Undead Ist List: The Teller's Terror

Torontoist is probably going to be forced to sacrifice our Canadian passport upon admitting this, but never mind: we've never actually been inside the Hockey Hall of Fame. However, we have always admired the dignified looking old building it is housed in, the former Bank of Montreal that the BCE Place was so lovingly constructed around. We would be disappointed if such a fetching structure didn't have at least one ghostly legend attached to it, but we needn't fear, for there are two, even if they are variations of the same story.

They both tell of an unfortunate young bank teller named Dorothy. In the first story, she is dragged to the vault during a bank robbery and shot. Spooked bank employees reported sightings of an apparition near the vault where she was killed, but skeptical TOist thinks perhaps this is just a Scooby Doo-worthy security ploy. The second version is more depressing, as Dorothy is said to have been a lovelorn young women who, in an act of desperation after what we can only assume to be an especially nasty breakup, took the bank's pistol upstairs and shot herself. Reports of poltergeist activity abound, and Hockey Hall of Fame workers often try to foist the closing duties off on one another.

Apropos of nothing, here's some bonus spooky fun today (we feel bad about sleeping in so late, and that today's story doesn't feature axes or dismemberings) - the Toronto Ghosts and Hauntings Research Society (where we've been getting most of our haunted info this week) lets you choose your own ghost story about Grenadier Pond, madlib-style.