Your loved ones are not gone. They are there with you whether you notice them or not. Spirits are formed from energy and not all spirits have the energy to let you know they are with you. They will communicate with you in a way that will catch your attention but use the least energy. […]
The current Fort Henry, once referred to as the “Citadel of Upper Canada,” is the last of three forts built where the St. Lawrence River empties into Lake Ontario. The first fort was built during the War of 1812 to protect the dockyard on Point Frederick from a possible American attack and to monitor maritime […]
The Cockshutt Family figures prominently in the story of the City of Brantford. Frank Cockshutt (1857-1938) was the President of the Cockshutt Plow Company. William Foster Cockshutt was a Member of the Canadian Parliament for Brantford. Henry Cockshutt (1868-1944) was the 13th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario. The Cockshutt Family was always generous with their time […]
What attracts ghosts to you, your children, or your home? If you are unaware of or unprepared for the consequences of playing with a Ouija board you could be in for a mess of trouble. Playing with a Ouija board is one way of inviting unwanted spirits (good or bad) into your home or […]
The Longhouse or hodensote is long narrow house covered in rectangular slabs of birch or elm bark and built by the Iroquois, which included the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga and Seneca people. They were called Iroquois but they called themselves Haudenosaunee, which meant “people who live in the longhouse.” The building of a longhouse […]
Peter Anthony Prince (1836-1925) was born in Trois-Rivières, Québec, the second of four children born to Enoch Prince (1802-1867) and Marie Angeline Trottier (1808-1901). Enoch and Angeline were married twice. The first in Trois-Rivières by a protestant minister in July 1831 and secondly in St-Stanislas-de-Champlain, Québec on the 25th of December 1833. According to church […]
Surely some of the places with the saddest spirits in Canada are the former residential schools, where approximately 150,000 First Nations and Métis children lost their cultures, identities, and even their lives at the hands of government and church employees whose aim was to “kill the Indian in the child.” The Other Side encountered […]
Every year thousands of people die in mining accidents around the world. Some of them die while saving others, which is what happened in 1910 at the Bellevue Mine, a place still haunted by its hero. The Bellevue Mine is one of several haunted mines in Canada. Paranormal activity has also been reported at […]
Any hospital has its fair share of death, and the Galt Hospital in Lethbridge, Alberta was no exception. But not all old hospitals are still home to the people who died in their wards. Now home to the Galt Museum, the building that was once the Galt Hospital is one of the most haunted […]
Moving objects. Inexplicable breathing. Cold spots. Orbs. Spirit activity. These are constants in Ivy Bear’s life. She has always been sensitive to spirits and paranormal activity so her haunted home on the Cowessess First Nation was an ideal place for The Other Side to investigate. Prior to the investigation, Ivy’s home was the […]