Horror at the Milk Bar

In the final part of Batavia’s Graveyard , Francisco Pelsaert returns from Java aboard the Sardam to find that Jeronimus Cornelisz has led a reign of terror, murdering more than 216 men, women and children. Only the courage of Wiebe Hayes and his band of survivors, who fought off repeated attacks by the mutineers, prevents Cornelisz from seizing the rescue ship. Cornelisz and his followers are arr...

What begins as desperation descends into calculated slaughter. Men, women, and children are hunted, drowned, stabbed, and silenced in the night. The sick are executed where they lie. The weak are deemed expendable. Entire groups are lured away and murdered, their deaths hidden beneath lies and shifting sands. Each day, the body count rises as Cornelisz tightens his grip, building a reign of terror...

The Batavia sets sail—packed with silver, secrets, and men with everything to gain… and nothing to lose. Beneath the promise of unimaginable wealth, tension brews as disease, filth, and power struggles take hold on the open ocean. As alliances form and dark ideas begin to surface and the seeds of mutiny are quietly planted. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

13,000 miles into her maiden voyage carrying around 330 people, the pride of the Dutch East India Company struck a reef off the coast of Western Australia. But the shipwreck was only the beginning of the horror. What followed was a sadistic reign of terror led by Jeronimus Cornelisz, a man history remembers as one of its most abhorrent psychopaths. We’re opening the books on the massacre at the Ho...

This is the astonishing conclusion to Gregory’s story so far. We pick up where we left off at the Tweed Heads Hospital, with a bag full of illicit materials. Gregory is about to experience a life-altering event that will reroute his entire life course, take his place among his ancestors, and lead him to discoveries that help him re-evaluate and confront his past. Strap on in!! Hosted on Acast. See...

Today, we pick up where we left off. Gregory is atop Mt Goonengerry. The skies have opened in a torrent of monsoon rain, and Gregory is hunched beneath his Driza-Bone, covered in leeches, wondering if he should return to society or go deeper into the forest. Get ready—this is a spectacular trip into the unknown. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The first episode in our series tells the extraordinary true story of Gregory P. Smith, based on his powerful autobiography Out of the Forest . From a childhood marked by violence, institutional abuse, and survival on the streets, Gregory’s life spirals through addiction, crime, and self-destruction—before leading him into the Australian wilderness with nothing but the bare essentials and a will t...

In this final instalment, the last desperate plan to get Jan across the mountains to Sweden unfolds—while German patrols and brutal weather threaten to end his journey once and for all...... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this instalment, Jan’s fight for survival reaches its darkest moment. Alone in the mountains, suffering from gangrene and starvation, he endures weeks buried in snow and performs a desperate act to stay alive. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Our story takes place in Nazi-occupied Norway in 1943, in the frozen fjords and mountains of the Arctic north. It follows the almost unbelievable ordeal of Jan Baalsrud, a Norwegian resistance fighter whose mission behind enemy lines goes catastrophically wrong. What follows is a desperate fight for survival across some of the harshest terrain on earth — a story of avalanches, frostbite, starvatio...

On 26 November 1983, armed robbers broke into a Brink’s-Mat security warehouse near Heathrow Airport in London expecting to steal cash. Instead, they discovered a vault holding 3,000 kilograms of gold bullion along with diamonds and money, worth about £26 million at the time. The gang escaped with the gold, which was later melted down and laundered through criminal networks, fuelling one of the la...

In 2007, a series of brutal attacks in eastern Ukraine escalated into one of the country’s most disturbing criminal cases. As investigators worked to trace stolen property and identify those responsible, a graphic video filmed by the perpetrators surfaced online, drawing international attention. What began as scattered reports of violence quickly became a nationwide investigation involving thousan...

In November 1970, a powerful cyclone struck the low-lying coast of what was then East Pakistan (now Bangladesh). A storm surge estimated up to ten metres high swept across islands in the Ganges Delta, submerging entire villages overnight. Between 300,000 and 500,000 people were killed, making it the deadliest tropical cyclone in recorded history. The disaster exposed major failures in relief effor...

In November 2017, the death of Queensland man Bruce Saunders was first reported as a horrific workplace accident involving a woodchipper on a rural property near Gympie. But almost immediately, police sensed something was wrong. What followed was one of Queensland’s most disturbing murder investigations — a case involving betrayal, life insurance, staged evidence, and a brutal attempt to disguise...

In June 2014, 28-year-old mother of four Tia Landers went to a suburban home in Brighton, north of Brisbane, to conduct what she believed was a routine drug transaction. She brought two friends with her. None of them expected what would unfold inside that house over the following hours. This episode examines the events surrounding Tia’s disappearance and murder, drawing on court records, sentencin...

The Halifax Explosion occurred on 6 December 1917 and remains one of the largest non-nuclear explosions in history. It was caused by a collision in Halifax Harbour between two ships, one of which was carrying a massive load of wartime explosives. The resulting blast devastated much of the city, killed nearly 2,000 people, injured thousands more, and reshaped emergency response, disaster planning,...

Three tales that get significantly more disturbing as they go! Also, Thank you endlessly for your support, I'm not bloody joking around, this is serious, it means the world to met that you would take time out to listen in each week, especailly as the show has changed and grown (hopefully for the better), It's not easy but knowing you're there makes me so happy. Thankyou, sincerely. Hosted on Acast...

This true story became the inspiration for a 1.67 billion dollar film franshise! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A special two part episode today! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Therese had struggled with alcoholism for over a decade and now things were getting scary and she desparateely needed a change, or she was sure, she would die and maybe take others along with her. The change came in the form of two unesxpected strangers and what came next is reminder that sometimes there are forces beyond our control, placing us exactly where we need to be at just the right point...

Todays story, is truly devastating for the victims and personally I don't believe there was ever enough outrage over this case. Please listen with care, some details may be confronting for some listeners. Bless you x Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Christian Manga lived a quiet life in a town near the Nigerian Border in Camaroon, near lake Nyos. One night he put his family and animals to bed and awoke the next morning with a strong metalic taste in his mouth, a splitting headache and noticed an unnatural silence in the valley. Before long, Christian would realise that everyone and everything in his beloved had died, but how? And, why did he...

Tonight’s episode is two stories. The first takes place deep in the woods, where a man camping alone came within arm’s reach of something he couldn’t see but will never forget. The second begins on a quiet backroad, where another man accepted a ride from a stranger on what should have been an ordinary drive home. Two different places, two different moments, but the same unsettling truth: both of t...

Rafael and María set out for a guided trip through Egypt’s White Desert, permits in hand and everything fully planned. It was meant to be a once-in-a-lifetime adventure. No one could have predicted what happened next........... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A mother and daighter take a trip to Bali to reconcile their lost relationship..... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.