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Like many older cities across Canada, Barrie is rich with old buildings…and old stories. Many detailing grisly histories, sparking tales of hauntings and ghostly appearances. Ghoulish tales about the the Barrie Jail, first built in 1841 and home to a lunatic asylum for a time, have been whispered around town for decades, including unconfirmed reports of faint screaming and the sounds of clanging chains being heard in the halls of the small penitentiary, perhaps the distant voices of the inmates who were hanged, and legend has it, buried in the Jail’s courtyard many years ago. There is also the Uptown theatre, first built in 1937, that has been host to eerie encounters on many occasions; staff have reported doors opening and closing on their own, and one particularly terrifying night during which the manager Mike witnessed a bulb from this projector launch itself across the room, smashing against the wall, as if someone had thrown it. But nowhere is the scare metre higher in Barrie than at the Simcoe Hote