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Related: Canada Story Vault

Zack’s Script: Google Doc

To Do:

• Add link to Zack’s Google Doc script (above)
  After episode airs:
• move any unused stories to story vault // Episode Themes & Story Ideas
• Unpublish the note to archive it :)

Canada stories — August 2026

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Crime:

• Mad Trapper of Rat River
  • Recommended here
• Highway of Tears
  • Recommended here

Lore & Legends:

Personal stories:

• Phantom ship sighting
• Halloween ghost tours
  • Could save this for Boozaween!

• Hammerson Peters
• “Don’t Whistle at Night” book

Fearsome Critters

• There's a whole genre of cryptid stories from the fur trade and lumber camps. They're called Fearsome Critters

Sedna

• Inuit goddess of the sea, Sedna
  • “Inuit, First Nations, and Métis culture is way undervalued in Canada. We would be a better country if we knew and appreciated them more.”

Ogopogo

Ogopogo FAQ:

• Canada's own Nessie!
• “Ogopogo is a fun one”
  • Where I originally saw this suggested on Reddit

There are lots:

1. Champ in Lake Champlain (Québec)
   • More info: Lake Champlain Region — The mysterious history of Champ
2. there’s one in Pohénégamook (Québec)
   • More info:
3. one in Lake Memphrémagog (glacial lake in Québec)
   • More info:
4. Cadborosaurus on the west/Pacific coast (Cadboro Bay in Victoria, British Columbia)
   • More info: Cadboro Bay gives its name to a type of sea serpent, Cadborosaurus, nicknamed Caddy. // Immediately adjacent to the beach itself is Cadboro-Gyro park. The park is popular with children in the neighbourhood as well as other parts of Victoria due to its large concrete climbing structures, in the form of an octopus, a large salmon, a tugboat and the local Cryptid, the sea monster Cadborosaurus.
5. Old Ned in Lake Utopia (New Brunswick)
   • More info: Local legend says the lake is inhabited by a sea monsterknown as "Old Ned". The story goes that long ago two Maliseet Natives were canoeing on the lake when suddenly the monster appeared and chased them from one end to the other.citation needed 1 It has a decidedly long and bulky cetacean appearance, is described as a toothless herbivore,2 and may be representative of an unknown group of animals that travel back and forth between Lake Utopia and the Atlantic Ocean. // On July 28 1908, the crew of the schooner Madagasca reported they had seen a sea serpent in the Bay of Fundy near Cutler, Maine which is presumed to be related.2 // It has drawn the attention of many writers.3
6. Apotamkin in the Passamaquoddy Bay, (New Brunswick): pulls people in to eat them, particularly careless children
   • More info:
7. there's also Igopogo in Lake Simcoe in Ontario

Creepy

• Tranquille Sanatorium

• “I found Crowsnest Pass to be a naturally creepy place. It’s a collection of coal mining towns in Southern Alberta just this side of the BC border. Every town had a mine, and every mine had a disaster. Hillcrest's is still the worst in Canadian history, I think. Roughly 150 dead. It is also the home of the Frank Slide. One morning in 1903, the town of Frank was obliterated by a massive avalanche. It was 3 am, no living thing in it had a chance. The Alberta entrance to the area is marked by a very spooky looking tree. Google it, there are pictures. And the people are feckin' weird. If I ever get my social shit back together, I want to run a Werewolf: the Apocalypse game set there, it just begs to lend itself to stuff like that. Yes, a Silent Strider would have a hell of a time there.“

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Paranormal & The Unexplained

• Gordon Clarence

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