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The Customs House
Hamilton, ON
by Mike Pettitt

This involves the Haunted Hamilton crew. For my grade 9 Gifted English class, we were doing a unit on mythology and had an ISU (Independant Study Unit). So I thought, why not go to the Customs House and make a documentary. On the first day, I knew NOTHING about the ghosts, except what was on this website. I went down to the basement and the first thing that
happened was that I heard sobbing. I immediately turned on my camera, but it had stopped. I then ran as fast as posible upstairs (because only me and the guy at the front desk were there) and asked if there was anyone else in the building. He said that there wasn't, so I told him what had happened. I then walked around the building with a compass (trying to find electro-magnetic field disturbances). Every time I found one, it would stop before I got my camera out. After three hours I went home.

The next day, I got there and walked around for about five minutes. Then I went back to the lobby and Kate Kingston was there talking to the man at the front desk. He told her what i had been doing and she and I went downstairs to check out where I heard the sobs. At the same place that I had began hearing the sobbing, she told me that she felt like she was being choked. I informed her that a girl had been choked and raped (and murdered) in this basement. Then the rest of the HH team arrived. They began discussing the HH Gothic Gala, while I went outside. When i was outside, i heard a distinct scream.

Well, that's all i remember, because it's been like a month since.
I still haven't finished the editing on the film.

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