Mark Leslie & Shayna Krishnasamy 
Macabre Montreal 
Ghostly Tales, Ghastly Events, and Gruesome True Stories

A collection of ghost stories, eerie encounters, and gruesome tales from one of Canada’s most interesting cities.



Montreal is a city steeped in history and culture, but just beneath the pristine surface of this world-class city lie unsettling tales of uncanny phenomena, dark deeds, haunted buildings, and forgotten graveyards. The dark of night reveals buried secrets, alleyways that echo with the footsteps of ghostly spectres, and memories of ghastly murders and unspeakable acts that will make your blood run cold. Read, if you dare, about the ghost that wanders Griffintown in search of her missing head, top-secret experiments conducted on unwitting subjects at Mc Gill University, and the mysterious gunshot deaths of a mother and son in their mansion, among other terrifying stories.

Innehållsförteckning

• Foreword by Donovan King: Montreal, a Haunted Researcher’s Paradise


• Introduction by Shayna Krishnasamy: I Have Seen Things in the Dark


• Mary Gallagher and Her Missing Head


• The Tobogganing Ghost of Simon Mc Tavish


• Ghosts of the Old Royal Victoria Hospital


• Sleeping Above a Cemetery: Ghosts of the Grey Nuns Convent


• The Murderer’s Cross


• Arthur Ellis and an Accidental Beheading: Canada’s Most Famous Hangman


• Mark Twain’s Montreal Telegraphy


• Ghost in the Flames


• Books, Blood, and a Ghostly Prankster: The Ghost of Mc Lennan Library


• Cholera Ghosts and Un-Ghosts


• Haunted Grounds: Ghosts of Duggan House


• The Echo of Footsteps


• Clubbers Beware


• A Montrealer’s Experience with Slade the Spiritualist


• The Slave Who Burned a City: The Trial of Marie-Joseph Angélique


• The Redpath Murders


• The Heroic Death of John Easton Mills


• The Pervasive Legend of the Flying Canoe: Honoré Beaugrand’s Tale of a Deal with the Devil


• Now for a Dow Debacle: The Curse of the Old Dow Brewery


• Unspeakable Torture and Mind Control: Project MK-ULTRA


• Eight (or More) Ghosts in the Museum


• Mysteries in the Montreal Skies: UFOs, Flying Saucers, and Other Unexplained Sights


• Maud: The Willow Inn Ghost


• Careful, This One Bites: Wayne Clifford Boden, “The Vampire Rapist”


• The One-Legged Ghost of Jack Mc Lean


• Murdered by the Mob: Organized Crime in Montreal


• Give Ghosts a Chance


• The Missing Village of Hochelaga


• Not Too-Tall Tales of a Radio Station Ghost


• One Town, Two Poltergeists


• The Mc Gill Student Who Killed Houdini


• The Knotty Poltergeist


• Very Little Rest for These Mount Royal Spirits


• Locked Up for an Eternity: Haunted Montreal Prisons


• The Last Hanging: The Crimes of Adolphus Dewey


• A Timeline of Tragedies: Historic Violence, Massacres, and Disasters


• Conclusion by Mark Leslie: Why Share Macabre Tales?


• Appendix: More Than Just a Little Fresh Air and an Eerie Perspective: Haunted Montreal Walking Tours


• Acknowledgements


• Sources

Om författaren

Shayna Krishnasamy loves a good chilling tale. She is the author of the teen fantasy novel Home, and also writes romance under the pseudonym Lola Rooney. She lives in Montreal.