
One of the most intense was in the Clydesdale Barn at the 108 Mile Heritage Site. Ireland said they instead treat these encounters seriously and offer people validation and comfort.Īs they travelled from Yale to Barkerville, Ireland said some “pretty wild” things happened. Oftentimes, encounters with the paranormal are treated with skepticism and ridicule by the general public. After going in enough times I started to realize these physical sensations and whatever was occurring with the spirits was happening with me as well.”īoth Ireland and Sallenback agreed what they do is important. “Then they took me to haunted locations and I was an observer witnessing what was going on.

“I started to actually think about it and after I started hanging out at their house I met Corine and started to see their dynamic and her abilities,” Ireland said. The two became friends and while at first, she was skeptical, Ireland came to believe in the supernatural as well. However, she never acknowledged them until she met Sallenback in high school. Ireland said she had empathic abilities from a young age. I immersed myself in the supernatural and paranormal from the beginning.” “I was younger so when I had my first experience I was all in, I didn’t suppress it. At that point everyone (in the family) realized this is real and what she experiences is a very unique gift,” Sallenback said. “There was a turning point when our grandfather had passed and he gave a ton of messages to Corine that all came true. Afterwards, Sallenback said her sister continued to hear and see spirits, which concerned their parents. When Carey was three she survived a car accident and saw her first spirit who told her everything would be OK. Paranormal activity has been part of their lives since they were all children, Sallenback claimed.

Sallenback, a Cariboo local, makes up one-third of Beyond the Haunting, along with her elder sister Corine Carey and their childhood friend Kelly Ireland. We looked at history through a paranormal lens.” “We were called to specific areas to experience what people were seeing, so it wasn’t your typical girls’ road trip. In the Fraser Canyon, with the floods, fires and the pandemic, there’s been an unearthing of paranormal activity,” paranormal investigator Leanne Sallenback said. “It’s something that came about because people had called us to that region.

Along the way, they filmed their experiences for a two-part documentary entitled Haunted Gold Rush, which premieres this Sunday on T+E. That’s the question the paranormal investigators of Beyond the Haunting sought to answer this year as they travelled up the Cariboo Gold Rush Trail. 100 Mile House South Cariboo 2017 Official Visitor Guideĭo the ghosts of the Cariboo Gold Rush still haunt us to this day?.
