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The Limestone Lantern - Ontario Ghost Folklore and History

Every legend leaves a mark on the stone.

An independent magazine tracing Ontario's haunted folklore, from Gibraltar Point to Spadina House, and how archives preserve local ghost stories

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How a legend travels

  1. A local story is told
  2. Field notes and archives
  3. The legend is filed
  4. Future readers find it
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Haunted Places and Local Legends

Casa Loma: Pellatt's Castle and Its Ghost Legend

Why Sir Henry Pellatt built Casa Loma, how he lost it within a decade, and how a 1930s radio broadcaster's ghost-hunting night helped save the castle.

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  1. Kingston's Limestone Landmarks and Their Ghost Folklore

    Why Kingston is called the Limestone City, how the 1840 fire shaped its stone landmarks, and why Fort Henry and the old penitentiary carry Ontario's ghost folklore.

    4 min readHaunted Places and Local Legends

  2. What a Summer Fellowship Quartet Expects of Its Players

    Auditions, daily rehearsal, outreach concerts and counselling duties: what a summer chamber music fellowship really asks of young string players.

    5 min readHaunted Places and Local Legends

  3. The Mile Loop: What a 24-Hour Track Teaches About Place

    What Ontario ghost-story readers can learn from a fixed-time ultra notebook: lap counting, a white stake, direction changes, and how a mile loop shapes a night.

    6 min readHaunted Places and Local Legends

  4. Booking Seats in Athens' Small Theatre Houses

    How reservations actually work at Athens, Georgia's small stages, from chapel seating to box office windows and why early booking matters.

    5 min readHaunted Places and Local Legends

  5. Buying in Alpharetta: Entry Costs, HOA Fees and Winning in M

    A folklore magazine's reader guide to Alpharetta-area home buying: condo, townhome and 1970s ranch entry costs, fees included, and what wins an offer in Milton.

    5 min readHaunted Places and Local Legends

  6. What does the header decide?

    A test entry added as a plain file with a header, to prove that the page, its link, its card, its sitemap line, its feed item and its photo are all produced by the build.

    3 min readHaunted Places and Local Legends

  7. 2002 Ghost History Conference Guests and Itinerary

    A look back at the archived 2002 ghost history conference page, with its guests, itinerary, location details and ticket notes retold as event history.

    6 min readArchives Research and Field Methods

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Haunted Places and Local Legends

Explore Ontario's famous haunted places through folklore and local history, from lighthouses to historic houses and how their legends grew over time.

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Casa Loma: Pellatt's Castle and Its Ghost Legend

Why Sir Henry Pellatt built Casa Loma, how he lost it within a decade, and how a 1930s radio broadcaster's ghost-hunting night helped save the castle.

4 min readHaunted Places and Local Legends

Kingston's Limestone Landmarks and Their Ghost Folklore

Why Kingston is called the Limestone City, how the 1840 fire shaped its stone landmarks, and why Fort Henry and the old penitentiary carry Ontario's ghost folklore.

4 min readHaunted Places and Local Legends

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Archives Research and Field Methods

Learn how Ontario's ghost reports are gathered, filed and preserved, from field notes and interviews to archives that keep folklore for future readers.

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2002 Ghost History Conference Guests and Itinerary

A look back at the archived 2002 ghost history conference page, with its guests, itinerary, location details and ticket notes retold as event history.

6 min readArchives Research and Field Methods

May 2002 Equipment Note on the Sony Hi8 Handycam

Revisits the May 2002 equipment page on the Sony Hi8 CCD-TR818 with zero lux infrared, used for night documentation and careful observation notes.

6 min readArchives Research and Field Methods

January to February 2002 Newsletter Retrospective

A dated look at the winter 2002 Torontoghosts newsletter with its Gibraltar Point photo, reader images and editorial notes on collecting reports.

8 min readArchives Research and Field Methods

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More desks worth reading

Local-history and folklore desks worth a second look, read before they were cited here.

  • The example desk keeps a plain record of how a test entry is written, built and probed, which is exactly what this page needed to compare against before shelving its own. the example desk

  • The Wet Edge answers the painter's practical questions about watercolour, from which pigment granulates and which paper holds a wet wash to how an edge closes, how a class is taught and how a finished sheet is archived.

  • Southern Horizon carries the field music of the Civil War years, its ballroom repertoire, period instruments and liner notes, and the engagements its Virginia players filled from 1987 through living histories and museum programs.

  • The High Desert Ledger answers what water, land, sky and work demand of the arid Southwest, naming its sources and dating every check for readers who live there, travel through or work its small towns.

  • The Cove Ledger answers what tides, water and weather ask of a boat-only hamlet on Kachemak Bay, naming its sources and dating every check for readers who travel there, fish its seasons or simply want to know the place.

  • The Labrador Stockroom answers what hip and elbow scores, EIC testing, weight, ears and ageing ask of a family or field Labrador, naming its sources and dating every check for owners, hunters and buyers deciding.

  • Hem & Drape answers what abaya cut, nida weight, layered coverage and repair work ask of women who buy, wear and mend modest dress, naming its sources and dating every check.