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Even though Amherst, Nova Scotia, sits close to the New Brunswick border, it also borders on something far more supernatural: the Esther Cox mystery. The community has learned to embrace that history of poltergeist lore, almost to the point that Esther Fest has become Canada’s answer to Salem’s witchcraft and […]
The organizers of the 2026 Halifax Paranormal Symposium have claimed the Citadel as their own — for one night at least. Paranormal Phenomena Research and Investigation (PPRI) is taking over Nova Scotia’s capital for a weekend that includes a ghost hunt at the legendary fort in downtown Halifax. PPRI president […]
When it came to sharing the story of Shag Harbour’s October 4, 1967, UFO incident, Laurie Wickens believed in going big or going home. Chris Styles paused while on the phone and recalled when he first started travelling the road to the small Nova Scotian fishing community on the southern […]
Three Nova Scotia mediums are opening their third eye to teamwork and sharing their findings through a feminine lens. Amy Murphy, Chelsey Lacelle and Kim Moser have worked together on Eastlink shows like Haunted Heart and Soul. The next step was to combine their talents into the investigative trio Third […]
The response to the 2025 Halifax Paranormal Symposium has been nothing short of supernatural. One of the convention’s biggest triumphs was establishing itself as a national event within the paranormal, UFO and parapsychological communities. A month after the November 1 gathering, Paranormal Phenomena Research and Investigation president Elliott Van Dusen […]
Stone tape theory. Maritime lore. Lighthouses. Bad decisions. And the Devil’s Staircase. Put them together and you get the dreary setting for a 100-minute documentary called Ghost Island. For Nova Scotians along the southern shore, Shambro Island offers all of the above. It’s the staircase that draws many to the […]
As if two episodes a week of Dark Poutine weren’t enough for Michael Browne, he’s still hungry for more true crime. Corus has tapped the Langley native to host a slate of its true crime podcasts in a new two-hour radio series called Crime Time. “We’re looking at branching out […]
Nova Scotian journalist Craig Ferguson is digging up old ghosts to shed light on some of the province’s most intriguing scandals buried beneath cemetery headstones. But he’s not chasing the usual ghosts. It’s true crime and history that haunt the cases he tackles in Bell Fibe TV1’s Graveyard Detective. “It’s […]
HALIFAX — There was an investigation brewing in downtown Halifax on the eve of All Souls Day. Attendees of the Halifax Paranormal Symposium materialized outside the front entrance of Alexander Keith’s Brewery for a two-and-a-half-hour, hands-on look into the work of the Haunted Heart and Soul team. Chelsey Lacelle, Lomar […]
Mi’kmaq medium Shawn Leonard’s dream of seven polar bears protecting him from seven shadow figures helped inspire the idea for his second book. After the success of his 2020 title, Spirit Talker: Indigenous Stories and Teachings from a Mi’kmaq Psychic Medium, publisher Hay House asked him to write another. “They […]