Certainly Strange

That's right! You've read the title correctly! ALIENS. Apparently, we're doing that now. Ughhhhhhhh. Just listen to this episode so I'll never have to talk about aliens again. Please. Follow us over on Instagram at @certainlystrange (yes, I finally managed to get my hands on that URL. Imagine some confetti. There, a party.)

In the ocean many things are hidden. Ever since the beginning of times people have feared the sea. And rightfully so. Even today, we know frighteningly little about what lurks beneath. It is no wonder, then, that maps of the world have the images of terrifying sea monsters drawn into them. For what sort of creatures could live in those greats depts and salt waters, beyond storms, if not monsters?...

It is 8 am at Zeedijk in Amsterdam. Every day I pass through this area on my way to work, preferring it over the tourist packed road to Dam Square. Yet never had I given thought to one of the small alleys that lead off of Zeedijk. ‘Spook steeg’, or ‘Ghost Alley’, is its name. For years this alley was under lock and key, after having issues with drug dealers and junkies – and, if one is to believe...

Nearly everyone who has ever dared to lay a finger on a Ouija board has a story. Of strange knocking, shaking tables, the Ouija board making strange moves, of strange voices in the darkness - Not all of these can be explained with science. So, let me tell you some of these strangest of stories; of demons, of ghosts, of possessions, and even… of murder. Happy Halloween. Follow us over on Instagram...

When you walk across a graveyard, on a gloomy day in October – there is one truth that will resonate through the cold and the rain and the grey clouds that float overhead; the dead are silent. But, what if there was a tool to make the dead speak? Why wouldn’t we speak to those who have died? Especially when you are trying to solve their murder… Happy Halloween! Follow us over on Instagram at @cert...

There sat a house upon the hill – in its days of splendour it was a mansion where great balls where held and where the local gentry spent their days playing tennis and golf. For all those who looked upon it, it inspired dreams of the better life. But that was a long time ago. Now, the house that sat upon that hill could only inspire nightmares... CONTENT WARNING: This episode includes mentions of...

Thousands of people go missing in the wilderness in the United States, some to be never found again – and others to be found, dead or alive, in a state that offers more questions than answers... Follow us over on Instagram at @certainlystrangethepodcast

A knock came at the door. Amadeus Mozart received an anonymous request for a requiem (a death mass). Not long after - he was dead. This has made people speculate, was the requiem requested by his killer? After all, hadn't Mozart said he thought he was being poisoned? But if that is true... who killed Mozart? Follow us over on Instagram at @certainlystrangethepodcast

“So, my apartment is currently being haunted by the ghost of a dead child and he’s trying to kill me.” This was tweeted on Augustus 7th, 2017, by animator Adam Ellis. His comics are often light-hearted, but this was something completely different. For months, Adam would record his experiences being haunted on Twitter, becoming the very first Twitter horror story.

Joseph Schons was having the worst day of his life. He was sitting in the snow with his Volkswagen Beetle, in the middle of nowhere, and he was stuck. And worse – he suddenly started feeling a tightness in his chest that could only mean one thing; he was having a heart attack. Schons decided to hike the 8 miles back to the bar where he had first came from. On his way, Schons passed a blue 1969 Mer...

Ed and Lorraine Warren. Anyone who loves to dive into stories of haunted houses and demonic possessions knows these two names. Of their many cases, they often brought home items that were said to be haunted or possessed and they put them in a room in their house, their own special way of guarding the rest of the world from the horrors that these items were capable of. This room would become the Wa...

Considering the history of the Chateau de Versailles, it is no wonder that there rumours that the chateau and its gardens are haunted. And according to two women, they have seen the ghost of Marie Antoinette. Or perhaps it was not a ghost at all... Follow us over on Instagram at @certainlystrangethepodcast

The last days of the Romanovs, of the Tsardom of Russia, are stained with blood and mystery – yet all of it seems to be overshadowed by a figure of true strangeness, whose sudden appearance on the world stage can only be deemed as completely absurd. Yet, his rise to power seems to pale in comparison to his death – or rather, his utter refusal to die. Follow us over on Instagram at @certainlystrang...

It had been seven years – seven long, depressing, cursed years. Literally, cursed. It had been eight years since Susan Mummey, “the witch of Ringtown Valley,” had cursed Albert Shinsky. It drove him mad. No, it drove him more than mad: it drove him to murder. Follow us over on instagram @certainlystrangethepodcast

He is… thin?! That’s what everyone immediately thought when they met the strange man that they had heard so much about. Despite the fact that he could eat and eat and eat, anything and everything, Tarrare was severely underweight. And what he ate – would turn your stomach. Follow us over on Instagram at @certainlystrangethepodcast

On January 2, 1935, at 1:20 p.m., a stranger in a long overcoat stepped into the lobby of the President Hotel in Kansas City. Two days later, he would be found stabbed in a locked room within the same hotel. It is the sort of murder mystery that would feature in a story with a detective like Sherlock Holmes, Hercule Poirot, or Benoit Blanc. But it truly did happen. Follow us over on Instagram at @...

In the vast landscape of the internet, amidst the memes, cat videos, and the weekly celebrity being cancelled by social media, there lays a world of wonder, of online sleuths solving cold cases, of hackers exposing government secrets… and in 2012, a mystery was born. Follow us over at @certainlystrangethepodcast

If a stranger calls out to you at night, a voice so very human but distant, it is best you do not listen. Do not follow that voice into the night – you do not know what will wait for you there. Fear for Skinwalkers runs deep and the belief that they are real is still very much alive. Still, it shocked the nation when a woman was killed in Flaggstaff Arizona in 1987 and the defense of the main susp...

A little girl screamed as she was being chased by man-eating tigers. A husband and wife  chased each other with knives in their hands. A man smashed all his furniture in an attempt to fend off the terrible beasts that hunted him. A woman cried over how her little children had been ground into sausages. The village of Pont-Saint-Esprit had gone mad. But why? It was all because of… bread! But some p...

The weather was horrendous. A storm was brewing as Stephen and his wife Tabatha were driving through the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. From a distance, they could see a building, massive, bright white and with a crimson roof that made it stand out against the dark clouds. The hotel that was dawning before them had been recommended by some of the locals, and as they checked in, they were informed th...

A face has been haunting me. Not that of a friend, or a colleague, and no – not my own. It is a face that I saw on the internet, a single drawing of a man’s face. This man’s face gives me such an unsettling feeling in my gut, a feeling of dread that creeps up my spine and gets a hold of me. And when I read the story behind the face, I grew even more disturbed. But that was not even the whole of th...

“I don’t know where I am. I’m so cold. Please help me, I’m lost.” These were the words spoken by Dakota James, a 23 year-old student in Pittsburgh on the evening of December the 15th, 2016, when calling his friend, Shelley. 5 weeks later, on January the 25th, Dakota James disappeared. His case would be one similar to hunderds more in America... Review us on Spotify or Apple Podcasts and come say h...

As you wander into the fields near my village, you will find little hills. They are graves - the burial mounds of an ancient people. And as the fog rises between these mounds, the people around here whisper the name Witte Wieven, or White Ladies... but who or what are they? Dive into the most famous piece of Dutch Folklore with me for this Halloween special! Follow us on instagram at @certainlystr...

Everyone has secrets, even in a village where everyone seems to know everyone. Perhaps even especially in small villages such as those. But this anonymous writer seemed to know all of them, of everyone. About the things that happened between closed doors. An unseen stalker in the shadows, lurking where you least expect it. Like big brother, watching you. Inhabitants of the small village of Circlev...

There live things in the forest that you know to fear. There is always something lurking in the shadows that is out to get you. If you were a farmer anywhere during the middle ages, or even in the ages that came after that, there was one creature that you feared most of all. The wolf. We have all heard about how much people used to fear witches, but wolves, or rather, people who had the ability to...