Colombia has a hippo problem. The hippopotamus, of course, isn't native to South America.

They're actually from Africa. But these 4,000-pound masses of pure muscle

have hopped across the Atlantic to terrorize an entirely new continent, taking the crown

as the heaviest invasive species in history. And you might be wondering how. Well, you can thank

drug trafficker Pablo Escobar for that.

You see, he had a private zoo on the grounds of his estate.

It was a full-on menagerie, complete

with elephants, giraffes, ostriches,

and, of course, hippos.

After Escobar died in 1993,

the government took control of his residence,

but nobody really knew how to tackle the hippopotamus problem.

It wasn't necessarily impossible to move them. It was just dangerous and expensive.

And so the hippos were allowed to stay, until of course they escaped the confines of the estate.

So yes, there are hippos in Colombia. Australia has camels. There's even a bunch of

feral parakeets in New York City. Basically, whatever your expectations are of a particular location,

there are always exceptions to those assumptions. Which is why, if you were to travel across the

border from the U.S. into Canada,

you would be limiting yourself if you expect only maple syrup, hockey games, and very polite and considerate people.

Yes, those things are all true.

But looking through the pages of history, Canada has also had its fair share of something few people

might expect. Terrifying tales of witches. I'm Aaron Mankey, and this is lore legends. The story begins the way all good stories do, with a murder.

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