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Deep in the wilderness of Canada’s North—where the mountains cut through the sky and the land feels untouched by time—there are whispers of something that shouldn’t exist.

A valley hidden within Nahanni National Park Reserve…
 A place said to be warm in the dead of winter.
 Where snow refuses to settle.
 Where green life thrives against all odds.

Prospectors spoke of it in hushed tones.
 Indigenous oral histories echo something strange in the land.
 And those who have searched for it… have come back with more questions than answers.

In this episode of Down the Crooked Path, we follow the legend of the so-called “Valley of Warmth”—a place that may be explained by geothermal science… or may be something far harder to define.

Because in a region this remote, this vast, and this unforgiving…

Some secrets don’t need to hide. They’re simply never found.

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 Your next creepy obsession starts here. 

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Edited by Kyle McDonnell