In this haunting bonus installment of The Dark Mind
Detective, I share a chilling, deeply personal experience.
I remember vividly standing at that field, that killing field
the robber picked in property. This was in February 2024 when I
attended with my family a candlelight vigil with the
Indigenous community. The farm is now just a fenced
off field. The air is still thick with
something heavy and something unnatural in the air.
And what even disturbed me more is this how clean it looks.
No signage, no memorial, no plaque, nothing to indicate the
horrors, the massacres that went on there.
And as I began my own journey of the deep research I did over the
year and the emotional reflection unfolded into a
disturbing journey through the environmental corruption, the
even looking at occult forklore and Vancouver's darkest secrets.
This episode reveals a little known horror.
The Robert the Picton family contaminated topsoil business.
They sold earth mixed with industrial waste and human
remains across Metro Vancouver into gardens, school grounds,
parks and even playgrounds. Not only was the soil
carcinogenic, but in many traditions it'd be considered
cursed Earth, the kind used in black magic, graveyard rituals,
and even ancient spells. In this episode, you'll explore
the emotional weight and the spiritual unease felt while
standing at the Picton crime site.
How soil from Expo 86, a former industrial dump, was laced with
lead, cadium, dioxins, benzenes, and human body parts and then
sold to the public. The old cult uses graveyard dirt
in Hoodoo and black magic from dune oil to goofer dust.
Cultural legends of cursed lands, plague pits and haunted
battlefields and European folklore.
The Badlands of South Dakota soaked in ancient sorrow.
Execution fields. Mass graves believed to carry
murder energy. The concept that murder and
trauma can contaminate the earth, infect those who walk
upon it, or grow food in it. The eerie possibility that this
wasn't just industrial negligence, but a ritualistic
dispersal of energy from a killing field.
This episode is a bridge between true crime and dark folklore, A
story about poison, land and curse legacy, and the silent
horror that still clings to the soil beneath our feet.
Even if you don't believe in curses, they are powerful people
who do, and that alone makes it worth understanding.
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story now begin. It was a crime scene ground
choked with blood, bone and the carcinogenic remains of
Vancouver's darkest secret. Some of it came from a pig farm,
the rest a poison legacy of Expo 86 land once celebrated as a
world's fair utopia, later revealed as a toxic dump of
industrial waste. Farmers grew food in it,
landscapers paved over it, and for years no one questioned what
lurked beneath their feet until the bodies began to surface.
This is a true story of how murder literally contaminated a
city. Welcome to the soil of death.
Before I begin, I would like to introduce myself.
My name is Mark. I am an investigative
journalist, and for the last six years I have been investigating
some of the darkest, most complex crimes of human history.
And it's probably safe to say that this is not your typical
true crime podcast. It is instead a journey into an
even darker, more disturbing world, one that exists in the
shadows. Much of the information
contained within my podcast series will be unfamiliar, and
some of the theories and ideas discuss may seem rather bizarre.
Perhaps the most controversial concept you'll encounter
concerns of phenomena commonly referred to as trauma based mind
control. Although mind control has long
been relegated to that polluted wellspring of information known
as conspiracy theory, it has never been a polite topic in
mainstream discourse. In the numerous cases I've
researched, from Robert Picton to Jeffrey Epstein, trauma
emerges as a reoccurring theme, affecting not just the victims
themselves, but creating a collective societal trauma.
I experienced this first hand as a child in the 1980s when
newspapers, radios, television reported nonstop about child
murders in the community, sharing gruesome details of
young boys discovered murdered. This became my introduction to
the world of serial killers and sensationalistic media coverage
that accompanied them. Though I wasn't directly
victimized, these stories terrified me and shook me to my
core. Trauma in all forms leaves an
indelible impact. In this series, The Dark Mind
Detective, I dwell into the disturbing nature and depravity
of both historic and current cases.
After spending over a year deeply investigating the Robert
Picton case, it became increasingly apparent that this
wasn't simply the work of a lone serial killer, but something
darker, more systemic and organized.
Despite appearing disorganized on the surface.
In the series The Dark Mind Detective, I dwell into the
disturbing nature. I've been researching complex,
troubling cases like Jeffrey Epstein since 2007 and the
strange patterns of missing men across the United States and
Canada since 2008. Having studied over 150 serial
killer cases, I've come to recognize that these stories are
far more complex than mainstream media portrays.
There are typically more people involved and more layers to
uncover. This podcast examines the
various aspects and stages of these cases.
The people who conspire, sometimes on the dark web.
The networks targeting victims of all ages, the young, the old,
they have been repeatedly exposed.
The gathering places where predators commit dark and
disturbing crimes. Some cases have a cult like
aspects, others religious undertones, while some are just
purely deviant. A disturbing pattern emerges
where government, intelligent agencies, organized crime cults,
and religious institutions sometimes interlock to commit
terrible acts in the shadows. The goal of The Dark Mind
Detective is to illustrate that there's much more to these
stories than meets the eye. For the victims who can no
longer speak for themselves, this podcast offers an
opportunity to become a voice for the voiceless.
Even though if you don't believe in the concepts like black magic
or the old cult, there are plenty of people out there who
do, and you'd be probably surprised by who some of them
are. In fact, many take these beliefs
extremely seriously. In this podcast, we are going to
explore some very dark and shadowy subject matter.
You might think some of it sounds ridiculous and
superstitious or like something out of a conspiracy theory, and
that's fine. I'm not here to convince you to
believe anything. What I want to highlight is that
they are people, powerful, serious people who treat these
ideas as very real, and that alone makes it worth
understanding. I've been thinking a lot about
the soil from the Picton Pig farm.
It was very contaminated, not just from the blood and bones
and the human remains scattered around the property from the
murders and slaughtering, but also from the carcinogenic soil
trucked in from the Expo 86 site.
The Pickton brothers started a topsoil business selling this
contaminated dirt across Metro Vancouver, The parks, the school
district, the landscapers, the farmers.
Kids played soccer on it, people grew vegetables on it and raised
livestock on it. In a practical, physical sense,
this was already evil soil, spreading sickness, respiratory
problems, and possibly even cancer.
The former Expo 86 site in Vancouver, Canada, experienced
soil contamination from decades of industrial use.
Industrial sites like those at Expo 86 often contained
hazardous chemicals that pose serious risk to human health and
the environment. Heavy metals lead, hadium linked
to kidney damage, cardiovascular disease, and even cancers.
Lung and prostate hexavalent chronium unknown.
Human carcinogen primarily causing respiratory cancers.
Nickel. Copper potential Carcinogenic at
high levels and nickel is associated with lung and nasal
cancers. Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons
by products of fossil fuel combustions linked to skin,
lung, and bladder cancers. Dioxins persistent industrial
pollutants that cause cancer, reproductive harm and immune
suppression. Benzene vinyl chloride, a
volatile organic compound tied to leukemia and liver cancer.
Direct exposure, skin contact contaminated dust can cause
acute on nasal, respiratory issue and chronic conditions
cancer, neurological damage ingestion, accidental soil
consumption by children or the use of contaminated groundwater
increases the risk of organ damage in cancer.
The most vulnerable group are children face higher risk due to
frequent hand to mouth behavior. How many people got sick?
How many people became I'll and died of cancer and respiratory
conditions and other diseases after coming into contact with
this poisonous soil, which they trucked in from a highly
contaminated location and then sold for a profit?
The Picton family, who profited from the sale of toxic soil and
sold it throughout the city, is an example of how this pattern
reflects larger environmental injustices, where communities
suffer the most from industrial pollution while the corporate
and government actors avoid accountability.
But then I start to think about something else I learned from
the occult circles, how graveyard soil is prized in
black magic, and witches and practitioners of dark arts use
it to create things like doom oil, a substance meant to curse
or harm others. Now imagine, as a thought
exercise, this soil, the soil from a literal killing field.
The Crown prosecutors even called it that, being annoyingly
spread across a city. From an old cult perspective,
it's not just dirty soil, it's cursed earth.
Let's dig deeper. How historically, soil from
graveyards, battlefields, or places of death has been used in
black magic practices? How in certain belief systems,
contaminated or cursed earth was consciously spread to sow chaos,
illness, or misfortune. From a occult and a dark
psychology point of view, this fits.
The picked and farm wasn't just a crime scene, it was a
graveyard, and that soil carried the energy of death far beyond
its borders. There are things in our world,
the natural world, that we take for granted.
Rain. If you live somewhere where I
do, rain is common. You don't even think twice about
it. Seasons 2, Summer, spring, fall,
winter. They just happen, and we move
through them without a second thought.
But there's something even more fundamental to life, something
so basic, so essential, that most of us barely ever notice
it. Soil.
Dirt. Think about it.
How many lives have been lost over a piece of soil?
How many wars have been fought over it?
Soil is at the heart of human survival.
It feeds us. It sustains us.
It gives us a place to build our homes and raise our animals and
grow our food. Soil is life.
It is the lifeblood of the planet.
But like everything else, it exists on a spectrum.
If you put soil under a microscope, you'll see an entire
world hidden inside it. A living, invisible ecosystem
that keeps everything above ground alive.
Now imagine if that soil became corrupted.
Graveyard soil in occult conditions.
In witchcraft or Hulu. Graveyard dirt is often used in
spells, particularly for curses, protections, or spirit
communication. Doom oil or similar formulas
like goofer dust is used to hex or harm someone.
It's often contains graveyard dirt, sulfur, snakeskin, and
other symbolic ingredients. The belief system is the soil
absorbs energy, especially from the dead.
So soil so dirt from a violent, tragic place would be
particularly powerful. Cursed or tainted soil and
folklore and many cultures. Land where blood has been
spilled is believed to be cursed.
Battlefields, plague pits, execution sites and Slavic
European folklore. Land that has seen murder or
improper burial is often haunted or spiritually toxic.
Medieval times cursed field were linked to blight, livestock,
sickness and even human illness. The concept of murder energy
contaminating a place is common in dark psychology.
Crime scenes often effects people psychologically even
years later. If people unknowingly consume
the soil through food or inhalation, they might
experience physical illness, reinforcing the belief in its
evil nature. The concept of landscaping soil
from a crime scene and spreading across Vancouver is eerily
similar how cursed relics or objects spread misfortune.
In real cases where land was poison due to war crime, people
reported strange illnesses or psychological distraction.
You just heard how death seeped into the soil in Part 2.
In our second part we will go deeper.
What if the victims but that foul pig farm weren't just
buried, but they were processed, rendered and unknowingly
consumed by the public? And lipstick and pet food and
everyday meals will uncover the truth about the rendering plant
and how human remains have been turned into products used across
the country. Makes you think this wasn't just
about slaughter. This was about ritual, about the
energy. And Part 2, we'll also explored
ancient cursed lands, from the Badlands of South Dakota to mass
graves in Europe. And how old cult traditions have
long used death, flesh and soil for spiritual domination,
satanic rituals, and graveyard magic.
And that pig farm might have been more than just a killing
field. Maybe a temple of industrial
sacrifice. Please subscribe now on Spotify.
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Once we're connected, I'll send you over details where we can
communicate directly. Announcing starting next week,
I'm very excited to be launching my fundraiser to support my
upcoming national speaking tour across Canada and the United
States. This tour is more about just
telling stories. It's about confronting
uncomfortable truths and demanding accountability and
giving a voice to the voiceless. In this series of my fundraiser,
I'll be releasing my full 20 part series of the Robert Picton
case where I look at it from every conceivable angle.
Examine archetypes and all the unsettling different aspects of
this terrible crime. I'll also be releasing my
research on Jeffrey Epstein strange clusters of missing men
throughout North America Vancouver, BC Austin, TX
Chicago, IL upstate New York. I'll also be releasing my
research on the very unsettling work of Dave McGowan, Program to
Kill, where we examine all the things that we thought we knew
about the serial killer cases and look at it from angles and
aspects that you've never seen before and much, much more.
I'm looking forward to meeting you, speaking with you and
sharing these stories and hearing your stories.
This tour is more than just about telling stories.
It's about confronting uncomfortable truths, demanding
accountability, giving a voice to the voice voiceless.
And if you want to be part of this movement, whether through
donations, collaborations, or simply helping spread the word,
I'll be honored to have your support.
If you're a podcaster or journalist looking to go deeper
into the darkness, I'll be thrilled to join you for an
interview. Let's make it happen by Mark,
and this is the Dark Mind detective.
Stay aware, stay awake, and never stop asking questions.
And before we continue to the next chapter in the Picton case,
I'll be taking a brief but important detour to share
something deeply personal and unbelievably powerful.
Next week I'll be releasing a super episode featuring my close
friend and long time collaborator David Vela, a
former mafia hitman who's now facing the final chapter of his
life of terminal cancer. Over the past year, Dave and I
have recorded some raw, unfiltered conversations.
These are secrets he carried for decades, many of them most
people would just take to the grave.
We'll be releasing one last episode together and this will
be our one of the most and he told me don't drop this one
until I'm gone. I don't want the cops knocking
at my hospital door. I'll be be putting together all
of the episodes that we've done together in one big super
episodes and I'll be releasing that after this episode.
Then after that, I'll return with episode 7 through to 10.
My top ten Picton anomalies plus some bonus recordings I've
already locked and loaded. There's so much more to uncover.
And if this is your first time listening, welcome to the Dark
Mind Detective. Barely scratched the surface.
Thank you so much. Music.