Ghost Stories For The End Of The World

We’re setting the table for the year ahead in Ghost Stories, and to do so we’ll be following a number of threads that may or may not have much to do with each other. Key to this one is the UK’s relationship with the US, which we use to explore how unnerving it feels to be alive in the Hermit Kingdom in the last days, its mind blown out by redundant upper management and a deep state that no longer...

People try to be the king but the ace is back, with a banging new theme tune and a story that explores the decadence of the Palermo Belle Époque. The mafia is now well entrenched and reaching ever further into the Italian system; a banking crisis exposes industrial-scale fraud and leads to the first eminent corpse.   This episode is free to all but most subsequent BOW episodes will be available ON...

It's been too long since last we took the Saucer of Insight out for a spin through the feverish Caverns of the Mind, so tonight we're finally getting weird again to talk about those lovable scamps in human skin in black suits: THE MEN IN BLACK. Who they? Where be? What is? And but? All these questions and more will be answered as our good friend Robert Skvarla joins myself and Bradley  to explore...

This one goes off the rails in a major way because I'm out of practice and it's been a very long month. We begin with an overview of where the main show is heading and our plans for the future, then we talk about (in no particular order here): poison eurodwarf Polanski, occultism and control, Aktion T4, Yorkshire Aunties, pandemics, apartments, left wing thinkpieces, serial killers, if Boris Johns...

"A couple travel to Sweden to visit their friend's rural hometown for its fabled midsummer festival, but what begins as an idyllic retreat quickly devolves into an increasingly violent and bizarre competition at the hands of a pagan cult."   None of the synopses really get the pitch right but what the hell, this'll do.   Dir: Ari Aster   Joined for this one by Marcus and Seb of THE RETURN OF THE R...

"Set against the backdrop of Belgium's most notorious unsolved crime spree, 1985 begins as three friends - Vicky, her brother Franky, and his best friend Marc - begin a new chapter of their lives, when they set off from their hometown to Brussels. But as their adulthood and careers in the big city commence, the trio risks losing their innocence and noble illusions, as they find themselves caught i...

Join Nic  and I for the final Belgian X-File.   This is how it ends.   UNLOCK THE REST OF THE EPISODE HERE: https://www.patreon.com/GhostStoriesForTheEnd   SOUNDTRACK NOW AVAILABLE HERE    

Myself and @IRC_NIC discuss the sheer size of the case and consider what The Sprawl means. We go long on how the cops and the media conspired to kill the network angle, and then we look at the truly global scale of the Dutroux Affair and break down what, exactly, the Network was, its historical origins, the social context, how it worked, where it came from, and how it dealt with the threat of expo...

EXTREME CONTENT WARNING Regina Louf talks about her experience in the network, the pressure mounts on the investigating team, people continue to die, the families of the victims are pushed to the edge of madness, and Belgium finds itself on the brink of revolution.   **UNLOCK THE FULL EPISODE HERE** https://www.patreon.com/GhostStoriesForTheEnd  

Seemed fitting to unlock these two episodes, solder them together through the miracle of sound editing, and make them free to all given the news this week of Oasis reforming. Enjoy.   **SUPPORT THE SHOW HERE**: https://www.patreon.com/GhostStoriesForTheEnd  

Dutroux and his accomplices start to talk, the people of Belgium try to process news of the staggering investigative failings, prosecutors Bourlet and Connerotte gaze into the abyss, and a young woman steps forward with astonishing information about corruption and savagery at the heart of the Belgian establishment.   Next episode Thursday 29th.   ***SUPPORT THE SHOW HERE*** https://www.patreon.com...

@irc_nic guides us through 1996.   **SUPPORT THE SHOW HERE** https://www.patreon.com/GhostStoriesForTheEnd  

EXTREME CONTENT WARNING: This episode contains some very harrowing and upsetting material. I don't recommend you listen to it if you're in a bad place/are likely to be triggered by the subject matter. Please take care.   The part about the murders.   @irc_nic  joins me once again for this journey into Belgium's heart of darkness.   ***TRAILER*** UNLOCK THE FULL SHOW HERE: https://www.patreon.com/G...

Nic ( @irc_nic ) guides us through the life story of Marc Dutroux. We look at his childhood, his descent into crime, and how he may have become a fixer for the Belgian political mafia.   "The Kludde" read by Michael S. Judge of Death is Just Around the Corner with our immense thanks.   **SUPPORT THE SHOW HERE** https://www.patreon.com/GhostStoriesForTheEnd  

Nic ( @irc_nic ) joins us once again for a panoramic sweep across Belgium at the end of the Cold War, and on the eve of the Dutroux Affair in multi-chapter anthology style episode.   0:53: Prologue 10:00: Chapter 1 - The Paul Vanden Boeynants Kidnapping 52:15: Chapter 2 - The Belgian Gladio Inquiry 82:40: Chapter 3 - The Murder of Gerald Bull 91:21: Chapter 4 - The Murder of André Cools 131:26: Ch...

Tonight we tie off Brabant Killers Redux by looking at an especially bizarre event that occurred just before the final massacre, using it as an illustrative example of how deep into the weeds you can fall, if you so wish, in trying to understand this most eerie of true stories. We then explore various theories people have put forward over the years to explain the crimes, and offer our own holistic...

Particularly strange deaths connected to the Brabant Killers attacks.   SUPPORT THE SHOW HERE: https://www.patreon.com/GhostStoriesForTheEnd  

The first Gang Commission, the aftermath of the Brabant Killers operation, and the consequences.   https://www.patreon.com/GhostStoriesForTheEnd   Note: This is actually the first part of a four hour recording we did, but after some discussion we decided to cut it down into more manageable 60 - 90 minute instalments. This means Aftermath pt ii will land next week and, most likely, there will be an...

The second wave.   UNLOCK THE FULL SHOW HERE: https://www.patreon.com/GhostStoriesForTheEnd  

The First Wave.

I'm joined again by @irc_nic as the Belgian Autumn begins.   Prince Albert and the Belgian business class over-promise and under-deliver in a trade deal with the Saudis. The resulting financial scandal exposes a vice network, blackmail operations and massive embezzlement. The Belgian establishment scrambles to cover it all up, but things take a dramatically darker turn when a psychiatrist files fo...

I'm joined by Belgian researcher Nic (@irc_nic) to talk about the post-war far-right in Belgium: what it believed, what it did, how it ensured loyalty, who profited...and who didn't. Paramilitary groups, Gladio, cults, dirty cops, gangsters and crooked spooks. They formed subterranean networks of mind-warping size that covertly influenced the course of modern Belgian history and planned everything...

We conclude our time in Congo by discussing how they killed Lumumba, colonial ghosts returning to the imperial core, and the politics of forgetting.   SUPPORT THE SHOW HERE: https://www.patreon.com/GhostStoriesForTheEnd  

Leopold. Congo. Belgium. The neo-aristocracy and generational suffering. The Belgian X-Files 2.   TO UNLOCK THE FULL EPISODE: https://www.patreon.com/GhostStoriesForTheEnd  

We look at Belgium under Nazi occupation and the Royal Question, then discuss the assassination of Communist Party leader Julien Lahaut and the hidden networks in the Belgian establishment.