A chance listener to Danielle Matar’s Geist podcast led Margo MacDonald to A Curious Presence: An Exploration of Ghosts and the People Who Haunt Them. She had been invited onto the show because she helped create and host Haunted Walks’ Alone in the Dark at the Elgin and Winter Garden […]
Reviews
Snooki: The Paranormal Rookie explores Ontario’s haunted locales
Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi has stepped off the sunny boardwalk of the Jersey Shore and into the darkest corners of Ontario’s haunted locations. Crave’s Snooki: The Paranormal Rookie premieres October 2, with two episodes released every Friday leading into Halloween for a total of eight episodes. Although Polizzi has participated in […]
T+E’s Paranormal Evidence takes witnesses back to Olde Angel Inn
Exposure therapy is a practice psychologists use to help people confront their fears. It’s also the approach producers of Paranormal Evidence: You Can’t Deny It took when they shared the testimonies of witnesses on the new series. Premiering during T+E Creep Week, Paranormal Evidence explores six notoriously haunted locations across […]
Review: Simon Marsden’s Ghosthunter digs up the revenants of haunted France
Have you ever been lost in the body of a book and wanted to venture yonder, to travel to the places you pore over? Ghosthunter: A Journey Through Haunted France by Simon Marsden, with complementary prose fit for a diary in an Arthur Machen or Edgar Allan Poe novella, has […]
Review: Invisible Women explores myths behind America’s female ghosts
I’ve been on a bit of a kick lately, exploring different cultures’ interpretations of the Woman in White trope. I even talked it up while visiting Thunder Bay and Halifax as a guest speaker at two conventions. So it seemed timely that I should pick up A Haunted History of […]
Essex County writer lends an ear to Niagara’s Screaming Tunnel stories
Writer and paranormal aficionado K.G. Miceli wants to hear Ontarians’ stories about the Screaming Tunnel. The Essex County resident shared her fascination with Niagara’s spooky landmark, a 38-metre-long, 4.8-metre-tall tunnel built of rough-cut limestone. Originally constructed as a drainage passage for nearby farms, it sits near the end of Warner […]
SNIPE balances tradition with investigation on Ghost Hunters of the Grand River
Paranormal investigator Artie Martin faced an internal conflict during the filming of Ghost Hunters of the Grand River Season 4. It was late December, the chill of winter settling in, and Martin was thinking about how viewers might react to the Six Nations Investigating Paranormal Encounters (SNIPE) team’s investigation of […]
Ontario writer gathers encounters from Lake Superior’s North Shore
The word Schreiber in German means writer and for Carson Trapp, his hometown has become his title. The 23-year-old, who works as a general labourer, caught the writing bug in 2022 while sweeping a parking lot for his boss at the time. And what manifested was his book, Paranormal Encounters […]
Review: Atlas of Paranormal Places marks all the haunts you need to explore
There comes a time when your knowledge of the paranormal in a given region starts to overflow its glass and you look elsewhere for something new to drink in. I find myself in this state of perpetual thirst. That’s not to say I know everything about Canada. Far from it. […]
Dark Poutine’s Michael Browne brings his true crime passion to Corus’ Crime Time
As if two episodes a week of Dark Poutine weren’t enough for Michael Browne, he’s still hungry for more true crime. Corus has tapped the Langley native to host a slate of its true crime podcasts in a new two-hour radio series called Crime Time. “We’re looking at branching out […]
