EPISODE · Sep 8, 2026 · 32 MIN
DTCP 060 - Winnipeg's Ectoplasm Lab
from Canadian Creepies · host Down the Crooked Path
Send us a text, tell us your canadian creepy!What happens when grief, science, and the supernatural all meet inside one Winnipeg home?From the 1920s through the 1940s, physician Dr. T.G. Hamilton and his wife, nurse Lillian Hamilton, transformed their home at 185 Kelvin Street into a laboratory for investigating psychic phenomena. With cameras rolling, mediums in trances, and séances underway, the Hamiltons attempted to document everything from floating objects to ghostly figures and the strange, gauzy substance known as ectoplasm.Their experiments attracted some seriously notable visitors, including Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Canadian Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King, and left behind an incredible archive of photographs and research that still exists today.This week, we’re heading Down the Crooked Path to Winnipeg’s infamous ectoplasm lab, where spiritualism met scientific experimentation and things got very, very weird.🌱 PayYourRent.ca is an Indigenous-led grassroots initiative calling on settlers to engage in ongoing, voluntary financial redistribution in support of Indigenous land defenders, sovereignty, and community well-being.This foundation supports urgent needs like housing, food security, legal defense, and cultural revitalization all grounded in the principle that land back also means resource back.If you live, work, or benefit from life on stolen land, consider learning more or making a monthly contribution at PayYourRent.ca.Justice isn’t a moment, it’s a commitment. Your next creepy obsession starts here. ✨ This episode is brought to you by Fable & Frame Creative ✨Fable & Frame Creative offers Niagara Region portraits and at-home newborn sessions, capturing not just how life looks but how it feels. Because your life isn’t ordinary. It’s a fable, and it deserves to be framed like one.🕯️ You can find new episodes of Down the Crooked Path every Thursday, wherever you get your podcasts.Canadian content airs right here on the Canadian Creepies feed—so stay tuned, and stay on the path.Edited by Kyle McDonnell
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Send us a text, tell us your canadian creepy! What happens when grief, science, and the supernatural all meet inside one Winnipeg home? From the 1920s through the 1940s, physician Dr. T.G. Hamilton and his wife, nurse Lillian Hamilton, transformed their home at 185 Kelvin Street into a laboratory for investigating psychic phenomena. With cameras rolling, mediums in trances, and séances underway, the Hamiltons attempted to document everything from floating objects to ghostly figures and the st...
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