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Ghosthunters Lee and Linzi Steer are catching hell from social media after continuing their paranormal investigations during the stay-at-home order in the United Kingdom. The South Yorkshire-based duo have been live-streaming their investigations of a haunted mansion and nearby wooded area for their Facebook page, Ghosts of Britain. Other paranormal […]
Controversial medium, Derek Acorah, dies at 69 British TV personality and ‘Most Haunted’ medium Derek Acorah died Jan. 3 after a short battle with pneumonia and sepsis. He was 69. Not without controversy, Acorah allegedly made up the spirits he would channel while on ‘Most Haunted’. The show’s parapsychologist Ciaran […]
Ghosts of Niagara-on-the-Lake (Second Edition) by Maria da Silva and Andrew Hind Dundurn Press, Canada, 2018 4.5/5 The only way some people can swallow the pill called history is by wrapping it up in the proverbial bacon, a la filet mignon, and serving it on a platter. My own mother-in-law […]
A few years ago, I was having a conversation with an old university friend about the paranormal, and how as a neuroscientist he had induced ghostly sounds and associated symptoms of a haunting in a laboratory. I was hoping that he would share his thoughts in a column for the […]
A scientific survey of the waters of Loch Ness begs the question: Was Nessie a victim of global warming, or a figment of our imaginations? Geneticist Neil Gemmell of Otago University led the New Zealand team of scientists along the shores of the Scottish lake and acquired samples to test. […]
Things that go bump in the night have become Toronto-based associate producer Tobin Long’s bailiwick. Bristow Global Media, the producers behind “Haunted Hospitals” and “Paranormal 911”, is putting together its third paranormal series that focuses on how our senses are more in tune when the sun goes down. “Paranormal Night […]
When you walk along Beverley Street in Toronto, south from U of T’s St. George campus, an unassuming mansion, once inhabited by George Brown, will greet them at the Baldwin Street intersection. Its three-storey, red brick façade, Italianate details complete with Victorian mansard roof and dormer windows announces itself in […]
JaneAnn Fraser Tillson couldn’t tell you how many times her father, Al Fraser, would walk up to the Centennial Building in Whitby, Ont. to make sure there wasn’t anything unlawful going on. But it was a regular occurrence. Back then, the lights of the classical revival courthouse, constructed from 1852 […]
The people of Twentynine Palms, Calif., just north of Joshua Tree National Park, caught one heckuva light show this year. A video surfaced on Youtube from Californian Cody Kennedy. Kennedy, who runs an animal-themed Youtube channel, captured a long bar of lights in the sky as the tried to capture […]
The Queen Anne style Mather-Walls house, in the Keewatin neighbourhood of Kenora, may have a wonderful view of Portage Bay, but it’s also a house that can change the views of people who work there. That is when it comes to the supernatural. Built by Lake of the Woods Milling […]