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Like an underground river, there is a large current of paranormal interest that runs just beneath the surface of Canada. Ghost stories are shared around campfires as a rite of passage. People travel to historic locations to uncover the past, and maybe to cross paths with a spirit or two. […]
Newfoundland is swimming in mariner folklore, but no other story about a run-in with Architeuthis dux captivates audiences more than the Squires-Picot sighting on Oct. 26, 1873. Two fishermen and a boy were fishing in the tickle near Bell Island, just a few miles north of St. John’s, when they […]
Trepidation was stalking Travis Watson like a wild animal when he was writing Sasquatch Canada: Beyond British Columbia. Much like the eight-foot-tall suspected primate of Canadian folklore, his consternation loomed over him, giving him complicated feelings, as the subject of Bigfoot is one that heightens division. “There’s just an awful […]
With so much history under one roof, it’s hard not to believe there aren’t a few attachments to the artifacts inside. Every autumn, the Royal Ontario Museum takes its members on a tour of the building, sharing spooky tales, but for ROMKids Manager and Camp Director Kiron Mukherjee, the experiences […]
Carol Scott’s idea for her book The Cryptids of Asia and Oceania had been simmering on the creative burner since high school. The Brampton-based writer started the first draft of her book in 2015. Its publication came to fruition in September 2022, allowing her passion for digging deeper into cryptozoological […]
Our dreams are a fascinating reflection of who we are. They change as we grow as people, often dissolving our anxieties, interactions and thoughts into one big thick stew of images that are often challenging to interpret. Carl Jung once wrote in his collection of essays, Civilization in Transition, “The […]
After publishing The Demonologist in 2013, victims of malevolent spirits still reach out to Pyper looking for help, but he’s at a loss as to what to do Write a novel that shares the same name as an Ed and Lorraine Warren book, and you’ll have people asking you for […]
There is an afterlife for Brennan Storr’s homage to his hometown Revelstoke, British Columbia. The Victoria resident’s book A Strange Little Place, which was originally published in August 2016 by Llewellyn Worldwide, went out of print in April 2022. Storr, one of the founding members of The Ghost Story Guys […]
There are more tombstones than people living in the Ottawa River Valley’s Pontiac County. It’s a detail that Aventure Outaouais owner and lead tour guide Brandon Bolduc divulges from his headquarters in Bristol, Que., which has a population of 1,199 people according to Statistics Canada. “It’s a very rural region […]
“Haunted Gold Rush” is not your average girls’ road trip. Paranormal investigators Corine Carey, Kelly Ireland, and Leanne Sallenback of Beyond the Haunting followed the path of the prospectors during British Columbia’s gold rush from Yale to Barkerville for their two-part documentary. With a mix of historical details, with an […]