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Old Yellow Top is one of Ontario’s strangest - and surprisingly old - Sasquatch legends. Unlike many cryptids that spring from a single dramatic encounter, reports of this creature around Cobalt in northeastern Ontario stretched across more than six decades. What supposedly distinguished it from an ordinary Sasquatch was a very noticeable patch or mane... Continue Reading →
All I wanted to do was go home. That was it. I had finished work, I was tired, I was hungry, and I had already mentally changed into pajamas. My couch was waiting for me. Dinner was waiting for me. I had absolutely no interest in adventure. Apparently, the city had other plans. I pulled... Continue Reading →
I knew the day was going to be a disaster when I put my shirt on backwards. I did not realize this immediately. I walked around the house for twenty minutes wondering why my collar felt like it was trying to strangle me before finally looking in the mirror. Fine. Easy fix. I changed my... Continue Reading →
Maya had lived in the same apartment building for three years, but she barely knew anyone in it. People smiled in the hallway, exchanged polite hellos and then disappeared behind their doors. One spring morning, Maya found a tiny envelope taped to her door. Inside was a single sunflower seed and a handwritten note: “Plant... Continue Reading →
My alarm went off at 6:30 Monday morning, which was incredibly rude considering I had done absolutely nothing to deserve that kind of treatment. I opened one eye and stared at the ceiling. For several seconds, I genuinely considered whether employment was necessary. Surely there had to be another option. Could I become independently wealthy... Continue Reading →
Monday morning arrived with rain. Not the soft, peaceful kind of rain that makes you want to curl up beside a window with a warm drink. This was cold, sideways rain, the kind that somehow finds the tiny opening between your coat and your neck. For Claire, it felt appropriate. Her alarm hadn't gone off.... Continue Reading →
Sunday morning began with a lie. “I’m just going to sit here for five minutes.” I said this at 9:12am while lowering myself onto the couch with a cup of coffee and a blanket. At 10:47, I was still there. In my defense, I had been very busy. I had adjusted the blanket twice, checked... Continue Reading →
At 7:12 on a perfectly peaceful Saturday morning, Susan looked out her front window and saw a traffic cone sitting at the end of her driveway. This was unusual because Susan did not own a traffic cone. She stared at it for several seconds, waiting for an explanation to present itself. None did. Naturally, Susan... Continue Reading →
The waters southwest of Ireland were dangerous in the summer of 1915. Europe was consumed by the First World War, German submarines were hunting Allied shipping in the Atlantic, and sailors aboard merchant vessels knew that an unseen U-boat could be lurking beneath the waves at almost any moment. On July 30, 1915, one of... Continue Reading →
The story of Dragon Man begins more than ninety years ago, with an extraordinary discovery that almost disappeared forever. In 1933, in the city of Harbin in northeastern China, a Chinese labourer reportedly discovered an unusually large and remarkably well-preserved human skull. At the time, the region was under Japanese occupation, and according to the... Continue Reading →
