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ReMastered: Devil at the Crossroads Director: Brian Oakes Studio: Netflix 4/5 Mississippi’s own Faustian tale of Robert Johnson has been given its due documentary treatment. Remastered: Devil at the Crosswords shares what little there is about renowned blues musician Robert Johnson through academics, musicians (Keith Richards and Bonnie Raitt among […]
The Curse of La Llorona Director: Michael Chaves Cast: Linda Cardellini, Raymond Cruz and Patricia Velasquez Studio: Warner Brothers 4/5 Folklore has its roots in the real world. Something inexplicable occurred that the locals didn’t have an explanation for, and thus took it as an opportunity to teach through the […]
Lorraine Warren, the renowned paranormal investigator who worked in tandem with husband Ed, died on April 19. Known for her work on such controversial cases as the Amityville Horror, the Enfield Poltergeist and A Haunting in Connecticut, the 92-year-old passed away peacefully in her sleep at home. A polarizing figure […]
A staticky ring tone filled the receiver as I dialed up the New England Society of Psychic Research while a student journalist at the University of Toronto. It was 2001 and I was looking to write my monthly Window column, “Paranormal Frontiers”, on the Amityville Horror. A calm and pleasant […]
It could have been inspired by existential angst, but as I sat in my Toronto apartment a year ago, both children snug in their beds and the wife doing the Netflix and chill, I pondered what portion of writing was absent from my career. Clearly the supernatural and how it […]
There’s a stigma that faces first responders when sharing their own tales of the inexplicable. It’s an observation co-founder of Entityseeker Paranormal Research, Morgan Knudsen has made while appearing on docuseries like “Paranormal 911” and “Haunted Hospitals”. “The medical field, in general, isn’t usually open to talking about this at […]
Deep in the south of New Brunswick, 40 minutes from the Canada-U.S. border, you can veer off the Bay of Fundy into Passamaquoddy Bay. From there you can swim into the Magaguadavic River, swim past Silver Island, past the Magaguadavic Basin, under a few single-lane truss bridges, and into the […]
Though Salt Spring Island writer-artist Briony Penn has never had a run in with the Sasquatch, she suspects one experience she had northwest of Bella Coola, B.C. could be attributed to the legend that covers British Columbia like the Cordilleran forest. While leading a small group around the Kowesas River, […]
The greatest challenge facing “Haunted Hospitals” producer Tobin Long is finding the stories Canadians have to share. “I find the Canadian stories really interesting. I find Canadians a little more reserved, cautious. They’ve already gone through the filters of being skeptics,” the Toronto-based documentarian said. “They haven’t fully bought into […]
The best part of the horror genre is its ability to seize the social anxieties of the day and to mortar and pestle them into a grotesque pill that does not go down easily. With an internal struggle against “illegals” crossing the Mexico-U.S. border and a president who seems mulish […]