Ghost Stories from Canadian Police
A Mountie's ghost still patrols the house he really lived in. Two judges, decades apart, felt the same unseen hand tugging at their robes. A janitor saw something in a locked room and never went back in.
From frontier RCMP outposts to Victorian courthouses, Canada's police history has left its mark on jails, courtrooms, and detachments from coast to coast. Some of the men and women who died within these walls, it is said, never really left.
In Ghost Stories from Canadian Police, you will step inside the real house a Mounted Police Superintendent once lived in, the courtroom where two judges felt an invisible hand, and the gallows yard where a botched execution still echoes on misty mornings. This collection gathers the ghost stories told about Canada's jails, courthouses, and police posts, from Newfoundland to the Yukon.
Step behind the badge and discover:
The Judges Who Felt the Tug: two Toronto judges, generations apart, who reported the identical unexplained sensation.
The Hanging Judge: BC's own Judge Begbie, still said to watch over Victoria's old courthouse square.
George Hewell's Revenge: the inmate who swore vengeance from his deathbed at Kingston Penitentiary.
The Mob Princess: the only woman ever hanged in Alberta, and the spirit still said to walk the grounds where she died.
Perfect for readers of Canadian folklore, true ghost stories, and anyone who has ever wondered what the night shift at the old jailhouse really sees, this book is your guide to the ghosts of Canadian law enforcement.
The case file is never really closed.
