Soul Seeker - Other Ghost Stories

Doing research on ghosts and hauntings in our province I've come across some really old ghost stories or maybe one or two paragraphs mentioning them. I though I'd put them down here for you to read.

1884-02-26 - Manitoba Daily Free Press - A whole row of dwellings in Montreal have been vacated because the tenants believed them haunted.

1887-01-13 - Manitoba Daily Free Press - "A Headless Man Walked In" - An account of the ship "Squando" was that it was wrecked in Bathurst, NB. It was feared that the ship was haunted because of a murder committed nine years before in San Francisco, US. It seems that the Captain and his wife murdered the first mate by removing his head from his body with an axe. The Captain was hung and his wife given a long sentence. Since then three other captains met their death before being wrecked. Watchmen set to guard the ship, while it waited to be sold, could only spend one night on it. They said they saw a headless man walk in to the cabin and experienced many paranormal events. Find out a little more here.
1887-07-06- Manitoba Daily Free Press - "How a Ghost Embraced Mary Anderson" - On one of her last visits to England, Mary Anderson (a stage actress) was being entertained by a Countess from Kenilworth Castle who told her ghost stories of the castle. One was that a certain chamber of the house was haunted by some dead ancestor of the house of Kenilworth. The actress insisted on being able to sleep in the room. The story goes that in the middle of the night her sleep was cut short by a terrible weight that pressed the breath out of her. She was only able make enough noise to wake her maid and they both shivered until morning.
1889-01-15 - Manitoba Daily Free Press - "The Haunted Hole" - Tells of a murder on the road between Warwick and Stradford-upon-Avon, UK. The victim was found the next morning and his mangled head rested in a small hole along the road. From the day of the murder until today the hole has remained the same. It doesn't matter how often the whole is filled in, by the next morning it is empty. No one knows who tends the hole. It's the belief of the locals that the place is haunted.
1888-08-23 - Manitoba Daily Free Press - "A Mound Opened" -

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