Down the Crooked Path

This week, Down the Crooked Path is taking a short pause while we celebrate a busy week of milestones and good chaos. We’ll be back next week with fresh stories, strange history, and more crooked paths to wander.

Today’s mini‑episode covers Canadian Project Magnet — the government’s mid‑20th‑century investigation into UFOs, aerial anomalies, and unexplained phenomena. We touch on what the project was, why it was created, and the legacy it left behind in Canadian paranormal research.

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On this episode, we walk through the 1952 Flatwoods encounter in Braxton County, West Virginia for cryptid tale... or maybe it was alien that crash landed in a flying saucer... or even a robot? We cover the eyewitness accounts from the May family and Eugene Lemon, the reported crash on the hill, the physical symptoms described by the boys, and the immediate media attention that followed. We look at the government response, including National Guard involvement, Project Blue Book’s on‑site investigation, and the conflicting claims about recovered materials. We break down the major theories: the meteor explanation, the barn owl hypothesis, and the Cold War prototype idea. We also touch on the local reports of lights in the sky that same night and how Cold War fear shaped the way people interpreted what they saw.

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A grounded look at the Keddie Cabin murders, the 1981 crime that left investigators with conflicting evidence, missing records, and a case that continues to raise questions more than four decades later. This episode covers the known timeline, the recovered evidence, the documented investigative errors, and the modern re‑examination that brought new leads back into focus.

3 people were brutally attacked and their bodies discovered by the eldest daughter. The younger sister missing for years until her skull was found miles away. This is one of the creepies true crime cases, which at time was poorly investigated

All details are sourced from publicly available reporting, law enforcement statements, and archived case materials.

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This episode looks at the reports that came in before the Aberfan disaster. It covers the dreams, warnings, and statements people made before the collapse, and the way these reports were collected and reviewed. The episode also goes through the early work that led Dr John Barker to focus on premonitions and the question of whether a warning can ever stop an event.

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In this episode, we go through the historyconnected to the Sallie House, the claims that built the story, and the details that followed the Pickman family after they moved in. We cover the background of the property, the origins of the “Sallie” name, the reports that came out of the house in the 1990s, and the parts of the story that never matched the records. We also include the theories that formed around the case, the role local tourism played in keeping the legend alive, and the questions that still surround the house today.

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In this episode we walk through the case of Pazuzu Algarad, a story shaped by neglect, untreated mental illness, and a community that missed every warning sign. We look at the victims, the failures that allowed the violence to continue, and the impact on the people who lived around that house on Knob Hill Drive. This is not a story about the occult. It is a story about what happens when systems break down and no one steps in.

We cover the timeline of the investigation, the pleas from Amber Burch and Krystal Matlock, the questions surrounding Pazuzu’s death in custody, and the demolition of the house that became a symbol of everything that went wrong. We also talk about how the media leaned into satanic panic instead of the real issues at the center of the case.

If you want to dig deeper into the themes we touched on, this episode pairs well with discussions about mental health access, community responsibility, and the long term effects of violence on neighborhoods.

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This week, we’re pulling from our Tuesday segment on the Canadian Creepies podcast and heading out to Bird Rock off the coast of Quebec — a place with more trouble than landmass. The lighthouse out there has a long history of bad luck, disappearances, and one story that locals still talk about in lowered voices. Keep in mind, this is a rock barely big enough to stand on, yet somehow it managed to collect more tragedy than most towns.

We walk through the early shipwrecks, the lighthouse keepers who didn’t make it home, and the strange run of events that gave Bird Rock its reputation. It’s one of those places where the line between accident and something else gets thin fast.

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In this episode, we look at the Franklin expedition, the search efforts that followed, and how both ships were finally found in the Arctic. We walk through the discoveries of Erebus and Terror, the role of Inuit knowledge, and the strange stories that kept circling long after the expedition vanished.

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In this episode, we look at the Axeman of New Orleans and the panic that followed him through the city. We go through the attacks on grocery families, the letter printed in the Times Picayune, the chalk message near the Maggio home, and the suspects who were pulled into the story over the years. We also look at how newspapers shaped the case, how the investigation stalled, and why the Axeman disappeared as suddenly as he arrived.

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A shout‑out to The Creators Collective, a group of independent podcasters who support each other’s work. You can find them on Instagram.

The Nahanni Valley built its reputation on the sheer number of people who went in and never came back. Prospectors, trappers, outlaws, and travelers moved through that stretch of the Northwest Territories for decades, and many of them were later found under circumstances that didn’t match the usual hazards of the region. Enough bodies turned up without their heads that the place picked up the name Valley of the Headless Men.

This episode looks at the pattern that formed around those disappearances. It includes the early prospectors who vanished in the late 1800s, the McLeod brothers found near the Flat River in 1908, and the later deaths that followed the same outline. One of those was Yukon Fisher, an outlaw who hid in the valley after a violent bar fight in the Yukon. He lived alone for years and only surfaced at remote posts like Poole Field’s store for supplies. In 1927, his burned camp was found in the same region where earlier deaths had occurred, and his body was there without a head.