Round trip transportation to Buffalo.
English afternoon tea for lunch. Sandwiches, scones, fresh cream, home made preserves & tea.
Visits to 5 famous haunted places in Buffalo including the facility previously known as the Buffalo Asylum for the Insane, pictured above.
Haunted stops include a mansion, an art gallery, a World War II naval destroyer, the insane asylum and a haunted restaurant.
A guided tour will be provided at the mansion.
Admission to the art gallery is included.
A self guided tour will be available on the battleship.
All tips included. Tax extra.
We start off with a lunch at an old Victorian era mansion on an orchard farm.
Our lunch is styled after a traditional English afternoon tea and includes sandwiches, scones, fresh cream, home made preserves and of course tea.
This orchard farm was also a stop on the underground railroad that helped slaves from the south escape to liberty and freedom in Canada. The barn where the slaves were hidden is now a small museum, dedicated to the underground railroad. Have a look at the hole in the ground where the slaves were hidden until they could sail across Lake Ontario. It';s a pretty scary start to our day!
Our second stop is a mansion that was built in the early 1800's.
We will be receiving a guided tour of the grounds and inside of the mansion from the curatorial staff.
The legend goes that the builder of the mansion lost his 21-year-old wife under mysterious circumstances. During the mansion's construction, a roofer nearly fell after seeing a woman look out at him from a window of the otherwise empty house. Other carpenters refused to go back inside for their tools after seeing a person materialize out of thin air. Motorists have claimed they have narrowly avoided a girl running out of the mansion, who then mysteriously vanishes.
Our third stop will be a center that today houses an art gallery. You will have an opportunity to tour the inside of the building and see the watercolour exhibit that will be on display during our visit.
People have supposedly witnessed mysterious white lights as well as apparitions. Also a ghost boy has been seen playing throughout the home. Perhaps we will see him as well during our art gallery tour.
Our fourth stop on today's tour will be the Erie Naval Park where we will be boarding the USS Sullivans WWII destroyer.
Five brothers were killed on this destroyer in WWII. They supposedly turn lights off and on, lock doors and create general mischief. Our tour includes admission to the naval park and a self guided tour of the destroyer. There are three ships docked here and if you have time, you are welcome to also visit the other two ships even though they do not have a haunted history.
Our fifth stop is the Buffalo Asylym for the Insane, today known as the Richardson-Olmstead Complex.
This facility has been shut down and fenced off, but dates back to the 1800's. Mental patients here had been subjected to unusually cruel treatments in the basement of the building and it is believed that these people still roam the building seeking vengeance for what was perpetrated on them.
And finally, before we cross back into Canada, we will be visiting a local McDonalds Restaurant in Niagara Falls, NY.
Before this building became a McDonald's, a man was killed here. If you eat downstairs, they say you can feel his chill and hear his cries for help. Umm.... anyone want to eat downstairs?
And after our stop at McDonalds, we cross back over the Rainbow Bridge and make our way back to Toronto, thoroughly spooked.
We return to Toronto at approximately 11 PM. The last TTC subway train from York Mills Subway Station leaves at 1:12 AM so you will be back at the station in plenty of time.