My husband and I went to Niagara on the Lake for our honeymoon in 2002. We spent a good deal of time researching the "haunted history" of the area as it seemed amusing and it added a bit of a thrill to our stay. Our first night there, we stayed in the Olde Angel Inn and we were well aware of the stories.

Not wanting to fall prey to some trickster trying to cash in on a story, we took a look around the room checking the alarm clock etc. Everything seemed normal. Our evening was uneventful; we toured the city, went to the Fort George candle light tour and returned to the hotel. There is supposed to be a presence in the downstairs washroom area, so we made a point of visiting the washrooms. My husband didn’t notice anything of consequence, but in the ladies room, I distinctly saw a shadow move while I was washing my hands. I know I was alone.

Back in our room, we fell asleep around 12:00. At 1:00 we both awoke to some noise downstairs in the pub. I didn’t know what time it was and my husband, trying to scare me, told me it was 4:00am. We both knew the pub closed and they did their clean up just after 1:00. Of course after he confessed to the real time, it was obvious that the noises were just staff closing up for the night and we both fell back asleep. The irony of this story is that at 4:00 am, we were both awoken again, by an awful lot of noise downstairs. It sounded like tables being moved and thumped around. Things even hit the ceiling directly below us. These noises went on for a good half an hour, thumping and bumping. It slowly died down in the way a thunderstorm dies down; the odd bump and thump continuing on after the main ruckus had stopped. Let me tell you how scary that was!

In the morning, we made a point of asking what had happened there overnight. The morning staff told us that after closing up at 1:00, no one is in the pub until morning. I asked specifically about the previous night and they insisted no one was there. Now, I am a natural skeptic and would be unable to completely believe in ghosts until one comes to visit me and talk to me directly, or I would have to see things move on their own and be able to examine the items to ensure there were no pranks being played. So I can not be 100% sure of ghostly furniture moving in this Inn, but the events in this Inn were unusual, and the staff were so adamant about no one being in the pub after close, that I think this may be as close as I have ever been to a haunting in my life.