Hammerson Peters

In this video, we take a look at three pieces of classic French-Canadian literature written around the turn of the 20th Century. These 'contes', or fictional stories, revolve around three of Quebec's most famous folktales: the legend of the Loup-Garou, or Werewolf; La Corriveau, the skeleton woman of Pointe-Levy; and La Chasse Galerie, the tale of the flying canoe. 0:00:00 - Introduction 0:01:17 - La Loup-Garou, by Honore Beaugrand 0:27:53 - Une Relic: La Corriveau, by Louis-Honore Frechette 0:46:59 - La Chasse Galerie, by Honore Beaugrand If you enjoyed this video and would like to purchase a book containing these and other French-Canadian folktales, please follow the link below: https://mysteriesofcanada.com/quebec/classic-french-canadian-folktales-volume-i/

From the Ojibwa legend of the Memegwesi to imported pixie folklore, the Canadian province of Ontario is home to tales of little mysterious men and women who live in the wilderness and at the border of civilization. In this video, we take a look at three subscriber encounters with little people in Ontario, and their connections with fairies and goblins of provincial folklore. 0:00:00 – Little People in Canada 0:01:14 - J.R. Lucas’s Experience 0:02:59 - Tricksters, Smallfoot, and Bancroft’s Cannibal Cabin 0:06:10 - The Memegwesi 0:08:08 - Bob’s Experience in the Rouge National Urban Park 0:11:40 - Edward the Elf Pixies and Fairies of Ontario Huge thank you to J.R. Lucas, Bexx Korol, and Bob for sharing their stories. Bancroft footage by J.R. Lucas: https://www.CanadianCamo.ca Port Perry Footage by Bexx Korol Thanks for watching! If you enjoyed this video and would like to help support this channel, please check out my books on Canadian history and folklore, which are available in paperback, eBook, and audiobook format: https://MysteriesOfCanada.com/Bookshop/

In this video, we will take a look at some classic Canadian sea monster sightings which took place on the West Coast around the turn of the 20th Century. 0:00:00 – Legend of Sisiutl 0:00:26 - Sea Serpent of Howe Sound 0:03:42 - Sea Serpent off Haida Gwaii 0:06:28 - Sea Serpent off China Hat 0:08:18 - Sea Monster of the Johnstone Strait 0:10:45 - Sea Serpent Captured in the Yaculta Rapids Ogopogo illustration by Hannah Parker: https://www.HannahParkerArts.com/ Thanks for watching! If you enjoyed this video and would like to help support this channel, please check out my books on Canadian history and folklore, which are available in paperback, eBook, and audiobook format: https://MysteriesOfCanada.com/Bookshop/

0:00:00 – ‘Thunderbird Amongst the Algonkins’ 0:01:38 – The Palliser and Hind Expeditions 0:03:43 - Cree Thunderbird Legends 0:05:25 - Thunderbird in Blackfoot Tradition 0:06:25 - Kootenay Thunderbird Legend 0:06:52 - Thunderbird in Ojibwa Legend Thanks for watching! If you enjoyed this video and would like to help support this channel, please check out my books on Canadian history and folklore, which are available in paperback, eBook, and audiobook format: https://MysteriesOfCanada.com/Bookshop/

In this video, we take a look at traditional Inuit and Dene beliefs regarding the aurora borealis, or the Northern Lights.

In this piece, we will explore Canada’s shocking role in the dark history of adrenochrome consumption, from its genesis as a brutal native tradition to its role in 1950s psychiatric research. 0:00:00 - Jim Caviezel and Tim Ballard on Adrenochrome 0:02:29 – What is Adrenochrome? FIRST NATIONS RITUALS 0:05:26 - First Nations Torture and Cannibalism 0:06:23 - Father LeJeune’s Accounts 0:07:46 - The Martyrdom of Jean de Brebeuf 0:10:48 – Francois de Casson’s Account 0:15:08 – Massacre at Iroquois Point 0:17:15 - Alexander Henry the Elder’s Account THE WEYBURN ASYLUM 0:22:33 - Hoffer, Osmond, and Smythies 0:26:07 - Humphry Osmond’s Connections to Aldous Huxley and the CIA 0:27:55 - Osmond and Hoffer’s Self-Experiments with Adrenochrome 0:33:18 - Other Adrenochrome Experiments

The Canadian Maritimes are replete with stories of mysterious black dogs with glowing red eyes, evocative of the legendary Black Shuck, Barghest, or Grim English folklore. Are these creepy canines ‘hellhounds’, malicious fairies, omens of death, or something else entirely? 0:00:00 - Devil Dogs of English Folklore 0:00:50 – The Black Shuck of Bungay, Suffolk 0:03:28 - Black Dog Stories of English Folklore 0:07:23 - The Black Dog of Antigonish Harbour 0:10:59 - The Black Dog of Oak Island 0:14:26 - The Black Stag of Newfoundland 0:17:39 - The Giant Ghost Dog of Greysir Settlement, Manitoba If you enjoyed this video and would like to help support this channel, please check out my books on Canadian history and folklore, which are available in paperback, eBook, and audiobook format: https://MysteriesOfCanada.com/Bookshop/

In this video, we revisit the mysterious phenomenon of raining fish and frogs, and take a look at the unconventional theory that animal rain is caused by UFOs.

The courtroom transcript of the trial of Swift Runner, a Cree man convicted of killing and eating his wife and children in the winter of 1879, published here for the first time in 144 years. 0:00:00 – Introduction 0:03:21 - Opening Remarks by Magistrate Hugh Richardson 0:04:49 - Testimony of Kis-Sie-Koh-Way, Swift Runner’s Father-in-Law 0:07:36 - Testimony of George Washington Brazeau, NWMP interpreter 0:14:14 - Testimony of Inspector Severe Gagnon, Officer of the NWMP 0:17:03 - Testimony of Staff-Sergeant George Herchmer, Physician at Fort Saskatchewan 0:19:02 - Testimony of Superintendent William Drummer Jarvis, Prosecutor 0:20:03 - George Washington Brazeau Recalled 0:20:49 - Testimony of William Borwick 0:21:38 - Paper ‘A’ (Swift Runner’s Confession) 0:23:57 - Verdict and Sentencing For my video on the Swift Runner case, please click the link below: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuuwKxo5ESs

In this video, we explore the infamous story of Swift Runner, one of Canada’s most famous cannibals, who killed and ate his wife and children in the winter of early 1879. Were Swift Runner’s crimes the actions of a desperate man driven to madness by starvation? Did the Cree hunter suffer from a psychiatric disorder which anthropologists call “Wendigo psychosis”? Or, as his fellow Cree believed, was Swift Runner possessed by the Wendigo, the evil cannibal spirit of the North? 0:00:00 – Front Matter 0:00:18 - The Hanging 0:03:06 - Good Sources 0:06:06 - Swift Runner 0:08:11 - The Wendigo 0:12:11 - Swift Runner’s Appearance at St. Albert 0:15:53 - Discovery of Swift Runner’s Camp 0:21:20 - The Confession 0:27:57 - The Trial 0:32:05 - Wendigo, or Wendigo Psychosis? Wendigo artwork by Tom https://www.JustTomsArt.com/

One legend shared by cultures from all over the world contends that it is unwise to whistle at night. In this video, we take a look at several versions of this strange universal folktale native to Canada. 0:00:00 – A Universal Folktale 0:03:04 - An Imported Legend 0:03:54 - A Native Canadian Custom Thanks for watching! If you enjoyed this video and would like to help support this channel, please check out my books on Canadian history and mysteries, which are available in paperback, eBook, and audiobook format: https://MysteriesOfCanada.com/Bookshop/

The folklore of the Canadian Maritimes is replete with stories of forerunners – supernatural warnings of impending disaster, which take the form of strange noises, eerie apparitions, and even physical slaps. In this video, we take a look at classic forerunner stories from the provinces of Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island. 0:00:00 – The DeStefano Television 0:02:19 - Helen Creighton’s Death Knocks 0:06:37 - Death Knocks on Prince Edward Island 0:09:41 - Three Knocks as a Sign of Demonic Activity 0:10:49 - Who Slapped Aunt Min? 0:15:25 - Auditory Rehearsals of Funerary Preparations 0:18:09 - Auditory Forerunners on Cape Sable Island 0:22:51 - More Auditory Forerunners in Nova Scotia 0:24:50 - The Phantom Screams of Winging Point 0:27:07 - The Jumping Horse of Murray Harbour 0:29:07 - Phantom Funeral Processions 0:31:26 - The Bell Ringers of the Kirk of St. James Thanks for watching! If you enjoyed this video and would like to help support this channel, please check out my books on Canadian history and folklore, which are available in paperback, eBook, and audiobook format: https://MysteriesOfCanada.com/Bookshop/

“The men who pioneered the Canadian Pacific Railway through British Columbia had many hair-breadth escapes from sudden death, and most of them attributed their survival to warnings, of one kind or another, they had received. Wherever a group of railway men gathered, sooner or later the conversation turned to this subject and around some of these true warnings have grown up legends that persist to this day.” – Julie C. Crawford, 1962 0:00:00 – Introduction 0:02:02 - The Phantom Voice 0:07:30 - The Mystery Gong 0:11:27 - Jack Ladner’s Pocket Watch Thanks for watching! If you enjoyed this video and would like to help support this channel, please check out my books on Canadian history and mystery, which are available in paperback, eBook, and audiobook format: https://mysteriesofcanada.com/bookshop/

Since at least the 1980s, various surveys conducted on the subject have revealed that roughly half of all Westerners believe they have been contacted by the spirit of someone who has died. In this video, we take a look at three such stories unique to the Great White North. 0:00:00 – Introduction 0:00:50 - Father’s Will 0:04:27 - My Unseen Companion 0:09:20 - Proof in Hand Thanks for watching! If you enjoyed this video and would like to help support this channel, please check out my non-fiction book on Canadian history and folklore, which are available in paperback, eBook, and audiobook format: https://MysteriesOfCanada.com/Bookshop/

Since at least the days of Victorian paleontology, the Western mind has accepted the fact that the mammoth was contemporaneous with our caveman ancestors. Although most paleontologists believe that the last of those prehistoric pachyderms died near the end of the last ice age, a surprising number of native legends suggest that woolly mammoths survived in the Canadian wilderness well into the 19th Century, and perhaps beyond. In this video, we explore these traditional First Nations stories about living mammoths in Canada. 0:00:00 - Introduction 0:02:09 - A Relic of the Pliocene 0:06:27 - Mammoth Carcasses in the North 0:10:15 - The Mammoth in Dene Folklore 0:17:50 - Mammoths in the Arctic 0:20:30 - Cola F. Fowler’s Account 0:23:44 - Mammoth in the Stikine Valley 0:25:26 - David Thompson’s Discovery 0:28:49 - Alexander Ross’s Account 0:30:54 - Charlevoix’s Great Moose 0:34:16 - A Naskapi Legend Executive Producer: Dan Chomistek http://www.ChomistekFilms.com Mammoth photos and artwork courtesy of J.R. at the Great Canadian Camouflage Company. https://www.CanadianCamouflage.com/ Artwork by Emily Houghton https://www.Instagram.com/Em_Houghton_Art/ Nahanni footage courtesy of ‘Secrets of Nahanni’ http://SecretsOfNahanni.com/ Toad River Hot Springs photos found at: https://HotSpringsofBC.ca/Toad-River-Hot-Springs/ Labrador footage courtesy of Justin Barbour https://www.youtube.com/@JustinBarbournlexplorer Thanks for watching! If you enjoyed this video and would like to help support this channel, please check out my books on Canadian history and folklore, which are available in paperback, eBook, and audiobook format: https://MysteriesOfCanada.com/Bookshop/

In this piece, we will explore five urban legends unique to Canada. 0:00:00 – Introduction 0:01:26 – The Screaming Tunnel 0:04:24 – The Wendigo of Fort Kent 0:14:56 – The Monster of Thetis Lake 0:25:28 – The Chilling Tale of Coghlan’s Coffin 0:37:35 – The Vanished Village of Angikuni Lake Executive Producer: Dan Chomistek https://ChomistekFilms.com/ Wendigo art by Tom: https://www.JustTomsArt.com/ Thanks for watching! If you enjoyed this video and would like to help support this channel, please check out books on Canadian history and folklore, which are available in paperbook, eBook, and audiobook format: https://mysteriesofcanada.com/bookshop/

Deep in the Keewatin Barrens of what is now the territory of Nunavut, amid an endless plain of tundra and muskeg, lies lonely Angikuni Lake, one of a myriad of near-identical watering holes which dot the historic homeland of the Inuit and Chippewyan Nations. This nondescript body of water serves as the setting of one of Canada’s spookiest urban legends: the story of village of 25 Inuit said to have vanished without a trace in the autumn of 1930. Thanks for watching! If you enjoyed this video and would like to help support this channel, please check out my non-fiction books on Canadian history and folklore, available in paperback, eBook, and audiobook format, which you can find online here: https://mysteriesofcanada.com/bookshop/

Thanks for watching! If you enjoyed this video and would like to help support this channel, please check out my books on Canadian history and folklore, which you can find here: https://mysteriesofcanada.com/bookshop/ In this video, we explore a little-known story about a mysterious fishing boat found burning off Vancouver Island, as well as the famous story of the Mary Celeste, universally regarded as one of the world’s greatest maritime mysteries. 0:00:00 – The Mystery of the Burning Boat 0:03:31 – The Mystery of the Mary Celeste

Thanks for watching! If you enjoyed this video and would like to help support this channel, please check out my books on Canadian history and mysteries: https://mysteriesofcanada.com/bookshop/ Since at least the early 1950s, the militaries of both Canada and the United States have attempted to build their own flying saucers. In this video, we take a look at the production of the Avrocar, a flying saucer produced by Avro Canada, and the dark secrets of Nevada’s notorious Area 51. 0:00:00 - UFOs Shot Down over North America 0:02:43 - The Avrocar 0:06:48 - Bob Lazar and Area 51

Get 25% off Blinkist premium and enjoy 2 memberships for the price of 1! Start your 7-day free trial by clicking here: http://www.Blinkist.com/HammersonPeters Some of North America’s most disturbing mysteries are unsolved disappearances in which human beings vanish without a trace in national parks and other wilderness areas. In this video, we explore a spate of such cases said to have taken place in British Columbia’s Fraser Canyon during the Cariboo Gold Rush.

This is my list of the ten spookiest islands in Canada. Thanks for watching! If you enjoyed this video and would like to help support this channel, please check out my books on Canadian history and folklore, most of which are available in paperback, ebook, and audiobook format: https://MysteriesOfCanada.com/Bookshop/ Executive Producer: Dan Chomistek http://www.ChomistekFilms.com

The fascinating intersection of history and mystery is embodied in the memoir of Paul Kane, an Irish-Canadian artist who, in the mid-late 1840s, at the very height of the Hudson Bay Company’s fur trade empire, travelled across North America and back, accompanying various HBC fur brigades. In this piece, we explore Paul Kane’s intriguing contributions to the mysteries of the Canadian fur trade. Co-Producer: Dan Chomistek http://www.ChomistekFilms.com Thumbnail Art by August Swinson, Member of Mississaugas of Scugog Island First Nation in Ontario: http://www.AugustIllustrated.Squarespace.com With artwork by: Just Tom’s Art https://www.JustTomsArt.com/ And Hannah Parker http://www.HannahParkerArts.com 0:00:00 – Introduction 0:04:11 – Paul Kane’s Journey 0:08:54 - The Wendigo of the Grand Portage 0:12:09 - Journey Across the Prairies 0:17:40 - The Legend of Oldman Creek 0:19:59 - The Skookums of Mount St. Helens 0:21:24 - A First Nations Healing Ceremony 0:25:39 - The Dalles des Morts 0:31:23 - Battle Between the Blackfoot and Cree 0:35:42 - The Lactating Man 0:37:00 - The Shaking Tent

In this video, Hammerson Peters, Loren Coleman, Kevin Guhl, and Ted Doades celebrate the life and work of cryptozoologist Mr. Gary S. Mangiacopra, an unsung hero of the Fortean community remembered for his tremendous research and his unfailing generosity; co-author of the 2007 book ‘Does Champ Exist?’, and author of many an article on the subject of hidden animals. Gary passed away in his home on November 14th, 2022, from natural causes. Rest in peace, Gary.

The Curse of Oak Island: Season 10, Episode 6 Explained A plot summary and analysis of Season 10, Episode 6 of ‘The Curse of Oak Island,’ entitled ‘Over the Muon’. The crew uncovers evidence of a second underground tunnel running beneath the Money Pit area. Gary Drayton and Jack Begley discover two interesting artifacts on Lot 8, one of them a heavily-corroded piece of copper bearing strange symbols the archaeologists cannot identify. 0:00:00 - Borehole N.5-17.5 0:00:31 - Borehole F.25-14.4 0:01:00 - Two Tunnels 0:02:20 - Lot 8 Discoveries 0:05:29 - Arrival of the Crane The Maya Theory of Oak Island: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jh-ZuO-fEug&ab_channel=HammersonPeters

Thanks for watching! If you enjoyed this video, please like and subscribe. One recurring motif in indigenous folklore across Canada is the Thunderbird - a huge eagle-like monster responsible for the creation of thunder and lightning. In this piece, we will examine some traditional native stories featuring this legendary monster. 0:00:00 - Introduction 0:01:00 - Thunderbird on the Columbia River 0:04:30 - Thunderbird on the Prairies 0:07:33 - Thunderbird on Southern Vancouver Island