Explore the Lore
THUNDER BAY — The oubliette may be known as a place of forgetting, but for the Beyond the Haunting team, the history and spirits of Leap Castle are something they’ll never forget. Speaking recently from Thunder Bay’s Historic Fort William, British Columbian investigators Corine Carey, Kelly Ireland and Leanne Sallenback […]
Canadian psychedelic pop group the Poppy Family once sang about evil growing in the dark, where the sun never shines. Now Jason Hewlett is putting a spotlight on one of Canada’s darkest tales through both a documentary and a book. The 1971 hit “Where Evil Grows” aside, the Kamloops resident […]
Visitors to the Kilby Historic Site might get more than the usual wares a pioneer general store would offer this October. For the seventh year, Cornerstone Supernatural has teamed up with Kilby to co-host a paranormal investigation fundraiser. The group’s founders, Paul Busch and his wife of 30 years, Janine […]
108 Mile is known as a paranormal hotbed — but there’s more going on than the usual Gold Rush spirits, cryptids and UFOs said to haunt the Heritage Site. How about a paranormal convention, for starters? Halfway between Quesnel and Kamloops, B.C., the 108 Mile Heritage Site spans eight acres […]
When one door closes, another one opens — and that’s not just poltergeist activity. For Kamloops native and investigator Jason Hewlett, an open door has led to a new podcast exploring the paranormal origin stories of fellow explorers of the uncanny and the theories behind them. Paranormal Theories will delve […]
If Christmas can appear before Halloween is dead and buried, then Halloween can certainly bleed into Christmas territory. Gina Armstrong of Maple Ridge and Victoria Vancek of Pitt Meadows, the mavens behind Haunted History BC and ghost walk tour guides, are eager to keep the spirit of fall alive on […]
Paranormal organizations do help the community, especially when there’s history involved. When the Maple Ridge Museum and Archives staff connected with Cornerstone Supernatural, they went in with the intention that they didn’t want the Haney House to be cast in night-vision hue. Situated at the foot of 224 Street, overlooking […]
It’s time to normalize conversations about the paranormal, especially when it comes to Bigfoot. “Let’s make the paranormal normal,” said screenwriter and producer Jill Remensnyder during an August Zoom conversation. “How many people have we talked to who say, ‘After my sighting, I thought I was going crazy.’” Remensnyder is […]
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 […]
Not everyone welcomes occult bookstores with open arms in Canada. There is still a surprising amount of stigma associated with those who sell wares relating to the metaphysical. “Satanic panic was in the ‘80s and it’s still a mindset that a lot of people have,” Lex Veld-Martul says, seated in […]