Horror at the Milk Bar

n 1945, an elderly farm worker was found brutally murdered in a quiet English village. But as Scotland Yard investigated, the case became entangled with chilling tales of witchcraft, mysterious black dogs, a headless woman and an ancient curse. Was Charles Walton the victim of a ritual killing, or was something far more sinister hiding behind the folklore? Join us on Horror at the Milk Bar as we e...

In August 1942, a United States Navy blimp was spotted drifting strangely over Daly City, California, sagging, barely under control and slowly coming down over houses and power lines. When emergency crews finally reached it, they expected to find its two Navy airmen inside, but the gondola was empty. Hours earlier, Lieutenant Ernest Cody and Ensign Charles Adams had taken off on a routine anti-sub...

Deep in the woods of Port St. Lucie, Florida, stands a scarred old oak known as the Devil’s Tree. Locals say chainsaws failed against it, a priest tried to cleanse it, and even fire couldn’t destroy it. But behind the paranormal stories is a very real and horrifying connection to former sheriff’s deputy and convicted murderer Gerard John Schaefer. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more in...

Deep in the unforgiving landscape of Afghanistan, a remote military observation post becomes the setting for something the soldiers stationed there cannot explain. Footsteps in the darkness, phantom muzzle flashes, whispered Russian voices and the unmistakable smell of death begin to torment one American Marine. But when he finally leaves the outpost, a local Afghan reveals the disturbing history...

In 1928, three people entered an isolated Pennsylvania farmhouse convinced its owner had cursed their lives. What followed became one of America’s strangest murder cases — involving folk magic, a mysterious spell book, a failed fire, and a belief in witchcraft that turned deadly. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In 1944, families in the small town of Mattoon, Illinois, began waking in the middle of the night to a strange sweet smell inside their homes. Soon after, they became violently ill, and some suddenly found themselves unable to move. Then people started noticing something outside their windows. What followed would send an entire town into panic and create one of the strangest unsolved mysteries in...

In 1801, two lighthouse keepers were stationed together on one of the most isolated structures off the coast of Wales. The men were known to hate each other, but when violent storms cut them off from the mainland, something went terribly wrong. For weeks, Thomas Howell kept the lighthouse burning while his fellow keeper, Thomas Griffith, remained outside the window... waving at him. This is the te...

In the early 1980s, Sam and Judith Haney moved into a brand-new home in Crosby, Texas. But after a series of strange and increasingly terrifying events, they began asking questions about the land their house had been built on. What they eventually discovered beneath their own backyard would become the centre of one of Texas's most disturbing hauntings. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for mo...

In 1827, Maria Marten left her home dressed as a man, supposedly to elope with her lover, William Corder. For months, her family was assured she was alive and well. Then Maria’s stepmother began having a series of disturbing dreams about the Red Barn — dreams that would lead to a horrifying discovery. What followed became one of Victorian England’s most infamous murder cases, complete with decepti...

In 2022, police investigating the disappearance of a lottery ticket seller in the quiet Indian town of Elanthoor uncovered one of the country's most disturbing modern murder cases. What began as a routine missing persons investigation exposed a web of manipulation, fake online identities, ritual killings and a sinister promise of unimaginable wealth. In this episode of Horror at the Milk Bar , we...

When seven-year-old Misty Harper begins building a tiny fairy village behind her father's old shed in rural Idaho, she believes she's made friends with the magical creatures living beyond the trees. Every afternoon, she leaves them letters. And somehow... they begin writing back. As the weeks pass, the mysterious messages encourage Misty to venture a little closer to the forest each time. But when...

The Haunting of Room 611 In the early 1970s, Ken moved into Room 611 at Queen's University Belfast expecting an ordinary student life. Instead, he experienced a series of unsettling encounters that would stay with him for the next fifty years. After sharing his story decades later, former residents of Alanbrooke Hall came forward with chilling accounts of their own, turning one student's private e...

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...