5 Haunted Places in Montreal

What has flooring, concrete dividers and the presence of ghostly figures? Several places in the heart of downtown Montreal, according to Donovan King. The actor and history teacher has researched historic haunted places in Montreal for the last decade and considers Montreal the most haunted city in Canada. For Halloween King offers a walking ghost tour, but stories about haunted places in Montreal are interesting even when it's not Halloween. I spoke with him to learn more about Montreal’s most disturbed properties.

Le Cinq

Way before Le Cinq was a party destination (formerly Club 1234), the building located on 1234 De La Montagne was built as a mansion for a rich business man and later transformed in to a mortuary and funeral home. King has heard many stories of ghost sightings in the building, including a reoccurring incident in the woman’s bathroom, where a woman with a scar on her chest as if she has been autopsied has been seen.

Grey Nuns Residence

Concordia University’s student residence houses almost 600 undergraduate students and a crypt packed with skeletal corpses. It’s true! Students have also reported hearing screams and one student was having reoccurring nightmares of burnt children. Donovan discovered that there was a fire on the 5^th floor of this establishment located at 1185 Saint Mathieu St., where there was an orphanage in 1918. Over 53 children died in the blaze.

Queen Elizabeth Hotel

Spooky stories also come from the biggest and one of the most expensive hotels in the province. Guests of the Queen Elizabeth Hotel, report seeing a woman dressed in white wandering the building located at 900 boul. René-Levesque West. Other phenomena such as feelings of being watched, cold spots and people being touched have also been accounted.

Andrew’s Pub

This dive bar was formerly the spot of choice for Montreal’s Irish Mafia. King discovered that a number of murders and gang fights occurred at this former lounge. In 1969, one of the head members of the Irish mafia, James McDonald was gunned down and killed on spot at 1241 Guy. His spirit is believed to still haunt what is now, Andrew’s Pub.

Dominion Square

Dominion square was formerly Saint-Antoine’s cemetery where thousands of dead bodies still lay today. If you think your just standing on concrete ground, think again. The area is being renovated and over 200 bodies have already been pulled up. Hopefully workers won’t be awakening anything else...