This Peculiar Prairie

What the heck is Batsquatch and what does it want with us? How do we explain the reported infestation of man (or lady) sized bat-people across the continental Unites States? From Tacoma to Texas, sightings of the creatures and strange disappearances of pets have been reported by otherwise normal people.  Are these creatures just large species of bats escaped from the zoo? aliens? cryptids? or just made-up? 

https://www.amazon.ca/American-Monsters-History-Monster-Sightings-ebook/dp/B00G3L10BS

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Shortly before his unexplained death, normally stylish teetotalling author Edgar Allan Poe disappeared for days before turning up disheveled, dirty and out of his mind. What happened? was he kidnapped? and if so, by whom? 

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The woods are a scary place. Today we look at one story of a car crash where the bodies of the victims turned up in a place already searched 3 months later, and it completely different states of decay. Then we learn about another take of a care home for adults in the woods of Oregon where the veil between the living and the dead seems a little too thin. 

https://www.amazon.com/Panic-Woods-Stephen-Young/dp/1540605388

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In today's bonus minisode, we bring you 2 allegedly true stories of haunted hospitals as told by the law enforcement professionals who experienced them. 

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https://www.amazon.ca/Cops-True-Stories-Paranormal-Shivers/dp/1530108241

Did 3 Nebraska cowboys on a cattle drive see a UFO crash into a gully one day in July 1884? and what caused the burns to one of the cowboys who got too close?  

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https://www.amazon.ca/Real-Cowboys-Aliens-Encounters-West/dp/1496109449

Did a Tombstone Arizona newspaper publish a photograph of a dead mythical Thunderbird, shot down by local farmers, at the turn of the century? If not, why do so many people remember seeing it? 

https://www.amazon.ca/Copper-State-Monsters-Cryptids-Legends/dp/1945950129

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What did 13-year-old Debra Malone see in the Bighorn Backcountry in 1972? Was it the same creature 5 workers on the Bighorn Damn claim they saw in 1969? Was it Sasquatch or was it all a story told to try to halt the construction of the dam?  

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Sources:

https://www.amazon.ca/Sasquatch-Alberta-Bigfoot-Wild-Country/dp/088839408X

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bighorn_Dam

Are giant beavers - bigger than a man and twice as heavy -splashing around the unexplored parts of Canada as hidden survivors of an ice age extinction even? or are they just folklore and campfire stories and misidentified bears? 

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Sources: 

https://mlpforums.com/blogs/entry/6665-nanabush-and-the-giant-beaver/

https://www.amazon.ca/Field-Guide-Cryptids-North-America-ebook/dp/B0718THHCM

https://www.chapters.indigo.ca/en-ca/books/canadian-monsters-mythical-creatures/9781926695372-item.html

https://www.nwtexhibits.ca/yamoria/documents/Yamoria-Legends.pdf

https://uphere.ca/articles/hero-dene

http://einsights.ogpr.educ.ubc.ca/v07n02/metissage/yamozha.html

What drove a farmhand to kill his boss, Martin Sitar and 6 other members of the Sitar Family during the harsh Manitoba winter of 1932? Tom Hreshkoski convinced himself and a jury that the Devil and a special fly demon told him to butcher the whole family with an axe, before burning down their home with them inside. 

Was it the Devil or mental illness that drove the slayings?

Prairie Murders: Mysteries, Crimes, and Scandals

https://www.amazon.ca/Prairie-Murders-Mysteries-Crimes-Scandals/dp/1894974719

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Fort Kent is just a dot on the map on Northern Alberta on the way to someplace bigger, like the air force base at Cold Lake, but 100 years ago,  local folklore says a local doctor, stricken with grief and surrounded by death,  succumbed to the Spirit of the Wendigo and began eating his fellow townspeople. 

50 years prior and about 200 kms southwest, a Cree guide named Swift Runner was hanged in the Northwest Mounted Police settlement of Fort Saskatchewan for eating 6 of his family members over the course of one winter.  Did the hunger spirit, the Wendigo, infect him too? 

Or was it something else; a psychological condition called Wendigo psychosis? 

Research links: 

Fort Kent:

https://www.lakelandtoday.ca/opinion/have-you-seen-the-fort-kent-wendigo-1903318

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Kent,_Alberta

http://www.outdoorsmenforum.ca/showthread.php?t=251021

https://www.ghostvillage.com/encounters/2009/08102009.shtml

https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2018/02/exploring-canadian-monsters-alberta/

Swift Runner :

http://www.murderpedia.org/male.R/r/runner-swift.htm

https://www.glenbow.org/index.cfm

http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/cree/

http://www.prairieghosts.com/wendigo.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Saskatchewan

https://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-a-wendigo.htm#didyouknowout

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