The Storytelling Podcast

Send us Fan Mail Today we are travelling into one of the most extreme working environments ever created by human beings, a place where men voluntarily lived under immense pressure, worked hundreds of feet beneath the surface of the sea, and trusted their lives to a system that had to function perfectly every single day. I have to put a disclaimer: if you suffer from Thalassophobia, submechanophobi...

Send us Fan Mail Today's episode comes from Desange Kuenihira. Desange is a refugee, entrepreneur, speaker, and the CEO and founder of unDEfeated, a non-profit organization dedicated to providing education and opportunities for underprivileged youth and women facing extreme financial hardship in Uganda. This is a story about finding your voice, overcoming silence, resilience, identity, and le...

Send us Fan Mail Today, we are diving into a series of strange and real time slip cases, moments where people appear to have stepped outside of their own time, encountering places, people, and realities that should not have existed, at least not in the way they experienced them. Visual Episode: https://youtu.be/OKYl1wNAR_E Spotify episode:  Available on all Podcast platforms. ---------- Music by: ...

Send us Fan Mail In the southern region of Venezuela, deep within the vast wilderness of Canaima National Park, there are landscapes with Tepuis.  A Tepui, or tepuy, is a table-top mountain, or mesas, because of its flat surface. They can be found in northern South America, especially in Venezuela, western Guyana, and northern Brazil.  The word tepui means "house of the gods" in the nati...

Send us Fan Mail Tonight’s episode is different because every story you are about to hear comes directly from listeners who reached out and shared their personal experiences, describing moments when a simple hike slowly turned into something confusing, uncomfortable, and, in some cases, genuinely frightening. Visual Episode: https://youtu.be/_Vd8EWucyi8 Spotify episode:  Available on all Podcast p...

Send us Fan Mail Today’s episode is an immersive reading from a book called The Dancing Wolfeman , written by Rick London , who reached out and asked if I could bring part of his story to life here on the podcast. Get the Book: https://amzn.to/4sGiwxT  Meet the author: https://dancingwolfeman.com/ Excerpt of the book: The Dancing Wolfeman, written by Rick London, all content copyrighted by the aut...

Send us Fan Mail Today, we are stepping into the strange and unsettling mystery of the Gadianton Canyon time slip, a true story from 1972 that continues to raise one simple but deeply disturbing question: What if time itself is not as stable as we believe it is? Spotlight Creative Agency sponsors this episode. Visual Episode: https://youtu.be/nJ6-PFtiQdQ Spotify episode:  Available on all Podcast...

Send us Fan Mail Today, we are exploring one of the most remote and mysterious places on Earth, a frozen vault built in the Arctic that holds the possibility of rebuilding life itself, a place designed to survive even if everything else does not. Welcome to the Svalbard Seed Vault, the Doomsday Archive. Spotlight Creative Agency sponsors this episode. Visual Episode: https://youtu.be/P5tU57ds_Ms S...

Send us Fan Mail Today, we are diving into one of the most unsettling modern glitch-in-the-matrix stories ever shared, the story of a man who lived an entire life, built a family, created years of memories, and then woke up to discover that none of it had ever existed. Spotlight Creative Agency sponsors this episode. Visual Episode: https://youtu.be/Ruvd9qSeTfs Spotify episode:  Available on all P...

Send us Fan Mail Tonight, we are stepping into a story that feels as if it belongs in the pages of gothic horror, yet every part of it truly happened.  This is the story of The Vampire Panic of New England, a time when grief, superstition, and desperation drove people to open graves and search the bodies of their own loved ones for signs that the dead had returned to feed on the living. Spotlight...

Send us Fan Mail For centuries, humanity has relied on maps to understand where land ends and where the sea begins, where nations control their territory, and where resources can be found.  Tonight’s story takes us to the Gulf of Mexico, a vast stretch of water surrounded by the United States, Mexico, and Cuba, an area that has been explored, mapped, and traveled by sailors for hundreds of years.....

Send us Fan Mail Tonight’s story takes us to Pascagoula, Mississippi, a peaceful coastal town where neighbors greeted each other in the streets. But during the summer of 1942, something began happening in Pascagoula that would turn this quiet community into the center of one of the strangest mysteries in American history. Spotlight Creative Agency sponsors this episode. Visual Episode: https://you...

Send us Fan Mail There is a small railway station in the north of England, the kind of station that exists in the background of travel rather than at its center, where trains slow down just enough to sigh before continuing on to somewhere more important.  Let me tell you the story of what happened to Daniel on a rainy, dark October night in 1997 at Blackridge Halt Station. Spotlight Creative Agenc...

Send us Fan Mail Today, we are stepping into the tense and mysterious world of the Cold War, a time when the entire planet seemed to live in a quiet shadow of suspicion, secrecy, and hidden dangers that could appear in the most ordinary places. During those decades, governments on both sides of the political divide were constantly trying to outsmart each other, using spies, secret technology, code...

Send us Fan Mail Today, we are diving into the bizarre and unforgettable story of The Dublin Whiskey Fire of 1875, a disaster where a warehouse fire unleashed rivers of whiskey into the streets of Dublin and where human behavior turned a shocking accident into one of the strangest tragedies ever recorded. This episode is sponsored by Spotlight Creative Agency. Visual Episode: https://youtu.be/MlJJ...

Send us Fan Mail The Lead Masks Case is unsettling not because of its visible brutality, but because of its precision, its preparation, and the unanswered question of its intention. Two men walked up a hill in Brazil in 1966. They brought raincoats, a notebook, water bottles, and carefully crafted lead masks to cover their eyes. Days later, they were found dead, lying side by side, with no visible...

Send us Fan Mail Submechanophobia is the fear of submerged man-made objects. It is not simply fear of deep water, and it is not just fear of drowning. It is the anxiety triggered by artificial structures resting underwater.  Ships, statues, anchors, ladders, buildings, playground equipment, oil rigs. It is about scale and silence and distortion. It is about seeing evidence of human creation where...

Send us Fan Mail All seven stories come from listeners in Latin America. Two are from Venezuela. One touches on Santería. Some are about childhood memories. Others are about homes that did not feel empty.  Here are 7 real stories from listeners that will make your skin crawl.  Thank you to everyone who sent their stories!  Visual Episode: https://youtu.be/0pm03yLcl-k Spotify episode: https://open....

Send us Fan Mail Today, we are traveling to Beijing, China, in 1995, to explore the chilling legend of The Bus 375 Disappearance. A story about a young man, an elderly lady, the driver of the bus, and a point of no return. Visual Episode: https://youtu.be/2_Z33o-RIoA Spotify episode: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1FgCGVjaDyzgKEdVjWInXj?si=ea7c3fa9238047a4 Available on all Podcast platforms. ---...

Send us Fan Mail Tonight’s episode takes us back to the American Midwest in the early twentieth century, to a small railroad town surrounded by endless fields of corn and long dirt roads that seemed to disappear into the horizon. This is a story that has lingered for more than a century, a story that still breathes quietly inside a white wooden house in Iowa.  Visual Episode: https://youtu.be/SFN6...

Send us Fan Mail (Better listen with headphones for a full immersive experience.) Today, we are walking through every major chapter of Lisbon’s history, slowly and deeply, from ancient harbour settlement to modern European capital.  We will explore empire, faith, disaster, power, silence, and freedom. Let's travel to Lisbon through the city's most significant events throughout time. Chap...

Send us Fan Mail Today, we are diving deep into the expanded story of Elizabeth Short, the investigation that followed her death, the psychological theories that have surrounded the case for decades, and even the question of whether modern forensic science could finally bring answers to a mystery that has lasted for nearly eighty years. Visual Episode: https://youtu.be/Kcqy9Qkcso4 Spotify episode:...

Send us Fan Mail Today, we are diving into real spooky listener stories sent in from across Portugal, stories of ancient walls, restless spirits, unexplained shadows, and moments that still send chills. Thank you to everyone who sent their stories. Visual Episode: https://youtu.be/y76Tgxlqhc4 Spotify episode: https://open.spotify.com/episode/59k0tfRTec6FVFTCvbp2Ur?si=4a1399b21ebd4fcd Available on...

Send us Fan Mail DISCLAIMER — PLEASE LISTEN BEFORE THE EPISODE The stories you are about to hear are shared for historical, cultural, and storytelling purposes only. This episode is not meant to encourage anyone to search for, purchase, recreate, practice, or experiment with any of the books, rituals, manuscripts, or ideas mentioned in this episode. I am not influencing decisions, beliefs, or acti...

Send us Fan Mail Today, we are exploring the history of human error, a collection of real and documented moments where history went wrong, not because of evil plans or great disasters, but because of oversight, misjudgment, misplaced confidence, and very human mistakes. 10 historic stories that make you think who ordered and why there is no common sense, the majority of times. Visual Episode: http...