This episode focuses on the later material connected to the Hellier investigation, including the occult references that surfaced and the theories that formed around the case. It also includes a look at how similar descriptions of these small figures have appeared across different years and locations, long before the Christie emails.

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This week on Down the Crooked Path, we’re stepping aside from our usual chapter and sharing one of our Tuesday segments from the Canadian Creepies podcast. It’s filling in for our regular episode while we work on what’s coming next, and it fits naturally into the crooked world we’ve been building.

We’re bringing you the story of Barbe Hallay. Born around 1646, she was a young settler in 17th‑century New France and became the focus of what is considered the earliest recorded case of alleged demonic possession in Quebec. After arriving from France in 1659, she reportedly experienced strange disturbances that were blamed on a local miller accused of practicing witchcraft.

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The Kelly–Hopkinsville encounter remains one of the most detailed multi‑witness creature reports in American folklore. Eleven people described small, silver beings moving around the Sutton farmhouse for hours, returning even after police and military left the property. Theories range from territorial owls to escaped carnival primates to a small extraterrestrial scouting party. No physical evidence was ever recovered, and the family never changed their story.

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This week, Down the Crooked Path is taking a short pause while we celebrate a busy week of milestones and good chaos. We’ll be back next week with fresh stories, strange history, and more crooked paths to wander.

Today’s mini‑episode covers Canadian Project Magnet — the government’s mid‑20th‑century investigation into UFOs, aerial anomalies, and unexplained phenomena. We touch on what the project was, why it was created, and the legacy it left behind in Canadian paranormal research.

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On this episode, we walk through the 1952 Flatwoods encounter in Braxton County, West Virginia. We cover the eyewitness accounts from the May family and Eugene Lemon, the reported crash on the hill, the physical symptoms described by the boys, and the immediate media attention that followed. We look at the government response, including National Guard involvement, Project Blue Book’s on‑site investigation, and the conflicting claims about recovered materials. We break down the major theories: the meteor explanation, the barn owl hypothesis, and the Cold War prototype idea. We also touch on the local reports of lights in the sky that same night and how Cold War fear shaped the way people interpreted what they saw.

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A grounded look at the Keddie Cabin murders, the 1981 crime that left investigators with conflicting evidence, missing records, and a case that continues to raise questions more than four decades later. This episode covers the known timeline, the recovered evidence, the documented investigative errors, and the modern re‑examination that brought new leads back into focus. All details are sourced from publicly available reporting, law enforcement statements, and archived case materials.

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This episode looks at the reports that came in before the Aberfan disaster. It covers the dreams, warnings, and statements people made before the collapse, and the way these reports were collected and reviewed. The episode also goes through the early work that led Dr John Barker to focus on premonitions and the question of whether a warning can ever stop an event.

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In this episode, we go through the historyconnected to the Sallie House, the claims that built the story, and the details that followed the Pickman family after they moved in. We cover the background of the property, the origins of the “Sallie” name, the reports that came out of the house in the 1990s, and the parts of the story that never matched the records. We also include the theories that formed around the case, the role local tourism played in keeping the legend alive, and the questions that still surround the house today.

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