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When you’re a paranormal investigator, there isn’t much in the physical world that shocks you — unless you win a provincial media award. The Beyond the Haunting team, comprised of Corine Carey, Kelly Ireland and Leanne Sallenback won Best Hosts in an Information, Lifestyle or Reality Series for their work […]
Longlegs Director: Oz Perkins Cast: Maika Monroe, Nicolas Cage, Blair Underwood and Alicia Witt Neon 4.5/5 Eventually, when people get too comfortable with the Trojan Horse, the evil becomes overt. No more masquerading, no more effigies or shells possessed by unknown assailants, it’s just out in the open, and people […]
Guelph paranormal investigator Krista Maryk isn’t surprised by the number of ghostly encounters that have their legs in healthcare facilities. “It shouldn’t surprise me that there are so many stories, but at the same time hearing all the crazy, concrete stories of people seeing this stuff is mind-blowing,” the 29-year-old […]
Immaculate Director: Michael Mohan Cast: Sydney Sweeney, Álvaro Morte and Benedetta Porcaroli Neon 4/5 Place organized religion under the microscope and people clutch their pearls. It’s fascinating to observe, especially for someone who is an agnostic, but, as the religious right tries to make inroads into political office, thus altering […]
The world is entering a time when countries once part of a long-in-the-tooth empire want to be rid of them. And rightly so. Barbados shed its Commonwealth skin in favour of ruling as they see fit. Belize is another nation looking to rid the Crown as head of state, whether […]
A good ghost story never dies. And neither does the format to share that ghost story. Those were the thoughts shared by “Maritime Haunting” producer Jeff DeEll during a January Zoom conversation with storyteller Steve Vernon and investigator Adam Myles. “Maritime Haunting” was successfully renewed for a second season by […]
One of the questions that will probably go unanswered for as long as humans exist, which may or may not be for very much longer, is what happens after we die. All the theories that people of faith and atheists seem to postulate are nothing more than ephemeral. And as […]
For those of us raised before the Internet’s ubiquity, books of lists, of records, of miscellany, encyclopedias and field guides were the repositories of choice for random facts, strange tidbits and useless information. School libraries and book fairs were full of these titles, which served as gateways to a deeper […]
There’s a delicate line between academia and entertainment when it comes to the paranormal. It’s often a challenge to both keep the reader enthralled with the source material and have them understand it without being diagnosed with temporary narcolepsy. A History of Ghosts: The True Story of Séances, Mediums, Ghosts, […]
True crime is the special sauce in a serving of CTV Sci-Fi’s “Paranormal Revenge”. And given that the subject matter is about ghosts, the dish is best served in cold spots. Sphere Media producer Robin Bicknell, who has previously worked on “Haunted Hospitals” and “Paranormal 911”, admitted that the show […]