The Storytelling Podcast

Send us Fan Mail Today’s story takes us to a place of snow, silence, and long polar nights. A place so cold that the ground never truly softens. A place where bodies do not decay the way they should. And a place where, slowly and quietly, dying became illegal. This is the story of the town that banned death.  Welcome to Longyearbyen, a small town located on the Svalbard archipelago, far above the...

Send us Fan Mail Today’s story may sound funny when you first hear its title, and yes, there is something undeniably absurd about it. But behind the laughter lies a very real and deeply human experience. We are travelling back in time to 18th-century England, to a moment in history that sounds almost unbelievable, yet is completely real. Visual Episode: https://youtu.be/89zgxm_0Dtg Spotify episode...

Send us Fan Mail An Original Story for The Storytelling Podcast Before we begin, I want you to imagine standing alone at the edge of the world. No city lights behind you. No voices. No certainty that the ground beneath your feet is solid or safe.  Only the sound of the sea breathing in the dark, and the feeling, deep in your chest, that something far older than you has noticed your presence. Visua...

Send us Fan Mail Today I am taking you into one of the darkest and strangest scandals in French history, a case involving poison, witchcraft, forbidden rituals, and secret trials that many powerful people wanted erased forever. In seventeenth-century France, reputation meant survival, appearances mattered more than truth, and secrets were a form of currency. Is a real tale of folklore, supertition...

Send us Fan Mail Savannah feels old in a way that goes beyond architecture. It feels heavy, as if the ground itself carries memory. This is a city that has seen more death than most people realize. Long before ghost tours and haunted hotel rooms, Savannah was shaped by war, disease, slavery, and repeated disaster.  Visual Episode: https://youtu.be/E7mbma0VE8c Spotify episode: https://open.spotify....

Send us Fan Mail Today I have another long episode, and we are diving into the extravagant, obsessive, dramatic, and often ridiculous life of King Louis the Fourteenth of France, better known as the Sun King. He did not simply inherit a crown and issue laws. He transformed himself into a living symbol, a political performance so constant and so convincing that France itself began to orbit around h...

Send us Fan Mail On one single evening in 1938, thousands of ordinary people across the United States became fully convinced that the planet was under attack.  Today, we are going back to the night when radios across America accidentally convinced entire towns that aliens were invading Earth. This is the War of the Worlds, with the REAL audio at the end of the episode. Embrace a brilliant historic...

Send us Fan Mail If you like or love coffee, this is going to be a horror story, the perfect nightmare story for all coffee lovers. Coffee is so deeply embedded in modern life that most of us never question it. It exists quietly in the background of our routines, waiting on kitchen counters, office desks, and café tables, almost invisible because of how familiar it is.  This episode takes us to th...

Send us Fan Mail Tonight’s episode is going to be a very long one, because it is not about one theft, but about 20th Century Heists. This is a journey through time, across countries and decades, exploring some of the most famous, audacious, and baffling thefts ever committed. Thank you to all of you who sent the stories and requested this episode. Visual Episode: https://youtu.be/TMP06BP7sqE Spoti...

Send us Fan Mail Some mysteries come from silence, from absence, from places where something clearly happened, yet nothing was left behind to explain it.  The Lost Colony of Roanoke belongs to that category of history, not because it is dramatic in the traditional sense, but because it is disturbingly quiet. Visual Episode: https://youtu.be/NxouP2GLb1M Spotify episode: https://open.spotify.com/epi...

Send us Fan Mail There are stories that history tells clearly, with dates, names, and witnesses. And then there are stories that exist in shadows, passed down through belief, fear, and tradition.  Stories that survive not because we understand them, but because we are unsettled by them. The Trial of the Witch of Endor belongs to that second kind. Today, I will be telling you the strange historical...

Send us Fan Mail There are certain historical figures whose lives feel less like history and more like legend. Their stories are so strange, so full of contradiction, scandal, and mystery, that even when we know the facts, they still feel unreal. Tonight, we are exploring how a peasant from a frozen village managed to influence the most powerful family in Russia, surround himself with lovers and e...

Send us Fan Mail Today, we are entering a story where history and fear became so deeply tangled, that even now, nearly a century later, people still argue about what was real and what should never have happened. Welcome to The Borley Rectory, the most haunted house in England. Visual Episode: https://youtu.be/LvEGC7sQavk Spotify episode: https://open.spotify.com/episode/2wA3gitsTsQUMc5j6zPhf2?si=d...

Send us Fan Mail Picture London in the early 1800s. No cars. No smartphones. No health and safety regulations. Just narrow streets, candlelight, horse-drawn carts… and a deep emotional dependence on beer . Now imagine that, without warning, a wall of beer taller than most houses crashes into your neighborhood. Tonight’s episode is about one of the most bizarre and tragic accidents in history, an e...

Send us Fan Mail Texas is known for its wide roads, open land, and endless skies. Everything feels bigger there. In today’s episode, all the stories come from one place. One state. Different cities. Different homes. Today, we are sharing real-life spooky stories sent by listeners from Texas, all connected by homes that never truly felt empty. Thank you to all of you who sent your stories. Visual E...

Send us Fan Mail Today’s episode takes us to one of the most famous landmarks in the world, admired by millions, photographed endlessly, and visited by tourists every single day. But when night falls, and the crowds leave, this place becomes something else entirely. This is not fiction. This is 900 years of history. Welcome to London, The Tower of London.  Visual Episode: https://youtu.be/l0LWtghj...

Send us Fan Mail Today’s episode is about a place that has been called one of the most haunted forests in the world, a place often compared to the Bermuda Triangle because of the strange disappearances, unexplained phenomena, and eerie sensations people experience inside its borders. Some say it’s a cursed land. Some say it’s a gateway. Others say it’s simply a misunderstood nature. Welcome to Hoi...

Send us Fan Mail Today we are travelling to Australia, back to the year 1948, to explore one of the strangest and most quietly disturbing mysteries in modern history… The mystery of the Somerton Man. Visual Episode: https://youtu.be/muAv7gnKfuw Spotify episode: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1WYiAWsjFaY9OHhgy38rvt?si=d75f9310dba2445a Available on all Podcast platforms. ---------- Music by:  Soun...

Send us Fan Mail Tonight, we're delving into a theme that often brings joy, but can also hide something far more sinister: gifts.  Yes, those tokens of affection, remembrance, or sometimes... something else entirely.  This is another episode with real stories sent by our listeners from Brazil. Thank you to all of you. Visual Episode: https://youtu.be/t2ovKbEVV2w Spotify episode: https://open....

Send us Fan Mail Today we step off the beaten path of history and into the humid, heady atmosphere of 19th-century New Orleans.  In this city of French charm and Creole secrecy, one name stands above all others in the annals of folklore and fear: Marie Laveau, the Voodoo Queen. Visual Episode: https://youtu.be/dVzYTg0u16o Spotify episode: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1Ft4HpiWNtlqtq26pood3B?si=...

Send us Fan Mail Hi there, story lovers, today we're stepping into the shadows of a very specific kind of fear, the terror that comes in porcelain, plush, and plastic. We’ve all seen them, the dolls that seem to follow you with their eyes, but what happens when that chilling feeling becomes a waking reality? I've asked our listeners to share their own, most unsettling encounters and I go...

Send us Fan Mail Hey there, story lovers! Welcome back to The Storytelling Podcast, your cosy time for surprising tales. Today we're going to Évora, Portugal, a city steeped in history, to uncover a story that is as haunting as it is beautiful. Please consider subscribing and liking this episode, it will help me out, and thank you for subscribing. Visual Episode: https://youtu.be/qX4LiGmOLj4...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome back to The Storytelling Podcast. Your cosy corner of captivating tales. Today I bring you 3 stories, that came from our listeners about haunted houses. Visual Episode: https://youtu.be/l3FpnjJkqUY Spotify episode: https://open.spotify.com/episode/2MWzq8bmCaMiAkwe6hAlBH?si=36211521caa44c48 Available on all Podcast platforms. ---------- Music by:  Sound Effect by freesound_...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome back to The Storytelling Podcast. Your cosy corner of captivating tales. Today I am taking you on a Tour, a haunted Tour. We're leaving behind the quiet stillness of the night and stepping into the bustling, yet deeply haunted, streets of Birmingham, in the UK.  This city of a thousand trades, and my city, has a history as rich and dark as any in the world, and beneat...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome back to The Storytelling Podcast, and today, we're heading to the vast, sun-baked landscape of Western Australia to witness a conflict so bizarre, it sounds like a comedy sketch.  But I assure you, this story is completely true. It’s a tale of an army, a flock of birds, and a war that was lost before it even began.  This is the unbelievable story of the Great Emu War...