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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 Canadian. And it’s probably going to keep you up at night.
Episodes
178 episodes
075a The Shedden Massacre
On April 8, 2006, eight men were found dead inside four vehicles in a farmer’s field near Shedden, Ontario.What followed became one of the most notorious biker-related murder cases in Canadian history.In this episode of Canadian C...
DTCP 064 - The Spectre of Rexton
On Halloween night in 1930, four teenagers driving between Richibucto and Rexton, New Brunswick, claimed they encountered something terrifying on the road.A white-robed figure.A ghost.The story spread quickly, drawing crowd...
074 - Bruni v Bruni
This week, Canadian Creepies is heading into the courtroom for a case that proves truth really can be stranger than fiction.Bruni v. Bruni began as a bitter Ontario family court dispute, but what unfolded became one of the most memorable...
DTCP 063 - The Beauport Poltergeist
In the summer of 1989, an ordinary apartment building in Beauport, Québec became the centre of one of the province’s strangest paranormal cases.It began with unexplained knocking inside the walls. Soon, residents were reporting violent b...
073 - Richardson Family Murders
In April 2006, three members of the Richardson family were found murdered inside their Medicine Hat, Alberta home.Marc Richardson, his wife Debra, and their eight-year-old son Jacob had all been killed. Missing from the house was the cou...
DTCP 062 - Forgotten Wildmen Legends
Long before Bigfoot became a pop culture phenomenon, stories of strange, human-like creatures were already circulating across Canada.Hidden in Indigenous oral traditions, frontier accounts, newspaper archives and regional folklore are ta...
072b Jason Porter: The Man Who Wasn't
In Part Two of Jason Porter: The Man Who Wasn’t, Valerie and Amanda continue the story as the carefully constructed identity Heather Rovet knew as “Jace” begins to collapse.After years together, Heather starts uncovering dating profiles,...
DTCP 061 - The Haunting of The Keg Mansion
What happens when a beautiful historic mansion carries more than a century of stories within its walls?At 515 Jarvis Street in Toronto stands one of the city’s most famous haunted landmarks: The Keg Mansion. Built in 1868, the grand Goth...
072a Jason Porter: The Man Who Wasn't
Season 3 of Canadian Creepies starts here.Jason Porter built relationships, identities, and entire versions of himself around lies. In Part One, we begin unraveling the story behind the deception, tracing his early life, relationships, ...
DTCP 060 - Winnipeg's Ectoplasm Lab
What happens when grief, science, and the supernatural all meet inside one Winnipeg home?From the 1920s through the 1940s, physician Dr. T.G. Hamilton and his wife, nurse Lillian Hamilton, transformed their home at 185 Kelvin Street into...
Bonus Episode - Episode 052 Correction: Lisa Neve
This bonus episode corrects an important error from Episode 052, Dangerous Offender, Dangerous System.Lisa Neve did not murder anyone.In 1991, Rhodora Nicholas was severely beaten, robbed, and abandoned in a field by Neve...
DTCP 059 - The Marysburgh Vortex
There’s a stretch of Lake Ontario where ships have vanished, planes have gone down, and strange stories have lingered beneath the waves for generations.This week, we’re heading Down the Crooked Path into the Marysburgh Vortex, a mysterio...
What's Behind Door Number Three?
Season 3 of Canadian Creepies is stepping onto the game show floor, where every door hides something strange, unsettling, mysterious or downright creepy.From true crime and dark Canadian history to paranormal stories, bizarre mysteries a...
DTCP 058 - Vanishing Hitchhiker
On a rainy night near University Boulevard, a driver picks up a quiet young woman wearing a light coat.She says little, handing over a piece of paper with the address of UBC’s Main Library written on it.But before the car ever rea...
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The Sixties Scoop - Part 04
For decades, Indigenous families were expected to endure the removal of their children in silence. Eventually, survivors, parents, communities, and Indigenous leaders began forcing Canada to listen.In the final part of our Sixties Scoop ...
DTCP 057 - The Allan Memorial Experiments
Behind the walls of Montreal’s Allan Memorial Institute, respected psychiatrist Dr. Ewen Cameron was conducting experiments intended to break down the human mind and rebuild it from the ground up.Patients were subjected to powerful combi...
The Sixties Scoop - Part 03
The closing of residential schools did not mean the end of Canada’s attempts to separate Indigenous children from their families, communities, and cultures. The system changed. The goal of assimilation remained.In Part 03 of our series o...
Bonus Episode: How to Tell if You’re Dating a White Supremacist
White supremacy doesn’t always announce itself with obvious symbols, slogans, or declarations. Sometimes it enters a relationship quietly: through jokes, conspiracy theories, changing language, increasingly extreme media, and a pattern of comme...
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DTCP 056 - The Ghost of Binstead Manor
In the 1850s, Georgina Pennee moved with her husband to Binstead Manor in Prince Edward Island, expecting to begin a new chapter of their lives. Instead, she found herself confronting something far more unsettling: the apparition of a woman car...
The Sixties Scoop - Part 02
In Part 2 of our four-part series on the Sixties Scoop, Valerie and Amanda examine the devastating conditions inside Canada's Residential School system and the decisions that allowed generations of Indigenous children to suffer.We explor...
DTCP 055 - The Mad Trapper
The frozen wilderness of Canada's North has long been the setting for stories of survival, isolation, and mystery.In this episode of Down the Crooked Path, Amanda Joy explores the legend of The Mad Trapper of Rat River. W...
The Sixties Scoop - Part 01
Part 01 of our four-part series on the Sixties Scoop begins by examining the policies and ideology that made the mass removal of Indigenous children possible.In this episode of Canadian Creepies, Valerie and Amanda trace ...
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DTCP 054 - The Lost Lemon Mine
Gold has a way of drawing people into the wilderness... but some treasures are said to demand far more than determination.In this episode of Down the Crooked Path, Amanda Joy follows the enduring legend of The Lost Lemon Mine...
DTCP - The Silence of the Woods: Bigfoot Beyond Myth
Is Bigfoot a legend told around campfires... or something more? "The Silence of the Woods: Bigfoot Beyond Myth" explores the shadowy line between ancient stories and unexplained encounters in the North American wild. From First Nations oral his...
