A paranormal story about Friday the 13th, superstitions, the Knights Templar, and the Last Supper. The Templars were arrested on Friday, October 13, 1307, but the link between that morning and Friday the 13th is later folklore, not history. The Last Supper had thirteen at the table, but the Bible does not say Judas was the thirteenth to arrive. Friday and thirteen were separate fears for a long time, and they did not join into one date until much later.

In this episode:

• The Templar arrests of 1307
• The Last Supper table
• When Friday and thirteen finally joined into one date

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A Canadian paranormal story about precognitive dreams, premonitions, and a murder in Edmonton. 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.

One night, British man George Hayward had a dream that felt different from the rest. In it, he saw his brother Edward in danger, in a remote stretch of land in Canada he had never seen before. When he woke, he told his family the dream felt disturbingly real. Days later, the news arrived. His brother had died in Canada, and the circumstances appeared to match what George had seen while he slept. The dream had come before the family received word of the tragedy.

In 1904, Edward Hayward was in Edmonton, prospecting with his partner Charles King. After an argument over money, Charles shot Edward, then burned his body on a large bonfire in a marsh. Months later, Charles King was arrested, tried in 1905, and executed by hanging for the murder of Edward Hayward.

I mean, how do you dream a place you have never seen, and then find out your brother died there? Was it coincidence, or did his mind know something before the world did?

In this episode:

• A dream that felt different from the rest
• A brother in danger, in a place George had never seen
• The news that arrived days later, and how it matched the dream
• Precognitive dreaming, and the question of what the mind can know

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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.

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