If you were to take an informal survey of staff working in Toronto's culture division, they’d tell that Todmorden Mills is the second most haunted site in the city, right behind Fort York and just ahead of Spadina House in Forest Hill. One popular story that emanates from the heritage museum and arts centre is of an old woman, who seems quite harmless and friendly. She’s been seen by a couple of people, walking about the theatre late at night. Another story concerns loud noises, like moving furniture or props that can be heard from the loft spaces late at night when no one is around. And people working in the sound booth above the audience have seen a grey form flash past the windows overlooking the stage (the windows are about 20 feet above the ground). Then there’s the story of model turned model-agent Judy Welch, who got more than she bargained for when she moved into her new home office on Roxborough St. W. Her oddest account was regarding a particular wall plug she used to plug a Tiffany lamp into. Everytime she’d plug in the lamp, she’d return to the room to find it unplugged. After a seance was held, the medium said that there were indeed the ghosts of the couple who originally owned the house present, that they approved of Judy and would take care of her if she took care of the home. As it turned out, the socket which the lamp continued to be unplugged from was faulty, and could have eventually sparked a fire.

"I had a strong interest in ufology of all things up until high school then we moved into a house where there was a lot of stuff happening that I couldn’t quite explain. So I started reading and reading and reading and reading and really started studying to try and sort of explain what had happened and what was going on in this house I used to live in, in Leaside and East York and from there I had this interest," says Matthew Didier who founded the Ghosts and Hauntings Research Society (GHRS) in 1997. "It was always a side interest, it was never anything in the forefront and my friends knew about it. Every Halloween my friends would come up to me for years and say ‘oh you got a good ghost stories, so tell us a good ghost story.’ In ’97 I had sort of run through the gamut so I went online to find more stories on the World Wide Web and I typed in Canada ghosts and the only thing that came up were three sites."

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