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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 […]
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 […]
Former home of Ontario’s second Lieutenant Governor and Father of Confederation, William Pearce Howland, has endured over 160 years There’s something special about Lambton House that attracted mentalist Jaymes White’s attention: it endures. The house avoided destruction during the 1878 Humber River flood. It survived a fire that devastated the […]
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 […]
Vancouver-based podcaster Mike Browne quotes the X-Files’ Fox Mulder casually one Sunday afternoon while on a Zoom call. “I want to believe,” he says, with a chuckle, as he and paranormal researcher Morgan Knudsen play off of each other when explaining their new podcast series Supernatural Circumstances. Browne, 52, confesses […]
The Applewood Shaver farmhouse in Etobicoke, Ont. will be home to Jaymes White’s séance from Oct. 1 to Nov. 27, and marks his first in-person show since the beginning of the pandemic. COVID-19 has provided an opportunity for the team to pivot from their more traditional Victorian séances to other […]
Ottawa’s Jaymes White is a different kind of busy these days. Fresh off performing seances for his “Evoke” show, White returns to his milieu of mentalism with four virtual mind-reading shows, February 19, 20, 26 and 27. His live shows run for two hours, but given the pandemic, his shows […]