Self-Guided Ghost Hunt Through Toronto's Old Town

This self-guided ghost game leads you through Toronto's Old Town, where the city was born and where four jails went up within 700 metres of each other during its first century, each grander than the one before. The route passes all four. In the Questo app you join a small paranormal bureau as its newest recruit and receive its Old Town case file, open since 1960. The dead you meet have their own accounts of events, and it's up to you to test them: a tailor hanged in 1798 over a forged dollar note, two rebels executed behind a stockade in 1838, and a bishop who nursed the sick through the fever summer of 1847 and died of it at

42. Each stop sets a puzzle you crack by studying what's in front of you, such as a carved head on St Lawrence Hall, the blue plaque at Mackenzie House or the gargoyles of Old City Hall. The walk covers roughly 3.3 km, from Berczy Park's dog fountain to the Church of the Holy Trinity. Start whenever you like, day or night, with hints and round-the-clock support.