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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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 […]
Edmonton paranormal researcher Morgan Knudsen launches second book
There’s a certain calling — an instinct — that most in the paranormal community experience. From J.B. Rhine to Maurice Gross to Eileen Garrett, they’ve all experienced a calling, according to Edmonton-based paranormal researcher Morgan Knudsen. And she hopes to capture their experiences in her second book The Gift of Instinct: Paranormal […]
Former Mountie pens book on inexplicable events witnessed by police
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 […]
North York writer Wes Roberts opens up about being an abductee
North York writer and professor Wes Roberts has kept a secret from his family for more than six decades. In fairness, it wasn’t until this century — nay this decade — that he fully confirmed he had been the victim of multiple alien abductions. “It is abduction for a while, […]
Canadian writer Barbara Smith pens ghost book with a national twist
Scriber of ghost stories, Barbara Smith, can spend hours talking about the spectral tales Canada has to offer the world. It’s an early January morning for the Sidney, B.C. native – who has also called Toronto and Edmonton home – and she shares warmly the passion she’s been pursuing since […]