The Summer of UFOs: Canada’s 1975 Wave (with Chris Rutkowski)

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In the summer of 1975, Canada experienced one of its most intense and widespread waves of UFO activity. From glowing orbs lighting up the skies over Manitoba to structured craft witnessed by RCMP officers in Saskatchewan, hundreds of reports flooded in from across the country. Some sightings even left behind scorched earth and damaged vegetation—tangible traces of something unexplained.

In this episode, we’re joined by Canadian UFO researcher Chris Rutkowski, who has spent decades cataloging and analyzing reports like these. Together, we explore the most notable cases from that summer, dig into the official government documentation, and ask the big question: what was really happening in Canada’s skies during Canada’s summer of UFOs?

Links:

Chris Rutkowski’s ‘ 50 Years Ago: Canada's "Summer of UFOs." ‘ - https://chrisrutkowski.substack.com/p/50-years-ago-canadas-summer-of-ufos

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Where are Lilly and Jack Sullivan - Part 8: Ten Weeks Missing

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We continue our coverage of the heartbreaking and still-unfolding disappearance of 6-year-old Lilly and her 4-year-old brother Jack Sullivan. The siblings were reported missing from their home in rural Nova Scotia on the morning of Friday, May 2nd.

In this episode Jordan and Madelayne discuss the updates and developments that occurred during the eighth and ninth week of the children’s disappearance;

  • the two month anniversary news coverage

  • CBC’s long form interview with RCMP’s Cpl Tremblay (https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.6808266)

  • an attempted abduction in New Brunswick prior to the children’s disappearance (https://rcmp.ca/en/nb/news/2025/04/rcmp-seeking-publics-help-following-attempted-abduction)

Links:

Part 1 - three days later (Recorded May 5)

Part 2 - One Week Missing

Part 3 - Two Weeks Missing

Bonus Discussion with True North True Crime

Part 4 - Three Weeks Missing

Part 5 - Four Weeks Missing

Part 6 - Six Weeks Missing

Part 7: Seven Weeks Missing

KEEP CANADA WEIRD - 171 - 2025/07/11 - Gross Canada Places, and three stories of mischief, madness, and misfortune

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In Keep Canada Weird Jordan and Aaron Airport explore the weird and offbeat Canadian news stories from the past week.

In this episode your hosts discuss;

  • The Great KFC Swamp of Côte-des-Neiges

  • The Goose Poop Crisis at Penhorn Lake

  • Tesla, Sledgehammer, No Pants: A BC Ferries Story

  • Wrong Way Timber: Tree Crushes Quebec Man’s Home

The Three Cape Breton Boys on the Tracks (the deaths of Kenny Novak, David Burrows, and Terry Burt,

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In this episode, we revisit the tragic and puzzling deaths of three Cape Breton teenagers, Kenny Novak (15), David Burrows (17), and Terry Burt (20), who were struck and killed by a freight train in the early morning hours of July 10, 1970, in the remote woods of Maine.

Officially ruled an accident, the case was quickly closed by authorities who concluded the boys had chosen to sleep on the tracks.

We are joined by Ken Jessome, a childhood friend of Kenny and David, who has spent the last several years reigniting interest in the case through a series of articles in his community newspaper. Ken shares his personal memories of the boys, reflects on the strange details surrounding their deaths, and explains why he believes the official story doesn’t add up.

Links:

Ken Jessome - johnjessome6@gmail.com

Remembering a Mysterious Summer of ’70 Tragedy (CapeBretonSpectator.com - Ken Jessome - July 19, 2017)

Sleeping Victims: A Cape Breton True Crime Story? (GoCapeBreton.com - Ken Jessome - June 6, 2018)

An Unfortunate Mishap: Three Cape Breton Deaths (GoCapeBreton.com - Ken Jessome - July 10, 2018)

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KEEP CANADA WEIRD - 170 - 2025/07/04 - Tim Hortons, recycling, cats on a leash, a ghost story

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In Keep Canada Weird Jordan and Aaron Airport explore the weird and offbeat Canadian news stories from the past week.

In this episode your hosts discuss;

  • Tim Horton’s possible buying MANY boats

  • the proposed recycling lottery

  • cats on a leash

  • another ghost battles the Canadian Revenue Agency

Encounters With Creeps - Volume 27

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In Encounters with CREEPS, Nighttime listeners are invited to share their unsettling experiences with the many CREEPS lurking in everyday life.

In this episode, Jordan and Madelayne Klein unpack the 27th volume of your Encounters with CREEPS.

This time we’ve got a CREEP in a mall bathroom, another dog who could sense CREEPS, a CREEP who likes wet leggings, and that CREEPY clown.

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Series Links:

Madelayne Klein: https://linktr.ee/madelayneklein

Encounters with Creeps series archive: https://www.nighttimepodcast.com/encounters-with-creeps

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KEEP CANADA WEIRD - 169 - 2025/06/27 - the disobedient driver, excavator vs bank, robbing the dead, mall managers

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In Keep Canada Weird Jordan and Aaron Airport explore the weird and offbeat Canadian news stories from the past week.

In this episode your hosts discuss;

  • Canada’s most disobedient driver

  • an excavator vs a bank in Scarborough

  • why you shouldn’t rob the dead in Nova Scotia

  • the secret lives of Canada’s mall managers

Where are Lilly and Jack Sullivan - Part 7: Seven Weeks Missing

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We continue our coverage of the heartbreaking and still-unfolding disappearance of 6-year-old Lilly and her 4-year-old brother Jack Sullivan. The siblings were reported missing from their home in rural Nova Scotia on the morning of Friday, May 2nd.

In this episode Jordan and Madelayne discuss the updates and developments that occurred during the seventh week of the children’s disappearance;

  • the possibility of accessing search warrant applications

  • the Belynda Gray (Lilly and Jack’s paternal grandmother) interview

  • the Daniel Martell interview

  • Nova Scotia’s $150,000 reward for information related to this “crime”

Links:

Part 1 - three days later (Recorded May 5)

Part 2 - One Week Missing

Part 3 - Two Weeks Missing

Bonus Discussion with True North True Crime

Part 4 - Three Weeks Missing

Part 5 - Four Weeks Missing

Part 6 - Six Weeks Missing

Where are Lilly and Jack Sullivan - Part 6: Six Weeks Missing

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We continue our coverage of the heartbreaking and still-unfolding disappearance of 6-year-old Lilly and her 4-year-old brother Jack Sullivan. The siblings were reported missing from their home in rural Nova Scotia on the morning of Friday, May 2nd.

In this episode Jordan and Madelayne discuss the updates and developments that occurred during the sixth week of the children’s disappearance

Links:

Part 1 - three days later (Recorded May 5)

Part 2 - One Week Missing

Part 3 - Two Weeks Missing

Bonus Discussion with True North True Crime

Part 4 - Three Weeks Missing

Part 5 - Four Weeks Missing

Part 6 - Six Weeks Missing

KEEP CANADA WEIRD - 168 - 2025/06/20 - Drake, modern man does research, the SLIDE TO HELL, and the 84 year old and her escort

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In Keep Canada Weird Jordan and Aaron Airport explore the weird and offbeat Canadian news stories from the past week.

In this episode your hosts discuss;

  • Drake vs. Jagmeet Singh

  • the ‘modern man does research’ art installation

  • the SLIDE TO HELL

  • the 84 year old woman and the escort she left her fortune to

KEEP CANADA WEIRD MAILBAG - Vol 6

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The Keep Canada Weird Mailbag is a collection of listener mail that, for one reason or another, was unable to fit into the weekly weird news round up.

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KEEP CANADA WEIRD - 167 - 2025/06/13 - Tim Horton's fight, cow wedding, a headless deer, THE FENCE

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In Keep Canada Weird Jordan and Aaron Airport explore the weird and offbeat Canadian news stories from the past week.

In this episode your hosts discuss;

  • the senior vs teenager fight at Tim Hortons

  • the cow wedding

  • a headless deer in Calgary

  • the fence in Kitchener

KEEP CANADA WEIRD - 166 - 2025/06/06 - Kenzie gets caught, a creepy misunderstanding, and two ghost stories

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In Keep Canada Weird Jordan and Aaron Airport explore the weird and offbeat Canadian news stories from the past week.

In this episode your hosts discuss;

  • Kenzie is no longer on the lam

  • a creepy misunderstanding in Guelph

  • an inconvenienced ghost

  • a tearjerker of a lotto win

the Murder of Valerie Stevens (Toronto, Ontario - 1989)

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In September 1989, 19-year-old Valerie Stevens kissed her daughter goodnight and left their Toronto apartment for a night out. She never made it to the nightclub—and never came home. Three years later, Valerie’s remains were discovered in a wooded area near Brantford, Ontario. Her death was ruled a homicide, but the case remains unsolved to this day.

In this episode, we speak with Valerie’s daughter, Robyn Stevens, who was just 16 months old when her mother vanished. Now a mother herself, Robyn shares her personal journey—from the shocking revelation as a preteen that she had been adopted, to her ongoing efforts to uncover what really happened to her birth mother. With candor and resilience, Robyn reflects on identity, loss, and the enduring hope for justice.

News Clipping and Photo Archive

Where are Lilly and Jack Sullivan - Part 5 - Four Weeks Missing

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We continue our coverage of the heartbreaking and still-unfolding disappearance of 6-year-old Lilly and her 4-year-old brother Jack Sullivan. The siblings were reported missing from their home in rural Nova Scotia on the morning of Friday, May 2nd.

In this episode Jordan and Madelayne discuss the updates and developments that occurred during the fourth week of the children’s disappearance;

  • The children's stepfather Daniel Martell’s polygraph test

  • The RCMP’s clarified timeline that answers the question "when were the children seen by someone OTHER than their family"

  • Several notable news reports covering the case

  • The third wave of ground searching.

Links:

Part 1 - three days later (Recorded May 5)

Part 2 - One Week Missing

Part 3 - Two Weeks Missing

Bonus Discussion with True North True Crime

KEEP CANADA WEIRD - 165 - 2025/05/30 - Toronto's psychic fugitive, kenzie on the lam, a moose attack, Air Canada

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In Keep Canada Weird Jordan and Aaron Airport explore the weird and offbeat Canadian news stories from the past week.

In this episode your hosts discuss;

  • how the psychic fugitive got caught

  • how Kenzie got on the lam

  • a moose attack

  • an Air Canada pilot’s rant

Where are Lilly and Jack Sullivan - Part 4 - Three Weeks Missing

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We continue our coverage of the heartbreaking and still-unfolding disappearance of 6-year-old Lilly and her 4-year-old brother Jack Sullivan. The siblings were reported missing from their home in rural Nova Scotia on the morning of Friday, May 2nd.

In this episode Jordan and Madelayne discuss the updates and developments that occurred during the third week of the children’s disappearance. We have the results of the second ground search, Daniel Martell’s comments to media addressing online allegations being made towards him, and the RCMP’s request for video footage from a community several kilometers away from the children’s home.

Links:

Part 1 - three days later (Recorded May 5)

Part 2 - One Week Missing

Part 3 - Two Weeks Missing

Part 4 - Bonus Discussion with True North True Crime

KEEP CANADA WEIRD - 164 - 2025/05/23 - cows on a highway, psychic fugitive, armed donair robbery, and the cringy escaped inmate

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In Keep Canada Weird Jordan and Aaron Airport explore the weird and offbeat Canadian news stories from the past week.

In this episode your hosts discuss;

  • cows on an Ontario highway

  • armed donair robbery in New Westminister, BC

  • a psychic fugative

  • Canada’s cringy escaped inmate

Where are Lilly and Jack Sullivan - Bonus - Case Discussion with True North True Crime

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We continue our coverage of the heartbreaking and still-unfolding disappearance of 6-year-old Lily and her 4-year-old brother Jack Sullivan. The siblings were reported missing from their home in rural Nova Scotia on the morning of Friday, May 2nd.

In this episode we are joined by Graeme and Caitlin, the hosts of True North True Crime podcast, for a detailed conversation about this deeply unsettling case. Together, we walk through what’s known, what’s suspected, and what just doesn’t add up.

Links:

True North True Crime Podcast - https://shows.acast.com/truenorthtruecrime

Part 1 - three days later (Recorded May 5)

Part 2 - One Week Missing

Part 3 - Two Weeks Missing

Where are Lilly and Jack Sullivan - Part 3 - Two Weeks Missing

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We continue our coverage of the heartbreaking and still-unfolding disappearance of 6-year-old Lily and her 4-year-old brother Jack Sullivan. The siblings were reported missing from their home in rural Nova Scotia on the morning of Friday, May 2nd.

In this episode we unpack the key developments during the second week of the search for Jack and Lilly, including the RCMP’s recent press releases, the unexpectedly rejuvenated search, the similarities between this case and that of an other missing child in Nova Scotia, and so much more.

Links:

the business model of misinformation article: https://www.saltwire.com/nova-scotia/social-media-misinformation-jack-lilly-sullivan

How posting about Jack and Lilly can get you in legal trouble article: https://globalnews.ca/news/11179437/missing-nova-scotia-children-online-theories-legal-action/amp/

Part 1 - three days later (Recorded May 5)

Part 2 - One Week Missing