Peterborough Lift Lock has a ghost and a curse set by an unknown woman who was burned at the stake in the 1840s. The ghost has been known to attack men, and the curse is said to have caused many accidents here. Ghosts of those who have committed suicide here have been seen. Witnesses also have reported screams, footsteps, unexplained odors, strange lights and faces peering out of the tunnels. The site was featured on Creepy Canada.
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Geographic Information
- Address:
- Hunter St E
Peterborough, Ontario
Canada
Get Directions » - GPS:
- 44.307930396928896, -78.30059587955475
- Region:
- Peterborough County
- Nearest Towns:
- Peterborough, ON (1.7 mi.)
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I just watched the haunting of Peterborough Lyft lock on APTN, amazing
As a young child as a toddler to age 4 to 6 around that period(mid 70s, i was born in 1973) myself and my mother lived in a house turned into apartments somewhere on mark street east city not far from the Peterbourgh lift locks. We were in an upper apartment and my room was in the very top level and my moms room was beside my room. The rooms were accessible via a stairwell leading to the bed room areas from the downstairs living room and for some reason i remember the bathroom also being on that level. Anyway long story short i was frequented by a pale white woman with orangish red hair with tones of brown all matted up looking and this woman was stark naked with glossy white eyes that pierced into me extreme terror and fear, this spectral woman was accompanied by various sized shadow people with elongated heads and no faces though in the day time i remember seeing facial definitions on black figures no taller than a foot where others were tall and stretched out. The one face of the foot sized entity had your typical devil or demon like face that i new was evil yet at that time i was not educated on those things, they often resembled zulu warriors with banana shaped heads. They often would come to me and in my mind they were going to take me under my bed, i was often paralyzed with fear to the point i couldn’t scream. The most vivid and terrifying dream i had there was a strange dream where everything was white and in this place in a circle of 1970s type lawn chairs with that dark forest olive green color , i couldn’t see the beginning of the circle or the end but seated on the chairs i saw was naked family members and my mother and grand mother stood out the most, they were naked and white and they all began to crackle and disintegrate one by one till it came to me, it was an apacolyptic dream to me almost showing me my final outcome being death and obliteration. i do not want this outcome and am an aspiring Christian to this day.