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The Quarry Supermassive Games Microsoft Windows, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S 4.5/5 I grew up in the 1980s, the peak of Choose Your Own Adventure books. So, when the novelty of a game like Until Dawn first manifested itself on the PS4 console, I picked it up. I […]
The current climate crisis and accompanying erratic weather — deadly heat waves in Europe and the high swells in Hawaii — have me thinking about my spirituality. I’ve never been one for organized religion. I’ll admit to being an apatheist — one who has a general apathy towards the existence […]
Near-death experiences can change one’s perspective on living. It was that thought that made former journalist Jason Hewlett adjust his subject matter for his third book. The Kamloops, British Columbia co-author of Dying Light: An Investigation into Near-Death Experiences was inspired by the experiences of New York-based paranormal investigator Angela […]
You’ve probably heard of Escape from New York, but have you heard of Escape from Black Creek? Secret City Adventures has pulled together an escape game for one of Toronto’s most haunted locations. They’ve been providing escape games at Black Creek Pioneer Village since 2017, but “Where Dark Things Dwell” […]
There’s a certain calling — an instinct — that most in the paranormal community experience. From J.B. Rhine to Maurice Gross to Eileen Garrett, they’ve all experienced a calling, according to Edmonton-based paranormal researcher Morgan Knudsen. And she hopes to capture their experiences in her second book The Gift of Instinct: Paranormal […]
When founder and lead investigator of Pandemonium Paranormal, Anton Buchberger, left Pembina Hall at the University of Alberta one 2013 evening, he never expected to feel an itchy sensation on his arm. He was taken aback when he discovered a scratch mark. “On an investigation, I am always careful not […]
Writer and Northern Lakes College professor Matthew Hayes never expected the research he did for his Ph.D. to become so relevant. He believed his subject matter of Canadian UFO events from the 1950s to the early 1990s would be a fun deep dive into Canada’s history of the unknown. But […]
Jason Hewlett’s cryptozoological mission into the wilds of British Columbia’s interior yielded some fascinating discoveries, including a ghostly side quest. The former crime reporter turned paranormal investigator shared his team’s discoveries on the Bonaparte Plateau, as well as in Shuswap and Barriere in the latter half of 2020 on the […]
Murder mysteries and their villains always have those “goddammit” moments when they realize they’ve been made. “Murder She Wrote,” “Columbo” and “Ellery Queen” all culminated into a “the jig is up” denouement and the villain always attempts to flee. I know I equated J.J. Dupuis’ first Creature X Mystery book […]
Experiencer Wes Roberts had never listened to the MP3s of all his hypnosis sessions before he started writing his second book, An Experiencer’s Garden. The Toronto native, and teacher, opened up about being an abductee in his first book Intersections, and now he’s compiled his sessions that he had hypnotherapist […]