Quebec is a place where history and folklore have never been far apart.

Across its forests, rivers, battlefields, villages, and lakes, old stories still move through the landscape — carried by generations of storytellers, shaped by faith, fear, warning, and wonder.

In this Haunted UK Abroad episode, Steve begins a journey through the ghostly tales and legends of Quebec, exploring the French-Canadian folklore that grew from early settler life, Indigenous tradition, religious belief, and the dangers of a harsh and mysterious land.

The episode opens with La Chasse-Galerie, Quebec’s famous legend of the flying canoe, in which a group of lumberjacks make a dangerous New Year’s Eve bargain with the devil. From there, the story moves into darker territory with Bonhomme Sept-Heures, the terrifying Seven O’Clock Man used to warn children away from the night, before turning to the cursed history of the Quebec Bridge, the haunted battlefield of the Plains of Abraham, and the deeply unsettling paranormal reputation of Montreal’s Chateau Ramezay.

This first part also explores strange newspaper accounts of revenants, the alleged possession of Gabrielle in Saint-Irénée, the skeletal horrors of Lake of the Tombs, the forest-dwelling Jacks Mistigris, the sirens of the Gulf of St Lawrence, and the lake monsters said to inhabit Quebec’s dark inland waters.

Atmospheric, folkloric, and rich with haunted history, this episode blends ghost stories, moral legends, creature lore, battlefield hauntings, and unexplained phenomena into a journey through one of Canada’s most storied and mysterious provinces.

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