MUSKOKA – The community has lost its foremost expert on the spirit world.

On Monday, July 11 Muskoka Parry Sound author, historian and teacher Terry Boyle died. His wife and family will fondly remember the Burk’s Falls resident.

Boyle was the author of multiple books including his Haunted Canada series where various locations are explored by him and documented. He also hosted Creepy Canada, which ran on Discovery Channel from 2002 to 2006.

He was a prolific community speaker having given talks over the years at numerous local libraries.

In an interview in late 2015, Boyle told the Almaguin News that he often finds people believe the topic of ghosts to be an uncomfortable thing to talk about.

“There’s a lot of people I think are fairly fear based around it,” Boyle said in 2015. “They just don’t want to know or think about it. And it has a lot to do with death and what’s next.”

A Celebration of Life will take place in the Logan Memorial Chapel on Friday, July 15 in Parry Sound at 1 p.m. As expressions of sympathy, donations to the Burk’s Falls Library would be appreciated.

See related content for a fulsome story about Terry Boyle written in October.