Think there’s nothing scarier than a politician? How about a politician’s ghost?
Posted October 30, 2015 9:34 am.
Last Updated October 30, 2015 9:50 am.
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OTTAWA (NEWS 1130) – We all know politicians can be scary. But did you know some still haunt Canadians from the afterlife?
We’ve been discovering some tales of political horror.
Glen Shackleton with Haunted Walks in Ottawa says our longest-serving prime minister, Mackenzie King, was obsessed with the occult.
“He would conduct seances… he was very interested in contacting dead past relatives.”
There was also an eerie incident with a caretaker at the home of King’s grandfather, William Lyon MacKenzie, the first mayor of Toronto.
“She was lying in bed and she sees this ghost appear above her and tries to sit up in bed. The ghost slapped her across the face so hard, she had red welts,” says Shackleton.
People still hear unexplained footsteps in King’s Ottawa home and some have been visited by ghosts at his Quebec estate.
Shackleton also says people have seen the ghosts of a man, woman, and young child at the home of our first prime minister, Sir John A. MacDonald.
“Sir John A.’s child did pass away, not long after he moved into the building,” he points out.
Thomas D’Arcy McGee was Canada’s only politician to be assassinated. The Bytowne Museum has the death cast of his hand and Shackleton says workers have described some strange occurrances.
“People have heard the sound of children crying or strange noises on that floor. Or just get a sense that there’s a presence there in the building.”
Meanwhile, McGee’s assassin may be haunting the Ottawa jail where he was hanged for the crime.
“People would report waking up in the night to see a man sitting at the end of their bed or standing over them,” says Shackleton.
The next time you curse a politician, be careful they don’t come back to curse you.
