The site
About The Limestone Lantern
An independent site on the folklore, local history and recorded ghost stories of Ontario, and on how those accounts are collected and retold.
The Limestone Lantern is an independent editorial site about the folklore, local history and recorded ghost stories of Ontario. It looks at how haunted place accounts are collected, told and retold, and at what archives and heritage bodies document about the same places.
What the site covers
Articles appear in two sections. Haunted Places and Local Legends follows well known and lesser known sites, among them Gibraltar Point Lighthouse, Spadina House, the Niagara radio broadcasts and War of 1812 re-enactment traditions. Archives Research and Field Methods explains how a story travels from an oral telling to a printed page, a walking tour script or an archive folder.
Who reads it
The site is written for curious readers of Ontario history and folklore, for local historians and genealogists, for walking tour visitors and for students of folklore. You do not need prior knowledge of the subject. Each article gives you the names of the sources it draws on, so you can follow the same trail through an archive or a local collection.
The site is edited by The Limestone Lantern editorial team. You can write to [email protected].