Explore the Lore
Canada’s westernmost province has a rich history of water monsters. There are those we know — the Pacific giant octopus, the white sturgeon, the orca whale — and then there are those that inhabit the folktales and urban legends of British Columbia: Ogopogo, Cadborosaurs, and Shuswaggi, among many others. One […]
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 […]
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 […]
Nx̌aʔx̌ʔitkʷ, known as Ogopogo to those outside of British Columbia, is an important part of the communities around Lake Okanagan, from Vernon to Kelowna to Penticton. Pronounced n-ha-ha-it-kew, the spirit of the lake is both a spiritual and physical reminder of how important water is to both the natural environment […]
When it comes to paranormal investigation, those with a critical eye perceive the field as being rather populist and not answering to the same scientific theories as academia. This can lend itself to inaccurate data, and oftentimes, as in the case of the Surgeon’s Nessie photo, or the Fox Sisters, […]
North America is rich in diversity and has plenty of different perspectives when it comes to the inexplicable. From First Nations to the introduction and emancipation of slaves, to the many waves of immigration, there are mythologies imported and shared across all ethnicities on the continent. Even though there is […]
Gino Meekis said he is surprised by how many people still believe in the Sasquatch. The 39-year-old Sioux Lookout resident is still trying to process what he recorded in the woods 45 kilometres outside the Northern Ontario community. On Oct. 3 he was grouse hunting with his wife Joanne and […]
An encounter with a Sasquatch at 6-years-old left an impression on actor Kiana Passmore. The now 25-year-old was with her family in Campbell River, B.C. when she heard unexplainable noises and saw evidence that something large had crashed through the dense underbrush. That memory provided the impetus for Passmore to […]
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, […]