ParaGhoul Paranormal: Discoveries from the Dark
Oct 8, 2026 · 27 min · 9 segments
For more than a century, the Convent of Jesus and Mary has watched over Gravelbourg. Students whispered about footsteps on the fourth floor. Teachers reported hearing doors open and close after dark…
Now, before we can talk about the ghosts and the investigations, I feel like we need to do a little bit of a recap about the history of the convent of Jesus and Mary itself, just in case you didn't listen to the episode back in season two.
So the convent opened in late 1918, although the sisters from the Sisters of Jesus and Mary religious group actually arrived earlier, around 1915, and taught out of the small priest's house while they waited for the convent to be built.
And it was built to have four stories constructed with clay bank brick and tindal stone.
You know, two of those materials that are just loved in Saskatchewan old buildings.
Now, once the convent opened its doors, the sisters moved in and welcomed girls to the boarding school, with Sister Emilienne as the superior and later principal of what would become the public school in the building.
Now, interestingly, this wasn't the only school to open in Gravelburg around that time.
The Catholic College, now known as College Matthew, also opened, and the Oblate Sisters of Mary Immaculate were also brought in to teach young boys.
Now, what's unfortunate for the convent was the Spanish flu, of course, hitting Saskatchewan around the same time as they were opening.
I read one article that stated around 4,000 people died within Saskatchewan alone by the end of 1918.
I couldn't find anything regarding the exact numbers of what hit Gravelburg itself, but But if you check the graveyards around there for deaths around that 1918, you can definitely see there were, you know, some multiple deaths kind of around the same time hitting families.
Obviously, not all of the deaths around the time would be automatically related to the Spanish flu, but it kind of gives you an idea of how many died that year.
And within those, I had mentioned in the previous episode about the convent, about the three sisters who ranged in age from as young as six to as old as around 16 or 17.
They didn't give the month of her death, but does make you wonder if they even had a chance to attend the convent before they passed or if they never got to go there.
And then there were four others also buried in the St. Elizabeth Roman Catholic Cemetery in 1918.
Quite a few young ones, but I even noticed in those early years, you know, 1920s, there was quite a few young deaths.
By 1921, an article by the Regina Leader stated that the convent grew to include more than just girls, with 20 teachers, 65 boarders, and over 300 public school students.
The college enrolled more than 100 students, so that was the College Matthew, as we know now, and the Oblate Sisters of Mary Immaculate taught more than 50 young students between the ages of 5 and 12.
So Gravelburg at the time was praised for being one of the best educational institutions in the province.
However, this popularity and praise in the Regina Leader did not seem to hold across Canada.
I did come across an article from the Toronto Telegram in the same year, and it had a very negative opinion about these schools.
Now, before we can talk about the ghosts and the investigations, I feel like we need to do a little bit of a recap about the history of the convent of Jesus and Mary itself, just in case you didn't listen to the episode back in season two.
So the convent opened in late 1918, although the sisters from the Sisters of Jesus and Mary religious group actually arrived earlier, around 1915, and taught out of the small priest's house while they waited for the convent to be built.
And it was built to have four stories constructed with clay bank brick and tindal stone.
You know, two of those materials that are just loved in Saskatchewan old buildings.
Now, once the convent opened its doors, the sisters moved in and welcomed girls to the boarding school, with Sister Emilienne as the superior and later principal of what would become the public school in the building.
Now, interestingly, this wasn't the only school to open in Gravelburg around that time.
The Catholic College, now known as College Matthew, also opened, and the Oblate Sisters of Mary Immaculate were also brought in to teach young boys.
Now, what's unfortunate for the convent was the Spanish flu, of course, hitting Saskatchewan around the same time as they were opening.
I read one article that stated around 4,000 people died within Saskatchewan alone by the end of 1918.
I couldn't find anything regarding the exact numbers of what hit Gravelburg itself, but But if you check the graveyards around there for deaths around that 1918, you can definitely see there were, you know, some multiple deaths kind of around the same time hitting families.
Obviously, not all of the deaths around the time would be automatically related to the Spanish flu, but it kind of gives you an idea of how many died that year.
And within those, I had mentioned in the previous episode about the convent, about the three sisters who ranged in age from as young as six to as old as around 16 or 17.
They didn't give the month of her death, but does make you wonder if they even had a chance to attend the convent before they passed or if they never got to go there.
And then there were four others also buried in the St. Elizabeth Roman Catholic Cemetery in 1918.
Quite a few young ones, but I even noticed in those early years, you know, 1920s, there was quite a few young deaths.
By 1921, an article by the Regina Leader stated that the convent grew to include more than just girls, with 20 teachers, 65 boarders, and over 300 public school students.
The college enrolled more than 100 students, so that was the College Matthew, as we know now, and the Oblate Sisters of Mary Immaculate taught more than 50 young students between the ages of 5 and 12.
So Gravelburg at the time was praised for being one of the best educational institutions in the province.
However, this popularity and praise in the Regina Leader did not seem to hold across Canada.
I did come across an article from the Toronto Telegram in the same year, and it had a very negative opinion about these schools.
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