The Canadian Gothic

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; Two dumb Canadian crimes tied to Guelph, Ontario the man with Canada's record setting 21 impaired driving convictions Slush Puppy Place in Kingston, ON the matter of the Door Dash crash in Belwood, ON Series Links Keep Canada Weird Series: https:/...

Yarmouth, Nova Scotia on New Year's Eve 2020 21 year old Zack Lefave rings in the new year partying with friends, but as the final moments of 2020 played out something happens that Zack, or any of his loved ones, could have imagined. Zack walked away leaving a trail that only created more questions. The last known sighting of Zack Lefave was at 1225am, on New Year's Day 2021 when a passing motoris...

Yarmouth, Nova Scotia on New Year's Eve 2020 21 year old Zack Lefave rings in the new year partying with friends, but as the final moments of 2020 played out something happens that Zack, or any of his loved ones, could have imagined. Zack walked away leaving a trail that only created more questions. The last known sighting of Zack Lefave was at 1225am, on New Year's Day 2021 when a passing motoris...

Yarmouth, Nova Scotia on New Year's Eve 2020 21 year old Zack Lefave rings in the new year partying with friends, but as the final moments of 2020 played out something happens that Zack, or any of his loved ones, could have imagined. Zack walked away leaving a trail that only created more questions. The last known sighting of Zack Lefave was at 1225am, on New Year's Day 2021 when a passing motoris...

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; listener contributed stories of their ‘BaD ChRiStMaS’ stolen coats in Vancouver, BC thrown vomit in Victoria, BC Santa’s “wh&rehouse” in Sooke, BC Series Links Keep Canada Weird Series: https://www.nighttimepodcast.com/keep-canada-weird Send a voi...

Andra Adams life was cut tragically short during a domestic violence incident that culminated with her be run over by her boyfriend's vehicle. the Seattle police investigation into the event has drawn criticism by both Andra's loved ones and advocacy groups, but perhaps most of all by Andra's mother Lillith who is far from willing to accept their conclusion that this was simply an accident during...

Romana Didulo, the self declared Queen of Canada, has managed to convince her followers that she is leading this country with the help of both international partners and... well... aliens. In past Nighttime episodes we looked at this story in a variety of ways; we discussed the fake queen's background, we examined the attempt her followers made to arrest the Peterborough, Ontario police force, and...

In a prior episode we learned how the self-declared Queen of Canada Romana Didulo (and her unconventional pseudo-government) had occupied an abandoned schoolhouse in Richmound, Saskatchewan. It may be difficult to believe, but this situation has only become more bizarre and complicated since then. In this episode, we are again joined by Tom who produces the guerilla news site Community TV for a di...

In a past episode, I shared the story of Romana Didulo, the Pilipino immigrant who, from a bedroom in a Victoria, BC boarding house, convinced a surprising number of Canadians that she is the true queen of Canada and our Kingdom's commander in chief. Via a series of follow up episodes we also heard how she and her followers attempted a sort of twisted siege of a Peterborough police station. Despit...

Caryma S'ad is an Ontario based lawyer, journalist, and activist. When she heard the self declared queen of Canada was planning a siege of a police station she did what any reasonable lawyer/journalist/activist would do…She grabbed her helmet, hoped on an electric scooter, and got right in the middle of it. She was one of the first on the scene that day, and she left when Romana DIdulo did. In fac...

Using little more than a Youtube account a middle aged woman living in a boarding house in Victoria, BC has convinced thousands of people across the country that a global group of allied countries have appointed her Queen of Canada and Commander in Chief of Canada. Her followers (who refer to themselves as We The People) believe her many royal decrees to be law and they act accordingly. One such d...

For nearly a year now, a middle aged woman in Victoria, BC has been publishing videos and releasing written statements in which she claims to have been appointed as Queen of Canada and head of government by a collective of allied nations. It may sound laughable, but Romana Didulo has been embraced by the online Qanon conspiracy subculture and as a result she has found herself with a large devoted...

In this episode we follow the twisted route this case took through the Canadian Justice System using excerpts of Global News coverage of Rohinie's trial. Links: Robert Karass AMA: https://www.reddit.com/r/toronto/comments/9v69ij/im_robert_karrass_defence_counsel_for_rohinie/ CBCs NCR 2014: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFY_98xC6jc&pp=ygUebmNyIG5vdCBjcmltaW5hbGx5IHJlc3BvbnNpYmxl Credits: Musical...

Toronto, Ontario. December 2015. In the middle of the day and within the aisles of Shoppers Drug mart, an unprovoked random stabbing leaves Rosemary Junor clinging to life. When the suspect is apprehended the story she told about nanotechnology and mind control would cement this case, and the name Rohinie Bisesar, among Canada's most bizarre crimes. In this episode, we are joined by investigative...

Our story is going to take us back to 2022 and into suburban Ontario for what can only be described as a living nightmare. Something awful had been happening to 37 year old Iranian immigrant Elnaz Hajtamiri. Although she never confided in her loved ones what exactly was going on, it is quite clear she was being hunted. Over the span of several weeks multiple tracking devices were found on her car,...

Madelayne Klein and Jordan Bonaparte will again offer listeners of this show a platform to share their encounters with the far too many CREEPS lurking around out there. In this episode we will unpack the eleventh volume of listener contributed ENCOUNTERS WITH CREEPS. We got two creeps at a car rental agency, a creep in the bushes with stolen underwear, a creep breaking into cars outside of a Cape...

Duncan, BC. New Years Day 1970. Just before dawn. Doreen Kendall, a nurse at the Cowichan Hospital, wanted to open a window and get some fresh air in a patients room. As the curtains parted, a blinding light being projected from an object hovering just outside the window froze her dead in her tracks. The beings she claimed to see operating the object, they changed her life forever. In the case of...

the city of Martensville, Saskatchewan offers a quiet and affordable place to raise a family but for a time in the 1990s Martinsville was one of the last places you'd want your family associated with. What starts with allegations of a sexual assault against a child slowly transforms into a believe that a satanic cult of pedophiles had infiltrated the local police force and were using a local dayca...

In a prior episode, we met Craig Ferguson curator of the Dead in Halifax twitter account and author of it’s companion book. If you listened to our two prior episodes, or follow what he does online you probably heard his catch phrase 'Graveyards are where history comes to life' and tonight he is joining us to again prove it. Since 1843 the Holy Cross Cemetery has been the permanent resting place of...

In this Halloween special, I'll be joined by both Aaron Airport and Madelayne Klein to explore the soft grey mist that divides the land of the living from that of the dead as told by the amazing Nighttime listeners who share their encounters with the supernatural. Credits: Musical Theme - Noir Tokyo by Monty Datta Provide feedback and comments on the episode: nighttimepodcast.com/contact Subscribe...

Madelayne Klein and Jordan Bonaparte will again offer listeners of this show a platform to share their encounters with the far too many CREEPS lurking around out there. In this episode we will unpack the tenth volume of listener contributed ENCOUNTERS WITH CREEPS. Episode Links: Encounters with Creeps - Volume 1: https://www.nighttimepodcast.com/episodes/creeps Encounters with Creeps - Volume 2: h...

On a snowy night in March of 2011, 20-year-old Luke Joly-Durocher was visiting a friend in North Bay, Ontario for the weekend. After an evening of music, laughter, and drinks Luke and three friends went to a downtown bar, but the night took an unexpected turn. The bouncer didn't let Luke in, thinking he'd had too much to drink. With his friends inside the club, and Luke alone with the night the my...

Residents in an upscale Ancaster, Ontario neighbourhood often wondered about the one homeowner that seemed to stand out. He didn’t look much older than 19, didn’t seem to work, yet had a near million dollar house and a collection of exotic cars. In 2017 a joint RCMP / FBI operation on the home's front porch led to the arrest of 22-year-old Karim Baratov, and provided answers to many of the neighbo...

Madelayne Klein and Jordan Bonaparte will again offer listeners of this show a platform to share their encounters with the far too many CREEPS lurking around out there. In this episode we will unpack the ninth volume of listener contributed ENCOUNTERS WITH CREEPS. Episode Links: Encounters with Creeps - Volume 1: https://www.nighttimepodcast.com/episodes/creeps Encounters with Creeps - Volume 2: h...

Madelayne Klein and Jordan Bonaparte will again offer listeners of this show a platform to share their encounters with the far too many CREEPS lurking around out there. In this episode we will unpack the eighth volume of listener contributed ENCOUNTERS WITH CREEPS. Episode Links: Encounters with Creeps - Volume 1: https://www.nighttimepodcast.com/episodes/creeps Encounters with Creeps - Volume 2:...