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News Crew Caught a Poltergeist on Camera [Beauport, 1989]

Into the Fog with Peter Laws

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Was a poltergeist caught on camera by a Canadian news crew?

Summer, 1989. In Beauport, Quebec, an entire apartment building on Mgr-Gauthier Street came alive, violent banging that shook partition walls, ragged holes punched through plasterboard in real time, and dark shadows at the edge of vision. Witnesses weren't just tenants. Police officers, gas engineers and city inspectors all felt it.

In this true ghost story, I investigate the Beauport Poltergeist, the TVA footage from August 4th 1989, what Lt. Guy Bedard and Inspector Gaston Dubé experienced, why gas, clay soil and plumbing theories failed, and the two chilling triggers: reported seances after a death downstairs, and 12-year-old Zoe's summer stay.

This is a documented poltergeist true story, never fictionalised, told from contemporary press and investigator notes.

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Editor
Gerard Giorgi-Coll

Research
Marcus Lowth

Artwork
Steph Lay

Research and Image Credits

This episode draws on the following key research sources:
The Beauport Poltergeist: Ghost Theory
https://www.ghosttheory.com/2015/08/0...
Poltergeist in Quebec City: The Beauport Case Revisited
https://mesplaisirs.com/poltergeist-a...
Archival television footage of Micheline Cochrane and the Beauport property: The Beauport Phenomenon, TVA, via @SpiritSeekers / YouTube Podcast #16-Le poltergeist de Beauport
Newspaper articles: “Une maison hantée à Beauport?” and “Des fantômes en chair et en os?”Le Journal de Québec, August 1989.
TVA television network logo, 1984–1990: EsaïeGregoryPrickett, Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
Photograph of Christian Page: IMDb profile, accessed September 2026.

CHAPTERS:
00:00 Caught on Camera in 1989
01:45 Into the Fog
03:10 An Ordinary Block in Beauport
05:20 The Banging Begins Upstairs
07:30 Holes Appear in Real Time
09:45 Shadows at the Edge of Vision
11:20 Police Officer Watches It Happen
13:40 "Worse Than an Earthquake" - Tenants Speak
16:00 The TVA Footage Frame by Frame
18:10 Inspector Thrown Backwards From the Wall
20:00 Gas, Clay and Plumbing Theories Fail
22:00 Seances Downstairs?
23:30 Zoe and the Summer That Ended It
25:40 What Still Stands There Today

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20 Comments

@Paranormal.142 13 days ago

I have no idea where you keep digging these old stories up from. But well done. It's so interesting to hear new stories, new hauntings, rather than the same old ones again. Thank you 🙏

@AlaskaFiberArt 13 days ago

Omg I’ve been looking for this for YEARS!! Told my husband about it years ago, how I saw it when I was a kid! I live in Alaska, sometimes our news shows would show any interesting Canadian news & at times I probably sounded insane lol. So thank You, Thank You, ThAnK YoU Peter for ul’ing your awesome videos, now my husband can FINALLY see the news story I saw so long ago lol.

@mmancino1982 12 days ago

I gotta hand it to you, you're a helluva narrator and presenter. I listen to a lot of similar channels and your delivery is among the absolute best.

@MilesRowanVlogs 13 days ago

A NEWS CREW catching it is what makes this one different… they weren’t ghost hunters turning up expecting something to happen, they were there to report on it. That makes the 1989 footage so much harder to just shrug off. I cover strange history and forgotten places on my own channel… and this is exactly the kind of old footage that sends you down a rabbit hole.

@marianenitatiepner5606 13 days ago

Another great episode, Peter! Btw, congratulations to more than 200k subscribers!

@AndrewTurpin-r4u 2 weeks ago

Can't wait! BEST CHANNEL ON YOUTUBE 🇬🇧🇺🇸🥂👍

@LolaMariaHernandez-o7f 13 days ago

SO HAPPY u told this story. Im from the Province of Quebec and this is an interesting story. ❤

@woodynightshade2285 13 days ago

Someone was unhappy about the house being divided into apartments, and tried to make their displeasure known from the other side. The entity was probably drawing copious amounts of energy, from the presence of the young girl.

@SelinaSmith-y6m 13 days ago

Onto the fog is truly amazing and peter laws is brilliant

@loralouise3865 13 days ago

I live in a haunted house right now, and I have lived here longer than I have lived in any other location in my life. My son has lived here his entire life. I have seen some things that have no “practical “ explanation, I have heard, seen and smelled things that I believe have come from the spirit realm. There has been visits from black eyed kids in my neighborhood and I am not the only person in my neighborhood who has been visited by these entities. There’s been at least four other houses that have experienced the same kind of encounters with black eyed kids just on my street. The houses are, if not next door neighbors, they live a couple of doors down or up the street from me. I live on a dirt road that is off the beaten path, or a main road, so it’s not like people are cutting through our neighborhood to get home to a nearby neighborhood or subdivision. Everyone I have spoken with about this, has described them in very much the same way. Two or three of my neighbors do not watch content that describes the black eyed kids or other folklore and supernatural subjects. They would not be prone to thinking or seeing something of this nature. Thanks for your work and your amazing content, I enjoy your videos so much!😊

@WillowTrainer 13 days ago

I wonder what the real history of the house as a singular was?

@neniaemm6127 2 weeks ago

That footage looks insane! Such an active haunting, can't wait to hear about it in the next episode.

@PeacefulLight62 12 days ago

WOW, Peter, can't believe you found this! I remember back when this was first televised, when I was in my early twenties and into the paranormal shows BIG time, and how creepy it was to watch Mrs Cochran being harrassed on cam on the evening news ----That's extremely rare! The News crew was likely in shock, too😳You brought back that memory. It was quite creepy and with some folks, you just know they''re sincere, not faking. The city itself, Beauport, is right near a large waterway, and it's interesting how many times we hear the connection between water and spiritual phenomena, as well. Who knows, Peter...maybe someday you'll write about The spiritual aspects and connections between Spirits/Ghosts and water...

@aliciadavis487 12 days ago (edited)

When we were children, my sisters and I experienced this. It happened on a cold, snowy winter's day. My mother said it was the chimney bricks falling onto the skylight opening. It was not that. The sound was separate, and it was very loud. The sound of the chimney bricks falling occurred after the loud banging, and the wind blew. I know because my father taught us a scientific way to get through the experience of the house: "They said (mother and father), 'It was the power lines out back." So during this incident, I put my ear to the wall, and that's when I could hear the sound coming from the inside of it. It's important to note also that one of my sisters was at home and very sick when this happened and said she had been seeing things.

@RavenVargas27 13 days ago

Wow that footage is frightening I am creeped out, thanks for this Peter

@IntoTheFog Creator 2 weeks ago

I'll be here in the LIVE chat when this premieres on Saturday. If you join, do say hello!

@Aims83 13 days ago (edited)

Thank you so very much, Peter! Your hard work and dedication comes through every episode. I can feel and hear the depth you take us into each story you cover. ❤❤❤ Thank you, Steph for supporting this channel and helping it grow!

@andyt5559 13 days ago

Peter, I have come to realise, you have a secret! I get it, you get into these I won't say stories or tales, more like episodes! But you get so wrapped up in them, you become more animated, the pitch of your voice goes up, then when you want to put suggestion to the audience your voice becomes lower in pitch and more like a whisper, empathetic narrator! Your delivery, is AWESOME!❤

@paulaunger3061 13 days ago

At 19:50 - it always annoys me when people try to blame kids for this kind of activity. The impression I've had since I first heard of this kind of poltergeist activity is that the creature is using the energy generated by a teenage body as fuel for its activities. The child in question has no control or agency - they're just being used. And as you point out, there's very clear evidence that this child couldn't have had any control over this.

@MrChefzEats 13 days ago (edited)

@intothefog ... In the 1980s a man by the name of Derek Marsden or David Marsden if I recall correctly, drove into a petrol station off a motorway and vanished into toilets, leaving his car at the forecourt and a police investigation with no explanation other than he vanished. Can you cover that case sometime if possible 👍 It was featured in Unexplained Magazine that's the only article on it I'm aware of.