Explore the Lore
At the base of Mount Royal, in the heart of Montreal’s Golden Square Mile, sits an English gothic mansion that has a vein of paranormal lore shooting through it. Located at the southwest corner of Pines Avenue and McTavish Street, the Duggan House, a.k.a. Braehead, is a reminder of the […]
Providence. That was the word writer-director Jason Hewlett used to describe the rebirth of “We Want to Believe” with the paranormal streaming service Paraflixx. After the abrupt end of the YouTube channel The Paranormal Network on Halloween 2022, lead investigator Peter Renn, Hewlett and the Canadian Paranormal Society team weren’t […]
When you tour along with Colin Dickey in his 2016 book, Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places, you get the sense that most paranormal stories are a grift. There may be small details that can trace themselves back to real history, but the rest are part of a slick […]
“Haunted Hospitals” has been renewed for a fifth season, and the producers are looking to revamp the episodes with a thematic refresh. “This season is a little different than past seasons,” series producer Kate Kung said, during an early June phone conversation. “We love stories from people who have spent […]
One of Canada’s longest-running ghost tours is celebrating 30 years. Ghost Tours of Fort George, founded by Kyle Upton and the Friends of Fort George, started in the summer of 1994. It’s one of the three remaining tours that started during the mid-1990s, which include Victoria Walking Tours, started by […]
Like an underground river, there is a large current of paranormal interest that runs just beneath the surface of Canada. Ghost stories are shared around campfires as a rite of passage. People travel to historic locations to uncover the past, and maybe to cross paths with a spirit or two. […]
With so much history under one roof, it’s hard not to believe there aren’t a few attachments to the artifacts inside. Every autumn, the Royal Ontario Museum takes its members on a tour of the building, sharing spooky tales, but for ROMKids Manager and Camp Director Kiron Mukherjee, the experiences […]
After publishing The Demonologist in 2013, victims of malevolent spirits still reach out to Pyper looking for help, but he’s at a loss as to what to do Write a novel that shares the same name as an Ed and Lorraine Warren book, and you’ll have people asking you for […]
There is an afterlife for Brennan Storr’s homage to his hometown Revelstoke, British Columbia. The Victoria resident’s book A Strange Little Place, which was originally published in August 2016 by Llewellyn Worldwide, went out of print in April 2022. Storr, one of the founding members of The Ghost Story Guys […]
There are more tombstones than people living in the Ottawa River Valley’s Pontiac County. It’s a detail that Aventure Outaouais owner and lead tour guide Brandon Bolduc divulges from his headquarters in Bristol, Que., which has a population of 1,199 people according to Statistics Canada. “It’s a very rural region […]