Ottawa Carleton International Youth Hostel

[Millergirl4]

Formerly the Carleton County Gaol.......

This place I have personally stayed in. Imagine you are 13 years old with your classmates on a school trip and you are staying not in a hotel but in a youth hostel. And not just any youth hostel but a youth hostel that used to be a prison. We had heard that it was haunted, afterall they used to hang people there and the room with the noose and the trap door underneath was still there to view. Also we slept on bunks in the actual cells. We were spooked right away. It was about 10-12 years later that I was reading about the 'Ottawa Carleton County Gaol' that I realized that when they were doing construction on a bridge they dug up a part of the property and uncovered many unmarked graves. Infact on the very courtyard that we ate our breakfast near every morning was where they found the most bodies. There is speculation that there are even more unmarked graves under the parking lot and near the building.

Here is more about it : (from the link): Also has great pics www.hauntedhamilton.com/25_article_ottawajail.html

Here is a link if you wish to stay there on your next trip to Ottawa. Remember they offer you a free nights stay if you can stay the whole night on death row: www.carletoncountygaol.com/

[Spooky]

Did you post this before or am I thinking of another board?

[Millergirl4]

holly said:

Did you post this before or am I thinking of another board?

I just posted it at the Amityville Board but it's possible that I posted about it on another board that we do not speak of.

[Spooky]

It is here.....page 3 of this forum. Oops.

[Spooky]

I just posted it at the Amityville Board but it's possible that I posted about it on another board that we do not speak of.

HAHAHA those that we do not speak of. I love that!

[Millergirl4]

holly said:

It is here.....page 3 of this forum. Oops.

Good think I am an admin and all. ;D

I deleted it from page two as usual we went way off topic. These links are better than the ones I had posted before.

[Spooky]

It was funny though, all the off topic chatter.

I'll have to take a look at the new links later when all is quiet. But the whole dead bodies thing.....cool. Can you imagine knowing about that when you were there. That would be scary, especially being 13.

[Millergirl4]

Also their most high profile hanging was a man named 'Whelan'. He was put to death on Feb.11, 1869. They say that he is the one who haunts death row and his body was one of the hundreds (140) that were uncovered in the unmarked graves in teh courtyard. The spooky part is the we stayed there exactly 120 later during the week of Feb. 11 1989. We were there for Winterlude ( a winter festival in Ottawa).