Explore the Lore
It’s time to normalize conversations about the paranormal, especially when it comes to Bigfoot. “Let’s make the paranormal normal,” said screenwriter and producer Jill Remensnyder during an August Zoom conversation. “How many people have we talked to who say, ‘After my sighting, I thought I was going crazy.’” Remensnyder is […]
Art has been known to have a healing effect. But it also highlights the interconnectedness of all spiritual beings on the Earth that can help us heal. That was the focal point of a two-day spiritual celebration at the Native Canadian Centre of Toronto on June 29 and 30; the […]
When you research Sasquatch, you have to keep an open mind, or else you’re not going to get very far. Those are the first words shared by investigator Mike Paterson of Sasquatch Ontario about the cryptid in a January 2022 interview with The Superstitious Times. It’s a cool winter day, […]
Conservation is key when looking for any cryptid, whether it’s Ogopogo or Sasquatch. That’s been the key takeaway cryptozoology documentarian and podcaster Eli Watson has taken from his explorations, including his most recent investigation of Okanagan Lake with British Columbian investigator Jason Hewlett. “I’ve become much more of a conservationist […]
Canada’s heart beats in Manitoba. As does its sea serpent folklore. All three of the province’s largest lakes — Manitoba, Winnipeg and Winnipegosis — are revenants of the glacial waterbody, Lake Agassiz, which was formed 14,500 years ago. And they all have their mysterious denizens of the deep that capture […]
Class B encounters in the wilds of North America have always been attributed to Sasquatch. But what if there was something else responsible for the tree knocks, thrown rocks and strange structures encountered in the forest across the continent? Author Travis Watson, who writes under the pen name W.T. Watson, […]
A city’s subterranean secrets are fertile soil to grow urban legends. Think of the alligators in the New York sewage system, arguably the most famous urban legend of them all. Toronto too has its share of urban legends, and many of them are set beneath the city’s streets. Some follow […]
Those venturing out to the Memorial University Botanical Garden this September are advised to have bread in their pockets to keep the fairies away. The university’s garden staff has combined resources with folklorist Dale Jarvis of the St. John’s Haunted Hike to present The Fairy Path, an exploration of fairy […]
Halifax is going to witness its first paranormal conference in 17 years, and it’s something planners want to make a historical repeater. Elliott Van Dusen, president of Paranormal Phenomena Research & Investigation (PPRI), is collaborating with Dr. Darryll Walsh, executive director of the Centre for Parapsychological Studies in Canada, on […]
Newfoundland is swimming in mariner folklore, but no other story about a run-in with Architeuthis dux captivates audiences more than the Squires-Picot sighting on Oct. 26, 1873. Two fishermen and a boy were fishing in the tickle near Bell Island, just a few miles north of St. John’s, when they […]