The Screaming Tunnel
It has been called one of Ontario’s most haunted locations, and it has hosted a right-of-passage for Niagara youth for decades—some say for over a hundred years. Go at night, they say, light a match, and face the ghost of a murdered girl, then hear her scream as she blows the match out. It’s a wonderfully creepy ghost story, and a fascinating study for those interested in the evolution of urban legends.
Notes
The general timeline for the urban legend noted in this episode comes from my own interviews with locals in 2006, supplemented by websites accessed 2016 to 2018, most of which are now gone. I’ll be using Archive.org to find and share the ghosts of these long lost websites.
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