Dark Poutine - True Crime and Dark History

Dark Poutine - True Crime and Dark History

Author: Dark Poutine / Curiouscast Language: English Episodes: 100
True crime, legends, folklore, dark history and other creepy topics from the perspective of real live Canadians.
Episodes
Final Justice: The Murder of Beverley Ann Dyke [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 53:33
Episode 405: On the 17th of May 1984, 48‑year‑old Beverley Anne Dyke was found brutally murdered in a wooded area near Moray Street and Saskatchewan Avenue on the edge of Winnipeg, Manitoba. Her killing, a frenzied sexua…
Left in the Cold: The Winnipeg Homeless Murders [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 58:58
Episode 404: In April 2015, someone began targeting some of the city’s most vulnerable residents: men living rough, sleeping outside, and often already failed by every system meant to protect them. By the time the killin…
The Melady Murders: Canada’s Last Public Hanging [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:07:18
Episode 403: Nicholas Melady Jr. was 24 years old when he stepped onto a wooden scaffold above the stone walls of Goderich Gaol in December of 1869, about to become the central figure in Canada’s last public hanging afte…
Black Friday: The 1987 Edmonton Tornado [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:01:40
Episode 402: On July 31, 1987, an ordinary summer afternoon in Edmonton, Alberta, ended in catastrophe. A powerful tornado cut through the city’s southeast, killing 27 people and leaving entire neighbourhoods destroyed i…
Vancouver’s 1907 Anti-Asian Riots [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:17:03
Episode 401: At the start of the twentieth century, Vancouver, B.C., was a fast-growing Pacific port. Most residents were white settlers of British or European descent, but Chinese and Japanese communities were already w…
Out With the Old: The Dark and Weird Side of New Year’s Traditions [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 56:37
Episode 399: As the clock strikes midnight, not everyone welcomes the New Year with champagne and resolutions. In this episode of Dark Poutine, we explore the darker, stranger, and sometimes dangerous traditions used aro…
Christmas Special 2025: The Great Canadian Butter Tart Heist [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 54:03
Episode 398: It was supposed to be a quiet Canadian Christmas—until every butter tart in the country vanished overnight. From Nanaimo to Newfoundland, kitchens were left empty, bakers bewildered, and the RCMP at a loss.…
Demon of the Belfry: The Murders of Blanch Lamont and Minnie Williams [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 56:48
Episode 397: In April 1895, two young women, both twenty-one, from San Francisco’s Emmanuel Baptist Church vanished days apart. Blanche Lamont, a dedicated teacher-in-training, and Minnie Williams, a hardworking domestic…
Road Trip: Deadly Prophecy — The Children of Thunder [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:04:17
Episode 396: In this episode, we learn about an enigmatic narcissistic psychopath who led the Californian cult called The Children of Thunder. Glenn Taylor Helzer, and the other leadership was comprised of his brother Ju…