Helmcken Alley - 365-260

by Inge Riis McDonald

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Helmcken Alley - 365-260

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Inge Riis McDonald

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Photograph - Photography

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Bastian Square and Helmcken Alley

Bastian Square and Helmcken Alley in Victoria BC holds plenty of history and dark secrets � A very old and a very haunted place.
Bastion Square housed Victoria�s first jail in Helmcken Alley in the early 1800s. Back then, Victoria�s law enforcement worked hard policing gambling, womanizing and fighting � sometimes even drunk driving, where a person�s horse could be confiscated for the night, according to research done by the Maritime Museum. More serious criminals would serve time in the Bastion Square Jail. While the building is gone, the memory of its 11 hangings lives on. Bodies left uncollected were buried beneath the ground, but when the prison was demolished in 1885, the ground was excavated to make way for a court house. Some bodies were not found during this excavation and are still beneath the foundation of the courthouse, leaving many to claim they still hear the rattling of chains. A tunnel leads to the hanging place.
Many visitors to this historic location have experienced firsthand the terrifying sound of rattling chains, followed by the apparition of a man dressed in an old prison uniform. It is believed�this man was killed by an impatient guard who was walking through the tunnel with the man on his way to his execution.

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November 17th, 2016

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