Almost Canon

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 the support we can get to make this thing work!
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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 get to make this thing work!
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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 Almost Canon Podcast are certainly interested in. So we start with episode 1 'Come Home Year'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...

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 grown over the years. However, in 2005, it was nothing more than a werewolf story. So this week, for the first of several Halloween movies we'll be looking at 2005's The Beast of Bray Road.This direct to video werewolf movie was featured on...

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 at a local lake when a massive 9 foot dogman showed itself on the banks of the lake. This dogman would end up being seen by others, including a couple Navajo Rangers but strangest of all, it would end up following Jeremy back home.....To help...

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 thing work!
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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 adaptived film is much different than the book. It takes place on the small island of Saint Lucia and deals with a group of scientists who have to battle a genetically modified Great White shark, which was created by the US Government, 25 years prior to the current...

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 London, Ohio!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 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 dogman activity but also be healed by a group of mysterious interdimentional beings of light while in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Hear Wayne's full story on this weeks episode of Almost Canon!To help Almost Canon grow, please leave a rating and a review. We are an...

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 night as well as a handful of other stories including bigfoot stotries and a suprising story involving a grim reaper like 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...

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 misinterpreted as plesiosaurs. In this episode we focus mainly on Lake Champlain but look at stories like 'The Beast of Busco'. We digest an interview with Chuck Pogan, a cryptozoologist who was able to view the entire Bodette Film and we also look at a random message I recieved...

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 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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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 all the way back to the primordial gods of Egypy and Sumeria. So is it possible these fish tailed being might hold some secrets to our ancient world? Are they still swimming the ocean's depths today? find out more in this weeks re-play episode of Almost Canon...

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!
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 the...

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...