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Spooktober 2026: Road Trip — The Possessions at Loudun

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2026/10/05

Episode 439: In September 1632, plague was tearing through Loudun, France, when the Ursuline nuns began reporting apparitions, unexplained blows and violent physical attacks. During a series of exorcisms, the voices speaking through the women named a local priest: Urbain Grandier.Grandier was intelligent, outspoken and surrounded by scandal. He had also made powerful enemies. As clergy, physicians and royal officials entered the case, reports from inside the convent became part of a much larger

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57:22

The Expulsion of the Acadians: Grand Pré

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2026/09/28

Episode 438: In September 1755, more than four hundred men from Grand-Pré, Nova Scotia, were summoned to their parish church and told their land, homes, and livestock had been forfeited to the Crown. They would not be going home, and neither would their families. The Acadians, French-speaking Catholic settlers who had farmed the Bay of Fundy’s tidal marshes for more than a century, were about to be deported in one of the largest forced removals in North American history.Here we tell the story of

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56:23

Over the Wall: The Ty Conn Story

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2026/09/21

Episode 437: Tyrone William ‘Ty’ Connbecame the first man in over forty years to climb over the wall atKingston Penitentiary, Canada's oldest and most secure federal prison. Born to a teenage mother in 1967 and adopted at age three by a prominent Belleville psychiatrist, his childhood unravelled intoa cycle of theft, institutionalization, and escapethat would follow him for the rest of his life. By the time he was thirty-two, a string ofarmed bank robberiesand repeated prison breaks had compounded

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59:52

Wrong Turn: The Disappearance of Brady and Halkett

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2026/09/14

Episode 436:In June 1967, two of northern Saskatchewan's most respected bushmen, Métis political organizerJames Bradyand Cree band councillorAbsolom Halkett, were dropped off by float plane to prospect for uranium near La Ronge. A week later, their employer found the camp standing, the beds slept in, the canoe still tied to shore. Both men were gone. The RCMP searched for three weeks, found a trail of unexplained clues, and closed the case without finding either man. More than fifty years later, a

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67:08

White Paper: Balloon Bombs from Japan

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2026/09/07

Episode 435:InNovember 1944, theImperial Japanese Armybegan launchingpaper balloonsfrom the coast of Honshu — each one carrying incendiary and anti-personnel bombs, designed to ride the jet stream across the Pacific and set fire to the forests of North America. They called the programFu-Go. Canada called themWhite Paper. Over the following five months,more than sixty balloons came down on Canadian soil, from the British Columbia coast to Manitoba, and a small team ofCanadian Army bomb disposal

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62:45

Botched Justice: The Death of Crystal Taman

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2026/08/31

Episode 434:On the morning ofFebruary 25th, 2005,Crystal Taman, a forty-year-old dental assistant, wife, and mother of three, left her home inEast St. Paul, Manitobaon her way to work. She never arrived. Stopped at a red light onHighway 59at thePerimeter Highway, her car was struck at highway speed by a blue Dodge Dakota truck driven by an off-dutyWinnipeg Police Serviceconstable namedDerek Harvey-Zenk, who had spent the night drinking with fellow officers at a north-end bar and a colleague's home

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51:15

If Anything Should Happen: The Ottey Sisters Murders

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2026/08/24

Episode 433:OnAugust 16, 1995, Avis Ottey came home to her townhouse in Scarborough, Ontario, expecting to find her daughters packing for the future. Instead, she found nineteen-year-oldMarsha Otteyand sixteen-year-oldTamara "Tami" Otteymurdered in the basement.Marsha was just two days away from leaving for Arkansas State University on an athletic scholarship she had worked years to earn. She had also confided something chilling to her mother while packing her bags: "If anything should happen to

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56:15

Not Justice: Lynching Louie Sam

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2026/08/17

Episode 432:InFebruary 1884, a Scottish storekeeper namedJames Bellwas shot dead in his cabin alongTelegraph Road in Washington Territory, just south of the Canadian border. Within days, a fifteen-year-old Semá:th boy namedLouie Samwas arrested on suspicion of murder and placed in lawful Canadian custody on Sumas Prairie. He never made it to trial.On the night of February 27, a mob of seventy armed and disguised men crossed the international boundaryfrom Washington Territory into British Columbia,

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58:34

Street of Tears — The Crimes of Shawn Cameron Lamb

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2026/08/10

Episode 431:In the fall of 2011, the first of three indigenous women disappeared from a stretch of Winnipeg's West End that those who worked there called theStreet of Tears. Their families searched, put up posters, and made phone calls that went nowhere. The man believed responsible had been known to police for decades. His criminal record ran to 109 convictions. He was already on their radar when the final woman disappeared. This is the story ofTanya Nepinak, Carolyn Sinclair, and Lorna

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I Don't Know Why: Phil Hartman’s Murder

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2026/08/03

Episode 430:On the morning ofMay 28, 1998, police were called to a home on Encino Avenue in Encino, California. Inside the master bedroom, they foundPhil Hartman— one of the most versatile performers in the history of North American television — shot three times at close range while he slept.His wife, Brynn, had pulled the trigger sometime around 2:30 in the morning, then driven to a friend's house and confessed. By the time police arrived, she was back in the bedroom. She never came out.Phil

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64:54

Part 2 — Justice Prolonged: The Murder of Christine...

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2026/07/27

Episode 429:InJanuary 1995, DNA testing excludedGuy Paul Morin, the man convicted of the 1984murder of Christine Jessop, from the crime. The Ontario Court of Appeal set aside his conviction, and Morin was released. The man whose semen was recovered from Christine Jessop's underwear in 1984 remained unidentified.Apublic inquiryled byJustice Fred Kaufmanspent 10 months examining how an innocent man had been convicted twice. It produced 1,380 pages and 119 recommendations.The real killer remained

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65:22

Part 1 — Justice Prolonged: The Murder of Christine...

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2026/07/20

Episode 428:OnOctober 3, 1984, nine-year-oldChristine Jessopstepped off a school bus inQueensville, Ontario, and walked toward home. She was never seen alive again. Her body was found on New Year's Eve, fifty-six kilometres away. She had been sexually assaulted and stabbed. What followed was one of the most consequential criminal proceedings in Canadian history — and the quiet destruction of a man who lived next door. This is Part One of a two-part series. Sources: Kirk Makin,Redrum the

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Three-Fingered Abe: The Kidnapping of John S. Labatt

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2026/07/13

Episode 427: In the summer of 1934, John Sackville Labatt was one of the most recognizable names in Canada. The fifty-three-year-old president of John Labatt Limited had spent nearly two decades running one of the country's largest and oldest breweries, a family business built across three generations and tested by Prohibition, the Depression, and the rum-running trade that kept it alive through both. On the morning of August 14, he left his Lake Huron summer home running late for a meeting and took

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69:25

Wildfire: The Day Lytton Burned

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2026/07/06

Episode 426: On June 29th, 2021, Lytton, British Columbia, recorded the highest air temperature in Canadian history: 49.6 degrees Celsius. The next day, the town burned to the ground in under two hours, killing two people and destroying more than 150 homes and businesses across the Village of Lytton and the neighbouring Lytton First Nation reserves. Nearly four years later, the cause of the fire remains officially undetermined, the recovery has become its own bureaucratic disaster, and a

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60:16

Lives On Display: The Dionne Quintuplets

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2026/06/29

Episode 425: In May 1934, five identical girls were born in a farmhouse outside Corbeil, Ontario. They were the first quintuplets known to survive infancy anywhere in the world. Within weeks, the Province of Ontario had taken them from their parents. What followed was nine years inside a government-run compound called Quintland, where millions of tourists paid to watch the Dionne sisters play through one-way glass, twice a day, while their faces sold soap, cereal, and corn syrup across North

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62:20

Unnatural Selection — The Alberta Eugenics Act

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2026/06/22

Episode 424: Between 1928 and 1972, the Alberta government authorized the forced sterilization of nearly 3,000 Albertans deemed "unfit" to reproduce. They were told they were having their appendix removed. Many were children. Most had no idea what was being done to them. The targets were the poor, the mentally ill, Indigenous people, immigrants — anyone who didn't fit the province's vision of a productive society. This wasn't a fringe movement. It was backed by doctors, politicians, newspapers, and

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63:03

The Murder of Francis Rattenbury: The Man Who Built B.C.

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2026/06/15

Episode 423: Francis Mawson Rattenbury designed the BC Parliament Buildings, the Empress Hotel, and the building that now houses the Vancouver Art Gallery, as well as many others. He was the most celebrated architect in the province for thirty years. In 1935, he was beaten to death in his armchair in a rented house in Bournemouth, England, by his wife Alma’s teenage lover, a chauffeur named George Percy Stoner. Both Alma Rattenbury and Stoner confessed. The trial at the Old Bailey gripped the

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69:39

The Hogg’s Hollow Tunnel Disaster

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2026/06/08

Episode 422: On St. Patrick's Day, 1960, five Italian immigrant construction workers — Pasquale Allegrezza, Giovanni Carriglio, Giovanni Fusillo, and brothers Alessandro and Guido Mantella — died beneath the Don River in Toronto's Hogg's Hollow neighbourhood. They were trapped in a tunnel less than two metres wide with no fire extinguishers, no hard hats, and no way out. The fire was preventable. The violations were known. A foreman had been fired for raising them. No one was ever charged. This is

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59:39

Ripoffs and a Rolex: The Murder of Ronald Joseph Platt

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2026/06/01

Episode 421: On July 28, 1996, a fisherman hauling nets off the coast of Devon, England pulled up a body. The dead man had no wallet, no identification — nothing but a Rolex watch still ticking on his wrist. When British police traced the watch, it gave them a name: Ronald Joseph Platt, 51, of Essex.When they went looking for him, they found him — apparently alive. The trail led back across the Atlantic to Ayr, a small town in southwestern Ontario, where roughly seventy people had spent years

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68:48

Every Dog Has Its Day : The Case of Valentine Shortis

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2026/05/25

Episode 420: On the night of March 1st, 1895, in the paymaster's office of the Montreal Cotton Company in Valleyfield, Quebec, a twenty-year-old Irish immigrant named Francis Valentine Cuthbert Shortis shot three men — killing two of them and leaving the third for dead in the darkness of the mill floor. What followed was the longest murder trial in Canadian history, a psychiatric battle that divided the country's leading medical minds, and a political crisis that reached the cabinet of Prime

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