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In a profession built on trust, compassion is supposed to be the foundation.

Doulas are invited into some of the most vulnerable moments of people’s lives — offering support, reassurance, and care when families need it most. But what happens when that trust is carefully studied, copied… and exploited?

In this episode, we explore a disturbing case of deception that unfolded not through violence, but through emotional manipulation. Messages asking for help turned into relationships built on false identities, leaving a community questioning how well we truly know the people we connect with online.

This is a story about empathy, digital intimacy, and the danger that can exist when kindness becomes the doorway.

As always, we approach this case with care, centering the experiences of those affected and examining the larger questions it raises about trust in an increasingly online world.

🕯️ Listener discretion advised.

✨ This episode also highlights the work of Niagara Reproductive Justice (NRJ)— Learn more or support their work by visiting their social media or emailing niagarareproductivejustice@gmail.com.

Your next creepy obsession starts here.

Follow Down the Crooked Path—your cohost for this haunting crossover—for eerie explorations that linger long after the episode ends:
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📸 First up: Darkroom Photography, based in the Niagara Region. Mel captures everything from spooky to sweet with creative, lifestyle shoots—and yes, her Halloween sessions are legendary. Transparent pricing, seasonal specials, and all the eerie vibes you could want.
👉 Book at darkroomphotography.ca or email mel@darkroomphotography.ca

🦴 And don’t forget our boo-tiful friends at Back From the Dead Goods—resurrecting your wardrobe with creepy streetwear on Etsy & Poshmark.
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Edited by Kyle McDonnell

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In this episode of Down the Crooked Path, Amanda Joy explores the lingering shadows hidden within one of Canada’s oldest historic districts, where centuries of history have left more than stories behind.

With more than 500 documented hauntings tied to the area, this episode focuses on three locations where tragedy, mystery, and memory appear to overlap. From a historic mansion said to be watched over by restless spirits, to a former religious site marked by loss and secrets beneath its foundations, to an institution connected to some of the most disturbing psychological experiments of the twentieth century, each place carries a past that refuses to stay quiet.

Blending documented history with enduring folklore, Amanda examines how trauma, belief, and place intertwine and why some locations continue to draw reports long after their doors have closed.

Step carefully. Some histories do not remain in the past.

🌱 PayYourRent.ca is an Indigenous-led grassroots initiative calling on settlers to engage in ongoing, voluntary financial redistribution in support of Indigenous land defenders, sovereignty, and community well-being.

This foundation supports urgent needs like housing, food security, legal defense, and cultural revitalization—all grounded in the principle that land back also means resource back.

If you live, work, or benefit from life on stolen land, consider learning more or making a monthly contribution at PayYourRent.ca.

Justice isn’t a moment—it’s a commitment.

Your next creepy obsession starts here.

✨ This episode is brought to you by Fable & Frame Creative ✨
Fable & Frame Creative offers Niagara Region portraits and at-home newborn sessions, capturing not just how life looks — but how it feels. Because your life isn’t ordinary. It’s a fable, and it deserves to be framed like one.

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🕯️ You can find new episodes of Down the Crooked Path every Thursday, wherever you get your podcasts.
Canadian content airs right here on the Canadian Creepies feed—so stay tuned, and stay on the path.

Edited by Kyle McDonnell

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This week, Valerie and Kyle examine one of the most disturbing and least discussed policies in modern Canadian history: the High Arctic relocation.

In the 1950s, Inuit families were moved more than 2,000 kilometres north from their homes in Northern Quebec to remote Arctic settlements. Promised better hunting, housing, and support, they instead arrived to isolation, scarcity, and a future they did not choose.

Drawing on survivor testimony, including the story of Paula Ikuutaq Rumbolt, as well as historical documentation, the findings of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, and Canada’s 2010 formal apology, this episode explores how Cold War sovereignty fears shaped federal policy and how those decisions reshaped lives for generations.

This is not a story about harsh weather.

It is a story about power, displacement, and what happens when human beings are treated as political tools.

The cold was not the cruelest part. Being treated as expendable was.

Edited by Kyle McDonnell

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This week on Canadian Creepies, Valerie is joined by Mandy and Avery from Thick Thighs & Creepy Vibes for a crossover episode that blends Canadian true crime with a touch of the paranormal.

The episode kicks off with Creep of the Week, as Valerie, Mandy, and Avery trade the kinds of eerie stories that make you pause and rethink what you thought you knew. From there, the conversation shifts into a Canadian case that unsettles for more than one reason—where facts raise questions and unanswered details refuse to stay quiet.

With Amanda sidelined by some unexpected technical issues, the trio carries the episode forward with a mix of grounded discussion and unsettling possibilities. Known for pairing spine-chilling true crime with supernatural twists, Thick Thighs & Creepy Vibes brings a perfect balance to this collaboration.

It’s a Canadian crossover you didn’t know you needed—until now.

🎧 Available now
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✨ This episode also highlights the work of Niagara Reproductive Justice (NRJ)— Learn more or support their work by visiting their social media or emailing niagarareproductivejustice@gmail.com.

Your next creepy obsession starts here.

🌱 PayYourRent.ca is an Indigenous-led grassroots initiative calling on settlers to engage in ongoing, voluntary financial redistribution in support of Indigenous land defenders, sovereignty, and community well-being.

This foundation supports urgent needs like housing, food security, legal defense, and cultural revitalization—all grounded in the principle that land back also means resource back.

If you live, work, or benefit from life on stolen land, consider learning more or making a monthly contribution at PayYourRent.ca.

Justice isn’t a moment—it’s a commitment.

Your next creepy obsession starts here.

✨ This episode is brought to you by Fable & Frame Creative ✨
Fable & Frame Creative offers Niagara Region portraits and at-home newborn sessions, capturing not just how life looks — but how it feels. Because your life isn’t ordinary. It’s a fable, and it deserves to be framed like one.

🦴 And don’t forget our boo-tiful friends at Back From the Dead Goods—resurrecting your wardrobe with creepy streetwear on Etsy & Poshmark.
👻 Use code CANADIANCREEPIES for 10% off!

Edited by Kyle McDonnell

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In 1978, beneath the streets of Toronto’s Cabbagetown neighbourhood, one man stepped into a place most people never think about—and came back with a story that would quietly enter the city’s folklore.

In this episode of Down the Crooked Path, Amanda Joy explores the chilling account of the Cabbagetown Tunnel Monster. A narrow drainage tunnel. A brief but unsettling encounter. A voice that shouldn’t have been there. What happened in those moments has been debated, dismissed, and remembered for decades.

Was it a misunderstood encounter? A trick of fear and isolation? Or something that doesn’t fit neatly into explanation?

Drawing from contemporary reporting and the enduring legacy of the story, this episode examines how urban legends are born, why they persist, and what they reveal about the hidden spaces beneath our cities—and ourselves.

Some mysteries don’t come from faraway wilderness.
Some are closer than we’d like to believe.

🌱 PayYourRent.ca is an Indigenous-led grassroots initiative calling on settlers to engage in ongoing, voluntary financial redistribution in support of Indigenous land defenders, sovereignty, and community well-being.

This foundation supports urgent needs like housing, food security, legal defense, and cultural revitalization—all grounded in the principle that land back also means resource back.

If you live, work, or benefit from life on stolen land, consider learning more or making a monthly contribution at PayYourRent.ca.

Justice isn’t a moment—it’s a commitment.

Your next creepy obsession starts here.

✨ This episode is brought to you by Fable & Frame Creative ✨
Fable & Frame Creative offers Niagara Region portraits and at-home newborn sessions, capturing not just how life looks — but how it feels. Because your life isn’t ordinary. It’s a fable, and it deserves to be framed like one.

🦴 And don’t forget our boo-tiful friends at Back From the Dead Goods—resurrecting your wardrobe with creepy streetwear on Etsy & Poshmark.
👻 Use code CANADIANCREEPIES for 10% off!

🕯️ You can find new episodes of Down the Crooked Path every Thursday, wherever you get your podcasts.
Canadian content airs right here on the Canadian Creepies feed—so stay tuned, and stay on the path.

Edited by Kyle McDonnell

Send us a text, tell us your canadian creepy!

Canada has a reputation for being polite, reasonable, and fair. But its legal history tells a more complicated story.

In this episode, we examine some of the strangest, harshest, and most revealing punishments in Canadian law. From public shaming and corporal punishment to mandatory death sentences and laws that criminalized everyday life, these practices were not just about crime. They were about power, morality, and control.

This is not a catalogue of shock for shock’s sake. It is an exploration of who the law was designed to protect, who it punished most harshly, and how ideas of justice have shifted over time. We look at gendered punishment, colonial enforcement, and the ways legal systems were used deliberately to shame, discipline, and erase.

Because the question is not how weird these laws were.
It is who they harmed and what parts of them still echo today.

✨ This episode also highlights the work of Niagara Reproductive Justice (NRJ)— Learn more or support their work by visiting their social media or emailing niagarareproductivejustice@gmail.com.

Your next creepy obsession starts here.

Follow Down the Crooked Path—your cohost for this haunting crossover—for eerie explorations that linger long after the episode ends:
📸 Instagram: @downthecrookedpath
▶️ YouTube: Down the Crooked Path

🖤 Ghoul Gang, we've got double the creep for you today!

📸 First up: Darkroom Photography, based in the Niagara Region. Mel captures everything from spooky to sweet with creative, lifestyle shoots—and yes, her Halloween sessions are legendary. Transparent pricing, seasonal specials, and all the eerie vibes you could want.
👉 Book at darkroomphotography.ca or email mel@darkroomphotography.ca

🦴 And don’t forget our boo-tiful friends at Back From the Dead Goods—resurrecting your wardrobe with creepy streetwear on Etsy & Poshmark.
👻 Use code CANADIANCREEPIES for 10% off!

Support spooky small biz and creep it cute, creeps.

Edited by Kyle McDonnell

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In June of 1960, something disturbed the surface of a remote northern lake — and then disappeared without a trace.

Reported weeks later by a prospector working near Clan Lake in the Northwest Territories, the incident described a loud mechanical sound with no aircraft in the sky, followed by a rotating object striking the water, spinning briefly on the surface, and sinking beneath it. No smoke. No fire. No debris. Just a sudden impact and a lake that closed over whatever entered it.

Investigators confirmed unusual physical evidence in the water and along the shoreline, but repeated searches recovered nothing. No missing aircraft matched the description, and no explanation ever fully accounted for what was witnessed. The case remained unresolved, quietly filed away — until decades later, when it was rediscovered and brought back into public view.

This episode explores the strange and unanswered questions surrounding Disturbance at Clan Lake, tracing what can be verified, what remains uncertain, and why some incidents resist explanation, even after the investigation ends.

🌱 PayYourRent.ca is an Indigenous-led grassroots initiative calling on settlers to engage in ongoing, voluntary financial redistribution in support of Indigenous land defenders, sovereignty, and community well-being.

This foundation supports urgent needs like housing, food security, legal defense, and cultural revitalization—all grounded in the principle that land back also means resource back.

If you live, work, or benefit from life on stolen land, consider learning more or making a monthly contribution at PayYourRent.ca.

Justice isn’t a moment—it’s a commitment.

Your next creepy obsession starts here.

✨ This episode is brought to you by Fable & Frame Creative ✨
Fable & Frame Creative offers Niagara Region portraits and at-home newborn sessions, capturing not just how life looks — but how it feels. Because your life isn’t ordinary. It’s a fable, and it deserves to be framed like one.

🦴 And don’t forget our boo-tiful friends at Back From the Dead Goods—resurrecting your wardrobe with creepy streetwear on Etsy & Poshmark.
👻 Use code CANADIANCREEPIES for 10% off!

🕯️ You can find new episodes of Down the Crooked Path every Thursday, wherever you get your podcasts.
Canadian content airs right here on the Canadian Creepies feed—so stay tuned, and stay on the path.

Edited by Kyle McDonnell

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Indian Day Schools are often described as a lesser harm. A softer version of a system we already know was devastating.

In this episode of Canadian Creepies, we challenge that narrative.

Not So Different, Not So Distant examines the similarities and differences between Indian Day Schools and Residential Schools, asking what really changed—and what didn’t. While children in day schools returned home at night, they were still subjected to the same federal policies, the same assimilationist ideology, and often the same abuses carried out by church-run institutions.

We explore how harm operated differently—but no less profoundly—inside day schools, why survivor experiences were minimized for decades, and how the myth of “less harm” allowed abuse to remain hidden in plain sight.

This episode also brings the conversation into the present, examining the role of administrators and authority figures within these systems, including the fact that Robert Carney served as a principal of an Indian Day School—a reminder that this history is not as distant as many Canadians would like to believe.

This is not an episode about individual villainy.
It is about systems, power, proximity, and accountability.

Understanding the truth of Indian Day Schools isn’t about rewriting history.
It’s about finally telling it honestly.

Content Advisory: This episode discusses colonial violence, abuse, and systemic harm inflicted on Indigenous children and communities.

✨ This episode also highlights the work of Niagara Reproductive Justice (NRJ)— Learn more or support their work by visiting their social media or emailing niagarareproductivejustice@gmail.com.

Your next creepy obsession starts here.

Follow Down the Crooked Path—your cohost for this haunting crossover—for eerie explorations that linger long after the episode ends:
📸 Instagram: @downthecrookedpath
▶️ YouTube: Down the Crooked Path

🖤 Ghoul Gang, we've got double the creep for you today!

📸 First up: Darkroom Photography, based in the Niagara Region. Mel captures everything from spooky to sweet with creative, lifestyle shoots—and yes, her Halloween sessions are legendary. Transparent pricing, seasonal specials, and all the eerie vibes you could want.
👉 Book at darkroomphotography.ca or email mel@darkroomphotography.ca

🦴 And don’t forget our boo-tiful friends at Back From the Dead Goods—resurrecting your wardrobe with creepy streetwear on Etsy & Poshmark.
👻 Use code CANADIANCREEPIES for 10% off!

Support spooky small biz and creep it cute, creeps.

Edited by Kyle McDonnell