Conservation is key when looking for any cryptid, whether it’s Ogopogo or Sasquatch. That’s been the key takeaway cryptozoology documentarian and podcaster Eli Watson has taken from his explorations, including his most recent investigation of Okanagan Lake with British Columbian investigator Jason Hewlett. “I’ve become much more of a conservationist […]
Cryptozoology
Investigators keep coming back to Manitoba for more Manipogo, lake monster lore
Canada’s heart beats in Manitoba. As does its sea serpent folklore. All three of the province’s largest lakes — Manitoba, Winnipeg and Winnipegosis — are revenants of the glacial waterbody, Lake Agassiz, which was formed 14,500 years ago. And they all have their mysterious denizens of the deep that capture […]
Kitchener author links Class B Sasquatch encounters to poltergeists in book
Class B encounters in the wilds of North America have always been attributed to Sasquatch. But what if there was something else responsible for the tree knocks, thrown rocks and strange structures encountered in the forest across the continent? Author Travis Watson, who writes under the pen name W.T. Watson, […]
Cabbagetown Tunnel Monster tale continues to intrigue forty years later
A city’s subterranean secrets are fertile soil to grow urban legends. Think of the alligators in the New York sewage system, arguably the most famous urban legend of them all. Toronto too has its share of urban legends, and many of them are set beneath the city’s streets. Some follow […]
Memorial University, Haunted Hike explore fairy folklore at Botanical Gardens
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 […]
Halifax Paranormal Symposium planners hope to make it an annual event
Halifax is going to witness its first paranormal conference in 17 years, and it’s something planners want to make a historical repeater. Elliott Van Dusen, president of Paranormal Phenomena Research & Investigation (PPRI), is collaborating with Dr. Darryll Walsh, executive director of the Centre for Parapsychological Studies in Canada, on […]
Giant squids are a tale as old as time in Newfoundland
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 […]
Kitchener writer Travis Watson compiles Canadian Sasquatch sightings in new book
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 […]
Brampton writer puts a spotlight on lesser-known cryptids of Asia, Oceania in book
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 […]
Photojournalist and filmmaker Jason Kenzie is no stranger to exotic wildlife
Photojournalist and filmmaker Jason Kenzie is no stranger to exotic wildlife, having worked with tigers, grizzly bears, alligators, monkeys, wolves and even the African serval. And he is no stranger to the sprawling forests and mountains of his native British Columbia, where he grew up hearing stories about the “hairy man […]