Ottawa Ghosts and the Gallows Old Carleton County Jail Tour

Ottawa, Canada

Choose from two departure times to begin your 60 to 75-minute tour experience that takes you inside the old Carleton County Jail, now the HI Ottawa Jail Hostel, one of the most haunted buildings in North America! Is the jail haunted today? Your guided jail experience will allow you to decide for yourself. Your tour begins and ends at the old Carleton County Jail.

Follow your cloaked and lantern-carrying tour guide on a 60 to 75-minute storytelling adventure that will surprise, amaze and delight even the most skeptical in your group. Along the way, you will hear a number of stories and explore many parts of the jail, including:

• The assassination of Thomas D'Arcy McGee
• The Faceless Ghost of the old Carleton County Jail
• Take a "cell-fie" in the cell block
• Visit death row and stand before the last working gallows in Canada
• Hear of the levitating coin and the custodian who saw something walk through his bedroom wall
• Was an innocent man hanged for the crime? Is he still buried on the jail grounds to this day? Take part in our mini-mock trial and decide for yourself!

Your tour begins and ends at the old Carleton County Jail.