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That Jimothy has certainly scurried his way into the hearts of internet denizens. The collective social media cooing and escapist ruminations over a raccoon from Seattle’s Ballard neighbourhood have become a panacea for people trying to flee the dumpster fire that is the 24-hour news cycle. His Gollum-esque skitter across […]
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, […]
Can a building be reincarnated? Perhaps not, but Century Manor in Hamilton, Ontario, is in the midst of a resurrection — even if a few former patients haven’t quite been discharged yet. For the first time in more than 30 years, the city opened the doors to the last standing […]
A desire to develop more programming down by the waterfront has stirred up ghosts along Pickering’s waterfront. That left Pickering heritage programmer Ali Crone at a loss for words at first because the area seemed to be something of a dead zone when it comes to the uncanny. “That was […]
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 […]
Ufologist Grant Cameron is not the same investigator he was when he began studying the phenomenon in 1975. Back then, he was leading tours in southern Manitoba to see the mysterious object known as Charlie Red Star. He said he did not spend much time thinking about the invisible lines […]
My aunt texted me two weeks ago to say she got my book. She said she’d read it and pass it along to my cousin, adding that it was something to be proud of. I was chuffed. Almost eight months ago, Eerie Whispers: Exploring Canada’s Reluctant Relationship with Its Ghostly […]
Why are ghost stories connected to certain types of houses? Why do real-life abodes often resemble something from the worlds of Edgar Allan Poe or M.R. James? For Canadian expat Caitlin Blackwell Baines, the question of why the West’s haunts tend to be domestic spaces was what led her to […]
Three years ago, Toronto was the first international stop on the Oddities and Curiosities Expo schedule. For years, people had been asking Michelle and her husband, Tony Cozzaglio, to bring the expo to Toronto, so they prepared for just about anything. It is always a busy tour for the native […]