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Hello and welcome to True Crime Sleep Stories, where you can settle in with a good true crime tale while drifting off into a safe sleepy slumber. Sip on a cup of hot tea, grab a warm fleece blanket, or cozy up by the fire... just make sure you’re comfortable and ready for relaxation.
And now it’s time to get comfy… because I’m going to tell you a bedtime story.
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113: The Life & Death of Edgar Allan Poe | 31 Nights of Frights Halloween Special Finale on True Crime Sleep Stories
Tonight’s extra-long Halloween special covers Edgar Allan Poe’s full life story, the crimes that influenced his writing, and the still-unsolved mystery of his death in Baltimore in 1849. This is the finale of …
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Tonight’s extra-long Halloween special covers Edgar Allan Poe’s full life story, the crimes that influenced his writing, and the still-unsolved mystery of his death in Baltimore in 1849. This is the finale of 31 Nights of Frights! :-)
From his birth in Boston in 1809 and his mother’s death from tuberculosis, through his foster home, money struggles, army and West Point years, life with Maria Clemm and Virginia, magazine career, poverty, sudden fame with “The Raven,” and devastating losses. Then the five missing days, the election-day tavern, the clothes that weren’t his, the hospital, the name “Reynolds,” and the theories that still don’t add up.
Includes readings from Poe’s work plus personal stories: reading “The Tell-Tale Heart” in middle school, my animatronic raven candy dish that cawed “Nevermore,” a little easter egg in my fiction, and the Poe speakeasy I visited last fall. More personal than usual.
Last night of 31 Nights of Frights. Thank you for your support. Get comfortable. We’ll be back next week with all-new episodes of True Crime Sleep Stories. Stay safe, and lock your doors.
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🌑 Goodnight.
#TrueCrimeSleepStories #EdgarAllanPoe #Halloween #TrueCrimeForSleep113: The Greenbrier Ghost | 31 Nights of Frights on True Crime Sleep Stories
A real Halloween true-crime-meets-ghost-story-crossover from West Virginia: In 1897, young Zona Shue was found dead and her death was ruled natural. Her mother, Mary Jane Heaster, claimed Zona’s spirit returned …
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A real Halloween true-crime-meets-ghost-story-crossover from West Virginia: In 1897, young Zona Shue was found dead and her death was ruled natural. Her mother, Mary Jane Heaster, claimed Zona’s spirit returned to reveal her husband had broken her neck. An autopsy confirmed the murder, and Edward Shue was convicted. This is the only known case in which a ghost’s testimony helped convict a killer.
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#TrueCrimeSleepStories #GreenbrierGhost #GhostStory #Halloween #TrueCrimeForSleep112: The Salem Witch Trials | 31 Night of Frights on True Crime Sleep Stories
Snow on the fields in Salem Village, Massachusetts. It’s January 1692, and 2 young girls in the village minister’s house begin having unexplained fits. Within months, more than 200 people are accused of …
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Snow on the fields in Salem Village, Massachusetts. It’s January 1692, and 2 young girls in the village minister’s house begin having unexplained fits. Within months, more than 200 people are accused of witchcraft. 19 are hanged. One is pressed to death under heavy stones.
Tonight we follow the Salem Witch Trials month by month: the first accusations against Tituba, Sarah Good, and Sarah Osborne… the use of spectral evidence… the trials of Rebecca Nurse, Bridget Bishop, Giles Corey, and others… and the long aftermath of clearing names that lasted for centuries.
It’s a heavy chapter of American history, but it’s also the story of ordinary people who refused to confess to witchcraft, even when telling the truth cost them everything.
Settle in for this uninterrupted Salem Witch Trials sleep story. Get comfortable, and come back with me to that winter in 1692.
Just 2 more sleeps until Halloween! Until then, sleep well.
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#TrueCrimeSleepStories #SalemWitchTrials #Salem #Halloween #TrueCrimeForSleep111: The Hopkinsville Goblins | 31 Nights of Frights on True Crime Sleep Stories
On August 21, 1955, a family near Kelly, Kentucky reported small glowing creatures (the so-called Kelly Green Men or little green men) attacking their farmhouse. Billy Ray Taylor saw a bright light, then a …
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On August 21, 1955, a family near Kelly, Kentucky reported small glowing creatures (the so-called Kelly Green Men or little green men) attacking their farmhouse. Billy Ray Taylor saw a bright light, then a silvery figure with a large head and clawed arms. The men opened fire. All 11 people fled to police. Local police and Fort Campbell military police searched the property. Some claim it was just a great horned owl. The family disagreed. Hoax, prank, or real UFO encounter? What do you think?
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#HopkinsvilleGoblins #KellyHopkinsvilleEncounter #UFO #Kentucky #TrueCrimeSleepStories110: The Winchester "Mystery" House | 31 Nights of Frights of True Crime Sleep Stories
You've heard the Winchester Mystery House legends: staircases to nowhere, doors that open onto nothing, and a widow haunted by the ghosts of everyone killed by a Winchester rifle. The true story of Sarah …
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You've heard the Winchester Mystery House legends: staircases to nowhere, doors that open onto nothing, and a widow haunted by the ghosts of everyone killed by a Winchester rifle. The true story of Sarah Winchester is far more interesting.
Sarah "Sallie" Winchester lost her baby daughter, her parents, and her husband William Wirt Winchester, heir to the Winchester Repeating Arms Company, all within a few years. Grieving, she moved to San Jose, California, and built a life on her own terms. She was a sharp businesswoman, a generous employer who kept her carpenters and staff working for decades, and she supported her family for the rest of her life.
She designed her Victorian mansion herself, one room at a time, out of a love of architecture she had shared with Will. She lived with rheumatoid arthritis and was a happy homebody, not someone hiding from a curse. The ghost stories came after her death, invented to sell tickets and draw tourists.
Sallie wasn't a haunted, cursed widow. She was a role model.
Tonight on 31 Nights of Frights, I'm separating fact from fiction in a true story that isn't scary at all. It's inspiring, fascinating, and a little sad. 🖤
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🌑 Goodnight.109: Whispers By The Fire: A Cozy Look At October 31 Nights of Frights | True Crime Sleep Stories
Pull up a blanket, friends. Tonight on True Crime Sleep Stories, I'm sitting by the fire and looking back at my favorite true crime and unexplained mysteries from our 31 Nights of Frights. We'll revisit your …
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Pull up a blanket, friends. Tonight on True Crime Sleep Stories, I'm sitting by the fire and looking back at my favorite true crime and unexplained mysteries from our 31 Nights of Frights. We'll revisit your listener stories (including the Captain from True Crime Garage), the legend of the Mothman in Point Pleasant, and the 1955 Pascagoula UFO Incident. I'll share the eeriest details that stayed with me, tell you a short Halloween bedtime story, and give you a peek at what's still coming, including our extra long Halloween episode on 10/31 (I'm so excited!!).
Whether you listen to fall asleep or love a cozy, creepy story, thank you for being here and for supporting the show. You're the reason these 31 nights happened. 🖤True crime for sleep, unsolved mysteries, paranormal stories, Halloween podcast, calm storytelling.
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#TrueCrime #SleepStories #UnsolvedMysteries #TrueCrimeSleepStories108: The Campden Wonder | 31 Nights of Frights on True Crime Sleep Stories
In this True Crime Sleep Stories episode, we cover the Campden Wonder, the nearly 400-year-old unsolved disappearance of William Harrison in Chipping Campden, Cotswolds, in 1660. After the estate steward …
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In this True Crime Sleep Stories episode, we cover the Campden Wonder, the nearly 400-year-old unsolved disappearance of William Harrison in Chipping Campden, Cotswolds, in 1660. After the estate steward vanished while collecting rent, his servant John Perry and the Perry family (Joan and Richard) were convicted and hanged for his murder despite no body being found. Harrison later returned alive, claiming he had been kidnapped and sold into slavery in Turkey, making the Campden Wonder one of England’s most famous historical true crime mysteries and a lasting cautionary tale about convicting without a body.
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#TrueCrime #SleepStories #UnsolvedMysteries #TrueCrimeSleepStories107: The Mothman of Point Pleasant | 31 Nights of Frights on True Crime Sleep Stories
2 couples drive past the old TNT plant outside Point Pleasant, West Virginia, when headlights catch the Mothman... tall, gray, with glowing red eyes. It follows their car at nearly a hundred miles an hour. They …
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2 couples drive past the old TNT plant outside Point Pleasant, West Virginia, when headlights catch the Mothman... tall, gray, with glowing red eyes. It follows their car at nearly a hundred miles an hour. They go straight to the courthouse. The deputy says they weren’t lying.
Tonight’s episode is a step further into the dark for 31 Nights of Frights. Ordinary people reported Mothman sightings around Point Pleasant, strange visitors, and silent phone calls. 13 months later, the Silver Bridge collapsed into the Ohio River with Christmas traffic on it. 46 people died. The crack in the steel had been growing for years, experts said.
This episode stays with the people who never stopped saying the Mothman wasn’t a bird, the reporter who wrote it all down, the town of Point Pleasant that still remembers the names and put up a statue with red eyes.
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🌑 Goodnight.
#TrueCrime #SleepStories #UnsolvedMysteries #TrueCrimeSleepStories106: The Bell Witch of Adams, Tennessee | 31 Nights of Frights on True Crime Sleep Stories
A lot of people might not think the Bell Witch story is “true crime.” It sounds like folklore or a classic ghost tale. But it is true crime for one simple reason: John Bell was murdered. Welcome to another 31 …
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A lot of people might not think the Bell Witch story is “true crime.” It sounds like folklore or a classic ghost tale. But it is true crime for one simple reason: John Bell was murdered. Welcome to another 31 Nights of Frights on True Crime Sleep Stories.
In 1820, on the Bell family farm along the Red River in what is now Adams, Tennessee (Robertson County), John Bell died in his bed. If you believe it was the Bell Witch (the voice the neighbors called Kate), then a supernatural being killed him. If you don’t believe in witches or ghosts, then a person put poison in his medicine cabinet and gave him a fatal dose while he slept. Either way, a man died and someone, or something, did it. That’s the definition of true crime. This is the rare case where the supernatural and the murder aren’t competing explanations. They’re the same story. Whether it was a ghostly witch or a human hand that put the poison in that vial, John Bell was murdered in his own bed.
Most of what we know about the Bell Witch haunting comes from his son Richard Williams Bell’s 1846 manuscript, later published in 1894. I hope you enjoy this episode as much as I did. Sleep well.Patreon Exclusive: Ad-free version & bonus content available now for supporters.
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#TrueCrime #SleepStories #UnsolvedMysteries #TrueCrimeSleepStories105: Near Misses: The Ones Who Walked Away | 31 Nights of Frights on True Crime Sleep Stories
In this True Crime Sleep Stories episode, hear five quiet near-miss stories of ordinary people who came close to dangerous men, including Rodney Alcala, Ted Bundy, and Israel Keyes... and went home safe. None …
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In this True Crime Sleep Stories episode, hear five quiet near-miss stories of ordinary people who came close to dangerous men, including Rodney Alcala, Ted Bundy, and Israel Keyes... and went home safe. None of them knew the full picture at the time. Most only learned years later. These gentle true crime accounts focus on the moments when something felt off and the people who trusted that feeling.
There’s a canceled date after The Dating Game, a Tinder match that shifted, a fireplace that filled with smoke, a couple parked at an Anchorage overlook, and a red truck on a dark highway. These stories touch on real cases, but we stay with the people who walked away and keep the details soft and low-stakes, perfect for falling asleep.
The stories:
The Dating Game, September 1978: Cheryl Bradshaw picked Bachelor Number One on the popular TV show. After meeting him, she called the casting director and canceled the date because something felt wrong. She was right. The man was Rodney Alcala, a serial killer already responsible for multiple murders.
Salt Lake City, April 2019: Missy Lewis matched with a charming man on Tinder. When he pushed to meet in a parking lot and his tone changed, she unmatched him. Less than two months later his face was on the news.
Seattle, early 1970s: Elizabeth Kloepfer (also known as Elizabeth Kendall) fell asleep in front of the fireplace with her longtime boyfriend Ted Bundy. She woke up to a room full of smoke after he closed the damper and blocked the door. Years later he told her what he had done.
Point Woronzof, Anchorage, spring 2011: A young couple sat in their car at the overlook. Serial killer Israel Keyes was watching from the trees with a silenced rifle, ready to shoot. Two officers doing a routine closing-time check changed the night, and their fate. The couple’s names are still unknown.
A lonely highway, ~2000: A woman in the Army was driving from Colorado to Arizona when a red truck flashed its lights and honked. She started to pull over, then changed her mind halfway to the back of her car. She later saw a similar story on a crime show.
They all noticed something felt off and acted on it.
I believe we’re given intuition for a reason. Animals trust it without argument. We often talk ourselves out of it. This episode is a calm reminder to listen the first time your gut tells you something isn’t right, especially in true crime near-miss situations like these.Patreon Exclusive: Ad-free version & bonus content available now for supporters.
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🌑 Goodnight.
#TrueCrime #SleepStories #UnsolvedMysteries #TrueCrimeSleepStories104: The Ghost Ship on Diamond Shoals: The Carroll A. Deering | 31 Nights of Frights on True Crime Sleep Stories
In January 1921, the five-masted schooner Carroll A. Deering was found abandoned on Diamond Shoals off Cape Hatteras in the Graveyard of the Atlantic, sails set, food in the galley, and her entire crew of …
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In January 1921, the five-masted schooner Carroll A. Deering was found abandoned on Diamond Shoals off Cape Hatteras in the Graveyard of the Atlantic, sails set, food in the galley, and her entire crew of eleven missing. This classic Outer Banks ghost ship mystery has the shape of true crime, with theories of mutiny, piracy, crew tension under Captain Willis B. Wormell, a strange hail from a non-officer, and missing lifeboats and navigation gear, yet nothing has ever been proven and the fate of the men remains unsolved. A broken radio on the Cape Lookout lightship may have delayed any warning, and a later message in a bottle that briefly gave hope to Wormell’s daughter Lula turned out to be a hoax. If you visit the Outer Banks, the Graveyard of the Atlantic Museum in Hatteras has displayed the ship’s bell and capstan, and local houses were built with her timbers. This maritime mystery sits right on the line between true crime and something we may never fully understand. Thank you for listening. Sleep well, and lock your doors.
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#TrueCrime #SleepStories #UnsolvedMysteries #GhostShip #CapeHatteras #TrueCrimeSleepStories103: The Missing Flannan Isles Lighthouse Keepers of Eilean Mòr | 31 Nights of Frights on True Crime Sleep Stories
The Flannan Isles Lighthouse Mystery: three lighthouse keepers vanish without a trace on Eilean Mòr, Scotland, in December 1900. A calm, cozy true crime sleep story for 31 Nights of Frights on True Crime Sleep …
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The Flannan Isles Lighthouse Mystery: three lighthouse keepers vanish without a trace on Eilean Mòr, Scotland, in December 1900. A calm, cozy true crime sleep story for 31 Nights of Frights on True Crime Sleep Stories.
In December 1900, three lighthouse keepers vanished from the remote Flannan Isles, about twenty miles west of the Isle of Lewis in Scotland's Outer Hebrides. James Ducat, Thomas Marshall, and Donald McArthur simply disappeared from their post on Eilean Mòr. No bodies were ever recovered. More than a century later, this unsolved disappearance remains one of Scotland's most famous historical mysteries.
This episode walks through the historical record: the newly built Flannan Isles Lighthouse, the quiet routines of a rock station, the last ordinary entries on the station slate, the storm damage found on the west landing, and Superintendent Robert Muirhead's careful inquiry. It also separates the facts from the later legends that have gathered around the empty tower, like an untouched meal, an overturned chair, and a logbook filled with terror and prayer. Along the way we look at the theories, from a rogue wave to sea serpents and the Phantom of the Seven Hunters.
What remains, when the inventions are set aside, is a very human winter and three experienced men who set out to keep a light burning for ships they would never meet.
The men are long lost, but their names are not.
James Ducat.
Thomas Marshall.
Donald McArthur.
Sleep well, dear listener. And I'll see you in the shadows next time.Patreon Exclusive: Ad-free version & bonus content available now for supporters.
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🌑 Goodnight.
#TrueCrimePodcast #SleepStories #UnsolvedMysteries #FlannanIsles #LighthouseMystery #ScottishHistory #31NightsOfFrights #TrueCrimeSleepStories102: Charles Bravo & The Priory Mystery | 31 Nights of Frights On True Crime Sleep Stories
Welcome to another 31 Nights of Frights On True Crime Sleep Stories.In the spring of 1876, Balham still felt almost like a village on London's southern edge. On Bedford Hill stood The Priory, a large white …
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Welcome to another 31 Nights of Frights On True Crime Sleep Stories.
In the spring of 1876, Balham still felt almost like a village on London's southern edge. On Bedford Hill stood The Priory, a large white house with turrets, horses in the stables, and an ordinary Tuesday dinner waiting indoors. Barrister Charles Bravo, 31 years old and just 4 months into a marriage with wealthy widow Florence Bravo, sat down with Florence and her companion, Mrs. Jane Cox. He drank Burgundy. They did not. A little after nine he went upstairs and fell violently ill. Doctors came through the night, including Sir William Gull. On the morning of April 21, 1876, Charles died. Chemists found a massive dose of antimony... tartar emetic... in his body.What happened next? Listen to find out.
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#TrueCrimePodcast #SleepStories #UnsolvedMysteries101: Our Old House + Lenox College Paranormal Investigation Part 2 | 31 Nights of Frights on True Crime Sleep Stories
Welcome to another night of our 31 Nights of Frights on True Crime Sleep Stories. Tonight I'm telling you about the litle house we lived in for five years, and the Halloween night, before we ever moved in, when …
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Welcome to another night of our 31 Nights of Frights on True Crime Sleep Stories. Tonight I'm telling you about the litle house we lived in for five years, and the Halloween night, before we ever moved in, when our neighbors watched a hearse pull into its driveway while trick-or-treaters filled the street. I'll tell you about the cigarette smoke I'd smell from bed when nobody was around, the sun porch my kids didn't want to sit in after dark, and the quiet knock on the bathroom door at 3 AM when everyone in the house was asleep.
AND THEN... it's onto Part 2 of Lenox College in Hopkinton, Iowa. I'll fill you in on our night of EVP sessions, the Estes method, and a spirit box that said some names I still can't explain.
Thank you so much for being here and supporting the show. It means more than I can say. Have you ever had something strange happen in your own home, or gone to a paranormal event yourself? Tell me in the comments. I'd love to hear it.
Sweet dreams, and lock your doors. 🖤
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#TrueCrimePodcast #SleepStories #UnsolvedMysteries100: The Secrets of Madeleine Smith | 31 Nights of Frights on True Crime Sleep Stories
Welcome to another night of 31 Nights of Frights on True Crime Sleep Stories. Tonight we travel to Glasgow in the late 1850s, to Blythswood Square and the stone townhouses above the busy streets. An architect’s …
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Welcome to another night of 31 Nights of Frights on True Crime Sleep Stories.
Tonight we travel to Glasgow in the late 1850s, to Blythswood Square and the stone townhouses above the busy streets. An architect’s daughter writes secret letters to a packing clerk from Jersey. Three purchases of arsenic appear in the chemists’ registers on Sauchiehall Street, in her name. On the March 23, 1857, Pierre Emile L’Angelier dies of arsenic poisoning at home. A jury in Edinburgh returns a mixture of "not guilty" and "not proven". This episode walks through what the record actually shows... the letters, the poisons, the trial, the later years under other names... and where the disputed stories begin.
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#TrueCrimePodcast #SleepStories #UnsolvedMysteries99: The Pascagoula UFO Incident | 31 Nights of Frights on True Crime Sleep Stories
Welcome to another night of "31 Nights of Frights" on True Crime Sleep Stories. Tonight we venture down to the banks of the Pascagoula River in Mississippi on the evening of October 11, 1973.This is the story …
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Welcome to another night of "31 Nights of Frights" on True Crime Sleep Stories. Tonight we venture down to the banks of the Pascagoula River in Mississippi on the evening of October 11, 1973.
This is the story of two shipyard workers, Charles Hickson and Calvin Parker, who went fishing after work and came back with an account that has never quite been settled... a detailed account of a UFO. There's no tidy ending. What remains is a sheriff’s audio tape, a carefully worded statement from astronomer J. Allen Hynek, a contested polygraph, and fifty-three years of argument about what, if anything, happened on that old pier.
If you have a strange story of a light in the sky, or a creepy tale of your own that still sits with you, you know where to send it. :-)
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#TrueCrimePodcast #SleepStories #UnsolvedMysteries98: It Wasn’t Just A Halloween Decoration | 31 Nights of Frights on True Crime Sleep Stories
Welcome back to 31 Nights of Frights on True Crime Sleep Stories... You’ve heard the urban legend. Someone’s driving past the pumpkins and fog machines in late October when one house seems to have gone too far …
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Welcome back to 31 Nights of Frights on True Crime Sleep Stories... You’ve heard the urban legend. Someone’s driving past the pumpkins and fog machines in late October when one house seems to have gone too far. There’s a body hanging from a tree, or slumped on a porch, so realistic that people slow down. Kids point. Days go by. Then someone finally walks close enough to realize it was never a decoration.
In October 2015, in Chillicothe, Ohio, a version of that story actually happened. A young mother was found hanging from a fence on a quiet dead-end street. Neighbors had walked right past her that morning. The case that followed included an arrest, DNA evidence, a trial, and a not-guilty verdict. The full story of what happened to Rebecca Cade, and the two other times this same legend has come true, is in tonight’s episode.
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#TrueCrimePodcast #SleepStories #UnsolvedMysteries97: The Borley Rectory Hauntings | 31 Nights of Frights on True Crime Sleep Stories
Welcome back to 31 Nights of Frights on True Crime Sleep Stories. Tonight's episode is about the Borley Rectory, and it is a ghost story with a dash of possible true crime. If you grew up reading old ghost …
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Welcome back to 31 Nights of Frights on True Crime Sleep Stories. Tonight's episode is about the Borley Rectory, and it is a ghost story with a dash of possible true crime. If you grew up reading old ghost books like I did, Borley was always in there, usually with that grainy photo of the big brick house and a caption calling it the most haunted house in England.
What I love about this case is that the more you read, the less it's about a ghost and the more it's about people. You've got a Victorian minister with fourteen kids. You've got his son, who apparently loved telling the story. You've got a new minister and his wife who just wanted a job and ended up with reporters camped on their lawn. And then you've got Lionel and Marianne Foyster, which honestly could be its own episode. A sick older husband writing down every bump in the night, and a young wife who, it turns out, had a whole second life no one knew about. And of course there's Harry Price.
Harry is really my favorite sort of story character, and he makes me forget that this is actually a TRUE story, not fiction.
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#TrueCrimePodcast #SleepStories #UnsolvedMysteries96: The Devil's Footprints | 31 Nights of Frights on True Crime Sleep Stories
Welcome to another night of 31 Nights of Frights on True Crime Sleep Stories.On the night of February 8, 1855, snow fell over the villages along the River Exe in South Devon, England. The next morning, people …
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Welcome to another night of 31 Nights of Frights on True Crime Sleep Stories.
On the night of February 8, 1855, snow fell over the villages along the River Exe in South Devon, England. The next morning, people in Topsham, Lympstone, Exmouth, Woodbury, Starcross, Dawlish, and Teignmouth found a line of small hoof-shaped prints in the snow. They came in a single file, about eight and a half inches apart. They went up to doors, over tall walls, across rooftops, over haystacks, and through a drainpipe. They showed up on both sides of a two-mile-wide estuary.
Tonight we follow those tracks through the frightened villages, into the pages of The Times and the Illustrated London News, and into the sermons and notes of two local vicars, the Reverend G. M. Musgrave and the Reverend Henry Thomas Ellacombe. Then we look at the explanations people have offered ever since, from badgers and wood mice to a runaway balloon from the Devonport dockyard. Was it the Devil? Or something more benign?
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#TrueCrimePodcast #SleepStories #UnsolvedMysteries95: The Disappearance of Judge Crater | 31 Nights of Frights on True Crime Sleep Stories
Welcome to 31 Nights of Frights on True Crime Sleep Stories...On August 6, 1930, New York Supreme Court Justice Joseph Force Crater disappeared after dinner at a West 45th Street chophouse in Manhattan. He had …
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On August 6, 1930, New York Supreme Court Justice Joseph Force Crater disappeared after dinner at a West 45th Street chophouse in Manhattan. He had returned from Maine earlier that week, spent the morning with files in his chambers, cashed checks for more than $5,000, and arranged a theater ticket before meeting two companions. No confirmed sighting exists after he left the restaurant.A later grand jury found the evidence insufficient to determine whether he had left of his own accord, suffered amnesia, or been the victim of a crime. His wife Stella later discovered a will, cash, and a short note in their apartment; the police closed the missing-person file in 1979 with no remains identified. This episode recounts the known sequence of events and leaves the rest open.
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#TrueCrimePodcast #SleepStories #UnsolvedMysteries94: The Death of Jeannette DePalma, Revisited | 31 Nights of Frights on True Crime Sleep Stories
Tonight’s episode is one of the oldest on the show, from back when True Crime Sleep Stories was still new and I was often recording on my cell phone. Most of you never heard the original, so for 31 Nights of …
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Tonight’s episode is one of the oldest on the show, from back when True Crime Sleep Stories was still new and I was often recording on my cell phone. Most of you never heard the original, so for 31 Nights of Frights it felt like the right time to tell it again.
This is the 1972 case of 16-year-old Jeannette DePalma, who vanished from Springfield, New Jersey, and was found six weeks later on a cliff the locals called the Devil’s Teeth. Almost at once, the rumors turned to witchcraft.
Thank you for sticking with me over the years. The room is a lot fuller now than it was when this one first went out, and I'm glad you're here.
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#TrueCrimePodcast #SleepStories #UnsolvedMysteries93: Lenox College & Haunted Hopkinton Part 1 | 31 Nights of Frights on True Crime Sleep Stories
Welcome back to 31 Nights of Frights on True Crime Sleep Stories.This weekend I’ll be walking the halls of Lenox College in Hopkinton, Iowa, after dark. Not alone. Joining me are several true crime podcasters …
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Welcome back to 31 Nights of Frights on True Crime Sleep Stories.
This weekend I’ll be walking the halls of Lenox College in Hopkinton, Iowa, after dark. Not alone. Joining me are several true crime podcasters crossing over for a paranormal investigation: Justin from Generation Why, Lauren and Ken from Paradise After Dark and the Florida Themis Project. Lauren and I have done this before. We spent a night inside the Villisca axe murder house. This one is different. No known victim. Just a school that ran out of students, and a few stories that never quite left.
This is part 1. I’ll be back with a full report of my thoughts on the hauntings after the expedition. :-)
Until next time, sleep well. Thank you for your support!
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#TrueCrimePodcast #SleepStories #UnsolvedMysteries92: The Boy in the Box | 31 Nights of Frights on True Crime Sleep Stories
Welcome to 31 Nights of Frights on True Crime Sleep Stories. In the late winter of 1957, Fox Chase was a quiet corner of northeast Philadelphia, all rowhouses, corner stores, and rough fields at the edge of …
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Welcome to 31 Nights of Frights on True Crime Sleep Stories.
In the late winter of 1957, Fox Chase was a quiet corner of northeast Philadelphia, all rowhouses, corner stores, and rough fields at the edge of town. In February, in a brushy field off Susquehanna Road, a little boy was found wrapped in a flannel blanket inside a cardboard box that had once held a department-store bassinet. No one came forward to claim him.
Tonight's episode follows the long, patient effort to give that child back his name: fingerprints checked against birth records, hundreds of thousands of flyers mailed with gas bills, a box traced to a JCPenney store, and a medical examiner's investigator, Remington Bristow, who carried the case for more than thirty years. We'll come to December 2022, when DNA and genetic genealogy finally named him: Joseph Augustus Zarelli, four years old.
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#TrueCrimePodcast #SleepStories #UnsolvedMysteries #TheBoyInTheBox91: Listener Stories | 31 Nights of Frights on True Crime Sleep Stories
Welcome to 31 Nights of Frights on True Crime Sleep Stories.Tonight, three listener letters. A childhood house. A gas station after midnight. A rental where a staircase was not supposed to be used.Denise …
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Welcome to 31 Nights of Frights on True Crime Sleep Stories.
Tonight, three listener letters. A childhood house. A gas station after midnight. A rental where a staircase was not supposed to be used.
Denise, winter of 1994, outside Moline. A mushroom nightlight. Her sister’s red parka on the hook. A sleeve that lifted like a wave.
Marcus, 2011, Highway 218. A Kum & Go. A tan Taurus with a trash bag taped over the back window. A plate number on a receipt, and a deputy who could only say it came back to Keokuk.
Lori, summer of 2006, 4th Street in Dubuque. Four screws, painted over. A strip of blue tape that never broke. A carpenter’s pencil she did not own.
If you have a story like this, a house, a road, a night you still cannot explain, write to me at: [email protected]. You can stay anonymous if you’d like.
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Until tomorrow night... Lock your doors. Sleep well. Goodnight.
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#TrueCrimePodcast #SleepStories #UnsolvedMysteries90: Lizzie Borden & the House on Second Street | 31 Nights of Frights on True Crime Sleep Stories
Welcome to another night of 31 Nights of Frights on True Crime Sleep Stories..."Lizzie Borden took an axe,And gave her mother forty whacks.When she saw what she had done,She gave her father forty-one." The kids …
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Welcome to another night of 31 Nights of Frights on True Crime Sleep Stories...
"Lizzie Borden took an axe,
And gave her mother forty whacks.
When she saw what she had done,
She gave her father forty-one."
The kids jump-rope rhyme got almost everything wrong. It was not an axe, it was not her mother, and the forty whacks were made up to fit the beat. Lizzie Borden was tried and acquitted in 1893. Nobody else was ever charged. More than 130 years later, the murders of Andrew and Abby Borden are still unsolved, a case that went cold because 1892 had no tools to close it.Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story, the 4th Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan Monster season, premiered on Netflix on September 17, 2026, and does what that series did with Dahmer, the Menendez brothers, and Ed Gein... it fills the blank morning with plot and calls it the story. This episode does not. We walk the house on Second Street, mark the rumor when we meet it, and leave the verdict where the jury left it.
Thank you for being here. If this one kept you company, the next one will be waiting in the shadows.
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#TrueCrimePodcast #SleepStories #UnsolvedMysteries #LizzieBorden89: HH Holmes & The World's Fair Hotel | True Crime Sleep Stories
Welcome back to “31 Nights of Frights” on True Crime Sleep Stories. Tonight we go to Chicago in the 1890s, when the World's Columbian Exposition was filling the city with light and crowds, and a block of brick …
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Welcome back to “31 Nights of Frights” on True Crime Sleep Stories. Tonight we go to Chicago in the 1890s, when the World's Columbian Exposition was filling the city with light and crowds, and a block of brick and glass on Sixty-Third Street in Englewood was being run by a man who called himself H.H. Holmes.
You have probably heard the tourist version. Trapdoors. Soundproof rooms. Acid vats. Hundreds of fair visitors who checked in and never checked out. Some of that story is so familiar it feels like fact. A lot of it is not.
What the record supports is quieter and, in its way, worse.
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#TrueCrimePodcast #SleepStories #UnsolvedMysteries #HHHolmes88: The Disappearance of Joan Risch | 31 Nights of Frights on True Crime Sleep Stories
Lincoln, Massachusetts. October 24, 1961. Joan Risch, 31, spends an ordinary Tuesday morning with her two small children while her husband is on an overnight business trip to New York. A dentist visit. Lunch, a …
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Lincoln, Massachusetts. October 24, 1961. Joan Risch, 31, spends an ordinary Tuesday morning with her two small children while her husband is on an overnight business trip to New York. A dentist visit. Lunch, a nap, a little pruning in the yard.
Around 2:15 a neighbor sees her moving quickly up the driveway in a trench coat, carrying something red. It is the last confirmed sighting. By late afternoon the children are home alone. The kitchen is overturned. A trail of blood leads to the car and stops. Nothing is stolen. The mail is still in the box.
Joan had lost both parents in a house fire at 8 years old. She had been an editorial assistant in New York before marriage. In the months before she vanished, her library card showed a run of books about murders and missing people. Sightings were reported along Route 2A and Route 128. None were confirmed. Middlesex case 61-2623 has never been closed.
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🌑 Goodnight.
#TrueCrimePodcast #SleepStories #UnsolvedMysteries #TrueCrimeForSleep87: Shari's Scary Stories | 31 Nights of Frights on True Crime Sleep Stories
Welcome to 31 Nights of Frights on True Crime Sleep Stories. :-) Tonight Kelli reads 2 stories from a listener & friend of the show, Shari. A little girl in a doorway, a handprint on the inside of a car window …
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Welcome to 31 Nights of Frights on True Crime Sleep Stories. :-)
Tonight Kelli reads 2 stories from a listener & friend of the show, Shari.
A little girl in a doorway, a handprint on the inside of a car window, and a road her brother never took. Then a rental house, a growling cat, and a voice on the basement stairs that said "run".
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🌑 Goodnight.
#TrueCrimePodcast #SleepStories #UnsolvedMysteries #TrueCrimeForSleep86: The Freeway Phantom | 31 Nights of Frights on True Crime Sleep Stories
Welcome to 31 Nights of Frights on True Crime Sleep Stories. In 1971 and 1972, six young Black girls and young women were killed in and around Washington, D.C. Their bodies were found along freeways in the …
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Welcome to 31 Nights of Frights on True Crime Sleep Stories.
In 1971 and 1972, six young Black girls and young women were killed in and around Washington, D.C. Their bodies were found along freeways in the District and Prince George’s County. The killer was never caught. The case is still open.
Carol Spinks, Darlenia Johnson, Brenda Crockett, Nenomoshia Yates, Brenda Woodard, and Diane Williams. The youngest was ten. The oldest was eighteen.
Content note: child victims, kidnapping, sexual assault, and strangulation. Details are not described.
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True Crime Sleep Stories is hosted and created by Kelli Brink, produced with the support of our dedicated team. Subscribe, rate, and review us on your favorite podcast platform to help us keep telling these haunting tales. Visit patreon.com/kellibrink for exclusive content and to join our community. Thank you for listening, and we'll meet you in the shadows next time. Until then, stay safe out there, and lock your doors.
🌑 Goodnight.
#TrueCrimePodcast #SleepStories #UnsolvedMysteries #TrueCrimeForSleep85: John's Letter: The Haunted House on 7th Street | 31 Nights of Frights on True Crime Sleep Stories
Good evening, dear listeners.A listener wrote to me and asked for his story to be featured on our October "31 Nights of Frights" series on True Crime Sleep Stories. He asked to be called John. That's not his …
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Good evening, dear listeners.
A listener wrote to me and asked for his story to be featured on our October "31 Nights of Frights" series on True Crime Sleep Stories. He asked to be called John. That's not his real name. What he sent was a family story they've been telling for 30 years. They still call the place their old haunted house.
One night after a party, he woke to footsteps in the hall. Water running. A toilet flush. Someone walking back to the other bedroom. Nobody was there.
If you have a story like this... a house, a hallway, a night you still cannot explain... you can write to me. You can stay anonymous if you'd like. ;-) We would love to read it in October on 31 Nights of Frights.
Thank you for being here. Sleep well.Patreon Exclusive: Ad-free version & bonus content available now for supporters.
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Vol. 1: amzn.to/3Z8jx5L
Vol. 2: amzn.to/4kAthhj
Vol. 3: amzn.to/3H9xfPQ
Support the show on Patreon
True Crime Sleep Stories is hosted and created by Kelli Brink, produced with the support of our dedicated team. Subscribe, rate, and review us on your favorite podcast platform to help us keep telling these haunting tales. Visit patreon.com/kellibrink for exclusive content and to join our community. Thank you for listening, and we'll meet you in the shadows next time. Until then, stay safe out there, and lock your doors.
🌑 Goodnight.
#TrueCrimePodcast #SleepStories #UnsolvedMysteries #TrueCrimeForSleep
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