We are visiting another Tuesday segment of Down the crooked path from out sister podcast Canadian Creepies, while Amanda tackles a busy holiday season in her personal life.

In Manitoba, Canada, a prospector named Stephan had an encounter with what would become known as Canadas most well documented UFO case. This encounter would leave him sick and suffering from burns for the rest of his life!

Don't worry! Amanda will be back soon with regular episodes of Down the Crooked path soon!

A day late, its been a busy time of year in my personal life so I do apologies for letting the calendar get away from me.

This week we are revisiting a feature from our Tuesday segments at the Canadian Creepies podcast!

Tom Thomson was an artist who went missing only for his body to turn up under mysterious conditions.

Was it an accident or did something more sinister happen to him?

And does his spirit still haunt the lake to this day?

Find out more and have a listen.

Regular episodes to resume in a few weeks!

This week we are taking trip to revisit an episode from my Tuesday segments over on my sister podcast Canadian Creepies.

Every Tuesday I take a deep dive in to a paranormal or totally creepy Canadian mystery.

Mr. Christie does make good cookies, from believed Oreos to long time staple Social Teas. But when his son took after his death, something sinister was taking place behind a hidden room of their mansion.

What was the dark secret he was keeping?

Who knew?

What lengths were taken to keep that secret buried?

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And Canadian mysteries at @canadiancreepies

On a frigid December night in 1956, Barbara and Patricia Grimes—15 and 12 years old—left their Chicago home to see Love Me Tender for the eleventh time. They never returned. What followed was one of the most intense missing persons investigations in Chicago’s history, marked by conflicting sightings, false confessions, and haunting letters that would torment their mother for years

we unravel one of the most bizarre and haunting UFO encounters in American history: the Cash-Landrum Incident. On a quiet Texas night in 1980, two women and a child witnessed a diamond-shaped craft hovering in the sky, blazing with heat and flanked by military helicopters. What followed was a harrowing tale of radiation burns, government silence, and the only known lawsuit filed against the U.S. government over a UFO sighting.

We explore:

• 🔥 The night of the encounter and its physical aftermath
• 🚁 The mysterious presence of military helicopters
• ⚖️ The legal battle that challenged official denial
• 🧬 The lingering medical effects and unanswered questions
• 🕵️‍♀️ Why this case remains one of the most credible—and chilling—in UFO lore

🎙️ Episode Notes: Canadian Creepies Edition – Grainger Taylor

Due to unexpected technical difficulties behind the scenes, this week’s episode of Down the Crooked Path is taking a brief detour. But don’t worry! We’re still serving up something eerie, enigmatic, and deeply Canadian.

This week, we’re featuring a special segment from our sister podcast, Canadian Creepies, where every Tuesday we explore supernatural stories from across the country in our recurring series: Down the Crooked Path.

Today’s tale? The haunting disappearance of Grainger Taylor—a mechanical prodigy from Vancouver Island who claimed he was leaving Earth aboard an alien spacecraft. He vanished without a trace in 1980, leaving behind a note, a homemade spaceship, and decades of speculation. Was it a tragic accident, a hoax, or something truly otherworldly?

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In this episode of Down the Crooked Path, we walk the blood-soaked fields of Gettysburg.

Beneath the monuments and manicured grass lies a battlefield imprinted with grief, rage, and unfinished stories.

We explore the psychological theory of trauma-imprinted landscapes and ask: what does it mean for a place to remember? From phantom regiments seen at twilight to whispered names in the fog, Gettysburg remains one of the most persistently haunted sites in North America.

Through historical accounts, environmental cues, and folklore passed down through generations, we trace the line between residual hauntings and intelligent presences. Is the land itself grieving—or are the dead still trying to speak?

🔍 In this episode, you’ll hear about:

• The emotional architecture of Gettysburg’s most haunted locations
• The difference between trauma residue and active hauntings
• A few ghost stories in between,

A man writes a word. Crosses it out. Hours later, he’s found naked, dying in the passenger seat of his own car. He says four men were with him—but no one else is there.

In this episode, we unravel the haunting final hours of Günther Stoll, a food engineer from West Germany whose death in 1984 remains one of the country’s most baffling unsolved cases. At the center of it all: a cryptic note—YOGTZE—a string of letters that may be a call sign, a food additive, a Hebrew word, or nothing at all.

We explore:

• The psychological unraveling that preceded his disappearance
• The eerie collapse at a pub hours before his death
• The forensic contradictions at the crash site
• Theories of espionage, paranoia, and symbolic closure
• Why the word YOGTZE still resists translation—and resolution

This is not just a mystery. It’s a study in fractured meaning, in how language can become a final act of desperation. And how a single word can outlive the man who wrote it.

Before H.H. Holmes built his infamous murder castle, before Jack the Ripper haunted London’s alleys, two men roamed the American frontier leaving a trail of blood and terror. In this episode, we dive into the chilling legacy of Micajah and Wiley Harpe—widely considered America’s first documented serial killers.

From the brutal discovery of John Langford’s body to the Harpes’ arrest, escape, and the bounty that launched a manhunt, we unravel the true story behind the myth. Who were these men? Why did they kill without motive? And how did their reign of violence shape early American folklore?

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In this episode, we unravel the chilling legend of the Philadelphia Experiment—a rumored 1943 naval test that allegedly rendered the USS Eldridge invisible, teleported it through space, and left its crew physically fused to the ship. Was it a misunderstood radar cloaking experiment, or something far more disturbing?

We trace the story from its wartime origins to the strange letters of Carl Allen, the man who claimed to witness the event. Along the way, we explore the science that may have inspired the myth, the psychological toll on those who believed they were involved, and the eerie silence from official sources that only deepened the mystery.

Whether fact, fiction, or something in between, the Philadelphia Experiment remains one of the most haunting stories in military folklore. Dim the lights, press play, and step into the fog.