Castles & Cryptids

Nov 15 2024 191 ep. 109 mins 28

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Welcome to Castles & Cryptids, a paranormal podcast hosted by a couple of Canadian chickies! Follow Alanna and Kelsey down the rabbit hole as we explore lore and legends, murder and mysteries, the unsolved and the unexplained. Where the castles are haunted and the cryptids are cryptic AF!

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166: Murders in the Military

Nov 15 2024 163 mins

We have a mega-sized episode for you that coincided nicely with Remembrance Day being this week! Hope you have some long drive or big pile of dishes, we guess?? Or maybe you listen at work, like Alanna. So sorry, but this one is NOT Safe For Work. Earbuds in, in presence of kiddos. And as we discuss, you're never safe, not even at work, not even if you work as a trained soldier,

Hometown Haunt: McKay Avenue School Museum

Nov 10 2024 42 mins

We hear dead people! Haha, we promised a local hometown haunt and here it is. Alanna reads to us of the haunting encounters that happen at the McKay Avenue School, an institution established in Edmonton in 1881. You know the big old buildings that look like they could be old-timey jails or schoolhouses? That's the vibe, only now it's a museum where the spirits tease the workers lik

165: This Episode is Haunted AF

Nov 08 2024 67 mins

We are sorry, but this week we get super spooky, so come along on the spectral wild ride! Gather round the campfire, a bevy of tales await you! First Kelsey graces us with several ghost encounters of the worst kind-knocks, sounds and sights of a poltergeist. Several tales like The Haunted Ventriloquist make us scared to know more. Chuckie, are you listening? Next, Alanna Takes u

Two Truths, One Lie! Happy Halloween Edition feat. Ye Olde Crime!

Nov 01 2024 46 mins

Horror season is in full swing, and we have some scary stories for you, my cryptic cuties! We are so excited to be joined by special guest Lindsay Valenty of the Ye Olde Crime Podcast for some true or false tales of creeps! If you are on Patreon, you know we have done our version of 2 Truths, 1 Lie scary stories and had so much fun , so here's some more you can play along with at

164: Gainesville Murders /"Screams" Conclusion

Oct 25 2024 84 mins

This week we conclude the Gainesville Student Murders, sometimes known as the Gainesville Ripper Murders. They do make for a scary movie, targeting a young, defenseless, student population. From a triple-murder to the killing of the Gainesvillle victims, this killer was vicious, yet cautiaus. Who's lying? But however terrifying, there were some details that the movies got wrong.

163: Horror Movies x True Crime

Oct 18 2024 92 mins

Art and Life, movies and madness, do they always go hand in hand? We take a look at two cases that sit on different sides of the "inspired by" storyline. Kelsey covers Allan Menzies, a story that involves mental illness, an obsession with the Queen of the Damned, and a very sad loss of innocent life. Movies often get blamed for inciting violent tendencies, but how much culpabilit

162: Vampiric Lore

Oct 10 2024 110 mins

Welcome to spooky season cryptic cuties, we hope you enjoyed the darkcast takeover ep last week. Join us as we take a dive into the vast world of vampire lore, for what is sure to be the first part of a series. Kelsey has the down low on how to avoid becoming a vampire, from different things to avoid, to anti-vampire burial methods. We discuss rules from Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Darkcast Diversion: Hand Off My Podcast

Oct 03 2024 27 mins

Hey happy Friday and Happy Spooky Season!! This week we are taking time to bank some episodes, watch some Horror movies for our special Patreon Halloween Movie Mash-up (Is that a good name? lol) and catch up so we can come back next week and be ready to do that Monster Mash!! So here's a sister show from the hella good Darkcast Network, Hands Off My Podcast, a true crime podcast h

161: Mystery of the Dead Body

Sep 26 2024 110 mins

This week we dove into two cases that bed the question, Why? and also How? whether its the classic dead body-in-a-locked-room style murder mystery, or a horrific multiple-murder with no apparent motive, some murders are a true mystery. Or maybe, not murders at all, in some cases. So Kelsey hits us with the Keddie cabin murders, a malicious crime that remains mysterious to this da

160: Lost Cities That Time Forgot

Sep 19 2024 105 mins

Hey, Cryptic Cuties, let's take a trip together to some abandoned places of the world. Tales of wealthy towns that prospered and grew but were ultimately left or destroyed. Sometimes we don't even really know, leaving more of an air of mystery. Kelsey takes us to India, and the ruins of Hampi, including impressive structures like the Hemakuta Hill Temple and the Lotus Mahal. Soun