Blue Ghost Tunnel - January 14 2012

This Saturday's hike was to a place called the Blue Ghost Tunnel - a train tunnel that was built in the late 1800's. There was a head on train collision shortly after the tunnel was built, plus a near-by graveyard had over 600 graves flooded out by a pond needed for the Welland Canal.  The combination of these activities, plus lots of deaths in the construction of the tunnel has resulted in many spirits gathering in this tunnel.  Check it out for yourself at http://hamiltonparanormal.com/tunnel.html.  The tunnel was only used for a short time by the railroad and then abandoned.

Getting there was fun as we had go travel down several steep hills and climb up many even steeper uphills - even needing a rope for one of the climbs up.  On top of that, it was -16C with windchill.  There were 21 hikers that came out for this hike.  The last picture is from the Sunday hike which was in the Port Dalhousie area - basically a flat walk with the mild temperatures compared to yesterday of -7C