Meet the Ground-Breaking Ladies of Haunted Gold Rush

It’s finally happened. The first all-female paranormal investigation show is finally here. Or about to be. Haunted Gold Rush is a two-part docuseries that will be available to stream on HauntTV U.S. via Vizio Watchfree+ on October 27. It premieres on Canada’s T+E on October 30.

I had a chance to speak with Corine Carey, Leanne Sallenback, and Kelly Ireland, the ladies who star in the new show that explores the ghostly mysteries along British Columbia’s historic Gold Rush Trail. They were absolutely delightful. Here are the highlights of that conversation, but I’ve also embedded the whole chat below as well as the trailer for their new show.

Did they follow the Gold Rush Trial?

Corine explained they sort of did start at the bottom and work their way up. While the trail starts down in New Westminster, they started in Yale and then followed the interior up to Barkerville, stopping at locations along the Fraser Canyon and up the old Caribou Gold Rush Trail itself.

But beyond relating the ghost stories, do we see them ghost hunting too?

All answered enthusiastically, “YES!” But then that led to a question I hadn’t even considered asking.

Leanne asked, “Do you want to know how this all started?”

Well, gosh. Yes. (Internally, I was forehead slapping myself for not having thought to ask that. Thankfully, they had me covered!)

Kelly explained that Corine and Leanne are sisters, she’s the best friend, and together they started their own paranormal investigating company called Beyond the Haunting Investigations. They investigate houses and businesses both locally and internationally and go in to try and help people understand if they’ve got a haunting or not. Basically, what we’re familiar with paranormal investigators doing.

Kelly then passed the torch to Leanne to continue the tale of their origin story, but Leanne quickly handed it to her sister when she said, “It kind of all started with Corine…”

Then Corine explained even as young as three and four years old, she was having experiences. She related being in a car accident with her grandmother, who was unconscious.

“There was a man standing there talking to me telling me it was going to be okay, and I would see him later that night and moving forward. And from that point on, I was always seeing things, hearing them communicate with me, and giving me messages. Where, as a kid, you’re terrified —’Who is this?— and your parents are telling you, ‘There’s nothing there, there’s no one there, go back to bed. It’s your imaginary friend. It’s in your head. It’s fine.’ So as a kid, I suppressed a lot of that.”

But her parents didn’t entirely dismiss her experiences. Concerned, and wanting to rule out a serious medical condition, they did take her to a variety of doctors to have her tested. Luckily, physically she was fine. But she kept having experiences. However, uncomfortable with the reactions she’d get when she spoke up, she opted to remain quiet about them when they happened.

Understandably. It would be easy enough to think you’re crazy in a situation like that, but then a funny thing happened. Her sister had her back. Corine soon realized it wasn’t just her having experiences. Not only did Leanne watch Corine having them, but Leanne saw the same stuff too.

But whereas Corine was hesitant to talk about her experiences, Leanne was very open about them.

Then they met Kelly at school, who really didn’t pay much mind to the paranormal until she started hanging out with Leanne and Corine. She realized there were experiences she’d had growing up, too, that she’d just dismissed, but has now become open to after seeing the example the sisters have set.

What was each of your favorite locations and/or experiences while filming?

Leanne said her favorite experience is at the very end of the documentary because they were all drawn to a specific location. It’s just outside of Barkerville, but none of them knew why they had to get there. They just knew they all felt like, “We gotta get there. We gotta get there.” And when they did…well, she wouldn’t say what happened other than, “It just clicked.” And as she also said, “It was the biggest realization and powerful moment.”

Kelly added, “Yeah, we get a bit vulnerable there.”

It wasn’t easy for Kelly to pick a particular location because she said they were each so different. She said for her, it was about expectations. She’d go in expecting one thing, but it would shift, and the experience itself would be something totally unexpected how it played out.

Corine said the most memorable thing is when they’re called in by a certain person for a certain claim and they can validate the person’s claim with their own experience. She appreciated how powerful that was. Perhaps because she’s very well aware of what it’s like not to be believed. So to be able to provide that validation and comfort to others would be very powerful indeed.

Video of the Chat

Haunted Gold Rush Trailer

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