In a similar fashion, Judge Peter Wilch heard footsteps ahead of him on the stairs, and he attempted to catch up. He reached the top floor of the building but found no one. The cellars in particular are known to reverberate with the moans of former prisoners. The footsteps and noises in the old courtrooms are so bad that some of the women are afraid to work alone in many of the rooms. It has become a Halloween tradition for journalists to spend the night in Courtroom 33, where Arthur Lucas and Ron Turpin, Canada's last recipients of capital punishment, were given their sentence.
Legend says that's where most of the ghosts gather.
A beautiful young bank teller named Dorothy worked there in the early 1900s, and had an affair with a married teller. She was the most popular girl in the bank. Redwood recalls Dorothy entering the bank at 7 a.m. one day in March 1953. This was much earlier than she was expected. She looked pretty rough.