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The road to the second annual Paranormal Symposium has been paved with ghost stories and ticket giveaways for a lucky few. This was the strategy used by Paranormal Phenomena Research & Investigation President Elliott Van Dusen to generate excitement for the event. “At each public event we’ve travelled to across […]
Coordinating and organizing a paranormal convention can be pretty scary. And it’s not just the subject matter that’s spine-tingling. For first-time organizers, Gail and Mel Willis of Thunder Bay, Ontario the Lake Superior Paracon is all part of giving Canadians a taste of what happens regularly in the United States. […]
Courses in parapsychology have become as spectral as the phenomenon they teach. But, I somehow managed to earn myself a certificate in an introductory class to parapsychology. It’s nice to see experienced organizations teaching the history of parapsychology since more traditional institutions are dropping it from their programs. My course […]
One of the questions that will probably go unanswered for as long as humans exist, which may or may not be for very much longer, is what happens after we die. All the theories that people of faith and atheists seem to postulate are nothing more than ephemeral. And as […]
There’s a delicate line between academia and entertainment when it comes to the paranormal. It’s often a challenge to both keep the reader enthralled with the source material and have them understand it without being diagnosed with temporary narcolepsy. A History of Ghosts: The True Story of Séances, Mediums, Ghosts, […]
Toronto’s Spadina Museum is embracing its after-hours ambience for the Halloween season. After Dark Tours: The Dearly Departed is a nighttime experience that will explore the historic connections between death and Victorian spiritualism. It’s a topic that administrator Alexandra Kim said has the team excited, especially given the vibe the […]
Halifax is going to witness its first paranormal conference in 17 years, and it’s something planners want to make a historical repeater. Elliott Van Dusen, president of Paranormal Phenomena Research & Investigation (PPRI), is collaborating with Dr. Darryll Walsh, executive director of the Centre for Parapsychological Studies in Canada, on […]
Former home of Ontario’s second Lieutenant Governor and Father of Confederation, William Pearce Howland, has endured over 160 years There’s something special about Lambton House that attracted mentalist Jaymes White’s attention: it endures. The house avoided destruction during the 1878 Humber River flood. It survived a fire that devastated the […]
There’s a certain calling — an instinct — that most in the paranormal community experience. From J.B. Rhine to Maurice Gross to Eileen Garrett, they’ve all experienced a calling, according to Edmonton-based paranormal researcher Morgan Knudsen. And she hopes to capture their experiences in her second book The Gift of Instinct: Paranormal […]
A retired Winnipeg psychiatrist says he wants to destigmatize paranormal experiences. Dr. Manuel Matas, who attended McGill and the University of Manitoba for his profession, had his first brush with the supernatural when he was 19, through a precognitive dream, and he had an out-of-body experience while he was a […]