Between Gravenhurst and close by Bracebridge (it is hard to think of Bracebridge without thinking of Santa's Village) is the land that used to contain Calydor Hospital, which was built in 1916. The hospital was a private sanitarium, but later served as "Camp 20" for German POWs during WWII and was known locally as "the Muskoka officers club."

Two of the prisoners reportedly died at the camp... one in 1941 and another in 1942 and during the time after the war when the hospital turned camp became the Gateway Hotel and Resort, there were persistent rumours that the ghosts of two prisoners were seen in and around the hotel and grounds.

The hotel itself was burned to the ground in the 1960s, but people still say that they see the two prisoners on the grounds at dusk.

Sometimes a ghost is not a ghost... and that's okay.

If you have a bad cold... a really nasty one... coughing, sneezing, stuffed nose... and then, sadly, you have a bit of chicken soup that, well, was a little off and it upset your stomach, do you now have flu? It would seem that way. After all, you've got a stuffy head, cough, aching, and tummy troubles... but the two ailments are indeed mutually exclusive. You actually have a cold and have had a touch of bad food. Seems pretty obvious... but not if you're looking into a haunted site.

To change my example, imagine if you are in a place that has reported apparitions. People are "seeing" ghosts... and all of a sudden, there's a knocking sound from an old radiator nearby. Many people would assume, being in a haunted location, that this must be ghostly knocking... but is it?