Article content This article explores community anecdotes surrounding Sault Ste. Marie’s haunted history, sharing firsthand accounts and local perspectives. The supernatural claims mentioned here have not been verified and are presented for entertainment purposes.
For those who want to dive deeper, the Sault Ste. Marie Museum’s Facebook Group, Haunted Histories of The Sault, is an ongoing page to share and read about ghostly stories and local legends. From hollow figures to centuries-old burial grounds, Sault Ste.
Marie is brimming with stories that blur the line between past and present. As Halloween approaches, stories of local lore and the Catholic Church’s continued practice of exorcisms might just set the stage for eerie autumn nights. And for those hesitant to believe in ghosts, it may only take one chilling encounter to reconsider.
Conversations with priests, psychics, and residents suggest that Sault Ste. Marie fosters an openness to acknowledging uncanny happenings — that is, if they exist at all. Father Michael Hayes of St.
Mary’s Catholic Church shed light on some of the darker corners that any Catholic who was “well taught” should know about. Any sort of spiritual reality in a place, or attached to an item, he said, is usually one of two things. “First.
.. it would be an evil spirit, fallen angel, demon — whatever you want to call it,” he told The Sault Star over the phone.
He explained that an evil spirit can “take abode” in a place or obje.
