Bedtime Stories
Episodes
The Man Out of Time
24 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Most of us move through time without ever noticing it. Seconds pass, days accumulate, years slip quietly behind us. But on rare occasions, something a...
The Disappearance of Kenny Veach
17 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the great deserts of the American Southwest, people vanish with unsettling regularity. Some leave behind traces that hint at what happened. Others ...
Return of the Skinwalker
10 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In a previous episode, we explored several disturbing encounters involving a creature long feared within Navajo tradition; an entity said to move with...
The Nightmare
03 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
During the late 1970s, a fully laden DC-10 passenger jet crashed shortly after take-off, killing everyone on board. The disaster shocked the nation, p...
Along Came a Spyder
26 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In 1955, a small silver sports car rolled out of a California garage and into American folklore. It was sleek, fast, and dangerous. A machine built fo...
The Curse of the Ourang Medan
19 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In 1947, a cargo ship was discovered drifting aimlessly through calm waters in the Indian Ocean. When rescuers finally boarded, what they found defied...
The Moonshaft
12 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Throughout history, humankind has turned its gaze towards the heavens in search of mystery. Yet time and again, it is beneath the ground where the mos...
The Baby Aleshenka
05 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
One night, while walking through the woods on the outskirts of her town, an elderly woman discovered what she thought was an abandoned infant lying in...
The Alien of Varginha
29 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In 1996, the quiet Brazilian town of Varginha became the centre of one of the strangest UFO cases in modern history. Nestled amongst the hills of Mina...
Policing the Paranormal
22 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Experience tells us there are certain professions in which people are far more likely to encounter the unexplained than others. As the many accounts f...
Pope Lick
15 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the woods just east of Louisville, Kentucky, an old railway bridge cuts through the treeline. To many, it would appear no different to any other tr...
Stocksbridge Bypass
08 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In 1988, a new section of road was carved through the hills of the Peak District in Northern England. Built to divert heavy traffic away from the smal...
What Happened to Granger Taylor?
01 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Fact or fiction, is there anything more terrifying than the idea of being abducted by aliens? History is littered with such accounts, depicting scenes...
Where is Juan Pedro?
24 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On the 25th June 1986, a routine journey across Spain turned tragic. In the early morning, a tanker truck carrying thousands of litres of sulphuric ac...
There is Something in the Desert
17 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
For centuries, the deserts and mountains of the Middle East have been steeped in myth and mystery. From ancient conquerors to modern armies, those who...
The Road to Oroville
10 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On the evening of 24 February 1978, five friends from Northern California - Ted Weiher, Jack Madruga, Bill Sterling, Jackie Huett, and Gary Mathias - ...
There is Something in the Woods
03 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
David Paulides, a former police officer turned researcher, has spent years investigating unexplained deaths and disappearances in North America’s na...
Terror From The Sky
27 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
For centuries, reports of mysterious flying beings have surfaced across the Americas. Witnesses describe them as humanoid in form yet moving without w...
The Pembrey Forest Hauntings
20 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Located on the south-west coast of Wales, Carmarthenshire’s shoreline offers some of the nation’s most peaceful and picturesque scenery. Yet behin...
The Falkirk Triangle
13 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Across the world, there are pockets of land where the skies seem restless. Places where strange lights appear without warning and encounters with the ...
The Enfield Horror
06 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Each year, people around the world report having encounters with bizarre animals that seem not to be of this earth. It occurs so frequently that an en...
The Missing Airman
30 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In most missing persons cases, time eventually provides answers. The individual is either found safe and well, or, sadly, they are located after passi...
Rich Recommends - A Twist of History: Robert E Lee's Lost Orders
23 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Battle of Antietam during the American Civil War remains the bloodiest day in American history. That day, and the future of the United States, cou...
Secrets of Celle Neues Rathaus
16 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
During the Cold War, soldiers stationed on an army base in the German city of Celle began to report strange, unexplainable experiences. As time wore o...
Who are the Men in Black?
09 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Having an encounter with a UFO is one of the most bizarre and overwhelming events a person might experience. But in a large percentage of these cases,...
The Peculiar Death of Christopher Case
02 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In April 1991, the body of an otherwise healthy 35-year-old man was found inside his Seattle apartment. He was fully clothed, kneeling in an empty bat...
The Disappearance of Jared Negrete
25 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Each year, hundreds of thousands of people go missing across the United States. Most are eventually found, sometimes safe, sometimes not. But then the...
The Fort Benning Incident
18 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
For those who believe in extraterrestrials, the military is commonly seen as the first line of defence. For over a century, radio dramas, films, and l...
Ghost Hands
11 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Story One – What Killed Olivia Mabel? One afternoon in 1994, a series of silent 911 calls from a remote Texas property would result in several poli...
The McGuire Air Force Base Encounter
04 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
There have been multiple alleged interactions which are reported to have taken place between the US military and extraterrestrial visitors. These incl...
A Crack in the Slab
28 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Time, for most of us, feels like the one true constant - a steady progression from past to future. Yet throughout history, people have reported moment...
Bottomless
21 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
For decades, paranormal researchers have heard tales of a strange anomaly in the hills of central Washington - a hole so deep that it devours everythi...
The Khamar-Daban Mountain Deaths
14 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In August 1993, a group of kayakers from Ukraine travelled to Irkutsk in Southern Siberia. Whilst enjoying the river and scenery south of Lake Baikal,...
The Vanishing of Doveland
07 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Plenty of towns have disappeared over the years. In most cases, the explanations range from economic problems to government initiatives to resources d...
Roadways and Waterways
30 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Story One – The Manchester Pusher Over the past decade, close to a hundred people have lost their lives in the canal network of one northern Englis...
What Happened to the Jamison Family?
23 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
During the closing stages of 2009, a family residing in Oklahoma vanished under suspicious circumstances, leaving little clue as to what had happened ...
Enemy Unknown
16 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Story One – Drawn by Conflict When the movie Predator released in 1987, audiences were captivated as they watched an unseen, extra-terrestrial inter...
The Dark of the Forest, in the Shadow of the Mountain
09 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Story One – There is Something in the Forest Abandoned towns can be found scattered across the globe and are usually the epilogue of natural disaste...
Terrors of the Deep
02 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The ocean has always captured mankind's imagination. But where some saw endless potential for travel, trade, and exploration, others could only imagin...
Whispers in the Hills
26 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Scotland’s Highlands are among the most beautiful and remote places in the world. But to many, this stunning landscape of mountains, lakes, and coas...
Angels and Demons
19 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Story One – Our Lady of Fatima In the Autumn of 1917, as the brutality and savagery of the First World War threatened to finally overwhelm Portugal’...
There's Something in the Pine Barrens
12 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The forests of North America are dense, tall, and foreboding. So it may come as little surprise that as long as people have lived on the continent, th...
Dragged
05 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Story One – The Charterhouse Guest The English county of Somerset possesses a rich and colourful history which is steeped in tales of myth and legen...
The Ghosts Within
26 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Story One – The San Pedro Haunting During the summer of 1988, a young mother residing in an unassuming Los Angeles neighbourhood reported having bee...
Objects and Subjects
19 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Story One – The Skies Over Kecksburg On the afternoon of 9th December 1965, the residents of a small village in rural Pennsylvania became the unwitt...
Cold Case
12 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Story One – Footprints in the Snow The Antarctic region is notorious for being as unforgiving as it is beguiling. For those who work there, the psyc...
Glitches
05 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Story One – The CrossWade Interlopers In the Spring of 2013, what seemed to be a straightforward emergency call out for two police officers would tu...
Bright Lights
29 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Story One – The Lead Masks of Vintém Hill During August of 1966, the dead bodies of two men were found on a hillside in Brazil. Much of what was di...
The Sudbrink Phone Calls
22 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Smartphones and texting have caused many of us to forget that until the early 2000s, complete strangers could call you at any time, for any reason. An...
Into the Void
15 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Story One – The Mysterious Disappearance of Flight 19 In December 1945, five torpedo bombers on a routine patrol over the Bahamas vanished without t...
Quietus
08 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Story One – Bridgend Lying between the sandy beaches of South Wales’s Gower Peninsula and the rugged mountains of the Brecon Beacons, the county o...
25 Cromwell Street
01 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In February 1994, police searching a house in Gloucester, England, made a horrifying discovery that would lead to one of the most infamous and disturb...
Personal Stories of the Bedtime Stories Team - Simon
26 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In our second Christmas week episode, we focus on more stories from the Bedtime Stories team. This time, it’s Simon’s turn. Simon has been a write...
Personal Stories of the Bedtime Stories Team - Rich
25 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Christmas has a long tradition of ghost stories and tales of the unknown. Believe it or not, families would often take the opportunity to gather aroun...
Remains
18 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Story One – The Lost Girls of Panama On the morning of 1st April 2014, two young women decided to hike up to a popular tourist spot on the famous Pi...
The Truth is Out There
11 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Story One – Taken in the Night Stories of mysterious abductions have been with us for decades, to the point that they’ve become a huge part of Wes...
Self Inflicted?
04 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Story One – Who Killed Cindy James? On a warm Vancouver day in June 1989, the bound and bruised body of a woman was found in the yard of an abandone...
The Other Side
27 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Story One – The Ghost of UB-65 It has long been theorised that ghostly manifestations are the echoes of human souls, whose lives were cut unexpected...
Night Terrors
20 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Story One – Who are the Shadow People? Flickering in and out of existence, sometimes only for a split second, sometimes longer, but always transient...
Super Weapons
13 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Story One – Evil Under the Ice In the aftermath of World War Two, the victorious Allied nations despatched numerous military expeditions into the An...
The Bigfoot and the Wendigo
06 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Story One – The Beast of Bolam Lake In the northernmost region of England, there lies a small, unremarkable lake. Formerly known as Bolam Bog, it is...
The Dyatlov Pass Incident – The Theories
31 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Part Three What started out as a search and rescue effort soon turned into a serious investigation into the tragic and untimely deaths of nine young s...
The Dyatlov Pass Incident – The Bodies
30 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Part Two After discovering the collapsed tent of the Dyatlov group, rescuers searched in vain for the missing hikers, hoping they were braving out the...
The Dyatlov Pass Incident – The Tent
29 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Part One In 1959, a group of hikers died in mysterious circumstances on the slopes of a then unnamed mountain. Now one of the most famous mysteries of...
Eastern Horrors
23 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Story One – The Monkey Man of Delhi Urban legends exist around the world. Mostly, they keep us from parking in dark places at night, or from talking...
Bodies
16 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Story One – The Strange Death of Zygmund Adamski In June 1980, a man was found dead in a coal yard more than 20 miles from his home with suspicious ...
Military Mysteries
11 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Story One – First in Defence The United States Navy possesses the largest and most powerful fleet of ocean-going vessels on the planet. In the many ...
Moors and Valleys
09 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Story One – Predators on the Moors For over two hundred years, the rural communities of the United Kingdom have fallen victim to attacks by mysterio...
Apparitions
02 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Story One – Ghosts of Flight 401 During previous episodes, we have explored several tales involving vehicles which have become closely associated wi...
Down Under
25 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Story One – Mystery of the High Country Over the last decade, the Australian state of Victoria has been the scene of multiple unexplained disappeara...
Interdimensional
18 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Story One – The Wavertree Bus Incident From ghostly sightings, weird time slips and bizarre reality glitches, Liverpool it seems, has something of a...
Thin Air
11 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Story One – What Happened to the Sodder Children? During the dying days of 1945, the small town of Fayetteville in West Virginia played host to a ho...
Shadows and Dust
04 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Story One – The Blackbird of Chernobyl When researching the numerous major catastrophes which have occurred throughout human history, it is not unco...
Nautical Mysteries
28 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
As a species, we have long considered ourselves the most dominant on the planet, laying claim to the territories and natural resources we discover. An...
Predatory
21 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Story One – The Secret of Scape Ore Swamp In an isolated rural corner of South Carolina, there is an area of swampland that has come to gain no smal...
Chariots of the Gods
14 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Story One – The Mystery of Aurora America has played host to numerous high-profile UFO incidents, perhaps the most notorious of which took place in ...
Tunnels
07 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Story One – The Hoosac Tunnel Haunting In the northernmost regions of the United States, a train tunnel stands as a haunting monument to the many wo...
Take Me Home, Country Roads
31 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We have examined several encounters with strange entities, which took place in remote North American communities. In many of these cases, the bizarre ...
Smiling Faces
24 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Story One – The Smiley Face Killers For the last quarter of a century, the bodies of fit and healthy young men have been recovered from the waterway...
Close Encounters
17 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Story One – The Second Kind Alleged interactions with extra-terrestrial craft and their occupants come in many forms, each providing varying degrees...
Entities
10 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Story One – A Haunting in Indiana There are many accounts on record of individuals being targeted by demonic entities. But in this story we examine ...
More Strangeness in the Borderlands
03 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Story One – Shadows in the Dark Anecdotes shared by Rocky Elmore and other former border patrol staff have shed light on the growing number of haunt...
Strange Beasts
26 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Story One – The Michigan Dogman "Somewhere in the north-woods darkness, a creature walks upright. And the best advice you may ever get is don’t go...
Foul Play
19 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Story One – The Lava Lake Murders During the early days of 1924, three fur trappers working out in the wilds of central Oregon were murdered in a br...
The Tall Men
12 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Story One – The Legend of the Mothman In 1966, the residents of a small town in West Virginia were stalked by seven-foot-tall creature with wings an...
Altering the Fabric
05 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Story One – Trains, Planes and Timeslips History is littered with the mysterious disappearances of individuals, who vanished from the face of the Ea...
Ghosts and Beacons
29 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Story One – Ghosts of Kadena Airbase It is common for locations that have played host to major military conflict to feature persistent manifestation...
Intruders
22 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Story One – Strangeness in the Borderlands For close to a century, the officers of the United States Border Patrol have traversed the foothills and ...
Strange Britannia
15 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Story One – The Warminster Thing During the Christmas period of 1964, the inhabitants of a small town in rural Wiltshire found themselves subjected ...
Child’s Play
08 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Story One – The Devil in the Doll Whilst stories of haunted dolls can be traced back many generations, it was not until the arrival of Hollywood cha...
It Crashed on the Moors
01 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Story One – The Mysterious Pentyrch Incident During a cold February evening in 2016, a bewildering incident would transpire on the outskirts of Card...
In The Wake Of
24 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Story One – Phone Calls From The Dead We have previously explored reports concerning the spirits of those who have passed on, but this week, we will...
The Kentucky Goblins
17 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
During the hot Kentucky summer of 1955, an entire family burst into a local police station, shouting in panic that their home had been attacked by ali...
Peaks and Troughs
10 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Story One – Tragedy in Death Valley America’s Death Valley is aptly named, being the site of the highest ambient air temperature ever recorded on ...
Home Sweet Homicide
03 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Story One – The Mystery of the Midnight Rider In this story, we examine one of the lesser known of America’s unsolved crimes. A series of murders ...
Projects and Experiments
27 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Story One – The Philadelphia Experiment In this story, we explore one of the most notorious covert military projects of all time, involving an alleg...
The Haunted Isles
20 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Story One – Ghosts of the London Underground The Underground has been at the centre of London’s transport infrastructure for a century and a half....
Something Lurks
13 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Story One – The Monster of Morbach Throughout the summer of 1988, American military personnel stationed on the European mainland were ecstatic about...
The Rendlesham Forest Incident
06 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
During the latter half of the Cold War, American military personnel who were stationed in the United Kingdom were involved in a series of disturbing i...
Triangles
28 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Story One – Mysteries of the Bennington Triangle Tucked away near the borders of Vermont and Massachusetts is a small area of land believed to be th...