Tales From The Dark

Volume five. Six stories sent in by you , and this time Haley and Tim are doing the reading. An 8-year-old in Texas gets up early on a Saturday and finds a tall figure standing in the living room. He says it ran down the hall toward the garage and was "darker than dark." A small town in the '90s starts getting late-night phone calls from someone reading off long strings of numbers, and then one da...

In 2023 An anonymous poster on a dying imageboard claims to have managed a research team at a facility that studies craft nobody's supposed to have. No galactic federation, no channeled messages  just a guy describing what sounds like a job. UFOs are mostly unmanned drones. They're built in a mobile construction facility that sits in the ocean and disappears every time we get close. The people fly...

Sylvia Browne told Amanda Berry's mother her daughter was dead. She told Shawn Hornbeck's parents the same thing about their son. Both of those kids were alive. Haley and I go through how she said it worked including her spirit guide Francine, the trance sessions, what she had to say about Ouija boards.  Then we start checking. The End of Days paragraph everybody shared during COVID, including the...

Six of your stories this week . A security guard alone in a locked building who pulled the badge logs to prove it. A shadow man in an old-fashioned hat on a third floor. A house in southwest Missouri with a history nobody can find. A white sphere on a Wisconsin back road that got named before it got proven. Two men in tracksuits at four in the morning in the UK, asking one question too many. And a...

In 1980 three witnesses on their way to a night of bingo encountered the impossible. A glowing object in the sky emitting in intense heat and flames that allegedly was accompanied by a formation of military helicopters in East Texas. In this episode the truth is followed by more layers than I could have prepared for. Got a story of your own? Something unexplained? Something that still keeps you up...

This week I sat down with JD Lauriat , the creator of Haunted House Flippers a comedy/horror audio drama about a couple who inherit an old Victorian in Uncanoonuc, New Hampshire and set out to fix it up and sell it. Janet wants to learn some new skills. Tom is convinced he's found the Holy Grail of haunted houses. The whole thing is told through the handheld recorder Tom refuses to put down.  We t...

Summer 1988 , Bishopville, South Carolina. A seventeen-year-old changes a flat tire at 2 a.m. on the edge of Scape Ore Swamp and reports that something seven feet tall came out of the field after him. Within weeks: plaster footprint casts, chewed-up cars, a million dollar reward for a live capture , monster hunters in the woods, and merchandise. Got a story of your own? Something unexplained? Some...

Allen Greenfield has been doing this since 1960. He is the co-founder of the National UFO Conference, author of Secret Cipher of the UFOnauts, and the man Greg and Connor drove to Atlanta to meet in Hellier. He gave me nearly ninety minutes on where ufology started, where it is now, Hellier 3, and a lot more Got a story of your own? Something unexplained? Something that still keeps you up at night...

Meat. Blood. Live fish. A purple blob that dissolved before anyone could keep it. 175 years of the American sky dropping things it shouldn't plus it's now officially Jimothy Summer and a Connecticut Bigfoot (without boobs). Would you eat the sky meat? Got a story of your own? Something unexplained? Something that still keeps you up at night? Send it to talesfromthedarkyt@gmail.com or message me di...

A raccoon becomes a cryptid, six Bigfoot sightings hit Ohio in four days and vanish, a psychic predicts an alien abduction at the World Cup, and a metal sphere in Colombia keeps growing new powers. 2026 is completely unhinged. Got a story of your own? Something unexplained? Something that still keeps you up at night? Send it to talesfromthedarkyt@gmail.com or message me directly at patreon.com/tal...

In February 1958, bottles started unscrewing their own caps and emptying across the floor of a quiet Long Island ranch house while the Herrmann family stood and watched. The papers named the culprit "Popper." History remembers it as the Seaford Poltergeist. Over about five weeks, more than sixty separate disturbances tore through the home at 1648 Redwood Path in Seaford, New York. Bottles popped,...

In 2021, Tales From The Dark investigated a job posting for the Dallas Cellar Club: a supposed upscale wine lounge hiring hostesses for twenty-two dollars an hour. What I found instead was a twenty-minute recruitment recording, a rotating cast of phone numbers, and a pattern that looked a lot like something far worse than a bad job. I couldn't prove what it was, and we said so. This is the follow-...

Carol Ann from The InBetween joins Tales From The Dark for a deep conversation about high strangeness, haunted history, and what it takes to build a strange little corner of the internet from scratch. We get into where she lands on the skeptic-to-believer scale , the cases that followed her home after the mics went off, time slips and the Dark Watchers, whether the trickster behind all of this wan...

A retired couple from a one-stoplight town in Michigan found a flaw in a state lottery game and, over nine years, legally won close to twenty-seven million dollars. No ghost, no crime, just arithmetic and a whole lot of nerve . This week on Tales From the Dark, the true story behind Jerry and Marge Selbee, a game called Cash WinFall, and a locked door that turned out never to have been locked at a...

The horror stories are back, and this time they're wearing red, white and blue. This one's a shorter throwback to our old horror stories format, an armful of creepy, true-ish tales with a Fourth of July coat of paint. We start in the sky, because the Fourth is the single most common date on the whole calendar for UFO reports, and we land in Tinley Park, Illinois, where the lights over the firework...

The Philadelphia Experiment is the most famous ghost story the U.S. Navy ever had to deny: a destroyer escort, the USS Eldridge, supposedly wrapped in a green glow at the Philadelphia Navy Yard in 1943, turned invisible, and teleported to Norfolk and back, leaving sailors fused into the steel decks and others who never came back.  For seventy years it's been passed around as proof of a wartime gov...

In this episode I'm joined by Mr E Files , the voice behind one of the fastest-rising channels in the true crime and unexplained space. We get into the seam where a real crime starts to feel like something stranger, how he builds a researched case into cinematic storytelling without bending the facts to do it, the MrBallen influence he's never shy about, and the question every creator is circling...

Beneath a freeway overpass in Pasadena, California, there is a hundred-year-old flood-control dam, a tunnel mouth with the word HELL painted above it, and a rock shaped like the face of the devil. Locals call it Devil's Gate, and the stories that cling to it are some of the strangest in the state. In this episode, we climb down into the Arroyo Seco to pull the legend apart from the record. At the...

Weeks before Roswel l, a log salvager named Harold Dahl watched six donut-shaped craft over Puget Sound and the next morning a stranger in a dark suit met him for breakfast and recited the whole thing back to him.  It's the case that may have birthed the Men in Black , killed two intelligence officers, and trailed a man who'd later be subpoenaed in the JFK investigation. Officially the dirtiest ho...

Every July, the most powerful men in America disappear into a private redwood forest called Bo hemian Grove and burn an effigy at the foot of a forty-foot owl. We separate what's documented from what got invented: the real 1942 Manhattan Project meeting held in those woods, the Cremation of Care ritual, Philip Weiss's week undercover inside the camp, Alex Jones's hidden-camera footage and the man...

Four ghost lights. One dead railroad man who somehow haunts four different states.  We drive out to the Dover Lights and the Gurdon Light here in Arkansas, the famous Brown Mountain Lights of North Carolina, and the Ghost Road of Saratoga in the Texas Big Thicket — and follow the facts, from a 1922 government geologist who called his shot in the dark to the real 1931 murder buried under a "headles...

Documented 911 calls with no clean explanation — built from released call audio, sheriff's reports, FOIA records, and radar logs. A Bigfoot on the line. A UFO a meteorologist tracked himself. A call placed from an empty funeral home at three in the morning. And two voices, a vanished man and a missing child, whose last words are on tape. The dispatcher couldn't tell a crank from a crisis from some...

Three more listener-submitted accounts from across North America, told the way they deserve to be told. A haunted property with music boxes buried in the woods, a Canadian family who fought off a smiling shadow figure during a pregnancy, two hunters in the Virginia Appalachians who heard something they couldn't explain and more. These aren't my stories . They're yours . Got a story of your own? So...

What if most of the internet isn't real? In this episode, we unpack the Dead Internet Theory — from its origins on an obscure vaporwave forum to the Imperva report confirming bots now generate 51% of all web traffic. We follow the trail through Shrimp Jesus engagement farms, Russia's AI-powered disinformation networks, a $2 bot that can flood the web with 10,000 fake comments, and the spectacular...

The Tape Library has quietly become one of the most respected names in paranormal podcasting. Documentary-style storytelling. Meticulous research. A philosophy that lets the story breathe without forcing conclusions. Now part of Elijah Wood and Daniel Noah's SpectreVision Radio network, The Tape Library joins Tales From The Dark for an hour-long conversation on the craft — covering everything from...