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Episode 181 - The region in the South Nahanni River played host to several unexplained and disturbing occurrences in the first half of the twentieth century. Between1905 and 1945, in the remote and rugged wilderness in the lower west corner of Mackenzie Mountains in the Northwest Territories and other unexplained events, there were at least 44 people who went missing under mysterious circumstances. Most unsettling of all were the four bodies that were found during that time in three separate incidents. All of the corpses had been decapitated, and their heads were never recovered, earning the area the ominous nickname, the Valley of the Headless Men. No one knows who was responsible for these horrific mutilations or what became of the other missing people. Sources: Secrets of the Nahanni: The Valley of Headless Men – The Outdoor Journal The Lore Behind the Mystery of Canada’s Nahanni National Park The Valley of Headless Men. The spectacular scenery of the Nahanni… | by L Hall | Chameleon | Medium Nahanni National Park Reserve - Wikipedia Valley of Mystery — Pierre Berton | Maclean’s | March 15, 1947 Parks Canada — Nahanni National Park Reserve Mysteries of the Nahinni Park Reserve in Canada — StrangeOutdoors.com Did giants roam Canada’s Northwest Territories — or do they still? | CBC News The Valley of the Headless Men: UnresolvedMysteries Legends of the Nahanni Valley Legends of the Nahanni Valley by Hammerson Peters Serial Killer Quarterly Vol.1 No.3 “Unsolved in North America” — Scribd Read The Dangerous River Online by R. M. Patterson | Books | Scribd Read Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader Weird Canada Online by Bathroom Readers’ Institute | Books | Scribd Read Strange but True Online by John Robert Colombo | Books | Scribd The Strangest Northerns: The Valley of the Beasts - Dark Worlds Quarterly The Willows, The Wendigo, and Other Horrors: The Best Weird Fiction and Ghost Stories of Algernon Blackwood: Annotated and Illustrated Tales of Murder, Mystery, Horror, and Hauntings eBook: Blackwood, Algernon, Kellermeyer, M., Kellermeyer, M.: Amazon.ca: Kindle Store Canada is a huge country. Most of it is unfit for human habitation. - Vox This Is How Empty Canada Really Is (PHOTOS) | HuffPost Canada News Geography | The Canada Guide Largest Countries in the World by Area - Worldometer Table 24.1 Population, by province and territory, selected years, 1861 to 2009 Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine

Episode 175: Like any other region, Canada has its share of stories of fantastical creatures that may or may not exist. Dark Poutine has covered a few of them. In episode 25 we learned of Swift Runner, believed to be possessed by the cannibalistic spirit known as Wendigo, we talked about, Ogopogo, the giant serpent in Okanagan Lake in episode 113 and of course, in episode 131 we gave you a primer on Sasquatch aka Bigfoot in Western Canada and the USA. In this episode, you will learn about some of Canada’s lesser-known cryptids, The Loup-Garou, The Thunderbird, The Toronto Tunnel Monster and The Giant Spider Bat.  Source: [Loup-Garou | The Canadian Encyclopedia] [The Werewolf of Quebec City — CANADIANA] [Le loup-garou du Kamouraska (1766-1767) – Patrimoine, Histoire et Multimédia] [Les Loups-Garous du Québec – Werewolves of Quebec  | Julian Peters comics] [Thunderbird | New Cryptozoology Wiki | Fandom] [Thunderbird: a symbol of power, strength and nobility - Ecstatic Trance Postures] [Thunderbird- A Canadian Legend] [Toronto Tunnel Monster | Cryptid Wiki | Fandom] [The Toronto Tunnel Monster | Cryptozoology News Articles & Investigations] [Toronto Urban Legends: The Real Toronto Underground] [Strange Encounters with Bizarre Tunnel-Dwelling Monsters | Mysterious Universe] [A guide to the secret tunnels hidden beneath Toronto] [Little people (mythology) - Wikipedia] [What Lies Beneath: Toronto and The Tunnel Monster of Cabbagetown] [ParaResearchers Of Ontario - Toronto Tunnel Monster] [The Creepy Cabbagetown Monster Lurking in Toronto’s Underground] [Cryptids of Canada and Other Toronto Urban Legends We Bet You Didn’t Know About - Mary-am Suites] [C.H.U.D. (1984) - IMDb] [Myths & Monsters - DIBAAJIMOWIN] [memegwesi (na) | The Ojibwe People’s Dictionary] [Mysteries of Canada – Canada History and Mysteries] [Stranger Things: Four-in-Five Canadians believe] [Giant Canadian Spiderbat | Cryptid Wiki | Fandom] [North American House Hippo - YouTube] Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine

Episode 164: On July 12, 1997, in the town of Kitimat, British Columbia, after months of tension, tempers boiled over, and a violent altercation took place between a mad man and four young men. Three of the men, Michael Mauro and Mark Teves, both 20 and 21-year-old David Nunes were dead, and another, 20-year-old Donny Oliveira, was barely clinging to life after a local man named Kevin Louis Vermette allegedly blasted away at the group with a sawed-off shotgun before disappearing into the brush. He is still on the loose almost 24 years later. Co-host: Carol Browne Sources: Suspected BC murderer: Vermette still on the loose | Dawson Creek Mirror $25,000 reward in Kitimat triple murder cold case set to expire  | Globalnews.ca Wanted by the RCMP: Kevin  Louis  Vermette | Royal Canadian Mounted Police B.C. town rescinds $25,000 reward for info on 1997 triple-murder. Some donors want their money back | National Post A hockey game gets rowdy, and other Kitimat police files this week – Kitimat Northern Sentinel Wanted man who fled B.C. city 16 years ago may be alive: RCMP - The Globe and Mail Experienced outdoorsman flees into forest after killing 3 young adults and injuring another with a shotgun. Police believe he may still be alive. : UnresolvedMysteries Fifteen years on, the questions remain – Terrace Standard America’s Most Wanted Fans - Kevin Vermette KEVIN LOUIS VERMETTE | Wanted For Murder (July 1997, Kitimat, BC) Wanted by the RCMP - Kevin Louis VERMETTE CANADA’S MOST WANTED: These killers are on the run; have you seen them? | Toronto Sun America’s Most Wanted - Season 22 Episode 32: May 23, 2009 - Metacritic Community Profile - District of Kitimat Unsolved Mysteries - Board With Everything amw.com | Kevin Vermette - Fugitive Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine

Episode 158 - Twenty-three-year-old nurse and former beauty queen, Alexandra Wiwrachuk, thought the warm spring night in 1962 would be perfect for a walk down by the river before her midnight shift at Saskatoon’s City Hospital. Alexandra did not show up for work that night, and it was not until thirteen days later that children stumbled upon her broken body in a shallow grave. Someone had savagely beaten the young woman, brutally raped her and then buried her alive, leaving her to die. Nearly sixty years later, no one has ever been brought to justice in Alexandra Wiwcharuk’s murder. Co-host: Carol Browne Sources: https://justiceforalex.com http://alexandrawiwcharuk.net/index.html https://www.facebook.com/alexandrawiwcharuk/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unsolved_murders_in_Canada https://thestarphoenix.remembering.ca/obituary/alexandra-wiwcharuk-1074725458 https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B0068LY6BE/ Girl In Saskatoon - Doc  Johnny Cash - The Girl in Saskatoon  SASKATOON POLICE Saskatoon Police Website policeservice@saskatoon.ca 1-306-975-8300 SASKATOON CRIME STOPPERS Crime Stoppers 1-800-222-8477 THE NIECES OF ALEXANDRA Nieces Official Website patty@alexandrawiwcharuk.net 1-866-794-1962   (toll free) All calls private and confidential! Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine

Episode 150: Beginning at 7:19 pm Atlantic Daylight Time, on the evening of October 4, 1967, an airline pilot reported seeing an unidentified flying object heading east over Southern Quebec. About 30 minutes later, calls began coming into local authorities reporting strange lights in the sky over the Atlantic Ocean along Nova Scotia’s South Shore. The multiple sightings continued until 11:20 pm that evening when something large crashed into the water just off Shag Harbour, Nova Scotia. The mysterious and odd events of that evening are one of Canada’s most enduring and well-documented UFO sightings. Sources: https://shagharbourincident.com/ https://shagharbourufoexpo.com/ http://www.roswellproof.com/Shag_Harbour/Shag_Harbour1_summary.html   http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread485206/pg1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shag_Harbour,_Nova_Scotia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shag_Harbour_UFO_incident http://www.ufoevidence.org/Cases/CaseSubarticle.asp?ID=179 https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/unusual/ufo/Pages/default.aspxhttps://globalnews.ca/news/3761270/canadas-best-documented-ufo-sighting-still-intrigues-50-years-on/ https://globalnews.ca/news/4319302/cousteau-family-members-shag-harbour/ https://www.ufocasebook.com/Shagharbor.html https://ns1763.ca/war-monuments/roycan63anchor/ Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine

Episode 146: On June 13th 1901, Ada Mills Redpath and her son Jocelyn Clifford Redpath were killed in their mansion in on Sherbrooke Street in Montreal. Ada had been shot to the back of the head. Clifford has a gunshot wound to his the temple. The police were not called. A coroner’s inquest the next day declared the deaths a murder-suicide. Ada and Clifford were buried June 15th without any further investigation. Written By: Josina De Bree Sources: https://www.canadianmysteries.ca/sites/redpath/home/indexen.html https://criminal.findlaw.com/criminal-procedure/the-m-naghten-rule.html https://www.epilepsy.com/learn/about-epilepsy-basics/what-epilepsy https://www.epilepsysociety.org.uk/epilepsy-auras https://www.cureepilepsy.org/for-patients/what-are-the-phases-of-seizures-of-epilepsy/ Denton A, Tellez-Zenteno JF. A patient with epilepsy charged with kidnapping, unlawful confinement, and assault causing bodily harm after seizures: Deficiencies in the legal system. Epilepsy Behav Rep. 2020;13:100361. Published 2020 Mar 21. doi:10.1016/j.ebr.2020.100361 Dougall, L. (2019) The Summit House Mystery; Or, The Earthly Purgatory. Good Press. Original work published 1905.  Reuber M, Mackay RD. Epileptic automatisms in the criminal courts: 13 cases tried in England and Wales between 1975 and 2001. Epilepsia. 2008 Jan;49(1):138-45. doi: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2007.01269.x. PMID: 17727668. Shih JJ, LeslieMazwi T, Falcao G, Van Gerpen J. Directed aggressive behavior in frontal lobe epilepsy: video-EEG and ictal spect case study. Neurology. 2009;73(21):1804-1806. doi:10.1212/WNL.0b013e3181c2933f Devinsky, Orrin. “Postictal psychosis: common, dangerous, and treatable.” Epilepsy currents vol. 8,2 (2008): 31-4. doi:10.1111/j.1535-7511.2008.00227.x Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine

Episode 138 - On the afternoon of May 10, 1973, a stranger entered the CIBC branch on Main St in the small town of Kenora, Ontario. The man, claiming he had a bomb, demanded all the money in the bank. (Photo credit: Don Dutton, Toronto Star) Sources: CJRL Covers the Kenora Bank Robbery 10 May 1973 Devil's Gap by Joe Ralko https://unidentified.wikia.org/wiki/Paul_Higgins https://www.services.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/missing-disparus/case-dossier.jsf?case=2016065871&id=10 https://www.thestar.com/photos/toronto_star_photo_blog/2017/05/remembering-don-dutton-through-his-photos.html https://reuters.screenocean.com/record/1067788  (gore warning) https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Canadian_Criminal_Sentencing/Cases/Robbery#Bank_robbery https://www.fbi.gov/file-repository/bank-crime-statistics-2018.pdf/view https://www.trentu.ca/indigenous/welcome/about-chanie-wenjack https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_Canadian_Imperial_Bank_of_Commerce_bank_robbery Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine

Episode 123 - Born during the Great Depression, Ken Leishman was a stylish, good looking guy with a Clark Gable moustache. A married father of 7, he was adventurous, smart, charismatic, creative and enterprising. He used his skill as a small aircraft pilot to earn cash first as a fly in mechanic on prairie farms, then as a king cookery salesman.  Ken was also deeply in debt, his sales business was failing and he craved an even more lavish lifestyle. To get what he wanted Ken wasn't above stealing it, but often got caught going back for more. After flying all the way to Toronto to rob banks on two separate occasions Ken was dubbed the Flying Bandit after getting caught during his second failed bank robbery. After Ken's release, he had an even more elaborate heist in mind - making off with a few hundred pounds of gold bullion in what would be the greatest gold theft in Canadian history. Sources: [Bandit - A portrait of Ken Leishman by Wayne Tefs]  [Lost: Unsolved Mysteries of Canadian Aviation by Shirlee Smith Matheson]  [In the Mind of a Mountie - Google Play] [This Was Manitoba: Kenneth Leishman - The Flying Bandit (UPDATED)] [Ottawa Citizen - Ken Leishman - Google News Archive Search] [Newspapers.com search - Ken Leishman + Canada] [Ken Leishman: The Flying Bandit - video dailymotion] [Ken Leishman: The Flying Bandit - YouTube] [Court Briefing for 1966 trial of Ken Leishman et al, Winnipeg Gold Heist] [The Flying Bandit - Winnipeg Free Press] [Canada history: Mar.1, 1966: the Great Winnipeg Gold Heist – RCI | English] [The Flying Bandit - Winnipeg Free Press] [The ‘flying bank robber’ died hard | Maclean’s | DECEMBER 29, 1980] Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine

Episode 121: In this episode we examine 3 different Canadian legends. First we look at Demon Isle a phantom island somewhere in or near the Gulf of St Lawrence. This is where French noblewoman Marguerite de Roberval was marooned by an evil uncle to star in her very own tale of demons, love, loss and survival in New France in the 1500's. Then we're off to Moncton, New Brunswick, one of the most haunted cities in the Maritimes, and the the story of Rebecca's Grave, the resting place of a supposed witch who was executed, buried upside down and concrete was poured over her tomb. Finally we hear the story of Chasse-Galerie in, or in English The Flying or Witched Canoe, one of the most famous Québecois folktales. Isle of Demons [Tales of the Enchanted Islands of the Atlantic Index] [Dale Gilbert Jarvis: Marguerite de Roberval and The Isle of Demons] [Stranded on the Isle of Demons | Mysterious Universe] [Phantom island - Wikipedia] [Mystery of the phantom islands solved: Lands that disappeared on ancient maps are explained as mistakes, mirages and myths | Daily Mail Online] [How to Put a Fake Island on the Map - Atlas Obscura] [Dale Gilbert Jarvis: The Phantoms of Fishot Island, on Newfoundland’s Northern Peninsula] Rebecca Lutes, The Moncton Witch [Rebecca’s Concrete Grave] [NB - Haunted Locations] [Rebecca Lutes Gravesite - YouTube] [New Brunswick’s 7 Most Haunted Places - Huddle] [Local Haunts – The Greater Moncton Paranormal Society] [Rebecca’s Grave | Flickr] [Do you know the story of Rebecca’s Grave? | Bobsroom Dot Com] [GCR0WN Haunted Tour of Moncton (Unknown Cache) in New Brunswick, Canada created by Energizer Bunny] [Great Canadian Ghost Stories: Legendary Tales of Haunting from Coast to Coast: Smith, Barbara: 9781771512794: Books - Amazon.ca] [Rebecca’s Grave Investigation - YouTube] Flying Canoe in Quebec [French Canadian Legends - The Witched Canoe] [The Century Magazine, August 1892, pp. 496-501] [Chasse-galerie - Wikipedia] [Forteresse: Chasse Galerie] [Histoire Canada - Histoire Canada] [La légende du canot d’écorce par Robert Doucet - ONF] [Claude Dubois-  Chasse-galerie - YouTube] Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine

Episode 113 - This week Mike and Scott present some lighter fare in the form of a mystery that has persisted for generations surrounding a mysterious creature said to inhabit the waters of Lake Okanagan. Sightings of the serpent like cryptid called Opopogo or in Salish, n'ha-a-itk, continue to this day without an accepted scientific explanation for the phenomenon. Come see us at CrimeCon in Orlando from May 1-3, 2020. For 10% off your purchase please use POUTINE2020 when buying your tickets. Sources and Further Reading: [Okanagan Nation Alliance – ałi kwu_swiwi-numtax, ałi kwu_suknaqinx, ałi axa/ L/tmxwula/xw.] [Is Ogopogo real?  Incredible sightings in Lake Okanagan, British Columbia, Canada!] [Extended interview with legend hunter about Ogopogo | Watch News Videos Online] [‘It was like a giant snake’: Did Kelowna man capture video of Ogopogo?  | Globalnews.ca] [RAW VIDEO: David Halbauer says he saw Ogopogo | Watch News Videos Online] 2011 [Possible Ogopogo sighting? - YouTube] 2018 [OGOPOGO SIGHTING July 10, 2018 cryptid - YouTube] [Ogopogo - Wikipedia] [Ogopogo: Canada’s Loch Ness Monster | Live Science] [Cryptomundo » Ogopogo Photo Reward] [Kelowna, BC, Canada - Ogopogo Lake Monster] [The legendary Ogopogo lake monster, caught on video | Fox News] [Lake Monsters: Ogopogo, Canadian Lake Monster] [Ogopogo - Mythical Cryptid Lake Monster | Mythology.net] [Stories of Ogopogo] [Ogopogo the Chameleon | Skeptical Inquirer] [Videos – Red Earth Uncovered] [Legend of Ogopogo in the Okanagan Valley | Tourism Kelowna] [Ogopogo – Okanagan Okanogan] [36 Times Ep.32 East Meets West | Podbean] [ogopogo | Mysterious Universe] [Buy Canada #1292 - Ogopogo  (1990) 39¢ | Arpin Philately] [Susan Louisa Moir Allison - Wikipedia] [A Pioneer Gentlewoman in British Columbia: The Recollections of Susan Allison by Margaret A. Ormsby] [People are Seeing Something: A Survey of Lake Monsters in the United States and Canada eBook: Denver Michaels: Amazon.ca: Kindle Store] [Syilx - Wikipedia] [“The Ogo-Pogo” Harry Fay (as George Berry) YouTube] [Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra [Ogo Pogo - YouTube] [Legendary giant sturgeon caught on British Columbia’s Fraser River | Watch News Videos Online] [Beyond Loch Ness aka “Loch Ness Terror”] [Beyond Loch Ness trailer - YouTube] [“Ogopogo” Now Has a Price in His Head] [Ogopogo protector passes on | News | kelownadailycourier.ca] Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine