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Episode 134: OCEAN CREATURE – The Horseshoe Crab
These ancient, freaky-looking crabs are much more than they seem – and they might actually help keep you alive. 🦀 This week on Coast Files, we’re diving into the bizarre world of horseshoe crabs, the 250-million-year-old “living fossils” that are far stranger, and far more important, than their name suggests.…
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Episode 132: DISASTER: Final Voyage of the RMS Lusitania
The Lusitania was one of the most famous ocean liners of her time. But when she set out across the Atlantic in 1915, she was entering a world at war, and the dangers ahead were no secret. Despite warnings that German U-boats were targeting ships in the area, the Lusitania…
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Episode 131: EXPERIMENT – The Acali Raft
In May 1973, an anthropologist set drift across the Atlantic on a bus-sized raft with 10 strangers, engineered to test the breaking point of human savagery. The tabloids called it the “Sex Raft,” but between calculated mind games, near-miss collisions, and whispers of mutiny, the real conflict wasn’t what anyone…
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Episode 130: MURDERED – The Shafia Family
When a 1997 Nissan Sentra was found submerged at the Kingston Mills Locks in June 2009, it initially appeared to be a tragic, bizarre driving accident. Inside were four women—three teenage sisters and their father’s first wife—trapped beneath the surface. But as investigators began pulling back the layers of the…
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Episode 129: Interview with James Renner on the Disappearance of Amy Bradley
We sit down with investigative journalist and author James Renner to discuss his new book, A Cruise to Nowhere, and the disappearance of Amy Lynn Bradley. James’s research challenges some of the assumptions surrounding Amy’s case—and has us questioning what we originally believed may have happened to her. We discuss…
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Episode 128: CHILLING CRUISE SHIPS – The Disappearance of Amy Bradley
n March 1998, 23-year-old Amy Lynn Bradley set sail with her family aboard the Royal Caribbean cruise ship Rhapsody of the Seas for a week-long vacation in the Caribbean. But just as the ship prepared to dock in Curaçao, Amy vanished from her cabin balcony into thin air—leaving behind her…
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Episode 127: CULT – The Aquarian Foundation
High-society fortunes, apocalyptic dread, and a mysterious island compound off the British Columbia coast – this isn’t fiction, it’s Canada’s most bizarre occult scandal. Come join us as Chantel introduces Brother XII and the dark, twisty tale of the Aquarian Foundation.Will you uncover the truth, or fall under the spell?…
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Episode 126: DISASTER- Container Ship Catastrophes
When we lived in Halifax, we used to drive past the Fairview Cove Container Ship Terminal. Most medium sized cities on the coast will have a dock like this where water based deliveries are picked up and dropped off. Massive ships piled high with stacked steel containers filled with anything…
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Episode 125: SHARK WEEK TRIVIA
It’s Shark Week on Coast Files, and the hosts are celebrating with a triple-threat trivia showdown! Chantel, Lindsay, and Meghan take turns in the hot seat with their own custom quiz rounds—covering everything from ancient shark fossils and bizarre shark products throughout history to pop-culture famous fins from movies and…
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Episode 124: UNSOLVED MYSTERY – The Somerton Man
In this episode, Lindsay takes us down under to explore one of Australia’s most puzzling cases: the Somerton Man. On December 1st, 1948, an unidentified, well-dressed man was found deceased against a seawall on Somerton Beach in Adelaide. With all labels strategically removed from his clothing, no identification on his…
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Episode 123: DEEP DIVE – Apex Predator of the Antarctic
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Episode 121: Interview with Captain Jeff MacKinnon, Treasure Hunter & Shipwreck Salvage Diver
This week on Coast Files, we sit down with renowned shipwreck hunter Captain Jeff MacKinnon, lead on The History Channel’s TV show The Death Coast, for an exclusive conversation about the relentless pursuit of lost wrecks, forgotten stories, and the mysteries hidden beneath Canada’s waters. From groundbreaking discoveries off Nova…
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Episode 120: LOST & FOUND – The Vasa Ship
In this episode, Lindsay takes into the fascinating and ridiculously tragic history of the Swedish warship Vasa. Intended to be the crown jewel of King Gustav II Adolphus’s 17th-century navy, the ship instead achieved legendary status for a completely different reason: sinking almost immediately on its maiden voyage. Listen this…
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Episode 119: UFO – The Falcon Lake Incident
What began as a routine prospecting trip for amateur geologist Stefan Michalak quickly spiraled into chaos after a face-to-face encounter with a mysterious craft in the Manitoba woods in 1967. Afterwards, Stefan was left to deal with unexplainable, reoccurring health issues and a sudden media circus that completely upended his…
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Episode 118: UNSOLVED MYSTERY – The Boys on the Tracks
In this episode, Meg takes us back to early summer 1970 to investigate the heartbreaking and deeply unsettling case of three young friends from Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia. When the boys set off on a secret hitchhiking trip, it would end in tragedy and leave questions that are still…
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Episode 117: TRUE CRIME – Murder aboard the Herbert Fuller
All aboard for a shocking voyage into the past as we unpack the 1896 maritime murder mystery of the Herbert Fuller. What began as a standard trading journey quickly morphed into a brutal triple homicide on the high seas, leaving a terrified crew isolated with a killer and a heavily…
