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Small Town Spooky is back with a look at one of Alberta's largest and oldest cities: Edmonton, your sonic psychopomp Renée's current hometown. Learn about the history of the region, as well as the many haunted places across the city—from the Hotel MacDonald to La Bohème, and more about the historic Princess Theatre and the distressing legacy of the reputedly haunted Charles Camsell Hospital, once a government-run institution for treating tuberculosis among First Nations communities.
⚠️TW: Discussions of medical mistreatment, physical and sexual abuse of First Nations people, genocide and racism, mentions of suicide, homicide and violence.
Follow @smalltownspooky on social media and check out smalltownspooky.wixsite.com/home for updates and extras. Find the transcript for this episode here.
Small Town Spook is researched, written, and recorded by Renée Meloche. Sound design and mixing by Renée Meloche.
It’s Not Hard to Get Lost by Bryan Mathys (title theme); July by Kai Engel;
All sound effects licensed under CC0 Public Domain Mark 1.0, courtesy of Freesounds.org.
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Small Town Spooky is back with a look at one of Alberta's largest and oldest cities: Edmonton, your sonic psychopomp Renée's current hometown. Learn about the history of the region, as well as the many haunted places across the city—from the Hotel MacDonald to La Bohème, and more about the historic Princess Theatre and the distressing legacy of the reputedly haunted Charles Camsell Hospital, once a government-run institution for treating tuberculosis among First Nations communities.
⚠️TW: Discussions of medical mistreatment, physical and sexual abuse of First Nations people, genocide and racism, mentions of suicide, homicide and violence.
Follow @smalltownspooky on social media and check out smalltownspooky.wixsite.com/home for updates and extras. Find the transcript for this episode here.
Small Town Spook is researched, written, and recorded by Renée Meloche. Sound design and mixing by Renée Meloche.
It’s Not Hard to Get Lost by Bryan Mathys (title theme); July by Kai Engel;
All sound effects licensed under CC0 Public Domain Mark 1.0, courtesy of Freesounds.org.