Not so grisly is the story of Guyitt House, which was once thought to be the most photographed house in Canada.

The enigmatic abandoned home was located just off the historical Talbot Trail, close to the shoreline of Lake Erie in Chatham-Kent, southwestern Ontario. Sadly, the storied landmark was demolished in June 2023 after a campaign to save it failed.

Despite the home's popularity, relatively little was previously known about its history before CBC tasked one of its journalists, Meg Roberts, to find out about the intriguing home in 2018. Roberts approached the estate's final owner, Peter Anderson, whose grandparents, Roy and Ethel Guyitt, bought the house back in 1908. Peter's childhood memories are punctuated with happy times spent at the house with his family.

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