The Canadian Gothic

Halifax, Nova Scotia, is a city with no shortage of tall tales, folklore, and urban legends. The story of the Glove Guy is stranger than all of them. It’s a common experience for men in Halifax… a friend of a friend was said to have had accepted an offer for a free ride home from downtown late at night, only to clumsily reveal a leather glove fetish along the way. So get in, sit down, and put on y...

Halifax, Nova Scotia is a city with no shortage of tall tales, folklore, and urban legends. The story of the Glove Guy may be stranger than all of them. It’s a common experience for men in Halifax… a friend of a friend was said to have had accepted an offer for a free ride home from downtown late at night, only to clumsily reveal a leather glove fetish along the way. So get in, sit down, and put o...

In Keep Canada Weird Jordan Bonaparte and Aaron Airport explore the weird and offbeat Canadian news stories from the past week. In this episode your hosts discuss; the holy grail of hockey cards AND buyer’s remorse Tim Horton’s Pizza the pizza pranksters targeting Edmonton’s sweetest fella Guelph’s burglar’s bowels Series Links Keep Canada Weird Series: https://www.nighttimepodcast.com/keep-canada...

Nighttime listeners are again offered a platform to share their encounters with the far too many CREEPS lurking around out there. In this episode Jordan and Madelanye unpack the thirteenth volume of listener contributed ENCOUNTERS WITH CREEPS. We got CREEPS with cameras, CREEPS at work, some random CREEP encounters… and the story of Steve Sernoskie, who may be the biggest CREEP in Canada. Episode...

In Keep Canada Weird Jordan Bonaparte and Aaron Airport explore the weird and offbeat Canadian news stories from the past week. In this episode your hosts discuss; a dog on a cliff in New Brunswick a jackpot in small town Newfoundland a camera at a Noah Kahan concert a woman who found love in an octopus Series Links Keep Canada Weird Series: https://www.nighttimepodcast.com/keep-canada-weird Send...

Nighttime listeners are again offered a platform to share their encounters with the far too many CREEPS lurking around out there. In this episode Jordan and Madelanye unpack the twelfth volume of listener contributed ENCOUNTERS WITH CREEPS. We got creeps at bars, an encounter that turned violent, and we may have accidentally uncovered a secret Halifax’s transit authority may prefer remain buried....

In Keep Canada Weird Jordan Bonaparte and Aaron Airport explore the weird and offbeat Canadian news stories from the past week. In this episode your hosts discuss; the cloned cats of Kelowna, BC, updates in the case of the Quebec high school art teacher who was secretly selling his students work dumpster diving in Saskatchewan the premier of Nova Scotia’s recent speech that included Eminem lyrics...

When Dianna Mah-Jones uncharacteristically missed a meeting, a co-worker went to her house to check on her. What was found in the home was aftermath of one of Vancouver’s most horrific crimes. The double murder of 65 year old Dianna Mah-Jones and her 68 year old husband Richard Jones was as brutal as it is senseless. When the suspect, 25 year old Rocky Rambo Wei Nam Kam, was questioned he seemed m...

In Keep Canada Weird Jordan Bonaparte and Aaron Airport explore the weird and offbeat Canadian news stories from the past week. In this episode your hosts discuss; a ten thousand dollar reward for a missing cat in Toronto the maybe Guns N’ Roses autographed guitar donated to an Edmonton thrift store a bald racoon discovered in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia the BC man who found fame online by popping ba...

In Keep Canada Weird Jordan Bonaparte and Aaron Airport explore the weird and offbeat Canadian news stories from the past week. In this episode your hosts discuss; a baby born on a flight to Toronto the puzzling Kate Middleton photo Philip the coffin maker of Sidney, BC Shirley the grandma to WNBA All Star Tik Tok star the continued fallout from EGG/AG Gate Series Links Keep Canada Weird Series: h...

Since 1989, UFOlogy Research of Manitoba has been collecting data related to Canadian UFO sightings from a variety of sources. This data is compiled, organized, analyzed, compared to prior years results and made publicly available in the annual Canadian UFO Survey. In this episode, recorded just hours after the release of the 2023 report, we are joined by the survey’s editor Chris Rutkowski. Links...

In Keep Canada Weird Jordan Bonaparte and Aaron Airport explore the weird and offbeat Canadian news stories from the past week. In this episode your hosts discuss; Tim Horton’s using Prince Edward Islanders as lab rats for their new lids the facial recognition vending machine in the University of Waterloo Wendy's plans to explore Surge pricing the situation that seems to have divided the Keep Cana...

In this episode we will continue our coverage of Bernie Herman and the murder of Braden Herman. In this episode we will be joined by Braden’s brother Brett to discuss the story of Bernie Herman and the murder of his brother Braden. Send a voicememo to the show: nighttimepodcast.com/contact Series Links: Madelayne Klein: https://linktr.ee/madelayneklein Subscribe to the show: https://link.chtbl.com...

Prince Albert, SK - May 11, 2021 Bernie Herman has been with the RCMP for over 30 years and at 55 years old, retirement was inching closer every day. With a wife at home, children grown, and grandchildren to enjoy, you would expect the veteran Mountie was anxious spend his golden years stretching out in the life he spent a lifetime building. But, that's far from the way Bernie's story goes. For re...

In Keep Canada Weird Jordan and his pal Aaron Airport seek out and explore offbeat Canadian news stories from the past week. In this episode your hosts discuss; the man squatting in the dormitory of a BC flight school the High River horse war the Toronto glory hole trickster Series Links Keep Canada Weird Series: https://www.nighttimepodcast.com/keep-canada-weird Send a voice memo: https://www.nig...

In Keep Canada Weird Jordan and his pal Aaron Airport seek out and explore offbeat Canadian news stories from the past week. In this episode your hosts discuss; the highschool teacher in Quebec who is accused of selling his students artwork without their consent or knowledge the free samples of cocaine being passed out at a casino in Calgary a New Glasgow man arrested for threatening the life of a...

Ryan Sommers has a rather remarkable story to tell. Back in 1994, when he was a student at C.P. Allen High School, he was involved in an economics project in which groups of students started businesses. Ryan's group decided on running a sort of gambling scenario that involved bringing a cow to the school's sports field, and having people wager bets on where it would first poop. As you will hear in...

In Keep Canada Weird Jordan and his pal Aaron Airport seek out and explore offbeat Canadian news stories from the past week. In this episode your hosts discuss; animal involved domestic terrorism that crippled Toronto's power infrastructure birth control being distributed among Toronto's pigeons Regina's famous pizza a pill in a Starbucks cake pop ancient shipwreck that recently washed up in Newfo...

On Jan. 3, 2017, Afghanistan war veteran Lionel Desmond bought a semi-automatic rifle, dressed himself in camo, and snuck through the woods to his family home. Inside he shot his mother, his wife, and his 10-year-old daughter before turning the gun on himself. The factors that led to this horrific outcome, and the red flags missed/ignored along the way were the topics of a public inquiry that has...

In Keep Canada Weird Jordan and his pal Aaron Airport seek out and explore offbeat Canadian news stories from the past week. In this episode your hosts discuss; the Canadian man behind the petition to get Taylor Swift on an American stamp the holy grail of hockey card discoverys a lost dog in Saskatchewan the unforeseen circumcisions at an Ontario Pizza Hut Series Links Keep Canada Weird Series: h...

2005 - Windsor, Ontario Nurse Lori Dupont works in the recovery room, Her ex-boyfriend, the anesthesiologist Marc Daniel, works in operating room. Given the hand in hand nature of the O.R. and recovery room Lori and Marc have the awkward experience of maintaining a professional relationship after the break down of a personal one. But this wasn't a normal relationship, and far from a typical breaku...

In Keep Canada Weird Jordan and his pal Aaron Airport seek out and explore offbeat Canadian news stories from the past week. In this episode your hosts discuss; the Canadian food giant Loblaws attempt to raise the price of rotting food $70,000 of stolen pistachios the burger served with a legal waiver the Ontario man scammed out of $15K by the people who offered to help recover the $750K he previo...

I love a David vs. Goliath story, and in this episode we have an especially lopsided mismatch. Our Goliath is the Canadian Military and our David is a modest sex worker offering a discounted rate to soldiers. The first stones have already been thrown in this battle but so far the military has done little more than offer the kind of advertisement an entrepreneur would dream of. For example, the mem...

In Keep Canada Weird Jordan and his pal Aaron Airport seek out and explore offbeat Canadian news stories from the past week. Tonight your hosts discuss; the tractor that was pulled out of a historic building in Seaforth, Ontario the couple from Regina who paid a significant price to win a sexy couple competition how the Canadian military’s warning about a sex worker is great advertising Series Lin...

In Keep Canada Weird Jordan and his pal Aaron Airport seek out and explore offbeat Canadian news stories from the past week. Tonight your hosts discuss; Mickey Mouse’s ‘Steamboat Willie’ entering public domain how our license plates may get us killed the Massachusetts woman who is alleged to have poisoned her husband with soup Series Links Keep Canada Weird Series: https://www.nighttimepodcast.com...