Stephanie Lechniak-Cumerlato
Founding Partner of Haunted Hamilton and Webmaster

Since co-founding Haunted Hamilton with her husband Daniel, Stephanie has set out to investigate old historic buildings in search of a ghost. She still has yet to see one!

In her full-time, Stephanie, also known as the "International Woman of Web Design", can be found creating fabulous web pages for her company that she founded, Space Lemons. She graduated from Sheridan College in the Art Fundamentals program, as well as graduating from Centennial College's New Media Design program at the Bell Centre for Creative Communications (where they filmed Degrassi High!) After that, she began freelancing as a web and graphic designer for 2 years, until starting up Space Lemons.

In her free time, while not out chasing ghosts, Stephanie enjoys birdwatching and hiking. She is a member of the Hamilton Naturalists' Club, the Federation of Ontario Naturalists, and the National Audubon Society. Her favourite movies are Napoleon Dynamite, Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back, Gettysburg, Anne of Green Gables, Chicago, Labyrinth and The Dark Crystal. She also loves playing her piano, and her repertoir includes songs from Les Miserables and Phantom of the Opera. She is also known for being the Queen of Retro 80's songs, and her all-time favourite band is U2. Her favourite place to travel is New York City, a city that she fell in love with while on honeymoon!

Above all, Stephanie wishes that the community and citizens of Hamilton would learn to appreciate the city's historic and treasured buildings and structures. She encourages people to not only learn about the many haunted places within our city, but as well, to learn about the very historic places that these hauntings take place at. After all, "what good is knowing there's a ghost, when you don't know why it's there?"

Daniel Cumerlato
Founding Partner of Haunted Hamilton

Being the co-founder of Haunted Hamilton, Daniel has made it his personal goal to learn as much as possible about Hamilton's fading history.

Daniel is a full-time IT Analyst at Wakefield Canada, commuting from Hamilton to Toronto everyday. Graduating Mohawk College from a two year systems course in 1998, he had already begun his career as a computer trainer for Mohawk faculty members. Wanting to further his career, he left Mohawk and took a job with Bayer, prompting a move to Toronto with his wife Stephanie over six years ago.

Daniel enjoys spending some of his free time writing fiction, which includes a project for a story website to begin later this fall. His other passion is movies, favorites being Gross Point Blank, The Godfather and Pump Up The Volume. His substantial taste for music spans from hard-core rockers NIN all the way to classical composer Antonio Vivaldi.

Haunted Hamilton began as a hobby but has turned into much more. From work he keeps the connection to HH by reading the message board and proudly displaying the wallpaper on his screen for all coworkers to see. Once at home, Daniel will spend his free time reading and writing articles focusing around the historic buildings of Hamilton.

Kate Kingston
HH Resident Psychic

Paranormal Investigation became a part of Kate's life when she teamed up with local legends Stephanie and Daniel Cumerlato of Haunted Hamilton in 1999. Previously, she researched the unexplained privately and did readings for friends and family only.

In 2003, Kate left Southern Ontario for a summer in Thunder Bay, where her intuitive abilities grew to a new level. She led the Thunder Bay Ghost Walks in Port Arthur and Fort William, while conducting private investigations for local residents/business owners. In the fall of 2003, she rejoined Haunted Hamilton as an on-call investigator, and is back in action now as their resident psychic!

Together with HH and a few more groups, Kate has investigated quite extensively in the Southern Ontario region and Upper New York State. She formed the IPA Group of Southern Ontario in April 2006, in an effort to join investigative forces with the groups she worked with. For more information, visit www.freewebs.com/ipagroupofsouthernontario.

Brian Henley Local Historian and Author
HH Consultant

Brian Henley has lived in Hamilton since 1973, but, given his total immersion in Hamilton historical research, he often feels that he has lived in the area MUCH longer that that!

Brian has written several books on Hamilton's history, wrote a weekly column for over 15 years, has had a weekly radio show and currently appears on CH-TV weekly. Retired from the Hamilton Public Library after 28 years in the Special Collections department, Brian has a wide variety of volunteer associations in the local heritage and environmental scene, including the board of the Royal Botanical Gardens, the Hamilton Historical Board, the Westfield Heritage Village Advisory Committee and the Harbourfront Trail Citizen Advisory group.

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Kaymin
Haunted Hamilton Mascot
RIP: Sept 15, 1999 - Oct. 26, 2007

Being mascot for Haunted Hamilton is a great accomplishment for Kaymin. His previous goal was to be the first cat to sleep three days straight in an attempt to make the Guiness Book of World Records. His hobbies include, rubbing against people, eating (food or anything in sight), and looking unamused. He hopes to be featured in a future article as a ghost-spotting animal.

Angel
Haunted Hamilton Mascot

This is the completion of many goals set by this feisty feline. Among these dreams is to one day catch the magical light that moves quickly on the floor and walls. Angel’s hobbies include, staring at the wall with hopes that the light will return, eating, and hopping against the backs of broken chairs to ride them to the floor. He sees being an HH mascot as a chance to give back to the people who control the light.