As it stands, currently, we are a 2-person team (someday, we may like to work with more paranormal enthusiasts). This blog is crafted to share our experiences of the paranormal with you, over the past decade and beyond. We also welcome you to submit your own stories, photos, videos & EVPs here.
Meet Rob Januszewski
The husband and the technical expert. Rob is an audio engineer with a CTSR Diploma from SAIT. In his spare time, he is dubbing music for clients, or playing with audio programs for fun.
He is the expert when it comes to the actual equipment used, such as the EMF (electro-magnetic field reader), Spirit Box apps, and if it has a Hz, he's using it.
Rob's interest in the paranormal dates back to when he was a child, and came upon a creepy cabin in a wooded area, while visiting his grandparents in Red Deer (Alberta), by Convent Hill. Over time, his curiosity led to collecting several ghost story books, and in his 20s, he began going on ghost tours.
In fact, for our very first Halloween together (in 2008), he took me on my first-ever ghost tour!
First paranormal encounter: I remember going on a tour of the Queen Mary ship (looks a lot like the Titanic) in 1992. I was just about 13 years old. I believe there was a guide giving a tour, and I looked at a man by a bank of elevators. I didn't think much of it, he wasn't looking back at me, as he was at a distance. Suddenly, he vanished into thin air right while I was looking at him. He didn't even really go into an elevator...
Years later, I found out the Queen Mary was thought to be very haunted. Especially cabin B340, where dating as far back as 1967, there have been reports of doors slamming shut, lights flickering and faucets running by themselves.
Years later, I found out the Queen Mary was thought to be very haunted. Especially cabin B340, where dating as far back as 1967, there have been reports of doors slamming shut, lights flickering and faucets running by themselves.
Meet Daryl Januszewski
The wife and the psychic medium (specifically, I was born an Empath, meaning I have extra-sensory feelings). Though she also has an interest in the equipment used, she is more into the connection felt with spirits, and though sometimes intimidated by unknown spirits, she reaches out to talk to them and learn their stories. After all, ghosts are people too! (How would you feel if people screamed and ran away every time you came near them or wanted to say something?)
Daryl has been able to 'pick up frequencies' since late childhood, when able to accurately predict the next song on the radio multiple times, as well as making it go staticky while walking past. Her interest in the paranormal comes from growing up in a haunted house in Vista Heights, Calgary.
First paranormal encounter: The first one that I recall (being real, as witness by a childhood friend) was during a small sleepover, just me and a girl named Rachael - we were about 12 years old. She & I were on the main level of my house, having used a large quilt over our kitchen table. We began giggling and telling ghost stories, the only source of light being our flashlights. The rest of the lights were off, as everyone else in the home had retired to bed. As she started telling a mock story about me, we both suddenly heard a very LOUD scratching/scraping noise coming from the open entrance to the basement. Startled, we both stopped and slowly peeked out from behind the quilt and peered toward the dark door (which was only about 10-15 feet away). The stairs down had a landing in the middle, which is where the cats' litterbox was kept; the noise came from there, but it was much too loud to have been caused by them. We both felt a really 'evil' entity, though we couldn't see it, we could sense it was there waiting to harm us/looking at us. Within 3 seconds, we were bolting upstairs to my bedroom!! To further remind us it wasn't the cats, we noticed they were both sound asleep upstairs.
Ever since then, I've had a few other spooky encounters in that place. The majority of them seemed to either involve the basement area, or take place nearby. I later learned from Rob, that Vista Heights' general neighborhood was built on an old burial ground.
Here is a picture photographed in that basement. Note the orbs (not dust, we checked that out):
And another random snap as I turned around...
It appears there are multiple spirits there at the time, about 4. If these were dust, they'd be all over the air, and they would be more uniform in size.
A comprehensive list of Daryl's experiences
Shared Paranormal Encounter:
It was about 2011, early Spring, so this makes the cold room an anomaly. Anyhow, it was late, I think close to 11pm and Rob was already asleep (he gets up very early for work). I tend to stay up a bit later, and we were in the dark (only dim light from the office building across the way, as this was our second apartment in Calgary).
Anyhow, I was half-asleep by this point and sort of lost in thought as I gazed across the room. I noticed a light blue formation, almost like a cloud of mist, hovering in front of one of the closets. It was eerie, but I wrote it off as a hallucination. Suddenly, though it was warm outside, the room suddenly felt very cold, for a minute or two. I went further under the covers. I still didn't think a whole lot of this, other than that it was odd.
The radio was on (we always sleep with background noise), and it started to cut in & out, and get some static. I was starting to feel nervous and uneasy at this, all the while, the blue mist was still visible by our closet.
Suddenly, Rob woke up and grabbed my leg, making me jump! He said, "Oh, I'm sorry. I thought I just saw you walk out the door and was just checking to see if you're still here." So whatever that was, he saw it too. It must've moved, perhaps like a shadow person, out of our doorway and into the living room, before our bedroom went back to normal temperature.
Anyhow, at his words, I was terrified and dove under the covers for the rest of the night, despite the warmer temperature! The next day, I asked him if he remembered and he does, quite clearly.
Ever since that night (over the 6 years in that apartment), we have both seen a blue mist out of the corners of our eyes. Mainly, it was seen in the washroom.