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From the humble beginnings to the booming mining years, Sudbury has played host to stories of wealth and prosperity, hardship and struggle, and everything in between. Through the highs and the lows come tales of great success and great despair, adding to the wonder of a city that, by land area, is the largest city in Ontario.

Sudbury is home to the Big Nickel, a thirty foot replica of a 1951 Canadian Nickel and the Inco Superstack, which, until 1987, was the world’s largest free-standing chimney at 1250 feet. Science North, Northern Ontario’s most popular interactive science museum is in Sudbury, and the city also boasts a vibrant arts community. With over 330 lakes within the city limits, it is an outdoor lover’s wonderland, rich with various seasonal sports, and the birthplace of more than eighty NHL hockey players.

But there are other strange things afoot in this peaceful northern municipality; things not readily visible, but which lurk just beneath the surface.

And despite the vow so many people have of “trying to leave” this northern community for other destinations, something about the Nickel City keeps luring them back. Whether it’s the taste of fresh air — or just the sulphur in the air — it’s hard to move beyond the black rocks, endless lakes and great openness without longing to come home.

From a ghost seen wandering level 2650 of a local mine to voices and strange sounds heard in the basement of an abandoned hospital; from a graveyard that seems to protect itself from unwelcome visitors to a series of inexplicable lights regularly reported hovering in the night sky; from reports of strange creatures stalking the northern woods to eerie encounters, restless spirits and other unexplainable phenomenon that go bump in the night.

Spooky Sudbury explores the magnetic aura surrounding the city, for the living as well as the once-alive, in tales of mystery, wonder, and outright horror.