Stories Fables Ghostly Tales Podcast

G'day Tale Tellers and fans of Japanese True Crime! 👋 Thank you to my Patreon Supporters! Support me here: https://www.patreon.com/SFGT New episode is live right now — and this one hit differently while I was writing it. Tonight we're going to a mountain village in Japan called Kaio [KAH-ee-oh] . On the night of the 20th of May, 1938, a twenty-one-year-old man named Mutsuo Toi [ MOOT-soo-oh TOH-e...

G'day everyone! And Happy Weekend! 👋 New episode is UP — and honestly? This one has been sitting with me for weeks. This episode we're covering the Sada Abe case. If you're not familiar — in May 1936, a woman named Sada Abe walked out of a Tokyo inn, through the city, bought new clothes, ate meals, read the newspaper coverage of her own crime... and didn't run. Not really. What she left behind in...

Welcome back to the archive, inner circle... Deep Dive: The Sovereign Paralysis of the 1948 Teikoku Bank Incident When we look back at the forensics of post-war true crime, few cases carry the chilling, systemic precision of the Teikoku Bank Incident (Imperial Bank Incident) of January 26, 1948. It stands not just as a cold-blooded mass murder, but as a terrifying demonstration of how structural a...

Welcome back to the archive. In this special dual transmission, we turn our forensic radar toward a tiny, sun-bleached rock sitting in the literal centre of the Mediterranean Sea: the island of Malta. Built entirely out of soft, honey-coloured Globigerina limestone, Malta's hyper-dense historic cities are marvels of defensive architecture. In a space so profoundly compressed, where secrets are sup...

G'day Tea Totalling Guardians 🍵🍵🍵🍵🍵 On a cold afternoon in the spring of 1988, a quiet, uniform residential grid in Nagoya, Japan, became the theater for an act of absolute absurdity and horror. A heavily pregnant young mother is strangled from behind in her own living room. What followed was a primitive surgical extraction executed with a common consumer box cutter. But this was not a foetal...

Case File #04: The SOS Tape Puzzle | The Asahidake Wilderness Anomaly 🔓 Welcome back to the archives, Guardians. The vault is officially open for Case File #05 , and this week we are leaving behind the concrete lanes and digital footprints of metropolitan Tokyo. Our destination is the northern wilderness of Hokkaido, specifically the jagged, volcanic heights of Mount Asahi . This file documents a...

MOTHERS DAY SPECIAL!!! Good evening Occult Librarians! In celebration of Mother’s Day, we are diving into the radio archives for a special double-feature that explores the many faces of motherhood—from the comedic vanity of a "mother bird" to the chilling obsession of a mother who refuses to let go!! The Jack Benny Program: "Mother's Day Show" (May 8, 1938) Our first program takes us to May 8, 193...

Case File #03: The Millennium Ghost is Now Open 🔓 Welcome to the latest archive Tale Teller Detectives... This week, we are stepping into a true crime puzzle that has frustrated investigators for over two decades. We are traveling to the Setagaya Ward in Tokyo, right on the threshold of the year 2000. While the world was holding its breath for the Y2K digital apocalypse, a very physical nightmare...

The lanterns are lit, the archive doors are bolted, and tonight, we are diving into a file that redefined the meaning of "Safety" in the modern world. The Glico-Morinaga Case In 1984, Japan wasn't just an economic powerhouse; it was considered the safest place on Earth. That ended the moment a CEO was dragged naked from his bathtub and the nation’s candy supply was turned into a chemical weapon. W...

🤒🤧 TALE TELLER IS SICK TODAY 🤒🤧 Legends writing this to let you know that there’s going to be a short delay with today's scheduled Japanese True Crime Episode due to being sick 🤧 . Unfortunately, I’ve come down with a pretty stubborn chest infection, and chest infections hit me really hard, as I had asthma growing up (makes me more susceptible to chest infections) . I tried to push through it...

The Archives are Open: Turning Lungs to Stone The Paraquat Murders remain one of the most haunting "Forensic Zero" cases in history—a spree where the weapon was a common herbicide and the battlefield was the country's own sense of public trust. In this episode, we step away from the neon lights of the Tokyo Bubble and into the quiet, suffocating reality of the "Stone Lungs." Key Talking Points The...

HAPPY EASTER EVERYONE! 🐰🐰🐰 Tonight, we step back into the fog-drenched streets of 1947 San Francisco. I’ve spent the last several sessions in the studio with iZotope RX 11 , meticulously scrubbing away nearly eighty years of crackle and "transcription hiss" to bring you two of the finest capers from The Adventures of Sam Spade . These aren't just old recordings; they are high-fidelity restorati...

The Real Unsolved Murders of Lake Bodom We zip ourselves into those thin walls of nylon and canvas, and we tell ourselves we’ve built a sanctuary. We believe that if the door is locked and the group is together, the monsters are kept at bay. But on June 5th, 1960, on the shores of Lake Bodom, four teenagers learned the most terrifying lesson of the "White Night": a tent isn’t a shield—it’s a shrou...

The Stranger in the Rafters: The Villisca Axe Murders Locked doors won't save you from the monster already inside. In 1912, eight souls were taken in the middle of the night in Villisca, Iowa. The killer didn't break in—they waited in the attic for hours, watching and listening, before wielding an axe in the pitch black. In this deep-dive episode of Stories Fables Ghostly Tales , we examine the fo...

Welcome back to the dark! This week, we are diving into another extended double-feature exploring the ultimate human mystery: what happens when our most fundamental instinct—the drive to survive—completely collapses? We are unpacking two of the most baffling, psychological true crime cases in modern history. Two distinct groups of men, separated by a decade and thousands of miles, who willingly ma...

Welcome back, inner circle! DOUBLE FREE EPISODE 💜 The Tale Teller has returned, and this time, I’ve brought you something monumental. This isn’t just an episode; it’s a 9,000-word double feature into the ultimate erasures. Two cases, separated by decades and geography, but bound by one terrifying thread: the profound mystery of the shadows they left behind! We’re diving deep into the blinding hea...

The Private Eye is Free: A Sam Spade Double-Feature Remaster Listen close, detectives! 🕵️🕵️‍♂️🕵️‍♀️ The blueprint for the hardboiled detective is finally unlocked. As of January 1, 2026, Dashiell Hammett’s legendary private eye, Sam Spade, has officially entered the Public Domain. To celebrate, we aren't just re-playing old tapes—we are performing an audio resurrection. Forget the scratchy, low-fi...

The Letby Case: A 2026 Perspective Welcome Legends and I hope you're having a wonderful Day or Evening! Some of you know, this case has taken a surreal turn over the last year. What started as a definitive 2023 conviction for the murder of seven infants has evolved into a high-stakes scientific and legal battle. While the 2023 and 2024 sentencing remarks described Letby's actions as a "calculated...

G'daaay Legends! 💜💜💜 This week on Stories Fables Ghostly Tales , I’m sharing the story of April Tinsley . She was eight years old when she disappeared in Fort Wayne, Indiana, in 1988. For a long time, there were no clear answers — just fragments. A neighborhood. A walk home. A case that never fully left people’s minds. What makes this story compelling isn’t shock or twists. It’s the way it unfo...

This episode explored a difficult but important idea: the traits that define serial killers are not strengths—they are structural weaknesses . Popular culture often frames serial killers as calculating, fearless, or powerful. But when examined through real cases and repeated behaviours, the opposite becomes clear. Every trait that allowed harm also guaranteed escalation, exposure, and collapse. Ma...

Four blocks... That’s all Theresa Fusco needed to walk to get home... On a November night in 1984, she stepped out of a roller rink in Lynbrook, New York. The lights were still buzzing behind her. Music still playing. Teenagers still laughing. The world she’d been part of for the last few hours kept moving forward without her. Something had gone wrong inside. She’d been fired from her job at the s...

Listener discretion This is a confronting episode. It involves graphic violence. I keep the tone respectful, but it’s still a hard listen — so please take care of yourself while you’re hearing it. If you or someone you know needs support in Australia, you can contact 1800RESPECT (24/7). 💜💜💜Welcome Legends! 💜💜💜 Tonight’s episode is one of the heaviest I’ve ever covered on Stories Fables Ghost...

What happens when a case goes cold — but because time got there first.... Because in true crime, some stories don’t stay unsolved due to a lack of effort. They stay unsolved because the world simply didn’t have the tools to hear what the evidence was trying to say. This week on Nocturne Files: True Crime , we step into the case of Kerryn Tate — last seen in daylight in Mount Lawley in 1979, and fo...

🕯️ A Question at the Heart of This Episode There’s a quiet question that sits at the centre of this week’s episode. What happens when someone disappears — and never comes back — but there’s no crime scene, no physical proof, and no clear ending? In true crime, these are known as no-body cases . And they’re some of the most unsettling stories we encounter, not because they’re dramatic, but because...

Alright my absolute legends of the lantern-lit lane 💜 Welcome! As we all wobble toward this coming Wednesday — New Year’s Eve — I wanted to pop my head out of the shadows, dust off the trench coat, and give you a proper Patreon cuddle in words. Because you lot aren’t just “supporters”… you’re my mates. You’re the campfire crew. The ones who stick around when the story goes quiet and the air gets...