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The Prodigy Director: Nicholas McCarthy Cast: Taylor Schilling, Brittany Allen, Jackson Robert Scott Studio: Orion Pictures 4/5 Much like Dr. Elaine Stasser (Paula Boudreau) and Arthur Jacobson (Colm Feore) explain in the film, The Prodigy, reincarnation has been around for quite some time either through Buddhism, Hinduism and Sikhism. But it’s not just […]
Velvet Buzzsaw Director: Dan Gilroy Cast: Jake Gyllenhaal, Rene Russo, Zawe Ashton and John Malkovich Studio: Netflix 3.5/5 There is a painting called “The Anguished Man” that allegedly has the blood of its artist used within its own acrylics. Of course, it could be that it’s part of a creepypasta that is continuously drumming up more believers affixed to the […]
Great Canadian Ghost Stories by Barbara Smith Touchwood Editions, Canada, 2018 4/5 Each page turn of Barbara Smith’s Great Canadian Ghost Stories was a finger pull on a View-Master’s lever. Rife with viewports into Canada’s supernatural tales, Smith refrains from her traditional provincial campfire tales and cups her hand over her eyes to view for miles nationwide. […]
Scriber of ghost stories, Barbara Smith, can spend hours talking about the spectral tales Canada has to offer the world. It’s an early January morning for the Sidney, B.C. native – who has also called Toronto and Edmonton home – and she shares warmly the passion she’s been pursuing since […]
The sky above New York City was cast in a pale blue light Dec. 27, and social media was lit with UFO conspiracies. However, it was merely a transformer fire in Queens that led to the eerie experience for the millions of New Yorkers. The fire was so brilliant that […]
There is a human side to the study and research of the elusive Sasquatch. Beneath the Ghillie suit Todd Standing wears to blend into the environments while on investigations in Radium Hot Springs, B.C. or in Alberta and Montana, is a man who has sacrificed plenty to get the evidence […]
Michelle Desrochers makes a living out of researching malevolent hauntings
The monthly look at paranormal things happening around the world. Taken with a grain of salt, of course.
It would appear the cigar-shaped object hurtling itself through space is an interstellar space probe, according to researchers at the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. Called ‘Oumuamua, which is Hawaiian for arriving first, the object was first considered to be an asteroid. Now it’s being theorized by Shmuel Bialy and […]
There are some 232 dead nuns interred in a crypt beneath the Grey Nuns Motherhouse at the corner of Guy Street and René-Lévesque Boulevard West, in the Montreal borough of Ville-Marie. It’s a macabre thought, but even more bizarre is that it’s a residence for students at Concordia University’s Sir […]