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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 […]
A small town 10 km southeast of the New Brunswick-Nova Scotia border celebrates its haunted history much like Salem, Massachusetts. Amherst, Nova Scotia’s story, however, does not involve a witch hunt. It involves a poltergeist and the well-being of an 18-year-old woman. In the fall of 1878, 18-year-old Esther Cox, […]
To hear Canadian storyteller Steve Vernon share a story is to be transported back to when he heard it for the first time while hitchhiking across Canada. He rolls into a tale about a married Irishman in P.E.I. who was spending the weekend in Charlottetown with a young woman named […]
Hurricane Lee may have delayed the McAdam Railway Station fundraiser by 13 days, but Brad Monks is undeterred because of his love for the landmark. Even if it’s two consecutive years that a hurricane has caused problems for those in McAdam, New Brunswick, which is 150 km northwest of Saint […]
As a homage to his mom, Meena Sones, Jaymes White is dedicating his eighth séance to her memory. Sones died at home on September 9 after a battle with endometrial cancer. For White, his mom always provided that stability, and it’s her “warrior personality” that is inspiring him to continue […]
Knowing that there is intelligent life beyond our planet should be the impetus to better ourselves. That’s the message Frank B. Baird Jr. Professor of Science at Harvard, Avi Loeb, wants you to take away from his experience with interstellar object, ‘Oumuamua. His second book, Interstellar: The Search for Extraterrestrial […]
Those venturing out to the Memorial University Botanical Garden this September are advised to have bread in their pockets to keep the fairies away. The university’s garden staff has combined resources with folklorist Dale Jarvis of the St. John’s Haunted Hike to present The Fairy Path, an exploration of fairy […]
My university undergrad was mostly filled with anthropology and archaeology classes. I had a deep interest in how we as a species had developed from chipping chert in the Olduvai Gorge to standing with our eyes facing down into our smartphones. That interest in the development of people and culture […]
There’s always a layer of history left behind with hauntings. It’s a salient line proffered by Corine Carey in episode two of “History’s Most Haunted,” where the Beyond the Haunting team investigates some of Montreal’s darker moments in the 20th century. Carey, Kelly Ireland and Leanne Sallenback are returning to […]
Unwelcome Director: Jon Wright Cast: Hannah John-Kamen, Douglas Booth and Colm Meaney Warner Bros. UK & Ireland / Ingenious Media 4/5 I’m not much of a meme person. Don’t get me wrong, I find some funny. Some go over my head as maybe my Gen-X self is just getting a […]