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A long time ago, my father shared with me his dual-phrase philosophy on getting ahead in life: “It’s who you know” and “It’s being in the right place at the right time.”

As simplistic as these credos sound, I have to agree, for without either, The Searcher Group would not have experienced the paranormal events you are about to discover.

Halton Hills, Ontario, has a long, varied history with an abundance of stories to be told. I feel blessed to have lived here for most of my life, and after joining Richard Palmisano and The Searcher Group in 2011, I was eager to find work for the team in my own backyard.

The opportunity arrived in the fall of 2012, a week before Richard and I were to meet with Heritage Halton Hills to learn more about haunted locations in the community and to ask for their support while working in the area. I received a series of e-mails referring me to a particular property in a nearby village and to one Google Street View image, in particular.

It was an unassuming house I’d passed a million times, never suspecting it was special, much less haunted. It’s not particularly spectacular, picturesque, or even foreboding from the outside. It does have a “warm” feel to it and certainly provokes curiosity from those that choose to drive by more slowly than most. In fact, at our introduction, the homeowners claimed that visitors to the house felt a sense of welcomeness and would often linger, not wanting to leave.

I’ve often wondered what sort of anomalies the camera cars mapping street views of the world have unintentionally captured. In this case, it appeared that in 2009, while mapping the length of Winston Churchill Boulevard, near Georgetown, Ontario, the Google camera snapped not one, but two ghostly figures on the property we were about to explore. (Unfortunately for the reader, this image is no longer online, nor are the good folks at Google permitting us to publish it.)

The homeowners assured us that no one was living on the property at that time. Suffice it to say, based on this unique find, the team was excited to embark on a new investigation, a new learning experience, and a new chill-inspiring chapter in the company’s three-plus decades of existence.

Dad was right, in this case. I hope you enjoy sharing our latest adventure.

Peter Roe, 2014