Wonder in Your Backyard: Crabby Steve’s

The Atlas Obscura Podcast

SiriusXM Podcasts & Atlas Obscura

Places & Travel, Society & Culture

4.6 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2026

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Producer Manolo Morales shares a story with co-host Kelly McEvers, about a legendary place in the backyard of our Canadian northern neighbors. Plus, we want to hear from you. Tell us about the wonders in your backyard. Is there a strange, unusual or surprising place in your city or town? What makes this place special to you? Give us a call at 315-992-7902 and leave a message telling us your name and story. Our mailbox will cut you off after three minutes so please call in if you get disconnected. Or you can record a voice memo and email it to us at hello@atlasobscura.com

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0:00.0	Hi, Kelly.
0:21.2	Hey, Manila. What's going on? So I got a story for you. It's from our series, Wondering Your Backyard. It's been a while since we produced one of these, and we started them way back in the early days of the show. Mm-hmm. And we asked our listeners one simple question. Tell us about a wonder in your backyard. Okay, let's hit the music.
0:24.7	I'm Anula Morales.
0:26.1	And I'm Kelly McEvers.
0:30.4	And this is Atlas Obscura, a celebration of the world's strange,
0:31.8	incredible, and wondrous places.
0:34.6	Today we're hearing the story of a legendary place in the backyard of our northern neighbors in Canada.
0:38.9	More after this. Okay, Manolo, so did you get an email or a voice memo for this story?
1:08.8	How did you hear about it?
1:09.9	So I got an email from a guy named Andre Kreening. Andre lives in Canada. He wrote to us about this old dilapidated building that he often drives by in Manitoba. He said it was, quote, in the middle of nowhere. Okay. In fact, he sent us a few links with pictures of the building. Want to take a look at it?
1:28.6	Okay.
1:29.0	Let me see.
1:29.5	Let me see.
1:30.0	Let me see.
1:30.5	Oh.
1:31.6	Oh.
1:33.2	Okay.
1:34.4	So it basically just looks like a dilapidated falling down barn?
1:43.7	Yeah.
1:47.2	It looks like some storm just came and tore it down.
1:48.4	It's a total disaster.
1:49.3	Yeah.
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