​The was an old Ukrainian fable that has existed on the Canadian prairies for nearly sixty years. It was a lore that many today would see as brutal and ruthless. The folklore of the carcasses is based on part fact and part superstition. But in the tale that you are about hear there was one Ukrainian farmer named Pete Samoil who took things to the extreme as we are about to find out. 

​During the early 1900s there were a series of unfortunate events that happened on the Canadian prairies and during these unfortunate events there was one common denominator for all of them. There was a lady that was seen at all of these tragedies. She came to be known as the babushka lady as she always seen wearing a colorful babushka.

​As a child in the mid 1980s I remember going to my grandfather's house and him showing me a new Oldsmobile that he had purchased. He was in his 70s at the time so it made sense that he had purchased an old man's car. He told me in a few years when I turned 18 the car would be mine. I realized that it would be cool to have my own car when I became an adult but I was not sure if the ladies would dig the car which was brown in color and a four door sedan. 

​In eastern Alberta during the 1920s and 30s there was a small group of Ukrainians that were notorious for their behavior. They were so notorious and dangerous that the Alberta Provincial Police would not acknowledge them because they could not control them and if they could not control them then the RCMP, who were not in Alberta at that time would come in to take control. This was something that the Alberta Provincial Police did not want.