Daily Scaries: True Crime Stories - By Day and By Night

On a summer afternoon in 1976, a school bus carrying 26 children vanished from a quiet road in Chowchilla, California. No crash. No witnesses. No demands. Just an empty road where a bus full of kids had been minutes before. What followed was the largest mass kidnapping in American history — a brazen plan buried underground, a ransom note typed in secret, and a bus driver who refused to let 26 chil...

The Au Pair Affair: The Brendan Banfield Case | Daily Scaries: Wide Awake Ep. 1 Brendan Banfield was an IRS criminal investigator who used his forensic mind to plan the perfect double murder. He catfished a stranger named Joseph Ryan through a fetish website, lured him to his Herndon, Virginia home, shot him dead, and stabbed his wife Christine Banfield — all while carrying on an affair with the f...

Three murders. Decades of silence. One breakthrough. Tonight on Daily Scaries After Dark, we revisit three cold cases that sat unsolved for years — until modern forensic science changed everything. The Lady of the Dunes — Ruth Marie Terry She was found on a Cape Cod beach in 1974, hands severed, face beaten beyond recognition. For 48 years, no one knew her name. Then, in 2022, forensic genealogy f...

June 2026- Seven cases. Seven investigations that left seasoned detectives stunned. Narrated in a calm, measured voice — designed for nighttime listening. A Wingstop cup that solved a 40-year-old murder. A sentence spoken on a neighbor's porch in Iowa that preceded the unthinkable. An 11-year-old girl in France whose disappearance ignited a national reckoning. A serial killer in Oregon now facing...

Three cases. Decades apart. None fully explained. Hinterkaifeck (1922) — A family murdered on a remote Bavarian farm. Footprints leading into the house — none leading out. Someone had been living in the attic for days before the killings began. Dyatlov Pass (1959) — Nine experienced hikers fled their tent in the dead of a Soviet winter. Barefoot. Half-dressed. Most were found dead from causes no o...

Tonight on Daily Scaries: After Dark, fall asleep to two haunting true crime stories filled with mystery, tragedy, and unanswered questions. First, we explore the shocking case of Mackenzie Shirilla , the Ohio crash case that stunned the nation after a deadly high-speed collision left two passengers dead and investigators searching for answers about what really happened in the moments before impac...

Tonight on Daily Scaries: After Dark, fall asleep to two chilling true crime stories that continue to haunt investigators and the public decades later. First, we explore the terrifying case of the The Tylenol Murders — the unsolved crime that changed product safety forever after several people died from cyanide-laced medication. A mystery that sparked nationwide fear and remains one of America’s m...

This Episode of Daily Scaries: After Dark…  We follow two haunting mysteries separated by thousands of miles, but connected by one chilling theme: vanishing without answers.  High above the clouds on Mount Everest, one frozen figure has become an eerie landmark known only as Green Boots.  And in the quiet backroads of Minnesota, college student Brandon Swanson made one final phone call before disa...

This Episode of Daily Scaries: After Dark… A brutal crime inside a yogurt shop. An entire family gone without a trace. Two cases that shocked the world and left behind questions no one has been able to answer.  If dark mysteries and true crime help you relax and unwind, check here for more stories every week. Dim the lights, get comfortable, and join me for tonight’s unsettling stories.

This Episode of Daily Scaries After Dark explores two eerie real-life mysteries. First, the haunting case of Manfred Fritz Bajorat — the German sailor discovered mummified aboard his drifting yacht years after mysteriously dying alone at sea, frozen in time in the middle of the ocean. Then, the baffling disappearance of Maura Murray, the college student who vanished without a trace after crashing...