Explore the Lore
Rest assured that TV producer, writer and podcaster Richard Hatem’s Light in the Dark Tour is not meant to lead you off the beaten path like a will-o’-the-wisp, or even portend one’s own demise like a corpse candle. No, it is meant to shed light on the extensive literature written […]
Much like a poltergeist outbreak, sometimes the most activity happens on a shorter timeline. Recurrent spontaneous psychokinesis aside, that’s the idea guiding Lucky Paranormal investigators Gail and Mel Willis as they gear up for their third annual Lake Superior Paranormal Convention this October. “It really should be two days because […]
With National Acadian Day, or Fête nationale de l’Acadie, fast approaching on August 15, it seems like a good time to explore some of New Brunswick’s lore — the kind that still draws plenty of attention long after a poet’s tale. The legend of the Dungarvon Whooper (pronounced “hooper”) runs […]
If it weren’t for John Robert Colombo, writer, educator and filmmaker Christopher Dodd would never have written Unseen Thing: The Mulmur Hills Poltergeist. It’s early August and Dodd shares the story of how he and his wife purchased a country home in Mulmur Township in 2014. Mulmur is north of […]
Can a building be reincarnated? Perhaps not, but Century Manor in Hamilton, Ontario, is in the midst of a resurrection — even if a few former patients haven’t quite been discharged yet. For the first time in more than 30 years, the city opened the doors to the last standing […]
A desire to develop more programming down by the waterfront has stirred up ghosts along Pickering’s waterfront. That left Pickering heritage programmer Ali Crone at a loss for words at first because the area seemed to be something of a dead zone when it comes to the uncanny. “That was […]
Ufologist Grant Cameron is not the same investigator he was when he began studying the phenomenon in 1975. Back then, he was leading tours in southern Manitoba to see the mysterious object known as Charlie Red Star. He said he did not spend much time thinking about the invisible lines […]
Why are ghost stories connected to certain types of houses? Why do real-life abodes often resemble something from the worlds of Edgar Allan Poe or M.R. James? For Canadian expat Caitlin Blackwell Baines, the question of why the West’s haunts tend to be domestic spaces was what led her to […]
The memory of ufologist Stanton Friedman is alive and well in Fredericton, New Brunswick. Carla (Kat) Sheppard, founder of the Fredericton Holistic Fair, started work on the Fredericton UFO and Metaphysical Conference earlier this year. Set for April 11, it brings together investigative and experiential perspectives on documented UFO cases […]
Have you ever been lost in the body of a book and wanted to venture yonder, to travel to the places you pore over? Ghosthunter: A Journey Through Haunted France by Simon Marsden, with complementary prose fit for a diary in an Arthur Machen or Edgar Allan Poe novella, has […]