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<rss xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:podcast="https://podcastindex.org/namespace/1.0" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" version="2.0"><channel><title>Stories Canada Podcast - True Horror Stories</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/stories-canada-podcast--6861879</link><description><![CDATA[From the creators of Stories Philippines Podcast—one of the Philippines’ pioneering true-horror podcasts—comes a journey into the darker side of the Great White North.<br />Stories Canada Podcast explores Canadian ghost stories, paranormal encounters, haunted places, unsettling folklore, strange disappearances, and unexplained events from communities across the country.<br /><br />From isolated highways and snow-covered forests to historic buildings, quiet neighborhoods, and wilderness where help may be miles away, each episode brings eerie Canadian stories to life through atmospheric narration and a distinctly Filipino perspective.<br /><br />Hear allegedly true encounters, community legends, listener experiences, and mysteries that reveal a side of Canada rarely found in travel guides. Some stories are personal accounts or folklore and may not be independently verified, but every tale is presented as an invitation to consider what could be waiting beyond the light.<br /><br />Prepare for chilling stories from a beautiful country with a deeply haunted imagination. Welcome to Stories Canada Podcast.<br /><br />Become a supporter of this podcast: <a href="https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/stories-canada-podcast-true-horror-stories--6861879/support?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss">https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/stories-canada-podcast-true-horror-stories--6861879/support</a>.]]></description><atom:link href="https://www.spreaker.com/show/6861879/episodes/feed" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><language>en</language><category>Documentary</category><copyright>HustleStudios Podcast Network</copyright><image><url>https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/59019e812aa4e83801dd918c4c3f8ddc.jpg</url><title>Stories Canada Podcast - True Horror Stories</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/stories-canada-podcast--6861879</link></image><lastBuildDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2026 05:25:51 +0000</lastBuildDate><itunes:author>HustleStudios Podcast Network</itunes:author><itunes:owner><itunes:name>HustleStudios Podcast Network</itunes:name><itunes:email>hustlestudioph@gmail.com</itunes:email></itunes:owner><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/59019e812aa4e83801dd918c4c3f8ddc.jpg"/><itunes:subtitle>From the creators of Stories Philippines Podcast, Philippine's first true horror podcast, we present to you, Stories Canada Podcast. Not your typical Canadian podcast with a "Canadian" accent. Get ready for screams in both languages as we explore the...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[From the creators of Stories Philippines Podcast—one of the Philippines’ pioneering true-horror podcasts—comes a journey into the darker side of the Great White North.<br />Stories Canada Podcast explores Canadian ghost stories, paranormal encounters, haunted places, unsettling folklore, strange disappearances, and unexplained events from communities across the country.<br /><br />From isolated highways and snow-covered forests to historic buildings, quiet neighborhoods, and wilderness where help may be miles away, each episode brings eerie Canadian stories to life through atmospheric narration and a distinctly Filipino perspective.<br /><br />Hear allegedly true encounters, community legends, listener experiences, and mysteries that reveal a side of Canada rarely found in travel guides. Some stories are personal accounts or folklore and may not be independently verified, but every tale is presented as an invitation to consider what could be waiting beyond the light.<br /><br />Prepare for chilling stories from a beautiful country with a deeply haunted imagination. Welcome to Stories Canada Podcast.<br /><br />Become a supporter of this podcast: <a href="https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/stories-canada-podcast-true-horror-stories--6861879/support?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss">https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/stories-canada-podcast-true-horror-stories--6861879/support</a>.]]></itunes:summary><itunes:category text="Society &amp; Culture"><itunes:category text="Documentary"/></itunes:category><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><podcast:guid>d2d6c92b-ae6a-5a27-8bb5-f12286e063a0</podcast:guid><itunes:type>episodic</itunes:type><podcast:funding url="https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/stories-canada-podcast-true-horror-stories--6861879/support?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss">Support the podcast!</podcast:funding><item><title>Episode 022: The Marysburgh Vortex</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/episode-022-the-marysburgh-vortex--73689261</link><description><![CDATA[🎙️ Stories Canada EP022 — The Marysburgh Vortex<br /><br /> 🌊 A triangular zone of unexplained disappearances in Lake Ontario has plagued mariners for over two centuries. From the vanishing of the merchant vessel Speedy in 1797 to modern encounters with compass failures, electromagnetic anomalies, and survivors who emerge with impossible stories — the Marysburgh Vortex is Canada's most enduring maritime mystery.<br /><br /> 📖 CHAPTERS:<br /> [00:00] Cold Open — Captain Morrison's encounter aboard the Carla Marie<br /> [00:30] Title Card<br /> [01:00] The History — Two centuries of disappearances in the triangular zone<br /> [12:00] CTA #1<br /> [13:00] The Turn — Modern investigations and government responses<br /> [22:00] The Vault — Three classified encounters from the vortex<br /> [30:00] The Peak — The most disturbing survivor account<br /> [36:00] The Reflection — What the Vortex reveals about the nature of reality<br /> [41:00] Outro + Network shoutouts<br /><br /> 🔑 TOPICS: Marysburgh Vortex, Lake Ontario, unexplained disappearances, maritime mysteries, Great Lakes, Prince Edward County, electromagnetic anomalies, Canadian folklore, paranormal, ghost ships<br /><br /> #StoriesCanada #MarysburghVortex #LakeOntario #CanadianMysteries #MaritimeMysteries #GreatLakes #Unexplained #Paranormal #HustleStudios<br /><br />Become a supporter of this podcast: <a href="https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/stories-canada-podcast-true-horror-stories--6861879/support?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss">https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/stories-canada-podcast-true-horror-stories--6861879/support</a>.<br /><br />Thank you for listening to Stories Canada Podcast. Follow the show for Canadian ghost stories, paranormal encounters, dark folklore, haunted history, and unexplained mysteries.<br /><br />Support the podcast and help us uncover more frightening stories from across Canada:<br />https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/stories-canada-podcast-true-horror-stories--6861879/support<br /><br />Stories may include folklore, dramatization, personal recollections, and allegedly true experiences that cannot always be independently verified. Identifying details may be changed to protect privacy. Please respect the people, cultures, and communities connected to these stories.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/73689261</guid><pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2026 01:30:06 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/73689261/ep022_final.mp3" length="41671441" type="audio/mpeg"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/a403568a-1def-40e9-ab0c-5932d1477421/a403568a-1def-40e9-ab0c-5932d1477421.srt" type="application/x-subrip" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/a403568a-1def-40e9-ab0c-5932d1477421/a403568a-1def-40e9-ab0c-5932d1477421.txt" type="text/plain" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/a403568a-1def-40e9-ab0c-5932d1477421/a403568a-1def-40e9-ab0c-5932d1477421.vtt" type="text/vtt" language="en"/><itunes:author>HustleStudios Podcast Network</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>🎙️ Stories Canada EP022 — The Marysburgh Vortex

🌊 A triangular zone of unexplained disappearances in Lake Ontario has plagued mariners for over two centuries. From the vanishing of the merchant vessel Speedy in 1797 to modern encounters with compass...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[🎙️ Stories Canada EP022 — The Marysburgh Vortex<br /><br /> 🌊 A triangular zone of unexplained disappearances in Lake Ontario has plagued mariners for over two centuries. From the vanishing of the merchant vessel Speedy in 1797 to modern encounters with compass failures, electromagnetic anomalies, and survivors who emerge with impossible stories — the Marysburgh Vortex is Canada's most enduring maritime mystery.<br /><br /> 📖 CHAPTERS:<br /> [00:00] Cold Open — Captain Morrison's encounter aboard the Carla Marie<br /> [00:30] Title Card<br /> [01:00] The History — Two centuries of disappearances in the triangular zone<br /> [12:00] CTA #1<br /> [13:00] The Turn — Modern investigations and government responses<br /> [22:00] The Vault — Three classified encounters from the vortex<br /> [30:00] The Peak — The most disturbing survivor account<br /> [36:00] The Reflection — What the Vortex reveals about the nature of reality<br /> [41:00] Outro + Network shoutouts<br /><br /> 🔑 TOPICS: Marysburgh Vortex, Lake Ontario, unexplained disappearances, maritime mysteries, Great Lakes, Prince Edward County, electromagnetic anomalies, Canadian folklore, paranormal, ghost ships<br /><br /> #StoriesCanada #MarysburghVortex #LakeOntario #CanadianMysteries #MaritimeMysteries #GreatLakes #Unexplained #Paranormal #HustleStudios<br /><br />Become a supporter of this podcast: <a href="https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/stories-canada-podcast-true-horror-stories--6861879/support?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss">https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/stories-canada-podcast-true-horror-stories--6861879/support</a>.<br /><br />Thank you for listening to Stories Canada Podcast. Follow the show for Canadian ghost stories, paranormal encounters, dark folklore, haunted history, and unexplained mysteries.<br /><br />Support the podcast and help us uncover more frightening stories from across Canada:<br />https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/stories-canada-podcast-true-horror-stories--6861879/support<br /><br />Stories may include folklore, dramatization, personal recollections, and allegedly true experiences that cannot always be independently verified. Identifying details may be changed to protect privacy. Please respect the people, cultures, and communities connected to these stories.]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>2605</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/59019e812aa4e83801dd918c4c3f8ddc.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Episode 021: Anyox — The Ghost Town That Burned</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/episode-021-anyox-the-ghost-town-that-burned--73589723</link><description><![CDATA[Episode 021: Anyox — The Ghost Town That Burned<br /><br /> The rise and fall of British Columbia's most ambitious industrial experiment — a company town that went from utopia to ghost town in the span of a single summer.<br /><br /> In 1914, the Granby Consolidated Mining, Smelting and Power Company began building what they envisioned as the model industrial community on the shores of Observatory Inlet. By 1935, after twenty years of operation, the town was abandoned overnight — 4,000 residents scattered, dinner plates left on tables, calendars frozen on July 15th.<br /><br /> But the ghosts of Anyox refused to leave. Fishermen reported lights in empty windows. Prospectors heard voices in abandoned houses. A schoolteacher heard singing from the cemetery hillside. The hospital basement whispered in a dozen languages. This is the story of a town that burned too bright and died too young.<br /><br /> timestamps<br /> 00:00 — Cold Open: The Last Doctor's Return<br /> 00:30 — Title Card<br /> 01:00 — The History: Building Utopia in the Wilderness<br /> 15:00 — CTA #1<br /> 15:30 — The Turn: Lights in Empty Windows<br /> 25:00 — The Vault: Hidden Facts About Anyox<br /> 28:00 — The Peak: Dawn at the Ghost Town<br /> 32:00 — The Reflection: What Anyox Teaches Us<br /> 40:00 — Outro + CTA #2<br /><br /> topics<br /> Anyox British Columbia, ghost towns Canada, Granby Mining Company, copper smelter, Observatory Inlet, company towns, industrial history, supernatural hauntings, Nisga'a people, environmental destruction, Canadian history, British Columbia ghost towns, abandoned towns<br /><br /> hashtags #StoriesCanada #GhostTowns #BritishColumbia #Anyox #CanadianHistory #TrueStories #HauntedPlaces #IndustrialHistory #GhostTownStories #Paranormal<br /><br />Become a supporter of this podcast: <a href="https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/stories-canada-podcast-true-horror-stories--6861879/support?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss">https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/stories-canada-podcast-true-horror-stories--6861879/support</a>.<br /><br />Thank you for listening to Stories Canada Podcast. Follow the show for Canadian ghost stories, paranormal encounters, dark folklore, haunted history, and unexplained mysteries.<br /><br />Support the podcast and help us uncover more frightening stories from across Canada:<br />https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/stories-canada-podcast-true-horror-stories--6861879/support<br /><br />Stories may include folklore, dramatization, personal recollections, and allegedly true experiences that cannot always be independently verified. Identifying details may be changed to protect privacy. Please respect the people, cultures, and communities connected to these stories.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/73589723</guid><pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 02:31:31 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/73589723/ep021_final.mp3" length="45010935" type="audio/mpeg"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/04b22242-d638-4a3d-96a9-cd07420717bf/04b22242-d638-4a3d-96a9-cd07420717bf.srt" type="application/x-subrip" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/04b22242-d638-4a3d-96a9-cd07420717bf/04b22242-d638-4a3d-96a9-cd07420717bf.txt" type="text/plain" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/04b22242-d638-4a3d-96a9-cd07420717bf/04b22242-d638-4a3d-96a9-cd07420717bf.vtt" type="text/vtt" language="en"/><itunes:author>HustleStudios Podcast Network</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Episode 021: Anyox — The Ghost Town That Burned

The rise and fall of British Columbia's most ambitious industrial experiment — a company town that went from utopia to ghost town in the span of a single summer.

In 1914, the Granby Consolidated...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Episode 021: Anyox — The Ghost Town That Burned<br /><br /> The rise and fall of British Columbia's most ambitious industrial experiment — a company town that went from utopia to ghost town in the span of a single summer.<br /><br /> In 1914, the Granby Consolidated Mining, Smelting and Power Company began building what they envisioned as the model industrial community on the shores of Observatory Inlet. By 1935, after twenty years of operation, the town was abandoned overnight — 4,000 residents scattered, dinner plates left on tables, calendars frozen on July 15th.<br /><br /> But the ghosts of Anyox refused to leave. Fishermen reported lights in empty windows. Prospectors heard voices in abandoned houses. A schoolteacher heard singing from the cemetery hillside. The hospital basement whispered in a dozen languages. This is the story of a town that burned too bright and died too young.<br /><br /> timestamps<br /> 00:00 — Cold Open: The Last Doctor's Return<br /> 00:30 — Title Card<br /> 01:00 — The History: Building Utopia in the Wilderness<br /> 15:00 — CTA #1<br /> 15:30 — The Turn: Lights in Empty Windows<br /> 25:00 — The Vault: Hidden Facts About Anyox<br /> 28:00 — The Peak: Dawn at the Ghost Town<br /> 32:00 — The Reflection: What Anyox Teaches Us<br /> 40:00 — Outro + CTA #2<br /><br /> topics<br /> Anyox British Columbia, ghost towns Canada, Granby Mining Company, copper smelter, Observatory Inlet, company towns, industrial history, supernatural hauntings, Nisga'a people, environmental destruction, Canadian history, British Columbia ghost towns, abandoned towns<br /><br /> hashtags #StoriesCanada #GhostTowns #BritishColumbia #Anyox #CanadianHistory #TrueStories #HauntedPlaces #IndustrialHistory #GhostTownStories #Paranormal<br /><br />Become a supporter of this podcast: <a href="https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/stories-canada-podcast-true-horror-stories--6861879/support?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss">https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/stories-canada-podcast-true-horror-stories--6861879/support</a>.<br /><br />Thank you for listening to Stories Canada Podcast. Follow the show for Canadian ghost stories, paranormal encounters, dark folklore, haunted history, and unexplained mysteries.<br /><br />Support the podcast and help us uncover more frightening stories from across Canada:<br />https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/stories-canada-podcast-true-horror-stories--6861879/support<br /><br />Stories may include folklore, dramatization, personal recollections, and allegedly true experiences that cannot always be independently verified. Identifying details may be changed to protect privacy. Please respect the people, cultures, and communities connected to these stories.]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>2814</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/59019e812aa4e83801dd918c4c3f8ddc.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Episode 020: Kakascousen and the Thunderbird</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/episode-020-kakascousen-and-the-thunderbird--73529926</link><description><![CDATA[The supernatural guardian that commands the sky, swallows whales whole, and carries the souls of the dead to the spirit world.<br /><br /> In this episode of Stories Canada, we explore the legend of Kakascousen — the great Thunderbird of the Haida people. From Captain George Vancouver's first recorded encounter in 1792 to WWII radar stations tracking impossible flight patterns, from ethnographer Franz Boas's field journals to a 91-year-old elder's intimate meeting with the divine, this is a story that spans centuries and challenges everything we think we know about the natural world.<br /><br /> TIMESTAMPS:<br /> 00:00 — Cold Open: Captain Morrison's 1907 encounter off Haida Gwaii<br /> 02:30 — The History: Kakascousen in Haida cosmology, spanning 13,000 years<br /> 05:00 — Vancouver's journals and early European accounts<br /> 08:00 — Missionary records and the Hudson's Bay Company observations<br /> 12:00 — Franz Boas's fieldwork and the 1886 storm encounter<br /> 15:00 — The Turn: WWII radar stations and military encounters<br /> 20:00 — Chief Robert Davidson's ceremony at Langara Island<br /> 25:00 — The Vault: Thunderbirds worldwide, atmospheric sprites, feather fragments<br /> 30:00 — The Peak: Elder Agnes Alfred's 1973 encounter<br /> 38:00 — The Reflection: What Thunderbird stories reveal about knowledge and reality<br /> 45:00 — Modern encounters and the 2018 fishing guide incident<br /> 48:00 — Outro and next episode preview<br /><br /> TOPICS: Canadian folklore, Haida mythology, Thunderbird legend, Kakascousen, Pacific Northwest Indigenous stories, WWII radar anomalies, supernatural encounters, cryptozoology, atmospheric phenomena<br /><br /> #StoriesCanada #Thunderbird #Kakascousen #HaidaMythology #CanadianFolklore #IndigenousStories #PacificNorthwest #SupernaturalEncounters #Podcast<br /><br />Become a supporter of this podcast: <a href="https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/stories-canada-podcast-true-horror-stories--6861879/support?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss">https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/stories-canada-podcast-true-horror-stories--6861879/support</a>.<br /><br />Thank you for listening to Stories Canada Podcast. Follow the show for Canadian ghost stories, paranormal encounters, dark folklore, haunted history, and unexplained mysteries.<br /><br />Support the podcast and help us uncover more frightening stories from across Canada:<br />https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/stories-canada-podcast-true-horror-stories--6861879/support<br /><br />Stories may include folklore, dramatization, personal recollections, and allegedly true experiences that cannot always be independently verified. Identifying details may be changed to protect privacy. Please respect the people, cultures, and communities connected to these stories.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/73529926</guid><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 02:41:33 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/73529926/ep020_final.mp3" length="49023761" type="audio/mpeg"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/34354ed7-3f73-41e7-bbb7-1433eec3e12a/34354ed7-3f73-41e7-bbb7-1433eec3e12a.srt" type="application/x-subrip" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/34354ed7-3f73-41e7-bbb7-1433eec3e12a/34354ed7-3f73-41e7-bbb7-1433eec3e12a.txt" type="text/plain" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/34354ed7-3f73-41e7-bbb7-1433eec3e12a/34354ed7-3f73-41e7-bbb7-1433eec3e12a.vtt" type="text/vtt" language="en"/><itunes:author>HustleStudios Podcast Network</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>The supernatural guardian that commands the sky, swallows whales whole, and carries the souls of the dead to the spirit world.

In this episode of Stories Canada, we explore the legend of Kakascousen — the great Thunderbird of the Haida people. From...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[The supernatural guardian that commands the sky, swallows whales whole, and carries the souls of the dead to the spirit world.<br /><br /> In this episode of Stories Canada, we explore the legend of Kakascousen — the great Thunderbird of the Haida people. From Captain George Vancouver's first recorded encounter in 1792 to WWII radar stations tracking impossible flight patterns, from ethnographer Franz Boas's field journals to a 91-year-old elder's intimate meeting with the divine, this is a story that spans centuries and challenges everything we think we know about the natural world.<br /><br /> TIMESTAMPS:<br /> 00:00 — Cold Open: Captain Morrison's 1907 encounter off Haida Gwaii<br /> 02:30 — The History: Kakascousen in Haida cosmology, spanning 13,000 years<br /> 05:00 — Vancouver's journals and early European accounts<br /> 08:00 — Missionary records and the Hudson's Bay Company observations<br /> 12:00 — Franz Boas's fieldwork and the 1886 storm encounter<br /> 15:00 — The Turn: WWII radar stations and military encounters<br /> 20:00 — Chief Robert Davidson's ceremony at Langara Island<br /> 25:00 — The Vault: Thunderbirds worldwide, atmospheric sprites, feather fragments<br /> 30:00 — The Peak: Elder Agnes Alfred's 1973 encounter<br /> 38:00 — The Reflection: What Thunderbird stories reveal about knowledge and reality<br /> 45:00 — Modern encounters and the 2018 fishing guide incident<br /> 48:00 — Outro and next episode preview<br /><br /> TOPICS: Canadian folklore, Haida mythology, Thunderbird legend, Kakascousen, Pacific Northwest Indigenous stories, WWII radar anomalies, supernatural encounters, cryptozoology, atmospheric phenomena<br /><br /> #StoriesCanada #Thunderbird #Kakascousen #HaidaMythology #CanadianFolklore #IndigenousStories #PacificNorthwest #SupernaturalEncounters #Podcast<br /><br />Become a supporter of this podcast: <a href="https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/stories-canada-podcast-true-horror-stories--6861879/support?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss">https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/stories-canada-podcast-true-horror-stories--6861879/support</a>.<br /><br />Thank you for listening to Stories Canada Podcast. Follow the show for Canadian ghost stories, paranormal encounters, dark folklore, haunted history, and unexplained mysteries.<br /><br />Support the podcast and help us uncover more frightening stories from across Canada:<br />https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/stories-canada-podcast-true-horror-stories--6861879/support<br /><br />Stories may include folklore, dramatization, personal recollections, and allegedly true experiences that cannot always be independently verified. Identifying details may be changed to protect privacy. Please respect the people, cultures, and communities connected to these stories.]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>3064</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/59019e812aa4e83801dd918c4c3f8ddc.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Episode 012: The Lake Monster of Pine Lake</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/episode-012-the-lake-monster-of-pine-lake--73460500</link><description><![CDATA[Glass-smooth water. Two hundred feet deep. Something moving underneath.<br /><br />Pine Lake, Alberta. July nineteen ninety-seven: the water lay mirror-still in the pre-dawn dark — and then the reports began. A wake with no boat. A shape too long for any fish the lake should hold. Swimmers touched by something beneath them in water they could see twenty feet down into. Pine Lake is small, well-mapped, and surrounded by cottages. There should be nothing in it that we cannot name. The witnesses disagree — and their accounts go back decades.<br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />🕐 CHAPTERS<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />00:00 — Cold Open: Glass-smooth water<br />02:15 — Title Card<br />02:30 — The History: The lake and its legends<br />13:00 — The Turn: The modern sightings begin<br />21:30 — The Vault: What swims in Alberta's lakes<br />24:15 — The Peak: Touched in open water<br />29:45 — The Reflection: Why water hides things so well<br />32:00 — Outro & Call to Action<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br /><br />#StoriesCanada #PineLake #LakeMonster #Alberta #CanadianCryptids #TrueHorror #Paranormal #UnsolvedMysteries #WaterMonster #HauntedCanada<br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br /><br />Become a supporter of this podcast: <a href="https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/stories-canada-podcast-true-horror-stories--6861879/support?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss">https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/stories-canada-podcast-true-horror-stories--6861879/support</a>.<br /><br />Thank you for listening to Stories Canada Podcast. Follow the show for Canadian ghost stories, paranormal encounters, dark folklore, haunted history, and unexplained mysteries.<br /><br />Support the podcast and help us uncover more frightening stories from across Canada:<br />https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/stories-canada-podcast-true-horror-stories--6861879/support<br /><br />Stories may include folklore, dramatization, personal recollections, and allegedly true experiences that cannot always be independently verified. Identifying details may be changed to protect privacy. Please respect the people, cultures, and communities connected to these stories.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/73460500</guid><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 21:56:58 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/73460500/ep012_final.mp3" length="37224355" type="audio/mpeg"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/4cf5a736-ad33-4268-9108-669b4d19a0df/4cf5a736-ad33-4268-9108-669b4d19a0df.srt" type="application/x-subrip" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/4cf5a736-ad33-4268-9108-669b4d19a0df/4cf5a736-ad33-4268-9108-669b4d19a0df.txt" type="text/plain" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/4cf5a736-ad33-4268-9108-669b4d19a0df/4cf5a736-ad33-4268-9108-669b4d19a0df.vtt" type="text/vtt" language="en"/><itunes:author>HustleStudios Podcast Network</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Glass-smooth water. Two hundred feet deep. Something moving underneath.

Pine Lake, Alberta. July nineteen ninety-seven: the water lay mirror-still in the pre-dawn dark — and then the reports began. A wake with no boat. A shape too long for any fish...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Glass-smooth water. Two hundred feet deep. Something moving underneath.<br /><br />Pine Lake, Alberta. July nineteen ninety-seven: the water lay mirror-still in the pre-dawn dark — and then the reports began. A wake with no boat. A shape too long for any fish the lake should hold. Swimmers touched by something beneath them in water they could see twenty feet down into. Pine Lake is small, well-mapped, and surrounded by cottages. There should be nothing in it that we cannot name. The witnesses disagree — and their accounts go back decades.<br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />🕐 CHAPTERS<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />00:00 — Cold Open: Glass-smooth water<br />02:15 — Title Card<br />02:30 — The History: The lake and its legends<br />13:00 — The Turn: The modern sightings begin<br />21:30 — The Vault: What swims in Alberta's lakes<br />24:15 — The Peak: Touched in open water<br />29:45 — The Reflection: Why water hides things so well<br />32:00 — Outro & Call to Action<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br /><br />#StoriesCanada #PineLake #LakeMonster #Alberta #CanadianCryptids #TrueHorror #Paranormal #UnsolvedMysteries #WaterMonster #HauntedCanada<br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br /><br />Become a supporter of this podcast: <a href="https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/stories-canada-podcast-true-horror-stories--6861879/support?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss">https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/stories-canada-podcast-true-horror-stories--6861879/support</a>.<br /><br />Thank you for listening to Stories Canada Podcast. Follow the show for Canadian ghost stories, paranormal encounters, dark folklore, haunted history, and unexplained mysteries.<br /><br />Support the podcast and help us uncover more frightening stories from across Canada:<br />https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/stories-canada-podcast-true-horror-stories--6861879/support<br /><br />Stories may include folklore, dramatization, personal recollections, and allegedly true experiences that cannot always be independently verified. Identifying details may be changed to protect privacy. Please respect the people, cultures, and communities connected to these stories.]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>2327</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/59019e812aa4e83801dd918c4c3f8ddc.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Episode 014: The Haida Gwaii Connection: Where Amelia Earhart Crashed?</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/episode-014-the-haida-gwaii-connection-where-amelia-earhart-crashed--73460462</link><description><![CDATA[The most famous disappearance in aviation. A trail that points somewhere impossible.<br /><br />For more than eight decades, the disappearance of Amelia Earhart has hovered between history and myth. The official story ends somewhere over the Pacific. But a strange thread of evidence — artifacts, photographs, islander testimony — points northwest, toward the mist-shrouded islands of Haida Gwaii, off the coast of British Columbia. The Haida have their own stories about what fell from the sky in that era, and what the islands kept. If the trail is real, the world's most famous missing aviator may have spent her last hours very far from where anyone has searched.<br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />🕐 CHAPTERS<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />00:00 — Cold Open: Between history and myth<br />02:00 — Title Card<br />02:30 — The History: The final flight<br />10:00 — The Turn: The Haida Gwaii thread<br />18:00 — The Vault: Artifacts and testimony<br />24:00 — The Peak: What the islands kept<br />33:00 — The Reflection: Why we need to find her<br />40:00 — Outro & Call to Action<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br /><br />#StoriesCanada #AmeliaEarhart #HaidaGwaii #UnsolvedMysteries #AviationMystery #BritishColumbia #Haida #TrueHorror #CanadianMysteries #HauntedCanada<br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br /><br />Become a supporter of this podcast: <a href="https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/stories-canada-podcast-true-horror-stories--6861879/support?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss">https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/stories-canada-podcast-true-horror-stories--6861879/support</a>.<br /><br />Thank you for listening to Stories Canada Podcast. Follow the show for Canadian ghost stories, paranormal encounters, dark folklore, haunted history, and unexplained mysteries.<br /><br />Support the podcast and help us uncover more frightening stories from across Canada:<br />https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/stories-canada-podcast-true-horror-stories--6861879/support<br /><br />Stories may include folklore, dramatization, personal recollections, and allegedly true experiences that cannot always be independently verified. Identifying details may be changed to protect privacy. Please respect the people, cultures, and communities connected to these stories.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/73460462</guid><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 21:55:46 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/73460462/ep014_final.mp3" length="42027120" type="audio/mpeg"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/2b80b171-b55a-4558-9ed0-eca203ca381d/2b80b171-b55a-4558-9ed0-eca203ca381d.srt" type="application/x-subrip" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/2b80b171-b55a-4558-9ed0-eca203ca381d/2b80b171-b55a-4558-9ed0-eca203ca381d.txt" type="text/plain" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/2b80b171-b55a-4558-9ed0-eca203ca381d/2b80b171-b55a-4558-9ed0-eca203ca381d.vtt" type="text/vtt" language="en"/><itunes:author>HustleStudios Podcast Network</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>The most famous disappearance in aviation. A trail that points somewhere impossible.

For more than eight decades, the disappearance of Amelia Earhart has hovered between history and myth. The official story ends somewhere over the Pacific. But a...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[The most famous disappearance in aviation. A trail that points somewhere impossible.<br /><br />For more than eight decades, the disappearance of Amelia Earhart has hovered between history and myth. The official story ends somewhere over the Pacific. But a strange thread of evidence — artifacts, photographs, islander testimony — points northwest, toward the mist-shrouded islands of Haida Gwaii, off the coast of British Columbia. The Haida have their own stories about what fell from the sky in that era, and what the islands kept. If the trail is real, the world's most famous missing aviator may have spent her last hours very far from where anyone has searched.<br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />🕐 CHAPTERS<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />00:00 — Cold Open: Between history and myth<br />02:00 — Title Card<br />02:30 — The History: The final flight<br />10:00 — The Turn: The Haida Gwaii thread<br />18:00 — The Vault: Artifacts and testimony<br />24:00 — The Peak: What the islands kept<br />33:00 — The Reflection: Why we need to find her<br />40:00 — Outro & Call to Action<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br /><br />#StoriesCanada #AmeliaEarhart #HaidaGwaii #UnsolvedMysteries #AviationMystery #BritishColumbia #Haida #TrueHorror #CanadianMysteries #HauntedCanada<br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br /><br />Become a supporter of this podcast: <a href="https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/stories-canada-podcast-true-horror-stories--6861879/support?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss">https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/stories-canada-podcast-true-horror-stories--6861879/support</a>.<br /><br />Thank you for listening to Stories Canada Podcast. Follow the show for Canadian ghost stories, paranormal encounters, dark folklore, haunted history, and unexplained mysteries.<br /><br />Support the podcast and help us uncover more frightening stories from across Canada:<br />https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/stories-canada-podcast-true-horror-stories--6861879/support<br /><br />Stories may include folklore, dramatization, personal recollections, and allegedly true experiences that cannot always be independently verified. Identifying details may be changed to protect privacy. Please respect the people, cultures, and communities connected to these stories.]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>2627</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/59019e812aa4e83801dd918c4c3f8ddc.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Episode 013: Thomas Kirk: Bloodiest Man of Upper Canada</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/episode-013-thomas-kirk-bloodiest-man-of-upper-canada--73460070</link><description><![CDATA[The blood soaked through the floorboards. The killer's name is still spoken carefully.<br /><br />York County, Upper Canada, eighteen thirty-six. Constables stood in what used to be a kitchen, breath visible in the frozen air, looking at a scene that would define an era of frontier violence. Thomas Kirk earned his title the hard way: the bloodiest man in Upper Canada. Feuds, ambushes, bodies in the snow — and a reckoning that the townships whispered about for generations. Some of those farmhouses still stand. Locals are careful about which rooms they enter after dark.<br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />🕐 CHAPTERS<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />00:00 — Cold Open: The blood had soaked through<br />02:15 — Title Card<br />02:30 — The History: Upper Canada's violent frontier<br />09:00 — The Turn: Kirk's reign<br />13:30 — The Vault: The case files<br />15:00 — The Peak: The reckoning<br />18:30 — The Reflection: Violence and memory<br />21:15 — Outro & Call to Action<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br /><br />#StoriesCanada #ThomasKirk #UpperCanada #CanadianHistory #TrueCrime #FrontierJustice #Ontario #TrueHorror #DarkHistory #HauntedCanada<br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br /><br />Become a supporter of this podcast: <a href="https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/stories-canada-podcast-true-horror-stories--6861879/support?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss">https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/stories-canada-podcast-true-horror-stories--6861879/support</a>.<br /><br />Thank you for listening to Stories Canada Podcast. Follow the show for Canadian ghost stories, paranormal encounters, dark folklore, haunted history, and unexplained mysteries.<br /><br />Support the podcast and help us uncover more frightening stories from across Canada:<br />https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/stories-canada-podcast-true-horror-stories--6861879/support<br /><br />Stories may include folklore, dramatization, personal recollections, and allegedly true experiences that cannot always be independently verified. Identifying details may be changed to protect privacy. Please respect the people, cultures, and communities connected to these stories.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/73460070</guid><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 21:45:31 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/73460070/ep013_final.mp3" length="43993204" type="audio/mpeg"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/279c7574-e8c3-470d-a48f-343c02a2df6e/279c7574-e8c3-470d-a48f-343c02a2df6e.srt" type="application/x-subrip" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/279c7574-e8c3-470d-a48f-343c02a2df6e/279c7574-e8c3-470d-a48f-343c02a2df6e.txt" type="text/plain" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/279c7574-e8c3-470d-a48f-343c02a2df6e/279c7574-e8c3-470d-a48f-343c02a2df6e.vtt" type="text/vtt" language="en"/><itunes:author>HustleStudios Podcast Network</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>The blood soaked through the floorboards. The killer's name is still spoken carefully.

York County, Upper Canada, eighteen thirty-six. Constables stood in what used to be a kitchen, breath visible in the frozen air, looking at a scene that would...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[The blood soaked through the floorboards. The killer's name is still spoken carefully.<br /><br />York County, Upper Canada, eighteen thirty-six. Constables stood in what used to be a kitchen, breath visible in the frozen air, looking at a scene that would define an era of frontier violence. Thomas Kirk earned his title the hard way: the bloodiest man in Upper Canada. Feuds, ambushes, bodies in the snow — and a reckoning that the townships whispered about for generations. Some of those farmhouses still stand. Locals are careful about which rooms they enter after dark.<br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />🕐 CHAPTERS<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />00:00 — Cold Open: The blood had soaked through<br />02:15 — Title Card<br />02:30 — The History: Upper Canada's violent frontier<br />09:00 — The Turn: Kirk's reign<br />13:30 — The Vault: The case files<br />15:00 — The Peak: The reckoning<br />18:30 — The Reflection: Violence and memory<br />21:15 — Outro & Call to Action<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br /><br />#StoriesCanada #ThomasKirk #UpperCanada #CanadianHistory #TrueCrime #FrontierJustice #Ontario #TrueHorror #DarkHistory #HauntedCanada<br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br /><br />Become a supporter of this podcast: <a href="https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/stories-canada-podcast-true-horror-stories--6861879/support?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss">https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/stories-canada-podcast-true-horror-stories--6861879/support</a>.<br /><br />Thank you for listening to Stories Canada Podcast. Follow the show for Canadian ghost stories, paranormal encounters, dark folklore, haunted history, and unexplained mysteries.<br /><br />Support the podcast and help us uncover more frightening stories from across Canada:<br />https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/stories-canada-podcast-true-horror-stories--6861879/support<br /><br />Stories may include folklore, dramatization, personal recollections, and allegedly true experiences that cannot always be independently verified. Identifying details may be changed to protect privacy. Please respect the people, cultures, and communities connected to these stories.]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>2750</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/59019e812aa4e83801dd918c4c3f8ddc.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Episode 010: The Acadian Expulsion — Ghosts of D'Aux Cable Beach</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/episode-010-the-acadian-expulsion-ghosts-of-d-aux-cable-beach--73459086</link><description><![CDATA[An entire people deported. A beach where they were left to die. The bells still ring.<br /><br />Seventeen fifty-five. The British Crown ordered the entire Acadian population removed from Nova Scotia — families torn apart, villages burned, a civilization scattered across three continents. On a desolate Newfoundland shore called D'Aux Cable Beach, two hundred thirty-seven deportees were put ashore to die. Their priest, Father Pierre Maillard, organized a community from nothing. An eight-year-old girl named Margaret built a path of stones she believed would lead home. The ghosts of that beach still walk the surf — and on quiet nights, phantom bells ring from a church that no longer stands.<br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />🕐 CHAPTERS<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />00:00 — Cold Open: The rope creaks in the salt wind<br />02:15 — Title Card<br />02:30 — The History: Building Acadia<br />09:00 — The Turn: D'Aux Cable Beach<br />14:30 — The Vault: Six secrets of the expulsion<br />16:45 — The Peak: Margaret's path home<br />21:00 — The Reflection: What the ghosts teach us<br />24:30 — Outro & Call to Action<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br /><br />#StoriesCanada #AcadianExpulsion #Newfoundland #CanadianHistory #GhostStories #GrandPre #DauxCableBeach #TrueHorror #HauntedCanada #HistoryPodcast<br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br /><br />Become a supporter of this podcast: <a href="https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/stories-canada-podcast-true-horror-stories--6861879/support?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss">https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/stories-canada-podcast-true-horror-stories--6861879/support</a>.<br /><br />Thank you for listening to Stories Canada Podcast. Follow the show for Canadian ghost stories, paranormal encounters, dark folklore, haunted history, and unexplained mysteries.<br /><br />Support the podcast and help us uncover more frightening stories from across Canada:<br />https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/stories-canada-podcast-true-horror-stories--6861879/support<br /><br />Stories may include folklore, dramatization, personal recollections, and allegedly true experiences that cannot always be independently verified. Identifying details may be changed to protect privacy. Please respect the people, cultures, and communities connected to these stories.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/73459086</guid><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 21:26:40 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/73459086/ep010_final.mp3" length="40026112" type="audio/mpeg"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/0822077c-10c3-46b1-be64-ec0cc9e4891d/0822077c-10c3-46b1-be64-ec0cc9e4891d.srt" type="application/x-subrip" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/0822077c-10c3-46b1-be64-ec0cc9e4891d/0822077c-10c3-46b1-be64-ec0cc9e4891d.txt" type="text/plain" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/0822077c-10c3-46b1-be64-ec0cc9e4891d/0822077c-10c3-46b1-be64-ec0cc9e4891d.vtt" type="text/vtt" language="en"/><itunes:author>HustleStudios Podcast Network</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>An entire people deported. A beach where they were left to die. The bells still ring.

Seventeen fifty-five. The British Crown ordered the entire Acadian population removed from Nova Scotia — families torn apart, villages burned, a civilization...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[An entire people deported. A beach where they were left to die. The bells still ring.<br /><br />Seventeen fifty-five. The British Crown ordered the entire Acadian population removed from Nova Scotia — families torn apart, villages burned, a civilization scattered across three continents. On a desolate Newfoundland shore called D'Aux Cable Beach, two hundred thirty-seven deportees were put ashore to die. Their priest, Father Pierre Maillard, organized a community from nothing. An eight-year-old girl named Margaret built a path of stones she believed would lead home. The ghosts of that beach still walk the surf — and on quiet nights, phantom bells ring from a church that no longer stands.<br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />🕐 CHAPTERS<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />00:00 — Cold Open: The rope creaks in the salt wind<br />02:15 — Title Card<br />02:30 — The History: Building Acadia<br />09:00 — The Turn: D'Aux Cable Beach<br />14:30 — The Vault: Six secrets of the expulsion<br />16:45 — The Peak: Margaret's path home<br />21:00 — The Reflection: What the ghosts teach us<br />24:30 — Outro & Call to Action<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br /><br />#StoriesCanada #AcadianExpulsion #Newfoundland #CanadianHistory #GhostStories #GrandPre #DauxCableBeach #TrueHorror #HauntedCanada #HistoryPodcast<br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br /><br />Become a supporter of this podcast: <a href="https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/stories-canada-podcast-true-horror-stories--6861879/support?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss">https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/stories-canada-podcast-true-horror-stories--6861879/support</a>.<br /><br />Thank you for listening to Stories Canada Podcast. Follow the show for Canadian ghost stories, paranormal encounters, dark folklore, haunted history, and unexplained mysteries.<br /><br />Support the podcast and help us uncover more frightening stories from across Canada:<br />https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/stories-canada-podcast-true-horror-stories--6861879/support<br /><br />Stories may include folklore, dramatization, personal recollections, and allegedly true experiences that cannot always be independently verified. Identifying details may be changed to protect privacy. Please respect the people, cultures, and communities connected to these stories.]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>2502</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/59019e812aa4e83801dd918c4c3f8ddc.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Episode 007: The Frog People of Kutustrini</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/episode-007-the-frog-people-of-kutustrini--73457984</link><description><![CDATA[One hundred thirty-seven people walked onto the ice. None of them walked back.<br /><br />The winter of eighteen ninety-seven, Labrador. Twenty-six Inuit families — one hundred thirty-seven people — left the Moravian mission settlement at Kutustrini, walked out onto the sea ice, and vanished. No bodies. No tracks leading back. The missionaries called it a tragedy. The Inuit elders said something else: the Qallupilluit had called them home — the frog people who live beneath the ice, who sing to children, who take what the sea is owed. Brother Elsner was the last to see the light moving under the frozen surface.<br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />🕐 CHAPTERS<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />00:00 — Cold Open: The ice speaks<br />02:15 — Title Card<br />02:30 — The History: The mission at Kutustrini<br />09:00 — The Turn: The families walk out<br />15:30 — The Vault: RCMP files and Inuit oral tradition<br />18:00 — The Peak: The light beneath the ice<br />22:45 — The Reflection: What disappearance means<br />25:30 — Outro & Call to Action<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br /><br />#StoriesCanada #Kutustrini #Qallupilluit #InuitFolklore #Labrador #ArcticMystery #UnsolvedMysteries #IndigenousStories #TrueHorror #HauntedCanada<br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br /><br />Become a supporter of this podcast: <a href="https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/stories-canada-podcast-true-horror-stories--6861879/support?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss">https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/stories-canada-podcast-true-horror-stories--6861879/support</a>.<br /><br />Thank you for listening to Stories Canada Podcast. Follow the show for Canadian ghost stories, paranormal encounters, dark folklore, haunted history, and unexplained mysteries.<br /><br />Support the podcast and help us uncover more frightening stories from across Canada:<br />https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/stories-canada-podcast-true-horror-stories--6861879/support<br /><br />Stories may include folklore, dramatization, personal recollections, and allegedly true experiences that cannot always be independently verified. Identifying details may be changed to protect privacy. Please respect the people, cultures, and communities connected to these stories.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/73457984</guid><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 20:54:16 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/73457984/ep007_final.mp3" length="39740888" type="audio/mpeg"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/6703b9d8-f428-4637-a1ea-15ad637ac52e/6703b9d8-f428-4637-a1ea-15ad637ac52e.srt" type="application/x-subrip" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/6703b9d8-f428-4637-a1ea-15ad637ac52e/6703b9d8-f428-4637-a1ea-15ad637ac52e.txt" type="text/plain" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/6703b9d8-f428-4637-a1ea-15ad637ac52e/6703b9d8-f428-4637-a1ea-15ad637ac52e.vtt" type="text/vtt" language="en"/><itunes:author>HustleStudios Podcast Network</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>One hundred thirty-seven people walked onto the ice. None of them walked back.

The winter of eighteen ninety-seven, Labrador. Twenty-six Inuit families — one hundred thirty-seven people — left the Moravian mission settlement at Kutustrini, walked out...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[One hundred thirty-seven people walked onto the ice. None of them walked back.<br /><br />The winter of eighteen ninety-seven, Labrador. Twenty-six Inuit families — one hundred thirty-seven people — left the Moravian mission settlement at Kutustrini, walked out onto the sea ice, and vanished. No bodies. No tracks leading back. The missionaries called it a tragedy. The Inuit elders said something else: the Qallupilluit had called them home — the frog people who live beneath the ice, who sing to children, who take what the sea is owed. Brother Elsner was the last to see the light moving under the frozen surface.<br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />🕐 CHAPTERS<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />00:00 — Cold Open: The ice speaks<br />02:15 — Title Card<br />02:30 — The History: The mission at Kutustrini<br />09:00 — The Turn: The families walk out<br />15:30 — The Vault: RCMP files and Inuit oral tradition<br />18:00 — The Peak: The light beneath the ice<br />22:45 — The Reflection: What disappearance means<br />25:30 — Outro & Call to Action<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br /><br />#StoriesCanada #Kutustrini #Qallupilluit #InuitFolklore #Labrador #ArcticMystery #UnsolvedMysteries #IndigenousStories #TrueHorror #HauntedCanada<br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br /><br />Become a supporter of this podcast: <a href="https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/stories-canada-podcast-true-horror-stories--6861879/support?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss">https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/stories-canada-podcast-true-horror-stories--6861879/support</a>.<br /><br />Thank you for listening to Stories Canada Podcast. Follow the show for Canadian ghost stories, paranormal encounters, dark folklore, haunted history, and unexplained mysteries.<br /><br />Support the podcast and help us uncover more frightening stories from across Canada:<br />https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/stories-canada-podcast-true-horror-stories--6861879/support<br /><br />Stories may include folklore, dramatization, personal recollections, and allegedly true experiences that cannot always be independently verified. Identifying details may be changed to protect privacy. Please respect the people, cultures, and communities connected to these stories.]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>2484</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/59019e812aa4e83801dd918c4c3f8ddc.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Episode 005: The Vanishing of the Ungava Inuit</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/episode-005-the-vanishing-of-the-ungava-inuit--73456735</link><description><![CDATA[An entire village, gone overnight. No bodies. No tracks. No answer.<br /><br />November, nineteen thirty. The wind cuts across Ungava Bay like broken glass, and the sun has been gone for weeks. When a trapper finally reached the Inuit settlement on the shore, he found meals still on tables, rifles still by the doors, dogs dead of starvation still tied to their posts — and not a single human being. The Ungava Inuit had thrived in the harshest environment on Earth for centuries. Then, in one Arctic night, they vanished. Nearly a century later, nobody has explained where they went.<br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />🕐 CHAPTERS<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />00:00 — Cold Open: The wind across Ungava Bay<br />02:15 — Title Card<br />02:30 — The History: Life at the edge of the world<br />09:00 — The Turn: The trapper finds the empty camp<br />13:30 — The Vault: What the investigations found — and didn't<br />15:15 — The Peak: The theories, from disease to something older<br />19:30 — The Reflection: The silence the Arctic keeps<br />21:00 — Outro & Call to Action<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br /><br />#StoriesCanada #UngavaInuit #ArcticMystery #UnsolvedMysteries #CanadianHistory #InuitCulture #NorthernCanada #TrueHorror #Paranormal #HauntedCanada<br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br /><br />Become a supporter of this podcast: <a href="https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/stories-canada-podcast-true-horror-stories--6861879/support?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss">https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/stories-canada-podcast-true-horror-stories--6861879/support</a>.<br /><br />Thank you for listening to Stories Canada Podcast. Follow the show for Canadian ghost stories, paranormal encounters, dark folklore, haunted history, and unexplained mysteries.<br /><br />Support the podcast and help us uncover more frightening stories from across Canada:<br />https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/stories-canada-podcast-true-horror-stories--6861879/support<br /><br />Stories may include folklore, dramatization, personal recollections, and allegedly true experiences that cannot always be independently verified. Identifying details may be changed to protect privacy. Please respect the people, cultures, and communities connected to these stories.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/73456735</guid><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 20:26:11 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/73456735/ep005_final.mp3" length="35783232" type="audio/mpeg"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/b45d0cc6-56c5-40bb-b5d1-64323a5c25b8/b45d0cc6-56c5-40bb-b5d1-64323a5c25b8.srt" type="application/x-subrip" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/b45d0cc6-56c5-40bb-b5d1-64323a5c25b8/b45d0cc6-56c5-40bb-b5d1-64323a5c25b8.txt" type="text/plain" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/b45d0cc6-56c5-40bb-b5d1-64323a5c25b8/b45d0cc6-56c5-40bb-b5d1-64323a5c25b8.vtt" type="text/vtt" language="en"/><itunes:author>HustleStudios Podcast Network</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>An entire village, gone overnight. No bodies. No tracks. No answer.

November, nineteen thirty. The wind cuts across Ungava Bay like broken glass, and the sun has been gone for weeks. When a trapper finally reached the Inuit settlement on the shore,...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[An entire village, gone overnight. No bodies. No tracks. No answer.<br /><br />November, nineteen thirty. The wind cuts across Ungava Bay like broken glass, and the sun has been gone for weeks. When a trapper finally reached the Inuit settlement on the shore, he found meals still on tables, rifles still by the doors, dogs dead of starvation still tied to their posts — and not a single human being. The Ungava Inuit had thrived in the harshest environment on Earth for centuries. Then, in one Arctic night, they vanished. Nearly a century later, nobody has explained where they went.<br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />🕐 CHAPTERS<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />00:00 — Cold Open: The wind across Ungava Bay<br />02:15 — Title Card<br />02:30 — The History: Life at the edge of the world<br />09:00 — The Turn: The trapper finds the empty camp<br />13:30 — The Vault: What the investigations found — and didn't<br />15:15 — The Peak: The theories, from disease to something older<br />19:30 — The Reflection: The silence the Arctic keeps<br />21:00 — Outro & Call to Action<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br /><br />#StoriesCanada #UngavaInuit #ArcticMystery #UnsolvedMysteries #CanadianHistory #InuitCulture #NorthernCanada #TrueHorror #Paranormal #HauntedCanada<br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br /><br />Become a supporter of this podcast: <a href="https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/stories-canada-podcast-true-horror-stories--6861879/support?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss">https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/stories-canada-podcast-true-horror-stories--6861879/support</a>.<br /><br />Thank you for listening to Stories Canada Podcast. Follow the show for Canadian ghost stories, paranormal encounters, dark folklore, haunted history, and unexplained mysteries.<br /><br />Support the podcast and help us uncover more frightening stories from across Canada:<br />https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/stories-canada-podcast-true-horror-stories--6861879/support<br /><br />Stories may include folklore, dramatization, personal recollections, and allegedly true experiences that cannot always be independently verified. Identifying details may be changed to protect privacy. Please respect the people, cultures, and communities connected to these stories.]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>2237</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/59019e812aa4e83801dd918c4c3f8ddc.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Episode 009: The Flin Flon Mystery</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/episode-009-the-flin-flon-mystery--73456690</link><description><![CDATA[A town named after a fictional character. Disappearances that are anything but fiction.<br /><br />Flin Flon, Manitoba — a mining town on the edge of the Canadian Shield, named after a dime-novel hero. Prospectors who founded it vanished without a trace. Lights move over the rock where no roads exist. Hunters walk into the boreal forest and don't walk out. For over a century, the land around Flin Flon has kept a quiet tally of the missing. The town's origin was strange. What happened afterward is stranger.<br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />🕐 CHAPTERS<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />00:00 — Cold Open: Black glass water<br />01:45 — Title Card<br />02:00 — The History: Josiah Flintabbatey Flonatin's town<br />06:45 — The Turn: The first disappearances<br />11:15 — The Vault: Lights over the Shield<br />12:45 — The Peak: The hunter who never returned<br />16:30 — The Reflection: When the land swallows people<br />19:45 — Outro & Call to Action<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br /><br />#StoriesCanada #FlinFlon #Manitoba #CanadianMysteries #UnexplainedDisappearances #NorthernCanada #MiningHistory #TrueHorror #Paranormal #HauntedCanada<br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br /><br />Become a supporter of this podcast: <a href="https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/stories-canada-podcast-true-horror-stories--6861879/support?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss">https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/stories-canada-podcast-true-horror-stories--6861879/support</a>.<br /><br />Thank you for listening to Stories Canada Podcast. Follow the show for Canadian ghost stories, paranormal encounters, dark folklore, haunted history, and unexplained mysteries.<br /><br />Support the podcast and help us uncover more frightening stories from across Canada:<br />https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/stories-canada-podcast-true-horror-stories--6861879/support<br /><br />Stories may include folklore, dramatization, personal recollections, and allegedly true experiences that cannot always be independently verified. Identifying details may be changed to protect privacy. Please respect the people, cultures, and communities connected to these stories.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/73456690</guid><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 20:24:37 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/73456690/ep009_final.mp3" length="22151168" type="audio/mpeg"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/b8c2747e-d755-4ef7-b889-0bef013e016f/b8c2747e-d755-4ef7-b889-0bef013e016f.srt" type="application/x-subrip" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/b8c2747e-d755-4ef7-b889-0bef013e016f/b8c2747e-d755-4ef7-b889-0bef013e016f.txt" type="text/plain" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/b8c2747e-d755-4ef7-b889-0bef013e016f/b8c2747e-d755-4ef7-b889-0bef013e016f.vtt" type="text/vtt" language="en"/><itunes:author>HustleStudios Podcast Network</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>A town named after a fictional character. Disappearances that are anything but fiction.

Flin Flon, Manitoba — a mining town on the edge of the Canadian Shield, named after a dime-novel hero. Prospectors who founded it vanished without a trace. Lights...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[A town named after a fictional character. Disappearances that are anything but fiction.<br /><br />Flin Flon, Manitoba — a mining town on the edge of the Canadian Shield, named after a dime-novel hero. Prospectors who founded it vanished without a trace. Lights move over the rock where no roads exist. Hunters walk into the boreal forest and don't walk out. For over a century, the land around Flin Flon has kept a quiet tally of the missing. The town's origin was strange. What happened afterward is stranger.<br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />🕐 CHAPTERS<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />00:00 — Cold Open: Black glass water<br />01:45 — Title Card<br />02:00 — The History: Josiah Flintabbatey Flonatin's town<br />06:45 — The Turn: The first disappearances<br />11:15 — The Vault: Lights over the Shield<br />12:45 — The Peak: The hunter who never returned<br />16:30 — The Reflection: When the land swallows people<br />19:45 — Outro & Call to Action<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br /><br />#StoriesCanada #FlinFlon #Manitoba #CanadianMysteries #UnexplainedDisappearances #NorthernCanada #MiningHistory #TrueHorror #Paranormal #HauntedCanada<br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br /><br />Become a supporter of this podcast: <a href="https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/stories-canada-podcast-true-horror-stories--6861879/support?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss">https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/stories-canada-podcast-true-horror-stories--6861879/support</a>.<br /><br />Thank you for listening to Stories Canada Podcast. Follow the show for Canadian ghost stories, paranormal encounters, dark folklore, haunted history, and unexplained mysteries.<br /><br />Support the podcast and help us uncover more frightening stories from across Canada:<br />https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/stories-canada-podcast-true-horror-stories--6861879/support<br /><br />Stories may include folklore, dramatization, personal recollections, and allegedly true experiences that cannot always be independently verified. Identifying details may be changed to protect privacy. Please respect the people, cultures, and communities connected to these stories.]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>1384</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/59019e812aa4e83801dd918c4c3f8ddc.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Episode 006: The Lighthouse of Île-aux-Noirs</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/episode-006-the-lighthouse-of-ile-aux-noirs--73455597</link><description><![CDATA[A sacred burial ground. A church built on desecration. A lighthouse that collects its keepers.<br /><br />Île-aux-Noirs sits in the St. Lawrence River layered in uneasy history: a Mohawk sacred burial site, then a French colonial church raised on that ground, then a waystation of the Underground Railroad — and finally, a lighthouse whose keepers kept vanishing into the fog. October twenty-third, eighteen ninety-seven: keeper Thomas Beaumont climbed the tower for his final night on duty. What the beam swept across the water that night, the logbook never recorded. But the island remembers.<br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />🕐 CHAPTERS<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />00:00 — Cold Open: Keeper Beaumont's final night<br />02:15 — Title Card<br />02:30 — The History: Burial ground, church, and the Railroad<br />13:00 — The Turn: The lighthouse and its vanishing keepers<br />20:30 — The Vault: What the archives buried<br />22:45 — The Peak: Beaumont joins the procession<br />27:00 — The Reflection: Sacred ground and layered trauma<br />29:00 — Outro & Call to Action<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br /><br />#StoriesCanada #IleAuxNoirs #HauntedLighthouse #Mohawk #UndergroundRailroad #CanadianHistory #TrueHorror #Paranormal #GhostStories #HauntedCanada<br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br /><br />Become a supporter of this podcast: <a href="https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/stories-canada-podcast-true-horror-stories--6861879/support?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss">https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/stories-canada-podcast-true-horror-stories--6861879/support</a>.<br /><br />Thank you for listening to Stories Canada Podcast. Follow the show for Canadian ghost stories, paranormal encounters, dark folklore, haunted history, and unexplained mysteries.<br /><br />Support the podcast and help us uncover more frightening stories from across Canada:<br />https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/stories-canada-podcast-true-horror-stories--6861879/support<br /><br />Stories may include folklore, dramatization, personal recollections, and allegedly true experiences that cannot always be independently verified. Identifying details may be changed to protect privacy. Please respect the people, cultures, and communities connected to these stories.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/73455597</guid><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 20:04:57 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/73455597/ep006_final.mp3" length="37833740" type="audio/mpeg"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/3b302e84-b477-4d9f-bee1-3ca31bdd3e5d/3b302e84-b477-4d9f-bee1-3ca31bdd3e5d.srt" type="application/x-subrip" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/3b302e84-b477-4d9f-bee1-3ca31bdd3e5d/3b302e84-b477-4d9f-bee1-3ca31bdd3e5d.txt" type="text/plain" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/3b302e84-b477-4d9f-bee1-3ca31bdd3e5d/3b302e84-b477-4d9f-bee1-3ca31bdd3e5d.vtt" type="text/vtt" language="en"/><itunes:author>HustleStudios Podcast Network</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>A sacred burial ground. A church built on desecration. A lighthouse that collects its keepers.

Île-aux-Noirs sits in the St. Lawrence River layered in uneasy history: a Mohawk sacred burial site, then a French colonial church raised on that ground,...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[A sacred burial ground. A church built on desecration. A lighthouse that collects its keepers.<br /><br />Île-aux-Noirs sits in the St. Lawrence River layered in uneasy history: a Mohawk sacred burial site, then a French colonial church raised on that ground, then a waystation of the Underground Railroad — and finally, a lighthouse whose keepers kept vanishing into the fog. October twenty-third, eighteen ninety-seven: keeper Thomas Beaumont climbed the tower for his final night on duty. What the beam swept across the water that night, the logbook never recorded. But the island remembers.<br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />🕐 CHAPTERS<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />00:00 — Cold Open: Keeper Beaumont's final night<br />02:15 — Title Card<br />02:30 — The History: Burial ground, church, and the Railroad<br />13:00 — The Turn: The lighthouse and its vanishing keepers<br />20:30 — The Vault: What the archives buried<br />22:45 — The Peak: Beaumont joins the procession<br />27:00 — The Reflection: Sacred ground and layered trauma<br />29:00 — Outro & Call to Action<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br /><br />#StoriesCanada #IleAuxNoirs #HauntedLighthouse #Mohawk #UndergroundRailroad #CanadianHistory #TrueHorror #Paranormal #GhostStories #HauntedCanada<br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br /><br />Become a supporter of this podcast: <a href="https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/stories-canada-podcast-true-horror-stories--6861879/support?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss">https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/stories-canada-podcast-true-horror-stories--6861879/support</a>.<br /><br />Thank you for listening to Stories Canada Podcast. Follow the show for Canadian ghost stories, paranormal encounters, dark folklore, haunted history, and unexplained mysteries.<br /><br />Support the podcast and help us uncover more frightening stories from across Canada:<br />https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/stories-canada-podcast-true-horror-stories--6861879/support<br /><br />Stories may include folklore, dramatization, personal recollections, and allegedly true experiences that cannot always be independently verified. Identifying details may be changed to protect privacy. Please respect the people, cultures, and communities connected to these stories.]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>2365</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/59019e812aa4e83801dd918c4c3f8ddc.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Episode 004: Nha-a-itk - The Real Ogopogo</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/episode-004-nha-a-itk-the-real-ogopogo--73455369</link><description><![CDATA[A demon demanding blood. A mascot smiling for tourists. The lake remembers the difference.<br /><br />For thousands of years, the Syilx people of the Okanagan Valley spoke of Nha-a-itk — a water creature so feared that no traveler crossed the lake without first making an offering. Then the settlers came, and turned the demon into Ogopogo: a cute, plush, postcard-friendly mascot. But the Syilx never forgot what the lake actually holds. The offerings stopped. The sightings didn't. And the water keeps its own ledger.<br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />🕐 CHAPTERS<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />00:00 — Cold Open: The friendliest monster in Canada<br />02:00 — Intro & Welcome<br />04:00 — Topic Setup: The Syilx and the lake<br />06:00 — Main Story Part One: Nha-a-itk, the blood-demanding spirit<br />18:00 — Segment of the Day: Cryptids of Canada<br />24:00 — Main Story Part Two: The demon becomes a mascot<br />38:00 — The Reflection: What colonization erases<br />43:00 — Outro & Call to Action<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br /><br />#StoriesCanada #Ogopogo #Nhaaitk #OkanaganLake #BritishColumbia #IndigenousLegends #CanadianFolklore #LakeMonster #Cryptids #TrueHorror #HauntedCanada<br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br /><br />Become a supporter of this podcast: <a href="https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/stories-canada-podcast-true-horror-stories--6861879/support?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss">https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/stories-canada-podcast-true-horror-stories--6861879/support</a>.<br /><br />Thank you for listening to Stories Canada Podcast. Follow the show for Canadian ghost stories, paranormal encounters, dark folklore, haunted history, and unexplained mysteries.<br /><br />Support the podcast and help us uncover more frightening stories from across Canada:<br />https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/stories-canada-podcast-true-horror-stories--6861879/support<br /><br />Stories may include folklore, dramatization, personal recollections, and allegedly true experiences that cannot always be independently verified. Identifying details may be changed to protect privacy. Please respect the people, cultures, and communities connected to these stories.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/73455369</guid><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 19:59:59 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/73455369/ep004_final.mp3" length="39714816" type="audio/mpeg"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/50ac79b0-5fa6-4872-85c5-ab098f2729df/50ac79b0-5fa6-4872-85c5-ab098f2729df.srt" type="application/x-subrip" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/50ac79b0-5fa6-4872-85c5-ab098f2729df/50ac79b0-5fa6-4872-85c5-ab098f2729df.txt" type="text/plain" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/50ac79b0-5fa6-4872-85c5-ab098f2729df/50ac79b0-5fa6-4872-85c5-ab098f2729df.vtt" type="text/vtt" language="en"/><itunes:author>HustleStudios Podcast Network</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>A demon demanding blood. A mascot smiling for tourists. The lake remembers the difference.

For thousands of years, the Syilx people of the Okanagan Valley spoke of Nha-a-itk — a water creature so feared that no traveler crossed the lake without first...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[A demon demanding blood. A mascot smiling for tourists. The lake remembers the difference.<br /><br />For thousands of years, the Syilx people of the Okanagan Valley spoke of Nha-a-itk — a water creature so feared that no traveler crossed the lake without first making an offering. Then the settlers came, and turned the demon into Ogopogo: a cute, plush, postcard-friendly mascot. But the Syilx never forgot what the lake actually holds. The offerings stopped. The sightings didn't. And the water keeps its own ledger.<br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />🕐 CHAPTERS<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />00:00 — Cold Open: The friendliest monster in Canada<br />02:00 — Intro & Welcome<br />04:00 — Topic Setup: The Syilx and the lake<br />06:00 — Main Story Part One: Nha-a-itk, the blood-demanding spirit<br />18:00 — Segment of the Day: Cryptids of Canada<br />24:00 — Main Story Part Two: The demon becomes a mascot<br />38:00 — The Reflection: What colonization erases<br />43:00 — Outro & Call to Action<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br /><br />#StoriesCanada #Ogopogo #Nhaaitk #OkanaganLake #BritishColumbia #IndigenousLegends #CanadianFolklore #LakeMonster #Cryptids #TrueHorror #HauntedCanada<br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br /><br />Become a supporter of this podcast: <a href="https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/stories-canada-podcast-true-horror-stories--6861879/support?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss">https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/stories-canada-podcast-true-horror-stories--6861879/support</a>.<br /><br />Thank you for listening to Stories Canada Podcast. Follow the show for Canadian ghost stories, paranormal encounters, dark folklore, haunted history, and unexplained mysteries.<br /><br />Support the podcast and help us uncover more frightening stories from across Canada:<br />https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/stories-canada-podcast-true-horror-stories--6861879/support<br /><br />Stories may include folklore, dramatization, personal recollections, and allegedly true experiences that cannot always be independently verified. Identifying details may be changed to protect privacy. Please respect the people, cultures, and communities connected to these stories.]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>2482</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/59019e812aa4e83801dd918c4c3f8ddc.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Episode 018: Memphre — The Lake Monster of Lake Memphremagog</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/episode-018-memphre-the-lake-monster-of-lake-memphremagog--73454077</link><description><![CDATA[Thirty-seven years on the water. One shadow she could never explain.<br /><br />Lake Memphremagog, Quebec — two hundred feet deep in places, stretching across the border into Vermont, cold and black as glass at four thirty in the morning. Barbara Malloy has fished it for thirty-seven years and knows every shoal. But the old-timers speak of something in the deepest section — the part they call the abyss. They have a name for it: Memphre. Long, undulating, too fast for a fish, too deliberate for debris. Scientists, monks, and fishermen have all reported it. The lake keeps its secrets — but sometimes, in the pre-dawn stillness, it lets one surface.<br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />🕐 CHAPTERS<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />00:00 — Cold Open: Black glass at four thirty<br />01:30 — Title Card<br />02:00 — The History: The lake and the old-timers<br />09:00 — The Turn: Barbara's shadow<br />16:00 — The Vault: The documented sightings<br />20:00 — The Peak: The scientist who saw it<br />27:00 — The Reflection: Some mysteries are gifts<br />31:00 — Outro & Call to Action<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br /><br />#StoriesCanada #Memphre #LakeMemphremagog #LakeMonster #Quebec #CanadianCryptids #TrueHorror #Paranormal #UnsolvedMysteries #HauntedCanada<br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br /><br />Become a supporter of this podcast: <a href="https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/stories-canada-podcast-true-horror-stories--6861879/support?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss">https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/stories-canada-podcast-true-horror-stories--6861879/support</a>.<br /><br />Thank you for listening to Stories Canada Podcast. Follow the show for Canadian ghost stories, paranormal encounters, dark folklore, haunted history, and unexplained mysteries.<br /><br />Support the podcast and help us uncover more frightening stories from across Canada:<br />https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/stories-canada-podcast-true-horror-stories--6861879/support<br /><br />Stories may include folklore, dramatization, personal recollections, and allegedly true experiences that cannot always be independently verified. Identifying details may be changed to protect privacy. Please respect the people, cultures, and communities connected to these stories.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/73454077</guid><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 19:28:46 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/73454077/ep018_final.mp3" length="44498944" type="audio/mpeg"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/c1c3deaf-d121-45ed-b942-2b0e054e8d8a/c1c3deaf-d121-45ed-b942-2b0e054e8d8a.srt" type="application/x-subrip" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/c1c3deaf-d121-45ed-b942-2b0e054e8d8a/c1c3deaf-d121-45ed-b942-2b0e054e8d8a.txt" type="text/plain" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/c1c3deaf-d121-45ed-b942-2b0e054e8d8a/c1c3deaf-d121-45ed-b942-2b0e054e8d8a.vtt" type="text/vtt" language="en"/><itunes:author>HustleStudios Podcast Network</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Thirty-seven years on the water. One shadow she could never explain.

Lake Memphremagog, Quebec — two hundred feet deep in places, stretching across the border into Vermont, cold and black as glass at four thirty in the morning. Barbara Malloy has...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Thirty-seven years on the water. One shadow she could never explain.<br /><br />Lake Memphremagog, Quebec — two hundred feet deep in places, stretching across the border into Vermont, cold and black as glass at four thirty in the morning. Barbara Malloy has fished it for thirty-seven years and knows every shoal. But the old-timers speak of something in the deepest section — the part they call the abyss. They have a name for it: Memphre. Long, undulating, too fast for a fish, too deliberate for debris. Scientists, monks, and fishermen have all reported it. The lake keeps its secrets — but sometimes, in the pre-dawn stillness, it lets one surface.<br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />🕐 CHAPTERS<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />00:00 — Cold Open: Black glass at four thirty<br />01:30 — Title Card<br />02:00 — The History: The lake and the old-timers<br />09:00 — The Turn: Barbara's shadow<br />16:00 — The Vault: The documented sightings<br />20:00 — The Peak: The scientist who saw it<br />27:00 — The Reflection: Some mysteries are gifts<br />31:00 — Outro & Call to Action<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br /><br />#StoriesCanada #Memphre #LakeMemphremagog #LakeMonster #Quebec #CanadianCryptids #TrueHorror #Paranormal #UnsolvedMysteries #HauntedCanada<br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br /><br />Become a supporter of this podcast: <a href="https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/stories-canada-podcast-true-horror-stories--6861879/support?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss">https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/stories-canada-podcast-true-horror-stories--6861879/support</a>.<br /><br />Thank you for listening to Stories Canada Podcast. Follow the show for Canadian ghost stories, paranormal encounters, dark folklore, haunted history, and unexplained mysteries.<br /><br />Support the podcast and help us uncover more frightening stories from across Canada:<br />https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/stories-canada-podcast-true-horror-stories--6861879/support<br /><br />Stories may include folklore, dramatization, personal recollections, and allegedly true experiences that cannot always be independently verified. Identifying details may be changed to protect privacy. Please respect the people, cultures, and communities connected to these stories.]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>2781</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/59019e812aa4e83801dd918c4c3f8ddc.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Episode 017: The Haunted Railroads of Canada</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/episode-017-the-haunted-railroads-of-canada--73454032</link><description><![CDATA[Every spike driven by a man the country refused to see. The trains still carry them.<br /><br />Fraser Canyon, British Columbia, eighteen seventy-four. In the pre-dawn dark, Chinese railway workers swung their hammers for a dollar a day while their white counterparts earned three — blasting the Canadian Pacific Railway through granite, buried afterward in unmarked graves beside the tracks. Then the whistle came: long, mournful, from a canyon where no train was scheduled to pass. To this day, passengers on the mountain sections report phantom workers in the mist, and railway employees tell of ghost trains running on no schedule. The railway stitched Canada together. The men who built it were never meant to be remembered. They disagree.<br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />🕐 CHAPTERS<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />00:00 — Cold Open: Hammer strikes at four thirty<br />00:30 — Title Card<br />01:00 — The History: Building the impossible railway<br />12:15 — The Turn: The whistle that shouldn't exist<br />25:30 — The Vault: Unmarked graves along the line<br />28:00 — The Peak: Ghost trains and phantom workers<br />31:30 — The Reflection: Who gets to be remembered<br />35:00 — Outro & Call to Action<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br /><br />#StoriesCanada #HauntedRailroads #CanadianPacificRailway #GhostTrains #ChineseRailwayWorkers #BritishColumbia #TrueHorror #DarkHistory #Paranormal #HauntedCanada<br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br /><br />Become a supporter of this podcast: <a href="https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/stories-canada-podcast-true-horror-stories--6861879/support?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss">https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/stories-canada-podcast-true-horror-stories--6861879/support</a>.<br /><br />Thank you for listening to Stories Canada Podcast. Follow the show for Canadian ghost stories, paranormal encounters, dark folklore, haunted history, and unexplained mysteries.<br /><br />Support the podcast and help us uncover more frightening stories from across Canada:<br />https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/stories-canada-podcast-true-horror-stories--6861879/support<br /><br />Stories may include folklore, dramatization, personal recollections, and allegedly true experiences that cannot always be independently verified. Identifying details may be changed to protect privacy. Please respect the people, cultures, and communities connected to these stories.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/73454032</guid><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 19:27:46 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/73454032/ep017_final.mp3" length="46202880" type="audio/mpeg"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/7b1ffaf5-5b46-43a2-9e5e-9c59e61c001d/7b1ffaf5-5b46-43a2-9e5e-9c59e61c001d.srt" type="application/x-subrip" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/7b1ffaf5-5b46-43a2-9e5e-9c59e61c001d/7b1ffaf5-5b46-43a2-9e5e-9c59e61c001d.txt" type="text/plain" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/7b1ffaf5-5b46-43a2-9e5e-9c59e61c001d/7b1ffaf5-5b46-43a2-9e5e-9c59e61c001d.vtt" type="text/vtt" language="en"/><itunes:author>HustleStudios Podcast Network</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Every spike driven by a man the country refused to see. The trains still carry them.

Fraser Canyon, British Columbia, eighteen seventy-four. In the pre-dawn dark, Chinese railway workers swung their hammers for a dollar a day while their white...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Every spike driven by a man the country refused to see. The trains still carry them.<br /><br />Fraser Canyon, British Columbia, eighteen seventy-four. In the pre-dawn dark, Chinese railway workers swung their hammers for a dollar a day while their white counterparts earned three — blasting the Canadian Pacific Railway through granite, buried afterward in unmarked graves beside the tracks. Then the whistle came: long, mournful, from a canyon where no train was scheduled to pass. To this day, passengers on the mountain sections report phantom workers in the mist, and railway employees tell of ghost trains running on no schedule. The railway stitched Canada together. The men who built it were never meant to be remembered. They disagree.<br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />🕐 CHAPTERS<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />00:00 — Cold Open: Hammer strikes at four thirty<br />00:30 — Title Card<br />01:00 — The History: Building the impossible railway<br />12:15 — The Turn: The whistle that shouldn't exist<br />25:30 — The Vault: Unmarked graves along the line<br />28:00 — The Peak: Ghost trains and phantom workers<br />31:30 — The Reflection: Who gets to be remembered<br />35:00 — Outro & Call to Action<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br /><br />#StoriesCanada #HauntedRailroads #CanadianPacificRailway #GhostTrains #ChineseRailwayWorkers #BritishColumbia #TrueHorror #DarkHistory #Paranormal #HauntedCanada<br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br /><br />Become a supporter of this podcast: <a href="https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/stories-canada-podcast-true-horror-stories--6861879/support?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss">https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/stories-canada-podcast-true-horror-stories--6861879/support</a>.<br /><br />Thank you for listening to Stories Canada Podcast. Follow the show for Canadian ghost stories, paranormal encounters, dark folklore, haunted history, and unexplained mysteries.<br /><br />Support the podcast and help us uncover more frightening stories from across Canada:<br />https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/stories-canada-podcast-true-horror-stories--6861879/support<br /><br />Stories may include folklore, dramatization, personal recollections, and allegedly true experiences that cannot always be independently verified. Identifying details may be changed to protect privacy. Please respect the people, cultures, and communities connected to these stories.]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>2887</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/59019e812aa4e83801dd918c4c3f8ddc.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Episode 019: The Gold Rush Ghosts of the Cariboo</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/episode-019-the-gold-rush-ghosts-of-the-cariboo--73451146</link><description><![CDATA[Ten thousand men chased gold into the mountains. The mountains kept some of them.<br /><br /> Barkerville, British Columbia — in the eighteen sixties, the richest and deadliest gold rush town on earth. Prospectors froze, starved, and murdered for their claims in the frozen Cariboo. According to the legends, some of them never left. William Barker heard the digging first: pickaxes striking stone at midnight, in a creek frozen solid, in weather no living man would work. Park rangers and backcountry guides still report strange lights moving through the ruins, and the sound of pickaxes echoing from abandoned claims. The gold ran out a century ago. The digging never stopped.<br /><br /> ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br /> 🕐 CHAPTERS<br /> ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br /> 00:00 — Cold Open: Voices on the October wind<br /> 00:30 — Title Card<br /> 01:00 — The History: The richest, deadliest town on earth<br /> 10:00 — The Turn: Digging at midnight<br /> 18:00 — The Vault: What the records buried<br /> 24:00 — The Peak: The lights in the ruins<br /> 32:00 — The Reflection: The most Canadian ghost story<br /> 36:00 — Outro &amp; Call to Action<br /> ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br /><br /> #StoriesCanada #Barkerville #GoldRush #Cariboo #BritishColumbia #GhostTown #CanadianHistory #TrueHorror #GhostStories #HauntedCanada<br /><br /> ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br /><br />Become a supporter of this podcast: <a href="https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/stories-canada-podcast-true-horror-stories--6861879/support?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss">https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/stories-canada-podcast-true-horror-stories--6861879/support</a>.<br /><br />Thank you for listening to Stories Canada Podcast. Follow the show for Canadian ghost stories, paranormal encounters, dark folklore, haunted history, and unexplained mysteries.<br /><br />Support the podcast and help us uncover more frightening stories from across Canada:<br />https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/stories-canada-podcast-true-horror-stories--6861879/support<br /><br />Stories may include folklore, dramatization, personal recollections, and allegedly true experiences that cannot always be independently verified. Identifying details may be changed to protect privacy. Please respect the people, cultures, and communities connected to these stories.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/73451146</guid><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 18:13:54 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/73451146/ep019_final.mp3" length="41156608" type="audio/mpeg"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/dba54cd3-c411-42b9-b8b8-ad543a66f19d/dba54cd3-c411-42b9-b8b8-ad543a66f19d.srt" type="application/x-subrip" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/dba54cd3-c411-42b9-b8b8-ad543a66f19d/dba54cd3-c411-42b9-b8b8-ad543a66f19d.txt" type="text/plain" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/dba54cd3-c411-42b9-b8b8-ad543a66f19d/dba54cd3-c411-42b9-b8b8-ad543a66f19d.vtt" type="text/vtt" language="en"/><itunes:author>HustleStudios Podcast Network</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Ten thousand men chased gold into the mountains. The mountains kept some of them.

Barkerville, British Columbia — in the eighteen sixties, the richest and deadliest gold rush town on earth. Prospectors froze, starved, and murdered for their claims in...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Ten thousand men chased gold into the mountains. The mountains kept some of them.<br /><br /> Barkerville, British Columbia — in the eighteen sixties, the richest and deadliest gold rush town on earth. Prospectors froze, starved, and murdered for their claims in the frozen Cariboo. According to the legends, some of them never left. William Barker heard the digging first: pickaxes striking stone at midnight, in a creek frozen solid, in weather no living man would work. Park rangers and backcountry guides still report strange lights moving through the ruins, and the sound of pickaxes echoing from abandoned claims. The gold ran out a century ago. The digging never stopped.<br /><br /> ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br /> 🕐 CHAPTERS<br /> ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br /> 00:00 — Cold Open: Voices on the October wind<br /> 00:30 — Title Card<br /> 01:00 — The History: The richest, deadliest town on earth<br /> 10:00 — The Turn: Digging at midnight<br /> 18:00 — The Vault: What the records buried<br /> 24:00 — The Peak: The lights in the ruins<br /> 32:00 — The Reflection: The most Canadian ghost story<br /> 36:00 — Outro &amp; Call to Action<br /> ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br /><br /> #StoriesCanada #Barkerville #GoldRush #Cariboo #BritishColumbia #GhostTown #CanadianHistory #TrueHorror #GhostStories #HauntedCanada<br /><br /> ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br /><br />Become a supporter of this podcast: <a href="https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/stories-canada-podcast-true-horror-stories--6861879/support?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss">https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/stories-canada-podcast-true-horror-stories--6861879/support</a>.<br /><br />Thank you for listening to Stories Canada Podcast. Follow the show for Canadian ghost stories, paranormal encounters, dark folklore, haunted history, and unexplained mysteries.<br /><br />Support the podcast and help us uncover more frightening stories from across Canada:<br />https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/stories-canada-podcast-true-horror-stories--6861879/support<br /><br />Stories may include folklore, dramatization, personal recollections, and allegedly true experiences that cannot always be independently verified. Identifying details may be changed to protect privacy. Please respect the people, cultures, and communities connected to these stories.]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>2572</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/59019e812aa4e83801dd918c4c3f8ddc.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Episode 016: The Franklin Expedition: Ghost Ships in the Ice</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/episode-016-the-franklin-expedition-ghost-ships-in-the-ice--72981273</link><description><![CDATA[Two ships. One hundred twenty-nine men. The ice never gave all of them back.<br /><br /> Eighteen forty-five. HMS Erebus and HMS Terror sailed into the Arctic carrying the finest expedition Britain had ever assembled — and sailed straight into one of history's darkest mysteries. The Franklin Expedition was devoured by the ice off King William Island: starvation, scurvy, lead poisoning, and finally, cannibalism in the endless winter. The Inuit told of gaunt white men dragging boats across the frozen sea, of camps of the dead, of ships locked in ice that groaned like something alive. The ice speaks in King William Island's endless winter — and what it says about those final months is worse than any ghost story.<br /><br /> ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br /> 🕐 CHAPTERS<br /> ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br /> 00:00 — Cold Open: The ice speaks<br /> 01:30 — Title Card<br /> 02:00 — The History: Britain's finest expedition<br /> 05:00 — The Turn: Devoured by the ice<br /> 09:00 — The Vault: The Inuit testimony<br /> 12:00 — The Peak: The last march<br /> 16:00 — The Reflection: What the Arctic remembers<br /> 19:00 — Outro &amp; Call to Action<br /> ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br /><br /> #StoriesCanada #FranklinExpedition #HMSTerror #HMSErebus #ArcticMystery #CanadianHistory #KingWilliamIsland #TrueHorror #DarkHistory #HauntedCanada<br /><br /> ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br /><br />Become a supporter of this podcast: <a href="https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/stories-canada-podcast-true-horror-stories--6861879/support?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss">https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/stories-canada-podcast-true-horror-stories--6861879/support</a>.<br /><br />Thank you for listening to Stories Canada Podcast. Follow the show for Canadian ghost stories, paranormal encounters, dark folklore, haunted history, and unexplained mysteries.<br /><br />Support the podcast and help us uncover more frightening stories from across Canada:<br />https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/stories-canada-podcast-true-horror-stories--6861879/support<br /><br />Stories may include folklore, dramatization, personal recollections, and allegedly true experiences that cannot always be independently verified. Identifying details may be changed to protect privacy. Please respect the people, cultures, and communities connected to these stories.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/72981273</guid><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 01:17:27 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/72981273/ep016_final.mp3" length="20971520" type="audio/mpeg"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/a217b44d-53b6-4a0d-a825-8587c65045d4/a217b44d-53b6-4a0d-a825-8587c65045d4.srt" type="application/x-subrip" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/a217b44d-53b6-4a0d-a825-8587c65045d4/a217b44d-53b6-4a0d-a825-8587c65045d4.txt" type="text/plain" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/a217b44d-53b6-4a0d-a825-8587c65045d4/a217b44d-53b6-4a0d-a825-8587c65045d4.vtt" type="text/vtt" language="en"/><itunes:author>HustleStudios Podcast Network</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Two ships. One hundred twenty-nine men. The ice never gave all of them back.

Eighteen forty-five. HMS Erebus and HMS Terror sailed into the Arctic carrying the finest expedition Britain had ever assembled — and sailed straight into one of history's...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Two ships. One hundred twenty-nine men. The ice never gave all of them back.<br /><br /> Eighteen forty-five. HMS Erebus and HMS Terror sailed into the Arctic carrying the finest expedition Britain had ever assembled — and sailed straight into one of history's darkest mysteries. The Franklin Expedition was devoured by the ice off King William Island: starvation, scurvy, lead poisoning, and finally, cannibalism in the endless winter. The Inuit told of gaunt white men dragging boats across the frozen sea, of camps of the dead, of ships locked in ice that groaned like something alive. The ice speaks in King William Island's endless winter — and what it says about those final months is worse than any ghost story.<br /><br /> ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br /> 🕐 CHAPTERS<br /> ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br /> 00:00 — Cold Open: The ice speaks<br /> 01:30 — Title Card<br /> 02:00 — The History: Britain's finest expedition<br /> 05:00 — The Turn: Devoured by the ice<br /> 09:00 — The Vault: The Inuit testimony<br /> 12:00 — The Peak: The last march<br /> 16:00 — The Reflection: What the Arctic remembers<br /> 19:00 — Outro &amp; Call to Action<br /> ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br /><br /> #StoriesCanada #FranklinExpedition #HMSTerror #HMSErebus #ArcticMystery #CanadianHistory #KingWilliamIsland #TrueHorror #DarkHistory #HauntedCanada<br /><br /> ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br /><br />Become a supporter of this podcast: <a href="https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/stories-canada-podcast-true-horror-stories--6861879/support?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss">https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/stories-canada-podcast-true-horror-stories--6861879/support</a>.<br /><br />Thank you for listening to Stories Canada Podcast. Follow the show for Canadian ghost stories, paranormal encounters, dark folklore, haunted history, and unexplained mysteries.<br /><br />Support the podcast and help us uncover more frightening stories from across Canada:<br />https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/stories-canada-podcast-true-horror-stories--6861879/support<br /><br />Stories may include folklore, dramatization, personal recollections, and allegedly true experiences that cannot always be independently verified. Identifying details may be changed to protect privacy. Please respect the people, cultures, and communities connected to these stories.]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>1311</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/59019e812aa4e83801dd918c4c3f8ddc.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Episode 011: The Frozen Baby of Iceberg Alley</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/episode-011-the-frozen-baby-of-iceberg-alley--72834567</link><description><![CDATA[The ice gave something back. It should have stayed buried.<br /><br /> Iceberg Alley, Newfoundland — where the great bergs drift down from the Arctic, and where fishermen have pulled strange things from the frozen water for generations. But the discovery that haunts this stretch of coast is the smallest one: a child, preserved in the ice, in clothing that matched no living memory of the outports. The ice screamed as the pick bit into it. Some of the men who were there that morning refused to speak of it for the rest of their lives. The sea keeps its dead. Except when it doesn't.<br /><br /> ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br /> 🕐 CHAPTERS<br /> ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br /> 00:00 — Cold Open: The ice screamed<br /> 02:15 — Title Card<br /> 02:30 — The History: Iceberg Alley and the outports<br /> 08:00 — The Turn: The discovery in the ice<br /> 12:30 — The Vault: What the records showed<br /> 14:45 — The Peak: The men who never spoke of it<br /> 19:30 — The Reflection: What the sea keeps<br /> 22:45 — Outro &amp; Call to Action<br /> ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br /><br /> #StoriesCanada #IcebergAlley #Newfoundland #CanadianMysteries #FrozenMystery #TrueHorror #GhostStories #Paranormal #UnsolvedMysteries #HauntedCanada<br /><br /> ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br /><br />Become a supporter of this podcast: <a href="https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/stories-canada-podcast-true-horror-stories--6861879/support?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss">https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/stories-canada-podcast-true-horror-stories--6861879/support</a>.<br /><br />Thank you for listening to Stories Canada Podcast. Follow the show for Canadian ghost stories, paranormal encounters, dark folklore, haunted history, and unexplained mysteries.<br /><br />Support the podcast and help us uncover more frightening stories from across Canada:<br />https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/stories-canada-podcast-true-horror-stories--6861879/support<br /><br />Stories may include folklore, dramatization, personal recollections, and allegedly true experiences that cannot always be independently verified. Identifying details may be changed to protect privacy. Please respect the people, cultures, and communities connected to these stories.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/72834567</guid><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 03:49:45 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/72834567/ep011_final.mp3" length="38181900" type="audio/mpeg"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/c4e5d3d0-c780-4a9d-9b71-67a8c1d2e13c/c4e5d3d0-c780-4a9d-9b71-67a8c1d2e13c.srt" type="application/x-subrip" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/c4e5d3d0-c780-4a9d-9b71-67a8c1d2e13c/c4e5d3d0-c780-4a9d-9b71-67a8c1d2e13c.txt" type="text/plain" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/c4e5d3d0-c780-4a9d-9b71-67a8c1d2e13c/c4e5d3d0-c780-4a9d-9b71-67a8c1d2e13c.vtt" type="text/vtt" language="en"/><itunes:author>HustleStudios Podcast Network</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>The ice gave something back. It should have stayed buried.

Iceberg Alley, Newfoundland — where the great bergs drift down from the Arctic, and where fishermen have pulled strange things from the frozen water for generations. But the discovery that...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[The ice gave something back. It should have stayed buried.<br /><br /> Iceberg Alley, Newfoundland — where the great bergs drift down from the Arctic, and where fishermen have pulled strange things from the frozen water for generations. But the discovery that haunts this stretch of coast is the smallest one: a child, preserved in the ice, in clothing that matched no living memory of the outports. The ice screamed as the pick bit into it. Some of the men who were there that morning refused to speak of it for the rest of their lives. The sea keeps its dead. Except when it doesn't.<br /><br /> ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br /> 🕐 CHAPTERS<br /> ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br /> 00:00 — Cold Open: The ice screamed<br /> 02:15 — Title Card<br /> 02:30 — The History: Iceberg Alley and the outports<br /> 08:00 — The Turn: The discovery in the ice<br /> 12:30 — The Vault: What the records showed<br /> 14:45 — The Peak: The men who never spoke of it<br /> 19:30 — The Reflection: What the sea keeps<br /> 22:45 — Outro &amp; Call to Action<br /> ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br /><br /> #StoriesCanada #IcebergAlley #Newfoundland #CanadianMysteries #FrozenMystery #TrueHorror #GhostStories #Paranormal #UnsolvedMysteries #HauntedCanada<br /><br /> ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br /><br />Become a supporter of this podcast: <a href="https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/stories-canada-podcast-true-horror-stories--6861879/support?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss">https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/stories-canada-podcast-true-horror-stories--6861879/support</a>.<br /><br />Thank you for listening to Stories Canada Podcast. Follow the show for Canadian ghost stories, paranormal encounters, dark folklore, haunted history, and unexplained mysteries.<br /><br />Support the podcast and help us uncover more frightening stories from across Canada:<br />https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/stories-canada-podcast-true-horror-stories--6861879/support<br /><br />Stories may include folklore, dramatization, personal recollections, and allegedly true experiences that cannot always be independently verified. Identifying details may be changed to protect privacy. Please respect the people, cultures, and communities connected to these stories.]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>2387</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/59019e812aa4e83801dd918c4c3f8ddc.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Episode 008: The Banff Springs Hotel — Sam the Bellman</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/episode-008-the-banff-springs-hotel-sam-the-bellman--72797767</link><description><![CDATA[He served for forty years. He died on duty. He never clocked out.<br /><br /> The Fairmont Banff Springs is a castle of limestone and luxury in the heart of the Rockies — and its most loyal employee never left. Sam Macauley, the beloved Scottish bellman, died on duty in nineteen seventy-five. Three weeks later, guests began reporting a helpful elderly bellman who assisted with their bags — and vanished before their eyes. Staff who worked beside Sam for decades still see him straightening chairs and adjusting flowers. And he is not the only spirit walking those corridors: a bride who never reached her wedding, and an architect still inspecting his masterpiece.<br /><br /> ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br /> 🕐 CHAPTERS<br /> ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br /> 00:00 — Cold Open: Mrs. Henderson's elevator<br /> 02:30 — Title Card<br /> 02:40 — The History: A castle in the Rockies<br /> 10:25 — The Turn: The reports begin<br /> 16:30 — The Vault: Room 873, the Ghost Bride, Bruce Price<br /> 20:15 — The Peak: Margaret Chen's final encounter<br /> 26:00 — The Reflection: Service beyond death<br /> 29:00 — Outro &amp; Call to Action<br /> ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br /><br /> #StoriesCanada #BanffSprings #SamTheBellman #HauntedHotel #CanadianGhosts #Alberta #RockyMountains #GhostBride #TrueHorror #Paranormal #HauntedCanada<br /><br /> ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br /><br />Become a supporter of this podcast: <a href="https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/stories-canada-podcast-true-horror-stories--6861879/support?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss">https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/stories-canada-podcast-true-horror-stories--6861879/support</a>.<br /><br />Thank you for listening to Stories Canada Podcast. Follow the show for Canadian ghost stories, paranormal encounters, dark folklore, haunted history, and unexplained mysteries.<br /><br />Support the podcast and help us uncover more frightening stories from across Canada:<br />https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/stories-canada-podcast-true-horror-stories--6861879/support<br /><br />Stories may include folklore, dramatization, personal recollections, and allegedly true experiences that cannot always be independently verified. Identifying details may be changed to protect privacy. Please respect the people, cultures, and communities connected to these stories.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/72797767</guid><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 02:06:28 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/72797767/ep008_final.mp3" length="36103389" type="audio/mpeg"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/bfb1bf19-be14-4d6e-893c-89ae73e337f9/bfb1bf19-be14-4d6e-893c-89ae73e337f9.srt" type="application/x-subrip" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/bfb1bf19-be14-4d6e-893c-89ae73e337f9/bfb1bf19-be14-4d6e-893c-89ae73e337f9.txt" type="text/plain" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/bfb1bf19-be14-4d6e-893c-89ae73e337f9/bfb1bf19-be14-4d6e-893c-89ae73e337f9.vtt" type="text/vtt" language="en"/><itunes:author>HustleStudios Podcast Network</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>He served for forty years. He died on duty. He never clocked out.

The Fairmont Banff Springs is a castle of limestone and luxury in the heart of the Rockies — and its most loyal employee never left. Sam Macauley, the beloved Scottish bellman, died on...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[He served for forty years. He died on duty. He never clocked out.<br /><br /> The Fairmont Banff Springs is a castle of limestone and luxury in the heart of the Rockies — and its most loyal employee never left. Sam Macauley, the beloved Scottish bellman, died on duty in nineteen seventy-five. Three weeks later, guests began reporting a helpful elderly bellman who assisted with their bags — and vanished before their eyes. Staff who worked beside Sam for decades still see him straightening chairs and adjusting flowers. And he is not the only spirit walking those corridors: a bride who never reached her wedding, and an architect still inspecting his masterpiece.<br /><br /> ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br /> 🕐 CHAPTERS<br /> ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br /> 00:00 — Cold Open: Mrs. Henderson's elevator<br /> 02:30 — Title Card<br /> 02:40 — The History: A castle in the Rockies<br /> 10:25 — The Turn: The reports begin<br /> 16:30 — The Vault: Room 873, the Ghost Bride, Bruce Price<br /> 20:15 — The Peak: Margaret Chen's final encounter<br /> 26:00 — The Reflection: Service beyond death<br /> 29:00 — Outro &amp; Call to Action<br /> ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br /><br /> #StoriesCanada #BanffSprings #SamTheBellman #HauntedHotel #CanadianGhosts #Alberta #RockyMountains #GhostBride #TrueHorror #Paranormal #HauntedCanada<br /><br /> ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br /><br />Become a supporter of this podcast: <a href="https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/stories-canada-podcast-true-horror-stories--6861879/support?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss">https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/stories-canada-podcast-true-horror-stories--6861879/support</a>.<br /><br />Thank you for listening to Stories Canada Podcast. Follow the show for Canadian ghost stories, paranormal encounters, dark folklore, haunted history, and unexplained mysteries.<br /><br />Support the podcast and help us uncover more frightening stories from across Canada:<br />https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/stories-canada-podcast-true-horror-stories--6861879/support<br /><br />Stories may include folklore, dramatization, personal recollections, and allegedly true experiences that cannot always be independently verified. Identifying details may be changed to protect privacy. Please respect the people, cultures, and communities connected to these stories.]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>2257</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/59019e812aa4e83801dd918c4c3f8ddc.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Episode 003: The Chateau Frontenac - Ghosts of the Grand Dame</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/episode-003-the-chateau-frontenac-ghosts-of-the-grand-dame--72739775</link><description><![CDATA[A sealed room. A woman in white. A governor who never left his post.<br /><br /> The Château Frontenac rises over Old Quebec like something out of a fairy tale — the most photographed hotel in the world, host to kings, queens, Churchill and Roosevelt. But some guests checked in and never checked out. Room eight seven three is permanently sealed. A woman in white drifts through the corridors at night. And staff say a French governor still patrols the halls of the Grand Dame, more than three centuries after his death. The most beautiful building in Canada may also be the most haunted.<br /><br /> ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br /> 🕐 CHAPTERS<br /> ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br /> 00:00 — Cold Open: The most beautiful haunted building in Canada<br /> 02:00 — Intro &amp; Welcome<br /> 04:00 — Topic Setup: 1893 and the age of railway hotels<br /> 06:00 — Main Story Part One: Room 873 and the woman in white<br /> 16:00 — Segment of the Day: Haunted Canada<br /> 20:00 — Main Story Part Two: The governor's patrol<br /> 32:00 — The Reflection: Why the grandest places keep the darkest secrets<br /> 36:00 — Outro &amp; Call to Action<br /> ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br /><br /> #StoriesCanada #ChateauFrontenac #QuebecCity #HauntedHotel #CanadianGhosts #Room873 #ParanormalCanada #TrueHorror #GhostStories #HauntedCanada<br /><br /> ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br /><br />Become a supporter of this podcast: <a href="https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/stories-canada-podcast-true-horror-stories--6861879/support?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss">https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/stories-canada-podcast-true-horror-stories--6861879/support</a>.<br /><br />Thank you for listening to Stories Canada Podcast. Follow the show for Canadian ghost stories, paranormal encounters, dark folklore, haunted history, and unexplained mysteries.<br /><br />Support the podcast and help us uncover more frightening stories from across Canada:<br />https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/stories-canada-podcast-true-horror-stories--6861879/support<br /><br />Stories may include folklore, dramatization, personal recollections, and allegedly true experiences that cannot always be independently verified. Identifying details may be changed to protect privacy. Please respect the people, cultures, and communities connected to these stories.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/72739775</guid><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 13:42:46 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/72739775/ep003_final.mp3" length="37792776" type="audio/mpeg"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/2358cf77-ae48-4140-8301-90197749f7c8/2358cf77-ae48-4140-8301-90197749f7c8.srt" type="application/x-subrip" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/2358cf77-ae48-4140-8301-90197749f7c8/2358cf77-ae48-4140-8301-90197749f7c8.txt" type="text/plain" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/2358cf77-ae48-4140-8301-90197749f7c8/2358cf77-ae48-4140-8301-90197749f7c8.vtt" type="text/vtt" language="en"/><itunes:author>HustleStudios Podcast Network</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>A sealed room. A woman in white. A governor who never left his post.

The Château Frontenac rises over Old Quebec like something out of a fairy tale — the most photographed hotel in the world, host to kings, queens, Churchill and Roosevelt. But some...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[A sealed room. A woman in white. A governor who never left his post.<br /><br /> The Château Frontenac rises over Old Quebec like something out of a fairy tale — the most photographed hotel in the world, host to kings, queens, Churchill and Roosevelt. But some guests checked in and never checked out. Room eight seven three is permanently sealed. A woman in white drifts through the corridors at night. And staff say a French governor still patrols the halls of the Grand Dame, more than three centuries after his death. The most beautiful building in Canada may also be the most haunted.<br /><br /> ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br /> 🕐 CHAPTERS<br /> ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br /> 00:00 — Cold Open: The most beautiful haunted building in Canada<br /> 02:00 — Intro &amp; Welcome<br /> 04:00 — Topic Setup: 1893 and the age of railway hotels<br /> 06:00 — Main Story Part One: Room 873 and the woman in white<br /> 16:00 — Segment of the Day: Haunted Canada<br /> 20:00 — Main Story Part Two: The governor's patrol<br /> 32:00 — The Reflection: Why the grandest places keep the darkest secrets<br /> 36:00 — Outro &amp; Call to Action<br /> ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br /><br /> #StoriesCanada #ChateauFrontenac #QuebecCity #HauntedHotel #CanadianGhosts #Room873 #ParanormalCanada #TrueHorror #GhostStories #HauntedCanada<br /><br /> ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br /><br />Become a supporter of this podcast: <a href="https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/stories-canada-podcast-true-horror-stories--6861879/support?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss">https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/stories-canada-podcast-true-horror-stories--6861879/support</a>.<br /><br />Thank you for listening to Stories Canada Podcast. Follow the show for Canadian ghost stories, paranormal encounters, dark folklore, haunted history, and unexplained mysteries.<br /><br />Support the podcast and help us uncover more frightening stories from across Canada:<br />https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/stories-canada-podcast-true-horror-stories--6861879/support<br /><br />Stories may include folklore, dramatization, personal recollections, and allegedly true experiences that cannot always be independently verified. Identifying details may be changed to protect privacy. Please respect the people, cultures, and communities connected to these stories.]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>2363</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/59019e812aa4e83801dd918c4c3f8ddc.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Episode 002: The Black Donnellys - Blood on the Snow</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/episode-002-the-black-donnellys-blood-on-the-snow--72633502</link><description><![CDATA[A family wiped out in one night. A town that kept the secret. Canada's bloodiest feud.<br /><br /> February fourth, eighteen eighty. Lucan, Ontario. A mob of vigilantes marched through the snow to the Donnelly farmstead — and by dawn, five members of the family lay dead: beaten, shot, and burned in their own home. The Donnellys were Irish immigrants who had feuded with their neighbors for thirty years. The whole township knew who carried the torches. Nobody was ever convicted. Blood on the snow, silence in the courtroom, and a farmhouse that locals say still isn't empty.<br /><br /> ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br /> 🕐 CHAPTERS<br /> ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br /> 00:00 — Cold Open: The snow was already turning red<br /> 02:00 — Title Card<br /> 02:30 — The History: Irish immigrants in Upper Canada<br /> 10:00 — The Turn: A mob forms in the winter night<br /> 16:00 — The Vault: The massacre at the farmstead<br /> 19:00 — The Peak: Justice denied<br /> 23:00 — The Reflection: Frontier justice and its ghosts<br /> 25:30 — Outro &amp; Call to Action<br /> ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br /><br /> #StoriesCanada #BlackDonnellys #LucanOntario #CanadianHistory #TrueCrime #FrontierJustice #IrishCanadian #TrueHorror #CanadianMysteries #HauntedCanada<br /><br /> ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br /><br />Become a supporter of this podcast: <a href="https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/stories-canada-podcast-true-horror-stories--6861879/support?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss">https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/stories-canada-podcast-true-horror-stories--6861879/support</a>.<br /><br />Thank you for listening to Stories Canada Podcast. Follow the show for Canadian ghost stories, paranormal encounters, dark folklore, haunted history, and unexplained mysteries.<br /><br />Support the podcast and help us uncover more frightening stories from across Canada:<br />https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/stories-canada-podcast-true-horror-stories--6861879/support<br /><br />Stories may include folklore, dramatization, personal recollections, and allegedly true experiences that cannot always be independently verified. Identifying details may be changed to protect privacy. Please respect the people, cultures, and communities connected to these stories.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/72633502</guid><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2026 13:57:43 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/72633502/ep002_black_donnellys_final.mp3" length="25958177" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>HustleStudios Podcast Network</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>A family wiped out in one night. A town that kept the secret. Canada's bloodiest feud.

February fourth, eighteen eighty. Lucan, Ontario. A mob of vigilantes marched through the snow to the Donnelly farmstead — and by dawn, five members of the family...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[A family wiped out in one night. A town that kept the secret. Canada's bloodiest feud.<br /><br /> February fourth, eighteen eighty. Lucan, Ontario. A mob of vigilantes marched through the snow to the Donnelly farmstead — and by dawn, five members of the family lay dead: beaten, shot, and burned in their own home. The Donnellys were Irish immigrants who had feuded with their neighbors for thirty years. The whole township knew who carried the torches. Nobody was ever convicted. Blood on the snow, silence in the courtroom, and a farmhouse that locals say still isn't empty.<br /><br /> ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br /> 🕐 CHAPTERS<br /> ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br /> 00:00 — Cold Open: The snow was already turning red<br /> 02:00 — Title Card<br /> 02:30 — The History: Irish immigrants in Upper Canada<br /> 10:00 — The Turn: A mob forms in the winter night<br /> 16:00 — The Vault: The massacre at the farmstead<br /> 19:00 — The Peak: Justice denied<br /> 23:00 — The Reflection: Frontier justice and its ghosts<br /> 25:30 — Outro &amp; Call to Action<br /> ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br /><br /> #StoriesCanada #BlackDonnellys #LucanOntario #CanadianHistory #TrueCrime #FrontierJustice #IrishCanadian #TrueHorror #CanadianMysteries #HauntedCanada<br /><br /> ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br /><br />Become a supporter of this podcast: <a href="https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/stories-canada-podcast-true-horror-stories--6861879/support?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss">https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/stories-canada-podcast-true-horror-stories--6861879/support</a>.<br /><br />Thank you for listening to Stories Canada Podcast. Follow the show for Canadian ghost stories, paranormal encounters, dark folklore, haunted history, and unexplained mysteries.<br /><br />Support the podcast and help us uncover more frightening stories from across Canada:<br />https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/stories-canada-podcast-true-horror-stories--6861879/support<br /><br />Stories may include folklore, dramatization, personal recollections, and allegedly true experiences that cannot always be independently verified. Identifying details may be changed to protect privacy. Please respect the people, cultures, and communities connected to these stories.]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>1623</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/59019e812aa4e83801dd918c4c3f8ddc.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Episode 001: The Oak Island Money Pit</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/episode-001-the-oak-island-money-pit--72633480</link><description><![CDATA[Six men died chasing it. Two centuries failed to solve it. The pit that swallows everything.<br /><br /> Oak Island, Nova Scotia. In seventeen ninety-five, three boys found a shaft in the earth — and beneath it, layer after layer of deliberate engineering: log platforms, coconut fiber from a thousand miles away, stone inscriptions in a code nobody has cracked. Someone buried something down there and spent a fortune making sure it stayed buried. Every expedition since has been defeated by flood tunnels, cave-ins, and the island's famous curse: seven must die before the treasure is found. Six are already in the ground.<br /><br /> ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br /> 🕐 CHAPTERS<br /> ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br /> 00:00 — Cold Open: The summer air over Mahone Bay<br /> 02:00 — Title Card<br /> 02:30 — The History: 1795 and the boys who found the pit<br /> 10:30 — The Turn: Flood tunnels and the money pit's defense<br /> 17:00 — The Vault: Coconut fiber, coded stones, six deaths<br /> 20:30 — The Peak: "Seven must die"<br /> 24:30 — The Reflection: Why Oak Island still captivates us<br /> 26:30 — Outro &amp; Call to Action<br /> ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br /><br /> #StoriesCanada #OakIsland #MoneyPit #CanadianMysteries #NovaScotia #BuriedTreasure #TreasureHunting #UnsolvedMysteries #TrueHorror #Paranormal #HauntedCanada<br /><br /> ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br /><br />Become a supporter of this podcast: <a href="https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/stories-canada-podcast-true-horror-stories--6861879/support?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss">https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/stories-canada-podcast-true-horror-stories--6861879/support</a>.<br /><br />Thank you for listening to Stories Canada Podcast. Follow the show for Canadian ghost stories, paranormal encounters, dark folklore, haunted history, and unexplained mysteries.<br /><br />Support the podcast and help us uncover more frightening stories from across Canada:<br />https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/stories-canada-podcast-true-horror-stories--6861879/support<br /><br />Stories may include folklore, dramatization, personal recollections, and allegedly true experiences that cannot always be independently verified. Identifying details may be changed to protect privacy. Please respect the people, cultures, and communities connected to these stories.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/72633480</guid><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2026 13:56:43 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/72633480/ep001_oak_island_money_pit_final.mp3" length="28033460" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>HustleStudios Podcast Network</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Six men died chasing it. Two centuries failed to solve it. The pit that swallows everything.

Oak Island, Nova Scotia. In seventeen ninety-five, three boys found a shaft in the earth — and beneath it, layer after layer of deliberate engineering: log...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Six men died chasing it. Two centuries failed to solve it. The pit that swallows everything.<br /><br /> Oak Island, Nova Scotia. In seventeen ninety-five, three boys found a shaft in the earth — and beneath it, layer after layer of deliberate engineering: log platforms, coconut fiber from a thousand miles away, stone inscriptions in a code nobody has cracked. Someone buried something down there and spent a fortune making sure it stayed buried. Every expedition since has been defeated by flood tunnels, cave-ins, and the island's famous curse: seven must die before the treasure is found. Six are already in the ground.<br /><br /> ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br /> 🕐 CHAPTERS<br /> ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br /> 00:00 — Cold Open: The summer air over Mahone Bay<br /> 02:00 — Title Card<br /> 02:30 — The History: 1795 and the boys who found the pit<br /> 10:30 — The Turn: Flood tunnels and the money pit's defense<br /> 17:00 — The Vault: Coconut fiber, coded stones, six deaths<br /> 20:30 — The Peak: "Seven must die"<br /> 24:30 — The Reflection: Why Oak Island still captivates us<br /> 26:30 — Outro &amp; Call to Action<br /> ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br /><br /> #StoriesCanada #OakIsland #MoneyPit #CanadianMysteries #NovaScotia #BuriedTreasure #TreasureHunting #UnsolvedMysteries #TrueHorror #Paranormal #HauntedCanada<br /><br /> ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br /><br />Become a supporter of this podcast: <a href="https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/stories-canada-podcast-true-horror-stories--6861879/support?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss">https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/stories-canada-podcast-true-horror-stories--6861879/support</a>.<br /><br />Thank you for listening to Stories Canada Podcast. Follow the show for Canadian ghost stories, paranormal encounters, dark folklore, haunted history, and unexplained mysteries.<br /><br />Support the podcast and help us uncover more frightening stories from across Canada:<br />https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/stories-canada-podcast-true-horror-stories--6861879/support<br /><br />Stories may include folklore, dramatization, personal recollections, and allegedly true experiences that cannot always be independently verified. Identifying details may be changed to protect privacy. Please respect the people, cultures, and communities connected to these stories.]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>1751</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/59019e812aa4e83801dd918c4c3f8ddc.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item></channel></rss>
