Stories from the edge of explanation.
About 4 min readLake Manitoba has its own lake monster — a serpentine creature, four to fifteen metres long, reported since 1909 and named Manipogo in 1960. Seventeen witnesses once claimed to see three of them swimming together. The only photograph ever taken is still argued over.
About 5 min readIn the winter of 1878, a Cree trapper named Swift Runner walked out of the northern forest alone — his whole family dead — and told the police a wendigo had made him do it. His trial is still the most famous wendigo case on record.
About 4 min readIn May 1967, a Winnipeg mechanic said he approached a landed disc in the Manitoba woods — and was burned by a blast of hot gas. Doctors confirmed the burns. No one has explained them.
About 4 min readOn 4 October 1967, witnesses watched a lit object plunge into the waters off Shag Harbour, Nova Scotia — and the Canadian government itself filed the case as a UFO.