The Thin Blue Line and the Spirit World, Part One | Grave Talks CLASSIC
The Grave Talks | Haunted, Paranormal & Supernatural
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🗓️ 9 March 2026
⏱️ 37 minutes
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This is a Grave Talks CLASSIC EPISODE!
Elliott Van Dusen spent 15 years with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, investigating some of the most serious crimes imaginable—including homicide, sex crimes, and drug enforcement. His career placed him face-to-face with the darkest parts of the human experience.
But Elliott’s curiosity didn’t stop with criminal investigations.
After retiring as a Corporal, he turned his attention to a different kind of mystery—the paranormal. As Director of Paranormal Phenomena Research & Investigation, Elliott began applying his investigative mindset to reports of ghostly encounters and unexplained phenomena.
Elliott shares how his background in law enforcement shaped the way he approaches the supernatural, offering a fascinating look at what happens when the discipline of criminal investigation meets the mysteries of the unknown.
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| 0:00.0 | Today on the Grave Talks, Dissecting the Dead, a conversation with Elliot Van Dusen. |
| 0:19.3 | Since childhood, Elliot Van Dusen has been fascinated by the supernatural and law enforcement. |
| 0:24.8 | He had a bachelor's of arts and criminology from St. Mary's University. |
| 0:28.3 | Having served to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police for 15 years, he retired as a corporal. |
| 0:33.1 | Over the course of his career, he specialized in major crimes, including homicide, sex crimes, and drug |
| 0:38.0 | enforcement. Today, he serves as the director of the paranormal phenomena research and investigation |
| 0:43.2 | team. We learn about his research and experiences with the paranormal on the grave talks. |
| 0:50.4 | For me, looking back at things, the first memory I have of being interested in the paranormal |
| 0:56.6 | was the television show Unsolved Mysteries. |
| 1:00.6 | And it was two reasons for that. |
| 1:02.5 | One, I always wanted to be a police officer, so I found the homicide cold cases that Unsolved |
| 1:08.4 | mysteries would show very interesting. |
| 1:10.4 | But then every once in a while, they'd talk about a ghost file or a UFO file or even a |
| 1:15.5 | cryptid file. |
| 1:17.1 | And that too also fascinated me. |
| 1:19.5 | And so I watched that show religiously. |
| 1:22.8 | And then I think in about 1997, I discovered the X-Files TV show, and that had come out in 1993, |
| 1:31.9 | but I didn't find out about it until 97. |
| 1:34.7 | And I thought it was really cool. |
| 1:36.3 | He had two law enforcement officers investigating the paranormal. |
| 1:39.3 | So I decided to start my own kind of research organization to look into anything paranormal and unexplained. |
| 1:49.7 | And then we moved to Halifax, Nova Scotia, from Sydney, Nova Scotia, which is about five hours away, back in 1998. |
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