Welcome back everyone - I thought Id return to Canada for our latest Urban Legends video.
Canada is the 2nd biggest country on Earth - thats a lot of land - thats a lot of land
for some creepy, mysterious and unexplainable things to happen - there was no way I was
gonna be able to fit it all into one video so Im back today with this - my name is Danny
Burke and this is the Top 10 Scary Canadian Urban Legends Part 2.
Starting off at number 10 we have the Tunnel Monster of Cabbagetown[a].
In August 1978, a man called Ernest had a run in with a strange creature in Toronto.
He and his wife were raising kittens when one of them escaped.
He stumbled into a cave nearby where he saw, in his own words -A living cnightmare that
Ill never forget- … Ernest described the monster as -long and thin, almost like a monkey,
three ft long, large teeth, weighing maybe 30lbs with slate grey fur- … he also said
its eyes were orange and red and slanted.
Before he even had time to process what was infront of him, the creature spoke to him.
It said -Go away, go away- in a hissing voice.
Then, it scurried off down a long tunnel.
Ernest was done, he got out of there as fast as he could, shaking with fear.
He never approached the media with his story.
He was afraid people would think that he was drunk or crazy.
His story only reached media when people began to leak it to the local newspaper.
He only agreed to talk if his last name was hidden.
The article contained this artists rendition of the creature.
It looks humanoid in nature but out of proportion, as if it had been deformed by its years scuttling
around in the Toronto sewers.
Ever since then, people have reported seeing the Tunnel Monster, still lurking in the shadows
…
Moving on to number 9 we have the Alien Base[b].
In 2017, media outlets started reporting sightings of strange lights hovering over Lake Ontario.
Within a few days, people were convinced that this was proof of alien activity.
Conspiracy theorists believe that there is an alien base which causes strange light patterns
- these orbs of light have been seen flying in the general direction of a local power
plant.
Is there anything behind that?
Perhaps.
The stories reached such a climax that the government was forced to issue a statement.
They said that the Canadian armed forces were conducting training operations in the area
and those exercises may have caused the visual phenomenon.
Of course, this had done little to quieten down the conspiracy theorists who are now
more certain than ever of the alien base beneath the lake …
Moving on to number 8 we have Lemon Mine[c].
Ever since the 1870s, people in Alberta have talked about Lemon mine - a rich gold mine
that is somewhere out there in the Alberta Rockies.
Nobody has been able to find it but a geologist Ron Stewart once claimed that he had found
it.
Skeptics said there was no proof the mine ever existed at all.
According to legend, the mine was first discovered in 1870 when two prospectors, Frank Jack and
Black Jack, stumbled across more gold in a cave than they had ever seen.
Once their joy subsided though, the men began to argue - they couldn't agree on whether
to stay put or return to the mine in the spring.
The argument escalated and in a rage Lemon grabbed an axe and murdered Blackjack as he
slept.
He was consumed by guilt and wandered out into the hills, never able to find the mine
again.
Ever since then, nobody else has - and the only clues lie in this murderous story …
Coming in at the number 7 spot now we have Gibraltar Point Lighthouse[d].
This is the oldest remaining lighthouse on the Great Lakes and the second oldest in Canada.
It was built in 1808 and guided ships for 150 years before being decommissioned in 1958.
The first lighthouse keeper was man called J.P Rademuller.
He disappeared under mysterious circumstances on January 2nd 1815.
Legend says he was murdered by two soldiers who had been enjoying his home brewed beer.
The killers dismembered him and buried his body in a few graves near the lighthouse.
The brutal death lack of justice is said to have made the man into a ghost.
The story seems like many other ghost stories but it does seem to have a bit of physical
evidence tied to it.
One former lighthouse keeper reported digging up a coffin in the area that I described before
- he found a small coffin and inside was a single human jaw bone …
Coming in at the number 6 spot now we have The Nanabozho[e].
This is an old story from Canadian folklore that originates among the Ojibwa tribe.
The legend goes that long, long ago - a beautiful woman lived on the moon and watched over the
Earth.
She was loved by all the people except two women who were very jealous of her.
So, one night, they pushed her off the moon.
The woman fell off the moon and fell into a lake.
There, the local tribe greeted her and built her a wigwam.
Eventually, they came to her for advice.
They named her Nokomis and after a very long time - the woman fell pregnant.
She gave birth to a daughter - Winona.
When she grew up, she was courted by many of the braves in the surrounding tribes.
One day, Winona was walking in the forest when the wind decided he wanted to steal her,
so the wind swept her up and took her out west to put her in a shack.
Nokomis was devastated and tried to use magic to bring her daughter back but nothing work.
An eagle visited her and told her what the wind did to her and said that the wind beat
Winona.
The tale continues and follows Nokomis and her attempts to bring her daughter back, fighting
through the elements and brutal tragedy - its a legend that has stood the test of time …
Moving on to number 5 we have The Lady In Red[f].
The Lower Bay Subway Station is Toronto is famous among paranormal investigators.
Many people have claimed it is haunted - specifically - by the lady in red.
People say she had black holes for eyes.
Her legs are nowhere to be seen as she floats along the railway tracks.
Even subway workers have reported seeing the Lady in Red.
Some have said they experience unusually cold drafts blowing down the tracks in areas where
cold drafts should be physically impossible.
Of course, the next question is who is the Lady in Red?
Well, some believe that she was a woman who either jumped or was pushed into the tracks
when a train came by.
Some of the subway staff believes that her ghost came to reside in the old pump room
and uses that as her base to head out and haunt the tracks.
Despite the many stories about the Lady in Red, nobody has reported making contact with
her and hearing the story from the horses mouth …
Moving on to number 4 now we have The Sasquatch[g].
I was surprised I didnt mention this one in the first video but here we are!
The sasquatch is said to be a large ape like creature that lives along the West Coast of
British Columbia and Northern California.
Its often described as a bipedal creature - 2.75m in height and 360kg in weight.
Theyre covered in long dark hair and leave large 50 cm footprints that amount to most
of the proof provided by believers.
The sightings are not a recent thing either - going way back to 1884 there was an article
that described the capture of a half man half beast near Yale British Columbia.
The people who found the creature described is as -something of a gorilla type- that resembled
a human covered in thick, glossy black hair.
The creature was said to be found unconscious on some railway tracks.
When it awoke it was chased away by a group of men.
In the years since then, evidence for the Sasquatch had amounted to first hand accounts,
tracks and bits of fur left behind - not enough for scientific confirmation - but enough to
keep the legend alive …
Moving on to number 3 now we have The Soldiers Tower[h].
Students at the University of Toronto are well aware of the many ghost tales that surround
the almost 200 year old establishment.
One of the most famous is perhaps the Soldiers Tower.
Its a memorial to the fallen Canadian soldiers of WW1.
However, the bell tower is also known for a grizzly tale.
Legend says that in the 1930s, a worker went to polish the bells at the top of the tower.
In a freak accident, he fell to his tragic death on the sidewalk directly under the tower.
In the years since then, people claim they have seen the mans ghost repeat this tragedy
over and over again, spiraling down and landing on the pavement before disappearing into thin
air.
Ive saved the most disturbing part till the end - some witnesses have described the apparition
as having the flesh and blood of a human being before he disappears into the ground.
I don't know why but that makes any ghost about 5 times scarier.
Gross.
Moving on to number 2 now we have The [i]Rom.
The Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto is over 100 years old and full of fascinating artifacts.
Among the many ghostly inhabitants - two are always talked about.
One of them is Charles Trick Currelly - he was the original director of the museum.
People say theyve seen him wearing a nightshirt and wandering through the East Asiatic collections.
Staff have reported strange occurrences in this gallery and have even seen the director
on occasion.
Why is there?
Does he have unfinished work?
It has to be something serious to haunt your place of work for eternity … the other ghost
is said to be of a little girl called Celeste.
Staff and visitors alike have reported seeing her tiny apparition sitting in the McLaughlin
Planetarium watching the shows.
The planetarium has been closed for years since the last sightings and nobody is quite
sure if she still wanders among the seats there, waiting for one more show …
And finally at number 1 we have The Bashful Monster.[j] Thats the name given to this creature
that some say is like the Canadian cousin of the loch ness monster.
For over a century, locals of Okanagan Lake in British Columbia have talked about a monster
that they refer to simply as Ogopogo.
There have been over a thousand sightings.
The native americans in the area speak of the monster.
They refer to it as Naitaka or Lake Devil.
According to their own legend, when their tribe arrived in the area, they had to try
and distract the fearsome monster by throwing a small animal into the lake so that they
could cross!
Descriptions of the creature are varied but some people have said it looks like a frog
from the front and a dinosaur from the back.
If youre struggling to picture that - don't worry - everyone does - only the people who
have seen Ogopogo will ever know what it truly likes …
And that is that!
A while since urban legends
Back on that?
No?
Why?
Where to next?
In the mean time …