Royal Ontario Museum ROM Haunted?
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How the building stands today.
ROM's History
The Royal Ontario Museum was founded on April 14th 1912. "The same day the Titanic sank in the North Atlantic"
In 1912 the Royal Ontario Museum act was enacted by the government and it opened on March 14 1914.
The first expansion was October 1933, and it was to help employ as many men as possible during the Great Depression.
The McLaughlin Planetarium was added to the south side in 1964 and a multi-level atrium was added in 1975. The Planetarium was closed in 1995 due to dwindling audiences. It reopened in 1998 and closed again in 2002 and was rented to the Children's Own Museum. 2009 the museum sold the building to the University of Toronto.
The Queen Elizabeth II Terrace Galleries on the north side of the building was completed in 1984. It was awarded the Governor General's Award in Architecture.
In 2002 the museum went through a major renovation and expansion project. The main project was the Michael Lee-Chin Crystal. The crystal was opened to the public in 2007 and all work was completed in 2010.
In 1912 the Royal Ontario Museum act was enacted by the government and it opened on March 14 1914.
The first expansion was October 1933, and it was to help employ as many men as possible during the Great Depression.
The McLaughlin Planetarium was added to the south side in 1964 and a multi-level atrium was added in 1975. The Planetarium was closed in 1995 due to dwindling audiences. It reopened in 1998 and closed again in 2002 and was rented to the Children's Own Museum. 2009 the museum sold the building to the University of Toronto.
The Queen Elizabeth II Terrace Galleries on the north side of the building was completed in 1984. It was awarded the Governor General's Award in Architecture.
In 2002 the museum went through a major renovation and expansion project. The main project was the Michael Lee-Chin Crystal. The crystal was opened to the public in 2007 and all work was completed in 2010.
Haunting Information
The Royal Ontario Museum is said to be haunted by mainly 2 specific ghosts. Charles Currelly & Celeste.
Charles Currelly is the original director of the ROM. His apparition has been seen in the East Asiatic Collection part of the museum. Staff have witnessed several strange occurrences in the gallery and some staff have seen his acutal apparition.
Celeste is th eother apparition that has been seen. Her real name is unknown by she is called Celeste by most. She is a young girl and is often seen sitting in the McLaughlin Planetarium watching the shows. She would be seen sitting alone in the theatre after all the other children had left. When staff would call out to her she would just disappear. Celeste still appeared after the planetarium closed. When the planetarium became the Children's Own Museum staff reported seeing toys tossed around, and a shadow figure would be seen in the buildings hallways and storage rooms.
After searching our great wide web :-) I came across a report on the ghosts at the ROM from torontoghosts . org. So thanks to them for the following report........
The following was sent in by a co op student who worked at the ROM...
After the school term ended, I stayed on to help out as a volunteer as I had a semester and summer to kill before university. Many of the people I worked with kind of wondered about the stories but others who had worked there for years said it was all balderdash.
I should say that I believe in ghosts and always have, so I did think it was possible that something was going on. The area I worked in consisted of classrooms, offices, and a staff room. In the particular hall near these rooms, one often saw "something" out of the corner of your eye... a shape which seemed to be crossing the hall into one of the offices. The doors were all locked and only certain full time staff had keys, anybody else buzzed to gain admittance and that the main door was in full view of and close to the office. No people had buzzed and no doors had been unlocked so the shapes disconcerted people.
One day during the March Break when there were no classes scheduled, I was working on the computer at the back of a large room. I was alone except there was one other employee. The computer was against the wall, so my back was to the larger part of the room, and the hallway. The other person was in another smaller office and we were alone in the department.
As I typed I was concentrating as I wanted to finish before we left for lunch. I heard soft footsteps behind me, and then a hand landed on my left shoulder. I didnt even look up, I just kept typing and said "Okay I'm nearly done. Be there in two shakes."
I signed off of the computer and then went to the office where my friend was to find them coming out the door saying "Sorry I didn't catch that."
When I asked what they had meant, my friend said theat they'd heard my voice in the other office but as they werent't terribly close to me they had missed what I said. I asked if they had come in and laid their hand on my shoulder and got only a confused look and asked how they could have as they were in the other office and I wasnt in there.
There was nobody else in the department, indeed, on the floor and the elevator wasn't working that day, so if anybody had come down to the basement we would have heard the heavy fire doors and certainly nobody buzzed or used keys to enter.
After that encounter another person said they'd actually walked into a figure in the doorway of one of the offices. There wasn't a change in temperature of feeling of the place when I had my experience, but as the entire area is always cold and faintly menacing but we all got used to it.
Charles Currelly is the original director of the ROM. His apparition has been seen in the East Asiatic Collection part of the museum. Staff have witnessed several strange occurrences in the gallery and some staff have seen his acutal apparition.
Celeste is th eother apparition that has been seen. Her real name is unknown by she is called Celeste by most. She is a young girl and is often seen sitting in the McLaughlin Planetarium watching the shows. She would be seen sitting alone in the theatre after all the other children had left. When staff would call out to her she would just disappear. Celeste still appeared after the planetarium closed. When the planetarium became the Children's Own Museum staff reported seeing toys tossed around, and a shadow figure would be seen in the buildings hallways and storage rooms.
After searching our great wide web :-) I came across a report on the ghosts at the ROM from torontoghosts . org. So thanks to them for the following report........
The following was sent in by a co op student who worked at the ROM...
After the school term ended, I stayed on to help out as a volunteer as I had a semester and summer to kill before university. Many of the people I worked with kind of wondered about the stories but others who had worked there for years said it was all balderdash.
I should say that I believe in ghosts and always have, so I did think it was possible that something was going on. The area I worked in consisted of classrooms, offices, and a staff room. In the particular hall near these rooms, one often saw "something" out of the corner of your eye... a shape which seemed to be crossing the hall into one of the offices. The doors were all locked and only certain full time staff had keys, anybody else buzzed to gain admittance and that the main door was in full view of and close to the office. No people had buzzed and no doors had been unlocked so the shapes disconcerted people.
One day during the March Break when there were no classes scheduled, I was working on the computer at the back of a large room. I was alone except there was one other employee. The computer was against the wall, so my back was to the larger part of the room, and the hallway. The other person was in another smaller office and we were alone in the department.
As I typed I was concentrating as I wanted to finish before we left for lunch. I heard soft footsteps behind me, and then a hand landed on my left shoulder. I didnt even look up, I just kept typing and said "Okay I'm nearly done. Be there in two shakes."
I signed off of the computer and then went to the office where my friend was to find them coming out the door saying "Sorry I didn't catch that."
When I asked what they had meant, my friend said theat they'd heard my voice in the other office but as they werent't terribly close to me they had missed what I said. I asked if they had come in and laid their hand on my shoulder and got only a confused look and asked how they could have as they were in the other office and I wasnt in there.
There was nobody else in the department, indeed, on the floor and the elevator wasn't working that day, so if anybody had come down to the basement we would have heard the heavy fire doors and certainly nobody buzzed or used keys to enter.
After that encounter another person said they'd actually walked into a figure in the doorway of one of the offices. There wasn't a change in temperature of feeling of the place when I had my experience, but as the entire area is always cold and faintly menacing but we all got used to it.
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