Strange and Undecided

On October 10th, 2008, a man from Edmonton named Johnny Altinger was looking forward to meeting up with a woman he met from a website called Plenty of Fish. He was given specific instructions on where to meet her. However, unbeknownst to Johnny, this wasn’t a woman, it was actually a man named Mark Twitchell who was waiting for him. This would be the last time Johnny would be seen alive. But what happened to him and why?

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Mark Twitchell - Wikipedia

Jury finds Edmonton filmmaker guilty of murder - The Globe and Mail (archive.org)

Map to the body - "The Dexter Killer:" Inside the mind of a murderer (cbsnews.com)

Mark Twitchell case: Inside the mind of "The Dexter Killer" - CBS News

Bloody evidence found early in Twitchell search | Edmonton Journal

Mark Twitchell | Murderpedia, the encyclopedia of murderers

"The Dexter Killer" - CBS News

Who is Mark Twitchell and where is he now? | The US Sun (the-sun.com)

Twitchell found guilty of 1st-degree murder | CBC News

Former wife weeps at Twitchell murder trial | CBC News

Twitchell directed police to remains | CBC News

In 1995, within a two-month span, the bodies of three women were discovered in a remote area of British Columbia’s Fraser Valley. All three women were murdered and left in a similar fashion. So similar, that police believed they had a serial killer on their hands. Coined the Hemlock Valley Murders, the mystery surrounding these women’s deaths has puzzled law enforcement for years. Did they have the murderer in their grasp, or did they have it all wrong?

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Aug 01, 1999, page 20 - The Province at Newspapers.com

Lidguerre, Mary – Canadian Crimeopedia

missing-women-investigation-review-summary-report.pdf (vpd.ca)

cn30378-eng.pdf (publicsafety.gc.ca)

Olajide, Tracy – Canadian Crimeopedia

Pipe, Tammy Lee – Canadian Crimeopedia

Tammy Pipe, Murdered by a possible Serial Killer in British Columbia in 1995. | Justice for Native People

Tammy Pipe - One of The Victims of The Hemlock Valley Murders (ucfiles.com)

Younker, Victoria – Canadian Crimeopedia

Unsolved – Canadian Crimeopedia

RCMP seeking serial killer for 1995 deaths in B.C. (thestar.com)

The Unsolved: Tracy Olajide – The Morbid Library & Archive

RCMP seek tips in 1995 B.C. killings | CBC News

RCMP hunt for serial killer in 3 cold case slayings | CTV News

RCMP believe unknown killer behind B.C. deaths | CTV News

Police look for leads in cold case serial killings - The Globe and Mail

Robert Pickton not the killer in B.C. cold cases: RCMP (thestar.com)

10 Disturbing Murder Mysteries From Canada - Listverse

Police pursue Vancouver's other serial killer | CTV News

Ex-detective stands by his Pickton testimony - The Globe and Mail

EXHIBIT-98.pdf (uvic.ca)

Nov 03, 1995, page 10 - The Chilliwack Progress at The Chilliwack Progress (newspapers.com)

Predators — Robert Pickton: The Vancouver Missing Women — Crime Library

3 B.C. cases bear similarities to Green River deaths (seattlepi.com)

Vicki Black's death has been solved after 27 years, but for some, the wounds are still fresh | CBC News

Killer of Vancouver sex trade worker in 1993 gets 10 years in jail | Vancouver Sun

Charges laid in 1993 killing of young Vancouver woman - Greater Victoria News (vicnews.com)

Vancouver murder suspect arrested 26 years after killing (citynews.ca)

Charges laid 26 years after Vancouver woman found murdered in DTES dumpster | Globalnews.ca

Gary Ridgway - Wikipedia

This week, Jarret and Pat are looking into the Banff Springs Hotel and its alleged haunting. The hotel is located inside the Banff National Park in Banff, Alberta, Canada, and is regarded as one of Canada’s most famous hotels. For over 125 years the hotel has welcomed guests from all over the world. Most of the guests have come and gone but some of them haven’t exactly left and may never leave. Due to the sheer number of ghost sightings and encounters reported, this has given the hotel a reputation as being one of the most haunted places in Canada. 

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Banff Springs Hotel - Wikipedia

Banff Springs Hotel | The Canadian Encyclopedia

Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel History | Fairmont Banff Springs History (historichotels.org)

Parks Canada - Banff Springs Hotel National Historic Site of Canada (pc.gc.ca)

Landmarks-And-Legends-Banff-Springs-Hotel

The haunting of Banff Springs | Canadian Living

Is Room 873 of the Banff Springs Hotel Haunted? (projectengineer.net)

Guest Post: Haunting Legends of Fairmont’s Banff Springs Hotel In Canada | Spooky Things online (wordpress.com)

A Creepy Compendium: Meet the Fairmont Banff Springs ghosts! [2024] (thebestcalgary.com)

Ghostly Tales of the Banff Springs Hotel (mysteriesofcanada.com)

The Ghosts of Fairmont Banff Springs - Avenue Calgary

Historic Hotels Worldwide

The Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel - The Little House of Horrors

The Haunted Banff Springs Hotel, Canada - Haunted Rooms America

The haunted history of the world famous Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel (curiocity.com)

The paranormal hotel dubbed one of most haunted in the world - and only the brave can stay - Mirror Online

Banff Haunted Hotel - Mystery at the Banff Springs • Travel Tales of Life

Missing Room 873 Banff Springs | immrfabulous.com

Banff Springs was named among the worlds most haunted places (curiocity.com)

Fairmont Banff Springs: Canada’s Spookiest Hotel - Malorie's Adventures (maloriesadventures.com)

Haunted Canada Ghost Bride (2014) | The Royal Canadian Mint

In January of 2019, patients were told they had a new or novel brain disease. This occurred in a cluster of individuals exhibiting "similar" signs and symptoms in the eastern province of New Brunswick, Canada. The symptoms fell under the umbrella of dementia and prion disease but were tested and determined not to be either. Was this a new brain disease or was something else to blame? And why was the investigation shut down so abruptly?

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Government officials misled the public about the “mysterious” New Brunswick neurological disease, and we have the documents to prove it (canadaland.com)

final-report.pdf (gnb.ca)

Cluster of Neurological Syndrome (gnb.ca)

Whistleblower warns baffling illness affects growing number of young adults in Canadian province | Canada | The Guardian

Moncton medical student calls for new investigation into ‘mystery neurological illness’ - New Brunswick | Globalnews.ca

Questions remain about mystery brain disease in N.B. | CTV News

Patients, families call on N.B. to reopen investigation into neurological illness | CBC News

'Mysterious' brain disorder strikes hundreds, cases keep growing (nypost.com)

New Brunswick, Canada, mystery brain disease: Dozens sick in neurological syndrome cluster - The Washington Post

New Brunswick, Canada, mystery brain disease: Report finds no new disorder - The Washington Post

New Brunswick mystery brain syndrome to be probed (thestar.com)

Mystery brain disease in New Brunswick? Families call for investigation as cases increase (thestar.com)

Cause of eight N.B. 'mystery' brain disease deaths identified by pathologist | CTV News

New Brunswick patients with mysterious brain illness call for action after herbicide detected | Watch News Videos Online (globalnews.ca)

Mystery brain disorder baffles Canadian doctors | Canada | The Guardian

"Mystery brain disease" ruled out by New Brunswick committee - YouTube

Doctors investigate mystery brain disease in Canada (bbc.com)

Former N.B. health minister says ‘mysterious neurological’ disease idea unfounded, should be 'put to bed' | SaltWire

Public Health now questioning ’validity’ of New Brunswick’s mystery brain disease | Radio-Canada.ca

Inside the murky, high-stakes investigation into New Brunswick's mystery illness - Macleans.ca

New Brunswick’s Mystery Neurological Illness | The Walrus

In New Brunswick, experts try to figure out why dozens have been affected by a mystery brain disease - The Globe and Mail

N.B. woman with unexplained neurological symptoms wants answers: ‘This is not a common thing’ | Globalnews.ca

Neurologist says N.B. 'mystery' illness could be caused by herbicide | National Post

Investigate glyphosate connection to mystery brain disease - CCNB (conservationcouncil.ca)

High levels of glyphosate in most patients with ‘atypical neurological diseases’: open letter [video] – NB Media Co-op (nbmediacoop.org)

A medical mystery in New Brunswick | CBC.ca

PHAC to deploy to New Brunswick over reports of mystery brain symptoms | CBC News

Glyphosate in Canada - Canada.ca

Jim Irving says glyphosate ban would be 'disastrous' | CBC News

Our story tonight takes place in Montreal, Quebec. More specifically, Montreal's Hotel Bonaventure. Regarded as one of the city's most prestigious hotels, it takes up the top two floors of one of the city’s biggest convention centers, the 17 storey Place Bonaventure. The hotel contains 397 spacious rooms but what sets it apart from other hotels, is the year-round heated rooftop pool, the 2.5-acre rooftop garden complete with trees, flowers and if the pool wasn't enough there are also waterfalls and a jacuzzi. While this might seem like an oasis or a paradise full of relaxation, on November 7, 1990, Hotel Bonaventure was anything but that. That night, the hotel was the scene of one of Canada’s most peculiar UFO sightings.

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Place Bonaventure - Wikipedia

Bonaventure... more than 50 years of history - Place Bonaventure

About Hotel Bonaventure Montreal and Our Rich History

ESP Psychic Expo (noraloveandlight.com)

UFO sightings in Canada - Wikipedia

How This UFO Sighting In Montreal Remains One Of Canada's Biggest Unsolved Mysteries | Digg

Close encounters of the N.L. kind: UFO investigators in Newfoundland and Labrador examining curious sightings | SaltWire

30 years ago: the UFO sighting that lit downtown Montreal's night sky | CBC.ca

An aerial UFO phenomenon over Montreal | CBC.ca

Paranormal Activity at the Hotel Bonaventure - Haunted Montreal Blog

Details-sourrounding-a-large-stationary-object-above-Montreal-by-Dr.-R.-Haines-et-B.-Guénette.pdf (garpan.ca)

The Proof Is Out There: Bizarre UFOs Hover Over Montreal (Season 3) (youtube.com)

Northern lights (aurora borealis) — What they are & how to see them | Space

Light pillar - Wikipedia

Canada’s Unexplained Phenomena: The Montréal Incident - 1 oz. Pure Sil – Global Bullion Suppliers

1oz Silver $20 Glow in the Dark UFO Coin (The Montreal Incident) – Merchantman & Sons (yourmerchantman.com)

Reddit - https://external-preview.redd.it/K4erWMQQoGxg9EHr727GjTWs84c9p02ejkQdaDRhIzc.png?auto=webp&s=7b924b2e8bfe27577a04709b5bf2a6ef0424859c

In this week's show, I am joined by a special guest and we are looking at the Babes in the Woods unsolved murder case. A garden caretaker of Stanley Park in Vancouver, British Columbia, was clearing brush deep in the woods near Beaver Lake when he heard and felt something crunch under his foot. He dug beneath the brush and cleared out decaying leaves to reveal human bones embedded in the earth. These murders have gone unsolved for over 70 years but in 2021, there was a break-through in case. 

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Stanley Park - Wikipedia

Last of the live-in caretakers: Vancouver park workers will be last to stay rent-free in idyllic fieldhouses | National Post

Stanley Park | The Canadian Encyclopedia

Parks Canada - Stanley Park National Historic Site of Canada (pc.gc.ca)

Babes in the Wood murders (Stanley Park) - Wikipedia

Murder, Mystery and Intrigue in Review: Babes in the Woods (vancouverpolicemuseum.ca)

Who were the Babes in the Woods? | Lakehead University

What is the Babes in the Woods murder case in Vancouver, BC? - North Shore News (nsnews.com)

Babes in the Woods case remains unsolved 69 years after skeletons discovered | News (dailyhive.com)

True Crime: The Babes in the Woods case - Vancouver Is Awesome

Babes in the Woods Archives | Eve Lazarus

The Babes in the Woods have their names back | Eve Lazarus

Identities of Stanley Park Babes in the Woods revealed almost 70 years later | Globalnews.ca

Vancouver police confirms identities of Babes in the Woods | Vancouver Sun

Victims ID'd in 70-year-old Babes in the Woods murder mystery: report | Vancouver Sun

Vancouver's 'Babes in the Woods' murder victims identified| CityNews Vancouver

Vancouver police share details about Babes in the Woods case - Vancouver Is Awesome

This week we are narrating for you more scary stories from the reddit thread r/freehorrorstories.

If you want your story features on the show email us at [email protected].

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I think the water plant is haunted... : freehorrorstories (reddit.com)

The doll in the storage room [True] : freehorrorstories (reddit.com)

Elderly lady in wrong car : freehorrorstories (reddit.com)

My first sleep paralysis story : freehorrorstories (reddit.com)

A Wendigo Broke Into My House : freehorrorstories (reddit.com)

[TRUE]The man in the truck : freehorrorstories (reddit.com)

Burglary Horror Story : freehorrorstories (reddit.com)

TRUE: No One Believes : freehorrorstories (reddit.com)

This week's episode is going to be a little different, rooted more in history but with some interesting speculation. We are going to explore the mysterious and haunted walls of Tranquille Sanatorium in Kamloops, British Columbia. Opening in 1907 and closing in 1991, it has changed faces many times from a hospital for treating tuberculosis, to a hospital for people with mental illness. Since it has been closed down, some people believe it to be haunted by the ghosts of people who passed away at the hospital. 

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Tranquille Sanatorium - Wikipedia

Haunted Canada 4: More True Tales of Terror - Joel A. Sutherland - Google Books

Is Tranquille Sanatorium Haunted? (hauntedhovel.com)

Tranquille Sanatorium/Padova City | Abandoned History (wordpress.com)

The deep, dark and mysterious history of Tranquille Sanatorium and psychiatric institution | iNFOnews | Thompson-Okanagan's News Source (infotel.ca)

Random Post: Tranquille BC Sanatorium | Short Subjects (bigdoer.com)

Tranquille: A Timeline (thewrennews.ca)

The buried history of Tranquille (thewrennews.ca)

we-love-kamloops: Tranquille Sanatorium ~ Kamloops, BC

Tranquille - Olaf in Canada

One Of BC's Most Haunted Places Is An Abandoned Sanatorium (604now.com)

Haunted Tranquille Sanatorium - US Ghost Adventures

Tranquille Canada: A Haunting History of BC’s Abandoned Sanatorium - Indie88

Vanishing B.C. Tranquille (michaelkluckner.com)

Kamloops's Tranquille Sanatorium named one of 10 most haunted places in Canada | iNFOnews | Thompson-Okanagan's News Source (infotel.ca)

Sanatorium near Kamloops one of Canada's most haunted places - Vancouver Is Awesome

tranquillesanatorium.pdf (kamloops.ca)

Panorama of the Tranquille Sanatorium near Kamloops, BC (mrussellphotography.com)

VIDEO: One of Canada's most haunted places captured with epic drone footage (kamloopsbcnow.com)

Haunted Salem on Tumblr: Tranquille Sanatorium Canada

Is Tranquille the victim of wild imaginations? – The Superstitious Times

In Vancouver, British Columbia. 65 women went missing from Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, between the years 1978 and 2001, probably more that weren’t ever reported. Of that 65, 26 were found to have been murdered. These murders led to Canada's largest investigation of serial killer Robert Pickton. He was a pig farmer living in a small town in Vancouver. Somehow, he was able to get away with murdering these women without neighbors or authorities realizing. Or did they?

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VIDEO CONFESSION: Robert “Willie” Pickton — Prolific serial killer’s jailhouse confession to undercover cop - YouTube

BBC NEWS | Americas | 'Human meat' alert at pig farm

Pickton won't face 20 murder charges, but end of legal saga could yield answers - - The Moose Jaw Times Herald (archive.org)

Pickton guilty on 6 counts of second-degree murder - The Globe and Mail

Robert Picktons Pig Farm - Piggy Palace (crimelibrary.org)

Crown Says Will Prove Robert Pickton Murdered, Butchered and Disposed of 6 Women - International News - redOrbit (archive.org)

Serial Killer Who Fed His Victims to his Pigs | by Tim Connolly | CrimeBeat | Medium

Pickton's mother was a key influence (thestar.com)

Children of serial killer Pickton's victims get $50,000 each - The Abbotsford News (abbynews.com)

Robert Pickton - Wikipedia

Canadian serial killer Robert Pickton now eligible for day parole | National Post

Families of Robert Pickton’s victims brace for his ‘horrific’ day parole application eligibility | Globalnews.ca

Victims' families, women's advocates demand RCMP halt plan to dispose of Robert Pickton evidence | CBC News

Robert Pickton, The Serial Killer Who Fed His Victims To Pigs (allthatsinteresting.com)

RCMP want to destroy evidence from Robert Pickton's farm. Should they? | Vancouver Sun

R. v. Pickton - SCC Cases (lexum.com)

Robert Pickton: Canada's Pig Farmer Killer - The CrimeWire

Robert Pickton Case | The Canadian Encyclopedia

Robert Pickton Should Remain Behind Bars for Life - Conservative Party of Canada

'We should have caught Pickton sooner': Vancouver police chief apologizes video | Vancouver Sun

October 4th, 1967. It was a clear fall night. The small town of Shag Harbour, Nova Scotia lay still next to the icy waters of the Atlantic. However, residents of the town noticed strange orange lights flashing in the sky above the water.  The lights descended rapidly towards the water’s surface. The lights impacted the water causing a bright flash and a loud boom which sounded like an explosion. However, there was no sign of a crash. Instead, the lights moved across the water and then slowly dipped beneath the surface. What did the people of Shag Harbour just witness and why is this considered one of Canada’s most famous UFO sightings?

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Shag Harbour UFO Incident | Visiting Us (barringtonmunicipality.com)

Sighting_of_Sambro_Light,_NS_by_Capt._Leo_Howard_Mersey_on_October_4,_1967,_RCMP_67-400-23-X.jpg (3131×4301) (wikimedia.org)

The Shag Harbour UFO (mysteriesofcanada.com)

'We saw something. Something came down': The Shag Harbour UFO sighting, 50 years later | National Post

The history of the Shag Harbour UFO incident | CBC.ca

The 1967 Shag Harbour UFO incident revisited in 2001 | CBC.ca

Canada's Roswell Mystery at Shag Harbour (history.com)

Dark Object by Don Ledger and Chris Styles edited and with an introduction by Whitley Strieber | Penguin Random House Canada

Sci-fi glow in the dark UFO coin | The Royal Canadian Mint

If you have any ideas for the show or want to have your story featured, email us at [email protected] !