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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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
Nova Scotian journalist Craig Ferguson is digging up old ghosts to shed light on some of the province’s most intriguing scandals buried beneath cemetery headstones. But he’s not chasing the usual ghosts. It’s true crime and history that haunt the cases he tackles in Bell Fibe TV1’s Graveyard Detective. “It’s […]
If reconciliation is a tapestry, then ghost stories are among its most unexpected threads. Through Indigenous eyes, tales of spirits and ancestors aren’t simply hauntings — they’re continuations of presence, memory and accountability. For some, they’re how history refuses to stay buried. Those stories come to light in T+E’s Ghost […]
The Conjuring: Last RitesDirector: Michael ChavesCast: Vera Farmiga, Patrick Wilson, Mia Tomlinson and Ben Hardy.Warner Brothers3.5/5 Something has to be said for a good viral campaign. In the months leading up to the premiere of The Conjuring: Last Rites, paranormal investigator Dan Rivera died while on tour with the Annabelle […]
If there’s one thing I’ve often beefed about in North American paranormal books, it’s the lack of representation from around the world. Yes, I get it. Geographically, we all want to know about Canada or the United States. But what about what scares us from outside North America? We live […]
WeaponsDirector: Zach CreggerCast: Julia Garner, Josh Brolin and Amy Madigan.Warner Brothers5/5 The horror genre has firmly settled into the witchcraft trend — and Baba Yaga would approve. With hits like Hereditary and The Witch cementing their place in the genre’s pantheon, it’s no surprise that Weapons can also stake a […]
Out of all the types of books Nova Scotian writer Vernon Oickle has penned, the paranormal ones fascinate him the most. “It allows you to meet so many people who have these experiences and you get the chance to talk to them,” he said during an August Zoom conversation. “It’s […]