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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 Christian Saint, Saint Christopher. But what were they and where did they come from and could they be behind the modern day dogman phenomenon? To help Almost Canon grow, please leave a rating and a review. We are an independent podcast trying to grow a community from the...

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 of mysteries have been piling up. From anceint water spirits to forests of "cement shoe" victims and even its very own lake monster, Lake Tahoe certainly holds its secrets well. We start the episode by going over lake Tahoe's creation and those who called it home, long before lumber men and prospectors settled...

***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 passing of Sam Neill, I figured now would be the best time to check out one of Hollywoods greatest movies! With a decent knowlege of Jurassic Park lore, gained from different novels, comic books and video games, I'll attempt to lead you scene by scene...

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 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!
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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 aspects of a bear as well as use the spirit of a bear to perform individual tasks. We also look at the infamous 'berserker', which seem to share more than a few aspects of bearwalking and local legends of the 'bulletproof bear' which could actually be modern bearwalker...

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 an aggressive giant that attacked a group of hunters in the swamps of the Florida-Georgia border and so many in between. 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...

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 the world as well. We start by recounting an incredible encounter had to Ivan T. Sanderson while cannoing down a African river to a story from the Bible, where the dragon stained by Daniel was actual a dinosaur, captured by the Babalonians during their travels across Africa. There are so many different...

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 my favorites. It take place in the mountains of Pennsylvania and deals with a bow hunter who wasn't only stalked by a dogman but was seemingly hunted by the creature as well! To help Almost Canon grow, please leave a rating and a review. We are...

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 Roswell Crash and even whether the moon landing was faked or not. This film is the biggest film we've broke down by far but given the fact that its no doubt a piece of our childhoods and a great 4th of July movie, I couldn't help but look...

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 believed were actual skinwalkers--Skinwalkers he had to save his dog from.......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!
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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 one made even more interesting due to the fact that an old president of the US wrote about it. We then look at the idea of whether President Roosevelt put aside so much land to not only protect the beauty of America but the creatures that called those places...

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 have died out millions of years ago and many believe that Sasquatch is, or at the very least, is the direct ancestor of the Gigantopithecus, which by all accounts died out around 300 thousands years ago. But that's just a start. There are countless cryptids from all over the world...

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!
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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, 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!
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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 into the vast ice field of the extreme north. We also investigate the Greek myth of Hyperborea and stories of frozen cities in the Alaskan wilderness. So is a lost civilization located somewhere beneath the ice and snow of the north? Check out today's episode to find...

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 trying to grow a community from the ground up and we need all the support we can get to make this thing work!
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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 way through a history that is soaked in blood. It is no wonder that specific area, an area that has seen so many bodies laid to rest it gained the monicker "Burry Hill". So it's no wonder has such a highly concentrated amount of paranormal happening go on there...

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 Museum and what she saw there. We've talked with psychics and mediums before but every time we speak with another, things seem to get scarier and scarier! To help Almost Canon grow, please leave a rating and a review. We are an independent podcast trying...

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 creoc legends such as Gustave and the monstrous 40+ foot Mahambas from the Congo River Basin. Then after after the cryptid lore has been shared Nick dig into the feature film, a classic creature feature from 2000 called Crocodile. orignially meant to capitalize on the success of Lake...

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 years of watching he has documented countless occasions of these creatures coming and going. He's even seen them enter and exit this portal, which he's also captured on this plot of land. We also dive deep into the history of cryptids and cryptid-like entities going all the way back...

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 week then look no further than AC's paranormal news update!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 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 Channel throughout my youth. It's about a small lake town that suddenly finds itself in the sights of the Loch Ness monster and the cryptozoologist who's been hunting Nessy all his life. So sit back, relax and enjoy this weeks Real to Reel episode as...

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 range of different stories with the goal up giving a brief update to anyone whose interested in the past weeks paranormal news! 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...

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 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!<...

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 ghost stories thrown in as well. This is an incredible episode you certainly won't want to miss!! 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...

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. We'll hear about a prospector who fell down as crevasse and found a bigfoot in an ice cave; a fisherman who spotted a serpent tailed merbeing; a group of native Americans who battled a cannibalistic tribe of 'tailed' beings; and a sea cobra that attacked two deputy Marshals on...

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 Matt Gaetz spilling the beans about Alien/Human hybrids .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...

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 mountains where stories of these fae-like beings are still told. We look at whether the vikings battled these pygmies when they landed on the eastern shores 1000 years ago; we look at stories told by high arctic explorers as well as stories told by prospectors and adventures within...

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 to exist there. We also look into the story behind the White Queen and if there actually is a tropical valley somewhere within the Nahanni and its possible connection to Inner Earth To help Almost Canon grow, please leave a rating and a review. We are an...

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 it remains one of the best fae stories i've ever heard. Its creepy. Its mysterious. It's from my own backyard. And its believable! Also check out the full "The Fae Wood" epiosde for more stories told by Alice! To...

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 a great topic to get into when talk about the Watchers or Nephilim due to the fact that these mythical beings from Irish folklore were originally know as the People of God before their name was changed to...

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 from the north and ask the question: could these be physical projections due to a scientific theory called the 'stone tape theory'?To help Almost Canon grow, please leave a rating and a review. We are an independent podcast trying to grow a community...

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 is something straight out of a Spielberg or Cameron film. Four entities exited the craft and began psychically communicating with the students, showing these 10 years olds, all sorts of images of a dying world. The encounter was heavily investigated and is widely considered to be one of the best documented UFO...

As i was recently on another show, sharing what i know about the Bennington Triangle, I thought it would be a good idea to revisit the Tabaldak Connection, but in a much more refined way. This story is the culmination of a years' worth of research and deals with secret government projects, sleeping Nephilim giants, pre-Columbian contact, cursed mountains and missing people. If you want answers as to what's going on in the Bennington Triangle then this is an episode you won't want to miss! To help Almost Canon grow, please leave a rating and a review. We are an...

This week we talk with W. Boyd, who came face to face with a dogman one morning, while bow hunting with his father. The two had started their trip by parking in a lot near a piece of property they owned and began walking into the woods. It wasn't long until Boyd began hearing something something them. It would walk when they walked and stopped when they stopped. He pointed this out to his father, who couldn't hear that good, but they continued on to their hunt. But it didn't take long for Boyd to figure out what was following...

This week Nick dives into the world of bigfoot and digs into the many different types that are reported world wide. from the Almas to the Yeren to several other, lesser known, bigfoot found deep in the Siberian wilderness to high in the Andes Mountains, it would seem that while the name is different and descriptions may vary, bigfoot and bigfoot-like beings can be found all over the world. 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...

This week we talk with the husband and wife team behind The Unknown Project.These paranormal investigators have travel across the US, investigating all sorts of paranormal hotspots and have uncovered some very interesting and unnerving evidence, including what I believe is a portal being opened and the singing of a ghostly entity!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!
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This week we dive into the history behind one of cryptozoologies oldest cryptids....the yeti! 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 support we can purchase new equipment as well as take Almost Canon on the road. There are several haunted hotels we'd like to investigate and podcast from like the Omni Mount Washington Resort, home of the infamous Bretton Woods Confrence and...

This week we talk about Bigfoot in Vermont otherwise known as the Green Mountain State. Vermont is one of the smallest states in the Union but it is incredibly wooded. At 4.5 million acres of forested land and about 78% of the state, it's no doubt Sasquatch have been reported in Vermont for hundreds of years. we'll start by going over some of the more well known encounters and then dive into a book by Jason Lorefice called Vermont Bigfoot Encounters and Beyond, where we find some pretty interesting information even I didn't know about.To help Almost Canon grow, please leave...

As winter firmly wraps it's icy fingers around us, I thought it would be more than appropriate to dive into three first hand encounters that deal with one of cryptozoologies most misunderstood entities....the Wendigo.So this week, as we come back from our hiatus, we kick the new year off with three incredibly chilling stories. The first deals with a hunter, who is in turn, hunted by the creature, while hunting deer in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. The second is a story about a stranded snowmobiler who comes face to face with something he had heard about since...