Dina Valentine and Charlotte Smelt
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Dark cases, loose banter, sharp reactions.
The Grim Curriculum is a conversational case-analysis show where Charlotte and Dina move from everyday chatter into grim stories with clear timelines and blunt reactions. Recent episodes cover Lizzie Halliday, Allan Legere, the 1917 Halifax Explosion, strange deaths, crime news, and conspiracy-tinged oddities.
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The Grim Curriculum is a dark-topic conversation show with a distinctly casual spine. Charlotte and Dina often take their time getting to the formal subject, opening with life updates, gaming plans, weather moods, show anniversaries, or the emotional hangover from a previous case. That looseness is part of the texture. It makes the eventual pivot into murder, disaster, strange death, or conspiracy feel less like a lecture and more like being at a table where someone has done the reading. Recent episodes show the range clearly. Lizzie Halliday brings violence, arson, disputed sanity, and the kind of escalating case detail that invites horrified reactions. Allan Legere brings Canadian serial-crime history, news memory, and the shock of realizing how large a case can feel while still being unfamiliar to some listeners. The 1917 Halifax Explosion gives the show room for historical catastrophe rather than only individual criminality. Extra Credit episodes are looser and faster, moving through true-crime updates, conspiracy-adjacent stories, questionable decisions, odd deaths, and grim news items with a lighter structure. The show can be funny, but it is not careless about harm. Victims, children, abuse, and fatal violence are treated as serious material, even when the hosts make room for disbelief or a sharp aside. Its best mode is conversational momentum: one voice carries the researched line, while the other reacts, clarifies, or catches the human absurdity in a terrible fact. The show is especially suited to listeners who like true crime with personality left in. It does not hide the banter. It uses it as a way into difficult material.
Made for: For true-crime and dark-history listeners who like grim stories without a stiff documentary tone. It fits people who are comfortable with banter, side roads, and grim subjects handled in plain language.
What sets it apart: The show stands out by letting casual friendship and case chronology share the same room. It can move from video-game chatter to a murder timeline without losing its grip on the facts.
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.
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Charlotte and Dina make case evidence legible through detailed narration, sharp follow-up questions and conversational reactions that never feel mechanically scripted.
The Grim Curriculum turns case research into a two-person conversation, with Charlotte and Dina moving between narrative detail, questions and immediate reactions.
A Yorkshire accent detour becomes case evidence, then Charlotte and Dina hand you a whale-feces fact.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A blunt, conversational episode that keeps the grim case front and center.
Lizzie Halliday's story moves through an unhappy marriage, theft, an asylum stay, release, arson, and a death that gives the case its grim force. The hosts keep the tone blunt and conversational, which fits the material and lets the harm register without softening it.
An April Fool's fake-out leads into a Hawaii case, an alpine divorce angle, and a strange medical aftershock.
The episode starts with an April Fool's fake-out about Jonathan, the world's oldest land tortoise, then settles into the Hawaii case involving Dr. Gerhard Koenig.
Dark, steady, and grounded once the casework takes over.
The Grimm Curriculum stays in a dark, steady register that fits the hosts' reactions. It opens with disbelief and gallows humor, then turns sharper as the body-cam details get harder to sit with.
A blunt, conversational look at Nilsen's early violence and the police response around it.
The Grimm Curriculum moves through Dennis Nilsen's early violence with a clear, steady chronology, from the attempted strangling of Andrew Ho to the Kenneth Ockenden section.
A sharp look at the Wearside Jack misread and the accent confusion behind it.
The episode keeps its attention on the Yorkshire Ripper case and the Wearside Jack recording, treating the call as a misleading clue that steered investigators toward the wrong accent and the wrong place.
Strange cases, loud banter, no polish.
Behavior, evidence, and accountability.
Case files with a psychological verdict.
Courtroom chaos, case updates, sharp reactions.
True crime, hauntings, horror, and Sunday Scaries.
Old crimes, formally brought to judgment.
The episode begins with the hosts joking about surviving a zombie apocalypse, then moves into the case of Lizzie Halliday.
Jonathan's false death rumor opens the show on a surreal note.
The hosts discuss the intense previous episodes about serial killer Alan Legere, tease a grim upcoming 200th episode, and introduce a lighter, Grim Encounters-inspired episode as a break.
This episode continues the story of Allan Legere, a notorious Canadian serial killer known as the Monster of the Miramichi, while also celebrating the podcast's fourth birthday and reflecting on its growth.
The hosts discuss the uplifting feeling of spring arriving and seasonal depression lifting, then transition into introducing their true crime podcast episode.
The hosts discuss lesser-known Canadian serial killer cases, comparing them to infamous ones like Willie Picton and Mark Twitchell.
Hosts announce a Twitch stream playing Seven Days to Die, discussing plans and excitement for the game.
Hosts Charlotte and Dina discuss dumb criminal stories and update a case about an 11-year-old tried as an adult for killing his father over a Nintendo Switch.
A podcast discussing true crime, cryptids, and other macabre topics, with hosts sharing personal anecdotes and listener stories.
Hosts discuss vivid dreams involving assassinations and Nazi hunting, reflecting their interest in macabre and historical topics.
The episode begins with a sponsored ad for Mood cannabis, then transitions to hosts discussing an upcoming Hellmark streaming event with a secret twist.
Charlotte and Dina discuss the case of Annalisa Mickle, who died after 67 exorcisms due to negligence.
Hosts Charlotte and Dina chat about a new album, video games, and their upcoming stream, blending humor with macabre topics.
The hosts discuss their dog's death and the possibility of a ghostly presence, blending personal grief with paranormal speculation.
Hosts discuss a meaningful true crime case from their teenage years, with a cannabis ad at the start.
The episode begins with a cannabis ad, then transitions into a casual conversation about hockey jerseys and TV shows.
Hosts chat about the excessive snow in their neighborhood and their desire for spring.
The episode begins with sponsor ads for Shopify and Mood cannabis, then transitions into the hosts' banter about recording setup and a checklist.
The hosts discuss Christmas horror movies and introduce their macabre-themed podcast.
This episode features an interview with Chrissy, the daughter of Wilma June Neeson, discussing her mother's unsolved case and the challenges in seeking justice.
The Grimm Curriculum opens with the kind of everyday banter that makes the hosts sound like they were already talking before the mics came on.
Hosts Charlotte and Dina discuss a confusing and twisted true crime case while drinking energy drinks.
Hosts chat about their experiences replaying Fallout 4 and Borderlands, discussing game mechanics and hours played.
The hosts introduce an unsolved missing person case from 1978, Wilma Neeson, aiming to raise awareness about lesser-known cases.
Dennis Nilsen's violence starts to look less like an isolated incident and more like a pattern.
The hosts discuss paranormal encounters and cryptids, inviting listener submissions for their Grim Encounters segment.
Hosts Charlotte and Dina discuss a spider emergency in the studio before diving into macabre topics like true crime and cryptids.
A podcast about macabre topics including true crime and cryptids, with a personal story about hitting a squirrel.
The hosts discuss their creepy sleep habits, including giggling and talking in dreams, as a casual segue into the paranormal topic of the Smurl Family haunting.
The host discusses starting mini horror movie reviews on social media after watching numerous scary and weird films with their partner, receiving audience recommendations.
This episode discusses the historical rabbit hoax of Mary Toft while tangentially referencing Joe Exotic from Tiger King and reflecting on pandemic-era viewing habits.
This episode discusses the infamous Cecil Hotel, focusing on the pronunciation differences between British and American English.
It stays with the Yorkshire Ripper investigation.