In 1902 Henry Wallace, his wife and five children moved to Thornhill, Ontario, Canada from Edinburgh, Scotland after hearing of inexpensive farm land and an abundance of work for trade’s people.  Henry was a carpenter looking to make a better life for himself and his family, while he was working in town he had heard of a property for sale on the out skirts of town in Thornhill that had been vacant for quite some time.

There was a story of a man named George Coffey who owned this land 50 years ago, George had a small business with the Sugar Bush on his property and would tap the trees for maple syrup and sell it to local businesses. His business was seasonal; you can only collect maple syrup in the cold winter months. George also had another business that no one ever wanted to talk about.

George Coffey was originally a priest for the Catholic Church in Toronto in the early 1840’s, he was well known all over the country for performing exorcisms on men, women and children, chasing poltergeist’s from homes and getting rid of unwanted spirits or ghosts.

He was let go from the Catholic Church after they discovered he was accepting money bribes and performing spirit cleansings for all religious faiths without the churches consent.

George moved out of Toronto to the country where he purchased a large piece of property where many people believed the demons inside of him came out for the community to witness. George continued to practice ghost hunting and made a good living doing it, but things started to change very quickly when he moved into Thornhill.

When most ghosts are cleansed from a home they move onto the after life world, George tormented the ghosts by not allowing them to return to the after life and stay with him. The property he lived on was completely wooded and people saw religious symbols on all four corners of his property, they were believed to keep what ever evil was inside from escaping.

Men, women and children started going missing from the town and were never heard of again, there were very few that came back, and the ones that did had unbelievable stories to tell. If you were a child, you were enticed onto the property by another child to come and play; a man would be enticed by a beautiful woman and a woman by a handsome man. But when you cross over into the woods you were welcomed by many outraged ghosts looking to take their anger out on living souls. George Coffey was untouchable by the ghosts because he co-existed with them and was the one holding them back from the after life, but he too was going to meet his fate.   

One day when George went to town to sell some of his maple syrup and collect some supplies, he was met by an angry mob looking to take revenge on loved ones lost. George was brutally beaten and then hung to death by the angry mob. The following morning George Coffey continues to send shivers down everyone spines when his body went missing in the middle of the night.

Henry Wallace did not believe in ghosts and thought the whole story was all made up just to give the town a legend, he was also very desperate to buy some land because all of the good farm land had already be purchased in that part of town. Unless you were rich and could afford to buy the big properties that were left, you were out of luck.

Henry believed that he could make a good business selling maple syrup in the winter and continue to build homes in town during the off season. So he purchased the land at a very low price and moved his family in right away, but nothing could prepare him or his family for what they were about to experience.

Quickly his family knew something was wrong, all of his children and wife kept seeing men, women and children wandering on the property. When ever they would call out to them or go looking for them, they would disappear; this started to really scare everyone including Henry.

When the first winter rolled around Henry went to tap the maple trees for syrup, some of the trees would bleed bright red blood, this reallyupset Henry and he knew that he had to do something. So he called in a local priest from a church to come and bless the house and land. This turned out to be the worst thing he could have ever done.

Henry, his wife and all of his children except for his youngest son Henry Jr disappeared and were never seen again; the local priest was found a week later wandering back into town with bright white hair and completely in a state of shock. He was admitted into a local hospital and was never able to speak again. Everyone believed that Henry Sr only enraged the ghosts by bringing a priest onto the property and that’s why everyone was probably killed. Henry Jr was spared because he was out of town visiting relatives and being at such a young age his relatives waited until he was a man before telling him what really happened to his parents, brothers and sisters.

Henry Jr grew up living with his relatives but moved out when he had graduated from University. He got married and lived in the city of Toronto, but something always ate him inside about what had happened to his family in Thornhill. So Henry Jr faced his fears and convinced his new wife to move out to the country where his family had left him property, but he did not dare tell her what really happened to his family because he was afraid that his wife wouldn’t want to move there.

Henry Jr and his wife Eldora moved into the Thornhill property in 1930 and lived there for years without ever seeing any ghosts. They had four children, two boys and two girls who helped them tap all the maple trees and make a very successful business. But once again things started to take a change for the worse.

This was when Eldora was believed to make the worst mistake of her life. One day when Henry Jr was working in town and the kids were at school, she was cleaning out one of the back bedrooms closets. Eldora had found a lose floor board, when she pushed the floor board to the side, she found a diary, it was marked George Coffey. All of a sudden she felt a cold breeze blow through the room and goose bumps ran up and down her body. She felt as though someone was standing behind her, but when she turned around no one was there.

 Eldora opened the diary and couldn’t believe the stories she was reading of local people and the Wallace family members that had suffered mental and physical torture from ghosts and demons that lived on this property. What really upset her was that it was recorded that George Coffey was killed in town by an angry mob, but who had written this into the dairy about him and all the Wallace family murders if they were already dead?

Eldora ran out the front door with only her cloths on her back and the diary in her hand and never looked back again.

Eldora being the strong person that she was made sure that the local authorities and the Thornhill Historical department were well aware of what had happen on this property and made sure that no one would ever live here again. The property was returned back to the city of Thornhill in 1950 by the Wallace family and told never to sell. Once the stories became public and were published in local newspapers, everyone in Thornhill stayed clear of this property.

In 1999 a large home developer bought this property from the city of Thornhill and the Wallace stories were long lost and not even mentioned. Henry & Eldora Wallace had passed away and their kids have moved on. The home developer proceeded to tear down all the maple trees and what was left of the Wallace family home to build a new family community called the "Thornhill Woods".

Many families moved into this new development, but there was one family that was about to have there whole world tuned upside down, from the first night they moved in things didn’t seem right.

They could hear voices talking, floors creaking and the sound of children playing in the middle of the night. At first they pasted it off as people walking outside with their families and the new house settling. The new homeowners continued to hear voices coming from the basement even during the day, but when ever they would go to investigate the noises, no one was there. This continued to go on for weeks and seemed to be progressing, loud bangs would be heard in the middle of the night and doors that were closed were opened and electronic devices were turning on by themselves.

The family were getting very concerned by what was going on in their home and called in a ghost hunter to investigate, they couldn’t believe what they were about to learn of the paranormal activity that was going on in their home. The ghost hunters spent several weeks gathering research and were astonished to discover that there were more then 28 active spirits residing in their home.

After further review with the City of Thornhill, they found out that their house was built on the exact location of the Wallace home. This information allowed them to check with the Thornhill Historical Board to see if there was any information regarding this property from the past. The city clerk provide them with some property deeds and old land tax receipts, but the most important information of all was a note book with photo’s from Eldora Wallace documenting the disturbing events that happened on this property from the diary she kept of George Coffey. This is how the family has been able to share the detailed stories and nightmarish events that happened here with George Coffey and the Wallace family.

The Family refuses to talk about what they read or the events that took place here for several reasons. It’s very disturbing and they can’t believe that people can be so sadistic to another person; they haven’t had proper nights sleep since they found out what really took place here, but most important of all, they don’t want the ghosts that co-exist with them to get upset.

Their house has been investigated by several other ghost hunters since 2003 and has been listed as one of the most paranormal active homes in Ontario, Canada with ghosts. Once a year the family decorates there home for Halloween with a cemetery theme, they believe that by having the property decorated for Halloween it shows a sign of respect to the ghosts. The ghost hunters also told them that this is a way to cleanse the ghosts from the house, since they have been doing this ritual, things have calm down. But not stopped.

The Halloween home haunt is for outside viewing pleasure only; the family refuses to let anyone enter there home because they are afraid for there safety and most of important of all “yours”.