There is something cathartic about revisiting the city where you spent your formative years and discovering that there was something different about how you saw the world around you. For writer, podcaster, and ghost-walk flâneur Ian Gibbs, he developed a keen sense of something extra while growing up in Stampede […]
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St. John’s folklorist Dale Jarvis hits haunted terra firma with ninth book
Dale Jarvis is coming ashore with his ghost stories in his most recent book, Haunted Houses of Newfoundland and Labrador. It’s the ninth book of folklore and tales of the inexplicable on the Rock and the Big Land for Jarvis, and he’s tapped into the foundation of Canada’s youngest province. […]
Vancouver podcaster Mike Browne channels the uncanny in second book
As we get older, we often lose some of that wonder we had when we were children. With the release of Mike Browne’s second book, Strange, Spooky and Supernatural, he revisits the sense of wonder from his youth, this time examining the stories that once captivated him through older eyes. […]
Review: Scream Queen sheds light on Yvette Fielding’s life before ‘Most Haunted’
The nights got a little greener once Yvette Fielding and her husband Karl Beattie appeared on the British telly. That was 2002 and the first location for “Most Haunted” was Dorchester’s Athelhampton Hall. By all means Fielding and Beattie were a little green when it came to paranormal television, but […]
Strathroy one of many Canadian small towns featured in ‘My Haunted Hometown’
The town of Strathroy is stuck in a paranormal time loop. The southern Ontario community, located 35 kilometres west of London, and its resident spirits are featured in the new T+E series “My Haunted Hometown”. The show dives deep into Strathroy’s eerie folklore, along Frank Street and into its checkered […]
‘History’s Most Haunted’ nets Leo Award for best hosts
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 […]
Review: FBI chases down Longlegs with some retrocognitive help
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 […]
The well springs eternal for Season 5 ‘Haunted Hospitals’ stories
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 […]
Review: Immaculate crucifies role of organized religion in reproductive rights
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 […]
Review: River Mumma removes colonialist blinders, shares Jamaican folklore
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 […]