Explore the Lore
I’ve been on a bit of a kick lately, exploring different cultures’ interpretations of the Woman in White trope. I even talked it up while visiting Thunder Bay and Halifax as a guest speaker at two conventions. So it seemed timely that I should pick up A Haunted History of […]
Ann McDougall spent a good portion of her career working as a host in museums like the Spadina House and Todmorden Mills in Toronto, and the one question that always came up was, “Is it haunted?” “To be honest, my answer was usually no,” she admitted during a Zoom conversation […]
Jason Hewlett and his team of ghost hunters are changing wavelengths and putting old-school Sasquatch investigation methods back into practice. The focus is legacy. It is the driving force behind his latest documentary series, Sasquatch Territory: Sasquatch Quest, produced for Small Town Monsters. The docuseries is not without its tense […]
Writer and paranormal aficionado K.G. Miceli wants to hear Ontarians’ stories about the Screaming Tunnel. The Essex County resident shared her fascination with Niagara’s spooky landmark, a 38-metre-long, 4.8-metre-tall tunnel built of rough-cut limestone. Originally constructed as a drainage passage for nearby farms, it sits near the end of Warner […]
Paranormal investigator Artie Martin faced an internal conflict during the filming of Ghost Hunters of the Grand River Season 4. It was late December, the chill of winter settling in, and Martin was thinking about how viewers might react to the Six Nations Investigating Paranormal Encounters (SNIPE) team’s investigation of […]
The word Schreiber in German means writer and for Carson Trapp, his hometown has become his title. The 23-year-old, who works as a general labourer, caught the writing bug in 2022 while sweeping a parking lot for his boss at the time. And what manifested was his book, Paranormal Encounters […]
Cryptozoology buff and nature explorer Jason Kenzie is taking Sasquatch, Dogman and the Ozark Howler on a European vacation. The early Christmas bonus came when both Searching for Sasquatch and Paranormal Adventures were picked up by Amazon Prime in Europe and the U.K. in November, thanks to distributors Thomas Marcum […]
The response to the 2025 Halifax Paranormal Symposium has been nothing short of supernatural. One of the convention’s biggest triumphs was establishing itself as a national event within the paranormal, UFO and parapsychological communities. A month after the November 1 gathering, Paranormal Phenomena Research and Investigation president Elliott Van Dusen […]
There comes a time when your knowledge of the paranormal in a given region starts to overflow its glass and you look elsewhere for something new to drink in. I find myself in this state of perpetual thirst. That’s not to say I know everything about Canada. Far from it. […]
Stone tape theory. Maritime lore. Lighthouses. Bad decisions. And the Devil’s Staircase. Put them together and you get the dreary setting for a 100-minute documentary called Ghost Island. For Nova Scotians along the southern shore, Shambro Island offers all of the above. It’s the staircase that draws many to the […]