Stories Fables Ghostly Tales Podcast

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...

Some True Crime stories announce themselves loudly. This one doesn’t. It begins quietly — with a late shift, a famous name, and a decision that, on the surface, feels ordinary. But beneath it sits a Murder Investigation that would stretch across years, courtrooms, and headlines, becoming one of the most unsettling Celebrity Crime cases in modern memory. In this episode of Stories Fables Ghostly Ta...

1. A Little Taste of Tonight’s Case Tonight’s story starts exactly where so many good things do: a quiet country town , a family lunch , and a plate of something fancy – beef Wellington . It ends with three people dead, one clinging to life, and an entire nation asking how a dish that sounds like it belongs on MasterChef ended up in the Supreme Court. This episode takes you into the Leongatha mush...

Welcome legends to your Research and True Crime Episode! Skidmore, Missouri is the kind of town you’d usually drive through without ever taking off your sunglasses. One main street, a couple of brick buildings, fields on every side. And in 1981, that quiet little dot on the map did something unthinkable. In broad daylight, in the middle of Main Street, the town bully Ken Rex McElroy was shot to de...

🪞 Patreon-Exclusive Episode Post Greetings, my dearest creeps, connoisseurs of atmosphere, and candle-lit listeners — it’s your friendly neighbourhood Tale Teller stepping softly through a creaking doorway tonight…because this episode...well... This one comes straight from the dusty, shadowy vaults of old-time radio royalty. We are diving into one of the great macabre institutions of the 1940s:...

🌲 What The Grey Daughter Hollow Is About Welcome back, wanderers of the uncanny — it’s your midnight Tale Teller, reporting from somewhere under the canopy, where the forest listens more intently than any living thing should. Our story, The Grey Daughter Hollow , follows a forest with memory deeper than soil, children who return changed, and a detective whose grief makes him the perfect seed for...

Two tales braided by one question: what happens when the things meant to protect us—skin and silence—start letting something else in? 😱 Content Warnings: body horror (skin/teeth/eyes), psychological distress, invasive/possessive spaces, loss of agency; no graphic gore. 🔊SPECIAL SONG AT THE END | Hope you love it! The Soft Place 🧽 A bruise opens like a polite mouth on Mae’s ribs, asking for warm...

🪞 What The Wellness Pit Is About Welcome back, my dearest creeps and connoisseurs of the uncanny — it’s your friendly neighbourhood Tale Teller , reporting live from the wrong side of a salt circle! Our latest story, The Wellness Pit , is an outback horror about self-improvement gone feral . It’s a tale of a small, sunburned town called Wattle’s Rest , where the road kills dry faster than the gos...

🪡 When the Fabric Learns to Breathe Back… Some patterns shouldn’t be finished... Some stitches pull tighter than the maker intends... In this next chapter of The Silver Seamstress , the workshop changes its shape. The thread you thought you escaped has followed you home. The dress is waiting — and it’s not just fabric anymore. Meanwhile, the town awakens, one mannequin at a time. The rhythm that...

🕯️ When the Thread Starts to Breathe… There’s a shop on a street that doesn’t appear on any map. Its window glows long after the rest of the town has fallen asleep. Inside, a lone seamstress works by candlelight — needle flashing, thread whispering, her hands moving with a rhythm that sounds far too alive. No one remembers when she arrived. No one remembers when she stopped. Some say the garments...

🦉Alright my night-owls, candle-huffers, and certified spooky folk — gather ‘round, because tonight’s story is a weird one . We’re talking sentient dungeon weird. We’re talking werewolf-therapy-session-from-hell weird. We’re talking, “if IKEA designed its own haunted house, and the instructions were written in blood,” weird. In The Dungeon of Black Moon , a poor, hairy soul wakes up in a maze that...

G'DAAAY LEGENDS!!! 💜💜💜 **UPDATE** Currently in Germany at the moment but I wanted to the love your way through a remastered set of three episodes from Blackstone: The Magic Detective! 🕵️ Gather ‘round, legends — it’s time to step back into the golden age of mystery, suspense, and a touch of the supernatural. This week, we’ve unlocked three thrilling Old Time Radio episodes from Blakestone the M...

💜 G’day you legends! 💜 This week we descend into the crumbling crypts of Clark Ashton Smith’s The Nameless Offspring —a tale drenched in gothic decay, cursed inheritances, and unspeakable horrors clawing their way back into the present! Smith, one of the great weird fiction masters of the early 20th century, gives us a story that feels part ghost tale, part nightmare folklore, and part grotesque...

G’day you legends!!!! 🥰🥰🥰🥰 Tonight we close the chapter on Guy de Maupassant’s The Horla —a story that began with unease, spiralled into possession, and ended in fire and despair. Our poor narrator, crushed beneath the weight of an invisible parasite, finds his final act of rebellion is not survival, but destruction. And yet, the question lingers: did he truly defeat the creature, or did madne...