“A mind is like a parachute,” a voice, full of expression, posits through the phone line. “It only works if it’s open.” Filmmaker Rob Freeman is calling from Costa Rica early one September morning. He’s toeing the equatorial line in search of UFOs and is readying himself for his return […]
Author: Brian Baker
Review: Ghostship mythology rides the rising tide
The Dark Pictures: The Man of Medan Supermassive Games Microsoft Windows, PS4, Xbox One 4/5 Ghost ships and the mysteries of the sea have factored into our culture since we carved the first canoes out of pine trees. Chile has its Caleuche. South Africa has the Flying Dutchman. Canada, as […]
Ottawa mentalist Jaymes White to host séances at George Brown House
When you walk along Beverley Street in Toronto, south from U of T’s St. George campus, an unassuming mansion, once inhabited by George Brown, will greet them at the Baldwin Street intersection. Its three-storey, red brick façade, Italianate details complete with Victorian mansard roof and dormer windows announces itself in […]
Etchings: Forget Burning Man, Let’s Do Alienstock
After Facebook removed the Storm Area 51 — They Can’t Stop All of Us event, which had over two million people sign up, one of its organizers is planning a real-life festival called Alienstock. Mathew Roberts was propositioned by Arkansas college student Brock Daily to hold a festival in Rachel, […]
Whitby’s Centennial Building still courts ghostly legends
JaneAnn Fraser Tillson couldn’t tell you how many times her father, Al Fraser, would walk up to the Centennial Building in Whitby, Ont. to make sure there wasn’t anything unlawful going on. But it was a regular occurrence. Back then, the lights of the classical revival courthouse, constructed from 1852 […]
North York writer Wes Roberts opens up about being an abductee
North York writer and professor Wes Roberts has kept a secret from his family for more than six decades. In fairness, it wasn’t until this century — nay this decade — that he fully confirmed he had been the victim of multiple alien abductions. “It is abduction for a while, […]
Etchings: Former Fate executive editor, Guiley, dies at 69
The paranormal community has lost one of its treasured writers. Rosemary Ellen Guiley, 69, died July 18. No cause of death was provided. Born July 8, 1950, in Florida, the former Executive Editor of Fate Magazine had over 50 books to her name, ranging from vampires to werewolves to angels […]
British Columbia man discovers meteorites with faces in them
Two meteorites that a Sooke, B.C. man discover 60-feet beneath the Pacific Ocean waves have changed his life and stirred up an eddy of excitement with University of Victoria academics. The two rocks, first considered examples of gabbro and basalt, have been determined to be meteorites and could hold organic […]
Always remember the ‘unidentified’ in UFO, and take the Scully approach
There’s been a higher volume of UFO news over the past few months, ranging from the U.S. Navy changing their approach to members reporting sightings to the increased numbers of purported sightings. Often times, the usual suspects — International Business Times and the Independent — are publishing odd-ball claims of […]
Etchings: The Highlights of the California scenery
The people of Twentynine Palms, Calif., just north of Joshua Tree National Park, caught one heckuva light show this year. A video surfaced on Youtube from Californian Cody Kennedy. Kennedy, who runs an animal-themed Youtube channel, captured a long bar of lights in the sky as the tried to capture […]