Haunted Colleges and Other Ghost Stories

This article was inspired by another writer who wrote about Ghosts in Nova Scotia.

We have a rich history of Ghosts in Montreal from the 1600's to the present day. This Montreal examiner was told that even some taxi drivers are afraid to ride through the sector known as old Montreal for fear of some of these legendary ghost hauntings.

Many of these stories do affect women such as the most famous of all Montreal Ghosts is the ghost of Mary Gallagher. Mary Gallagher was a prostitute and and an infamous ghost.
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Many ghost stories involve women or girls of course.

The McGill Tribune Ghost stories continued

Another tale they tell occurred in 1929, about a haunted house on Prince Arthur between Ste Famille and Ave du Parc, apparently there was a ghost or a young girl who lived there that was tying knots in curtains all over the place, the story changed from girl to ghost when a tenant said the same strange phenomena was happening to her belongings as well.

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Could we have haunted colleges?

Lights mysteriously turning on and off, doors locking and unlocking by themselves and other strange goings on in John Abbot college in Ste Anne de Bellevue (on the Island of Montreal) have security guards wondering if it is so.

Mark Twain wrote in the Harper's Magazine's September 1895 issue about his "sole experience in the matter of apparitions." Basically he met a woman he had not seen in over 20 years wearing a certain dress in the Windsor Hotel in Montreal, and later that evening he met up with her again in the same dress only she claimed she had just arrived in Montreal an hour earlier.

If you love ghost stories and you are planning a trip to Montreal why not check out the Montreal Ghost Walk tours in old Montreal, there is also the, The New France Ghost Hunt, and the Montreal Historical Crime Scene Show. It is great fun or so this examiner was told.
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