Montreal Ghosts of the Past

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.

Haunted Inn

Montreal oldest Inn, Ste Gabriele Inn in old Montreal is said to be haunted by the ghost of a little girl who died in a fire sometime in the 1800's.

Ghost of Old Montreal continued

Continuing with ghosts of Montreal, particularly old Montreal, we have the amusing story of Jean St. Pere, one of the first French fur trader settlers. He was fixing his roof one day in 1642 when the Iroquois attacked him. They killed him by cutting off his head, but when they carried it off with them the head started hurling insults at them in their own language. Of course the French settler did not even know the native language. The head began to shriek at them and spook them so bad with its insults that they had to stop and bury it just to get away from it.

Source:
http://media.www.mcgilltribune.com/media/storage/paper234/news/2004/10/26/F eatures/The-Question.Of.Ghosts-780425.shtml

http://www.cstn.org/reports/general/spookyspots03.html