The Haunted Walk of the Distillery District is good, clean fun
An incredible fireball lit up the pre-dawn skies on Dec. 24, 1863. So forceful was the blast of the exploding boiler at the Gooderham and Worts distillery in Toronto’s east end, The Globe reported that not only were chunks of metal “thrown 50 yards away,” but also “stones, weighing from 50 to 100 pounds, were hurled high in the air.” Stones, it should be added, that had previously made up the building’s castle-like walls.
I will say that earlier, when our tour began, I had not been thinking of icy fingers reaching up from beyond the grave. Meeting at the Distillery’s main gates on an abnormally warm October evening, the air ringing with the laughter of patio-diners and Justin Timberlake’s, it was hard to get in the mood. Add to that the part of Sarah’s speech about logistics, traffic and uneven pavement, and I was preparing for an absence of eidolism.
style” for more than 10 minutes may, however, have been pushed by a ghostly, still-unidentified woman who is sometimes seen on the staircase .
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