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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
51 episodes
Residential Schools: Part 03 Resistance and Survival
Residential Schools: Erasure, Resistance, Reckoning — Part 03 of 06: Resistance & SurvivalCo-hosted by Valerie and Amanda Joy (Down the Crooked Path).This episode turns to the often-overlooked stories of resistance
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DTCP 011 - Werewolves of La Belle Province
In this episode, Amanda Joy ventures deep into the misty forests and old villages of Quebec to uncover the chilling legends of the loup-garou—the werewolves of La Belle Province.These tales aren’t just campfire stories. They’re part of a...
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Residential Schools: Part 02 Life Inside the Schools
In Part 02 of our series, Ali and Valerie examine what daily life was like for children forced into Canada’s residential school system. We look closely at the strict routines and harsh rules designed to erase Indigenous identities, and the puni...
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DTCP 010 - Tom Thomson
This week on Down the Crooked Path, Amanda turns her gaze to one of Canada’s most enduring mysteries: the life—and death—of Tom Thomson.Paint...
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Residential Schools: Part 01 Foundations of a System of Erasure
In the first episode of our six-part series, Valerie and Ali begin an unflinching exploration of Canada’s residential school system—its origins, intentions, and the roots of a policy designed to erase Indigenous identities and cultures.<...
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DTCP 09 - The Phantom Train
🚂🌌 This week on Down the Crooked Path: The Phantom Train of Canada 🌌🚂All aboard for one of Alberta’s eeriest legends. In this episode, we travel to Medicine Hat to uncover the chilling stories of a phantom train said to thunder th...
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036 Holy Smoke: Canada's Cannabis Cult
Episode 036 – Holy Smoke: Canada’s Cannabis CultWhat happens when spirituality, rebellion, and cannabis collide in a quiet Canadian city?In this crossover episode, Valerie is wonderfully co-hosted by Amanda Joy from Dow...
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Episode 36
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DTCP 08 - The Falcon Lake Incident
On May 20, 1967, deep in the wilds of Manitoba, amateur geologist Stefan Michalak encountered something that would change his life—and the Canadian UFO landscape—forever. Was it a secret military experiment? A hallucination? Or a genuine brush ...
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035 The Boy on Yonge Street: The Murder of Emanuel Jaques
👣 Co-hosted by Valerie and Amanda Joy (Down the Crooked Path)In the summer of 1977, the brutal murder of 12-year-old shoeshine boy Emanuel Jaques sent shockwaves through Toronto and changed the face of Yonge Street forever. In t...
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Episode 35
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DTCP 07 - French Canadian Goblin Lore
This week, Amanda Joy follows the tiny, twisting footsteps of folklore into the world of French Canadian goblins—known as lutins. Mischievous, shapeshifting, and sometimes sinister, these creatures have long haunted the edges of...
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034 Wailing Winds and Buried Bones: Alberta Haunts Part 01
In this chilling first installment of our Alberta hauntings series, Valerie and Amanda journey through some of the province’s most ghost-ridden landscapes. From wind-swept cemeteries to historic sites echoing with sorrow, Alberta is more than j...
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Episode 34
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DTCP 06 - Mandy the Doll
She was found abandoned. She arrived broken. And ever since, things haven’t been quite right.In this episode of Down the Crooked Path, Amanda Joy unearths the eerie story of Mandy the Doll, a haunted artifact locke...
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033 Beyond the Burning: What Witch Trials Left Behind Part 03
This is the third installment in our exploration of witch trials and witch hunts in Canada. If you're just joining us, start with Episode 010: Witch Trials Part 01 and Episode 020: Hexed: Canada’s Witch Hunts Part 02 to catch the ...
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Episode 33
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DTCP 05 - Granger Taylor: Exit Earth
In this episode, we follow the trail of one of Canada’s most baffling disappearances.Granger Taylor was a mechanical genius from rural Vancouver Island who seemed destined for greatness—or perhaps something far stranger. Fascinated by UF...
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032 Before Gilead: Reproductive Control and Racial Terror in Canada
You’ve read The Handmaid’s Tale… but what if Gilead wasn’t a future dystopia—or even fiction?In this episode, we expose the disturbing truth behind Canada’s hidden history of reproductive control. From the forced sterilization o...
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Episode 32
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DTCP 04 - Hauntings of Niagara On The Lake
Niagara-on-the-Lake is often called Canada's prettiest town—but behind the charm of its flower-lined streets and historic buildings lies a much darker legacy. In this episode of Down The Crooked Path, we peel back the picturesque surfa...
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031 Empire of Fur & Fire
Long before Canada wore a crown or stitched a flag, it built its bones on beaver pelts, burned land, and brutal systems of control. In this episode, we take a dark descent into the legacy of the Hudson’s Bay Company—an empire cloaked in trade b...
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Episode 31
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DTCP 03 - Alberta Cattle Mutilations
👣 Hosted by Amanda Joy 💀 Canadian content released Tuesdays on Canadian Creepies 🌍 International / otherworldly content drops Thursdays wherever you get your podcastsSomething strange is stalking the Alberta prairie...
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030 Gold, Blood & Silence: Canada's Hidden Hand Abroad
Behind the glint of gold lies a trail of shadows.In this powerful episode, we pull back the curtain on how Canadian mining companies operate far beyond our borders—and far beyond accountability. From the deadly clashes in Tanzania’s Nort...
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Episode 30
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DTCP 02 - Valley of the Headless Men
Hosted by Amanda JoyDeep in the wild, remote wilderness of the Northwest Territories lies Nahanni National Park—stunning, sacred, and steeped in legend. But beyond the mist-shrouded peaks and winding river lies a mystery that has ...
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029 Denis Lortie Part 02: The Storm Breaks
Episode 029 – Denis Lortie Part 02: The Storm BreaksIn this gripping conclusion to the Denis Lortie case, we walk you through the harrowing events of May 8, 1984, when chaos erupted inside Quebec’s National Assembly. Dresse...
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Episode 29
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DTCP 01 - The Baldoon Mystery
Step into the windswept fields of early 1800s Ontario, where a peaceful Scottish settler family found themselves under siege by forces they couldn’t explain. In this episode, we unravel The Baldoon Mystery—Canada’s most famous (and eeriest) tal...
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028 Denis Lortie Part 01: Shadows Before the Storm
In the first installment of this two-part deep dive, Valerie and Kyle trace the dark and disturbing path that led Denis Lortie to the doors of Quebec’s National Assembly. From a childhood steeped in trauma and abuse to a military career marked ...
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Episode 28
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Down The Crooked Path: An Introduction
🌘 Follow Amanda Joy Down The Crooked Path—Every Week. Every Tuesday, Amanda Joy invites you to wander off the well-lit trail and into the unknown with Down The Crooked Path, a weekly series under the Canadian Creepies
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027 The Mad Slasher: Christian Magee and the Shadows of Small-Town Ontario
In this episode of Canadian Creepies, we delve into one of Canada's most disturbing and brutal cases—an urban nightmare that gripped Ontario in the 1970s. Christian Magee, later dubbed “The Mad Slasher,” left a trail of violence and co...
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Episode 27
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