Apr 1, 2016 | Tales of the Supernatural
The Amityville Horror convinced many that the supernatural was real. The dwelling where it all took place had a frightening history before it became the world’s most famous haunted house. On November 13, 1974, 23-year-old Ronald DeFeo Jr. stumbled...
Feb 9, 2016 | Murder at the Movies, Tales of the Supernatural
Laugh if you will, but horror movies are an art form. It’s extremely difficult to get them right. At a conservative estimate, roughly 90 percent of the horror movies I’ve seen have been complete crap. I was thrilled that The Possession was not one of them...
Jul 25, 2015 | Mysterious Places, Tales of the Supernatural, The Writing Life
Hasdeu Castle has a strange, sad history. After his daughter Iulia (pronounced Julia) died of tuberculosis at the age of nineteen, Bogdan Hasdeu claimed to receive instructions from beyond the grave. For some reason, Iulia, a brilliant prodigy who had written several...
Jun 24, 2015 | Murder at the Movies, Tales of the Supernatural
Since the first movie was released in the 1980s, the Child’s Play franchise and its cursed doll Chucky have become horror-movie classics. But did you know Chucky is based on an actual voodoo doll? The real thing is so much creepier than the Hollywood version. It...
Jun 9, 2015 | Mysterious Places, Tales of the Supernatural
In honour of my upcoming trip to Romania, let’s explore one of the world’s most haunted forests. The Hoia Baciu Forest is located in Cluj-Napoca, the city where my plane will land. So many strange events have occurred there that some people believe...
Apr 27, 2015 | Tales of the Supernatural
The winters in northern Canada are cruel and impossibly long. Before European contact and the arrival of grocery stores and other modern conveniences, the country’s native peoples had to depend on the land and their wits in order to survive. Not everyone made...
