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” […]
Parapsychology
Edmonton paranormal researcher Morgan Knudsen launches second book
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 […]
Explanations for shadow people continue to haunt investigators, Canadian locations
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 […]
New podcast Supernatural Circumstances looks at paranormal with fresh set of eyes
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 […]
Ottawa mentalist Jaymes White returns in-person with Eatonville séance
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 mentalist returns to his milieu with mindreading show
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 […]
Winnipeg psychiatrist wants to destigmatize paranormal experiences
A retired Winnipeg psychiatrist says he wants to destigmatize paranormal experiences. Dr. Manuel Matas, who attended McGill and the University of Manitoba for his profession, had his first brush with the supernatural when he was 19, through a precognitive dream, and he had an out-of-body experience while he was a […]
Former Mountie pens book on inexplicable events witnessed by police
When it comes to paranormal encounters experienced by law enforcement, who better to capture the stories than a former officer. Halifax’s Elliott Van Dusen spent 15 years with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, starting in Penticton for four years, then moving on to Yellowknife to be a homicide detective before […]
Mentalist Jaymes White adapts séance for virtual audience
After five years of conducting in-person séances at locations like the George Brown house in Toronto and Manchester Hill in Stittsville, Ont., mentalist Jaymes White has switched to an online forum for his next series. The pandemic has provided a new challenge for the 33-year-old Ottawa native as he plans […]
North America has a lot to learn from diverse paranormal perspectives
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 […]