Canadian Creepies

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 organized crime history. In the second half of The Shedden Massacre, Valerie and Amanda pick up where the violence left off, following the investigation, the shocking revelations, and the lengthy trial that would expose what happened behind...

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 that seemed better suited to the 1600s than the 20th century. Maggie was known around Huron County for her unusual abilities. She claimed to receive visions, communicate with the dead, and help neighbours locate things that had gone missing....

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 followed became one of the most notorious biker-related murder cases in Canadian history. In this episode of Canadian Creepies, Valerie and Amanda dig into the events surrounding the Shedden massacre, the fractured world of the Bandidos Moto...

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 encountered something terrifying on the road. A white-robed figure. A ghost. The story spread quickly, drawing crowds, armed locals and plenty of attention to one dark stretch of Maritime road. But the Spectre of Rexton may have been hiding som...

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 than fiction. Bruni v. Bruni began as a bitter Ontario family court dispute, but what unfolded became one of the most memorable decisions in Canadian legal history. Allegations, escalating hostility, family drama and years of conflict eventual...

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 province’s strangest paranormal cases. It began with unexplained knocking inside the walls. Soon, residents were reporting violent blows strong enough to shake the partitions, mysterious damage appearing in the plaster, and disturbances that no one...

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 home. Marc Richardson, his wife Debra, and their eight-year-old son Jacob had all been killed. Missing from the house was the couple’s 12-year-old daughter, who we will refer to as J.R. because of protections under Canada’s Youth Criminal Justic...

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 circulating across Canada. Hidden in Indigenous oral traditions, frontier accounts, newspaper archives and regional folklore are tales of wildmen said to inhabit remote forests, mountain ranges and northern wilderness. Beings described as hairy, e...

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 constructed identity Heather Rovet knew as “Jace” begins to collapse. After years together, Heather starts uncovering dating profiles, aliases, financial records, pawn receipts and the name Jason Porter, leading her to a history she never knew existe...

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 Jarvis Street in Toronto stands one of the city’s most famous haunted landmarks: The Keg Mansion. Built in 1868, the grand Gothic-style home later became the residence of industrialist Hart Massey and his family before taking on several very d...

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 himself around lies. In Part One, we begin unraveling the story behind the deception, tracing his early life, relationships, reinventions, and the beginnings of a long con that would leave people questioning who Jason Porter really was. All r...

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 the 1940s, physician Dr. T.G. Hamilton and his wife, nurse Lillian Hamilton, transformed their home at 185 Kelvin Street into a laboratory for investigating psychic phenomena. With cameras rolling, mediums in trances, and séances underway, t...

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 did not murder anyone. In 1991, Rhodora Nicholas was severely beaten, robbed, and abandoned in a field by Neve and an accomplice. She survived the attack, but her survival does not diminish the seriousness of the violence or the lasting har...

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 lingered beneath the waves for generations. This week, we’re heading Down the Crooked Path into the Marysburgh Vortex, a mysterious triangle said to be responsible for more shipwrecks and downed aircraft than the Bermuda Triangle. We’ll dive int...

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, unsettling, mysterious or downright creepy. From true crime and dark Canadian history to paranormal stories, bizarre mysteries and the cases that refuse to stay buried, you never quite know what’s waiting on the other side. Canadian Creepies wa...

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 little, handing over a piece of paper with the address of UBC’s Main Library written on it. But before the car ever reaches its destination, the passenger is gone. In this episode of Down the Crooked Path, Amanda Joy explores the legend of t...

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, survivors, parents, communities, and Indigenous leaders began forcing Canada to listen. In the final part of our Sixties Scoop series, we begin with the 1980 Indian Child Caravan, when approximately one thousand people gathered in British Colu...

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 experiments intended to break down the human mind and rebuild it from the ground up. Patients were subjected to powerful combinations of drugs, prolonged isolation, repeated audio messages, and electroshock administered at levels far beyond c...

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 their families, communities, and cultures. The system changed. The goal of assimilation remained. In Part 03 of our series on the Sixties Scoop, we examine how changes to the Indian Act opened the door for provincial child welfare authoriti...

Send us a text, tell us your canadian creepy! 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 comments that becomes harder to ignore. In this special solo bonus episode of Canadian Creepies , Valerie looks at...

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 begin a new chapter of their lives. Instead, she found herself confronting something far more unsettling: the apparition of a woman carrying an infant through the halls of the manor. Determined to understand what she was witnessing, Georgina beg...

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 inside Canada's Residential School system and the decisions that allowed generations of Indigenous children to suffer. We explore how overcrowded, poorly ventilated schools became breeding grounds for diseases like tuberculosis and the 191...

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 mystery. In this episode of Down the Crooked Path , Amanda Joy explores the legend of The Mad Trapper of Rat River . What began as a remote trapping dispute quickly escalated into one of the largest and most extraordinary manhunts in Canadian...

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 mass removal of Indigenous children possible. In this episode of Canadian Creepies , Valerie and Amanda trace how Canada's Residential School system evolved from policy into practice. We explore the laws that gave the government the pow...

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 determination. In this episode of Down the Crooked Path , Amanda Joy follows the enduring legend of The Lost Lemon Mine , a mysterious gold discovery believed to be hidden somewhere in the Canadian Rockies. According to the story, two prospectors...