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Send us Fan Mail THE STORYTELLING PODCAST PRESENTS: NIGHTMARE SEASON Two weeks. Terrifying stories. No safe nights. For the next 2 weeks, there will be 3 stories per week, and a special episode on Halloween!  Make sure you subscribe, tune in, and have fun!  About this Episode: Behind the rusted gates of Eastern State Penitentiary lies a history darker than its reputation as one of America's m...

Send us Fan Mail THE STORYTELLING PODCAST PRESENTS: NIGHTMARE SEASON Two weeks. Terrifying stories. No safe nights. Our 2 Weeks of Halloween stories start TODAY!! For the next 2 weeks, there will be 3 stories per week, and a special episode on Halloween day!  Make sure you subscribe and have fun! About our Episode today: Miles of empty fields. Abandoned farmhouses. Barns that should be silent afte...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome back to The Storytelling Podcast , your cosy corner of captivating tales. In Episode 85, we explore five unsettling Reddit-style stories about mysterious staircases hidden in remote forests.  Which staircase would frighten you the most? Listen to all five stories and decide for yourself. Subscribe to The Storytelling Podcast for more remarkable lives, mysteries, historical...

Send us Fan Mail ⚠️ Content warning: This episode discusses Nazi atrocities, antisemitism, concentration camps and unethical human experiments. Discretion is advised. What happens when a government turns myths into weapons and uses its own twisted ideology to justify real-world atrocities? In the final years of Nazi Germany, the image of the werewolf became associated with a desperate campaign of...

Send us Fan Mail Before Dresden became a symbol of wartime destruction, it was known as the “Florence of the Elbe”, a city of music, art, architecture, industry and life along the River Elbe. Then came February 1945. In Part One of this episode of The Storytelling Podcast , we travel back to Dresden during the final months of the Second World War and explore the events surrounding the bombing of t...

Send us Fan Mail Deep in Alfama, where narrow streets wind between old houses and the sound of fado drifts through open windows, there is a legend about a small fado house and a woman whose voice could still be heard long after she disappeared. In this episode of The Storytelling Podcast , I tell the legend of a Fado House in the Alfama neighbourhood of Lisbon, Portugal, as we follow Inês, a young...

Send us Fan Mail What happens when a vampire story leaves the pages of folklore and begins to spread through real communities? In this episode of The Storytelling Podcast, we travel through three strange British vampire cases separated by decades but connected by the same unsettling force: rumour. Subscribe to The Storytelling Podcast for more forgotten people, mysteries, remarkable lives and stra...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of The Storytelling Podcast, we travel back to Paris in the 1920s to uncover one of history’s most audacious confidence tricks: Selling the Eiffel Tower. 🎧 Listen to the full episode and step into Paris in 1925. If you enjoy forgotten people, true stories, mysteries, historical adventures and remarkable lives, subscribe to The Storytelling Podcast and discover mor...

Send us Fan Mail People disappear in the wilderness every year. Most cases have explanations. Some do not. In this episode of The Storytelling Podcast, we enter the world of Missing 411, the name given by researcher David Paulides to a collection of strange and unexplained missing-person cases, many involving national parks, forests, and remote wilderness areas across North America. Sources Nation...

Send us Fan Mail What happens when you let an app decide where you are going? Randonautica became an unlikely internet phenomenon by generating random geographical coordinates and encouraging users to explore whatever happened to be waiting there. During the pandemic, the app became particularly popular as people searched for unusual experiences close to home, often filming their journeys for TikT...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of The Storytelling Podcast , we step inside five homes connected to strange experiences shared by listeners from around the world. The stories are presented as listener accounts, with minor details changed for privacy. The podcast does not claim that the events were definitively supernatural. 🎥 YouTube Visual Episode: https://youtu.be/xjGQZXIQYAw 🎧 Available on...

Send us Fan Mail In Episode 76 of The Storytelling Podcast , we open three extraordinary historical books connected with magic, witchcraft, spirits, astrology and forbidden knowledge. What makes these books so compelling today is that they are not fictional cursed volumes from a horror film. They are historical objects, preserved in manuscripts and early printed editions, connected to real people...

Send us Fan Mail Some recordings become frightening only after you know how they end. Elliot Mercer is spending a stormy night alone at Blackwood Forest Station, covering an overnight shift after another worker calls in sick.  The Last Broadcast from Blackwood Forest is an original supernatural mystery from The Storytelling Podcast, exploring memory, identity, mysterious recordings and the unsettl...

Send us Fan Mail There is a beautiful old mansion in New Orleans’ French Quarter with a name that sounds like it belongs to another world: the Sultan’s Palace . At 716 Dauphine Street, the Gardette-LePrete House became associated with one of the strangest legends in New Orleans history. According to the story, a mysterious foreign prince arrived with an enormous household, beautiful women, servant...

Send us Fan Mail There are few historic buildings in America quite like Waverly Hills Sanatorium. Standing above Louisville, Kentucky, the enormous Gothic-style building was once a tuberculosis hospital where patients came hoping to survive one of the most feared diseases of the early twentieth century. Before antibiotics transformed tuberculosis treatment, Waverly Hills represented both medical h...

Send us Fan Mail Napoleon Bonaparte defeated powerful armies, brought kingdoms to their knees and changed the political landscape of Europe. But according to one of the strangest stories associated with the French Emperor, there was one determined army he could not overcome. An army of rabbits. 🎥 YouTube Visual Episode: https://youtu.be/XXoe8RFDsCE 🎧 Available on all podcast platforms. 📩 Story...

Send us Fan Mail Was Henri Charrière really the man history remembers as Papillon? In this episode of The Storytelling Podcast , we explore one of the most extraordinary prison escape stories ever told. Henri Charrière claimed he was wrongfully convicted of murder before being sent to the brutal French penal colonies of French Guiana, where disease, forced labour, and the infamous Devil's Isl...

Send us Fan Mail Today we are continuing a story that began in Birmingham on a cold November evening in 1974, when two bombs exploded in crowded city-centre pubs and changed dozens of lives forever. Make sure you have listened to part 1! YouTube Episode: https://youtu.be/95zUu3LqXI0 Spotify episode:  Available on all Podcast platforms. ---------- Music by:  Sound Effect by freesound_community from...

Send us Fan Mail The Birmingham Pub Bombings remain one of the most significant terrorist attacks ever carried out on the British mainland during the period known as The Troubles. For those who lived through it, the memory never truly faded. For younger generations, it remains an important chapter in British history. Today, we are going to explore the events leading up to that night, the atmospher...

Send us Fan Mail Hi guys, this next episode will be in Portuguese, so if you’re listening on any podcast platform and you don’t understand, please switch to YouTube, and there you can choose your language. Bem-vindos de volta ao The Storytelling Podcast, o vosso cantinho acolhedor para histórias que nos fazem pensar, arrepiar e, por vezes, questionar aquilo que julgávamos impossível. Eu sou a voss...

Send us Fan Mail What if fear is the real threat? Today's episode takes us to Halifax, a market town in West Yorkshire, England, where during a few remarkable weeks in late 1938, ordinary people became caught up in a wave of panic so powerful that it transformed everyday life. But what if it was all fabricated?  Visual Episode: https://youtu.be/7nNkLso9nK8 Spotify episode:  Available on all P...

Send us Fan Mail Today we are travelling into one of the most extreme working environments ever created by human beings, a place where men voluntarily lived under immense pressure, worked hundreds of feet beneath the surface of the sea, and trusted their lives to a system that had to function perfectly every single day. I have to put a disclaimer: if you suffer from Thalassophobia, submechanophobi...

Send us Fan Mail Today's episode comes from Desange Kuenihira. Desange is a refugee, entrepreneur, speaker, and the CEO and founder of unDEfeated, a non-profit organization dedicated to providing education and opportunities for underprivileged youth and women facing extreme financial hardship in Uganda. This is a story about finding your voice, overcoming silence, resilience, identity, and le...

Send us Fan Mail Today, we are diving into a series of strange and real time slip cases, moments where people appear to have stepped outside of their own time, encountering places, people, and realities that should not have existed, at least not in the way they experienced them. Visual Episode: https://youtu.be/OKYl1wNAR_E Spotify episode:  Available on all Podcast platforms. ---------- Music by: ...

Send us Fan Mail In the southern region of Venezuela, deep within the vast wilderness of Canaima National Park, there are landscapes with Tepuis.  A Tepui, or tepuy, is a table-top mountain, or mesas, because of its flat surface. They can be found in northern South America, especially in Venezuela, western Guyana, and northern Brazil.  The word tepui means "house of the gods" in the nati...