Coast Files

In this episode, Chantel tells us an unbelievable true story that starts with a missing Soviet submarine and quickly turns into a high-stakes, top-secret mission with cutting-edge technology, and one very unexpected billionaire. With spy ships circling, tensions rising, and a race against time to reach the bottom of the ocean, this story will have you on the edge of your seat!

In this special anniversary episode, Chantel, Lindsay, and Meghan celebrate a huge milestone by testing each other’s memories, revisiting some of the wildest stories from the archives, and blurring the line between fact and fiction. Play along at home with our Were You Listening? trivia, then put your instincts to the test with Real or Reel. This episode is part celebration, part chaos, and 100% Coast Files.

Canada is known for being safe—especially when it comes to gun violence. That’s why what happened in Moncton, New Brunswick in June 2014 shook the country to its core.On a warm summer evening, a heavily armed man dressed head-to-toe in camouflage walked out of a trailer park and into the woods. Within an hour, three RCMP officers would be dead, two more wounded, and an entire city placed under lockdown.This is the story of the Moncton RCMP shootings: a case marked by missed warning signs, escalating paranoia, and a devastating failure to intervene before violence erupted. We’ll trace Justin Bourque’s path to that night—his radicalization, his obsession with authority and weapons, and the moment Canada confronted a kind of mass violence it never expected at home.A heartbreaking chapter in Canadian history—and a reminder that no country is immune.

Sweaty sailors, secret codes, and a submarine that refused to sink. Join us as we unravel the wild true story of U-505—the risky mission that brought it back from the depths, helped change the course of WWII, and left it in one very unexpected place.

This week, Chantel tackles one of the ocean’s most misunderstood creatures: dolphins. From their surprising evolutionary origins to the wildly diverse, intelligent, and sometimes bizarre, species found in oceans and rivers around the world, the episode explores the good, the bad, and the truly unhinged sides of dolphin behavior. We wrap it up with a shocking Cold War–era experiment involving NASA and dolphins, leaving you to rethink everything you thought you knew about the ocean’s most famous mammals.

In 1816, the French frigate La Méduse ran aground off the coast of West Africa after its wildly unqualified captain ignored experienced sailors and common sense. When lifeboats proved scarce, the elite sailed away—leaving 146 men and one woman behind on a makeshift raft built for cargo, not humans. What followed was nearly two weeks of starvation, violence, madness, and cannibalism on the open sea. Their suffering would later be immortalized in one of the most haunting paintings in history, The Raft of the Medusa—a brutal exposé of power, privilege, and human desperation.