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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 […]
When Chris Rutkowski, a longtime fixture of Canada’s ufology community, revisited his files for his new book, he found that Canada is far from alien to reports of the unknown in the skies above the Great White North. The Manitoban sits on a patio loveseat in a midtown Toronto backyard, […]
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 […]
The word Schreiber in German means writer and for Carson Trapp, his hometown has become his title. The 23-year-old, who works as a general labourer, caught the writing bug in 2022 while sweeping a parking lot for his boss at the time. And what manifested was his book, Paranormal Encounters […]
Where was this book when I was writing? Of course, Spooky Science: Dissecting the Mysteries of Ghosts, Cryptids, Aliens and Other Oddities was likely already in production, with authors Meagan Ankney and Paige Miller grinding through hard edits, copy edits, proofs and final pass-throughs. I should know — I’ve been […]
The Native Canadian Centre of Toronto became a safe space for discussions about Sasquatch and other cryptids during a three-day conference that also served as the backdrop for a new documentary on healing through Bigfoot. Indigenous artist Judy Sackaney (Wachi Medowin) returned to 16 Spadina Road from May 30 to […]
If there’s a silver lining to UFO experiences in Canada, it’s that the Canadian government is recognizing these events as culturally significant — and worth a mint. The Royal Canadian Mint, that is, as it released the seventh coin in its Canada’s Unexplained Phenomena series in September. For this moment […]
Emily McCaughey had an out-of-this-world experience attending the first annual Contact and Disclosure Symposium. The Toronto Metropolitan University student admitted that she learned so much from volunteering at the event on April 20, as she held the microphone for guests as they asked speakers questions at the Offworld Bar. “Even […]
Four members of the Ontario UFO community came together to uncover why Canada, and Toronto specifically, doesn’t have a UAP-related conference. Their summation was “WTF?” Hypnotherapist and New York State ex-pat, Lesley Mitchell-Clarke, experiencer and Contact TV co-host Wes Roberts, director of Sasquatch Ontario, Mike Paterson and film producer Greg […]
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 […]