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Product ID: 7976

Full availability: Every day of the year.
Flexibility: start, take a break and continue at your own pace.
Access to the self-guided city exploration game in the Questo app
Live game master or physical guide
Private transportation
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Toronto Haunted Old Town Self Guided Ghost Tour

Toronto, Canada

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1 hour 30 minutes

Mobile ticket

Offered in: English

Berczy Park

The case starts at Berczy Park, by a cast-iron fountain where 27 dogs stare up at a gilded bone and one cat looks the other way. You'll answer a rhyming riddle from the fountain itself to earn your clearance into the Bureau.

Duration: 10 minutes

St. Lawrence Market

In the south market, between the butchers and the sandwich queue, you'll decode a question with every vowel swapped for an X and find a date on site. This was Toronto's first city hall and its jail at once, and the basement cells flooded every spring for decades. A hundred metres away, St Lawrence Hall has no ghost at all, just a carved head to pick out of four doctored photos and a room where Frederick Douglass once spoke.

Duration: 10 minutes

The Cathedral Church Of St. James

At St James Cathedral, whose spire was once the tallest thing in the country, the sign out front has been tampered with in your photo. Its archive holds the papers of Dr George Grasett, killed by the fever of 1847 after 24 days running the fever hospital. Across King Street, the grand King Edward hotel stands where a ten-cell log jail went up in 1798, and you'll spot what has vanished from its awning.

Duration: 10 minutes

Metropolitan United Church

Courthouse Square and the 1852 Adelaide Court House come next, and you'll solve a photo puzzle at each. Two rebels were hanged here behind a stockade in 1838, and the old courthouse cells are now a restaurant's washrooms. At Metropolitan United, in a park of its own off Queen Street, a plaque gives back a word blacked out of your note. In 1888 this congregation started the campaign that closed Toronto on Sundays.

Duration: 10 minutes

St. Michael's Cathedral Basilica

Up on Bond Street, the statue in front of St Michael's Cathedral is missing something in your photo. Bishop Michael Power laid the cathedral's first stone in 1845, nursed the famine emigrants in the fever sheds of 1847 and was buried in its crypt at 42.

Duration: 10 minutes

Mackenzie House

A few doors along, Mackenzie House is the narrow brick home of Toronto's first mayor. You'll use a number code to pull a password out of its blue plaque. When the house went to the city in 1960, the inventory ended with two words: one ghost.

Duration: 10 minutes

Massey Hall

The app shows you four versions of Massey Hall's red neon sign, and only one is real. Churchill, Helen Keller and Billie Holiday all appeared here, and in 1953 five jazz musicians played a set people still argue was the greatest jazz concert ever recorded.

Duration: 10 minutes

Old City Hall

At Old City Hall you'll count the carved faces erased from a photo of the entrance columns. The architect fought the council over his fees for years, so he carved the councillors into the stone as gargoyles and spelled his own name across the frieze.

Duration: 10 minutes

CF Toronto Eaton Centre

The file closes behind the Eaton Centre, in the yard of the Church of the Holy Trinity. Four photos of the pavement labyrinth each have a different centre, and you'll pick the true one. The church opened in 1847 on one condition from an anonymous donor: its seats would be free forever.

Duration: 10 minutes