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Backyard History unearths the often hilarious, mostly mysterious, always surprising untold tales of Canada’s East Coast, as only a Maritimer can spin them. Buy the books at backyardhistory.ca
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- The Ghost of Paddy Hollow · 34 min · Episodio 116"The year that war broke out between North and South, I was sent to Paddy Hollow Camp. The camp had a very bad name as there had been a horrible murder committed there a few…
- Nova Scotia's Exploding Ghost Ship · 18 min · Episodio 115Still to this day, hundreds of witnesses claim to see a mysterious light in the waters off Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia. They say it is a ghost ship that explodes over and over…
- How Magnetic Hill was Discovered · 12 min · Episodio 114It all began on a dark and stormy night. Three reporters went off chasing a strange lead about cars rolling uphill, leading to the discovery of what eventually became Magnetic…
- Dobbin the Diver and the Murderous Mystery of the Shipwreck Monasco · 23 min · Episodio 113The 1857 wreck of the Monasco off Burin, Newfoundland, killed nearly every passenger aboard — except for a mysterious woman claiming to be the captain's wife, the captain, and…
- Howl in the Maritimes: The Easter Allen Ginsberg Shook a City · 20 min · Episodio 112The controversial American poet Allen Ginsberg arrives in New Brunswick for the only Canadian date on his legendary sold out 1967 tour reading his historic epic poem: Howl. The…
- The Murder of Timothy McCarthy · 45 min · Episodio 111The true story of a Moncton innkeeper's mysterious disappearance, unsolved murder, and miscarriage of justice. This special episode, featuring 13 voice actresses and actors…
- Bogged Down in Cape Breton - Beryl Markham's Historic Flight Part 2 · 28 min · Episodio 110A quiet Cape Breton day is broken by a plane crash, which soon attracts the attention of the entire world. The second part of a two-part series on famous, pioneering aviator…
- Bogged Down in Cape Breton - Beryl Markham's Historic Flight - Part 1 · 26 min · Episodio 109The incredible story of Beryl Markham's legendary Atlantic crossing, an implausible story involving everything from royal affairs to Kenyan lions, which unceremoniously ended up…
- Captain William Milne's Gold Watch · 16 min · Episodio 108A gold watch was given to Captain Milne as a reward for his clever ruse that turned the tables on the men who captured his ship...
- Home for Christmas: The Pilot Who Returned from the Dead · 23 min · Episodio 107Declared dead in the Second World War, Atlantic Canadian pilot Allan Spear escaped captivity, survived behind enemy lines, and returned home for an unexpected Christmas reunion…
- Blue Water: The Movie Hollywood Wanted to Sink · 21 min · Episodio 105A Maritimes movie is suppressed by Hollywood as it tries to kill off the Canadian film industry ... featuring a surprising appearance by a young Joey Smallwood! This story…
- When Canada and America Went to War, Two Towns Chose Peace · 20 min · Episodio 104Canada and the U.S. went to war — but St. Stephen and Calais wouldn’t play along.
- Comedy on the Rocks: When Comedians Stuck at Sea Turned Disaster into Drama · 10 min · Episodio 103Little Pictou Island, Nova Scotia, gets its first ever play in the most unusual of circumstances ... after a winter ferry from PEI gets stuck in the ice and drifts over to the…
- "Only Men May Vote!" (LIVE!) A Tale of Fredericton Women's Lost and Found Voting Rights · 1 h 12 min · Episodio 102A special LIVE podcast of "Only Men May Vote!" starring special guests Fredericton Mayor Kate Rogers, Green Party Leader and MLA David Coon, Poet Laureate Fawn Parker, Minister…
- The Lost Diary: Journey of a Writer Who Vanished into the Heart of the Forest · 52 min · Episodio 101A mysterious Englishman sailed to New Brunswick in the 1850s. His name and his fate are unknown. All that remains of him is his diary, which recounts an incredible adventure…
- Breakfast with the Dungarvon Whooper · 19 min · Episodio 100A long-lost interview in the forest sheds light on the man behind the Maritimes most famous so-called ghost... Buy the three Backyard History books at backyardhistory.ca/books
- The Quarantine Journal of Nellie McGowan · 18 min · Episodio 99A young girl keeps a secret diary to solve a mystery as she is growing up on an island where new immigrants to Canada are quarantined. backyardhistory.ca
- A Halifax Christmas Murder · 19 min · Episodio 98A dark murder mystery on Christmas in the old garrison city of Halifax changed the Maritimes.
- The Story Behind the Crosses on Sugarloaf Mountain · 12 min · Episodio 97100 years ago, a tragedy led to two crosses being painted on Sugarloaf in Campbellton. This is the story of what happened.
