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!
Hello lovely listeners, thank you so much for being patient with your podcasters! We're sorry we were delayed dropping you this epsiode and we appreciate those that have reached out when we are late, it shows us you care lol. So on to the super-sized show!
Kelsey kicks us off with some Grand Central Station lore and history before we get into the ghosts. We ride the rails from times with old trains named things like The Wolverine and the Fast Mail, to modern day and making way for Madison Square Gardens. Plus a Ghost Train!
After some song sidetracks and the trains to Hell departs, it's to to chug our way up the track to Canada! Alanna cover some haunted Ottawa spots, like the Friday's Roast Beef House and a haunted school. Could a custodian spirit be watching over the place after death? Let us know what you think!
Also so many song snippets got stuck in our heads sorry if we got you singing, but we hope you have as much fun listening as we did recording! Keep it Cryptic!
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28 Aug 2026
220: Astonishing Art Heists and KFC Capers
So sorry we've been away lovely listeners! back in the saddle again eh??
We love a heist tale over here at C+C Headquarters, and so we plucked a few choice stories to tell that tickled our fancy.
What's an art heist without an artist, we may say? Well, Kelsey brings the artistic talent in the case of the Graff Diamonds robbery. the disguises leveled up with the help of a makeup magician, so it doesn't fall off like a bad mustache.
After a quick caper into a chicken shack, it's on the Mona Lisa's missing case, the one that made her famous! and likely increased security on Museums everywhere, Plus a mini pirate theft, to satisfyt the swashbuckling swelter of late summer!
Keep It Cryptic!
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7 Aug 2026
219: The Cursed Episode
Other title option we almost went with-the One With All The Curses! Grab your lucky charms as we chat mysterious manuscripts and ciphers, a cursed play, theatre superstitions and the cursed grave of the Bard himself! It's cursin' time!
Kelsey covers a couple of cryptic texts like the one which tends to try and kill you if you try to print it, and the famously unintelligible Voynich Manuscript. The manuscript with an unknown language among other mysteries.
Shakespeare's Macbeth is also known as the Scottish Play- too cursed to even say aloud! Bu then there's other superstitions around the stage and the author's grave, and after all isn't all the world a stage?
Maybe some things are better left unknown, a perfect segue to Keep it Cryptic! Bye!
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Podcast Authority Score: 63 / 100
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