Production Updates -Good Night to Nighttime and the Birth of Canadian Gothic

The Canadian Gothic

Curiouscast

Documentary, History, Society & Culture, True Crime

4.6 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2025

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Ten years ago today the first episode of Nighttime was released, telling the story of a UFO sighting over Cape Breton Island. In the decade since, Nighttime has produced over a thousand episodes, covered stories from nearly every corner of the country, been heard around the world, but… it’s also begun to show it’s age. As Nighttime toiled away podcasting has changed dramatically; the rise of celebrity-hosted shows, podcasts as video, the rise and fall of countless platforms, and many other factors which have reshaped the medium and led to Nighttime feeling like the product of a by-gone era. Ten years after it started, It’s time to say good night to Nighttime! but this isn’t a goodbye Its hosts, its contributors, its active series (like Keep Canada Weird) aren’t going anywhere. The podcast feeds, the social media pages, and related landing pads will be updated to serve as home for a new show that will be similar in style and spirit, but better equipped to tell Canada’s most fascinating stories for the next decade and beyond. the next chapter is… the Canadian Gothic Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:13.8	I have some exciting news to share, but this is also going to be a bit of a funeral,
1:18.1	or maybe a celebration of life.
1:20.5	Ten years ago, in September of 2015, the very first episode of Nighttime was produced.
1:26.2	The topic was a UFO sighting my grandparents witnessed above Cape Breton Island in the mid-80s.
1:32.7	I was diving up a place called Monroe's Point, and all of a sudden I saw this thing
1:38.4	coming through the sky, and it hovered right above my car and installed my engine.
1:45.3	I looked up and it was a big disc, round disc.
1:49.8	It was tremendous maybe 20 or 30 feet in diameter.
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