Toronto is a relatively young city well loved by tourists and locals alike. There’s the Distillery District, the CN Tower, Casa Loma and the Royal Ontario Museum, to name a few. In fact, it practically offers everything, even satiating the macabre taste.

If you’re visiting Toronto and would very much love to immerse yourself on the ghostly side of town, then you’re in the right place. We’ve lined up some of the scariest places in Toronto that are bound to raise every strand of hair in your body.

1. St. Michael’s Hospital (30 Bond Street)

Hospitals are always a breeding ground for mystery and horror. St. Michael’s further proves this idea, as it is the city’s preeminent haunted hospital. A faceless nun, fondly called Sister Vinnie visits the 7^th floor, pulling patients’ blankets as she keeps watch over them. Oh and there’s also man roaming the filing room of the medical records office.

2. Keg Mansion (515 Jarvis Street)

This fine restaurant isn’t just known for its mighty excellent steak. It’s also one of Toronto’s most haunted places. From patrons feeling a presence watching over them to the staff members who wear phantom children playing upstairs, this place is enough to give you one unforgettable meal.

3. Elgin and Winter Garden Theaters (189 Yonge Street)

Old movie houses are a haven for ghostly manifestations. If you ever find yourself riding this theater’s elevator, try not to freak out over a sudden stop at the 5^th floor without anyone hitching a ride; anyone visible, that is.

4. The Guild Inn grounds

First served as the vacation home of Colonel Harold Blackford, the Guild Inn later on served as a military hospital, museum, hotel and missionary college. Now it’s abandoned but its theater grounds still seem to house a few spirits who are yet to found rest, including a young solider with one blue and one brown eye.

5. The Old Don Jail (Near Broadview Avenue & Gerrard Street East)

This place is notorious for ghost sightings and eerie, cold corners. Before capital punishment was abolished, the Old Don Jail housed 34 executions, quickly building a reputation among paranormal enthusiasts. There are plenty of stories that will bring chills down to your spine but one of the most famous is that of a female inmate who hung herself in her cell and haunted the prison ever since.

6. Old Fort York (250 Fort York Boulevard)

Like Old Don, Old Fort York has seen plenty of carnage being the location of three bloody battles in the city’s history. Each year, this place holds the record of most reports of haunted sightings in Toronto, including a red-coated guard by the entrance, a woman in the Quarters and a whole lot of visitations, odd noises and presences.

7. The Royal York Hotel (100 Front Street West)

Also called the Fairmont Royal Park, this is one hotel we dare you to stay in whilst visiting Toronto. It has welcomed over 40 million guests since its establishment back in 1929. If you really want the free ghostly experience that comes with your two-bedroom suite, go to the 8^th floor and you might just see an old man roaming the halls. While you’re at it, go to the staircase leading to the roof deck and you might just a creepy crawl up your spine. That’s the spot where a former employee hung himself.

8. Humber College (3199 Lake Shore Boulevard West)

Humber College has its psychiatric hospital roots to thank for its unrelenting disturbances. Countless people have heard humming, smelted flowery scents and have seen mysterious presences in the campus. Perhaps it’s time to include Paranormal Studies into its curriculum, don’t you think?

9. Coulborne Lodge (11 Colborne Lodge Drive)

This museum is one of the 11 historic sites of Toronto. If you fancy seeing more than the previous life of John Howard, go right ahead and visit Colborne Lodge. People have reported seeing phantom soldiers roaming the grounds and even the ghostly figure of John’s wife, Jeminar Howard. The ghosts here are believed to been wandering the place since 1813.

10. Gibraltar Point Lighthouse

This place couldn’t be clearer on emphasizing horror with a plaque upfront stating that it is indeed, a haunted building. The lighthouse keeper, John Paul was brutally murdered and dismembered here. Ghostly sightings of John have been reported multiple times, particularly of him seemingly looking for his lost limbs. If that’s not enough to give you the creeps, we don’t know what is.
There are more than enough haunted places to keep your heart racing when you visit Toronto. Make sure you include these 10 spots in your paranormal itinerary.