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This week we talk about Bigfoot in Vermont otherwise known as the Green Mountain State. Vermont is one of the smallest states in the Union but it is incredibly wooded. At 4.5 million acres of forested land and about 78% of the state, it's no doubt Sasquatch have been reported in Vermont for hundreds of years. we'll start by going over some of the more well known encounters and then dive into a book by Jason Lorefice called Vermont Bigfoot Encounters and Beyond, where we find some pretty interesting information even I didn't know about.

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As winter firmly wraps it's icy fingers around us, I thought it would be more than appropriate to dive into three first hand encounters that deal with one of cryptozoologies most misunderstood entities....the Wendigo.So this week, as we come back from our hiatus, we kick the new year off with three incredibly chilling stories. The first deals with a hunter, who is in turn, hunted by the creature, while hunting deer in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. The second is a story about a stranded snowmobiler who comes face to face with something he had heard about...

Things have been crazy but the holiday season is just above over and we'll be able to return to our regular scheduled programming! Until then, here's a re-release of our fan favorite Christmas episode, which goes all the way back to the first year of Almost Canon. We cover all sorts of Christmas related traditions. Traditions that date back to Roman and Greek festivals, Saint Nick, even how ancient pagans tripped out on red and white mushrooms and had to enter their homes through the chimneys!

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After hearing from friend of the show, Thom Pollard, and being told about an abandoned campsite found not too far from me, in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, I decided to cover two Missing 411 cases that have fascinated me for 15 years.

Our first case takes place in Washington State and involves a climber who seemingly disappeared from the end of a climbing rope, almost as though he unclipped and stepped out into the sky.

The second case involves a climber in California who vanished in broad daylight from the middle of...

You'll be getting two episodes this week. One is a re-post in honor of hunting season, a time of year where unsuspecting, non-believers, find out the hard way that there are things out there we can't explain. Just like the main subject in this episode.

So our guest tonight has hunted a family plot for years and on this particular year, he and his daughter came face to face with a beast, they could only describe as Bigfoot. They then ran for their lives, out of this area locally known as 'the Gulf' and back to the...

I wasn't able to finish all my notes for this weeks episodes. So while I finish whipping that up, here's a repost of an encounter a woman had with a patient who was often seen at the hospital she worked at. Except this time, she had a front row seat, sitting just in front of the woman's room. Now, she wasn't a nurse, but she did witness some very strange activity coming from the room, activities that would suggest the woman was possessed....

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This week we take a look at one of the strangest Missing 411 case you've probably never heard of, I know I hadn't up until this point. We heard a lot about Dennis Martin, Stacy Arras, or Sammy Boehlke, but there are so many missing children within the page of the Missing 411 book series its not surprising there are cases that don't seem to get a lot of attention. And the Case of Douglas or "Dougie" Legg is one of those cases. So sit back, relax and enjoy this weeks episode.

Happy Halloween Everyone! Officially, Spooky Season...

This week we talk with paranormal author and investigator/researcher Nathan Elwell about his adventures into the paranormal....

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This week we take a trip back to 18th century France and investigate the Beast of Gévaudan. Was it a werewolf? Maybe a rouge wolf or some exotic creature. I mean, the reign of terror brought on by the beast was well documented and still we have no idea what exactly the beast was! So on this episode we'll talk with Wen from Cryptozoology Facts, who just so happens to be somewhat of an expert on this topic and maybe she can help bring a little more clarity to the mystery that has been dubbed....The beast of G...

On this Columbus Day we figured it would be a good idea to remind people that Columbus certainly didn't discover 'America'. Nor did he even make it to main land North America. However there was a group of Europeans who did! and they did it almost 500 years before Columbus set sail from Spain. These Europeans were the Greenlandic Vikings and according to their sagas of old, They may have made it as far south as Massachusetts and as far west as Minnesota

In this episode Nick goes over several Viking artifact discovered over the last couple hundred...

We revisit BEKs once again to tell a collection of all new stories!

Nick starts out by going over what Black Eyed Kids possibly are, and taking a trip down memory lane, before unloading his wild theory behind the BEK creation.

Then Nick dives into a handful of creepy stories including a boy from the 1950's who met a BEK on the road; a couple campers who had two mysterious guests show up; and a two brothers who almost them inside.

if BEK are your thing then this is an episode you wont...

This week we kick off the official spooky season by revising one of our more mysterious episodes, which just so happens to be about a gateway to hell, located in upstate New York.

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This week Nick kicks off Spooky Season with his own haunting! He tells the story of a spirit who could mimic the voices of others and was intelligent enough to hold complete conversations. This was something Nick experienced while living in Northern NH in an old, house that even looked haunted to the casual passerby.

After that we re-listen to another story of a haunted house in New Hampshire. This is one of the best ghost stories we've heard on the show and stands several generations, going all the way back to the 1870's, where an assault...

This week we bring on Human Origins Revealed, a TikToker who's uncovered a treasure trove of ancient giant relics and quite possibly the origins of giants themselves! We get the low down on what HOR has discovered, why he believes it's so important. He also talks about something fairly familiar things which seem to align with our past guests when it comes to our ancient past. Is it possible that the heart of the ancient world was in Egypt or Sumer but at the bottom of the Chesapeake Bay? listen to find out more!

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After exploring the topic of our ancient past we bring Antediluvian Landfill back on and go over some of the questions that arose during his last episode. Questions like: who could have had the power to create these massive earthworks we see throughout the world? What sort of Technology did they possess? Where did they come from? and most importantly, are they still around and if so what do they want? This episode is another deep dive into our ancient past where we take a closer look at how it connects to the here and now.

To...

To start things off Nick five a quick review of 2025's Wolf Man as he kicks off his Halloween Movie Marathon, skip to about the 10 min mark to start the episode.

This week we dive back into our ancient past with host of the YouTube channel AlienCarvings. We go over several interesting discoveries as well as take a trip through the occult, starting with the ancient Sumerian like the mysteries of Tiamat and the Anunnaki and going straight through into the modern day. Michael, is a wealth of knowledge who fires off ancient facts like little...

This week we talk with Antediluvian Landfill, an Instagramer who's uncovered something incredible! This guy has uncovered something that I think most people who talk about this kind of stuff only scratch the surface of. We're talking extremely ancient, extremely large earthworks, strange serpent head iconography, as well as stone fragments that scatter the wilderness, not only around him but the world! There is something big here. Like a giant piece of the puzzle has been uncovered. So if ancient history and forgotten civilizations like Atlantis or Lemuria is your thing then this is an episode you won't want...

This week we dive deep and investigate Merfolk! We take a look at the history behind these ancient creatures and how they were once worshipped as gods. We look at a handful of recorded accounts made by famous explorers like Columbus, John Smith and even Blackbeard the pirate. We take a look at the Aquatic Ape Theory, which suggests our early ancestors slip and while we went off to the savannah some stayed on the coastline and actually went out into the ocean.

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You’ve heard of meteor strikes. You’ve heard of nuclear tests. You’ve heard of alien crash landings. But what if I told you there was an explosion in 1908 so powerful, so sudden, so completely unexplained—that it flattened 80 million trees, lit the night skies in Europe, and shook the world’s scientific community for over a century?

This isn’t fiction. This isn't myth or legend. This is the story of the Tunguska Event—a real-life cosmic mystery buried in the frozen swamps of Siberian tygga. 

So on this weeks episode of Almost Canon...

This week we take a trip round the world to the Giza Plateau and dig below the sands. We look at several of ancient Egypts great mysteries including the newly discovered chambers below the great pyramid, the Osiris Chamber, the Great Sphinx and investigate whether the Hall of Records is there and if it is who built it.

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On this episode we talk with Heather Moser, producer and chief creative officer for Small Town Monsters. I had met Heather during their expedition into the Bennington Triangle and was able to bring her on tonight to talk about her paranormal adventures throughout the wider United States. As the member of Small Town Monsters whose job it is to not only collect local stories from countless small town locations but also look into local llore, you can be sure Heather is well versed in America's greatest mysteries. So sit back, relax and enjoy today episode of Almost Canon!

This week we venture back into the Bennington Triangle and hear from a caller about a strange time slip-like event that happened to her and her mother, when she was a child. We also take a look at a couple other stories from the triangle and the possible connections between Glastenbury Mountain and another mountain, half way around the world, which is known as ‘the mountain that swallows people’.

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We often hear that 'we know more about the surface of Mars than we do of our own oceans'. So is it possible that there are still large undiscovered species out there to find? After all, we have hundreds, if not thousands, of years worth of sailing stories that tell of the monstrous kraken, a creature so large its arms could reach the tallest sail and pull ships beneath the waves. But is there any evidence of their existence? Check out this weeks episode for more!

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In honor of Jurassic World: Rebirth, we're sticking with Dinosaurs this week. We start out by digging deep into history and visiting the ancient city of Babylon, where it's believed by some that the priests kept a dinosaur in the great temple to be worshipped as a Sirrush. Then we venture back to Africa and check out some modern day expeditions into the swamps and rivers of the Congo as well as the Amazon rainforest where a few reports of dinosaur-like creatures have come from, including reports by explorer Percy Fawcett.

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This week we open the pages of 'Monsters and Mythic Beasts' and delve deep into swamps and rivers of the Congo and Cameroon as we search for the existence of dinosaurs. We'll look at a handful of encounters from the turn of the century and ask ourselves, could dinosaurs still exist?

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This week we take our second episode ever, re-cut it so its actually listenable and try to tell the story of the lost Confederate gold and how a secret southern society called the Knights of the Golden Circle more than likely took control of it and stashed it away for a time when the south could rise again.

This episode is a departure from our regular coverage. if your down for a wild and funny ride then buckle up because this episode is out of control!!!!

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ON this weeks episode we look at several Missing 411 cases which we believe are the strangest and most perplexing. these cases would include: Stacy Arras 1981, Yosemite; Samuel Boehlke 2006 Crater Lake; Tom Messick 2015, Lily Pond, New York; Bart Schleyer 2004, the Yukon. These cases are extremely strange and may even hold some hints as to what happened or what is happening to people who go missing in National Parks.

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This week we look at suspected werewolf encounter that comes out of London, Ohio between 1981 and 1982. It focuses around the Williams family and a new house they moved into that was just out of town. now, not long after moving in Dianne Williams, begins to feel as though she's being watched and it doesn't take long for her suspicions to be realized. Her Husband Keith, doesn't believe her at first but he also end up having his own encounter which leads him on a wild chase through the woods to a mysterious cabin in the forest.

This...

This week we talk with Shadoe, who had an interesting dogman encounter in 2018 while prepping for the 2018 rifle season. But it doesn't stop there. Shadoe would encounter this same dogman on opening day after his hunting partner had shot the creature.

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On this weeks episode we look through the historical record at a handful of giant races and ask the question: "could they be Nephilim?" There certainly seems to be certain traits that these giant races share even though they are often separated by thousands of miles. Could it all be a coincidence? We don't think so. After all, all myths and legends have some sort of truth.

Nick also gives his short review on Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, a video game that was recently released on the PS5 and has some surprising connections to the...

This week we dive into the Hexham Head mystery and the paranormal happenings that followed as well as take a closer look at the accounts of spectral dogmen.

We ask ourselves were the Hexham Heads cursed or were they some sort of gateway to another realm? Was the werewolf seen in the Hexham Heads case the result of a Celtic curse or was it an actual, physical, dogman with some kind of spectral ability to traverse this gateway?

We also take a look at a couple other reported cases of dogmen/werewolves with suspected spectral...

We believe Folklore is incredibly important when it comes to cryptozoology and even the paranormal. Cryptids like Sasquatch and mysterious entities like the Skinwalker have been talked about in folklore long before they were ever popularized by newspaper articles or the internet. But it doesn’t stop there. North American folklore is full of mysterious creatures and evil entities. and this week we explore a handful of them with Ryan Paul Tremblay, an expert on North American folklore and an investigator of cryptozoology and the paranormal.

In this episode we look at several different cryptids and entities se...

On this weeks episode we talk about giants seen in folklore from around the world. Whether its the giant behind how the city of Antwerp got its name; or how one of WW2's most fought over piece of land is actually a hotbed for giants; or the interesting history behind a band of giants said to once have invaded Ecuador in the "distant past". If giants are your thing then check out this episode, you won't be sorry.

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If real, scary, ghost stories are what you want then 'She came From The Closet' is what you need. we listen along as the guest tells of how she grew up the Lowell, Mass--the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution--and how a woman, covered in 3rd degree burns, would enter her room from the closet, sit on her bedroom floor and watch her....

This wasn't the only encounter with the Unknown tonights guests had either. So sit back, relax and enjoy, tonights episode of Almost Canon.

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The Wild West is not only a time period in American history that I personally find fascinating but it’s also a region of the world ha that calls to me. There’s just something about the craggy mountains; remote canyons; dry, desert, landscape and lmysterious history that truly pulls me in. And I’m not the only one, which is why countless TV shows, movies and radio plays were set in the wild west. And it’s this romanticize idea of the west, mainly the real life  lore and legends coming out of the south west that really grabbed my...

Had some things come up suddenly, so as we work on the next original episode, we'll be reposting our episode on the Beast of the LBL This is one of our best episodes so I highly suggest you check it out!

The beast of the Land Between the Lakes is one of cryptozoology’s most frightening and well known tales. It’s the story of a terrifying monster, one thats wondered the woods of the recreation area, long before it was called the ‘land between the lakes’. 

     So what is the story behind the beast of the land be...

We week we talk with the author of 'The House on Chas Ross Road' Chad Phillippi.

Chad has experienced the paranormal all this. From seeing shadow people and demonic figures as a young child to being secretly indoctrinated by a mysterious librarian to a life changing event while serving his country in the Middle East, Chad  is certainly no stranger to the Unknown. But there’s one point in his life where Chad more than experienced the paranormal he actually battled it.

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Who were the god-like beings of early Irish mythology? Check out this episode to learn more!

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This week we have a pleasant surprise. After responding to a Facebook comment the other day, we began talking with Scott H and it turns out, Scott has a wealth of knowledge when it comes to the paranormal and cryptids of the Appalachian region. Through his job, he’s traveled throughout Tennessee, Ohio, North and South Carolina, Georgia and every other state in between and while working in these areas he’s been able to explore places rarely seen by the average person. He also operates Roaring River Distillery in the Volunteer State and through his work there he’s been...

This week we talk with Perry, who experienced something very unnerving while deer hunting with his daughter back in the early aughts. If Bigfoot encounters are your thing, this is certainly an episode you won't want to miss!

Our episode takes place in Upstate New York where Perry had taken his family deer hunting. His family had owned a deer camp on about 300 acres of woods and farmland. This property has been in Perry's family since the 1950's and there are some interesting features including a collection of stone mounds known as the "Indian burial mounds" and...

“Fee. Fie. Foe. Fum. I smell the blood of an English Man” is synonymous with one thing in this world…..giants. 

    These enormous beings were and are a force to be reckoned with, one that man has battled with throughout History. 

    They are often depicted as gods or magical beasts like the cyclops or titans. 

   But what if these mythical beings weren’t so mythical? Stories of real life giants have filled the pages of history across the globe. So this week we dissect Mark A. Hall and Loren Coleman’s book “True Giants: is gigantopithecus...

Just a quick update before the actual episode. We had some issues this week with some things so in the meantime please enjoy this super fast episode which deals with some things Nick has been going over for the week or so! The Telepathy Tapes podcast has put forth some evidence that truly breaks open some doors when it comes to Missing 411 and Sasquatch. So please, sit back, relax , and prepared to have your mind blown!

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While Nick's away at the Childrens Hospital in Boston, we look at two cryptid creatures from the frozen North, the Tupilaq of Greenlandic folklore and the Chenoo from Wabenaki folklore. Due to the fact that it's the dead of winter, we thought it was be best to discuss two creature of folklore who thrive in the freezing cold. This will be a shorter episode but its packed full with exciting cryptid lore!

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This week we go over some of your stories, including one very detailed email about a Sasquatch encounter that happened not far from my own house. Like I said, we'll be talking about Sasquatch, dogmen and even a lake monster story from lake Willoughby. This is an exciting episode, Its not every day we receive an email as in depth as our first story, which takes place at a small pond here in south central Vermont. This guy was out hunting when he came face to face with something that didn't want him back there.

Our initial...

This week we're taking an older episode and starting a new! The Palmyra, Maine dogmen attack is such a great story I wanted to retell it, in full, without the distractions of Bank Roberts (RIP). So that's exactly what we did!

So this week we dive into the story of the Palmyra dogmen attack....again. But this time we're doing it right!

Our story takes place in 2007, in the small town of Palmyra, located in central Maine. Erik and Shelly Martin, along with their daughter Chelsea move to a new house and it doesn't take...

This week we talk with Greg Ogles and his latest film Cryptic Expeditions: The Land Between The Lakes. We dive deep into what happened that night as they filmed as well as so much more. If 'The Land Between the Lakes' is on your watch list this is an episode you won't want to miss!

To purchase your copy or stream the video visit Relic Films Media patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/RelicFilmsMedia/posts

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Within the early hours of 2025 the United States was rocked by two terrorist events. but it wouldn't take long for investigators to find out that one of those events was aimed to be more of a wake up call than anything else. As the details trickled in, a web of information began to make something clear. The suspected cyberyruck bomber was in fact a whistleblower with knowledge of not only covered up warcrimes but highly advanced technology. So, in this weeks episode Nick dive into those events with Mick Strange and they pick apart the pieces. Pieces that sound...

This week we dive into several well known UFO cases from right here in New England. we visit three states Maine; New Hampshire and Vermont and take a closer look at Maine's Allagash four; New Hampshire's Exeter Event and Vermont's Buff Ledge Incident.

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The world is full of cursed places. Places that have seen some sort of horrific event, which in turn has caused the ground to go sour, as Jud Crandall would say. Places like Roanoke Island, off the coast of north Carolina or the Hoya Bacu Forest in Transylvania. 

    Then there are places where the ground has just always been sour, like Glastenbury Mountain here in Vermont or the suicide forest in the shadow of Mount Fuji. 

    And then there are places where someone has physically cursed the land, like The Saco River in Maine, or Dudleytown...

this week we dig out an old, retired episode of Almost Canon from the early days and dive into an all around Christmas extravaganza!

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History is full of mysterious and supernatural events. The sinking of Atlantis;  the building of the sphinx and great pyramids; the arrival of the Tuatha De; the resurrection of Jesus Christ; …… I mean there are just so many different events and people we could spend all year listing them all.

     But when it comes to history and the supernatural, there’s nothing better than digging through mythology and folklore. Because when it comes to myths and legends, we here at Almost Canon have always believed there’s some sort of truth behind the story and when it comes to a good...

This week we bring back Christian from several episodes ago to talk about a strange property he has recently moved to. He's experiencing all sorts of different paranormal activity including hearing his name and his girlfriends name being called from somewhere in the woods below them as well as bluff charges that are coming from the same general location. This will most likely be an on going mystery that we'll be following closely, so stay tuned for more!

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The story of the Donner Party is one of perseverance; survival; and hope. It really is the 19th century equivalent to the original Thanksgiving story. It even includes a feast…..and while there’s no actual Thanksgiving tradition, the themes are all there. 

    So in honor of this historic event, we’re taking another look at the Donner Party and specifically the land where their ordeal took place. Because it should surprise no one that paranormal activities are reported to happen at and around the Donner Lake area. 

    We’ve got a couple short stories as well as two lon...

The beast of the Land Between the Lakes is one of cryptozoology’s most frightening and well known tales. It’s the story of a terrifying monster, one thats wondered the woods of the recreation area, long before it was called the ‘land between the lakes’. 

     So what is the story behind the beast of the land between the lakes, otherwise known as the beast of the LBL? 

    Well, It’s definitely become more than just a physical location on the map. The LBL has become synonymous with not only terrifying cryptid encounters but some of the most gruesome...

This week we look into some different Black-eyed kid stories and look to see if we can learn anything about this creepy little kids. Where did they come from? What are they? What do they want? These questions and more on todays episode of Almost Canon (no actual answers are discovered in the making of this episode)

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We're changing some things around and will start releasing episodes on Tuesday in stead of Friday, but in the meantime enjoy this remastered episode on the Dybbuk and Dybbuk box from the Almost Canon vault! This ones a blast from the past. so sit back and listen to Nick and Bank discuss the mysteries of the Dybbuk and Dybbuk box!!

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It’s halloween today. And on Halloween, there’s nothing better than telling scary stories. So we've decided to let the episode out a day early so you could enjoy these scary tales.

Nick goes over two stories from Tony Urban's 'Beware of the Woods'

the first is Cult Activity in Montana and the second is Unidentified Creature in Illinois.

Nick then reads over what we believe could quite possibly be the scariest story ever told on the Internet or at least.

This episode hits the ground running, especially for lovers of h...

While we’re not too fond of winter, spooky season is maybe our favorite time of year here at Almost Canon. Now my favorite part aren’t all the delicious smells; beautiful colors or the fact that we finally get to wear flannels and sweatshirts. No, my favorite part of the Halloween season are the movies! 

     Like, ya, sure, you can watch horror movies any time of year but there’s somthing special about watching scary movies on or before Halloween.  In fact, most horror movies take place in the summer, not the fall. There are very few scary movi...

This week Nick goes over his research on the Bennington Triangle and why the area seems to be so active with paranormal energies. This is a long, winding narrative that compiles mysterious stone ruins; ancient gods; Nephilim; pre-columbian contact and of course the Bennington Triangle into a story that explains how an old world ‘god’ found its way to the New World’. This is the culmination of a years worth of research so sit back relax and enjoy The Tabaldak Connection.

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This week we had an unexpected emergency so instead of doing anything extravagant we read from Tony Urban's "New England's Unexplained Mysteries". We cover several different real life horror stories dealing with haunted house, cursed objects and Sasquatch encounters. Tony always digs up interesting encounters with the unknown and these stories are certainly geared towards spooky season.

If your interested in purchasing some or all of Tony’s work here’s a link to his website: https://www.tonyurbanauthor.com/product/new-england-s-unexplained-mysteries-signed-paperback

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This week we talk with Mick Strange about several stories from Tony Urban's "Beware of the Woods: scary true stories of the unexplained". we talk about dogmen in Kentucky, the dark watchers of California, aliens in the White Mountains of New Hampshire and a trapped Wendigo in Maine.

If you’d like to purchase Tony Urban’s book: https://www.amazon.com/Beware-Woods-Stories-Unexplained-Encounters/dp/B0CN1NKWXZ/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?crid=EGMAFCUEHBR7&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.Hg7l7GjmCHFAoVulDIm7EzgCkCrM3KfBCaN0-GRZM8--gl8Koxz4ZU0N7tFdtqk_IOWlZlN1mdCoLB20uKSFTPMq8WJzSLW4QMqKdlQHpB8ehfFw-ZkEtKuclnYIDGL_thLufmcOQeUjZx52gEoPJZbYTzRdxyJlXKiGoxhpetHVwZgHS8zHY-jSXjAuztQCKLLpGGeK8ELj1vQP6...

On this minisode Nick picks apart a passage on Tiwanaku, Viracocha and reed ships. This isn't the first time these topics have been discussed on Almost Canon content, further proving that they could be something behind these concepts.

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On this episode we start by honoring ‘Outbreak Day’, September 26th, 2013. Nick then goes into a short discussion on surviving a zombie apocalypse.

(33:15) Then Nick talks with Christian about several encounters he's had around an area known as "the Satan’s Bridge" in North Carolina, right on the border of Virginia. Christian tells several stories from the area involving flying humanoids, Sasquatch-like creatures, time slips and phantom cars.

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On this super short episode of Almost Canon we talk about sea cryptos starting with a reported sea serpent off the coast of Brazil and going into several others sightings reported throughout history. We also talk briefly about the Seamonk also called the Seabishop, a little known type of sea serpent thought to be able to control the weather.

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Now, I love paranormal tv. While I prefer shows dealing with ancient mysteries or cryptids , I’ve also seen every episode of Ghost Adventures, A ghost ruined my life, and the good, yet old school, paranormal witness. These shows are full of frightening paranormal stories and encounters with the unknown as well as paranormal investigators who act as both scientist and soldier, boldly going behind enemy lines to make contact with the other side, documenting their findings for others all while waging spiritual warfare when needed. 

     Now, tonight we talk with Natalie and Kate, two paranormal investigators and memb...

Everybody like a little escapism. Whether it’s a night on the town after a long day at work or dinner and a movie with your partner after dealing with your screaming kids all week or maybe you enjoy the finer things in life and prefer to loose yourself in a good book; a favorite movie or even a video game.

This week we talk with David lead developer behind DV8games. DV8games has released a mobile game called New England Supernatural, a narrative driven game dealing with a supernatural mystery in the heart of New En...

History is full of myths and legends. In fact mankind has been recounting  their encounters with the unknown since the dawn of time.  Whether through the written word, oral traditions or even glyphs carved on stone, human beings have found a way to share their stories.

      Now, we have seen myths and legends of all kinds. From gods and goddess to entirely new worlds and realms. We’ve read countless stories of epic quests, Buried treasures and dangerous monsters. But out of all the myths and legends we’ve seen throughout history, there are two that are repeated time...

This week I had my plans fall through so instead of bring you a singled topic episode we're going to talk about a few different strange things with Mick Strange from the CrazyStrangeDaze podcast. These topics include; Enoch from the Book of Enoch; 40k year old lion men statues; ufo's, Native American carvings and giant burials, as well as a spider-like entity that a psychic friend of the show has seen inside our studio!

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This week we talk with BJ, who hosts the up and coming Facebook page 'Extinct or Extant'. We focus on three cryptic creatures that could quite possibly be actual animals thought to be extinct. We take you to the island of Tasmania; to the mountains of Northern Africa; then to the jungles of the amazon. If Historical mysteries and mysterious animals are your thing this is an episode you won't want to miss!

It’s estimated that 99.9% of all species that have ever existed on earth are now extinct. Whether through mass extinction events, evolution or th...

We have covered the Bennington Triangle in several episodes throughout this show, so what I wanted to do this week was bring on someone how knew the Bridgewater Triangle in and out. The two locations are very close, one being in southwester Vermont and the other being in southeastern Mass and besides occupying very similar locations in the northeast they share very similar paranormal happenings as well. So this week we talk with Phill from the popular paranormal YouTube channel Exploring With Phill. Phill has been investigating the Bridgewater Triangle for years now and has spent countless hours with...

On this weeks episode we do things a little differently. Nick usually takes a a few days to do some research and compile some notes but as we had to push an interview back a week at the last moment, research time was very short. Nevertheless, Nick bring Mick Strange on to talk about Haunted Theme parks and whatever else cross their minds.

They start by mentioning the Paranormal Spooktacular Story Night at Jamaica State Park on September 28th host by Almost Canon and from there jump into Haunted Parks including Lake Shawnee, Thriller World and even...

Join Acast+ to hear the full episode! In honor of our unofficially official 100th episode we’ll be digging into Tony Urban’s ‘Beware of the Woods: Scary True Stories of the Unexplained. Nick will be reading out several of the encounters and adding his own little commentary after one.

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This week we talk with Mick Strange about Objects of Immortality found throughout history. This would include objects like the Philosophers Stone; Ambrosia; Idun's Apples; Golden Peaches and others. There's so much information on the subject, including the first record piece of literature, The Epic of Gilgamesh.In fact, there so much information on this topic we may need to go back and produce a part 2 some time down the road. Either sit back, relax and enjoy tonights episode.

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This week we bring on Wen, creator of the popular Facebook page Cryptozoology facts. After she rediscovers a long lost cryptid documentary from Nick’s childhood he breaks down three different aquatic cryptids and gets her opinion on them.

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We talk with the creator of the YouTube documentary Haunted Sanford: A Weird Maine Documentary and he shares with us a couple of his own personal scary stories.....

I start with some more info on the Fae House in Charlestown, I finally heard back from our unofficially official psychic on what she felt when viewing the house.

We then talk about a Sasquatch encounter a family friend had while laying outside at his house.

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This week we talk with Rich, host and producer for the maritime history podcast 'Shipwrecks and Sea Dogs'. We'll be talking about The Octavious, The Griffon, and a listener favorite, the lost ship of the desert. So strap on your tanks and put your dive masks on because we're going down deep tonight!

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Fairies and fae-folk aren’t just magical entities from European folklore. While their stories have become one with Americans due to our mixing pot of different cultures, very similar creatures can be found in a wide variety of Native American and First Nations folklore. So if these beings can be found in not only Europe but also America could they be real? Much like every culture around the world has a ‘Sasquatch’ every culture around the world has a fairy, elf, gnome, troll, giant, even entities like the Tuatha Dè Danann and the Anunnaki can be found throughout the world...

For this Fourth of July we'll be talking with someone who has been experiencing something strange in their colonial era house!

Most people don’t bother to look into the histoey of their home let alone the city or town where they live. But for our guest tonight, history plays a huge roll in what might be going on in her home. 

     Now most homes we see today are fairly modern, built within the last fifty or sixty years. Not all of them of course, my house was built in the 1890’s, making it nearly 140 years old...

This week We take a closer look at my all time favorite Play Station franchise Uncharted. We start by taking a deeper look at game 1 Drake's Fortune.

   This game not only pushed the limits on what the newly released play station 3 could do but on what a newly released video game could do. Uncharted drake’s fortune was nothing short of a technical masterpiece that paved the way for countless other games. It also utilized motion capture unlike anything that came before resulting in a cinematic experience that was unlike anything seen before. 

    Now we aren’t a v...

This is a short preview of Bonus Episode #3 from Almost Canon +. thanks to Dendrochronologists and Astrophysicists, We are able to go over some new evidence, found right in L'Anse aux Meadows itself, that almost certainly proves Vinland is located in the south somewhere. We then go over several other supposed viking rhinestones found throughout the east coast. This is entirely new stuff and Nick even has an epiphany! so sign up for Almost Canon+ and become part of the family!

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As part of our unofficial strange stone structures in New England series, I've decided ti reedit and remaster one of my favorite episodes, episode 9, Vikings in America.

Officially, we know vikings landed in Newfoundland around 1000 AD but the history books say they didn't stay long and this has never sat well with me. We know vikings were great explorers, always looking to the horizon for something new. so I find it hard to believe they found a vast new world and choose to only stay a few years and there seems to be countless pieces of evidence...

Even though we're two weeks out now, we honor D-Day on this episode by going over some incredibly disturbing and very frightening horror stories from the Second World War. This episode was meant to drop last week but due to technical issues I've patched it up and decided to treat our listeners with not only an Almost Canon + bonus episode but this early drop as well.

So this week we talk with Mick Strange from Chasing Bad about several creatures seen by not only American GI's but also British and Indian soldiers as well. these creatures include...

*Due to technical difficulties on this weeks episode I’ll be releasing the newest bonus episode from the Almost Canon + catalog. If you’re a Plus member keep your eyes out for the next week or so for a new bonus episode!*

On this second, official bonus episode of Almost Canon, we take a deeper look at some of the stone structures me and Mark talked about over the past several weeks. We’ll read excerpts from the awesome books "Weird New England" by Joseph Citro and "Field Guide to Mysterious Places of Eastern North America" by Sal...

This week we investigate not the horrors of war but the horrors unsuspecting soldiers found while fighting in the greatest war history has ever seen.

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This we we talk with Heidi who grew up in what could possibly be New England's most haunted city Lowell, Mass. The fires of Industry burned more than oil and coal in Lowell as the Industrial Revolution kicked off and those fires very well could have produced the first entity our guest ran into at a very young age.

the figure of a charred body would sit next to Heidi's bed at night and some time hit and beast her resulting in a trip to the hospital. but it didn't stop there! Heidi would end up meeting...

This week we talk with Vance, who had rented a house with his wife in Northern Cambria, Pennsylvania. Every seemed to be going great but it didn't take long for them to notice something wasn't right. Things would quickly escalate and the couple who thought they had found great deal on a beautiful little home would up and leave one morning after a frightening revelation.

But before we talk with Vance Nick goes over a handful of recent listener stories that had been sent in. This may be one of the creepiest episodes of Almost Canon yet!<...

This week we talk with Mark from My Family Thinks Im Crazy podcast. As we're both from New England, we figured talking about a New England mystery would be best.

Stone walls are often over looked. There are countless miles of them and their literary everywhere you look here in New England. But were they really been built by farmers in the 1800's and what about all the stone chambers, who built those? if not farmers then who? Was it Vikings? Maybe the Celts or Phoenicians? Or what about giants or an ancient unknown race of indigenous...

This week we talk with Matt Emch from the Youtube channel Planet 412. Matt take the time to tell us an incredibly frightening dogman encounter that happened to him while he was a teenager in his home town of Youngstown, Ohio. This is hands down one of, if not the most, terrifying dogman encounter ever told.

Matt and his friends would hangout and play in the old abandoned Youngstown steel mills and one night while haging out around a fire with three other friends in the abandoned Jeanette Blast Furnace, something out of their worst nightmares joined their...

The week we talk end of the world stuff with Mick Strange from Chasing Bad and Crazy Strange Daze podcast.i start the show by going over a new theory I was introduced to that deals with the Bennington Triangle then after the break I bring up several different natural scenarios that could spell the end of the world and we discusses them. I'm talking Killer viruses, super volcanos, dooms day astroids and even a second civil war.

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The holy Bible, one of, if not the most published  pieces of literature the world has ever seen. This collection of stories, Part spiritual guide part history book, is said to have been inspired by God and has influenced the wider world for thousands of years. 

    The 66 different books that make up the Bible cover everything from the creation of the world to Adam and Eve’s banishment from Eden; to Noah’s ark and the flood;  as well as the stories behind the Tower of Babel and the walls of Jericho, which come crashing down. It tells us of t...

This week we talk with Author Robert Guffey and cover as much ground as we can in 3 hours! we start with Operation Mindfuck and end with Chameleo, covering just about every thing you can think of in between.

   I became aware of Robert Guffey’s work several years ago, 2016-2017, after he published a book called “Chameleo: a strange but true story of invisible spies, heroin addicts and homeland security”.  This is a story that I believe doesn’t get the attention it deserves and is the reason I wanted to have Robert on in the first place. This s...

On August 30th 2023 Russel Ruby escaped from captivity and went to find help. We would quickly find out that Russel"s mother Ruby Franke had been working with a friend, Jody Hildebrandt, to rid both Russel and his sister Evie of Demonic possession or so they believed. What police would discovered was nothing short of monstrous.

As of February 2024 Ruby and Jody are now serving four 1-15 year terms behind bars. Also, released after the sentencing Ruby and Jody, were some documents and recordings, one of which was an interview held between investigators and Ruby's husband Kevin...

This Nick is currently with his son in the state of Massachusetts at Boston Childrens Hospital. We weren't able to record an episode before leaving so we decided to drop a little something and go over what our plan is for the next month and into summer. We'll be talking with authors like Robert Guffey and Gary Wayne as well as content creators like Brad Martin and Nathan Elwell. We also have several Adventures planned where we'll be filming what we find and uploading those videos.

Either way look forward to our special Tuesday episode it came...

Somewhere deep within the Himalayan mountain range is a world lost to time.  It’s often described as heaven on earth, a paradise locked between the cold, rocky peaks and frozen jagged ice sheets of this towering mountain range. 

    Now  this paradise is entirely different than its cold frozen surroundings.  There are hot springs and warm flowing waters; green rich jungles and colorful flowering plants throughout a hidden, lost valley. Within this valley  time is said to slow down and those who live there live for ever. But stories like this are seen throughout the world.  History is chock full of...

On this episode we start by detailing two encounters we recently received from listeners. One about a UFO encounter in the 1970's that caused not only the listeners car to stall on the main road but the three cars behind him to stop as well and the second story is about a family that moves into a house where something horrible has once happened and they were having to deal with the repercussions of that act.

Then Nick moved onto the topic which in honor of FX's Shogun and the release of Rise of the Ronin, is...

This week we stay close to home, almost literally in my back yard, and listen to three incredible encounters from right here in the Green Mountain State.

Our first story involves a young woman and her friends who experienced something very strange while on the outskirts of Springfield Vermont one night in 1997. You can make up your own mind, but her story has all the hallmarks of an alien abduction. mysterious lights and sensations; missing time; no memory of what happened except for an intense feeling of dread. This encounter also happened not far from the ancestral...

*please forgive my backwoods Vermont pronunciation. I do not speak Gaelic and probably couldn’t even if I tried*

In honor of Saint Patricks day, I decided that delving into some ancient Irish folklore would be a great idea, especially with all the talk of Nephilim; Anunnaki; Djinn and of course portals, these days.

Now when one thinks of saint patricks day they may think. Of, pots of gold, four leaf clovers, corn beef and cabbage,  green beer and most importantly leprechauns. 

    These little shoe shining creatures have found their own place in popular c...

On this week of Almost Canon we bring on Mick Strange and talk potential international conflict, fast planes, covert recovery teams, dead Mexican soldiers, suitcase nukes and crashed UFO's! In the summer of 1974 American radar tracked a fast moving object that came in over the Gulf of Mexico looked as though it was about to enter American airspace. They then watched as the object crashed in the Chihuahua desert outside the small town of Coyame. What happened next is a story worthy of a summer blockbuster movie! So sit back, relax and enjoy this weeks episode of Almost Canon.<...

Due to some last minute schedule changes, I have remastered one of our original episodes and it's a good one!

Could a Portland Arcade game be connected to the CIA and their attempts to brainwash American citizens?

We start by taking about our experiences with arcades and the history of the arcade.

We then get into the subject by looking over the CIA and some of their crazier plans to over throw governments and the weird experiments they attempted.

We then wrap it all up by going over some of the...

This week we bring on professional mountaineer and treasure hunter/legend seeker Adam Palmer to discuss British Columbia's most famous lost treasure story....Slumach's gold.

Adam is a professional mountain guide within B.C. and has used his skill as a mountaineer to search some of the hardest to reach locations within the Pitt Lake area. He is also opened minded and while still skeptical, he's interested in the paranormal. We start by asking him about Rob Nicholson's encounter with a strange being somewhere around the Terrarossa Glacier and then about a historical figure named Volcanic Brown...