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Lee - Paranormal Prism: Hello everybody, welcome to the latest episode of the Paranormal Prism. Today I am delighted to have with me Keely Kulpa Keely is a Canadian horror author, a paranormal researcher and a podcaster. The podcast is the Paraghoul Paranormal Podcast. That is not easy to say. I've been
K.D. Kulpa: Yeah.
Lee - Paranormal Prism: practicing how nice without. Keely, welcome. How are you?
K.D. Kulpa: I'm good. Thanks for having me.
Lee - Paranormal Prism: Good, good. You're most welcome. So one thing that I need to get out there from the get-go. I was in Winnipeg at the weekend and it was totally confusing with the time change. So did you guys participate or did you like, no, we're not doing that anymore.
K.D. Kulpa: We haven't in Saskatchewan we haven't done the time change in I don't even know when we stopped doing it. It was a long time ago.
Lee - Paranormal Prism: what, really?
K.D. Kulpa: Yeah, yeah, so we haven't had to change our clocks. I don't think I've ever had to change my clocks though. It was a long time ago that they decided to make
Lee - Paranormal Prism: that... OK.
K.D. Kulpa: the switch.
Lee - Paranormal Prism: OK, I hate you already. So, being in Winnipeg, they decided not to. I woke up Sunday morning, my cell phone said one time, the alarm clock in the hotel room said another. I then thought I'd better check by putting the TV on. The clock on the TV said a different time. I had to then go on to see TV news to see what time they said. And it said it was pre-recorded. So that confused me even more. And in the end, I had to Google, what time is it in Winnipeg? Right now. But it was so confusing. it makes it even more weird the fact that right up north Ontario, they're not changing the time. But we are. it
K.D. Kulpa: I didn't know that.
Lee - Paranormal Prism: gets even more ridiculous.
K.D. Kulpa: That would be yeah, even more confusing.
Lee - Paranormal Prism: Yeah. It is just ridiculous. really is. Right. We're not here to talk about time. Well, we might be if you're a time traveler, we don't know yet. But we're here to talk about you and the power goal power. See, I can't say it. The power goal paranormal podcast. Did you pick that name just so people could stumble over it?
K.D. Kulpa: I didn't think it would be a s a hard one to say, but
Lee - Paranormal Prism: It's just me, then. OK, noted. So where did your paranormal interest first begin.
K.D. Kulpa: yeah, I always say it was from growing up in a haunted house. yeah, being young and being able to see a man that's not supposed to be there definitely was an interesting way to grow up. but yeah, kind of being around that all of my life and it's just paranormal was kind of just a part of my life right from the get go. So it was a natural thing to continue on into as I got older.
Lee - Paranormal Prism: So you've mentioned a good character dangle straight from the get-go. So this guy that was there but wasn't supposed to be there. How did this... I was going to say how did this materialize but that probably wouldn't have... No, you know what I mean. Get over there.
K.D. Kulpa: Yeah. Yeah, well eventually I did find out, so it wasn't until I was about nineteen years old I finally kind of sat down with my parents to talk to them about this ghost that I would see. And my brother was there and he was like, I saw him too. And we just had never talked about it before then. My mom knew that I would talk about say there was somebody in our house, but she couldn't see him at the time. but she did sometimes see shadow figures kind of moving about the house. And so eventually, yeah, I sat down with them and told them what he looked like. And my brother agreed. We both agreed that he looked like this. And my mom was like, I think you're talking about Godfred. And so found out Godfrey and his brother Augustus lived in our house before us. One of them did pass away in the house. they were just both brothers, both bachelors their whole life. And they knew my grandfather. So quickly realized that okay, this guy just kind of hung around because he knew our family and Obviously never had kids of his own. So assuming that that's why he decided to hang around and haunt us. But 'cause he never did anything like s really scary looking back. It was like making funny faces at me or my brother said he would just kind of stand at the doorway and kind of look in at him, but he would never actually really do anything.
Lee - Paranormal Prism: So what kind of age were you when you first started seeing him?
K.D. Kulpa: I vis I saw him for as long as I can remember. The first memory I think that I have a really clear memory of him, I think I was about six, seven, eight years old. And that was of him making funny faces around the corner at me.
Lee - Paranormal Prism: See, because when you talk to people and they've seen spirits or ghosts when they were younger, sometimes it comes out that they were terrified or whatever was happening kept scaring them. But to hear of a spirit that was just pulling faces and it seemed to be quite pleasant, that's not as common as what you think. It's more of the, my god, I'm scared by this kind of concept.
K.D. Kulpa: Well and definitely when I was young I was scared. it did scare me because I my parents couldn't see him, so I didn't understand that aspect of it. so I do remember being scared back then. But after especially after talking to them and realizing like, this is just a person that is now a ghost and he wasn't trying to scare me. now when I see them it doesn't it's not not the same effect anymore, I guess. Now I just kinda It's like, yeah, hi Moving on.
Lee - Paranormal Prism: And I can say we're late because I was in a location in New York last year and we'd just finished doing an investigation and long story short, an apparition passed the side of my bed. And someone said to me, well, what did you do? went, well, that's what I'm there for. After it disappeared, I just rolled over and went to
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sleep. went, what?
K.D. Kulpa: Ha ha ha.
Lee - Paranormal Prism: I'd be out there. It's like, no, that's what we do. Why are we doing it? We're there to... to see these things and experience it. It's not like TV where can you make a noise and then you run, then you leave.
K.D. Kulpa: He
Lee - Paranormal Prism: That's not how it works in real life.
K.D. Kulpa: Yeah, no exactly.
Lee - Paranormal Prism: So when you mentioned it to your parents, how long prior to that had they seen Godfrey? I think you said his name was, how long
K.D. Kulpa: Godfrey.
Lee - Paranormal Prism: ago was it? Yeah. girlfriend. How long was it since they saw him?
K.D. Kulpa: So a that would have been after we moved out of the house. So my mom said she used to see him like I wouldn't say every day, but like fairly frequently. And sh but she, of course, was terrified because she just saw the shadow figure. And she said she'd wake up and she'd see this man standing at the end of their bed, but couldn't make out any details. And she would think that someone's actually in the house. And so she would go to try to wake up my dad, but then it would slowly disappear and just kind of go away. And so so I think she saw them like probably until I was I remember I saw I would hear them and kind of see out of the corner of my eye up until I was at least fifteen. And then we moved out at s when I was seventeen. So he was there the whole pretty well the whole time.
Lee - Paranormal Prism: Which is it's cool in one sense, but yeah, it's if someone's there, okay, if you're going to be there, least pick up a broom or a mop and do the housework. Come on. It's like, yeah.
K.D. Kulpa: Help out a little bit. Yeah.
Lee - Paranormal Prism: Exactly. Yeah. Earn your keep for God's sake. So you said that you experienced that till you was about 16. So how did your kind of like grown up paranormal road take place? How did that occur?
K.D. Kulpa: Yeah, well I it took a break from it for a long time. I didn't really think of pursuing it, I guess. Even other than, of course, going to the ghost tours and the haunted tours and I went when I lived in Australia I went and did the Melbourne Old Jail Museum tour and so I would always go to those things to try and see them. but I didn't really think about like doing the podcast or doing a radio show or or talking about them really until Probably COVID time because we're all sitting inside of our house and I have three kids and suddenly we had no kids activities, you know, keeping our evenings busy. So I suddenly had all of this time on my hands and that's when I started turning to both writing my fiction novels as well as kind of starting to I guess look into more local hauntings and and actually connecting with people that have experiences and then that's kind of Out of that grew the podcast. Well, first a radio show, then a podcast turned it into a podcast and it continues to grow. So
Lee - Paranormal Prism: Which, yeah, it's a positive thing, right? And
K.D. Kulpa: Yeah.
Lee - Paranormal Prism: the amount of people that I've talked to that started podcasting during COVID. Like, I work for the government and I've got an essential job, so it's like, no, you're not staying at home. Here's a letter. If the police stop you, they'll start like, no, you're essential. Go to work. Great, thanks. All you people are sat at home twiddling your thumbs, where some of us were working through that.
K.D. Kulpa: Yeah.
Lee - Paranormal Prism: I hope you feel guilty.
K.D. Kulpa: Ha ha ha.
Lee - Paranormal Prism: So you said that you went to Australia and you did some of the walks there. Is there anything like that stands out about that or was you just kind of like sticking your toe in the water at that point while you was in Australia?
K.D. Kulpa: well I I frequently tell people about the old Melbourne jail because I did have an experience there. And so I always say, 'cause you know, when you're in this field, as I'm sure you know, you always get told, Well, what was your scariest experience? or you know, what scares you? And I always say, Well, the old Melbourne jail did in a way. because while I was walking on the second floor past all these old cells that had their lights off, I did feel someone reach out and grab onto my hand. And I don't know if it was so much scary as I turned and was like, no thanks. I don't want to interact with you because I don't know who you are and this is not the place I want to interact. so like that was an interesting experience having that even while I was there.
Lee - Paranormal Prism: Yeah. And if you, if you're going to get grabbed, like you say, a jail is not the place to get grabbed. Think of,
K.D. Kulpa: No.
Lee - Paranormal Prism: think of better locations to get grabbed, but not a jail.
K.D. Kulpa: Yeah, yeah, exactly.
Lee - Paranormal Prism: it's funny you mentioned that because we've got a couple of jails, within an hour drive of Ottawa. And I was actually at one where I kind of got like a stroke down my face. And I wasn't
K.D. Kulpa: Really?
Lee - Paranormal Prism: even, I wasn't investigating at the time. was. I was there to give moral support to a friend of mine who was doing a public event, but he didn't want to go to death row by himself because it freaked him out. And this guy is big.
K.D. Kulpa: yeah.
Lee - Paranormal Prism: Twice my size. What do mean? Well, yeah, it freaks me out. Can you come and talk to me while I'm setting up? because I wanted to do an investigation there, I'm walking around with my camera, and I'm in this one bit, and it's sort of like. just got the stroke and I thought, I know the wife was there as well, but she was like well behind me. She wasn't like touching me up in the darkness or anything. And then I mentioned it to him and went, yeah, it happens quite a bit in this jail. And I sort of like, well, okay. But, you know, I immediately went down the route of, I debunk this?
K.D. Kulpa: Yeah.
Lee - Paranormal Prism: So, you know, spider webs,
cobwebs, all that kind of stuff. And there wasn't any there. And the reason why I know there definitely wasn't any there, there were decorators boards on the floor with pots of paint. And you could smell the paint in the air. The decorators had been in that day. So unless you've got a spider that's on speed or drugs, there's no, exactly. Yeah. There's not going to be any
K.D. Kulpa: To make her really hurt.
Lee - Paranormal Prism: spiders. And it wasn't like there was any leaves or anything because we were deep into the jail. So that was something that I definitely could not explain. It was a jail and I've had some really cool experiences in jails, but I think that's because of the activity, what's
K.D. Kulpa: Yeah.
Lee - Paranormal Prism: gone on while it was still open. But I'll be interesting to know if you actually went back to Melbourne jail, if you would actually experience the same thing again.
K.D. Kulpa: Yeah, I would be curious for sure.
Lee - Paranormal Prism: Yeah, because yeah, obviously, if it was a male jail, and you're a female in that jail, you know, even if they're alive, they probably would have tried to reach out and grab you.
K.D. Kulpa: definitely. Yeah. Yeah.
Lee - Paranormal Prism: So, interest. How
K.D. Kulpa: Yeah.
Lee - Paranormal Prism: long did you spend in Australia for?
K.D. Kulpa: About a year I I lived there. Yeah.
Lee - Paranormal Prism: See, all these exotic places and now you're in Saskatchewan.
K.D. Kulpa: Now I'm back into Saskatchewan, yeah.
Lee - Paranormal Prism: So we mentioned before we came on air, and then I mentioned it kind of at the beginning, you started a podcast, you've done some literary work, and you also have done a bit of research into Saskatchewan law, because you ridiculed me because you thought I said it wrong earlier. So before we go into the podcast and the writing, when you say Saskatchewan law, what What does that mean to you?
K.D. Kulpa: Saskatchewan. So to me that would kind of be about I mean it's more than just kind of ghost stories and the spooky stuff. It's also, you know, the history and really understanding what brought Saskatchewan to be who Saskatchewan is today, like who we are today. So the darker stuff, which not everyone likes to talk about, but also, you know, the spirits and the ghosts and the the history about it for sure.
Lee - Paranormal Prism: So we're definitely going to talk about Saskatchewan a little bit more, but my wife always says that if we go to Saskatchewan and your dog runs off, you can still see your dog like a week later because it's so flat. it as... okay.
K.D. Kulpa: Only in southern Saskatchewan. I'm from more closer northern Saskatchewan where we have a lot of trees and lakes and things. But yes, southern Saskatchewan
Lee - Paranormal Prism: okay. So,
K.D. Kulpa: is very flat.
Lee - Paranormal Prism: so if your dog runs off, you won't see it after, so after that, okay.
K.D. Kulpa: No, not in the northern side of it, no.
Lee - Paranormal Prism: So when you came back from Australia Was the paranormal in your mind then or was it still a few years before that flowished?
K.D. Kulpa: it was still quite a few years before it really flourished, I would say. Like it like I said, I've always kind of had it follow me, I guess. I like I can remember when my son was my first son was born and I remember falling asleep and waking up to him crying and seeing someone like look around the corner at me as if to say, like, come on, hurry up. And I thought it was my husband. But once I got up and went down the hall to my b son's bedroom, I realized my husband was fast asleep snoring in the bedroom. And it you know, of course my son couldn't get up. So I was like, okay, someone else was visiting to say, hey, come on, get up and go feed your kid. So like yeah, I've always had experiences like that. Forever, I guess. and even my husband, he was a non believer before he knew me. But once he moved in with me, he became a believer. So he's always telling me to
Lee - Paranormal Prism: So.
K.D. Kulpa: come talk to your ghosts. I don't want to deal with them. Yeah, it's my fault, I guess.
Lee - Paranormal Prism: So it's your fault then. Blaming you 110%. So the
K.D. Kulpa: Yeah.
Lee - Paranormal Prism: fact that you've had at least a couple of experiences, do you think you've got any abilities?
K.D. Kulpa: I have been told from psychics that I have kind a bit of a shining light to ghosts on the other side. And that if I wanted to, I could go down kind of the medium path. I've never really pursued it. I don't know really why. It might be because of kids in the house. I don't know if I want the young kids having to deal with they already do. I'll I'll I'll sometimes hear them say. Mom, there's somebody in our bathroom come deal with it. So they already see them, so maybe I should just not worry about it.
Lee - Paranormal Prism: So yeah, you need to knuckle down because
K.D. Kulpa: Yeah.
Lee - Paranormal Prism: if the kids are not bothered about it, it's like, mom, we've got another one. Can you come and sit? Then you've
K.D. Kulpa: Yeah.
Lee - Paranormal Prism: got no excuse really, have you?
K.D. Kulpa: Yeah, no, that's very true. They're quite used to it now.
Lee - Paranormal Prism: So you mentioned a few minutes ago that a radio show, that was the first part of your advancement. So to speak, how did that come about?
K.D. Kulpa: well that was a friend of mine. So she so with local community radio show here in Regina, ninety-one point three FM, they always do call-outs for people to if they want to create shows. And a friend of mine had her own show where she did coffee chats with local businesses. And she always finds it fascinating how calm I am with paranormal situations and how I've collected all these stories and I'm starting to go around and And do tours even though I wasn't doing anything with the information I was collecting. And she said, why don't you just do a sh radio show? submit your idea and and see if
you get it. And yeah, they they said yes right away and suddenly I had a weekly radio show. So I had to do forty episodes per year. And so yeah, it was it was a lot. It was all of a suddenly a lot that I had to dig into. Yeah.
Lee - Paranormal Prism: 40 episodes a year. It's like, and then you go, crap, how am I going to do this?
K.D. Kulpa: Yeah that's pretty well been. Who has time for this? Okay, we're doing it. So
Lee - Paranormal Prism: Yeah, you've got a husband, you've got a family and now you've got to do 40 radio shows. That must have been pretty daunting.
K.D. Kulpa: It was. It felt very daunting. So so I made sure not to do just ghost stories because I was like, I couldn't imagine trying to do just Saskatchewan ghost stories forty times a year. So I split it up into doing the local Saskatchewan ghost stories, but then I also did Canadian urban legends and monsters so talked looked into the history of the Wendigo and and Sasquatch and the different things, and where they kind of historically came from. as well as looking at, paranormal investigations and ghost gadgets and how do they work. Because I have a science and engineering background is my schooling. So I kinda went into how those things work. So I had these different little episodes so I could split up my time a little bit. But it was still it was still a big day undertaking. So I did that for about a year and a half. And then I said, Okay, I need to switch to a podcast that I can decide when I when I have these go out and how many I do.
Lee - Paranormal Prism: Yeah. And I can totally relate to what you're doing because yeah, I've been doing this. It's two years in February and I had got no idea about doing a podcast and luckily I've got a friend who did a couple of podcasts in Montreal. So he kind of helped me. said like, make sure that you plan. three or four and record them before you go before you launch it and then always have a backup and all that kind stuff.
K.D. Kulpa: Yeah.
Lee - Paranormal Prism: And now it's, as I say, from August to now, I've had so many recordings rather than do one a week, I've had to do two a week since August, which
K.D. Kulpa: wow.
Lee - Paranormal Prism: is like absolutely crazy. And the reason why you came on the list, I was sat here in front of my computer. And my phone starts pinging. So I'm like, who's messaging me? The wife that was sat on the sofa is messaging me. It's like, who do I talk to about ghosts in Saskatchewan and Manitoba? And when it was Saskatchewan, your name came up. So hence I reached out. And here you are. So we can blame the wife for that. But yeah, and it's like, but because I am so much, like to. think I'm a perfectionist, I'm not, but I like to think I am. But for November, I've probably got one, two, three, four, five, I've got like 10 episodes to record. And I'm
K.D. Kulpa: wow.
Lee - Paranormal Prism: also away for a week's vacation. So yeah, so I can, yeah, it is.
K.D. Kulpa: Yeah, my goodness. You got lots.
Lee -
Paranormal Prism: But I haven't got a social life, so it doesn't matter. But I can so relate how you need to do your planning. So You mentioned about the law, L-O-R-E, not the L-A-W, and you mentioned about cryptids and stuff like that. how did you decide, or you was already told that you have to do 40 episodes a year, but you've already kind of broken it down a little bit, but it's like, where do you start? What is day one's episode going to be like?
K.D. Kulpa: Yeah. Yeah. for sure. And I think actually the first episode I did, I think was an interview, if I remember correctly. So I made sure to sprinkle in the odd interview so that I wouldn't have to come up with brand new content every single week. I think it was every fourth episode I tried to do an interview. And so my very first episode, I believe, was an interview with our a local another local paranormal person here in Regina who does cemetery tours. And he also had a podcast about Canadian mysteries. And so I I was like, hey, can you come on my podcast for my first episode to help me kind of get into this? And so he did, thankfully. And so we talked about Canadian mysteries and ghosts and cemeteries and things like that. and that kind of helped. And then yeah, I was always interested in urban legends and monsters, but I we don't really hear about the Canadian ones very often. You usually hear about others around the world or a lot from the US. So I was like, well, what about Canadian monsters? So then I started started Googling and God, it's a really long list that I didn't even know existed. And so it was like, yeah, that's an easy one to kind of add into it. And then because I had already been kind of doing these little tours around Regina and I had gone out to Indian Head, which has we have a something they called the Screaming House, which supposedly has a screaming ghost in it. So I started talking about just some of these ones that I started looking into, as well as of course my own experiences in Nip one. So yeah, so quickly I had I think six or eight weeks already planned out and I was like, okay, we're just gonna hopefully that keeps going and things just come up that I can talk about. So
Lee - Paranormal Prism: Yeah, I'm assuming that you are well aware of the expression, winging it. Because
K.D. Kulpa: yeah, very much so.
Lee - Paranormal Prism: sometimes I get people that want to come on and just go, what are we going to talk about? we'll decide on the day. So you just basically wing it and just go from there. And it's like, OK. And it sometimes ends up being some of the best episodes that you release because they're so funny. Because there's no planning. So.
K.D. Kulpa: definitely. Yeah. Yep.
Lee - Paranormal Prism: You were doing the radio station first, you said about a year and a half. How long after that did PPP? I'm just going to call it that because it's much easier for me to say it because I always get the power girl paranormal podcast mixed up. So I'm going to call
it PPP.
K.D. Kulpa: There we go. That's an easier way to go.
Lee - Paranormal Prism: How, how long after the radio station or did you start multi.
K.D. Kulpa: I start I well I put it on to a podcast while I was doing the radio station, so they let me take
Lee - Paranormal Prism: Bye.
K.D. Kulpa: my recordings and put it on. So so yeah, so the podcast started at the same time as the radio station. I think I scheduled it for two days after it went live on the air or something. So yeah, so I always had that. And so I just kind of continued on right after I finished up the radio station, but instead of doing every week, I think I switched it to every two weeks. I remember yeah, I switched it to every two weeks to give me that little bit more time. because I also started doing, you know, being a ghost guide and doing my own tours. So then when October came and they're like, We need shows every week, I was like, I don't have time for this right now to do it every week. And so yeah, so it was around that time that I was like, Okay, I gotta do every two weeks and let go of the radio show portion. And then And then recently actually I decided to switch it to try something a little different and started doing more of investigative. So I just finished I'm just finishing a season that's just focused on Gravelberg, Saskatchewan for the whole season. And I actually got to go there and investigate and kind of interview some people and talk to them. And so it's six episodes across the season only, but it's all about Gravelberg and everything that I found out while researching it. So it was kind of fun to do something different.
Lee - Paranormal Prism: I was going to come onto that a little bit later, but now that you've mentioned it, what is okay? I know it's a location, but did you go to one location? Because Gravelburg is the town, correct?
K.D. Kulpa: Yes, yeah.
Lee - Paranormal Prism: So did you go to one location in the town or were there multiple locations?
K.D. Kulpa: Yeah, so originally the reason why I went to Gravelberg, we talked about how my kids kind of go, there's Mom's ghost. It's we so last summer we actually went to Gravelberg as a family on our way. We were going to Cypress Hills for our summer holidays and they were willing to, you know, let Mom stop by Gravelberg for a couple nights to check out to check it out because they have this giant convent that was a school back in the day. And Many say it's haunted, but it's been sitting abandoned since about twenty twenty three. And so I really wanted to see this comet, so they let me go. And while we were there, we were staying in the bishop's residence, which is right next door, which is now a B and B. And my husband said he was sitting on the couch beside the bathroom and just noticed that suddenly the shower turned on by itself, ran for a little bit, and then it turned off. And he was just like, Are you kidding me? And so then he came and got me. He's like, Come and check this out. He says, I don't want to deal with these ghosts if that's what this is. And yeah, so then we realized like, okay, so it's not just the convent that's haunted, it's more than that. And so I had to go back. I was very curious. didn't expect to uncover as much as I did. I think I ended up finding out about some of the places I thought for sure would be haunted I got no stories on. Not to say that doesn't mean it's haunted, but So yeah, I've got about at least four locations that were haunted, five locations. No more than that. Six locations were haunted. A couple of them I got to tour, I've got to tour three of them myself. One building is no longer there, but they say they think the ghosts are still around, which is another thing I'm fascinated about and would love to investigate one day. And then a couple of them were private homes, so I just left them alone. But yeah, so it turned out to be there's a lot more going on in Gravelberg than I ever could imagine. And yeah.
Lee - Paranormal Prism: So if ever you move, I think you're going to gravel work.
K.D. Kulpa: Yeah, I know. I like
Lee - Paranormal Prism: Yeah.
K.D. Kulpa: it's kind of become part of me a little bit, I think.
Lee - Paranormal Prism: Yeah. So the fact that you've done research into various locations and the podcast and stuff like that, what do you think is the answer to the question, what makes something haunted?
K.D. Kulpa: Yeah, and that's an interesting question. I'm starting to find at least in the places I've investigated and researched, it tends to be at least for the good hauntings. I won't don't know about the e you know, the bad hauntings, but the good hauntings where it's just nice nice ghosts. It seems to be places where either were a lot of gatherings, so lots of people gathering together to, you know, either do things, so like theaters, Of course jails would be maybe not a fun gathering, but another gathering place that we talked about. Or perha schools and then other p otherwise maybe where people were really passionate about or happy about, so that is where you know you get some homes. 'Cause I know a lot of times I'll hear from people like, I'm in the oldest house in Regina and there's no ghost activity and I keep saying, Well, no, just 'cause it's old doesn't mean it's gonna be haunted. Like that doesn't
Lee - Paranormal Prism: Yeah, exactly,
K.D. Kulpa: that doesn't mean it's gonna be haunted. So yeah, to me it seems to be at least with the places I've been, it's either gatherings, large gatherings of people have been there that are, happy gatherings, passionate gatherings, or it's a really was a loving home or had a lot of activity in the home when it people were living and that just helped keep that energy around.
Lee - Paranormal Prism: You do realize that when you grow up, the kids are going to go, mom, you know, we've been to all these nice hauntings. There's a place down the road I want to go to that's not nice. You go, no, no, no, no, I only do nice ones.
K.D. Kulpa:
No. Well that's what I try to I always say to people, I'm like, I don't do abandoned buildings really because if something's haunting an abandoned building, I probably don't want to bother them.
Lee - Paranormal Prism: Yeah. So you mentioned about doing investigations. Now, what kind of equipment do you take with you when you're doing an investigation?
K.D. Kulpa: so far I take really the basics. So you know, an EMF, digital EMF, cameras, voice recorders, and then well me. I I like to say because you know, one year they're sometimes I I always get frustrated with the ghosts because usually they wait till I turn the camera off and that's when they come out and I'm like,
Lee - Paranormal Prism: Yeah.
K.D. Kulpa: Really? You couldn't come around when the camera was on?
Lee - Paranormal Prism: I've I've got a theory about that because you get to some of these locations and it's every Friday or Saturday night and you just get like, is there anybody there? Sort of like, I'm not saying anything. I said it, I said it last night. I'm getting sick of this just because
K.D. Kulpa: Yeah.
Lee - Paranormal Prism: I'm dead. I'm not a performing monkey. No, I'm not playing tonight. You can kind of imagine it happening and like you
K.D. Kulpa: yeah, no, for sure.
Lee - Paranormal Prism: get some of these locations, like say where it's religious, like Every Friday or Saturday night and they go to go. No, no, I'm going to bed early I'm not I'm not playing to their party games. I'm just not interested so when you do your Investigations, do you prepare yourself before you go in and I don't just mean for? protection, but I mean like do you do Research on the property before you go to one
K.D. Kulpa: Prefer yes to know what I'm going into, at least at the very least, to know kind of maybe have an idea of where hotspots might be, but really to know who were the people it that lived in it or who were the people that frequented it, just so I know what to talk about. I like to be able to talk to the ghosts about things that are relevant to them in hopes that they'll actually respond to that. whereas yeah, if I go in I don't like going in blanks and I don't know what to say. I don't know really how to get them to come out. And so yeah, I l I do like to know at least something about the place.
Lee - Paranormal Prism: It's like going into a room full of people that you don't know. And you
K.D. Kulpa: Yeah, exactly.
Lee - Paranormal Prism: kind of go, hi, I'm Keeley.
K.D. Kulpa: Yeah.
Lee - Paranormal Prism: And then you're stuck. But it's
K.D. Kulpa: Exactly.
Lee - Paranormal Prism: exactly the same. But if I go to any of these locations, I always apologize for the obnoxious investigators. of like, yeah. I know people will come here and they'll try to antagonize. And I can hear myself apologizing. But when you do that and you go in there with, I always use the term utmost respect,
K.D. Kulpa: Mm-hmm.
Lee - Paranormal Prism: you get more activity than if you've got the proverbial two groups, you've got the ghost hunters that want to go out there and get scared. And then you've got the investigators that want to try to prove the existence. But I'm so careful and compassionate and respectful when I go to locations. But then you see it on TV where they antagonize and stuff like that. it's not like, you're not getting the same kind of experiences if you're going to go from one to the other.
K.D. Kulpa: For sure. Yeah. Yeah, I I like to try to think of it like this probably was a living person at what time and would they appreciate, you know, me coming in and trying to yell at them? Probably not.
Lee - Paranormal Prism: Yeah,
K.D. Kulpa: I don't know.
Lee - Paranormal Prism: yeah, I shout at the kids. I don't shout at ghosts. So let's go.
K.D. Kulpa: Yeah. Unless they deserve it, you know. They do something and then then I'll shout at them if I have to.
Lee - Paranormal Prism: talking about the ghost now or the kids?
K.D. Kulpa: They
Lee - Paranormal Prism: So Power Gold Paranormal podcast. When I talk to other podcasters, I always ask them if any particular episodes have stood out to them. And whenever you get kind of asked this question, you've always got like a go-to answer. Because if people ask me, I always tell them about a friend of mine who's become a friend of mine who's a exorcist that he was trained in. Thailand I believe it was and him and his girlfriend at the time were investigating an empty house she found a pendant you know where this is going she took it the pendant out of the property put some string through it and put it on she then flipped over into the crab position and crawled up a wall backwards so when I've got somebody I'm talking to you now, who comes out with that? Your jaw just goes like,
K.D. Kulpa: Wait.
Lee - Paranormal Prism: And like, people go, well, what's he telling the truth? And it's like, this guy is a professional exorcist. He advertises the fact. He sells like charms and he teaches and stuff like that. So if it's not true, he wouldn't come out and say it because it's going to soil his reputation. So
K.D. Kulpa: Yeah, that's true.
Lee - Paranormal Prism: the So the fact that he said it and it was all like, huh? Yeah. holy crap moment. So
K.D. Kulpa: Yeah, how do you follow up on that?
Lee - Paranormal Prism: exactly. And there was another guy sort of like in the middle of a, middle of a sentence. Yeah. That was about the time that I was abducted by aliens. What? Yeah. He just can't come out with that. So
K.D. Kulpa: Yeah.
Lee - Paranormal Prism: there's a couple of examples from me. So have you had a kind of a wow moment while you've been doing the podcast?
K.D. Kulpa: wow moment. good question.
Lee - Paranormal Prism: I'm completely on the spot now.
K.D. Kulpa: Trying to Yeah, I'm trying to think if anything that was a wow moment for me. I I I don't know. I do enjoy the I of course I have a few local favorites that I always like to talk about. James Strathy at Brew Bushwacker
Brewpub is one of my favorites that I've talked many times about on the podcast and on the tours and everything that I do. And and he is one that mops. So I told him he can come to my house any time he wants. but
Lee - Paranormal Prism: Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, I'm gonna, I'm gonna minute. I'm gonna minute. He mops.
K.D. Kulpa: Yeah, well he did it once anyway. They have one one particular occasion where stuff was spilled, they put out a mop, the person left to go finish what they're doing, then they came back and the floor was wet in a circular motions and they didn't know who started mopping. And I was like, Hey, if James is willing to mop, he can come over any time. I will give him a mop. Yeah. Yeah.
Lee - Paranormal Prism: Yeah, yeah, get... As we were talking about earlier, if you can pick things up, you can pick up a duster. Crack on.
K.D. Kulpa: Exactly. Yeah. So that's one of my favorites. I'm trying to think as far as I've had some really interesting guests on the show too talking about their experiences. No crawling up the wall in mine, but
Lee - Paranormal Prism: That's disappointing.
K.D. Kulpa: I know. I gotta find better guests, I guess.
Lee - Paranormal Prism: Yeah, Note to self.
K.D. Kulpa: Yeah.
Lee - Paranormal Prism: So give me couple of examples of guests that have stood out.
K.D. Kulpa: some of my favorites of course are people that aren't sure they believe. but they come on the show and then we're talking and they tell me some of their experiences and and then I tell them some of mine about, you know, the people I've seen that are actually ghosts. And they kind of go, maybe I've seen one and just thought it was a person. I'm like, Yeah, exactly. Like you don't know. And so those ones are fun. I really enjoy those, those kind of moments. I've had a few of those now. And and I guess the ones that come on and talk about real paranormal investigations, you know, that you're not getting actions every thirty seconds like they show on TV. Sometimes you're sitting and waiting.
Lee - Paranormal Prism: No, and yeah, I went with some friends to a public event a couple of weeks ago and we kind of split ourselves up. And I was with a couple that had never been on one before
K.D. Kulpa: Mm-hmm.
Lee - Paranormal Prism: and we got absolutely nothing where one of the other guys in the different kind of half, he was getting like activity and things going off and stuff like that. So you just never know who's going to get what. one of my most favorite stories, I was at an investigation year before last, I think it was. And I'm in an old-worldy house there. They do ghost investigations to raise money so they can make it look to how it looked like 100 years ago, whatever.
K.D. Kulpa: Okay, yeah.
Lee - Paranormal Prism: and the ground floor was almost complete but the second floor was still quite full on shall we say it needed a lot of work so we're up there and I've got my camera on and it's dark and I'm when you've got your slanted roofs and you've got a window cut out of the roof itself you've got that little alcove I've kind of got me back to the window and I was asking if there's anybody there and my left hand was hanging out of my pocket by the thumb. So I was kind of doing like the
K.D. Kulpa: yeah, yeah.
Lee - Paranormal Prism: I'm a little teapot kind of impersonation. And I felt like a little hand grabbed my fingers and put it around my fingers.
K.D. Kulpa: yeah.
Lee - Paranormal Prism: And it was like, it felt so cool, but I immediately went into, I need to debunk this mode. And my first thought was, well, it's gotta be the proverbial cobweb spider. But if my hand was at or my arm was at a right angle, any cobweb is going to get taken out by my shoulder or my elbow. So I could immediately debunk that. And we'd got cameras all over the place. One of my buddies has got like an NVR. And the guy that was watching, could see that I was looking around. And he went, you got touched on the hand, didn't you? I said, yeah, I literally felt it wrap around my three fingers. But I can't explain that.
K.D. Kulpa: Yeah.
Lee - Paranormal Prism: And it's like, it's really interesting. So, when people do these investigations and they come on podcasts and talk about it, it's so fascinating some of the things that people have actually experienced. Like you mentioned, you got kind of like grabbed in the, in the jail, but you were having none of it.
K.D. Kulpa: Yeah. Yeah.
Lee - Paranormal Prism: no, stop. I'm not having that. And it's, yeah,
K.D. Kulpa: Yeah.
Lee - Paranormal Prism: but it's interesting how. these kind of things happen because I tell a lot of people just because it doesn't happen to me or it doesn't happen to you doesn't mean it didn't happen just because I didn't experience it.
K.D. Kulpa: Yeah, yeah, exactly. Yep.
Lee - Paranormal Prism: So. still talking about the podcast, do you still do them like once every couple of weeks? Is that still on the agenda now?
K.D. Kulpa: Yeah, so with this Gravelberg series, it's been every week. but then I'll probably I haven't decided what I want to do for twenty twenty seven. I'll probably go back to doing episodes for a while for the next season, just because I want to give myself time to do another investigative season. But I want more time to investigate because this one I didn't have a whole lot of time ahead of ahead of schedule. So it is a little bit more winging it like we talked about every week. I'm kind
Lee - Paranormal Prism: Ha ha ha.
K.D. Kulpa: of winging it. great content coming out, but I I wish I had more time. So
Lee - Paranormal Prism: Yeah. And I wish I knew, I wish I knew what I was going to talk about next week. Come back to the next episode.
K.D. Kulpa: Exactly. Yeah. We'll find out.
Lee - Paranormal Prism: Yeah. We'll find out next week when I've got no idea what I've So you mentioned earlier, well, we both did about the Saskatchewan law. And are there any kind of cryptids or creatures that are kind of relevant to
Saskatchewan? if you go to BC, you kind of got like the, the Sasquatch and Ontario and into Manitoba, you had the Wendigo. What, what kind of ones are common for Saskatchewan?
K.D. Kulpa: honestly, I don't know that we have like I think we've had some claims that there's some Sasquatch more in northern Saskatchewan where there's a lot of trees. I think I've I've heard some people that go Sasquatch hunting or whatever they call it up north a little bit more. Of course we've had UFO many UFO, many, many UFO sightings around Saskatchewan. both of my grandfathers had UFO sightings. And I'm trying to think if there's really any others. I didn't really know about the Wendigo until, the American television started talk you know, making scary creatures about it. So I don't think we really had that, although I'm sure there was at some point because, you know, we are in Saskatchewan. It gets quite cold and that's kind of a winter winter legend. Other than that, the only thing I've really heard about is the black dogs, but I don't think that's a Saskatchewan thing either. There's black dogs everywhere. So
Lee - Paranormal Prism: So all these creatures just come to visit and go, no, too cold. I'm leaving. I'm
K.D. Kulpa: Yeah, maybe. Too cold.
Lee - Paranormal Prism: out of here.
K.D. Kulpa: Minus forty today. I'm not staying.
Lee - Paranormal Prism: Yeah. Yeah. Coming from the UK, it's like we get like minus five, minus 10, but it's a damp minus 10.
K.D. Kulpa: Yes, that's true. Yeah.
Lee - Paranormal Prism: Yeah. And it's sort of like where people go, what is your day? it's minus 35. Are you not cold? No, because it's dry cold. We're fine.
K.D. Kulpa: It's a very dry cold. Yeah.
Lee - Paranormal Prism: Yeah. I'm still going to the pub. I'm not doing it. So
K.D. Kulpa: Yeah.
Lee - Paranormal Prism: the fact that you've done a lot of research about Saskatchewan, do you... have any particular areas of what's now becoming a more common word of high strangeness.
K.D. Kulpa: My strangeness. I know there's a couple spots and I said that maybe UFOs are quite more frequent than I would expect or UFO sightings. yeah, high strangeness. I don't know if I would say that. I I would definitely say we have areas of really high energy or high activity. And I think like here in Regina I have noticed a lot of the high activity locations are along the path of the tornado from nineteen twelve, which I find fascinating. So I don't know if the tornado attributes to that. because there's only 28 deaths in the tornado, which is still a lot, especially for back in nineteen twelve, but just to have so many haunted locations along that path is I find really fascinating. And I I try to wonder if there's Some connection somehow.
Lee - Paranormal Prism: That's a little bit weird.
K.D. Kulpa: Yeah.
Lee - Paranormal Prism: So what kind of ground coverage did the tornado cover? Like distance-wise, can you remember?
K.D. Kulpa: I can't remember distance. I know it was three kilometers wide
because it was F four. Or sorry, three blocks wide because it was F four. I'm trying to remember if it was like twenty kilometers. It was only ten minutes. It it literally came down, went up the center of what was Regina then, and it was gone in ten minutes. And yeah, twenty eight people died, thousands homeless. It was it was quite the devastating tornado. And what's it I find fascinating is Buildings that have been built after the tornado have hauntings along that path, which is cool.
Lee - Paranormal Prism: That's strange. I'm going to go out there and say that this was a little bit before your time. Just clarifying that.
K.D. Kulpa: Here.
Lee - Paranormal Prism: So at what point did you decide that you wanted to be an author as well?
K.D. Kulpa: Funny enough, my mom's even finding old things from when I was in elementary school saying I'm gonna be an author one day. But it's funny how once you grow up to go to school and get a real job, you forget these things. so I never really thought about it. I've always been drawn to writing, but I never really thought about it as an actual thing to do until again covet came and suddenly I had all this time on my hands. And I just happened to pick up on writing by Stephen King. And while I was reading that, I just had this idea. he talks about how he got hit by a truck in his in his book. And it was just like that sparked my idea for my first book, Coma, which is about a man who gets hit by a truck and goes into a coma and he gets detached from his body and otherworldly things notice that his body is left unoccupied. And so that is where that book idea came from. And so I just started writing during COVID and Haven't stopped. So it just keeps going.
Lee - Paranormal Prism: Which again, is a good thing. So
K.D. Kulpa: yeah.
Lee - Paranormal Prism: when you started writing that book though, and you're talking about his kind of soul left his body, well, we're obviously talking about near-death experience.
K.D. Kulpa: Yes, yep.
Lee - Paranormal Prism: So did you have that in mind before you actually put pen to paper, so to speak? Or do you? Or were you just winging it as is the trend of the night scum?
K.D. Kulpa: just definitely winging it. Hundred percent winging it. Yeah. yeah, that first book I think we cut out I'm trying to remember thirty five thousand words we cut out of it because it was me just winging it a hundred percent.
Lee - Paranormal Prism: Ha
K.D. Kulpa: but it was a really good learning process. I really enjoyed it. Learned a lot about editing and proper structure and learned about the publishing industry. So yeah, I learned a lot.
Lee - Paranormal Prism: So that was your first one. How many have you released since?
K.D. Kulpa: So I I've released another one called Unearthed. So that one is a little bit more sci-fi horror because I really love the stone statues of Doctor Who. You know, the don't blink. Yep. Yeah. So I was like, I have to do kind of a spin on that. So I did. That was the Unearthed. That was kind of my spin of that. And I have another one that I'm currently hopefully getting published next h will be published next year. And then I'm working on yet another one. So yeah, I've got a lot of writing to do. And actually Unearth is planned to be a four book series hopefully one day, if I can ever finish writing it. But
Lee - Paranormal Prism: Do you earlier on in the conversation that we're talking about finding enough time?
K.D. Kulpa: Yeah. It's a theme.
Lee - Paranormal Prism: are you not, are you not packing all this like, sort of like where's Keely? she's, she's typing. where's Keely? she's investigating. Where's Keely? she's doing a podcast. Sounds like you're a bit, bit.
K.D. Kulpa: Yeah, when I'm not at the hockey rink or at the swimming pool with my kids, I'm doing the podcast or writing books.
Lee - Paranormal Prism: Hey, in this day and age, kids swimming along the ice, you've got your laptop on your knee.
K.D. Kulpa: Actually I do I do do that quite a bit. Yeah.
Lee - Paranormal Prism: See, I'm finding out about the real Keely now. Have
K.D. Kulpa: Yeah.
Lee - Paranormal Prism: you noticed this? OK, so we are coming towards the end. So where can people find you for what you do? There we go. was very vague.
K.D. Kulpa: Yeah, so all of all of my stuff. really you could just Google my name. So K D K U L P A and you'll find me. Cause all that's that's my name for everything. That's my social media, my website. Everything's under K D K U L P A.
Lee - Paranormal Prism: That was easy. And
K.D. Kulpa: Yeah.
Lee - Paranormal Prism: you say that you're relaunching PPP in the new year, but you've got no idea what you're talking about yet.
K.D. Kulpa: Not yet. We'll we'll see. We'll see what comes.
Lee - Paranormal Prism: I'm going to email you in a couple of weeks. Any ideas yet? No. Okay. Two weeks later. Any ideas yet? No. Okay. Keely is...
K.D. Kulpa: Surely by middle December I'll have an idea, maybe.
Lee - Paranormal Prism: I'm going to put that in my calendar, email Keely to see if she's got any ideas for the
K.D. Kulpa: Yeah.
Lee - Paranormal Prism: middle of December. No, I've been too busy Christmas shopping.
K.D. Kulpa: Yeah, that's true.
Lee - Paranormal Prism: Keely, it's been an absolute pleasure talking to you. just one or two little giggles and laughs, which is always a good thing.
K.D. Kulpa: Yeah.
Lee - Paranormal Prism: I've got no idea what time it is in Saskatchewan, so I'm not even going to ask. But you have a great rest of the evening.
K.D. Kulpa: Yes, you too.
Lee - Paranormal Prism: Thank you very much. And yeah, look forward to getting an email from me mid-December. Thanks a lot. Take care. Bye-bye.
K.D. Kulpa: Perfect. Thank you for having me. All right. Goodbye.