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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 McTavish

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 McLennan 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 McLean

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 McGill 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

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