The Grim Curriculum
Welcome to The Grim Curriculum, a Canada based podcast, with hosts Charlotte and Dina.
Join us as we chat about True Crime, Cryptids, Historic Events, and a whole lot more.
If it’s macabre and nightmarish, we want to discuss it. Join us every Saturday for a new episode.
Be sure to listen with the lights off.
- Update frequency
- every 4 days
- Average duration
- 38 minutes
- Episodes
- 227
- Years Active
- 2022 - 2025
Extra Credit - Episode 12: Just A Man And His WWII Tank & A Croc On A Plane
This episode of Extra Credit will take you on a ride to the islands of the Salish Sea, where it's not as uncommon as you might think to come across a dismembered foot.Serial killer Dennis Rader (AKA …
00:28:58 |
Wed 06 Sep 2023
Episode 75: Issei Sagawa - The Kobe Cannibal - Part 1
Today we are starting a series on Issei Sagawa aka the Kobe Cannibal. This monster was a Japanese murderer, cannibal, and necrophiliac. In this episode we cover his early life right up to meeting his…
00:28:42 |
Sun 03 Sep 2023
Episode 74: Survivor Story - Juliane Koepcke
Today, we are bringing you a truly harrowing story of survival. Juliane Koepcke now known as Juliane Diller, was only 17 years old when she found herself fighting for her life after the flight she wa…
00:28:19 |
Sat 26 Aug 2023
Extra Credit - Episode 11: Our Very First Florida Woman, Drunk Racoons & A Most Ironic Drowning
We bring you our very first Florida Woman story on Extra Credit and we aren't sure what took us so long. Dina brings you the tale of some fuzzy lil critters getting rowdy and Charlotte explains why R…
00:35:35 |
Wed 23 Aug 2023
Episode 73: The List Family Murders - Part 3
Welcome to the third and final part of our series on the List Family Murders. We last left off with John leaving the List family home for the final time.In this episode we’ll be talking about what he…
00:32:00 |
Wed 23 Aug 2023
Episode 72: The List Family Murders - Part 2
In our last episode we introduced John List and his family. In part 2, we will be going over not just the tragic murders committed by John List but also the amount of meticulous planning that went in…
00:30:47 |
Sat 12 Aug 2023
Extra Credit - Episode 10: A Trip to Venus with OceanGate & The Corpse Bride has a Corpse Divorce
Our 10th Extra Credit episode brings you quite a few unusual tales. The recent discovery of "Giant-Sized" Prehistoric tools in England, have some eyebrows raised and OceanGate's founder, Guillermo Sö…
00:32:25 |
Wed 09 Aug 2023
Episode 71: The List Family Murders - Part 1
Today we a starting the story of the List Family Murders. On November 9, 1981, John List killed his entire family including his wife, their three children, and his own mother. His plan for the murder…
00:28:32 |
Sat 05 Aug 2023
Episode 70: UFO Hearings 2023 - David Grusch Speaks Under Oath
We know this isn't our usually scheduled content and while we typically don't cover current events, we thought you guys might enjoy a breakdown of the latest UFO news coming out of the States.On July…
00:27:03 |
Sat 29 Jul 2023
Extra Credit - Episode 9: Essie Ain't Dead Yet & Lil Prince Phil of France
This week's Extra Credit brings you more nautical madness and a trek through history. We have a discussion on the arrest of Rex Heuermann a.k.a. the Long Island Serial Killer, 2 different old timey b…
00:38:39 |
Wed 26 Jul 2023
Episode 69: Sade Abe - Love & Dismemberment
Sada Abe was a Japanese woman who became best known for not only killing her lover in 1936 via erotic asphyxiation, but for slicing off his genitals and then carrying them around with her in her kimo…
00:38:04 |
Sat 22 Jul 2023
Episode 68: The Life & Murder of Dian Fossey
Today we are covering the murder of world renound conservationist and primatologist, Dian Fossey. She is best known for writing the book “Gorillas in the Mist”. She spent 13 years following 8 familie…
00:32:06 |
Sat 15 Jul 2023
Episode 67: Strange Disappearances & Reappearances
Today we are covering 3 bizarre missing persons cases that have 1 thing in common. Each of our three stories today have someone drop off of the face of the earth and then re-appear years later with e…
00:30:09 |
Sat 08 Jul 2023
Extra Credit - Episode 8: All Things Nautical & The Poop Cruise
This week we are taking a look at a few ocean themed stories including of course the recent OceanGate Titan submersible incident and the Orca revenge attacks on boats off the coast of Spain. We also …
00:31:53 |
Sat 08 Jul 2023
Episode 66: Robert Hansen - The Butcher Baker - Part 3
Robert Hansen continued to terrorize women until he was finally caught October 27, 1983. One of his victims, 17 Year old Cindy Paulson managed to escape from the clutches of this monster and was a ke…
00:28:03 |
Sat 01 Jul 2023
Episode 65: Robert Hansen - The Butcher Baker - Part 2
It’s time to begin part two of our Robert Hansen series. In part one we saw a bit of what makes him so bad. Today we see how he escalates and "perfects" his MO by using his small plane to fly his vic…
00:32:38 |
Sat 24 Jun 2023
Extra Credit - Episode 7: Clog Fighting, Victorian Slang & “Oh! She's Not Quite As Dead As We Thought”
This week we have some topics, old timey and modern, for you. From strange turns of phrase from the Victorians to gruesome medical practices from way back in history, this episode is a roller coaster…
00:38:05 |
Wed 21 Jun 2023
Episode 64: Robert Hansen - The Butcher Baker - Part 1
Today we are begining our series on serial killer, Robert Hansen who is best known for the fact that he would kidnap many of his victims and fly them into the Alaskan wilderness on his small plane. T…
00:33:40 |
Sat 17 Jun 2023
Episode 63: Audrey Marie Hilley - Arsenic & Audacity
Today we are covering the case of Audrey Marie Hilley. Using arsenic to poison her family members over long periods of time in order to collect their life insurance payouts, she is what you might cal…
00:31:19 |
Sat 10 Jun 2023
Extra Credit - Episode 6: Folks On Parole & A Seaman's Wager
This week's Extra Credit we discuss a few older true crime cases that are coming back up again in the news. Paroles for some pretty infamous individuals that we've talked about before are going to be…
00:39:20 |
Wed 07 Jun 2023
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