Content note: This episode discusses an attempted sexual assault and poltergeist activity.

This week we are revisiting a segment from our Tuesday show over on the Canadian Creepies podcast. Every Tuesday we take a deep dive into a paranormal or totally creepy Canadian mystery.

In Amherst, Nova Scotia, in 1878, 18-year-old Esther Cox lived with her sister Olive Teed, Olive's husband Daniel, and their two young children, in a small house on Princess Street. After a frightening attack in late August 1878, knocking and banging began in the house at night, and objects began to move, fires began to start without a clear cause, and messages appeared on the walls, including one that read, Esther Cox, you are mine to kill. Voices answered questions by knocking, and named themselves Bob Nickle and others, while neighbours, doctors, and clergy came to watch. Actor Walter Hubbell arrived in 1879 determined to expose a trick, stayed with the family for months, and later wrote The Great Amherst Mystery. Skeptical investigators later argued that Esther herself, in a dissociative state, could have produced the events, while other witnesses said they saw things they could not explain.

Was it a poltergeist, a trick, or a young woman caught in the middle of both? Listen and decide for yourself.

Regular episodes of Down the Crooked Path resume in a few weeks!

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An alien. A spacecraft. A UFO conspiracy that reaches the Pentagon.

On March 16, 1957, an alien visitor landed in a spacecraft in a field in Alexandria, Virginia, walked out, and said, in clear English, that he needed to see the president. His name was Valiant Thor, and he said he had come from Venus, sent by the High Council of his own people, with a warning about nuclear war, and an offer that sounded impossible.

Is this the greatest UFO conspiracy theory of all time, or is there something real hiding inside a story about an alien, a spacecraft, and the Pentagon? What happened when he walked into the room with the president, and who told this story in the first place, is where it gets stranger. Grab your headphones, and join us as we follow Thor down the crooked path, and ask how much of this we should believe.

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Welcome back,

When we last left off, our hosts were in a

perilous position, coming to you from an

abandoned radio station with a Halloween

broadcast that had gone awry.

Forced to continue the show (and continue enduring some seriously unsettling tales recorded by their friends in the Collective), the entity on the phone has not only started to make those stories a reality,

but It has now begun to learn

who they are..

All hopes of escaping alive are starting to

seem lost after Brandon fails to make a

break for it...but will a ghostly host, back

from the past, be the one to save this group

and end this curse once and for all? Or will

things only continue to get worse for our five

podcasters from here?

It’s time to keep the broadcast going, are you ready to tune back in?

Credits:

We want to say a huge thank you to everyone who was involved in the making of this episode.

This episode was a collaborative effort of the Creators Collective.

A special thanks to hosts,

Missy, Emily, Valerie, Brandon, Amanda and Niamh and guest hosts Ale and Tom.

Episode artwork by Amanda.

Script by Missy.

Editing by Niamh, Missy and Emily

And a huge thank you to all our contributing podcasts,

Do You Dare? Podcast

Grimly Podcast

Canadian Creepies Podcast

Terrorific Podcast

Down the Crooked Path Podcast

Rowan and Pine Podcast

Tea, Tales and Talks Podcast

Skip or Scream Podcast

Creepy Shit Podcast

Something Strange Podcast

Unknown, Unsolved, Unseen Podcast

Death Kissed Traveller Podcast

Moon Brews Podcast

Macabre Mondays Podcast

Not My Ghost, Not My Problem Podcast

It Came From The Maritimes Podcast

And Thick Thighs Creepy Vibes Podcast

If you enjoyed this episode please consider checking out our fellow creators, following them on socials, subscribing, rating and reviewing.

*Ad included at the beginning of this episode is for The Creators Collective and you can find them and all of the podcasts involved in the creation of this episode by following the link below:

https://linktr.ee/CreatorsCollectivePodcasters

And from all of us at the Collective,

We wish you a very spooky, very happy Halloween!