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Podcast: Unsolved Canadian Mysteries
Episode: #4 - The Quebec City Witch
Description: Few figures in Canadian folklore are as infamous as Marie-Josephte Corriveau, a woman whose gruesome fate in 1763 led to one of Quebec’s most enduring ghost stories. Known as La Corriveau, she has been branded a witch, a murderer, and a restless spirit who haunts the streets of Quebec City to this day. But what really happened to her, and why has her legend persisted for over two centuries?Marie-Josephte Corriveau was born in 1733 in the village of Saint-Vallier, New France (now Quebec). Married twice, she was accused of murdering her second husband, Louis Dodier, under suspicious ci...