Mysteries at Bedtime
Episodes
The Vanishing Scientists: Ten Disappearances, One Terrifying Pattern
28 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
February 27, 2026. Albuquerque, New Mexico. Retired Air Force Major General William McCasland left his home between 11:10am and 12:04pm. He took his w...
The Man Who Vanished from His Chair
21 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
On a warm June evening in 1768, a 69-year-old paralysed man named Owen Parfitt sat outside his sister's cottage in Shepton Mallet, England, dressed in...
Did CERN Break Reality?
14 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In 2016, a 13-year-old genius named Max Loughan went viral with an extraordinary claim: CERN destroyed our universe. Not with an explosion—but by sh...
The Basketball Star Who Vanished at Sea - BISON DELE
07 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In July 2002, NBA champion Bison Dele sailed from Tahiti aboard his catamaran, the Hakuna Matata, with his girlfriend Serena Karlan, French captain Be...
The Man Who Vanished from a Moving Bus
31 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
On a snowy December night in 1949, 68-year-old James Tedford boarded a bus in Vermont, heading home to the Bennington Soldiers' Home. Fourteen passeng...
Student Vanishes, Wakes Up 700 Miles Away 15 Months Later With No Memory | Steven Kubacki
24 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In February 1978, Steven Kubacki (23) disappeared whilst cross-country skiing near Lake Michigan. His footprints led to the frozen lake's edge and sto...
Australian Family Flees Home in Shared Delusion | Tromp Family Mystery 2016
17 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In August 2016, the entire Tromp family—Mark (51), Jacoba (53), and their three adult children—fled their Victorian farm without phones, passports...
Student Vanishes Walking Home After A Party | Jack O'Sullivan
10 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
22-year-old law student Jack O'Sullivan disappeared in Bristol on 2 March 2024 after leaving a house party in Hotwells. Last seen on CCTV at 3:39 AM w...
Teen Vanishes During 8-Block Walk to Meet Coworker | Jason Jolkowski Case
03 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
19-year-old Jason Jolkowski left his Omaha home at 10:45 AM on June 13th, 2001, walking to Benson High School to meet a coworker for a ride to work. H...
The Disappearance of Amelia Earhart: What Happened on Her Last Flight?
24 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
On 2 July 1937, the world's most famous female pilot vanished over the Pacific Ocean. Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan were attempting to circ...
The Oakville Blobs Mystery: When Gelatinous Goo Rained From the Sky
17 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
On 7th August 1994, at 3 a.m., something strange fell from the sky over Oakville, Washington. It wasn't rain. It wasn't hail. It was gelatinous blobs—...
Joshua Maddux: The Boy Found Dead in a Chimney 7 Years After He Disappeared
10 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
On May 8th, 2008, eighteen-year-old Joshua Maddux left his family home in Woodland Park, Colorado, for a walk. He was a free-spirited young man who lo...
The Madman Mike Marcum Case: Time Traveller or Elaborate Hoax?
03 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In 1995, a 21-year-old electrical engineering student named Mike Marcum called into Coast to Coast AM with an extraordinary claim: he'd built a ...
The Skinwalker Ranch Mystery: Utah's Most Haunted Property Explained
27 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Discover the chilling true story of Skinwalker Ranch, a 512-acre Utah property plagued by decades of unexplained phenomena. From UFO sightings and cat...
The Vanishing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370
20 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
On March 8th, 2014, Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 departed Kuala Lumpur bound for Beijing with 239 people on board. Less than an hour into the flight, ...
Hollywood Agent from Another Life: The Mystery of Marty Martyn and Ryan
13 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
A child who has never left Oklahoma suddenly remembers mansions, movie sets and a life in old Hollywood. He names streets, describes trips, and recall...
D.B. Cooper
06 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
On 24 November 1971, a quiet man calling himself Dan Cooper hijacked Northwest Orient Flight 305, collected $200,000 in cash and four parachutes… th...
The Vanishing Act
30 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On a typical spring break night in 2006, 27-year-old medical student Brian Shaffer stepped into a bar with friends, but he was never seen leaving. Wha...
Gone in Minutes: The Unsolved Abduction of Angela Hammond
23 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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The Enfield Poltergeist
16 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A council house in North London. A single mother. Two frightened children. And a haunting that exploded into one of the most documented paranormal cas...
The Kelly–Hopkinsville Goblin Siege: The Night Little Green Men Came to Kentucky
09 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In August 1955, a terrified Kentucky family burst into a small-town police station claiming they’d spent the night under attack from “little men”...
Ape Canyon: The Terrifying 1924 Bigfoot Attack at Mount St. Helens
02 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In 1924, deep in the wilderness near Mount St. Helens, a group of gold prospectors claimed they were attacked by giant ape-like creatures. The inciden...
Am Fear Liath Mòr: The Unseen Giant of the Cairngorms
25 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
For generations, mountaineers on Ben Macdui have described the same impossible experience: the sound of slow, heavy footsteps behind them… but no on...
The Vanishing family
18 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When a pickup truck was found abandoned on a remote Oklahoma mountain road, its doors were unlocked, wallets untouched, and a family dog barely alive ...
The Disappearance of Bobby Dunbar: The Boy Who Came Back
11 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In 1912, four-year-old Bobby Dunbar vanished beside Louisiana’s Swayze Lake. After eight desperate months, a child was found hundreds of miles away ...
The Cinder Lady: Did She Burn… or Combust?
04 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the summer of 1951, 67-year-old Mary Reeser was found almost entirely incinerated in her armchair in St. Petersburg, Florida — in a fire so stran...
the vanishing man at Varna Airport: Lars Mittank
28 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In July 2014, 28-year-old German tourist Lars Mittank vanished without a trace from Varna Airport in Bulgaria. Just hours before his flight home, Lars...
The Mysterious Death of Richard Lancelyn Green: The World’s Greatest Sherlock Holmes Expert
21 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Richard Lancelyn Green was the world’s leading expert on Sherlock Holmes. A lifelong collector, historian, and passionate Holmesian, he spent years ...
The Mystery of Overtoun Bridge: Why Do Dogs Keep Jumping?
14 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Listener discretion advised: This story contains subject matter some may find upsetting.In the quiet Scottish countryside, just outside Dumbarton, lie...
Circleville: The Town Terrorised by Anonymous Letters
12 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In 1976, the small town of Circleville, Ohio, began receiving letters, hundreds of them.Each one was anonymous. Each one accused neighbours, teachers,...
The Disappearance of Paula Jean Welden: Vermont’s Enduring Mystery
07 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In December 1946, 18-year-old Bennington College student Paula Jean Welden set out for a short hike on Vermont’s Long Trail. She was seen by motoris...
The Vanishing of Walter Collins
05 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In 1928, nine-year-old Walter Collins vanished on his way to the cinema in Los Angeles. Months later, police declared they had solved the case and ret...
The Havana Syndrome: Strange Noises, Sick Diplomats, and an Unsolved Mystery
30 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In December 2016, American diplomats in Havana, Cuba, began reporting a strange set of symptoms, nausea, dizziness, headaches, and hearing loss. Many ...
The Disappearance of Ryan Chambers: The Australian Backpacker Who Vanished in India
28 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In August 2005, 21-year-old Australian backpacker Ryan Chambers walked barefoot out of an ashram in Rishikesh, India, leaving behind his passport, wal...
Elisa Lam and the Cecil Hotel: The Elevator Video and a Vanishing
23 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
n January 2013, 21-year-old Canadian student Elisa Lam checked into Los Angeles’ infamous Cecil Hotel. Known for its dark history of crime, tragedy,...
The Ghost Ship Mary Celeste: The Crew That Vanished Without a Trace
21 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In 1872, the merchant brigantine Mary Celeste left New York Harbor on a routine voyage to Italy. On board were Captain Benjamin Briggs, his wife Sarah...
The Sodder Family Fire: Five Children Lost Without a Trace
16 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On Christmas Eve 1945, a fire tore through the Sodder family home in West Virginia. George and Jennie escaped with some of their children, but five ne...
The Emilcin Abduction: A Farmer’s Encounter with the Unknown
14 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It was an ordinary May morning in 1978 when Polish farmer Jan Wolski set out in his horse-drawn cart. By the end of that ride, he would tell a story t...
The Vatican Girl: The Disappearance of Emanuela Orlandi
09 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In June 1983, fifteen-year-old Vatican citizen Emanuela Orlandi vanished on her way home from a music lesson in Rome. What began as a missing-person c...
Inside the Vandenberg UFO Encounter – A Cold War Mystery
07 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In 1964, at California’s Vandenberg Air Force Base, a routine missile test turned into one of the most compelling UFO encounters of the Cold War era...
The Disappearance of Dr. Sneha Anne Philip: The Missing Woman of 9/11
02 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On September 11, 2001, thousands of lives were lost when the Twin Towers collapsed — but one case still stands apart. Dr. Sneha Anne Philip, a 31-ye...
Did Russia Silence Boris Berezovsky? Inside the Mysterious 2013 Death
31 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In March 2013, Russian billionaire and outspoken Putin critic Boris Berezovsky was found dead in the bathroom of his Berkshire estate. Officially, his...
India’s Reincarnation Mystery – The Extraordinary Story of Shanti Devi
26 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In 1930s Delhi, a young girl stunned her parents and teachers with memories she should not have had. Shanti Devi insisted she had lived before — in ...
The Toxic Lady: The Bizarre Case of Gloria Ramirez
24 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When 31-year-old Gloria Ramirez was rushed to Riverside General Hospital, no one expected the chaos that would follow. Medical staff began fainting, v...
Pam Reynolds’ Near-Death Experience During Standstill Surgery – A Medical Mystery
19 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In 1991, American singer-songwriter Pam Reynolds underwent a rare, high-risk procedure known as a hypothermic cardiac arrest “standstill” surgery ...
Westall UFO Mystery: Hundreds Witness a Saucer Over Melbourne
17 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On 6 April 1966, in the Melbourne suburb of Clayton South, more than 200 students and teachers claimed to see a silver, saucer-shaped object hover ove...
Flight 19: The Vanishing That Created the Bermuda Triangle Legend
12 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On December 5, 1945, five U.S. Navy Avenger torpedo bombers known as Flight 19 took off from Fort Lauderdale on a routine training mission over the At...
The Lead Masks Case: Brazil’s Most Bizarre Unsolved Deaths
10 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In 1966, the bodies of two men were discovered on a remote hill outside Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. They were lying side by side, dressed in matching suit...
The Ghost in the Machine: The Mysterious Emails Sent After Jack Froese’s Death
05 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In 2011, 32-year-old Jack Froese died suddenly from a heart arrhythmia in Pennsylvania. But just months after his funeral, emails began arriving from ...
The Christmas Eve Flight That Ended in Mystery – Mull, 1975
03 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On a cold Christmas Eve in 1975, experienced pilot and former RAF serviceman Peter Gibbs took off in a light aircraft from the Glenforsa Airfield on S...
America’s Cold War Secret and the Mystery of the Missing Room
29 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Beneath the opulent halls of The Greenbrier Hotel in West Virginia lies one of America's best-kept Cold War secrets a massive underground fallout shel...
The Dodleston Messages: Time Travel or Hoax? The BBC Micro Mystery
27 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the quiet village of Dodleston, Cheshire, a bizarre and baffling mystery began unfolding in 1984. Ken Webster, a schoolteacher, was working on a BB...
Welcome to Mysteries at Bedtime
24 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Mysteries at Bedtime is a twice weekly narrative podcast from the creator of the hit shows Crime at Bedtime and One Minute Remaining. This new series ...
The Disappearance of Granger Taylor: The Mechanic Who Spoke to Aliens
22 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On a stormy night in November 1980, 32-year-old Granger Taylor left a hand-written note for his family saying he was going on a journey “aboard an a...
The Vanishing Sailor: Donald Crowhurst and the Golden Globe Race Mystery
20 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In 1968, an amateur sailor named Donald Crowhurst set out from England in a homemade trimaran to compete in the Sunday Times Golden Globe Race—the f...
Reincarnation in Scotland: The True Story of Cameron Macaulay
15 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the early 2000s, a young Scottish boy named Cameron Macaulay stunned his family and baffled researchers when, at just five years old, he began spea...
The Ariel School UFO Encounter: When 62 Children Saw Something Unbelievable
13 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In September 1994, at a small private school in rural Zimbabwe, 62 children ran into their classrooms—terrified. What they described to teachers and...
The Last Words of Brandon Swanson: ‘Oh, S—!’… Then Silence.
08 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
One of the last things Brandon Swanson ever said was a sudden exclamation during a 47-minute call with his father… then the line went dead. What fol...
The Travis Walton UFO Abduction: Truth, Hoax, or Something Else?
06 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In 1975, 22-year-old Travis Walton vanished in the Arizona woods after a terrifying close encounter with what witnesses described as a flying saucer. ...
The Pollock Twins: Proof of Reincarnation?
01 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When six-year-old Joanna and eleven-year-old Jacqueline Pollock were killed in a car accident in 1957, their parents were shattered. A year later, the...
The Black Monk of Pontefract: Britain’s Most Violent Haunting
29 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It began in a modest council house on East Drive, in the sleepy Yorkshire town of Pontefract. What followed would go down as one of the most aggressiv...
James Leininger: The WWII Pilot Who Came Back as a Child?
20 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Born in Louisiana in 1998, young James Leininger shocked his parents with terrifying dreams of dying in a fiery plane crash. But when those dreams led...
The Belgium UFO Wave: Europe's Most Credible Mass Sighting?
20 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the late 1980s and early '90s, thousands of Belgian citizens—including police officers, air traffic controllers, and military personnel—reporte...
The Dyatlov Pass Incident – Russia’s Most Chilling Mystery
20 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In 1959, nine experienced hikers vanished in Russia’s Ural Mountains under circumstances that defy explanation. Found dead in the snow with crushed ...
The Disappearance of Frederick Valentich – Vanished Over Bass Strait
20 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In 1978, a young Australian pilot vanished mid-flight over Bass Strait after reporting a strange object hovering above his aircraft. His final radio t...
The Rendlesham Forest Incident – Britain’s Roswell
20 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
n December 1980, strange lights were spotted near a U.S. Air Force base in Suffolk, England. What followed became one of the UK’s most compelling UF...