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Haunted Montreal Blog #91 – Hurley’s Irish Pub

Haunted Montreal Blog #91 – Hurley’s Irish Pub

Established in 1993 by Mr. Bill Hurley, the Irish pub’s laid-back atmosphere makes it a long-time favorite with locals and a destination for tourists and celebrities. However, the pub also has a dark, horrifying history, resulting in an agonizing and mysterious ghost who haunts the second floor.

Haunted Montreal Blog #83 – Jeanne Le Ber’s Ghost

Haunted Montreal Blog #83 – Jeanne Le Ber’s Ghost

Nora hung up and pulled a handkerchief out of her purse to apply pressure on the wounds. However, when she looked down where the woman had been moments earlier, there was nothing to see but the bare asphalt of the parking lot. The bloodied old woman in the coarse clothing had vanished into thin air. The next thing Nora heard was the sirens of the ambulance arrive.

Haunted Montreal Blog #90 – City of Montreal Archives

A massive vault sits below Montreal's City Hall and some historians say it is haunted. The sealed chamber is located under the front of City Hall, between its foundations, the sidewalks of Gosford and Notre-Dame streets and the eastern side of Place Vauquelin. The eastern portion of the vault was constructed from 1919-1921 and the western part in 1952. Its purpose is to house and protect the valuable Archives of the metropolis.

Haunted Montreal Blog #82 – The Haunted Cross on the Mountain

Haunted Montreal Blog #82 – The Haunted Cross on the Mountain

The Mount Royal Cross is one of Montreal’s most iconic symbols. Perched high on the mountain and standing at 98-feet high, when it is lit up at night it can be seen from up to eighty kilometers away. Rooted in deep the city’s colonial history, to many Indigenous people the cross symbolizes genocide. Because the mountain was used as a burial ground for millennia by the Mohawk and other First Nations, some feel that the Mount Royal Cross desecrates this sacred place.

Haunted Montreal Blog #86 – Hôtel-Dieu de Montréal

Haunted Montreal Blog #86 – Hôtel-Dieu de Montréal

They claimed that he ran about the hospital at night with a big candle in his hand. The demon was seen dashing from window to window, frightening passers-by on Saint-Paul Street. The demon also raised a horrible racket by throwing piles of building materials down the stairs into the cellar. Sometimes he could be heard working all night long with an axe and saw, as though he was a carpenter.

Haunted Montreal Blog #84 – Haunted Old Tourist Rooms

Haunted Montreal Blog #84 – Haunted Old Tourist Rooms

An old hotel sits in the heart of the Quartier des Spectacles and it is rumoured to be haunted. Built in the 1870s, it was originally named the Bolero Tourist Rooms. The establishment had a long history of catering to the seedy characters of Montreal’s old Red Light District. During that era, the hotel rented the rooms by the hour and the alleged hauntings may be related to the sordid history of the building.

Haunted Montreal Blog #89 – Place Viger

Haunted Montreal Blog #89 – Place Viger

Despite the new plans to revitalize Place Viger and its environs, there are constant rumors that the building is haunted. There is speculation that the ghostly activity is likely related to a string of tragedies in the hotel’s history. One report of a paranormal encounter at Place Viger dates back to July 31st, 2011. A tourist from Washington DC named Amy "Citizen of the World" C visited

Haunted Montreal Blog #81 – Fort de la Montagne

Haunted Montreal Blog #81 – Fort de la Montagne

Lurking behind stone walls on Sherbrooke Street stand two old towers that are reputed to be haunted. As some of the oldest intact structures in the City of Montreal, these fortifications have a deranged history. Designed as the first Residential School in what is now modern-day Canada, the towers actually feature gun-ports. This military architecture was designed to repel anyone – at gunpoint – who might dare to interfere with the “instruction” happening within the fortified “school”.

Haunted Montreal Blog #87 – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in Montreal

Haunted Montreal Blog #87 – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in Montreal

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, author of Sherlock Holmes, has a special relationship with Montreal - and its paranormal phenomena! Born in 1850 in Edinburgh, Scotland, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle led a remarkable life. Both a physician and prolific writer, he is best known for the 60 stories he wrote about detective Sherlock Holmes. However, his body of work also includes nearly 200 novels, short stories, poems, historical books and pamphlets. He also wrote ghost stories

Explainer: Potential and kinetic energy

Explainer: Potential and kinetic energy

Kinetic energy relies on an item's movement; possible energy rests on its position. The relationship between the two beings in a special equilibrium.

That pull stores power-- potential power-- in the band. In this video, view how physics is turned right into fun on roller coasters as possible power obtains transformed to kinetic power and also back again-- over and also over. Halfway to the ground, fifty percent of that melon's potential energy has actually come to be kinetic energy. On its method to the ground, all of the watermelon's possible energy will convert to kinetic power.

Does the dimension of a parachute issue?

Does the dimension of a parachute issue?

How does a parachute job? Do larger parachutes function much better than smaller parachutes? Discover in this science project whether the size of the parachute issues.

Will the big parachutes fall much more slowly than the tiny parachutes? Your parachutes must now look like one of the parachutes in Figure 4 listed below. If the base of the parachute does not stay at the bottom as it drops, you can attempt utilizing more washers or dimes for each parachute. What does this tell you about the connection in between the surface location of the parachute and also just how long it takes the parachute to get to the ground? Do larger parachutes function better than smaller parachutes?

Let’s learn more about Neandertals

Neandertals are an extinct types carefully related to contemporary people. They made tools as well as jewelry, controlled fires and took care of their sick.

Neandertals were part of the very same genus as modern-day humans. As a result, Neandertal DNA makes up a couple of percent of the hereditary product in lots of contemporary people. We've got some stories to get you started:

Neandertals were a whole lot like our human forefathers From toolmaking to healthcare, brand-new research discovers that Neandertals shared many cultural as well as social resemblances with our human forefathers. Scientist role-played as Neandertals to find out just how they pursued birds By claiming to be Neandertals, scientists showed that the old hominids likely had the skills to quest crowlike birds called choughs.