KEEP CANADA WEIRD - 189 - 2025/11/21 - Hamilton Bus Hijacking, Grave Robbing, the Carstairs Creeper

The Canadian Gothic

Curiouscast

History, True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.6 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2025

⏱️ 65 minutes

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In Keep Canada Weird Jordan and Aaron Airport explore the weird and offbeat Canadian news stories from the past week. In this episode your hosts discuss; The Hamilton Bus Hijacking Toronto’s Most Prolific Grave Robbers The Carstairs Alberta CREEPER AI is Making People Crazy Series Links Keep Canada Weird Series: ⁠https://www.thecanadiangothic.com/keep-canada-weird⁠ Send a voice memo:⁠ www.thecanadiangothic.com/contact⁠ Join the Keep Canada Weird Discussion Group: ⁠https://www.facebook.com/groups/keepcanadaweird⁠ Provide feedback and comments on the episode: ⁠thecanadiangothic.com/contact⁠ Subscribe to the show: ⁠thecanadiangothic.com/subscribe⁠ Contact: Website:⁠ https://www.thecanadiangothic.com⁠ Facebook: ⁠https://www.facebook.com/TheCanadianGothic⁠ Instagram: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/thecanadiangothic/⁠ Support the show: ⁠https://www.patreon.com/thecanadiangothic⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You can listen to the Canadian Gothic early and ad-free on Amazon Music.
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0:07.0	When I was a teenager, a girl went missing from my hometown, Blackpool.
0:13.0	Her name was Charlene Downs.
0:16.0	And the story of what happened to her is not what it seems.
0:19.0	22 years after Charlene went missing,
0:22.8	I want to try and uncover not just the truth
0:25.6	about what happened to her, but the lies too.
0:29.2	I'm Nicola Thorpe, and this is Charlene.
0:32.5	Somebody knows something.
0:34.9	Available now, wherever you get your podcasts. Based on the worldwide best-selling
0:40.0	novel. Why do you want this job? I really enjoy being a housemaid. This Christmas. Would you like
0:44.8	the Grand Tour? See what you're getting yourself into? Discover what lies. I don't know what's been
0:50.5	going on with her lately. Behind closed doors. I need this job. I do not want to go back.
0:55.2	Sydney Sweeney.
0:56.2	You'd lie it about everything. Amanda Seifred. What kind of monsters are we? I want you to feel safe here. The House Maid. In Cinema's Everywhere Boxing Day, see it first with previews from December 22. passengers on the bus were talking to the would-be driver as he was stealing the bus,
1:13.6	trying to keep him on the regular route while he was making regular stops.
1:19.6	There's a citizen on patrolling cars, as I know I'm on it.
1:22.6	My husband's actually the president, so we do drive around, but there's only so much we can, like,
1:28.6	I'm not going to confront anybody.
1:31.8	He says the AI chatbot, chat GPT, led him to believe he was a genius.
1:37.3	Essentially, it sent me on a world-saving mission.
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