One of the best known haunts of Ontario - Port Perry's Ghost Road has been the sight of many interesting phenomena and legend.

The legend goes that in or around 1968, a young man was testing the limits of a motorcycle on the old road on Scugog Island. He was on a straightaway pushing the engine as fast as he could. The road is not too long and he soon realized he was running to the end and heading fast for a meeting with the 9th Concession. About 100 meters from the South end, he lost control, plowed into a field, caught himself on an old rusty barbed-wire fence and was decapitated.  A second legend suggests he banged his head on a large rock and met his end that way.

It is this story that goes along with the report of the large round white light heading down the road that when it passes you, turns into a small red light. There are also occasional reports of the sounds of a motorcycle to accompany the light.

The light, as examined by several Toronto ghost researchers, actually does exist but does not, as stated, travel down the road. It appears above the road and only when facing south. The image has been caught on film but the pictures belay the fact that the light isn't much to look at. It appears as if it was a small plane some miles in the distance but hovering.

Even more intriguing is that people who have investigated the haunting are not been able to find any reports of the death of a motorcyclist in any of the local newspapers at the approximate time of the accident. This has been added to by one group we work closely with getting threatening e-mails from a person related to this possibly non-existent motorcyclist threatening his return to "haunt" the researchers delving into the lights on ghost road should they not stop. Luckily, this threat went unabated and the researchers did some excellent work.

Source Web: http://www.torontoghosts.org/durham/ppghostroad.htm