Halloween 2026: The Salish Sea Feet, Nine Years On
Episode 442: To mark our ninth anniversary, we're going back to where Dark Poutine began: the mystery of the Salish Sea floating feet. Since...
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Dark Poutine - True Crime and Dark History
True crime, legends, folklore, dark history and other creepy topics from the perspective of real live Canadians.
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20 of 452 episodesSpooktober 2026: Keeper of the Light — John Radelmüller’s Ghost
Episode 441: In January 1815, the keeper of Toronto's Gibraltar Point Lighthouse vanished, and John Paul Radelmüller was never seen alive ag...
Spooktober 2026: Headless Mary — The Ghost of Griffintown
Episode 440: In 1879, Montreal’s Griffintown was a crowded working-class neighbourhood shaped by Irish immigration, heavy industry and life...
Spooktober 2026: Road Trip — The Possessions at Loudun
Episode 439: In September 1632, plague was tearing through Loudun, France, when the Ursuline nuns began reporting apparitions, unexplained b...
The Expulsion of the Acadians: Grand Pré
Episode 438: In September 1755, more than four hundred men from Grand-Pré, Nova Scotia, were summoned to their parish church and told their...
Over the Wall: The Ty Conn Story
Episode 437: Tyrone William ‘Ty’ Conn became the first man in over forty years to climb over the wall at Kingston Penitentiary, Canada's old...
Wrong Turn: The Disappearance of Brady and Halkett
Episode 436: In June 1967, two of northern Saskatchewan's most respected bushmen, Métis political organizer James Brady and Cree band counci...
White Paper: Balloon Bombs from Japan
Episode 435: In November 1944, the Imperial Japanese Army began launching paper balloons from the coast of Honshu — each one carrying incend...
Botched Justice: The Death of Crystal Taman
Episode 434: On the morning of February 25th, 2005, Crystal Taman, a forty-year-old dental assistant, wife, and mother of three, left her ho...
If Anything Should Happen: The Ottey Sisters Murders
Episode 433: On August 16, 1995, Avis Ottey came home to her townhouse in Scarborough, Ontario, expecting to find her daughters packing for...
Not Justice: Lynching Louie Sam
Episode 432: In February 1884, a Scottish storekeeper named James Bell was shot dead in his cabin along Telegraph Road in Washington Territo...
Street of Tears — The Crimes of Shawn Cameron Lamb
Episode 431: In the fall of 2011, the first of three indigenous women disappeared from a stretch of Winnipeg's West End that those who worke...
I Don't Know Why: Phil Hartman’s Murder
Episode 430: On the morning of May 28, 1998, police were called to a home on Encino Avenue in Encino, California. Inside the master bedroom,...
Part 2 — Justice Prolonged: The Murder of Christine Jessop
Episode 429: In January 1995, DNA testing excluded Guy Paul Morin, the man convicted of the 1984 murder of Christine Jessop, from the crime....
Part 1 — Justice Prolonged: The Murder of Christine Jessop
Episode 428: On October 3, 1984, nine-year-old Christine Jessop stepped off a school bus in Queensville, Ontario, and walked toward home. Sh...
Three-Fingered Abe: The Kidnapping of John S. Labatt
Episode 427: In the summer of 1934, John Sackville Labatt was one of the most recognizable names in Canada. The fifty-three-year-old preside...
Wildfire: The Day Lytton Burned
Episode 426: On June 29th, 2021, Lytton, British Columbia, recorded the highest air temperature in Canadian history: 49.6 degrees Celsius. T...
Lives On Display: The Dionne Quintuplets
Episode 425: In May 1934, five identical girls were born in a farmhouse outside Corbeil, Ontario. They were the first quintuplets known to s...
Unnatural Selection — The Alberta Eugenics Act
Episode 424: Between 1928 and 1972, the Alberta government authorized the forced sterilization of nearly 3,000 Albertans deemed "unfit" to r...
The Murder of Francis Rattenbury: The Man Who Built B.C.
Episode 423: Francis Mawson Rattenbury designed the BC Parliament Buildings, the Empress Hotel, and the building that now houses the Vancouv...