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Canadian Creepies
Welcome to Canadian Creepies - the podcast that digs into the dark corners of Canada’s past and present. Your hosts Valerie, Ali, Amanda Joy ( host of Down the Crooked Path), and sometimes Kyle explore the true crime cases that haunt us, the paranormal encounters that make us question what’s real, and the unsettling folklore that lingers just out of sight.
From cults to cold cases, ghosts to government cover-ups, we don’t just tell the stories, we ask why they still matter.
It’s creepy. It’s…
Episodes
Canadian Creepies077 Canadians on the Epstein List
Send us a text, tell us your canadian creepy! Millions of pages. Hundreds of familiar names. And a complicated web of connections stretching far beyond the…
Canadian CreepiesA Creators Collective Horror Anthology: Dead Air - Part 02
Send us a text, tell us your canadian creepy! The broadcast isn't over yet, Creeps. And whatever's lurking inside that abandoned radio station isn't finished…
Canadian CreepiesDTCP 067 - The Phantom Bell Ringers
Send us a text, tell us your canadian creepy! On the morning of October 7, 1853, something strange disturbed the quiet streets of Charlottetown, Prince Edward…
Canadian Creepies076 Bill 5: The Breathing Lands
Send us a text, tell us your canadian creepy! In Northern Ontario sits one of the largest peatland ecosystems on Earth, so vast it stores more carbon per…
Canadian CreepiesA Creators Collective Horror Anthology: Dead Air - Part 01
Send us a text, tell us your canadian creepy! Welcome, Tonight we come to you from an abandoned radio station for a very special Halloween two part series to…
Canadian CreepiesDTCP 066 - The Chéticamp Witch
Send us a text, tell us your canadian creepy! In the 1870s, the Acadian fishing village of Chéticamp, Nova Scotia, was a place where faith, folklore, and…
Canadian Creepies075b The Shedden Massacre
Send us a text, tell us your canadian creepy! Eight men. One remote Ontario farmhouse. And a betrayal that would become one of the darkest chapters in Canadian…
Canadian CreepiesDTCP 065 - The Trial of Maggie Pollock
Send us a text, tell us your canadian creepy! In a small Ontario community in 1919, a woman named Maggie Pollock found herself at the centre of a controversy…
Canadian Creepies075a The Shedden Massacre
Send us a text, tell us your canadian creepy! On April 8, 2006, eight men were found dead inside four vehicles in a farmer’s field near Shedden, Ontario. What…
Canadian CreepiesDTCP 064 - The Spectre of Rexton
Send us a text, tell us your canadian creepy! On Halloween night in 1930, four teenagers driving between Richibucto and Rexton, New Brunswick, claimed they…
Canadian Creepies074 - Bruni v Bruni
Send us a text, tell us your canadian creepy! This week, Canadian Creepies is heading into the courtroom for a case that proves truth really can be stranger…
Canadian CreepiesDTCP 063 - The Beauport Poltergeist
Send us a text, tell us your canadian creepy! In the summer of 1989, an ordinary apartment building in Beauport, Québec became the centre of one of the…
Canadian Creepies073 - Richardson Family Murders
Send us a text, tell us your canadian creepy! In April 2006, three members of the Richardson family were found murdered inside their Medicine Hat, Alberta…
Canadian CreepiesDTCP 062 - Forgotten Wildmen Legends
Send us a text, tell us your canadian creepy! Long before Bigfoot became a pop culture phenomenon, stories of strange, human-like creatures were already…
Canadian Creepies072b Jason Porter: The Man Who Wasn't
Send us a text, tell us your canadian creepy! In Part Two of Jason Porter: The Man Who Wasn’t, Valerie and Amanda continue the story as the carefully…
Canadian CreepiesDTCP 061 - The Haunting of The Keg Mansion
Send us a text, tell us your canadian creepy! What happens when a beautiful historic mansion carries more than a century of stories within its walls? At 515…
Canadian Creepies072a Jason Porter: The Man Who Wasn't
Send us a text, tell us your canadian creepy! Season 3 of Canadian Creepies starts here. Jason Porter built relationships, identities, and entire versions of…
Canadian CreepiesDTCP 060 - Winnipeg's Ectoplasm Lab
Send us a text, tell us your canadian creepy! What happens when grief, science, and the supernatural all meet inside one Winnipeg home? From the 1920s through…
Canadian CreepiesBonus Episode - Episode 052 Correction: Lisa Neve
Send us a text, tell us your canadian creepy! This bonus episode corrects an important error from Episode 052, Dangerous Offender, Dangerous System. Lisa Neve…
Canadian CreepiesDTCP 059 - The Marysburgh Vortex
Send us a text, tell us your canadian creepy! There’s a stretch of Lake Ontario where ships have vanished, planes have gone down, and strange stories have…
Canadian CreepiesWhat's Behind Door Number Three?
Send us a text, tell us your canadian creepy! Season 3 of Canadian Creepies is stepping onto the game show floor, where every door hides something strange…
Canadian CreepiesDTCP 058 - Vanishing Hitchhiker
Send us a text, tell us your canadian creepy! On a rainy night near University Boulevard, a driver picks up a quiet young woman wearing a light coat. She says…
Canadian CreepiesThe Sixties Scoop - Part 04
Send us a text, tell us your canadian creepy! For decades, Indigenous families were expected to endure the removal of their children in silence. Eventually…
Canadian CreepiesDTCP 057 - The Allan Memorial Experiments
Send us a text, tell us your canadian creepy! Behind the walls of Montreal’s Allan Memorial Institute, respected psychiatrist Dr. Ewen Cameron was conducting…
Canadian CreepiesThe Sixties Scoop - Part 03
Send us a text, tell us your canadian creepy! The closing of residential schools did not mean the end of Canada’s attempts to separate Indigenous children from…
Canadian CreepiesBonus Episode: How to Tell if You’re Dating a White Supremacist
Send us a text, tell us your canadian creepy! White supremacy doesn’t always announce itself with obvious symbols, slogans, or declarations. Sometimes it…
Canadian CreepiesDTCP 056 - The Ghost of Binstead Manor
Send us a text, tell us your canadian creepy! In the 1850s, Georgina Pennee moved with her husband to Binstead Manor in Prince Edward Island, expecting to…
Canadian CreepiesThe Sixties Scoop - Part 02
Send us a text, tell us your canadian creepy! In Part 2 of our four-part series on the Sixties Scoop, Valerie and Amanda examine the devastating conditions…
Canadian CreepiesDTCP 055 - The Mad Trapper
Send us a text, tell us your canadian creepy! The frozen wilderness of Canada's North has long been the setting for stories of survival, isolation, and…
Canadian CreepiesThe Sixties Scoop - Part 01
Send us a text, tell us your canadian creepy! Part 01 of our four-part series on the Sixties Scoop begins by examining the policies and ideology that made the…
Canadian CreepiesDTCP 054 - The Lost Lemon Mine
Send us a text, tell us your canadian creepy! Gold has a way of drawing people into the wilderness... but some treasures are said to demand far more than…
Canadian CreepiesDTCP - The Silence of the Woods: Bigfoot Beyond Myth
Send us a text, tell us your canadian creepy! Is Bigfoot a legend told around campfires... or something more? "The Silence of the Woods: Bigfoot Beyond Myth"…
Canadian CreepiesDTCP 053 - The Devils Head
Send us a text, tell us your canadian creepy! A hidden face. A national panic. A banknote that became one of Canada's strangest urban legends. In 1954, the…
Canadian Creepies071c Pain for Profit: Canada's Opioid Crisis
Send us a text, tell us your canadian creepy! The opioid crisis in Canada didn't end with fentanyl—it evolved. In the final installment of this series, we…
Canadian CreepiesDTCP 052 - St. Louis Ghost Light
Send us a text, tell us your canadian creepy! On a quiet stretch of abandoned railway near St. Louis, Saskatchewan, a mysterious light has puzzled witnesses…
Canadian Creepies071b Pain for Profit: Canada's Opioid Crisis
Send us a text, tell us your canadian creepy! Pain for Profit: Canada's Opioid Crisis – Part Two Who pays the price when healthcare fails the people it's…
Canadian CreepiesDTCP - 051b Beneath the St.Lawrence
Send us a text, tell us your canadian creepy! For centuries, something has been reported moving through the waters of the St. Lawrence River. From Jacques…
Canadian Creepies071a Pain for Profit: Canada's Opioid Crisis
Send us a text, tell us your canadian creepy! This week on Canadian Creepies, we examine one of the deadliest public health disasters in Canadian history: the…
Canadian CreepiesDTCP - 051a Beneath the St.Lawrence
Send us a text, tell us your canadian creepy! In this first installment of a multi-part series, Down the Crooked Path wades into the deep waters of Indigenous…
Canadian Creepies070 The Eaton Centre Shooting
Send us a text, tell us your canadian creepy! On a busy Saturday afternoon in June 2012, Toronto's Eaton Centre was packed with shoppers, families, tourists…
Canadian CreepiesDTCP - 050 The Aquarian Foundation
Send us a text, tell us your canadian creepy! Welcome to Down the Crooked Path. Long before modern doomsday preppers and internet conspiracy movements, a…
Canadian Creepies069b Canada's Role in the Genocide of Palestinians: Aid, Arms, and Accountability
Send us a text, tell us your canadian creepy! In this episode, we examine Canada's response to the ongoing crisis in Palestine, from military export loopholes…
Canadian CreepiesDTCP 049 - The Amherst Mystery
Send us a text, tell us your canadian creepy! Welcome to Down the Crooked Path. In 1878, a young woman named Esther Cox became the center of one of Canada's…
Canadian Creepies069a Canada's Role in the Genocide of Palestinians: Aid, Arms, and Accountability
Send us a text, tell us your canadian creepy! Canada is often portrayed as a nation of peacekeepers, diplomats, and honest brokers on the world stage. But how…
Canadian CreepiesDTCP 048 - Webs & Wings
Send us a text, tell us your canadian creepy! Welcome to Down the Crooked Path. Canada's wilderness has inspired countless legends, but some of the strangest…
Canadian Creepies068 Kai the Hatchet Wielding Hitchhiker Part 02
Send us a text, tell us your canadian creepy! Episode Description In 2013, the internet crowned a new folk hero almost overnight. A drifter with a hatchet, a…
Canadian CreepiesDTCP - Jack the Ripper: Death in White Chapel
Send us a text, tell us your canadian creepy! We examine each of the canonical five victims—Mary Ann Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Catherine…
Canadian Creepies067 Kai the Hatchet Wielding Hitchhiker Part 01
Send us a text, tell us your canadian creepy! In February 2013, a chaotic series of events unfolded in Fresno, California—an incident that would leave one man…
Canadian CreepiesDTCP 047 - Giant Worms
Send us a text, tell us your canadian creepy! Across oceans, rivers, and remote northern waters, stories have surfaced for generations—stories of something…
Canadian CreepiesRe Release: 005 Cody Legebokoff
Send us a text, tell us your canadian creepy! This week, we’re taking a moment to breathe. After the weight of the Barbara Stoppel case, it didn’t feel right…
Canadian CreepiesDTCP 046 - Macloune
Send us a text, tell us your canadian creepy! Macloune is not a true historical account. First published in 1877 by Honoré Beaugrand and later included in his…
Canadian Creepies066 The Barbara Stoppel Case Part 07
Send us a text, tell us your canadian creepy! In the final chapter of the Barbara Stoppel case, the story doesn’t end with answers. It ends with impact. In…
Canadian CreepiesDTCP 045 - Old Ned
Send us a text, tell us your canadian creepy! For more than two centuries, something has been reported beneath the surface of Lake Utopia in New Brunswick…
Canadian Creepies065 The Barbara Stoppel Case Part 06
Send us a text, tell us your canadian creepy! They finally got their chance. After months of delays, internal resistance, and missed opportunities…
Canadian CreepiesDTCP 044 - Little Green Men of Steep Rock Lake
Send us a text, tell us your canadian creepy! In the summer of 1950, deep in the remote wilderness near Steep Rock Lake, a quiet evening on the water turned…
Canadian Creepies064 The Barbara Stoppel Case Part 05
Send us a text, tell us your canadian creepy! They knew who he was. They knew what he had done. And still… they were told to wait. In Part 05 of the Barbara…
Canadian CreepiesBonus Episode - A Ghost in the Room: A Conversation with Ann McDougall
Send us a text, tell us your canadian creepy! What happens when you take ghost stories out of the shadows… and place them inside historic homes? In this…
Canadian CreepiesDTCP - 043 Old Montreal Hauntings Part 02
Send us a text, tell us your canadian creepy! Old Montréal is known for its beauty. Cobblestone streets, historic buildings, a city that feels frozen in time…
Canadian Creepies063 The Barbara Stoppel Case Part 04
Send us a text, tell us your canadian creepy! By the time investigators began to take a closer look, the pattern was impossible to ignore. In this episode, we…
Canadian CreepiesDTCP 042 - The Witch of Plum Hollow
Send us a text, tell us your canadian creepy! In the 1800s, in rural Ontario, one woman became known for what she could see. Elizabeth “Mother” Barnes—often…