Strange and Undecided

You are in a kayak paddling across a beautiful lake. You are taking in the views of mountains and trees when suddenly a wave pushes upward from under the surface of the water. It steadily undulates across the surface and as you look closer and see flashes of green reflecting the sunlight. Something stirs in and slithers under the surface of the water. And just as fast as it appeared it descends back to the depths of the lake. This may sound like a fairy tale or folklore but for the people of Kelowna, British Columbia, their Okanagan Lake harbors what is known as Canada’s loch ness monster. The Ogopogo.   

SHOW NOTES

Videos/Interviews (in order)

"The Ogo-Pogo" Harry Fay (1924) Ogopogo is sea serpent (naitaka) in Canada's Lake Okanagan LYRCIS (youtube.com)

Alleged Ogopogo sighting caught on camera | Watch News Videos Online (globalnews.ca)

Possible Ogopogo sighting on Okanagan Lake | Watch News Videos Online (globalnews.ca)

Lake stratification with Stan Gregory -- Video 1 (youtube.com)

Research

Legend of Ogopogo in the Okanagan Valley | Tourism Kelowna

Ogopogo: The Myth - McKinley Beach

www.ogopogoquest.com - Researching the existence of Ogopogo

Canada’s mysterious lake monster (bbc.com)

Do you know about the Ogopogo statue at the bottom of Okanagan Lake? - Salmon Arm Observer (saobserver.net)

Copyrighting the Ogopogo: The © Story Behind the News Story – Hugh Stephens Blog

Ogopogo | Cryptid Wiki | Fandom

What Lurks Beneath: The Legend of Ogopogo — Swim Drink Fish

Ogopogo: The Myth - McKinley Beach

The Legend of Ogopogo | Reader's Digest Canada (readersdigest.ca)

Ogopogo: Canada's Loch Ness Monster | Live Science

Ogopogo: How Canada's famed lake monster gained worldwide notoriety | Canada (dailyhive.com)

Ogopogo | The Canadian Encyclopedia

Is Ogopogo A Giant Sturgeon | Lake Okangan Legend (fraserriversturgeon.com)

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June 9th, 1959. A day like any other. Kids playing outside and enjoying the weather. Lynne Harper was one of these kids however, that day would be the last day she was seen alive by anyone. She disappeared and two days later she was found dead in a woodlot of a nearby farm. There was no question about it, she had very clearly been murdered. But who killed Lynne Harper?

SHOW NOTES

Case not closed: The enduring tragedy of the Harper – Truscott murder case – Canadian Military History (militarybruce.com)

Intermission | Telling the Story of the Murder Trial that Changed the Country (intermissionmagazine.ca)

Who killed Lynne Harper? Retired OPP sergeant says travelling salesman a suspect in string of unsolved murders | National Post

50 years later, insect evidence overturns Canada's most notorious case - Regina v. Steven Truscott - PubMed (nih.gov)

Steven Truscott - Innocence Canada

The search for Lynne Harper | Goderich Signal Star

'Viable suspect' explored in murder that saw Steven Truscott wrongfully convicted (therecord.com)

LFP Archives: The day Steven Truscott was wrongly convicted of murder | London Free Press (lfpress.com)

Steven Truscott Case | The Canadian Encyclopedia

Lynne Harper Murder Likely Never To Be Solved (citynews.ca)

Other leads on possible suspects ignored (thestar.com)

Autopsy secrets a `powerful' jury factor (thestar.com)

Steven Truscott to get $6.5M for wrongful conviction | CBC News

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When you think of witch trials, I guarantee that the Salem Witch Trials come to mind. But have you ever wondered if other countries did the same terrible thing? In modern culture, witch hunts/trials would typically be believed as beginning and ending with the Salem Witch Trials in Massachusetts in the 1690s, however, Canada has its own dark history when it comes to witchcraft. 

SHOW NOTES

When witch hunts and killings stalked northern Canada | National Post

In Canada, pretending to be a witch is a punishable offense - The Washington Post

Canada's last witch trials: Women accused of fake witchcraft (bbc.com)

Double, Double Toil and Trouble: The Tale of Maggie Pollock and the Huron County Witch Trial | Huron County Museum

When literal witch hunts stalked Northern Canada | National Post

Sorcery in New France - Canada's History (canadashistory.ca)

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This week we are narrating for you four strange and creepy TRUE stories from the reddit thread r/freehorrorstories. 

If you have any stories or ideas/topics you'd like us to discuss on the show email us at [email protected]. Enjoy the show! 

SHOW NOTES

[TRUE] My Parents Haunted House : freehorrorstories (reddit.com)

[TRUE] The room with the train : freehorrorstories (reddit.com)

[TRUE] White Glowing Eyes : freehorrorstories (reddit.com)

[TRUE] Four AM Fire : freehorrorstories (reddit.com)

In 1967 during the May long weekend, an amateur prospector from River Heights, Winnipeg named Stefan Michalak ventured into Whiteshell Provincial Park to search for quartz and silver at Falcon Lake. After finding a spot to begin prospecting he was interrupted by two flying objects that glowed red. One of these objects landed in front of him. Stefan observed the object and eventually got closer. Upon returning home his family saw him fall ill and took him to the hospital where Doctors and nurses were shocked by his story but even more shocked by what they saw on his body. What happened to Stefan Michalak? Did he see a UFO? Or was this an elaborate hoax?

SHOW NOTES

The Falcon Lake incident: Canada's famous UFO encounter in 1967 | CBC.ca

1 oz. Pure Silver Glow-in-the-Dark Coin - Canada's Unexplained Phenomena: The Falcon Lake Incident - Mintage: 4,000 (2018) | The Royal Canadian Mint

MICHALAK STEFAN - Obituaries - Winnipeg Free Press Passages

falcon lake incident - Google Search

On April 25th, 5-year-old Julia Johnson played with her tennis ball outside her house while waiting for a neighborhood friend to get home from school. Only, her friend would never meet to play with her as Julia had disappeared without a trace. 9 years later, her body was found in a boiler in a building behind her house. How did Julia Johnson end up there and how did nobody know what happened to her? 

The legend of the Wendigo originates from First Nations tribes of North America. These tribes consider the Wendigo dangerous as they are powerful with a thirst for blood. The Wendigo has the power to infect the minds of people and turn them into blood thirsty monsters with the insatiable desire to kill and eat other humans. Maybe the legend of the Wendigo is true or maybe this is a story just to scare people. We will let you decide.

RCMP James Blackwood from Clarenville, NL responds to a call of a UFO being spotted in the sky. He arrives at the scene and is witness to an aircraft in the sky. He observes it moving for over an hour before it flies away at unworldly speeds. This event is considered one of the more credible sightings as every major news/media outlet covered the story all across Canada.