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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 […]
When founder and lead investigator of Pandemonium Paranormal, Anton Buchberger, left Pembina Hall at the University of Alberta one 2013 evening, he never expected to feel an itchy sensation on his arm. He was taken aback when he discovered a scratch mark. “On an investigation, I am always careful not […]
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 […]
Jason Hewlett’s cryptozoological mission into the wilds of British Columbia’s interior yielded some fascinating discoveries, including a ghostly side quest. The former crime reporter turned paranormal investigator shared his team’s discoveries on the Bonaparte Plateau, as well as in Shuswap and Barriere in the latter half of 2020 on the […]
Murder mysteries and their villains always have those “goddammit” moments when they realize they’ve been made. “Murder She Wrote,” “Columbo” and “Ellery Queen” all culminated into a “the jig is up” denouement and the villain always attempts to flee. I know I equated J.J. Dupuis’ first Creature X Mystery book […]
Experiencer Wes Roberts had never listened to the MP3s of all his hypnosis sessions before he started writing his second book, An Experiencer’s Garden. The Toronto native, and teacher, opened up about being an abductee in his first book Intersections, and now he’s compiled his sessions that he had hypnotherapist […]
The Dark and the Wicked Director: Bryan Bertino Cast: Marin Ireland, Michael Abbott Jr. and Julie Oliver-Touchstone Shudder 4.5/5 A careful study of the worst hauntings on record, whether in the archives of the Warrens or self-published accounts by those afflicted, will reveal the insidious nature of the demonic. In […]
The “Haunted Hospitals” team is trying to push for more diverse stories for Season 4’s 10-episode run. Tobin Long, an associate producer for the first three seasons, admitted the need for Canadian stories of the uncanny in medical facilities, as well as those that come from diverse backgrounds during a […]
What haunted writer Ian Gibbs while pulling together ghostly tales for his new book Vancouver’s Most Haunted: Supernatural Encounters in BC’s Terminal City was his writer’s block. The Victoria native, and The Ghost Story Guys podcaster, found it challenging to research and write during the COVID-19 pandemic, especially when he […]
Like a scene out of the AMC series “The Terror”, adventurer and writer Adam Shoalts captures the mythology surrounding Traverspine, Labrador in his book The Whisper on the Night Wind: The True History of a Wilderness Legend with an air of eldritch horror. Canada’s north is rife with mysteries including […]