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Meeting Place of the Dead
Books by Richard Palmisano
Ghosts of the Canadian National Exhibition
Ghosts:
An Investigation into a True Canadian Haunting
Journeys into the Unknown:
Mysterious Canadian Encounters with the Paranormal
Overshadows:
An Investigation into a Terrifying Modern Canadian Haunting
Can You Feel Me?
I can see you but you can’t see me.
I am so alone, how can this be?
A soul of the present, a life of the past,
A memory that will never last.
Can you feel me?
I’m here with you as you move on with a smile,
I stand by your side as you walk down the aisle.
A body decaying, I’ve crossed over the line.
A watchful eye as you live out your prime.
Can you feel me?
I watch as you age, as you grow with a whine,
I watch and I stay but a ripple in time.
A spirit without peace, an Angel in black,
A ruined shirt left to dry on the rack.
Can you feel me?
Life is so precious; you are young, wild and free.
While I am so alone, you’ve forgotten me.
A soul of the present, a life of the past,
A memory that has failed to last.
Can you feel me?
Hayley Quipp
Acknowledgements
First and foremost, I would like to thank my wife, Michelle, for her continued support of all the crazy things I do and for her help on this and all of my projects — you always keep me pointed in the right direction.
To all the staff at Dundurn Press — thank you for all of your hard work and attention.
To the property owners — thank you so much for allowing us the opportunity to investigate such a mysterious place.
To visiting mediums Carol and Barbara — thanks for coming out and providing your insights into this mystery.
Thank you to Heritage Halton Hills for helping us find the hard-to-locate information.
A big thank you to all the great people in Halton Hills who have assisted and provided information to the team on this project.
To Barbara Ford, who owns the InSpirit Centre, 61 Main St. S. Georgetown, ON, (www.InSpiritCentre.com). Thank you for your insights.
To my team, The Searcher Group, who makes going out on these adventures a pleasure. I hope each one of you enjoys this work, as it couldn’t have been done without your dedication and tireless contributions. Thank you James McCulloch, Victoria Jamie, Joanna Buonopane, Marilyn Gray, and Dawn Eglitis.
John Mullan — thanks for building some very cool things for the team to use in our research.
Pat Farley — thank you so much for all your help.
To Peter Roe — a big thank you for not only finding this special location, but also for taking the lead in a lot of the work that had to be done; you should feel a great sense of accomplishment.
Thank you to Paul Palmisano, whose dedication to review all our audio/video is an extremely valuable service he provides for The Searcher Group. And thank you for being the class clown, even in the scariest of moments you can always make the team laugh.
To some of the spirits we have encountered and identified at this location — Miriam, John, Nathan, Emma, Dan, Harry, Henry, Amy, and Carol — may you find peace.
For further information on this and other projects as well as to view photos online please go to our website: www.thesearchergroup.ca .
Foreword
A long time ago, my father shared with me his dual-phrase philosophy on getting ahead in life: “It’s who you know” and “It’s being in the right place at the right time.”
As simplistic as these credos sound, I have to agree, for without either, The Searcher Group would not have experienced the paranormal events you are about to discover.
Halton Hills, Ontario, has a long, varied history with an abundance of stories to be told. I feel blessed to have lived here for most of my life, and after joining Richard Palmisano and The Searcher Group in 2011, I was eager to find work for the team in my own backyard.
The opportunity arrived in the fall of 2012, a week before Richard and I were to meet with Heritage Halton Hills to learn more about haunted locations in the community and to ask for their support while working in the area. I received a series of e-mails referring me to a particular property in a nearby village and to one Google Street View image, in particular.
It was an unassuming house I’d passed a million times, never suspecting it was special, much less haunted. It’s not particularly spectacular, picturesque, or even foreboding from the outside. It does have a “warm” feel to it and certainly provokes curiosity from those that choose to drive by more slowly than most. In fact, at our introduction, the homeowners claimed that visitors to the house felt a sense of welcomeness and would often linger, not wanting to leave.
I’ve often wondered what sort of anomalies the camera cars mapping street views of the world have unintentionally captured. In this case, it appeared that in 2009, while mapping the length of Winston Churchill Boulevard, near Georgetown, Ontario, the Google camera snapped not one, but two ghostly figures on the property we were about to explore. (Unfortunately for the reader, this image is no longer online, nor are the good folks at Google permitting us to publish it.)
The homeowners assured us that no one was living on the property at that time. Suffice it to say, based on this unique find, the team was excited to embark on a new investigation, a new learning experience, and a new chill-inspiring chapter in the company’s three-plus decades of existence.
Dad was right, in this case. I hope you enjoy sharing our latest adventure.
Peter Roe, 2014
Preface
I have always been fascinated by ghostly activity, and as a small boy growing up in a haunted house I wanted to understand what these whispers and footsteps in the halls when no one was present were. I read everything on ghosts and hauntings I could get my hands on and when I turned eighteen, I founded The Searcher Group — a paranormal research group dedicated to finding these answers. This year will mark our thirty-fifth year of ghost investigations.
How We Do What We Do
I get asked a lot of questions about the work we do in paranormal research and investigations, and one of the biggest questions is why it takes us so long to write our books. The work we do is extremely labour intensive. First we must find a suitable location, one that will interest the reader. Not all locations are haunted and even in some that are, activity may be sporadic or the historical back story just doesn’t make for interesting reading. It can take months to find a place that has all the right ingredients for a good story. Once we do find the right