Across the vast Arctic landscape of Nunavut, the sea has always been a source of life - and a place deserving enormous respect. For generations, Inuit oral traditions have told of strange beings inhabiting the cold waters along the shoreline and beneath the sea ice. Among the most mysterious are the Qallupilluit. Stories about the... Continue Reading →
The Baldoon Mystery: Something Terrorized a Family in Upper Canada
In the early years of the 19th century, along the waterways near what is now Wallaceburg, Ontario, stood the farm of John T. McDonald and his family. It was an isolated place surrounded by woods, marshes and farmland, the sort of landscape where darkness could feel especially deep once the sun disappeared. Toward the end... Continue Reading →
The Summer the Sea Came Alive: Newfoundland’s 1953 Monster Sightings
For generations, Newfoundland fishermen have returned from the Atlantic with stories of things they couldn't explain - enormous shapes beneath their boats, serpentine bodies breaking the surface and creatures unlike anything they recognized from a lifetime spent on the water. But during the summer of 1953, something particularly strange happened. Over the course of just... Continue Reading →
The Giant in the Trees: What Did They See at Great Bear Lake?
Great Bear Lake in the Northwest Territories is the kind of place where mysteries can survive. Vast, isolated and surrounded by seemingly endless wilderness, parts of the enormous lake stretch into the Arctic Circle. In the summer of 2001, three people reportedly travelled into one particularly remote corner of that wilderness—and came away with a... Continue Reading →
The Teslin Sasquatch Sightings
During the summer of 2005, residents of Teslin, Yukon, began reporting something unusual moving through the bush surrounding their community. Teslin is a small community located approximately 180 kilometres southeast of Whitehorse, surrounded by vast stretches of northern wilderness. According to contemporary accounts, residents described hearing trees snapping and heavy movement coming from the forest,... Continue Reading →
Something Lurks in Lake Utopia: The Legend of Old Ned
Hidden among the forests of southwestern New Brunswick is a lake with a name that sounds almost too peaceful for the stories attached to it. Lake Utopia, located in Charlotte County near the town of St. George, stretches for roughly seven kilometres through the landscape. People swim there, fish there, paddle across its waters and... Continue Reading →
The Figure on McLeod Road: The 1993 Renfrew County Sasquatch Encounter
It was early June 1993 when Desmond “Joe” Warren and his girlfriend found themselves parked along a quiet gravel road in Renfrew County, Ontario. They had been visiting friends at a party and eventually pulled their vehicle into the entrance of an old logging trail along McLeod Road, between the communities of Springtown and Burnstown.... Continue Reading →
Mishipeshu: Guardian of Lake Superior’s Secrets
Mishipeshu, the Great Lynx or Underwater Panther, is one of the most powerful and revered figures in Anishinaabe cosmology. The Mishipeshu is said to have a feline body with a dragon-like face, deer-like horns, and a back covered in copper scales or sharp spikes. They have a massive, powerful tail that creates rapids and whirlpools... Continue Reading →
The Toronto Tunnel Monster
The Toronto Tunnel Monster (also known as the Cabbagetown Tunnel Monster) is a cryptid that is an urban legend originating from a single reported sighting in 1978. A Parliament Street resident named Ernest claimed to have encountered a strange, humanoid creature while searching for a lost kitten in a narrow cave-like opening near his apartment. According to the report... Continue Reading →
The Tragic History of the Donnelly Family Massacre
Johannah & James Donnelly The "Black" Donnelly's were an Irish family who emigrated to Ontario. Five of the family were murdered by an armed mob in the township of Lucan Biddulph in February 1880 and their farm was burned down, the culmination of long-standing conflict between the family and other residents. No one was convicted... Continue Reading →