True Terror on Tap

Send us a text You can wrap the gifts, hang the lights, and put on your matching pajamas… but it won’t save you. Because every December, like clockwork, the chaos begins. A public Christmas tree gets chainsawed in the middle of the night. A guy breaks into someone’s home, unwraps their gifts, and passes out on their couch. The Gävle Goat? Burned. Again. And in Nantucket? What starts as a charming...

Send us a text Step right up — the fair’s in town! The lights are flashing, the funnel cakes are hot, and the carnies are grinning just a little too wide. From creepy clowns to rides that should’ve been condemned in ’92, we’re pulling back the canvas curtain on the true terror lurking behind the midway. We’ll dive into vanishing kids, haunted funhouses, sketchy “safety” inspections, and the long,...

Send us a text One year of True Terror on Tap 🎉 We’re celebrating the only way we know how: by getting weird and laughing through it. First, we head to Philly! —the Toynbee Tiles show up with the same carved message and zero signature. Then we rewind Chicago, 1987, where a plastic haircut barges into live TV and talks like the station owes him rent. And in Hexham, two little girls reach for toys...

Send us a text What if déjà vu isn’t just your brain misfiring, but proof that the code glitched? What if every Mandela Effect, every ghost in the machine, every “wait a second, didn’t Bowie already die once?” moment is evidence that this whole thing is running on a cheap processor in some cosmic basement? In this episode, Joseph, Gabe, and Mike crack open the Simulation Theory — not like a boring...

Send us a text It’s been a minute — but we’re back. Life happened, mouths fell apart, schedules got wrecked, and meat wasn’t thawed. But we finally hit record, and this one was worth the wait. We’ve got listener stories that’ll make you double-check your mirrors and question your memory. Some guy shows up in the woods and backs into the trees without turning. A sealed drainage pipe keeps whistling...

Send us a text Today on True Terror on Tap , we’re heading deep into the national parks—where the views are stunning, the vibes are peaceful, and the chances of being eaten, gored, or dragged out of your sleeping bag by something with claws are surprisingly high. We’re kicking things off with one of the most infamous nights in park history— Glacier National Park, 1967 —where two campers were kille...

Send us a text Last week, we uncovered a body with no name, a rare book with a torn page, and a strange code scribbled in pencil. Now, the phone number found in that book leads us straight to Jessica Thomson—a woman just blocks from the crime scene, who denies knowing the man but nearly collapses when she sees his face. And decades later, her story only gets weirder. We’ll dig into her wartime con...

Send us a text In this episode, we go over the mysterious case of the Somerton Man—the unknown body found on an Australian beach in 1948 with no ID, no cause of death, and no signs of a struggle. Dressed sharp, staged like he sat down for a smoke and just… died. But the deeper investigators dug, the stranger it got. A hidden pocket. A cipher no one’s ever cracked. A nurse who recognized him but sw...

Send us a text Welcome to the Summer of Dread. We’re back and it’s about to get real weird. In this episode of True Terror on Tap, your hosts Joseph, Gabe, and RedBear crack open the first cold one of the season and dive straight into four stories that set the tone for a summer packed with terror, urban legends, and the bizarre. We’re talking the Bunny Man of Virginia and his creepy-ass bridge, a...

Send us a text It was supposed to be a night of pajamas and prosecco. A birthday sleepover with moms in the suburbs, drinking tequila, playing Cards Against Humanity, and pretending they still had personalities outside their kids. It was the kind of gathering people post about with captions like “Mom’s night in” and “So blessed to have this tribe.” But by morning, one woman was dead. Face-down in...

Send us a text In this episode of True Terror on Tap we go over a man, most people know the name Lewis Carroll because of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.  The story is remembered as strange, whimsical, and harmless. The man who wrote it was not. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson lived a life that was anything but ordinary. His world was built on strict habits, hidden obsessions, and a deep, unnatural att...

Send us a text December 18th, 2011. A car’s left running in the middle of East St. Louis. Door open. Shoes on the floor. ID still sitting pretty. Local cops showed up, yawned, and said, "Meh, probably nothing." Spoiler: it wasn’t nothing. This week on True Terror on Tap , we cover the case of Phoenix Coldon—where lazy police work, a running SUV, and two missing hours turned into a myster...

Send us a text Tonight, True Terror on Tap takes you into battles no one planned for — and no one won. In Western Australia, soldiers armed with machine guns lost to a swarm of flightless birds.  In Boston, a steel tank gave way, drowning a city block in a wall of molasses.  In Sweden, the harvest season brought drunken moose staggering through towns, wrecking everything in their path. And finally...

Send us a text Tonight on True Terror on Tap, we take a hard look at the official story of Earth — and all the parts they quietly left blank.  The maps were drawn. The flags were planted. History books were closed.  But somehow, expeditions went missing.  Flight paths disappeared.  Entire regions blurred out, locked down, or just "forgotten" like a bad secret.  Turns out, planting a flag...

Send us a text Elisa Lam’s body had been found. The autopsy was signed. The headlines had already started to fade. But the questions? They were only just beginning. In Part 2 of our deep dive into the Elisa Lam case, we follow the investigation’s unraveling path — the missed searches, the rooftop access, the inconsistencies no one could explain. We explore the internet’s growing obsession with the...

Send us a text She checked into the Cecil Hotel and never checked out.  In Part One, we head deep into the shadows of Los Angeles, where 21-year-old Elisa Lam vanished without a trace. Her last known moments — caught on an elevator camera — are disturbing, confusing, and unforgettable.  Was it paranoia? Possession? Or something stalking her in that hotel? The Cecil has secrets, and Elisa’s story i...

Send us a text In the heart of 12th-century England, a bizarre tale emerged from the small village of Woolpit—one that still puzzles historians and paranormal enthusiasts to this day. Two children, with skin as green as fresh spring leaves, appeared seemingly out of nowhere, speaking an unknown language and refusing all food except for raw beans. Were they lost souls from an underground world, fae...

Send us a text You’ve seen the headlines. You’ve wondered, Who believes this stuff? Well… we do. And now, so do you. In this episode hear our take on those gloriously trashy tabloids you pretend not to read. Think of it as a loving homage to the Daria classic Sick, Sad World —just with more scandals, more conspiracies, and way more questionable journalism. ( La la la la la! 🎶) This week? Power pl...

Send us a text Israel Keyes was unlike any serial killer we’ve ever seen—methodical, patient, and terrifyingly precise. In Part 2 of our deep dive, we pick up where we left off: Vermont, June 2011. Keyes had just arrived, retrieving a kill kit he had buried a year earlier, and searching for his next victims. What followed was an execution of a double murder that would later become the key to under...

Send us a text In the first episode of our deep dive into the life and crimes of Israel Keyes, we trace his journey from an isolated childhood in rural Washington to his time in the U.S. Army, uncovering the early signs of a predator in the making. Raised in a strict and extremist household, Keyes developed a fascination with violence, control, and meticulous planning—skills that would later defin...

Send us a text Real stories. Real terror. No urban legends—just firsthand accounts from True Terror on Tap listeners who experienced the unexplained. In this chilling episode, we dive into encounters that defy logic: • The Padre Hotel Haunting – A guest knowingly checks into one of Bakersfield’s most haunted hotels, only to experience the infamous shadow figure firsthand. • The Vanishing Hitchhike...

Send us a text "On a cold February night in 2004, Maura Murray crashed her car on a dark New Hampshire road. She was seen standing beside it, refusing help. Just seven minutes later, she was gone—without a trace." "Nearly a decade later, in 2013, Bryce Laspisa was driving home to his parents in California. But something wasn’t right. His behavior became erratic, his route made no se...

Send us a text " It starts the same way every time. A young man, out drinking with friends, laughing, celebrating. It’s late, maybe 1 AM, maybe 2. The bar’s closing. His friends turn their backs for just a second, maybe to order an Uber, maybe to use the bathroom. When they turn back—he’s gone.” “At first, no one panics. He probably just walked home. But then, hours pass. No calls. No texts....

Send us a text It's strange how we often ignore the mundane. A doll, sitting innocently on a shelf, a child's plaything... it's hardly the sort of thing you'd expect to shatter your world. But that's what makes this story so terrifying. The most unsettling things often hide in plain sight, disguised by innocence. In Key West, Florida, there's a doll named Robert. He&a...

Send us a text When we left off, search and rescue teams had uncovered the Dyatlov group’s abandoned tent—slashed open from the inside and eerily undisturbed except for the ominous tracks leading downhill into the forest. What they found next was even more horrifying: bodies scattered in various states of undress, some with injuries so severe they defied explanation, others appearing frozen mid-fl...