Explore the Lore
The Shag Harbour UFO Expo is opening up a room for experiencers to open up with each other to share their stories. Experiencers are those who have reported contact with extraterrestrial beings, which on the Hynek scale would be considered close encounters of the third kind. Event organizer Danny Reid […]
Writer and Northern Lakes College professor Matthew Hayes never expected the research he did for his Ph.D. to become so relevant. He believed his subject matter of Canadian UFO events from the 1950s to the early 1990s would be a fun deep dive into Canada’s history of the unknown. But […]
It’s hard for Stan Michalak to discuss what happened to his father Stefan during Victoria Day weekend, 1967. The elder Michalak, an industrial mechanic and amateur geologist was looking for silver not far from Falcon Lake on May 20 when he saw two cigar-shaped crafts in the sky. One of […]
The Royal Canadian Mint prides itself on storytelling, even if it’s of the unexplained variety. It’s a message Christa Bruce, the product manager for the Mint, imparts during an October phone call when discussing the release of the Shag Harbour Incident coin just in time for its 52nd anniversary. “At […]
Over 50 years ago a Barrington Passage RCMP officer asked Laurie Wickens what he had been drinking when he called in a plane crash in Shag Harbour. It was Oct. 4, 1967, and the then 17-year-old Nova Scotian was out with four of his friends. “I was the first one […]