Haunted Canada: Frozen Flesh, Ghost Ships, and Arctic Zombies

Welcome back, fellow weirdos, to another delightfully chilling slice of Haunted Canada! This week, Jacklynn and Stevie kick things off with a downright spooky listener story from Jacklynn's mother-in-law. Picture this: waking up from a traumatic nightmare only to hear a wind-up musical bear figurine—one that hasn't been cranked in 30 years—eerily playing Bette Midler’s Evergreen at a snail's pace. Spirit guides? Guardian angels? Or just a deeply unsettling celestial wake-up call? Either way, the universe was screaming, "Send in your listener stories for July!!"Then, the we dive into the main course of primordial darkness: the ill-fated 1845 Franklin Expedition. Sir John Franklin, a seasoned 60-year-old explorer who clearly missed the memo on a quiet retirement, set sail with 130 men to find the fabled Northwest Passage. They rode in two heavily retrofitted, iron-braced ships with incredibly ominous, un-superstitious names: the HMS Erebus and the HMS Terror.What followed was a recipe for absolute disaster:Tainted Grub: Three years' worth of tinned food likely laced with lead poisoning.Fresh Water Fail: A nifty tech system for melting snow that probably didn’t work.The Victoria Strait Ice Trap: Getting hopelessly frozen in what is now Nunavut.By 1850, local Inuit hunters witnessed a real-life horror movie. Feeble, vacant-eyed, blue-tinged figures came shuffling out of the frozen tundra like literal Game of Thrones White Walkers. Stranded, starving, and half-dead, the final survivors resorted to the ultimate survival instinct: cannibalism!Send us Fan MailWant more Weirdos of Whimsy? Check out https://bio.site/weirdosofwhimsy to find everything in one place! From there, you can subscribe to our YouTube channel, grab some official merch, or follow us on Instagram to chat!Have a bone-chilling story of your own? We want to hear it! Send your scary encounters to [email protected] or DM us. Your story might just make it onto a future episode!