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Episode 219 BONUS: In this episode we hear from several Dark Poutine listeners, and in one case, a family member of a listener, who are sharing their experiences and feelings around their own UFO encounters. Mike also shares his own experience as a youth, and at the end of the show Mike and Mathew talk about their recent visit to The Extraterrestrial Highway, Rachel, Nevada and the back Gate of Area 51.

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Episode 219: In the first of two episodes released this week, Mike interviews Chris Rutkowski. Chris A. Rutkowski is a science writer who has devoted much time to investigating and studying reports of UFOs, writing about case investigations, and offering his insights into the broad UFO phenomenon publishing the annual Canadian UFO Report. Chris has authored numerous books on UFOs and two of his previous books, Abductions and Aliens and The Canadian UFO Report, were national bestsellers. He was recently referred to in a 2021 report to the Canadian Minister of Defense on UFOs in Canada as the person to which the government hands over reports of UFOs. He lives just outside Winnipeg.

Sources:

The Canadian UFO Survey

Twitter – Chris Rutkowski

Facebook Page – Chris Rutkowski, Writer

Blog – Chris Rutkowski 

Report a UFO in Canada – The Canadian UFO Survey

Report a Canadian UFO Sighting — The Nighttime Podcast

The Civil Aviation Daily Occurrence Reporting System (CADORS)

UFO sightings: Canada’s defence minister briefed | CTV News

Thematic Guides – Unidentified Flying Objects – Library and Archives Canada

What does Canada do with reports of UFO sightings? — The Big Story

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Episode 218: The history of humanity is rife with stories of unexplained things in the skies above us. Handed down first verbally and pictographically by way of depictions painted on cave walls and then in written accounts, there are scores of stories about strange lights and objects in the sky. Throughout the twentieth century and into the twenty-first, as human technology has improved, we have been able to better document and disseminate information about these sightings. Over the next two episodes, we have a look at unidentified flying objects, more commonly called UFOs. In this first episode we’ll take a brief look at the phenomena itself, the stigma surrounding it and recent admissions by governmental officials of the existence of these objects. As well, we will peek at some of the stories from right here in Canada that we haven’t already covered. I have had to pick and choose some of the more interesting and detailed reports, as there are more than 1000 reports per year and the database of reports in Canada alone is massive. 

Sources:

Chris Hadfield on exploring Mars and the growing conversation about UFOs | CBC Radio

Former Arizona Governor says he saw a UFO during the 1997 Phoenix Lights – Wikinews, the free news source

The Canadian UFO Report by Chris A. Rutkowski, Geoff Dittman – Ebook | Scribd

ParaResearchers Of Ontario – Welcome To Our Space On The Web

Simeon Perkins Records UFO sighting October 12, 1796 | Queens County Museum

Canadian DND Report: Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP)

Canada’s UFOs: The search for the unknown – Library and Archives Canada

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Magnet_(UFO)

Wilbert Smith on UFOs Project Magnet and his Contacts with the Boys from Topside — YouTube

Pentagon UFO videos – Wikipedia

Documents | NAVAIR – FOIA

Civil Aviation Daily Occurrence Reporting System — CADORS: Report 2016P1783

Credible UFO Reports Are Being Ignored, Declassified Canadian Government Documents Reveal

UFO sightings: Canada’s defence minister briefed | CTV News

http://www.psican.org

http://pararesearchers.org

List of artificial objects leaving the Solar System – Wikipedia

US10144532B2 — Craft using an inertial mass reduction device — Google Patents

Walker ‘stunned’ to see ship hovering high above sea off Cornwall | Science | The Guardian

NINA HAGEN 1985 “Gods Of Aquarius” (English) IN EKSTASY — YouTube

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Episode 217: In the early hours of March 27, 2010, Holly Bartlett, 31, was found unconscious and badly injured under the A. Murray MacKay bridge in Halifax, Nova Scotia, 350 metres away from her home. She died the next day in a Halifax Hospital.

Holly, a grad student at Dalhousie University, was fiercely independent despite her disability. She had been completely blind since she was thirteen years old. Holly’s autopsy indicated she’d imbibed alcohol and that she had sustained “blunt force injury to the head (…) attributable to a fall” and that the manner of death was accidental. Police did a brief investigation determining that after cabbing home from a night out with a friend, Holly became disoriented and lost due to the combination of her alcohol consumption and her blindness.

Somehow, Holly had wandered down two steeply graded streets away from her home and toward the harbour, had made her way through a hole in a chain link fence, down a steep embankment, and fell 7 metres off a concrete abutment under the bridge across Halifax harbour. They called Holly’s death accidental. Holly’s family and friends in the Justice for Holly group were not satisfied and pressed for further investigation into her death. 

Sources:

What Happened to Holly Bartlett? | CNIB

Documentary What Happened to Holly Bartlett Seasons | Accessible Media Inc.

Podcast What Happened to Holly Bartlett Podcast | Accessible Media Inc.

Sights Unseen — YouTube

Holly Elizabeth Bartlett 1978-2010 – Macleans.ca

Holly Bartlett witness changes key details in death investigation | CBC News

Review to be held into blind woman’s death: Halifax police | Globalnews.ca

External review confirms 2010 death of Holly Bartlett was accidental – Halifax | Globalnews.ca

Police handling of Holly Bartlett’s death criticized in review | CBC News

Review of Investigation Into The Death of Holly Bartlett | PDF | Polygraph | Victimology

Holly Bartlett’s unlikely journey | City | Halifax, Nova Scotia | THE COAST

Police announce independent review into Holly Bartlett’s death | News | Halifax, Nova Scotia | THE COAST

Telling Holly’s Bartlett’s story, again | Arts + Culture | Halifax, Nova Scotia | THE COAST

Holly Bartlett’s family is angry with Halifax police

What happened to Holly Bartlett? : UnresolvedMysteries

Holly Bartlett: Autopsy & Clothing – Album on Imgur

Imgur: Map, based on police report

Home | CNIB

NEADS – Financial Aid Directory

JAWS® – Freedom Scientific

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Episode 216: In Quebec, on April 15, 1763, after a supposed confession and hasty trial by an English military tribunal, 30-year-old Marie-Josephte Corriveau was convicted of murdering in brutal fashion her second husband, Louis-Étienne Dodier, and was sentenced to death. She was hanged with haste, three days later. Her body was then put on display in a form-fitting metal cage and placed at a crossroad where for the next five weeks, she stood as a warning to others considering domestic homicide as an answer to an unhappy marriage. When her cage disappeared locals believed that the Devil himself had come and taken Marie-Josephte to hell. It said that La Corriveau‘s spectre haunts the crossroads still.

Sources:

Marie-Josephte Corriveau – Wikipedia

Uncertain Justice by F. Murray Greenwood, Beverley Boissery – Ebook | Scribd

Killing Women by Wilfrid Laurier University Press – Ebook | Scribd

The History of Gibbeting by Samantha Priestley – Ebook | Scribd

La destinée de la Corriveau « Histoire du Québec

Légende de la Corriveau – Voyage à travers le Québec

Les anciens Canadiens – Philippe Aubert de Gaspé

Il était cent fois La Corriveau : anthologie : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

PressReader.com – Macabre Discovery

Canadian Mysteries of the Unexplained: Investigations Into the Fantastic, the Bizarre and the Disturbing

Biography – CORRIVEAU, MARIE-JOSEPHTE, La Corriveau – Volume III (1741-1770) – Dictionary of Canadian Biography

The Legend of La Corriveau: Québécois Folklore and The Politics of Nation-Making in Canada by Leslie Savath

La Corriveau: A woman victim of Society? by Isabelle Parent

View of From Vilified to Victorious: Reconceiving La Corriveau in Anne Hébert’s La Cage | Studies in Canadian Literature

La Corriveau | The Canadian Encyclopedia

The Hanging Cage That Held An Infamous Québec Murderess – Atlas Obscura

Canadian Urban Legends: La Corriveau of Quebec City | NUVO

A Shrine for Marie-Josephte Corriveau and for all women who are victims of domestic violence – UBC Library Open Collections

A Shrine for Marie-Josephte Corriveau – KooZA/rch

Classic French-Canadian Folktales: Volume I (English Edition; Annotated) eBook : Beaugrand, Honore, Frechette, Louis-Honore, Peters, Hammerson: Amazon.ca: Kindle Store

Cage of la Corriveau on display in Lévis | CBC News

La Corriveau: The Gibbet of Quebec — YouTube

French Mourning in the 1700s – Geri Walton

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Episode 215: Mary Celeste, formerly Amazon, was an American registered, Nova Scotia built brigantine that was found abandoned on December 4, 1872, some 740 km off the Azores, Portugal. The fate of the 10 people aboard remains a mystery almost 150 years later.

Sources:

Fisherman’s Memorial | Lunenburg NS

Sable Island | Maritime Museum of the Atlantic

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (text of 1834) by… | Poetry Foundation

The Mystery of the Mary Celeste. Part One: The Facts – Daily Nautica

The Mystery of the Mary Celeste. Part Two: Theories – Daily Nautica

The Mystery of the Mary Celeste. Part Three: the Rediscovery of the Cursed Ship – Daily Nautica

Solved: The Mystery of the Mary Celeste | UCL News – UCL – University College London

Mary Celeste – The Arthur Conan Doyle Encyclopedia

Mary Celeste Monument – Diligent River, Nova Scotia – Atlas Obscura

Mary Celeste | The Canadian Encyclopedia

Mary Celeste – Wikipedia

6 Famous Unsolved Mysteries That Have Totally Been Solved | Cracked.com

Weetabix Mary Celeste — YouTube

The story of the “Mary Celeste” : Fay, Charles Edey : Internet Archive

Ghost ship : the mysterious true story of the Mary Celeste and her missing crew : Hicks, Brian, 1966 : Internet Archive

Phantom Ship , The : Henry Passmore : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

The Galley of Count Arnaldos, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Colossal Squid ~ MarineBio Conservation Society

 

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Episode 214: On November 25, 2011, neighbours around the four-plex at 51st Avenue and 47th Street in the town of Innisfail, Alberta heard a bang which shook their homes. Some said sounded like a gunshot, others said it sounded like someone dropping a heavy pile of wood. The dining room window of one the corner suites had been blown outward, glass was strewn throughout the yard. Police were called to the scene by a bystander inside the home and found a horrific scene. The home was full of smoke and debris. There at the dining room table, still in her wheelchair, first responders discovered the body of 23-year-old, Victoria (Vicky) Shachtay who’d died in what appeared to have been an explosion.

Sources:

Innisfail | The Canadian Encyclopedia

R v Malley, 2015 ABCA 213 (CanLII), <https://canlii.ca/t/gjm7p>

R v Malley, 2017 ABCA 186 (CanLII), <https://canlii.ca/t/h49b4>

Malley (Re), 2014 IIROC 10 (CanLII), <https://canlii.ca/t/g6grh>

Malley (Re), 2014 IIROC 29 (CanLII), <https://canlii.ca/t/g8tsb>

Blast that killed Vicky Shachtay was a ‘targeted attack’: police | National Post

Stepfather told victim not to open Christmas gift that turned out to be bomb | CTV News

Friends, family gather to remember Vicky Shachtay – MountainviewToday.ca

Disabled woman killed by parcel bomb — YouTube

A defining case | Royal Canadian Mounted Police

Bombing suspect arrested, police hold conference — YouTube

Brian Malley loses last appeal chance – MountainviewToday.ca

Pipe bomb – Wikipedia

The pipe bomb: a modern terrorist weapon – PubMed

GUILTY – Canada – Vicky Shachtay, 23, paraplegic, killed by bomb, Innisfail, AB, 25 Nov 2011

Financial advisor found guilty in blast that killed disabled woman — macleans.ca

Bomb that killed paraplegic Innisfail mom Vicky Shachtay disguised to look like Christmas presents, Red Deer court told | Edmonton Sun

Friends, family gather to remember Vicky Shachtay – MountainviewToday.ca

Charges laid in bombing murder of Vicky Shachtay – MountainviewToday.ca

Victoria Shachtay’s caregiver testifies about moments before fatal explosion

Mysterious package killed Alberta mother | CBC News

Canada ‘extremely lucky’ to face few bomb threats, attacks: RCMP – iPolitics

Presentation to Finance Committee Re: Disability Tax Credit Regarding Bill C-462 | Council of Canadians with Disabilities

Vicky Shachtay’s step-dad issues statement about her murder | CTV News

Investment Executive: Brian Malley Articles

Global News: Victoria Shachtay | News, Videos & Articles

Red Deer Advocate: Vicky Shacktay Articles

Victoria-Shachtay | National Post

Unsolved Murders. Help us solve a crime today. Home

http://www.unsolvedcrimes.ca

A machinist in rural Ontario flipped the switch on a flashlight that arrived in the mail. Then it exploded | The Star

16 years later, police still don’t know who killed Paavo Henttonen | News | toronto.com

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Episode 213: Toronto theatre magnate and enigmatic millionaire Ambrose J. Small disappeared without a trace on December 2, 1919, only a day after having made a lucrative deal to sell his ownership interests in his chain of theatres including the Grand Opera House in Toronto. People interested in the case suspected one of two theories were the most likely for the tycoon’s abrupt disappearance — either Small had run off and had into hiding under his own steam, or someone had abducted and very likely killed him. This case has become one of Canada’s oldest mysteries as more than 100 years later, there is yet no answer as to Small’s ultimate fate.

Sources:

Ambrose Small Case | The Canadian Encyclopedia

Canada West | The Canadian Encyclopedia

$1,750,000 in 1919 → 2022 | Inflation Calculator

Biography – SMALL, AMBROSE JOSEPH – Volume XIV (1911-1920) – Dictionary of Canadian Biography

Disappearance of Ambrose Small – Wikipedia

The Doe Network: Ambrose Small – 1891DMON

The Mysterious Disappearance of Ambrose J. Small | Grand Theatre London

What Really Happened to Ambrose Small? | Maclean’s | January 15, 1951

How the mystery of Ambrose Small became Toronto’s most captivating cold case | The Star

The Mystery Of Ambrose J. Small, The Missing Millionaire – Ripley’s Believe It or Not!

Ambrose Small, Toronto’s most sensational mystery

The Grand Mystery of Ambrose Small

Ambrose Small, The Ghost of the Grand Theatre

Investigations following the finding of these human bones near Humber… News Photo – Getty Images

AMBROSE SMALL: CANADA’S COLDEST CASE CLOSED!

The Missing Millionaire by Katie Daubs | Penguin Random House Canada

Canadian Mysteries of the Unexplained: Investigations Into the Fantastic, the Bizarre and the Disturbing

Wild Talents by Charles Fort – Ebook | Scribd

Mysteries of Ontario by John Robert Colombo – Ebook | Scribd

Ghost Stories of Canada by John Robert Colombo, Jillian Hulme Gilliland – Ebook | Scribd

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Episode 212: On the afternoon of January 27, 1993, the day before her 20th birthday, Sian Simmonds, a student who was working he way through school, was found dead in her basement suite in the Guildford neighbourhood of Surrey, B.C. She had been shot and bludgeoned. Neighbours had heard screams coming from her suite. Only days later, a man named David Schlender was arrested. Already on bail for the attempted murder of one of his cocaine dealers the year before, Schlender told police he’d been hired by another man, Brian West, to commit the murder in exchange for wiping an outstanding drug debt. The investigation of Brian West led to another man, Josephakis Charalambous, the Simmonds’ family doctor who had hired West to murder Sian. Eighteen months before her murder, Sian and her older sister Katie had filed grievances with the BC College of Physicians and Surgeons alleging sexual assault by Charalambous. Rather than face censure by the College and risk losing his substantial annual income, Charlambous had sought to silence the girls. As the truth came out about the doctor, his carefully constructed facade of the community minded healer came tumbling down revealing an ugly pattern of violence and predatory behaviour toward young women and girls.

Sources:

Betrayal of trust | Maclean’s | DECEMBER 12, 1994

R. v. West, 1997 CanLII 3157 (BC CA), < https://canlii.ca/t/1dzn4 >

R. v. Charalambous, 1997 CanLII 3363 (BC CA), < https://canlii.ca/t/1dznk >

Mountie Seduced My Wife. I Want a New Trial — PressReader.com

Charalambous v. Canada (Attorney General), 2009 FC 1082 (CanLII), < https://canlii.ca/t/26bkj >

Charalambous v. Canada (Attorney General), 2015 FC 1045 (CanLII), < https://canlii.ca/t/gl077 >

Charalambous v. Canada (Attorney General), 2016 FCA 177 (CanLII), < https://canlii.ca/t/gs5q6 >

Charalambous v. Attorney General of Canada, 2017 CanLII 1337 (SCC), < https://canlii.ca/t/gx021 >

Doctor denied day parole 27 years after hiring hitman to kill teen | Vancouver Sun

Scandalous Case had Public Riveted — PressReader.com

Documentary pays tribute to parents of murdered children – New West Record

Family Physician Hired a Hit Man to Silence Her…Permanently – Medical Bag

Serving Life 25-One Guard’s Story — Scribd

Dr. Death M.D. by David Pietras – Ebook | Scribd

Doctors Who Kill by Carol Anne Davis – Ebook | Scribd

Fatal Prescription: A Doctor without Remorse by John Griffiths | Goodreads

Medical Ethics | The Canadian Encyclopedia

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Episode 211: On January 27, 1896, in the tiny community of Bear River, Nova Scotia, popular fourteen-year-old Annie Kempton was brutally murdered in her home while her parents were out of town. The crime, papers said, was the worst ever seen in the province up to that point and there was an outcry for swift justice on the heels of the slaying. Two days after the crime, Peter David Wheeler, 26, an immigrant, was arrested and charged with the murder. In July of that year, Wheeler was found guilty of the crime and after his trial, made a confession that some have come to see as coerced. He was hanged less than 8 months after the murder in the middle of the night as a crowd was allegedly on their way from Bear River to lynch him.

Sources:

Nova Scotia Archives – Admiral Digby Museum

Place-names of the Province of Nova Scotia : Brown, Thomas J : Internet Archive

In search of justice for Peter and Annie | The Chronicle Herald

Bear River Historical Society | Nova Scotia, Canada

Peter Wheeler, Murder of Annie… – Admiral Digby Museum | Facebook

Justice Denied – Atlantic Books

Stories of our Local Characters

The Lynching of Peter Wheeler by Debra Komar – Ebook | Scribd

Maritime Murder: Deadly Crimes from the Buried Past eBook : Vernon, Steve: Amazon.ca: Kindle Store

Graveyard Tour | Fall For Bear River

Annie Kempton (1881-1896) – Find a Grave Memorial

Folksongs from Southern New Brunswick : Creighton, Helen, 1899- : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Bear River tragedy retold in ‘Annie Kempton’ | SaltWire

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