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Welcome back, party people, to a very chaotic, completely unscripted milestone: our first-ever listener email episode! 

This week, we are flying blind, reading your spooky, weird, and unexplainable stories completely fresh on camera. But before diving into the inbox, we recap our recent ghost-hunting night at Toronto’s historic (and beautifully stacked) Elgin and Winter Garden Theaters. From awkward hot flashes and sassy Ouija board spirits named Grace, to a terrifying, earsplitting scream during an Estes method session, the vibes were heavy, historical, and deeply unsettling. 

Once the mailbag opens, things get truly creepastic. We cover a neighborhood UFO sighting, a hospital operating room where a heart monitor seemingly replayed a patient's final moments on loop, a spine-chilling 10-minute possession at a London tattoo shop, and a wartime basement in Hamilton protected by a team of glowing blue orbs. Wrap it all up with a mysterious, perfectly dry handprint left in a torrential downpour, a creepy old lady crawling out of a driveway culvert, and a heated debate over who actually invented "Summerween" back in 2006. 

Pull up a chair, grab a cold drink, and join us for the ultimate season finale before we head out on our August summer hiatus! 

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Ahoy, Whimsy Weirdos! 🎙️ Grab your sea legs and pour yourself a glass of cheap rum (or a nice cup of tea if you’re trying to be fancy) because today, we are stripping away the Hollywood gloss and taking a crash course into the gritty, fascinating, and deeply weird reality of historical pirates. 

In this episode, we are getting very whimsical, and a little dark. Together, we shatter everything we thought we knew about the Golden Age of Piracy (roughly 1650s to 1720s). 

Did you know that life in the Royal Navy was an absolute living hell of maggot-infested biscuits and tyrannical captains? It turns out, most pirates weren’t born criminals, they were just fed-up mutinous workers looking for a better gig with actual benefits. We break down how a pirate ship was actually one of the most progressive, democratic workplaces of the 18th century, complete with equal voting rights, a system of checks and balances via the Quartermaster, and literal workers' comp (lose an arm, get 600 pieces of eight!). 

We also dive deep into the legends of two pirate icons: 

• Blackbeard (Edward Thatch/Teach): The absolute master of psychological marketing. We discuss his theatrical drama-kid energy, and how he strived to look like a literal smoking demon, holding the entire city of Charleston hostage for... medical supplies, and his brutal, 25-wound final showdown. 
• Bartholomew "Black Bart" Roberts: The undisputed corporate CEO of the high seas who captured over 400 ships! He was a total sober dandy who wore a crimson damask waistcoat into battle, demanded lights out by 8:00 PM, banned gambling, and gave his ship musicians a mandatory day of rest on Sundays. 

Plus, we bust the myth of buried treasure (spoiler: you can't bury a barrel of flour or silk in the sand), uncover the history of Cornish "wreckers" in Jacklynn's own criminal bloodline, discuss Stevie's royal connection to Robert de Bruce, and try (and hilariously fail) to find our true pirate names using a terrible internet generator. 

It’s a short life and a merry one, mateys! Press play and join the crew! 

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Before diving into the cosmic deep end, the dynamic duo catches you up on life updates. Stevie’s gay lisp is officially back and better than ever after wrapping up his Invisalign journey. 

Then, it’s time to activate your third eye chakra. This week, the Weirdos explore the fascinating phenomenon of Indigo Children. The story starts in the 1970s with Nancy Ann Tappy, a parapsychologist with synesthesia, a mind-bending neurological condition where senses involuntarily collide (like tasting words or seeing music as colours). Tappy began noticing a new generation of children possessing distinct indigo-coloured auras, high intuition, and a fierce resistance to traditional authority. 

Jacklynn and Stevie break down Tappy’s four archetypes, the psychic traits associated with Indigos, like telepathic spirit communication and eerie past-life memories, and contrast them with healthy scientific skepticism, developmental psychology, the Barnum effect, and the overlap with ADHD and Autism. 

In this episode, you’ll also hear about:

• 🌟 Pop icons Billie Eilish and Phineas navigating life with synesthesia. 
• 🛸 Boris Kiprianovich, the famous Russian "Boy from Mars" who claimed a past life on the red planet. 
• 🔬 A wild tangent about CERN shutting down the Large Hadron Collider and whether dimensional pockets are making the world feel a little lighter. 
• ✨ Stevie and Jaclyn’s personal connection to Indigos, auras, big-eyed babies, and their shout-outs to the many wonderful Brads and Debs in their lives. 

Are you an Indigo child? Do you see auras? Or are we all just a little bit whimsical? Tune in, find out. 

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⚠️ VIDEO FEED GLITCH: READ ME! ⚠️

Party people, we have an important update! It turns out the universe took our "liminal space" topic a little too literally this week. A literal ghost in the matrix completely swallowed our camera data into a digital void. Because of this bizarro tech glitch, Episode 51 will be brought to you in glorious, immersive AUDIO ONLY. 🎧✨

Don't panic, you can still sit with us in the cozy dark! The full audio experience is streaming right here, on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and yes, even over on YouTube with a nice static visual placeholder so you can still hang out with us in the comments. Grab your headphones, fire up the mugwort, and let your imagination render the background extras. 🌀💻

Huzzah! We are BACK from our Canada Day mid-week hiatus, and we are kicking off Episode 51 (look at us doing numbers and math!) with a topic we mention constantly but have never actually explained: Liminal Spaces. 🌀✨

Ever been in an empty school hallway, a dead quiet airport lounge at 3:00 AM, or driven past a towering office building late at night with all the lights blazing but zero human souls inside? That's the ooky spooky magic of liminality. The literal in-between.

This week, we dive deep into the internet folklore, psychological triggers, and the absolute brain-bending dreamscapes that connect our waking reality to our sleeping subconscious.

• What the Heck is a Liminal Space?: From the Latin word limin (threshold) to the transitional architectural spots that give us major Kenopsia—the eerie feeling of a place usually bustling with life that is now dead quiet.
• Dream Core & Impossible Geometry: Horizons that end in pixelated voids, staircases to nowhere, and why some of us dream of entities with giant singular eyes or blank television heads. 📺👁️
• The "Mall World" Phenomenon & Psychic Meetups: Millions of people on Reddit and TikTok claim to visit the exact same mega-structure in their dreams (an 80s mall mixed with a cruise ship and an airport). Jacklynn shares her personal, millennial-gray, maroon-striped Mall World layout.
• The Science Bit (The Overfitted Brain Hypothesis): Why cognitive scientists think your brain purposely strips away background extras and warps geometry while you sleep to protect your mind from exploding.
• Sigmund Freud & The Uncanny: Familiar yet fundamentally alien. Plus, a spooky meditation exercise that leaves people feeling like they're being watched from the other side of a screen.

Dream well, party people... and we'll see you in Mall World. 🛌🛒

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The Big Five-Oh is here, Fellow Weirdos! 🎙️✨

To celebrate this monumental 50th episode milestone, we got aggressively fancy just for you!! Throwing on our finest wedding attire from three years ago (and yes, it still fits, thank you very much!), we raise a glass to 50 episodes of absolute chaos and setting our sights on 50 more.

But once the cheers are done we're diving deep under the topsoil and into the forest lore for an episode dedicated entirely to Weird and Whimsical Nature.

In this episode, we explore:

• The Woodwide Web 🌲: Think trees are just standing there looking pretty? Think again. We break down the subterranean secret society of mycelium networks, how matriarchal "Mother Trees" act as central Wi-Fi routers to feed struggling saplings, and why tree gossip includes literal airborne panic signals to ruin a bug's dinner plans.
• Texting a 200-Year-Old Tree 📱: The mind-blowing tech from Trinity College Dublin using bioelectrical sensors and self-contained AI "cyberdecks" to translate tree vibes into text messages.
• The Mushroom Synthesizer Concert 🍄⌨️: How musicians capture the natural biological electricity of mushrooms to drive robotic arms that physically play keyboards. 
• The World's Weirdest Flora 🌺: From the rotting-flesh stench of the Corpse Flower to Venus Flytraps, South Asian dancing plants, and orchids that look exactly like monkey faces.
• The Witch’s Garden 🔮: A historical and botanical deep-dive into high-potency plants like Vervain (the metaphysical shield), Henbane (the infamous ingredient behind flying witch ointments... and broomsticks), Devil's Snare, Wolf's Bane, Wormwood, and Stevie's personal favourite, Mugwort (the ultimate lucid dreamweaver).

Grab your local flora, practice some forest bathing, and get ready to have your minds completely blown by the thin line separating historical witchcraft from modern botany.

Note: The pod is taking a quick summer breather for Canada Day next week, followed by our official August summer holiday. We'll see you back in July for a few more episodes before we prep for next season!

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This week, Jacklynn and Stevie are heading to Kingston, Ontario to dive back into the terrifying history of haunted psychiatric facilities. Sitting right on the shores of Lake Ontario is Rockwood Asylum, a stunning, four-story limestone building built in 1859 with gorgeous Italian architecture that was meant to promote healing through fresh air and water views. But behind the grand facade and heavy iron window bars lies a dark history of prison labor, medical fraud, tragedy, and murder. 

• The Fraudulent Founder: Learn about Dr. John Palmer Litchfield, Rockwood’s charismatic first superintendent who drove around in a fancy carriage but wasn't actually a doctor.
• The Stabbed Visionary: How Dr. William Metcalf tried to genuinely reform the asylum by removing chains and introducing theater plays, only to be tragically stabbed to death by a patient in 1885. 
• The Desecrated Dead: The chilling 1895 Kingston scandal where grave robbers blew open a cemetery vault to steal the bodies of two "friendless" former Rockwood patients to sell for medical dissection. 

The Hauntings & Urban Legends:

• The Disconnected Phones: Security and explorers report old, unpowered phones with no lines suddenly ringing out in the dark hallways. 
• The Suicide Stairs & Help Window: A prominent staircase filled with intense cold spots and disembodied weeping, located right near a window pane with the word "Help" deeply etched into the glass. 
• The Haunted Fountain: A dried-up stone fountain where a child tragically drowned, now home to a glowing mist and the phantom smell of old blood. 
• Figures in the Window: Shadowy apparitions seen by passing boat cruises and nighttime trolley tours, staring blankly out at the water from the upper floors. 

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It’s finally happening, Weirdos! 🌌 This week, Jacklynn and Stevie are diving deep into a topic they’ve been putting off for months, not out of procrastination, but out of absolute respect for the culture it comes from. We are breaking down the sacred and taboo Navajo history of the Skinwalker.

Forget what you’ve seen on Supernatural or spooky TikTok trends. We are separating modern internet creepypasta from the devastating historical realities of the American Southwest. 

• The Shocking Reality: Why these entities are actually human beings practicing malevolent magic, not monster cryptids. 
• The Dark Initiation: The harrowing, unspeakable acts required to gain shape-shifting abilities. 
• Corpse Powder 101: The grim composition and terrifying symptoms of "witch sickness". 
• The Real vs. The Reel: A side-by-side comparison of traditional Navajo beliefs vs. modern internet lore. 
• Historical Deep-Dive: How the existential trauma of the Long Walk of 1864 forever cemented this legacy. 
• Bonus Whimsy: A chaotic sidebar about Stevie's terrifying throat-slitting habits in our latest tabletop RPG session 🎲⚔️. 

Put on your protection amulets, practice safe storytelling, and let's get weird! 

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**Warning, we had some audio issues this episode so things may sound a bit wonky. We apologize profusely!! Don't hate us!! 😭💚💜

Happy Pride Month, fellow Weirdos! 🏳️‍🌈 We are kicking off June the only way we know how: with a chaotic drag queen fan crack, memories of Vegas drag brunches, and a mission to give back. For the entire month of June, all proceeds from our Rainbow Tie-Dye merch will be personally matched by us and donated directly to local charities supporting queer youth, including the Gilbert Center and Spectrum! (Plus, keep your eyes peeled for Merlin the Corgi at Tri-City Pride on June 6th). 

Once we get the logistics out of the way, it’s time to melt our soft little brains with a deep dive into the fabric of space-time. We didn't take physics in high school, but that won't stop us from tackling quantum mechanics, universe ice blocks, and paradoxes! 

What’s On the Slab This Week:

• The Physics of Whimsy: We break down Einstein's flexible space-time, the Block Universe theory, and why we don't personally own the spaceship required to test a Tipler Cylinder. 
• Mug Smashing & Timeline Jumping: The internet says if you want to escape adult responsibilities, you just have to smash your favourite coffee mug to jump to a parallel branch of the multiverse. (Allegedly. Please don't sue us if this does not occur). 
• Glitch in the Matrix or Just a Reenactment?: We look into history’s most baffling urban legends, including the 1901 Versailles time slip, the mystery of internet icon John Titor, and the debunked case of Sergey Ponomarenko. 
• Neil deGrasse Tyson Ruining the Fun: Why traveling to the future is a proven reality, but traveling to the past is a space-machine nightmare. (Spoiler: If you don't calculate Earth's constant hurtling motion through the universe, your time machine will just dump you into empty space). 
• Pareidolia Strikes Again: The real, surprisingly practical truth behind those viral "1920s cell phone" clips. 
• Our Dream Destinations: Stevie wants ancient Egypt at its peak, and Jacklynn just wants to drive cool 1970s cars.

Grab a drink, lock your timelines, and let’s get weird! 

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• Merch & Support: Head to our website to grab your Rainbow Tie-Dye gear and help us support queer youth this month! 
• Missed our previous deep dives? Go back and check out Episodes 1 & 2 on Alien Disclosure and our Urban Legends episode!

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Welcome back, fellow weirdos, to another delightfully chilling slice of Haunted Canada! This week, Jacklynn and Stevie kick things off with a downright spooky listener story from Jacklynn's mother-in-law. Picture this: waking up from a traumatic nightmare only to hear a wind-up musical bear figurine—one that hasn't been cranked in 30 years—eerily playing Bette Midler’s Evergreen at a snail's pace. Spirit guides? Guardian angels? Or just a deeply unsettling celestial wake-up call? Either way, the universe was screaming, "Send in your listener stories for July!!"

Then, the we dive into the main course of primordial darkness: the ill-fated 1845 Franklin Expedition. Sir John Franklin, a seasoned 60-year-old explorer who clearly missed the memo on a quiet retirement, set sail with 130 men to find the fabled Northwest Passage. They rode in two heavily retrofitted, iron-braced ships with incredibly ominous, un-superstitious names: the HMS Erebus and the HMS Terror.

What followed was a recipe for absolute disaster:

• Tainted Grub: Three years' worth of tinned food likely laced with lead poisoning.
• Fresh Water Fail: A nifty tech system for melting snow that probably didn’t work.
• The Victoria Strait Ice Trap: Getting hopelessly frozen in what is now Nunavut.

By 1850, local Inuit hunters witnessed a real-life horror movie. Feeble, vacant-eyed, blue-tinged figures came shuffling out of the frozen tundra like literal Game of Thrones White Walkers. Stranded, starving, and half-dead, the final survivors resorted to the ultimate survival instinct: cannibalism!

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Welcome back, fellow weirdos, to another delightfully strange journey into the bizarre! This week, Stevie and Jacklynn are diving headfirst into the nostalgia-fueled, spine-chilling world of Urban Legends . You know, those spooky stories we all somehow knew word-for-word in middle school before the internet was even a thing ? Yeah, those ones.

Before the spooks begin, we recap a wild train ride home from a Yungblud concert, a run-in with a spiritual skeptic who broke the golden rule of horror movies (never invite the entity home, dude) , and a plea for your strange tales for an upcoming listener email episode . Plus, we clear up some very passionate boundaries regarding Canadian Caesars vs. American Bloody Marys .

Then, it’s time to unpack the real-life histories, urban evolutions, and psychological tricks behind the legends that kept us awake at night:

• Bloody Mary: Jacklynn relives her childhood sleepover trauma in Greensville , while Stevie breaks down the historical ties to Queen Mary I and Mary Worth. We also look at the science of the Troxler Effect—the real reason your face starts melting if you stare into a mirror too long .
• Flashing Headlights Gang Initiations: Remember the 90s panic that flashing your lights at a dark car would get you hunted by the Bloods or the Crips? The gang reveals how this viral rumour actually spread via... fax machines?
• The Hook Man: A deep dive into Lover's Lane paranoia, 1950s morality tales designed to stop teenagers from making out in cars, and the terrifying 1946 Texarkana Moonlight Murders that inspired it all.
• "Aren't You Glad You Didn't Turn On The Light?": The ultimate college campus nightmare of the inconsiderate roommate, a gruesome discovery, and its eerie connections to real-life boogeyman Ted Bundy .
• The Kidney Thieves: Why waking up in a hotel bathtub full of ice after a spiked drink is actually a "surgical fantasy" according to medical science .

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Have a bone-chilling story of your own? We want to hear it! Send your scary encounters to [email protected] or DM us. Your story might just make it onto a future episode!