Humber College Lakeshore campus now a place full of bright young minds with
hopeful futures but it wasn't always this way within these walls are stories
of a dark dreary past these are the untold stories of the Lakeshore asylum
I'm Spencer Wood I'm the manager of facilities at Humber's Lakeshore campus
my name is Steve Bang and I teach here at Humber in the business program my
name's Charlotte I'm the Zamboni operator at the powerhouse ice rink the
buildings at Lakeshore Humber Lakeshore East were built originally to be the
psychiatric asylum for the province of Ontario they were built in the 1890s
using what was then a new model for psychiatric care which was a model of
our cottages so they had men on one side of the campus and the women on the
other and they were in almost like a residential or even a farm environment
at that time this location was in the middle of nowhere and they were
expanded again in the 1930s and then finally closed in the 1970s now there's
a rumor out that the asylum or now called Humber campus Lakeshore is haunted
and there are many people that have had situations where they feel they've been
in the presence of some sort of spirit the rumor is is it's a nurse some people
have said they've seen her they felt her they've heard her I had to go in early
one morning at five in the morning and I heard a woman's voice as soon as I
entered the building at five in the morning she went hello and I scared the
daylights out of me and I left the building it was clearly somebody saying
hello to me and the nurse apparently was having an affair with one of the
patients at the asylum and for some reason chose to hang herself in one of
the apple trees like the one behind us so that's why her spirit still haunts
Humber campus just stepped outside to have a cigarette and then I was drawn
almost pulled downstairs and when I got to the bottom of the stairs I was
extremely creeped out because it really feels like there's someone there
although it's empty and I was told that there was a story of a woman who was
wearing a white outfit she's been seen by many students and she was late one
night doing her schoolwork late all the other students were gone and it was a
night like tonight where there's nobody down except a bunch of empty lockers in
the hallway and the girl saw this woman walking really slow almost floating
across the floor and she got to the end where the staircase is and the girls
was hollered to her twice but she didn't hear her she just kept walking so the
girl ran as fast as she could go as the woman was exiting into the stairwell and
the girl caught up the woman should have still been there but she was gone
vanished that wasn't the first and only time many people have spoken about this
woman that roams the halls at night in these buildings
hey the door you see here is the last remaining entrance to the famous G
building the G building right now is locked up you can't get into it it
suffers from mold and also asbestos pollution the G building also is the
building that's rumored to be mine and talked about the the ghost of the nurse
apparently she's been seen in the G building at times they think it's because
that's where the morgue was they're not sure in the 50s this was the building
that a lot of experiments were done on the patients this is where they did
electric shock therapy they also did insulin shock therapy and this is also
where they did frontal lobotomies there's been grisly stories of how people died
in the operating rooms from botched lobotomies and children were stillborn
and ended up being buried in unmarked graves at the graveyard 1500 and 16
souls buried there and they only know the identity of 35 of them but 115 years
for a cemetery with no marker almost screams shame what used to be a house
of horrors this place of supposed to cure people's minds now it's a place of
hope and new beginnings with Humber College bright minds and young lives
and the ice rink that's at the former powerhouse it brings joy to people's
hearts so it's turned around into a better more positive influence on people's
lives and that's a good thing
