Haunted Ottawa trip

I went to Ottawa Ontario for the 1st time on Friday April 17-Sunday April 19th

I went with the group Haunted Hamilton www.hauntedhamilton.com

We left at 9am, made a couple of stops and arrived in Ottawa around 3pm. The jail is a large stone structure. It's imposing and creepy looking.

We stayed at the Carleton County Gaol, a jail built in 1860's and remained a jail until it became a hostel in 1972. We slept in cells with iron bar doors. no windows in the cells. Just brick celiings and walls. We had a tour of the building with stories of life in prison at those times.

If women went to jail their children would have to join them in the jail and help serve out the mother's sentence. And of course in those days children weren't seen as precious darlings..lol..they were small people that could work. There was no glass on the windows at the time so snow, rain etc would blow in through the windows and into the prisoner's cells as they slept etc. And you know Canadian winters, they are cold!!! No wonder many prisoners got gangrene and had to have amputations done. And the hot humid summers weren't much better!! the windows also let in flies and mosquitos carrying various diseases.

It's no wonder that many people DIED within the prison's walls. Either through sickness or suicide. and of course the jail has the gallows still intact. There were 3 official hangings recorded at the jail, but possibly many "unofficial" hangings as well.

The jail is right across from a big mall called the Rideau Centre. I went to Sephora and got some makeup on sale...sweet!!!

MY EXPERINCE:

The 1st night I couldn't sleep because of the dark.. There were 5 people in the cell. We had the light on and around 3am it went out> whether by itself or by someone else in the room I am not sure! All I know is if I was scared before, I was terrified now. There was alot of noise out in the hallway. I could hear a man's voice saying " come here, hey" over and over. until about 4:30am. That's when I decided to get up and get out. I went down to the old chapel now a TV room. and stayed there til sun up.

Saturday: 1st we had breakfast at a buffet joint called "Joey's". Then we went to Laurier House. The stately home of 2 former Canadian PM's. Sir Wilfred Laurier and W.L MacKenzie King. There were some deaths in the home and when we were in a room downstairs I got this rush of heat from my throat down to my navel. it was a very odd sensation and definitely unnatural.

That night I slept in the TV room. I figured there was no point in even trying to sleep in my cell.

Sunday:

Went to a small town called Manotick and you can read all about that in the next post!!