's.....what other phantoms are there??? You decide!!

August 6th, 2005

It was 2am, with a dark sky, clear and no moon. It was 13°C. We faced North. Brenda froze at the wheel and could not bring herself to drive down the road. Nothing happened, but she could sense something that made her scared enough to freeze in one spot. We left the road, only to return later on. Brenda did not feel that much different so Jay drove instead. By this time it was 4am, still no moon, and the sky was still clear and very dark. While driving we met up with Rogers TV, and had a scary night! We could hear heavy movements in the woods beside the cars. It sounded as if someone (two feet) was running. We took a lot of pictures that night. At one point we heard a noise by the rock and went to investigate it. When we walked back to the car we all witnessed a happy face on Brenda's spoiler...very unexplainable…the face was upside down and drawn perfectly. Whoever drew it had to be sitting on top of Brenda's car. The face was not drawn with fingers, it looked more like a stencil or as if the shapes were breathed out. Even one of the Rogers' cameramen caught several weird, unexplainable things on film that night. Before walking back to the car we all witnessed a huge comet racing across the sky. You could see the flame with what looked like a white wave flying off it and leaving a trail behind.

Several visits but not recorded.

February 18th, 2005

This was a very active night for the spirits up on ghost road. We caught several images in the pictures. Put it this way it had us all creeped out! Every time we go to the road Brenda is able to make contact with the children and other spirits. Sarah, a child spirit who talks to Brenda when we are there, says that she knows everything. She is the eldest child on the road; she is 14, and was born in Canada.

Her life came to an end on the road. Brenda described her as having long brown wavy hair, brown eyes, and wore a blue jean jumper with a long sleeved red shirt. The red shirt had two buttons in the middle that were left undone, and she also wore running shoes. The first time Brenda met Sarah, Brenda was with a group of friends. Sarah came to her and said she needed help. Sarah wanted Brenda to go with her to show her where her Earthly body’s remains were. Brenda felt that if she went into the woods to follow her, she may not come back out. So Brenda said she was not allowed, but she could get others that would be able to. Brenda gave the information to the Durham Regional Police...but we think nothing ever came of it.

Brenda received a lot of information about various things that night. One in particular was about Daniel, the boy Danny was hearing. He originally came from Ireland as an immigrant with his parents. She also confirmed 22 children were in the woods (spirits). At one point, we put the car in neutral to see if our car would move forward. Instead it moved backwards as if we were on a decline.

A native contacted Brenda saying he was sorry, but he couldn't seem to get a grip from the front of car because the moccasins he was wearing prevented him from keeping his footing stable. We did stop moving backwards, but it felt like we ran into something hard. When we got out though, we were in the middle of the road with nothing around us. We did find two large handprints on the back of the car. Brenda said this is a man who has the mind of a child, and he acts as a guardian for the children. He would never harm anyone. When we go to the road, Brenda always goes into some kind of a trance-like state and starts singing a rhyming song the children are singing. Funny thing though Brenda can't remember the tune unless the children sing it. Sometimes we hear Brenda's voice change, as if she were a small child singing the song...kind of creepy really!

Another boy that contacted Brenda was Randy. Brenda described him as 9-10 years of age, with red hair and freckles. He told us about the thing that scares them all the most - him. They describe it, the fear, as “him” but never provides a description of what “him” looks like. It's not one of the kids, but something else. Randy says he keeps them afraid and we can't leave the road, that he won't let them. They are not even allowed to be near his end of the road. He's mean and he will hurt them if we disobey. Brenda has picked up this dark image on more than one occasion. She says it always seems to flee from her, as if it was afraid, yet Brenda said it clearly didn’t want her there and ordered all of us to leave or...if we came to visit he would make us stay. When the children hear him coming or see him they all yell, "Run, he's here!!" While driving down the road Brenda said that the trail that was there before the road (that's still there now) used to go straight, rather than the quick turn to proceed to the next road (Mississauga Trail).

February 13th, 2005

It was 9pm, dark, very snowy, and –5°C. We took a friend up to the road with us that night. While up there we took a picture of Josh on the rock. He wanted to see if anything would happen to him while on the rock - to see if any of the legends were true. After that we continued our drive up & down the road. It was at this time that Dave heard the little boy again. He told Dave how they had to train themselves to be able to turn into orbs, that it wasn't as easy at it appears to mortals. He also expressed a huge interest in the trucks he saw on the road. In his time trucks did not look like they do now. He told Dave he died at 8 years old. He went into the woods to play hide and seek, and all he could remember was the landscape was completely different when he finally came out. It was at that time that he realized that he had been dead for many years, so he was stuck there.

February 8th, 2005

It was 7:45pm, with a dark sky, cloudy, and 0°C. We did our usual drive up and down the road a few times to get a feel for it. We met up with another car and decided to park with them on the side of the road. Chantelle, Jay and Rachel got out of the car and walked about 50 feet from the front of the vehicle. Rachel ended up feeling uneasy so she turned around and got back into the vehicle. Dave then witnessed an odd experience…Dave is deaf in one ear, but heard a little boy named Daniel telling him about Ghost Road and his experiences. When the car in front of us left, we followed. Everyone that night saw or heard something.

January 21st, 2005

It was 9pm, cloudy, and –10°C. When we arrived at Ghost Road, Brenda & Chantelle got out of the car and Rachel took their pictures by the rock. We then drove up the road where we met another car. We used a voice recorder to see if anything would be picked up. After that we turned around and went back down the road towards the rock. When we reached the end we turned the car around to face the other direction. Upon doing so, we all witnessed a huge yellow light hovering above the ground beside the two headlights of the other vehicle on the road. We waited around to see what it was, but suddenly we all got the feeling to leave, a sense of fear overtook us. At that moment the other car that was under the huge light, started flashing their headlights at us and came towards us at an alarming speed. We all got the distinct impression they were telling us to get the hell out ASAP! We turned around and put the rock behind us and proceeded to go down Pine Point Road. As we were driving away, the other car passed us as if were standing still. We figured from calculating our own speed that they had to be doing at least over 150km/hr. The floating light that night was high enough it would have been sitting above a 4x4 truck...and mysteriously enough, not from the direction that you would normally look for the light!

 

December 10th, 2004

It was approximately 9pm, cloudy with light snow (on the way up to the road), and –5°C. The snow on the road was falling very gently. We brought two cameras with us this night to see if we would catch the same images on them. We felt extremely uncomfortable for the first time on the road. Pictures came back with large blue dots (snowflakes are not blue). The snowfall then turned quite heavy, but only in the middle of the road. Everywhere else, the snow was falling lightly.

December 6th, 2004

Time: 12pm cloudy, damp with a slight wind 0c. When we arrived to Ghost Road we parked the car facing North. Rachel took a picture of Brenda & Chantelle at the rock. We then drove up & down the road, stopping along the way to take pictures. It felt very odd, like someone was watching us. Chantelle took her foot off the gas and let the car run on its own. The car managed to pick up speed on a flat surface as if some invisible source was pushing us.

December 5th, 2004

Our first visit to Ghost Road! The sky was clear and the temperature was approximately 2°C. When we arrived one of our group members stood in front of the car (which was facing North with its headlights pointed at the rock), and took a picture of Rachel with the infamous rock. We then drove up and down the road approximately four times, each time stopping along the way to take pictures. We saw the light but it was going the wrong way.

History

One of the best known haunts of Ontario is Scugog Island's Ghost Road, just outside the quaint village of Port Perry. This has been the sight of many interesting phenomena, as well as the birth of many legends. One version of the legend goes that, sometime in or around the year of 1957, a young man was testing the limits of his motorcycle on an old concession road up on Scugog Island. He was on a straightaway and pushing the engine as fast as he could. The road is short, so he soon realized he was running out of room and was quickly approaching the intersection where the 9th Concession meets. About 100 meters from the south end, near a large tree, he lost control and ploughed into a field. He caught himself on an old rusty barbed-wire fence and was decapitated. Some say his head bounced off the rock! Some also say that he simply banged his head on the rock that is still located on the road, and met his end that way. It is this story that goes along with the reports of the large round white light heading down the road that, when it passes you, it then turns into a small red light. There are also occasional reports of the sounds of a motorcycle to accompany the light.

This location was also home to a well-traveled Native footpath. There have been many artefacts, including Native remains unearthed in the immediate region. With many psychics over the years visiting Ghost Road, many have reported that there is other strange paranormal activity that is present there. Some Durham College students went out and caught the phantom lights on film, so this does exist, and the light can be seen from either direction. For decades (possibly much longer) people have been reporting strange and inexplicable phenomena occurring on 'ghost road'. The most common of these is the mysterious white 'light' (the headlight of a motorcycle according to legend) and a smaller red 'light' (the tail-light).

Other anonymous phenomena include the sighting of 'ghostly beings', cars being pulled forward and backwards by the phantom children, electrical anomalies (like stopping under the big tree or the weeping willow and having your car go dead, only until it’s pushed away from under it, batteries draining and equipment (i.e.: cameras) malfunctioning, UFO’s, strange sounds, no cell range or cell phones suddenly dying when batteries were full, and other various strange occurrences.

In 1827 the town of Lindsay was founded by Mr. William Purdy and his sons Jesse and Hazard. The town was first known as ”Purdy's Mills". Purdy built the first dam in the winter of 1827 to power his gristmill. The dam was 10 feet high, and located on the Scugog River, in Lindsay. The dam flooded the area near Port Perry, creating a lake and Scugog Island (location of Ghost Rd) was born. Now, our experiences on Ghost Road have been quite different. We observed the light coming from the North, not the South. We have also witnessed several other beings on the road. The information stated above is collected from various other documents and websites who have all repeated the same information...not knowing who has direct ownership to the original wording.

DIRECTIONS

How do you get there? Ghost Road is called the "Mississauga Trail" Departing from Oshawa you take Simcoe Road North to Port Perry (highway #7), right on 7, follow and go 3 stoplights, then left onto Island road. The third street on your right is called Pine Point Road (by the barn). Then take that until you find the big rock on your left - that is Ghost Road or better known to locals as "The Mississauga Trail"