Netflix is rebooting the 1980s true crime and paranormal show Unsolved Mysteries. The show, which ran from 1987 to 2010, and was hosted by the likes of Dennis Farina and Robert Stack, will run a 12-part format will only focus on one storyline per episode, unlike its forerunner that ran […]
Tag: Ghosts
Review: A window — by a cosy fire — into Canada’s unique ghost stories
Great Canadian Ghost Stories by Barbara Smith Touchwood Editions, Canada, 2018 4/5 Each page turn of Barbara Smith’s Great Canadian Ghost Stories was a finger pull on a View-Master’s lever. Rife with viewports into Canada’s supernatural tales, Smith refrains from her traditional provincial campfire tales and cups her hand over her eyes to view for miles nationwide. […]
Etchings: Ain’t Nobody Here But Us Corpses
The monthly look at paranormal things happening around the world. Taken with a grain of salt, of course.
Montreal’s Grey Nuns rife with history and tragedy
There are some 232 dead nuns interred in a crypt beneath the Grey Nuns Motherhouse at the corner of Guy Street and René-Lévesque Boulevard West, in the Montreal borough of Ville-Marie. It’s a macabre thought, but even more bizarre is that it’s a residence for students at Concordia University’s Sir […]
Review: Home is where the haunted heart is
“The Haunting of Hill House” Creator: Mike Flanagan Cast: Carla Gugino, Michiel Huisman, Timothy Hutton and Elizabeth Reaser Network: Netflix 4.5/5 If there’s a lesson to be learned from the recent interpretation of Shirley Jackson’s highly influential novel, The Haunting of Hill House, it’s don’t have more than two kids. […]
Review: This collection of investigations could use a language revision
Ghost Hunter by Hans Holzer Tarcher Supernatural Series New York, 1963 2.5/5 To most paranormal aficionados, the name Hans Holzer conjures up the image of a German émigré who worked alongside the most receptive of clairvoyants to communicate with the other side. He first compiled his investigations with psychic Ethel […]
Etchings: The Eagle has not landed on this golf course
Leave it to Donald Trump’s supporters to pick up on his conspiracy theory ravings after his Scotland golf course, located in Turnberry, was paid a visit by four lights. Newsweek scraped up the barnacle of news and was quick to tie it together with the 45th President of the United […]
Tony Spera shares his thoughts on The Nun, demonology and TV ghost hunters
It’s a chilly February evening and demonologist Tony Spera has a long trip ahead of him. He’s on his way home after helping a friend out. One can only imagine what the road before him looks like as he’s taken the time to pull off to the shoulder and talk […]
Etchings: What happens in Vegas …
WHAT HAPPENS IN VEGAS … TAKES A LITTLE LONGER Call it a time warp, or perhaps a money pit, but one paranormal investigator in Nevada alleges to have found a space-time abnormality. Joshua Warren, a History Channel personality, said in a statement that he detected the time warp in a […]
REVIEW: Lack of linear storytelling severs this family’s ties
Hereditary Director: Ari Aster Cast: Toni Collette, Gabriel Byrne, Milly Shapiro, Alex Wolff and Ann Dowd Studio: Elevation Pictures 3/5 It seems as though Hollywood is sweet on witches these days. And I do mean Hansel and Gretel sweet as two youngsters are lured into the world of spiritualism unwittingly, […]