Crime writer excited to see discovered tunnel at the Masonic Temple

    Tuesday, 12 December 2023 12:02

    By Tonya Organ

    Cleary-Escott says her book deals with the murder of the Grand Master of the FreeMasons and the tunnel has a lot to do with it.

    Helen Cleary-Escott is excited to hear the new owners of the Masonic Temple in downtown St. John’s have found a hidden tunnel and she’s invited to take a look. The former RCMP Media Relations representative is now an author. She says one of her books, Operation Masonic, is a story of greed and murder in the heart of historic St. John’s. She says she has interviewed quite a few people who saw a tunnel many years ago and with renovations over the years, no one could find it so it was brushed off as an urban myth. Cleary-Escott says the new owners have stripped the building back to brick and found a tunnel. She says her book deals with the murder of the Grand Master of the FreeMasons and the tunnel has a lot to do with it. Cleary-Escott says there are alot of secrets in the Masonic Temple which is the first masonic building built in North America. She says it’s rumoured that the architect who built the staircase in the Titanic also built the staircase at the Masonic Temple.

     

     

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