Urban Legends: The Haunted Royal Ontario Museum

Home to six million or so artifacts, the Royal Ontario Museum, located in Toronto, Canada is the largest museum in Canada and one of the largest in the World. Found in April 14, 1912, the museum is over a hundred years old. Not surprisingly, for an old place housing many old artifacts, there are also many ghost stories associated with the place. Among the many supernatural stories, there are two notable ones...


One of which is about the resident spirit of a little girl called Celeste. She wore a long white dress, had long blond hair in ringlets and blue eyes. According to guides who were in charger of school tours, they often found a little girl seated in the museum's auditorium by herself. Often, the guides would assume that she is a part of the school group and would not think of her presence as being supernatural. However, when they informed their colleagues about what they thought is a lost girl, they would been informed, all the school children are in their proper place. At that moment, when they try to look for Celeste again, they would not able to find her. Apart from the auditorium, it was said that she had also been seldom found in other places of the Museum.

The other notable ghostly resident of the Museum was Charles Trick Currelly, who was also the Museum first director. Being an archaeologists working the Middle East, Currelly bought back many of the items now at displaced at the Museum. Currelly is very dedicated to his work, according to his contemporaries, when the rest of the staff left at the end of the day, Currelly would continue working several hours on his own in the otherwise abandoned museum. Sometimes, he would even give up going home and sleep through the night in his office, changing into a set of nightshirt which he bought as pajamas. He died in 1957, but somehow, he cannot bear to leave the institution he founded. According to patrolling guards at night today, they would sometimes see a gentleman gowned in a nightshirt wandering in the gallery which house the East Asian artifacts of the Museum. Staff members who worked late in their office also report hearing the sound of some vintage, radio music. Intrestingly, it is known that when Currelly worked late at night during his lifetime, he often listen to the radio to keep himself company. 

Do you live near a old museum? If so, do you know of any ghost stories associated with it. Share your experiences by commenting below!