The Hammerson Peters Podcast

This is my list of the ten creepiest places in Canada.

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Before the modern era, First Nations across Canada had intense fears of certain animals which modern man generally considers innocuous. Considering that Canada’s pre-modern indigenous peoples were necessarily experts on the flora and fauna that pervaded their territories, is it possible that the subjects of such fears are rare but real animals of which Canada’s native peoples were justifiably afraid? In this piece, we take a look at a few of these little-known cryptids, or hidden animals, of native tradition.

 

0:00:00 – Native Superstitions

0:01:26 – The Small Black Lizard of Thompson Tradition

0:02:15 – The Small Red Lizard of Lillooet Tradition

0:05:41 – Squamish Legend of the Pethel

0:07:24 – The Lizards of Alligator Lake

0:09:13 – The Small Snakes of Nootka Legend

0:09:54 – The Dene Aversion to Frogs

 

Executive Producer: Dan Chomistek

 

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Canada’s island province is filled mysterious locations pregnant with age-old legends which even Lucy Maud Montgomery’s Anne Shirley would be hard-pressed to improve upon. From haunted coves and mystical ponds to phantom lights and monsters of the deep; from chilling tales shared around the hearths of Scottish and Irish farmers to ancient traditions orated by the flickering light of Acadian and Mi’kmaq campfires; here are a few of the many colourful legends of Prince Edward Island.

 

INTRODUCTION

0:00:00 - Anne of Green Gables’ Haunted Wood

 

REIGN OF THE MI’KMAQ

0:03:00 - The Battle of Pretty Stream

 

ACADIAN SETTLEMENT

0:07:51 – Early Modern North American Explorers

0:10:37 - Acadian Settlement of Ile Saint-Jean

0:14:00 - Legend of the Mineotta Stone

0:24:39 - The Witch of Port La Joye

 

THE BRITISH CONQUEST

0:29:56 - King George’s War

0:33:01 - The Acadian Expulsion

0:36:20 - The Phantom Church of St. John

0:37:58 - The Hunchback of Point Prim

0:39:45 - The Fairies of Cape Wolfe

 

SCOTTISH-IRISH SETTLEMENT

0:44:02 - The White Lady of Holland Cove

0:50:42 - The Ghosts of Brudenell Island

0:54:55 - Ghost Ship of the Northumberland Strait

1:01:44 - Phantom Bell Ringers of the Kirk of St. James

 

CONFEDERATION

1:07:29 - The Haunting of Binstead Manor

1:15:54 - P.E.I. Today

In her memoirs, 19th Century British Columbian pioneer Susan Allison described a strange accident which befell her husband, John Allison, on an 1877 trip from Okanagan Lake to New Westminster, somewhere in the Cascade Mountains on the Dewdney Trail.

Long before coureurs des bois brought the legend of the loup-garou to the woods of the Great Lakes, First Nations across North America told stories about mysterious creatures with the bodies of men and the heads of wolves or dogs. In this video, we will take a look at Dogman legends endemic to Canada.

 

0:00:00 – The Manwolf of Elkhorn, Wisconsin

0:03:18 – The Michigan Dogman

0:04:25 – The European Werewolf Tradition

0:07:27 – The Loup-Garou of French Canada

0:09:04 – The Wolfman of Hollywood

0:12:11 – Wolfmen in North American Tradition

0:12:46 – ‘Le Loup-Garou’ by Honore Beaugrand

0:16:54 – The Loup-Garou of Lake St. Clair

0:21:48 – The Dog People of Spuzzum, British Columbia

0:23:38 – The Manwolf of the Subarctic

0:26:26 – Legend of the Dogribs

0:29:05 – Inuit Legend of the Inland Dwellers

 

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All over the world, non-flying animals like fish and frogs have reportedly fallen from the sky, and Canada is no exception. In this video, we take a look at some of the strangest animals to fall from the sky in Canada.

 

0:00:00 – La Lluvia de Peces

0:05:14 – Animal Rain in Canada

0:06:18 – Raining Frogs

0:14:32 – Raining Lizards

0:17:27 – Raining Fish

Every once in a while, visitors to supposedly haunted locations, witnesses of out-of-body experiences, those present at the deathbeds of their loved ones, and participants in necromantic rituals report seeing small floating balls of light which do not appear to derive from any external light sources. What are these mysterious orbs?

 

0:00:00 – Ritual of the Shaking Tent

0:03:26 – Nicole Barker’s Shaking Tent Experience

0:11:32 – Spirits Lights in the Shaking Tent

0:16:10 – Spirit Orbs

 

Huge thank you to Bexx Korol and Nicole Barker for making this video possible!

 

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In this video, we take a look at phantom lights seen over railroad tracks, another of Canada’s many railway mysteries.

 

0:00:00 – The Saint Louis Light

0:02:49 – Sightings of the St. Louis Ghost Train

0:04:47 – The Dunn-Lederhouse Experiment

0:09:54 – Objections to the Car Light Theory

0:13:07 – The Headless Brakeman of Vancouver

0:15:42 – Ghost Lights of Central Alberta

0:16:38 – Will-o’-the-Wisp

0:19:16 – Will-o’-the-Wisp of Lake Simcoe, Ontario

 

Shanon Sinn’s video of the St. Louis Light:

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In this piece, we take a look at one of Canada’s most interesting types of vehicular apparitions: the phenomenon of the ghost train.

 

0:00:00 – Last Call for First Born

0:01:05 – Vehicular Apparitions

0:03:10 – The Phantom Train of Medicine Hat, Alberta

0:10:02 – The Ghost Train of Texas State Highway 36

0:13:14 – The Ghost Train of Wellington, Prince Edward Island

0:17:11 – Mirage in Manitoba

 

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Tales of little elusive men with seemingly-magical abilities constitute a staple of arctic and subarctic tradition. In this video, we’ll look at several purported encounters with little people in the wilderness of Northern Canada and Alaska.

 

0:00:00 – Anthony Roche’s Encounter

0:02:36 – Inuarutligak

0:04:29 – The Iircingarak of the Alaskan Peninsula

0:07:17 – The Inukins of Noatak, Alaska

0:10:09 – Little Men of Western Alaska

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