Did I miss it?

[Reignmaker Miniatures]

I think it was Danielle who had booked a room for her and a friend to sleep in an old prison. Did we ever get an update? I'm very curious to know if anything unusual took place. After all tomorrow IS Halloween.

 

[Mona]

Yes, I was wondering the same thing! Danielle????

 

[Matt73]

Oh yeah. I'd like to know too. Are you too traumatised Danielle

 

[Neil]

Probably some Republican goblin gobbled her up.

 

[Crabby-Chicken]

Not just a republican Neil,,, a non-american hating, republican goblin,,, they are the worst!!!!

 

[RockRiverTiff]

I want to know too!

 

[Matt73]

Not just a republican Neil,,, a non-american hating, republican goblin,,, they are the worst!!!!

 

[Connie P]

I was thinking the same thing. Maybe the ghosties kidnapped her.

 

[Reignmaker Miniatures]

Do you think she made it out alive? OH!

I was so looking forward to some spooky stories being shared.

 

[Neil]

I see Danielle is logged back on now. Maybe she can tell us if it was a Republican or Democrat goblin that got her.

Welcome back Danielle. You were missed. Tell us how it was.

 

[Matt73]

Just messaged her, but...Bump!

 

[REO]

Please? Pretty please tell us all about your adventure? I've been waiting for weeks!

 

[Danielle_E.]

Probably some Republican goblin gobbled her up.

. Heck no, if I would have seen one of of those

I wouldn't have spent the night there, too scary for me

.

Okay, where do I start.

Val and I arrived at the haunted jail around 4:30 p.m. or so. We made a few stops on the way, like the liquor store, I needed some red wine

, just in case, and then we stopped a few other places before heading to Ottawa. I am about 50 minutes away. So we arrive and check-in and find out that the Warden's Quarter's are on the 7th floor.

. There are no elevators in this place, lol, so we did alot of climbing up and down and up and down, hard on the knees when you have arthritis like I do and it was absolutely POURING rain out. At this point I wasn't sure what floor was the "death row" floor

but found out real quick it was the 8th floor

. Now the 8th floor was not above us but one flight up facing our hallway door. I said to Val, just great, just what I wanted. So we go through our hall door just to find out that it is a mini hall per say. There are 3 rooms 2 of which are not in use by anyone and then our "Warden's Quarter's" so basically we are on our own OH! So we check out our digs. There is a main room which is quite large and has a bunkbed, a coffee table, a sofa, then adjacent to it is the kitchen area with a table. Off the room with the bunkbed is another large room with a double bed and off of it is the bathroom with an old fashion bathtub on feet and then a large closet. There is a large window in both main rooms which are of course barred and it was hotter than heck in there so Val and I together managed to open both windows. Being menopausal doesn't help in these situations let me tell ya. So we ate dinner and decided to go out in the pouring rain to the local Chapter's Store (bookstore) and to decide whether we were going to do the "Ghost Walk" at 8:30 in the pouring rain or not. The seance we were told would start around 11:30 p.m. Back in a second, need a coffee

 

[Danielle_E.]

Okay, where was I. Oh yes, before going out to the bookstore Val and I decided to give ourselves a tour of the place, well not the 8th floor yet. So down we go visiting the 6th floor which has cells and bunks in all of them so people stay there and the 5th and the 4th and the 3rd. The 2nd floor houses a HUGE kitchen that anyone can use and also houses the "playroom" which houses the t.v. sofas, tables. There are boardgames gallore, an old piano and lots of scary movies to watch if you would prefer to watch movies instead of t.v. Off this room is another room where you can do laundry if you are there for many days. The entire building is brick walls inside, the outside is grey stone, very gothic looking, especially in the dark. So finally, after doing our mini tour, we decide to go out. Now when you go out of the reception area of the building and in order to access the floors once more you have to use the passcode in to the lock system or you can't get back in to access the floors of the jail. So off we go shopping..... It's pouring rain but at least it's not cold. By the time we get back it's 7:30 p.m. and we were told if we are doing the "ghost walk" we are to be at the corner of Sparks St. and Elgin for 8:15, our "walk" leaves at 8:30. We decide to go... leave the jail at 8:00 pm. since we are only maximum 10 minute walk to the rendez-vous point.

 

[twister]

oh no Danielle you can't leave us hanging like that, enquiring minds want to know what happened

Yvonne

 

[Danielle_E.]

Praise be, it's has stopped raining.... we make it to the rendez-vous point by 8:10 and are told if we want we can go immediately as a group is leaving now. There were alot of people taking these tours that night. Our host for the walk is a young woman dressed in the period, with black cape to the ground, hood and carrying a lit lantern

. She proceeds to give us the history of the murder of Darcy Magee and the apprehension of Patrick Whelan, the man that was eventually found guilty of the murder BUT with very little evidence

and who to the gallows swore he was innocent of the crime

. The walk finally had us back at the jail and to the infamous 8th floor

. Standing on the 8th floor landing made me VERY nervous to say the least, especially when I heard SCREAMING. I thought, what the heck have I got myself into here

. The 8th floor of the jail is shaped in a U basically with the right side of the U having jail cells 3 feet x 6 feet and in those days there were no windows on the walls facing the jail cells. Needless to say in our winter climate many a prisoner apparently died from the elements

. Now the 8th floor visit is done in the dark. The only light are these "purple" ceiling lights that keep things QUITE DIM. So we visited that side first before tracking back and going to the other side and this is when things got me rather spooked. First there is a padlocked door as this is "death row". There are about 10 cells which are smaller, if you can believe than the spacious 3 feet by 6 foot cells opposite of this side. At the end of the hall is a full door which behind it has the gallow. The minute they opened the door leading down to the hall I felt literally ill, sick to my stomack. Don't ask me why because I felt fine before this. The other very strange thing is I felt dizzy, I had a difficult time walking, like the floor was uneven or something but it isn't. A few other people in our group were getting the same feelings I was. Others seemed fine. I did NOT like this feeling or being on this floor. So we walked down the hall and the door to the gallow was opened and we saw the trap-door, the hangman's noose..... We were then taken outside in the walled courtyard and looked up to see the trapdoor. About 10 seconds into looking up BANG, the trapdoor opened and the noose came down. I didn't jump because I was expecting them to do this but some in our group had a fit,

. In the group were 4 young women that I started to speak with and they were staying at the jail, on the 4th floor, and they were also going to the seance. I told them where we were and that they were most welcome to come visit us in the Warden's Quarter as we had lots of room to "entertain". They were in one of the cells on the 4th floor which housed two bunkbeds and no room for anything else, we are talking SMALL cell room.

 

[Danielle_E.]

Okay, we get back to our room and I say to Val, well it's only 10 o'clock and the seance doesn't start till 11:30 so lets play Yatzee or something. So we sit at our table in our room, I am sipping red wine to calm myself down, lol. All of a sudden there is a knock on the wall, well it sounded like it was coming from the wall right opposite me, so I JUMP, lol, and realize, for the love of Pete, it's the door. I said to Val laughing, the ghost is at the door, let them in. It was the women we had met on the walk coming for a visit

. They stayed for a bit and they inivted us to visit their digs so down we go to the 4th floor to visit their "cell". These women have me laughing because they said they were going to the seance in their pyjamas

, too funny. I said you realize the psychic is taking us outside to do a purification rituals BEFORE, for protection. They said, no problem, we will put our coats over our pjs, lol. So we visit with them and one of them says she has taken lots of pictures and that she has orbs on most of them and she proceeds to show us. Now we had not brought our camera on the ghost walk, so at that point we had not taken pictures, not even on the 8th floor but this gal did. We get to one picture and my heart almost stopped. There as plain as day is the picture of a woman's face behind the bars

. Well we are now all freaking out big time and aren't too sure about going back up there, but that is where the seance is going to take place. We thank them for the tour and Val and I climb back up again to our floor. Val gets her camera out and starts snapping pictures left, right and centre. I review the pics of our room and say "there is nothing there" lets go down to the other floors and the stairwell and take lots of picks....

 

[Danielle_E.]

Now that we have pictures taken, we wait till 11:20 and get ourselves down to the main lobby where we were told to meet the psychic. We get down to the lobby and see the 4 women we had met earlier and 2 others and we are told that the psychic is late, will be there in about 25 minutes or so. Everyone is getting more nervous by the minute, this waiting is NOT good, lol. FINALLY at 11:50 Connie (psychic) shows up and apologizes to all of us and she is just chatting away and tells us that she will be doing a "smudging" before we go up to the 8th floor. Smudging is an ancient purification ritual that aboriginal indians used and still use. So outside we go one by one (do a search on smudging for the description). She tells Val and I that during the seance she just came from she was in contact with spirits that haunt the jail and that they told her that she didn't need to "smudge" anyone, that they said "everything would be fine without it" and she said to them "I don't think so"... She also said that one of them, a man kept on saying he had died at the jail, been hung and she kept seeing 4 and 7. She said at first she thought he was either hung on the 4th floor and then thought no the 7th, which was making me freak out and she laughed and said no it finally came to her that he was on the 4th floor in cell #7. She also laughed as she said he told her that he would be visiting the cell later in the evening

 

[Danielle_E.]

We all were "smudged" at this point and we all met back in the main lobby and stupid me opens her mouth and tells everyone what Connie just said about the man and the 4th floor, cell #7. Well it just so happens that the other 2 young women we had not truly met yet and who were participating in this seance were staying on the 4th floor in cell #7. The poor girl was TERRIFIED. She told the girl she was with that after the seance they were going to leave, call a cab and go home. She said "there is no way I want to SEE

this guy tonight and Connie just laughed and said "well he isn't going to hurt you...." So now that our nerves are shot we proceed up all the flights to the 8th floor. I am not looking forward to this because of my earlier feelings when I got on that side of the 8th floor. The seance took place right in front of the door to the gallow room

. What I found VERY interesting is that the feeling I had earlier, of feelilng sick to my stomack and dizzy and pressure on my chest was not there. I didn't think much about it at the time and don't forget I am a skeptic but I truly think that there is something to this "smudging". At least I do now. So we are told to all sit on the ground in a circle.... Connie started explain how the seance would be held..won't bore you with that.... she did however start with a chant and it was the oddest thing because when she was chanting there was not only her voice but a second voice, very distinct and male. She explained to us that is was her deceased nephew that often was present when she performed seances.

 

[Danielle_E.]

Not long after we started Connie asked if anyone had a camera with them to take pictures of down the hall, there were orbs everywhere!!!! Val has the pics and will post them when I get them from her. I forgot my camera at home, stupid me. Connie kept on saying there was a "guard" at the end of the hall, who is apparently present at everyone of her seances at the jail, a guard with a big set of keys who isn't particularly happy at having people on "his floor"... The seance was 2 hours longggggggggggggg. We finished at 2 a.m.

and she contacted those we wanted to speak with. She was so accurate it was truly frightening and yet also comforting. The detail she came out with, in my case, of my grandfather (mom's dad), my mother-in law... Without saying one word she told me that my mother in law had passed over very quickly, within 3 minutes, that she had been in alot of pain for a long time and had basically waited to pass away only after her great-grandchild was born and that that great-grandchild (Makayla) had been born on her birthday.

All of this was absolutely 100% correct. She also told me she kept smelling blossoms when she talked about my grandfather - my mom's dad. My grandfather when I was 8 years old had planted a mock-orange bush under my bedroom window for me because I loved the smell of it so much

. The other thing that was interesting is at one point the right side of me, my hand and shoulder were absolutely freezingggggggggg and yet the left side of me was toasty warm. The girl next to me had her left side freezing and her right side normal and warm. We both said something to Connie and she just smiled and said that is because I see a man standing between the two of you