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Screaming Tunnel

Near Warner Road, Niagara Falls, ON Ontario

TRIP CLIP AUDIO - SCREAMING TUNNEL

Click to play or download SCREAMING TUNNEL TripClip (mp3 format).

 

 (Left) The Screaming Tunnel, looking inside away from Warner Rd. entrance with someone at the other end. (Right top) Inside of the Screaming Tunnel. (Right bottom).The entrance to the Screaming Tunnel, standing on Warner Road [Kristie Bothwell].
 

 

SECORD SIGNIFICANCE

The Screaming Tunnel was created as part of a railway expansion project of the elaborate Grand Trunk Railway but never came to fruition. It receives its name from local fable. The tunnel is part of the Laura Secord Legacy Trail.

 

 

GENERAL INFORMATION


The Screaming Tunnel, part of an early 20th Century railway expansion project that never came to fruition, receives its name from local fable. There are a few variations in the story of the Screaming Tunnel, however, they all suggest that a young women died here while running, screaming from her farm house which was located directly on one side of the tunnel. One of the versions states that a young woman was running from a burning house and the flames engulfed her while in the tunnel. Another variation says that the girl was running from a rapist and he burned her to hide the corpse. Another version states that a father had lost a custody battle to the kids’ mother in their divorce and he chased her into the tunnel and killed her. Part of this urban legend states that if you light a match and hold it in the tunnel at midnight, the match will be blown out by the ghost of the young woman.

 
The Grand Trunk Railway intended to expand its rail lines in the early 1900s, and the tunnel was apparently created as an overpass for another line. The tracks were never installed despite the tunnel being completed, and by the First World War the project was abandoned.
 

The Screaming Tunnel was made popular outside of Niagara when it was used as a location shoot for the movie adaptation of Stephen King's novel “The Dead Zone”, which was directed by David Cronenberg (1982) and starring Christopher Walken. Other locations in Niagara, including the gazebo at Queen's Royal Park in Niagara-on-the-Lake, were also used in the film.

 

DIRECTIONS

From Toronto:

1. Head south on Bay St toward Albert St
2. Turn right to stay on Bay St
3. Turn right onto Lake Shore Blvd W
4. Slight right toward Gardiner Expy W
5. Take the Gardiner Expressway W ramp
6. Merge onto Gardiner Expy W
7. Continue onto Queen Elizabeth Way
8. Merge onto ON-403 W
9. Slight left onto Queen Elizabeth Way (signs for Niagara/East Hamilton/Fort Erie)
10. Exit onto Glendale Ave/Regional Road 89
11. Turn left onto Taylor Rd/Regional Road 70
12. Turn left onto Warner Rd

From Niagara:
1. Head north on Stanley Ave toward Spring St
2. Turn left onto ON-420 W
3. Keep left at the fork, follow signs for Queen Elizabeth Way/Hamilton/Toronto and merge onto Queen Elizabeth Way
4. Take exit 34 for Regional Road 101/Mountain Road
5. Turn left onto Mountain Rd/Regional Road 101 (signs for Mountain Road W/Queen Elizabeth Way)
6. Take the 2nd right onto Garner Rd
7. Turn right onto Warner Rd

 

 

Further Information

 
 
 

http://www.ontarioabandonedplaces.com/upload/wiki.asp?entry=597

 

 

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Address

Near Warner Road, Niagara Falls, ON
Municipality Niagara Falls, Ontario

GPS Co-ordinates

Latitude 43.145603
Longitude -79.145037

 
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