Our dreams are a fascinating reflection of who we are. They change as we grow as people, often dissolving our anxieties, interactions and thoughts into one big thick stew of images that are often challenging to interpret. Carl Jung once wrote in his collection of essays, Civilization in Transition, “The […]
Tag: Ed and Lorraine Warren
Toronto novelist Andrew Pyper grapples with how to help victims of hauntings
After publishing The Demonologist in 2013, victims of malevolent spirits still reach out to Pyper looking for help, but he’s at a loss as to what to do Write a novel that shares the same name as an Ed and Lorraine Warren book, and you’ll have people asking you for […]
Canadian production reveals story behind Bathsheba, Conjuring House during T+E’s Creep Week
A new Canadian-produced documentary on the Richardson-Arnold house in Harrisville, R.I. is debunking the Hollywood-perpetuated untruths behind the farmstead made famous by The Conjuring film. Cream Productions producer and director Sunny Grewal took on the role as quarterback for Bathsheba: Search for Evil, which had the team travel to Rhode […]
True crime: The greatest influence on our modern ghost stories
There is a strong relationship between the paranormal and true crime. Tailing along like an awkward teenage third wheel is mental health because, in a lot of the more gruesome cases, there’s an element of deviation. Horror tropes borrow strongly from true crime. Look at a fair amount of our […]
The Warrens helped steer the cultural shift in paranormal investigation
A staticky ring tone filled the receiver as I dialed up the New England Society of Psychic Research while a student journalist at the University of Toronto. It was 2001 and I was looking to write my monthly Window column, “Paranormal Frontiers”, on the Amityville Horror. A calm and pleasant […]