Strange Tales From The South Shore New Series . . . LOCAL Urban Legends Featuring A LOCAL Film Crew, Actors, Locations And Businesses & Organizations
With the spooky season right around the corner, now is the perfect time to tune in to a new series spotlighting some local myths and haunted mysteries. Strange Tales of the South Shore will raise the hairs on the back of your neck, not only because of the scary details of these frightful encounters, but because of the specific locations — perhaps a bit too close to home for some!
The series tells stories surrounding four urban legends across Windsor Essex and Chatham Kent. It’s likely that either you, or someone you know, has experienced something scary and unexplained in the region, and the stories shared on this show are sure to ring a bell for many. “Strange Tales of the South Shore (STSS) has a fun horror style — some scares, but not traumatizing,” – Director Ken Amlin
The series is a similar vibe to the show Goosebumps or the Beetlejuice movie.
Ken created STSS and co-wrote and co-produced it with his wife, Danielle (Dani) Amlin, and their friend Kory Bessette.
Each episode is broken into three components.
The first features the host — Ken — starting the episode by talking to the audience in what he describes as a style similar to The Twilight
Zone. He introduces the urban legend of focus for the episode and returns at the end to wrap things up.
The second part of each episode is an original scripted 15 to 20 minute film inspired by the stories surrounding the urban legend. This narrative is portrayed by a team of professional actors — all from Windsor Essex and Chatham Kent.
The final part is a documentary-style depiction of the story. “This section of the episode is an investigative dive into the real events, origins and impacts of the urban legend,” explains Ken.
The documentary portions of each episode feature interviews with individuals with first-hand accounts of the spooky encounters, along with local experts including: ghost hunters, professors, historians, museum curators, magicians, paranormal activity investigators, a psychic/medium and two authors.
“They all gave a unique perspective on the urban legend they were attached to,” Ken comments.
Two local Mayors were also interviewed for the series — Michael Prue, from the Town of Amherstburg and Darrin Canniff of the Municipality of Chatham Kent.
The host segments were filmed at Scarehouse Windsor with the narrative segments shot at various locations across Essex County and Chatham Kent (more on this later!).
The four episode series debuts on Bell Fibe TV on September 15. Episode two airs September 25; episode three is out October 2 and episode four, the finale, is October 9.
These are the dates when the episodes go live on the platform and they can be streamed at any point after those days as well.
While Bell Fibe TV has a first-run exclusive deal for the series, Ken points out: “Once that runs its course, we’ll be shopping it around to other distributors.”
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