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Rest assured that TV producer, writer and podcaster Richard Hatem’s Light in the Dark Tour is not meant to lead you off the beaten path like a will-o’-the-wisp, or even portend one’s own demise like a corpse candle. No, it is meant to shed light on the extensive literature written […]
Much like a poltergeist outbreak, sometimes the most activity happens on a shorter timeline. Recurrent spontaneous psychokinesis aside, that’s the idea guiding Lucky Paranormal investigators Gail and Mel Willis as they gear up for their third annual Lake Superior Paranormal Convention this October. “It really should be two days because […]
If it weren’t for John Robert Colombo, writer, educator and filmmaker Christopher Dodd would never have written Unseen Thing: The Mulmur Hills Poltergeist. It’s early August and Dodd shares the story of how he and his wife purchased a country home in Mulmur Township in 2014. Mulmur is north of […]
Can a building be reincarnated? Perhaps not, but Century Manor in Hamilton, Ontario, is in the midst of a resurrection — even if a few former patients haven’t quite been discharged yet. For the first time in more than 30 years, the city opened the doors to the last standing […]
A desire to develop more programming down by the waterfront has stirred up ghosts along Pickering’s waterfront. That left Pickering heritage programmer Ali Crone at a loss for words at first because the area seemed to be something of a dead zone when it comes to the uncanny. “That was […]
While the world fixates on Washington, D.C.’s slow drip of UAP disclosures, Canada is quietly stepping into the spotlight as host of the Scientific Coalition for UAP Studies’ 2026 annual conference in Toronto this July. It’s an opportunity that underscores the country’s long-underappreciated but substantive role in bringing scientific rigour […]
Why are ghost stories connected to certain types of houses? Why do real-life abodes often resemble something from the worlds of Edgar Allan Poe or M.R. James? For Canadian expat Caitlin Blackwell Baines, the question of why the West’s haunts tend to be domestic spaces was what led her to […]
After a decade of experiences with a family of Sasquatch in Northern Ontario, investigator Mike Paterson is looking forward to seeing his research published in book form. Invisible Giant: A True Story of Sasquatch Contact is his autobiographical contribution to the Sasquatch conversation in Canada. It details the parts of […]
A spate of Sasquatch sightings in Southwestern Ontario has caused a stir within the cryptozoology community, but not everyone is convinced by the accounts. Originally reported by both the Bigfoot Mapping Project and expanded on by Bigfoot Society podcaster Jeremiah Byron, a 7-foot-tall, dark-haired creature was spotted April 3-5 in […]
Ann McDougall spent a good portion of her career working as a host in museums like the Spadina House and Todmorden Mills in Toronto, and the one question that always came up was, “Is it haunted?” “To be honest, my answer was usually no,” she admitted during a Zoom conversation […]