66: Terrifying True Urban Legends: The Canadian Wilderness

Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries

True Crime, Fiction, Drama, History

4.8 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2024

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Two terrifying legends from deep within the Canadian wilderness. The first is about creatures in the woods that possess your mind and make you crave human flesh, and the second is the mystery of an entire village that vanished one night.

TW: Suicide, Cannibalism

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0:00.0	Have you ever felt like escaping to your own desert island?
0:03.8	Jane Gaskin did exactly that,
0:06.2	trading in the family home to begin a new life in the tropics.
0:09.9	But she soon discovers that Paradise has its secrets.
0:13.4	I'm Alice Levine, and this is the price of Paradise,
0:17.8	the island dream that ends in kidnap, corruption, and murder. Wish you were here. Follow the price of Paradise Now, wherever
0:26.7	you listen to podcasts. A man that once tried to prove how strong a window was by running into it crashed through it and fell to his death.
0:40.0	That story spreads around the streets of Toronto like an urban legend.
0:44.4	Whispered from person to person as they passed the Toronto Dominion Bank Tower,
0:49.7	a 55-story building in downtown Toronto.
0:53.4	It's a perfect urban legend.
0:55.9	It features tragedy brought on by hubris
0:58.6	like any good fable.
1:00.6	And it seems too fantastic to be true.
1:06.0	But what have I told you it was?
1:11.0	On July 9th 1993, a group of law students waited in the lobby on the 34th floor of the Toronto
1:18.9	Dominion Bank Tower.
1:20.8	They were interested in apprenticeships at the law firm there, Holden Day Wilson.
1:26.0	That's when they were met by a 38 year old lawyer named Gary Hoi, described as one of the best
1:31.9	and brightest lawyers at the firm.
1:34.0	Hoi had given these tours before. They tended to be pretty mundane.
1:39.0	So he developed a party trick that he could play on the bunch.
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