Explore the Lore
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 […]
As if two episodes a week of Dark Poutine weren’t enough for Michael Browne, he’s still hungry for more true crime. Corus has tapped the Langley native to host a slate of its true crime podcasts in a new two-hour radio series called Crime Time. “We’re looking at branching out […]
Nova Scotian journalist Craig Ferguson is digging up old ghosts to shed light on some of the province’s most intriguing scandals buried beneath cemetery headstones. But he’s not chasing the usual ghosts. It’s true crime and history that haunt the cases he tackles in Bell Fibe TV1’s Graveyard Detective. “It’s […]
HALIFAX — There was an investigation brewing in downtown Halifax on the eve of All Souls Day. Attendees of the Halifax Paranormal Symposium materialized outside the front entrance of Alexander Keith’s Brewery for a two-and-a-half-hour, hands-on look into the work of the Haunted Heart and Soul team. Chelsey Lacelle, Lomar […]
THUNDER BAY — The oubliette may be known as a place of forgetting, but for the Beyond the Haunting team, the history and spirits of Leap Castle are something they’ll never forget. Speaking recently from Thunder Bay’s Historic Fort William, British Columbian investigators Corine Carey, Kelly Ireland and Leanne Sallenback […]
Mi’kmaq medium Shawn Leonard’s dream of seven polar bears protecting him from seven shadow figures helped inspire the idea for his second book. After the success of his 2020 title, Spirit Talker: Indigenous Stories and Teachings from a Mi’kmaq Psychic Medium, publisher Hay House asked him to write another. “They […]
Canadian psychedelic pop group the Poppy Family once sang about evil growing in the dark, where the sun never shines. Now Jason Hewlett is putting a spotlight on one of Canada’s darkest tales through both a documentary and a book. The 1971 hit “Where Evil Grows” aside, the Kamloops resident […]
Visitors to the Kilby Historic Site might get more than the usual wares a pioneer general store would offer this October. For the seventh year, Cornerstone Supernatural has teamed up with Kilby to co-host a paranormal investigation fundraiser. The group’s founders, Paul Busch and his wife of 30 years, Janine […]