Legend has it that the spirit of the
“Grey Lady” wanders the Halifax Citadel National Historic Site.
According
to security guards, the Grey Lady walks the floors of the Cavalier building,
smelling of roses and wearing a 19th-century dress, and is still seen to this
day.
One
guard, who was stationed overlooking the second floor balcony, reported seeing
“a woman in a long white dress on the veranda pass beneath him, turned around a
corner of the building and disappeared”.
In
the mid 1980s, another security guard spotted a woman in an old fashioned grey
dress in the third floor window of the Citadel’s Cavalier building.
She
is believed to be Miss Cassie Allan, a young lady who was engaged to a soldier
stationed at the Citadel. On her wedding day, November 14, 1900, Cassie waited
at the altar for her groom, but he never arrived.
The
carriage driver rode up to the Citadel to pick up the groom, only to hear from
the guard that the husband-to-be had shot himself, unable to find any other way
to hide from his past.
The driver
went to the church to break the news to the bride, who refused to believe him
and became hysterical. Clearly, the truth was too hard for her to accept, as
her spirit still searches the grounds of the Citadel for her beloved
fiancée.
“The
most vivid sighting of the Grey Lady happened to an employee who would sit in a
particular chair at one end of the building and greet visitors as they came in.
One day, a woman in a white dress entered the Cavalier and thinking she was a
tourist, the man got up to welcome her. However, when he looked up she was
gone. He saw the woman a few times more times after that, always wearing the
same white dress and disappearing before he had the chance to talk to her.”-
Hal Thompson, visitor experience officer for the Halifax Defence Complex
The ghost of the "Grey Lady" has
been selected by Canada Post to be featured in their latest set of
stamps devoted to ghost stories across Canada. (Pictured above)
The
paranormal world can very fascinating! If you are from Nova Scotia, and
have experienced something paranormal, or a event that happened to
someone you know, we would love to share your story!
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