As much as I enjoyed walking around Quebec City during the day, I am a night person at my core, and I want to see what the city is like during the night. On my first night in Quebec City, I booked myself on a ghost walk around the city. A ghost walk is a guided walking tour (usually in the night) in a city where the guide will share local spooky tales and legends. You would often be at the very locations where some of these stories took place. I went to Quebec City in late October, so going on this tour fits extremely well with Halloween.
The great thing about my hotel being on the Terrasse Dufferin is that I can get great shots of the Chateau Frontenac and the St. Lawrence River just steps from my hotel room.
The meeting spot for the ghost tour was at the end of Rue de Petit Champlain in Lower Quebec. String lights lit up the street like you were in some kind of low-budget romance movie. There was a detailed mural on one of the sides of a building which was cool to see.
I get to the meeting spot and there is a man playing a harp, which may foretell the impending fright of this ghost walk.
We meet our guide who was wearing a top hat and cape, looking like one of the witches of Salem. She gets in character and tells us about the grim and gruesome tales of various people meeting their fates in the very locations we are walking through. She also told some Quebec City ghost stories as well.
While the various stories were interesting and rather macabre, I was also interested is taking some night shots of the city, which was expectedly bare at 8pm on a Sunday. Quebec is a Catholic province after all.
One of the streets that we were walking through is Rue Sous-Le-Cap, which is a narrow street with many footbridges and apartments. Honestly, walking through this street had to have been the scariest part of the tour because it looked like a dingy alley where someone will probably rob you. This street also looks like it could be a "red light district" street. Imagine women calling you from the bridges asking you for an hour or two hours of your time.
We start walking the hill up to the upper part of the city via the cobblestone street, where I take some more photos of various things, including the port of Quebec City.
The ghost tour ends at the Seminary, which was a school for training students to become religious figures such as priests and scholars. There were basketball nets in the courtyard, which I thought was weird, but I guess upcoming priests can enjoy an occasional game of hoops.
I do not remember much of the stories on this ghost tour, but I did enjoy the walk. On my way back to the hotel, I took some more photos of Quebec City at night. Most buildings had this purple lighting which was a bit freaky.
Anyways, hope you enjoyed these photos, here are some more below:
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