Almost Canon
by Nick
Nick Willard presents Almost Canon. A podcast about strange, unknown, and down right mysterious things. Every episode we investigate something considered ‘Almost Canon’ through recounting it’s story or interviewing someone with first hand knowledge of the Unknown. Whether it’s a frightening first hand account; a historical figure shrouded in mystery; a lost treasure recorded within the chapters of a dusty tome; an ancient city lost in the uncharted jungles of a far away land; or a hulking, beast rumored to lurk within the thick timber; We are here to discuss anything and everything almost canon. If you've experienced the Unknown or Paranornal and want to share your story then please send us a message at [email protected] check us out on: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/share/HzfkiaZRdYTQ5Lvp/?mibextid=LQQJ4d Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/almostcanonpod?igsh=MXR4dWZrZmtvZTBnMw%3D%3D&utm_source=qr <b
Episodes
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The Hidebehind and Wood Devil
This week we start off by talking aboit preparing for whatever is about to happen, as the goverments of the world seem to be telling their citizens to start prepping! We then talk about the Hidebehind, Wood Devil and other "tree walking" cryptids!To help Almost Canon grow, please leave a rating…
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Real to Reel: Ginger Snaps (2000)
This week on Real to Reel, as we enter the home stretch, we take a look at the 2000's coming of age story Giner Snaps. If you have never seen this movie then i highly suggest you watch the movie (its free on Tubi) beforte listening to the recap. To help Almost Canon grow, please leave a rating…
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Cryptid Experiences in Alabama with Mike From ACE
This week we hear from Mike and Alabama Cryptid Experience about his incredible dogman encounters, how he and family buried a dogman and of a habituation site with plenty of mysterious happenings.....happening. To help Almost Canon grow, please leave a rating and a review. We are an independent...
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Real to Reel: Scream (1996)
This may be the only non paranormal/ supernatural movie we ever cover but it is spooky season and the original Scream is hands down one of my all time favorite halloween movies.To help Almost Canon grow, please leave a rating and a review. We are an independent podcast trying to grow a community...
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Trolls and Mountain Giants with the Last Traveling Bard
This week we talk with Sam, otherwise known as the Last Traveling Bard, about his adventures while researching the topic of giants and trolls. To help Almost Canon grow, please leave a rating and a review. We are an independent podcast trying to grow a community from the ground up and we need all...
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Real to Reel: Below S1E2 Below- Crown and Anchor
On this episode of Real to Reel we look at episode 2 of the Netflix Original Series Below which is titled 'Crown and Anchor'To help Almost Canon grow, please leave a rating and a review. We are an independent podcast trying to grow a community from the ground up and we need all the support we can...
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Real to Reel: Below S1E1-Come Home Year
On this episode we're going to try something a little different. Instead of focusing on random movie we're going to to take a look at the Netflix Orignial Series Below. From what I can tell, This is going to be ashow about a seamonster that attacks a small coastal town and that is something we at...
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Real to Reel: The Beast of Bray Road (2005)
On this episode of Real to Reel we not only jump back into Sci-Fi Channel movies but into the mid aughts, a time when thing were much simpler and the Beast of Bray Road was hot on the scende. Origininally investigated by the late great Linda Godfrey, the story of the beast od Bray Road has only...
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The Navajo Howler Followed Me Home
This week we talk with Jeremy, who lives on the border of the Navajo Nation and has spent years hauling cargo through the area. He starts by sharing a coouple strange encounters, one of which is extremely off putting and strange and then he tells us about the time he and some friends were fishing...
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Cold Hollow Files part 1
This week we talk with Marty, whose been documenting his findings throughout the back woods of Kentucky. To help Almost Canon grow, please leave a rating and a review. We are an independent podcast trying to grow a community from the ground up and we need all the support we can get to make this...
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Real to Reel: Peter Benchley's Creature (1998)
On this episode of Real to Reel we conclude summer with a creature feature from the tropics. This film was released on May 17th, 1998 as a two part seires on ABC. Its titled Creature and was based off Peter Benchley's novel "White Shark". Much like Jaws, which was also written by Peter, this...
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Recast: An American Werewolf in London, Ohio
Our research went over the time limit this week and while we wrap up a couple thing wer're going to replay one of our fsavorite episodces. This case could actually be a real life werewolf story so let us know what you think and please enjoy this weeks recast episode of An American Werewolf in...
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Bigfoot, Dogman and Interdimentional Entities of Light with Wayne Stapleton
This week we talk with Wayne Stapleton, a man whose been experiencing the strange and unknown from a very younge age. His first encounter happed in Michagain with a bigfoot that spoke to him mentally, from the woods outside his grandparents lake house and from there he went on to witness not only...
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Tales From The Far North: Haunted Alaska with Leah
On this episode we talk with native Alaskan Leah, who tells us about a munisiplal building from her village that was built over the top of a ancient burial ground and ultimatly became haunted because of this. She tells us about her own person experiance with the whistling lady while locked up one...
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The Plesio-Turtle Hypothesis
This week we dive into the world of Lake monsters and take a look at a theory that hasnt recieved much attention over the years but its a theory that I now believe could actually hold some real answers! Its called the Plesio-Turtle Theory and involves giant fresh water turetles being…
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The Bigfoot Savant Theory: Autism, ESP and the Woo
The week we take a look at a bigfoot theory that has me fully convinced that these are the answers we've been looking for! Is boigfoot able to do the weird things it does because of a scientific phenomenon thats barley understood? To help Almost Canon grow, please leave a rating and a review. We...
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RePlay// Merfolk:Cryptids of the Abyss
As i finish up some research on a game changing episode about bigfoot and the "woo" I wanted to replay this episode about Merfolk and the suprising history they have. When we think of merfolk we like of Disney's 'The Little Mermaid' when in fact theres an incredbly rich history of Merfolk going…
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Cynocephali: The Dog Headed One
This week we look at the myth behind the Cynocephali, which mean Dog Headed in Greek. The creatures are said to be less like animals and something along the lines of human. They're cultured, they understand human language, their incredibly just and so on. One was even said to have become a...
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Mysteries Beneath Lake Tahoe
This week we literally dive into the largest alpine lake in North America, Lake Tahoe. While this beautiful location has become a major vacation destination over the years with its crystal blue waters and breathtaking mountain scenery, many seem to forget that just below the surface 10,000 years…
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Real to Reel: Jurassic Park
***FIXED AUDIO*****On this, better late than never, episode of Real to Reel we honor on of our childhood heroes, Dr. Alan Grant, played by the late Sam Neill by delving into the jungles Jurassic Park! While this kmovie is a departure from our usual films, its a staple of my childhood and with the...
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Real to Reel: Jurassic Park
On this late episode of Real to Reel we take a look at Jurassic Park! While this kmovie is a departure from our usual films, its a staple of my childhood and with the passing of Sam Neill, I figured now would be the best time to check out one of Hollywoods greatest movies!To help Almost Canon…
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Bearwalkers
This week on Almost Canon we talk about the Bearwalker. Similar to the better known Skinwalker, the Bearwalker is a type of paranormal or supernatural ability used by certain shamen and medicine men of Siberia and North America.It allows them to not only shapeshift into a bear but to take on...
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Field Guide to Frontier Bigfoot Encounters
The majority of the best Bigfoot encounters, which we still talk about today, happened to explorers and adventures of North America's frontier. So on this weeks episode we have compiled a long list of encounters from David Thiompson's finding of a mysterious trackway in the snow covered Rockys to...
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Remembering Sam Neill: Dinosaur Cryptid Mashup
In remembrance of Sam Neill, the actor who played Dr. Alan Grant in Spielberg's 1993 masterpiece Jurassic Park, I have gone ahead and mashed together two of my favorite dinosaur cryptid episodes. These episode includes a wide range of dinosaur encounters from not only the Congo but from around…
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Recast: Hunted by a Dogman While Bow Hunting
This week I was unable to record while at the hospital so I wanted to re-cast one of my all time favorite dogman encounters. The episode originally air back in February and is episode 166. This is an exclusive encounter story that'll you'll only hear on Almost Canon and like I said, it's one of…
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Real to Reel: Independence Day (1996)
On this 4th of July episode of Almost Canon's Real to Reel, we prepare for an all out invasion in the 1996 blockbuster Independence Day. As we break down the scene by scene action seen in this film we look into the mysterious and paranormal topics that inspired it. topics like Area 51, the…
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Skinwalkers of Southern Colorado
On this weeks episode Christian, from The Midnight Shadowline, talks with a "professional traveler" who had encountered some strange activity in southern Colorado. He witnessed giant blue orbs as well as dogman-like entities that seemed to stock him while also coming face to face with what he...
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The Bauman Story and the National Park Conspiracy
This week we look at the' Bauman Story', which is a passage from Theodor Roosevelt's book 'The Wilderness Hunter'. He recounts hearing a story told by a trapper whose parter was killed by a mysterious animal while trapping on mountain pass in the Montana territory. The story is a very interesting...
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The Extinction Connection
This week we play off our Real To Reel movie and ask the question: Are cryptids relic survivors of extinct animals? People believe the Loch Ness Monster is a Plesiosamur, a marine reptile that died out 65 million years ago.There stories out of the Congo of dinosaur-like crypts that should also…
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Real to Reel: Sabertooth
On this weeks episode of Real to Reel we look at the 2002 movie Sabertooth! To help Almost Canon grow, please leave a rating and a review. We are an independent podcast trying to grow a community from the ground up and we need all the support we can get to make this thing work! With your monetary...
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true Horror: It Followed Me To My Cabin
On this weeks episode listen to the story of a Michigan hunter who encountered something mysterious that followed him back to his cabin....this story is on the same lines of Mr Ballen and Scared to Death and some details have been added but nothing had been taken away!To help Almost Canon grow,...
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The Atlantis of the North
On This weeks episode of Almost Canon we investigate the far north and ask the question 'did an advanced civilization once thrive in the far north?' We look at several different examples from a mysterious tree chopped down thousands of years ago to a race of arctic giants who seemingly walked off...
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Real To Reel: The Objective
On this episode of Real to Reel we look at the 2008 movie The Objective. This is a military thriller sci-fi flick that deals with some interesting concepts that play off of the regions ancient history.To help Almost Canon grow, please leave a rating and a review. We are an independent podcast...
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The Demon of Burry Hill
On this episode of Almost Canon we revisit the flying humanoid from episode 109 "The Devil's Bridge. Christian returns to the show to go over the history of this mysterious area on the border of Virginia and North Carolina. He starts at the beginning, long before the bridge existed and works his...
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Whispers From Beyond The Veil With 'The Joy Frequency'
This Week we talk with Joy from The Joy Frequency about her experiences as a medium and having to deal with this gift for her entire life. She talks about several prominent encounters like the demon who tried to break her and would watch her from the darkness to her time at Zak Bagans Haunted...
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Real to Reel: Crocodile
On this episode of Real to Reel Nick dives into giant crocodile lore by first going over a beast named Lolong, a 20 foot 3 inch long croc that was caught in 2012 and remains to this day the largest croc ever officially recorded. but it seems they get bigger than that! Nick goes over several giant...
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Cryptid Talk With Urban Bigfoot
This week we talk with Scott of Urban Bigfoot. Scott has discovered a Bigfoot hot spot on the outskirts of his local park. He's witnessed heavy Sasquatch activity as well as portal activity in that specific spot. He was initially amazed to find activity so close to the population but after 5…
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Paranormal News Update 3
On this weeks paranormal news update Nick quickly covers a handful of strange news topics including kill switches in cars, a fake tree, time traveling missing scientist, cloned dinos in North Korea and so much more. If your looking for the low down on all the weird stuff that went down this past...
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Real to Reel: Loch Ness Terror
This week we start our Real to Reel bonus coverage with 2008's Loch Ness Terror. This film originally debuted as Beyond Loch Ness on the Sci-Fi Channel and was directed by Paul Ziller. The Movie is a classic B movie creature feature and is one of the dozens of Bmovies that aired on the Sci-Fi...
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paranormal News Update #2
Check out this second edition of Paranormal News Update to hear the last week or two's paranormal news. We collected stories of mysterious animals attacks and graveyard exorcisms as well as new Sasquatch behavior and of course the update on the missing scientists. This is an episode with a wide...
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The Beast of the Land Between the Lakes
The beast of the LBL seems to have made a resurgence, on the internet that is, so while I finished up some research on a topic I figured this would be the best time to revisit the Beast of the LBL and see if the areas history holds any clues as to what might be attacking campers in the night!To...
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Cryptid Stories with Dano From The Cryptid Podcast
This week friend of the show Christian threw together an interview with Dano from The Cryptid Podcast and boy oh boy, what an incredible talk it was! Dan, host of The Cryptid Podcast, has had some pretty intense encounters throughout his life, from Bigfoot to pale crawler and we even get some…
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Cryptid Stories From Alaska
This week we check out some of the stories from Ed Ferrell's 'Strange Stories from Alaska and the Yukon'. These little known stories have been pulled from magazines entries and newspaper articles from the late 19th century and early 20th and are a group of stories that are rarely every told.…
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Paranormal News Update #1
This week I bring on Christian and we take a look back through the news cycle and pulling out several of the strangest events recorded by the media. We start by talking about a NASA employee, who tried to break into Area 51 to investigate an anomaly he described as a time dilation and end with…
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Fae Folk of the Far North
Do fae folk exist outside of Ireland? i know we here at Almost Canon believe they do! So this week were venturing deep into the arctic circle and investigating the stories of the 'Little People', specifically the Arctic Pygmies. We then follow the trail out of the snow and ice and into the...
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The Valley of the Headless Men
This week we do a deep dive into the Nahanni Valley otherwise known as the Valley of the Headless Men. We look at several different legends from this lost world including why it's called the Valley of the Headless Men as well as the different of cryptids and prehistorical monsters that are said…
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Fae Fix: The Fae Wood
We wanted to make sure you got your Fae fix before the big day next week! listen to Alice tell the story of how her and her sister saw what can only be described as a fae folk watching them from behind a tree in the woods behind their house. This story was taken from our The Fae Wood episode but…
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Recast: The Tuatha Dé
As my notes ran long as the original episode I was going to drop today I figured id fill the slot with a recast of the Tuatha De Danann part 1 episode I did way back when, so that way we can at least prepare for Saint Patricks Day while we wait for the original episode to drop. The Tuatha De are…
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The Partridge Creek Monster
This week we head deep into the Yukon, not for gold but for monsters! We take a look at the Partridge Creek Monster story, which is about a hunting party that came face to face with a prehistoric beast, 65 million years old! We also take a look at other living dinosaur and lake monster stories…
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The Ariel School UFO Incident
This week we take a look at the Ariel School UFO incident, which happened in September of 1994. On the morning of September 16th, 1994, 62 children, while playing out at recess, witnessed a mysterious object fall from the sky and land in the field near their playground. What happened from there…
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About this show
Nick Willard presents Almost Canon. A podcast about strange, unknown, and down right mysterious things. Every episode we investigate something considered ‘Almost Canon’ through recounting it’s story or interviewing someone with first hand knowledge of the Unknown. Whether it’s a frightening first hand account; a historical figure shrouded in mystery; a lost treasure recorded within the chapters of a dusty tome; an ancient city lost in the uncharted jungles of a far away land; or a hulking, beast rumored to lurk within the thick timber; We are here to discuss anything and everything almost canon.
If you've experienced the Unknown or Paranornal and want to share your story then please send us a message at [email protected]
check us out on: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/share/HzfkiaZRdYTQ5Lvp/?mibextid=LQQJ4d Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/almostcanonpod?igsh=MXR4dWZrZmtvZTBnMw%3D%3D&utm_source=qr <b
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