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UER Forum > Archived Canada: Ontario > Woman Falls to Her Death at U of T. (Viewed 2446 times)
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Woman Falls to Her Death at U of T.
< on 9/10/2009 11:41 AM >
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http://www.cbc.ca/...alls-death523.html


A 29-year-old woman who police say was looking for ghosts was killed after falling three storeys at a University of Toronto building early Thursday.

Police arrived at 1 Spadina Cres. near College Street and Spadina Avenue at around 2 a.m. in response to reports of a man and woman trying to jump from one level of the building to another.

The man was able to make the jump, but the structure the woman was standing on gave way and she fell, police said. The woman was rushed to St. Michael's Hospital, where she was pronounced dead.

The two were hunting for ghosts in the 134-year-old building, which they believed was haunted, the man told police.

Police aren't sure if the two were consuming alcohol, but are questioning the man.

The identities of the two have not been released.




It appears that U of T may be under even heavier lockdown after this. Also, if those two were really drinking and trying to hop buildings, that is a really dumb move.

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Re: Woman Falls to Her Death at U of T.
<Reply # 1 on 9/10/2009 11:44 AM >
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Maybe there'll be a ghost there now. Ghosts don't exist, in my opinion.
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Re: Woman Falls to Her Death at U of T.
<Reply # 2 on 9/10/2009 11:56 AM >
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I heard this coming into work this morning.... so sad.

And ghosts are very much real. I used to work at a mental institution cleaning floors. There was a murder / suicide there in the 1890's at one wing of the hospital. They later converted it to boardrooms.

This one particular night I was sitting outside the room waiting for a board meeting to end so I could clean. I heard everyone finish up, pull out their chairs and feet walking. No one came out. I waited 5 minutes, knocked on the door to no answer. I opened the door and the lights were off and no one was in there. I checked and that was the only way in and out.

So my friend - ghosts are very real.

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Re: Woman Falls to Her Death at U of T.
<Reply # 3 on 9/10/2009 12:02 PM >
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Posted by photocbear


So my friend - ghosts are very real.


I respect your opinion, so let's agree to disagree. I meant no offense to you. I modified my original post to be less offensive.


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Re: Woman Falls to Her Death at U of T.
<Reply # 4 on 9/10/2009 12:45 PM >
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No worries, I just had an experience that opened my eyes to the subject. I as well completely respect your opinion and would love to agree to disagree

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Re: Woman Falls to Her Death at U of T.
<Reply # 5 on 9/10/2009 1:04 PM >
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Also in the Star this morning

http://www.thestar...gta/article/693495

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Re: Woman Falls to Her Death at U of T.
<Reply # 6 on 9/10/2009 2:41 PM >
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Knowing Toronto, two things can come of this...

1) A ban on drinking alcohol.
2) A ban on ghost hunting.

As sad as this whole incident is, playing Batman at 1AM drunk isn't the smartest thing to be doing...

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Re: Woman Falls to Her Death at U of T.
<Reply # 7 on 9/10/2009 2:45 PM >
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Posted by Mr. Fuzzy
playing Batman at 1AM drunk isn't the smartest thing to be doing...


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Re: Woman Falls to Her Death at U of T.
<Reply # 8 on 9/10/2009 3:20 PM >
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Posted by Yankee Traveler
Darwinism really.

Exactly. This whole ordeal is pretty funny to me. Woman dies in search for dead people. Ironic, no?

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Re: Woman Falls to Her Death at U of T.
<Reply # 9 on 9/10/2009 4:49 PM >
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This kind of shit happens all the time. About 2-3 yrs. ago some college kid out west decided to jump across a (straight down) mine shaft. If he had marked off the distance in the dirt and tried a test jump he'd have found he couldn't make it. He didn't bother. The shaft was over 1,000 feet deep. Crappy way to die. Probably had time for 3 or 4 screams before bouncing off the shaft walls knocked him out. The rescue (body recovery) team was not pleased or sympathic.

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Exactly. This whole ordeal is pretty funny to me. Woman dies in search for dead people. Ironic, no?
Word.
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Re: Woman Falls to Her Death at U of T.
<Reply # 10 on 9/10/2009 5:00 PM >
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Isn't this the same building where a doctor was murdered, by his crazed ex-lover? Its built in the same Victorian Gothic style as Alma college.

Also a nice plug by the star for the man who died exploring Hearn last year. That wasen't ghost hunting, but I guess all these things could be considered exploring.
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Re: Woman Falls to Her Death at U of T.
<Reply # 11 on 9/10/2009 5:03 PM >
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-ya same one.

When i first heard of this I thought it was an explorer, and they just used ghosts as a cover-up story as to why there were climbing o'er the building.

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Re: Woman Falls to Her Death at U of T.
<Reply # 12 on 9/10/2009 5:29 PM >
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Re: Woman Falls to Her Death at U of T.
<Reply # 13 on 9/10/2009 7:02 PM >
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So that would explain all the police sirens I heard last night when I was going back home from one of the pubs along College Street.

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Re: Woman Falls to Her Death at U of T.
<Reply # 14 on 9/10/2009 7:57 PM >
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Timothy Appleby

TORONTO — The Canadian Press
Last updated on Thursday, Sep. 10, 2009 03:26PM EDT


In a mishap that ignited a frenzy of speculation about ghost-hunting and the paranormal because it occurred at a 19th-century downtown university building rumoured to be haunted, a 29-year-old Toronto woman plunged four storeys to her death in a small courtyard early Thursday when a chicken-wire screen she was crawling across gave way.

The unidentified woman and a 34-year-old male companion appeared drunk and said they had gained entry to 1 Spadina Cres. through a downstairs bathroom window, according to a witness who briefly spoke to the intruders and called campus police after a scream was heard.

Pitched at a 45-degree angle, the chicken-wire screen connects the third and fourth floors of the building, constructed in 1875 as an annex to the Knox College Presbyterian divinity school.

The man apparently made his way across the divide successfully but the woman fell through, said the witness, who was on a late-night visit to the office of a student newspaper when he encountered the pair.

The woman was carrying some small tea candles and a pink parasol, he recounted, requesting anonymity.

“She had an assemblage of stuff, I thought she was an arty type.”

But there was nothing unusual about the couple's appearance, he said, and nothing to indicate they were on a “ghost-hunting” mission, as has been widely suggested.

Shortly before, he had spied the pair scaling a wrought-iron fence surrounding part of the building – a pointless exercise, he said, because they could have walked around it.

“From what they told me, it was just urban exploration,” he said. “What they indicated to me, drunkenly, was that they had just happened upon the building.”

Neither of the two are believed to be university students.

Police were treating the incident as an alcohol-fuelled death by misadventure.

The intricately structured Gothic-style building has a rich history. At one point it served as a medical research lab, and eight years ago a university professor was murdered there.

But police rebutted a tide of suggestions that the couple were “ghost-hunting” when the accident took place.

“I don't know where the expression ghost-hunting came from,” said Staff Sergeant Dave Vickers, fielding a mid-morning blizzard of media inquiries.

“I think the reason [the couple] went up there was because they were trying to access a building that was rumoured to be haunted. But ghost-hunting? Somebody's taken that to a whole new level.”


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Re: Woman Falls to Her Death at U of T.
<Reply # 15 on 9/10/2009 8:43 PM >
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Posted by photocbear
I heard this coming into work this morning.... so sad.

And ghosts are very much real. I used to work at a mental institution cleaning floors. There was a murder / suicide there in the 1890's at one wing of the hospital. They later converted it to boardrooms.

This one particular night I was sitting outside the room waiting for a board meeting to end so I could clean. I heard everyone finish up, pull out their chairs and feet walking. No one came out. I waited 5 minutes, knocked on the door to no answer. I opened the door and the lights were off and no one was in there. I checked and that was the only way in and out.

So my friend - ghosts are very real.


that doesn't prove anything

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Re: Woman Falls to Her Death at U of T.
<Reply # 16 on 9/10/2009 8:49 PM >
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I don't understand where these articles sourced that they were 'ghost hunting.' Sounds like exploring gone bad to me. And really ... a pink parasol. Maybe we should add that to the rookie forum equipment write-ups.

Adventure is just bad planning. :|

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Re: Woman Falls to Her Death at U of T.
<Reply # 17 on 9/10/2009 8:57 PM >
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Gotta love some of the jokes that are being made here involving someone who accidentally fell to their death.

Stay classy, UER.

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Re: Woman Falls to Her Death at U of T.
<Reply # 18 on 9/10/2009 9:23 PM >
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Just heard this on the news and knew there would be a thread on it. Unfortunate and sad it happened, but they didn't seem very responsible. I guess that parasol didn't help her during the fall.. but some more precaution might have.

Stay safe guys and gals.

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Re: Woman Falls to Her Death at U of T.
<Reply # 19 on 9/10/2009 9:47 PM >
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Heard this on the news today.....Sad situation

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