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Controversial medium, Derek Acorah, dies at 69 British TV personality and ‘Most Haunted’ medium Derek Acorah died Jan. 3 after a short battle with pneumonia and sepsis. He was 69. Not without controversy, Acorah allegedly made up the spirits he would channel while on ‘Most Haunted’. The show’s parapsychologist Ciaran […]
Hamiltonians and visitors to the Golden Horseshoe may get their very own Moberly-Jourdain experience thanks to a Haunted Dundurn Castle tour in February. Unlike the infamous French event, visitors will be plunged into a Victorian funeral at the 19th-century manor thanks to Stephanie Dumbreck, owner and founder of Haunted Hamilton. […]
Ghosts of Niagara-on-the-Lake (Second Edition) by Maria da Silva and Andrew Hind Dundurn Press, Canada, 2018 4.5/5 The only way some people can swallow the pill called history is by wrapping it up in the proverbial bacon, a la filet mignon, and serving it on a platter. My own mother-in-law […]
The University of Manitoba Archives has received an out-of-this-world donation for their Psychical Research and Spiritualism collection. Respected Canadian ufologist, Chris Rutkowski, author of the Canadian UFO Survey, was asked by head archivist Shelley Sweeney what he planned on doing with his work after he retired. “I have a little […]
Niagara-on-the-Lake is a chunk of Ontario land that has possibly seen the most bloodshed in the province. It’s no wonder it has plenty of ghostly tales from when the Americans pushed British troops back and lit a match to the town, sending all its inhabitants into the cold of a […]
John Robert Colombo fears that we may lose First Nations’ tales of the supernatural. Canada’s “Master Gatherer” of quotes, aphorisms and folklore has been writing about myths and Canadian ghost stories for six decades, and the group of storytellers that seem to be glossed over is that of the First […]
Gino Meekis said he is surprised by how many people still believe in the Sasquatch. The 39-year-old Sioux Lookout resident is still trying to process what he recorded in the woods 45 kilometres outside the Northern Ontario community. On Oct. 3 he was grouse hunting with his wife Joanne and […]
A few years ago, I was having a conversation with an old university friend about the paranormal, and how as a neuroscientist he had induced ghostly sounds and associated symptoms of a haunting in a laboratory. I was hoping that he would share his thoughts in a column for the […]
A paranormal investigating duo from British Columbia is looking to represent Canada on the North American stage of TV. Jon and Karina Kozuska have combined their talents with television show Thunder Boyz producer Dean Trumbley to bring theatre-going audiences in Vernon a different kind of paranormal experience: a full-length feature […]
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 […]