Halifax gets Haunted!

You can read the article online here.

Haunted premieres in Canada on Eastlink on October 17th at 9:30 PM AST.

Paul Kimball

Haunted Extra, Vol. 1.01 - Queen's County Museum Revisited

We just finished the first episode of Haunted Extra, an ad hoc compilation of bonus materials for the series Haunted. 

In this episode, Dillon Garland and I discuss our trip to the travel to the 2017 East Coast Paraconference in Liverpool, NS, where we got the opportunity to re-visit the Queen's County Museum a few months after twe investigated it for the first season of Haunted.

Joined by paranormal researchers Ryan Sprague and Greg Bishop, we tried to replicate REM-Pod activity that they experienced at the Museum in April when I attempted to contact my old friend Mac Tonnies (who passed away in 2009).

The results were fascinating, and the video evidence we recorded at the Museum on 11 August 2017 is included here.

Paul Kimball

Haunted - Cooper's Inn Outtake #2

An outtake from our investigation at Cooper's Inn in Shelburne, NS, on May 2nd. It isn't going to be one of our first season episodes on Eastlink, but we still had a fair bit of interesting and puzzling stuff happen, including a camera microphone "malfunction" that left us all baffled. Of note is that it began in a room that Dillon had previously dreamed about, just as he began to relate the story of the dream (which involved a malevolent presence). 

As I always say about these types of things, context and timing matter.

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Paul Kimball

Haunted Outtake - Cooper's Inn (Part I)

Here's a piece of trivia for you - I hate ghost investigation shows on TV. I've never made it all the way through an episode of any of them. I particularly loathe Ghost Adventures, but Ghost Hunters is almost as bad. I've only watched as much as I have to over the years in a professional capacity as a producer and director, in order to see what other shows in the ghost investigating genre look like, and how they are presented. Not so that I can copy them, mind you - rather, so I know what not to do.

It all seems so fake to me, because almost all of what you see is "action" (much of it, I am convinced, being faked, or at the very least highly exaggerated). That's not how it really works in "the field". A lot of time is actually spent sitting around, talking to your fellow investigators. I wish the ghost shows would give us more of this, and less of the staged "bumps in the night" stuff. 

I think this is critical because it helps the viewer understand the investigators more as people. As I'm convinced that if there is anything at all to the paranormal, it has as much to do with the people involved, their journey, and their personal interaction with whatever might be out there as it does anything else, then understanding the people, and who they really are (as much as that is possible in any television program), is vital to the overall story.
That's what we try to do on Haunted. 

We investigated Coopers Inn in Shelburne, Nova Scotia, in May 2017 for Haunted, and while the location won't be one of the places that makes it into the actual series (you always film more locations than you need), there were still some cool things that happened when we were there, both from an experience point of view but also from the personal point of view. 

Falling into the latter category is this seemingly good-natured exchange between myself and my fellow co-host Holly Stevens, which indicates that while everything seems fine on the surface, there is an edge developing between us, largely due to some of the things each of us did (or might have done) in relation to the other in the course of our previous investigations at other locations during the course of filming. 

It's all fun and games until someone summons a demon, or invites some entity to possess a co-host.

Paul Kimball

Haunted outtake - Cooper's Inn from Paul Kimball on Vimeo.

Haunted: Holly Stevens at the Yarmouth jail

My good friend and co-host Holly Stevens investigating the old jail in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, in this teaser clip from the TV series Haunted (premiering in Canada in October on Eastlink TV).

This was just the beginning of what was a night of almost non-stop weirdness, which made the old Yarmouth jail one of the most interesting - and scariest - locations we have ever investigated.

Paul Kimball

Haunted - Stalking Dillon

Before you watch this clip of Holly Stevens and me using a ghost box last week in Seminary House at our alma mater Acadia University (in Holly's old room from her college days, no less, which also turns out to be haunted), it's important to remember one key thing: that despite both of us at different times directing demons, poltergeists, and other things to visit and / or interact with our director of photography (and my young protege) Dillon Garland, to the point where they may now be following him (as seen in this clip)... we're not actually bad people. 

Honest.

Our laughter notwithstanding...

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Paul Kimball

Haunted

It's been a while (making award-winning feature films, getting married, taking an active role in politics, living life to the fullest - all have taken precedence to my paranormal hobby for a while now), but I'm back on the paranormal beat, so to speak, re-uniting with my old ghost investigating partner Holly Stevens for Haunted, a new series that we just finished filming, and which premieres in October up here in Canada. You can find out more at Winter Light Productions. 

We've already been renewed for a second season (which we start filming in September), so it seems that ghosts are as popular as ever!

Paul Kimball