Case file · Haunting
Gibraltar Point lighthouse keeper
J. P. Rademuller, first keeper of the Toronto Islands lighthouse, vanished on 2 January 1815, said to have been killed by soldiers from Fort York after a quarrel over beer; his ghost is said to climb the tower.
1815 CE · 43.61, -79.38 · status: legend
The account
In 1893 a later keeper dug up part of a skeleton near the lighthouse, which was taken as confirmation. The lighthouse is the oldest surviving one on the Great Lakes.
The sceptical view
The murder was never proven in court, and the bones were never identified.