The Black Donnellys

The Brohio Podcast

The Bros of Brohio

Social Sciences, Society & Culture, Documentary, Science

4.6 • 5K Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2026

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of The Brohio Podcast, we dive headfirst into one of Canada’s most brutal and infamous family massacres — The Black Donnellys. In the 1800s, the Donnelly family became public enemy number one in rural Ontario. What started as land disputes and bad blood between neighbors exploded into a full-blown vigilante execution. Houses burned. Bodies were mutilated. And an entire town allegedly participated in the slaughter… then swore a pact of silence. Were the Donnellys violent criminals who got what was coming to them?
Or were they scapegoats hunted down by a mob drunk on fear, religion, and whiskey? We unravel the history, the grudges, the murders, and the disturbing fact that almost everyone involved walked free. This story has it all: secret societies, torchlight raids, cover-ups, and a massacre so savage it still haunts Canadian folklore today. Grab a drink, lock your doors, and join Nick & Rob as we descend into one of the darkest chapters of frontier justice.

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0:00.0	We have survived the storm of the century.
0:21.9	No, Mettgen.
0:22.9	Nothing can hold us down.
0:24.9	Yeah.
0:25.7	They tried to kill us with two feet of snow,
0:28.4	but it only made me harder in the sense of my penis.
0:34.4	That's what it made harder.
0:35.7	I knew we were fucked once Jamie Simpson redacted everything.
0:38.2	He said like, yeah, maybe this is going to be bad.
0:41.9	He was dogging everybody.
0:43.5	We're at six inches.
0:46.4	I always look for his shit.
0:47.8	Once he says something, I know I could trust it.
0:49.7	Yeah, that's so, um, hello, we're Nick and Rob for the Broughio podcast.
0:54.2	Jamie Simpson is a local meteorologist that's fired from his job in meteorology about 10 years ago from one of the biggest news stations in Dayton because he's a fucking alcoholic and he can't stop drinking and driving.
1:06.3	So they fired him from the news and he was a beloved. Yeah. But now he's like an insurance salesman. But every once in a while, he'll fucking dog the other meteorologist on TV and he'll put it on his Facebook. And it gets circulated a lot. He went viral to ruin the tornadoes because he was cussing everybody out because nobody was taking the shit seriously. Yeah. He's like, you don't understand. You didn't get to a fucking basement. He was yelling at everybody. He was like, take this seriously. This is your life. He was going to, he's going wild. It was great. He's a folk hero around here. Yeah. Truly, probably a miserable fuck if he's met him in person i'm sure but he's beloved on
1:46.0	the internet yeah he seems like a pompous smart ass i've never met him so i could be i could
1:51.9	be shooting from the hip here but i i have this gift of getting along with everybody so i would
1:58.4	probably get along with him i heard he hits on women a lot on Facebook.
2:02.4	Randoms.
2:03.2	Slides in their DMs.
2:04.3	I love that about him.
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