Exploring the strange, the bizarre, and the uncanny.
With Michael Whitehouse & Martin Yates
In 1837 & 1838, horror was afoot on the streets of Victorian London. A strange and terrible entity stalked the lanes: Spring-Heeled Jack, a bizarre fiend who spewed flame, leapt huge distances, and stalked women
Listen nowEpisode 13: Spring-heeled Jack, the Fire-Spewing Phantom of London
Legends of lost gold, beast-men, and an ancient, formless evil swirl like the mists over Canada’s Nahanni National Park Reserve. Strange sightings, unexplained disappearances, and a rash of decapitated prospectors have left their mark on
In the second of this two-part series, we look back on the largest police manhunt in Scottish criminal history: the search for the unknown serial killer known as Bible John in the aftermath of his
Listen nowEpisode 11: Bible John, Scotland’s Unknown Serial Killer (Part 2)
In 1968 and 1969, a series of bizarre murders gripped Glasgow in a state of horror. “Bible John”, the papers called him. The Barrowland Killer. His horrendous crimes would scar the city’s psyche for decades
Listen nowEpisode 10: Bible John, Scotland’s Unknown Serial Killer (Part 1)
In 1996, Texas journalist Brian Bethel shared his experience of a terrifying nocturnal encounter with two very strange children. His accounts became an early viral phenomenon, and struck an eerie chord with readers around the
Join Mike and Martin as they discuss why the Loch Ness Monster definitely isn’t a plesiosaur (sorry!) and go on a bizarre quest to figure out what the Loch Ness Monster might actually be. Och aye! Our final trip to
Listen nowEpisode 8: Nessie & the Loch Monsters of Scotland (Part 3)
9th February 1855: Strange hoof-prints appeared in the freshly-fallen snow, marching far across the English county of Devon and beyond. What sort of creature has hooves but walks upright, can cover hundreds of miles in
Wiltshire, December 25th 1964: the peace of Christmas morning in the village of Warminster was shattered by a barrage of strange noises from the sky. This was only the beginning of a rash of bizarre
On December 27th, 1993, nurse and mother-of-two Latricia White was found brutally murdered in her bed at home in Lockhart, Texas. What at first appeared to be a simple case of domestic violence in the
In 1976, a television crew made a gruesome discovery in a California funhouse. What seemed to be the ghoulish dummy of a hanged man was found to be a very real corpse. Was he a
Listen nowEpisode 4: The Life & Afterlife of Elmer McCurdy, Fairground Corpse