North America is rich in diversity and has plenty of different perspectives when it comes to the inexplicable. From First Nations to the introduction and emancipation of slaves, to the many waves of immigration, there are mythologies imported and shared across all ethnicities on the continent. Even though there is […]
Ghosts
Newman Wine Vaults haunted by its secretive past and a ghost named John
When you dive into the annals of Canadian business history, most people would be right in thinking that the Hudson’s Bay Company monopolized most of it. But in St. John’s, Newfoundland, the Newman family is on par with Hudson’s with its mercantile prowess. A tie to that history still remains […]
Cold spots, scandals and Victoria’s Empress Hotel
Historian and Discover the Past’s Ghostly Walks host John Adams has had a long working relationship with the Fairmont Empress Hotel in Victoria, British Columbia. It has not always been about acquainting oneself with the resident spirits inside the Châteauesque structure built between 1904 and 1908. The 71-year-old worked in […]
Actor Dan Aykroyd narrates ghostly tales in new series ‘Hotel Paranormal’
Listening to Dan Aykroyd in the narration booth gave “Hotel Paranormal” producer Sarah Zammit goosebumps. Zammit, who works with Blue Ant’s Saloon Media, has worked on paranormal shows like “Haunted Hospitals” and “Paranormal Witness” in the past, but there’s nothing quite like having the voice of Canadian paranormal pedigree share […]
Instagram’s Haunted Historian created to build an international paranormal community
Conner Gossel and two friends created the Instagram account Haunted Historian in an effort to create an online community dedicated to cataloguing the world’s haunted locations. The 25-year-old Dayton, Ohio native launched Haunted Historian with Blake Kendig and Alex Meiring in late 2018 when he was beginning law school. It […]
Memorial PhD student maps Newfoundland’s ghost ship tales
Memorial University PhD student Karin Murray-Bergquist has taken her interest in history and folklore and mapped it out for her new home province. The 29-year-old Ottawa transplant has marked phantom ships, lights, dogs and shipwrecks through an online Map app called MapHub. Initially, she wanted to map legends of the […]
Researcher Michelle Desrochers to share her own personal experiences on new show
Demonologist Michelle Desrochers had to step out of her comfort zone for her most recent appearance on a paranormal television series. The co-host of radio show “The Outer Realm” is used to being the pillar of strength for clients who are dealing with violent hauntings. But for the Travel Channel’s, […]
Is Tranquille the victim of wild imaginations?
If there’s anything haunting the 460 acres of Tranquille in Kamloops, British Columbia, it could very well be the ghosts of modern horror tropes. Tranquille is nestled on the plain overlooking Cooney Bay, where Kamloops Lake meets the Thompson River. The former sanatorium treated tuberculosis patients from 1907 to 1958 […]
Haunted Hamilton to host Victorian funeral tour at Dundurn
Hamiltonians and visitors to the Golden Horseshoe may get their very own Moberly-Jourdain experience thanks to a Haunted Dundurn Castle tour in February. Unlike the infamous French event, visitors will be plunged into a Victorian funeral at the 19th-century manor thanks to Stephanie Dumbreck, owner and founder of Haunted Hamilton. […]
Not all the guests have checked out of Niagara-on-the-Lake’s Prince of Wales Hotel
Niagara-on-the-Lake is a chunk of Ontario land that has possibly seen the most bloodshed in the province. It’s no wonder it has plenty of ghostly tales from when the Americans pushed British troops back and lit a match to the town, sending all its inhabitants into the cold of a […]