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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 […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
“Everybody is an old soul.” There’s a pause once the words come out of Georgina Cannon’s mouth during a February phone conversation. The award-winning author, practicing hypnotherapist and founder of the Ontario Hypnosis Centre, discusses how hypnotherapy helps others heal, especially the use of past life regression. For medical practitioners, […]
Michelle Desrochers makes a living out of researching malevolent hauntings
It’s a chilly February evening and demonologist Tony Spera has a long trip ahead of him. He’s on his way home after helping a friend out. One can only imagine what the road before him looks like as he’s taken the time to pull off to the shoulder and talk […]
Mojave had been on R-Three’s bucket list for as long as he had been fascinated with aviation, which has been just about all his life. He knew this place as one of the rare graveyards for obsolete aircraft, well before it achieved status as a launching pad for civilian space […]
The University of Manitoba’s Investigation of the Human Psyche: Spiritualist & Parapsychology Collections was a project four years in the making for its Head of Archives, Shelley Sweeney. The 59-year-old met up with the Survival Research Institute of Canada’s president at a conference in Utrecht, Netherlands. During that time, collectors of […]
For the next three weeks, The Superstitious Times will publish the chronicles of Dan Hoddinott and his experience of a time slip, akin to the Moberly–Jourdain incident. I know what it feels like to be on the precipice — to be right there on the edge of dimensions, states of being, […]