Really Convincing UFO Video Filmed in Toronto

This is perhaps one of the most convincing UFO videos I have ever seen. It clearly displays an object which is not a plane (due to the lack of flashing lights) flying across the sky. What makes it even more interesting is that an actual plane ends up flying by along the same trajectory in the opposite direction. You can clearly see that one is a plane and the other isn't.

Contrast between a plane (right) and UFO (left)

This looks very much like an object I filmed once, except it wasn't moving leading me to believe it was a planet. This changes things somewhat.

What do you think? Is this indeed a real UFO?

Muddy York Walking Tours in Toronto

Want to experience Toronto from a different angle?

If you're in Toronto this Autumn and looking for a bit of spooky fun (and a bit of a history lesson) I highly recommend checking out Muddy York Walking Tours. This tour company has several options available which take you through various parts of downtown Toronto to investigate the locations of alleged hauntings.

From their website, the offer tours for:

• The Haunted Streets of Downtown Toronto 
• The Ghosts of the University of Toronto 
• Bloody York : Crime and Punishment 
• Toronto History : the 19th Century 
• Toronto History : the 20th Century 
• Toronto's Rebel March Royal 
• Toronto Historic Cemetery Walk 
• Toronto's Lost Rivers 
• The History of Downtown Street Names 
• The History of Midtown Street Names 
• Remembrance Tour Neighbourhood Tours 
• Chocolate Tour of Toronto 
• Victorian Toronto Cinema and Scandal

I've done two of their tours and can vouch that the tours are fun, informative, informal and relatively short. If you're in the city, go check them out.

Haunted Toronto: Hsin Kuang Centre

The Hsin Kuang Centre, not overall
terrifying looking from the outside.

It's time to take a look into another haunted location within our fair city of Toronto. On the menu this time we have the Hsin Kuang Centre - formally the Hsin Kuang Restaurant. Located at 346 Spadina Avenue this place was said to have been built on what was originally a Chinese funeral parlour and morgue. Not exactly a good luck omen according to many Chinese people - no surprises there. The restaurant was originally opened in the 1970's to cater to Chinese Torontonians in and around the area.

The nature of the haunting according to residents? There is supposed to be a ghost that haunts the woman's washroom which makes an occasional appearance. There does not seem to be any recounts of the spirit being violent, but unsettling nevertheless.

The really bizarre thing about this case was how the Chinese owners said the spirits were able to enter into the restaurant. If you look across the street, onto the roof of the opposing building there are a couple of billboards that form an "arrow" shape pointing towards the Hsin Kuang Centre. The shape was said to act as a conduit allowing spirits to enter into the restaurant.

These billboards acted as the gateway to the restaurant for spirits.
Why couldn't they take the front door like everybody else?

This problem was identified by a Chinese exorcist. Although the owners requested for the billboards to be removed, the company that owned them would not comply. As a solution, exorcist suggested for the owners to place stone lions by the doorway to guard against the approach of evil spirits. Although they did sit in the doorway for a while, eventually the owners moved the entrance of the centre to St. Andrew's Street along with the stone lions. Doing so would protect the centre from new spirits moving in, but they would still have to cope with the ones already inside.

Creepy stone lions guard the entrance to the restaurant
which is now on St. Andrew's Street.

The location still exists today and the spirits are still supposed to be inside. If you're a woman in the area and need to use the washroom, maybe you should just look for a Tim Horton's instead...