Before Dresden became a symbol of wartime destruction, it was known as the “Florence of the Elbe”, a city of music, art, architecture, industry, and life along the River Elbe. Then came February 1945. In Part One of this episode of The Storytelling Podcast, we travel back to Dresden during the final months […]

Deep in Alfama, where narrow streets wind between old houses and the sound of fado drifts through open windows, there is a legend about a small fado house and a woman whose voice could still be heard long after she disappeared. In this episode of The Storytelling Podcast, I tell the […]

What happens when a vampire story leaves the pages of folklore and begins to spread through real communities? In this episode of The Storytelling Podcast, we travel through three strange British vampire cases separated by decades but connected by the same unsettling force: rumour. Subscribe to The Storytelling Podcast for more […]

The Eiffel Tower has been one of the defining landmarks of Paris for more than a century. It has survived wars, political changes, technological revolutions and the passing of generations. But in 1925, a businessman was persuaded to believe that the tower had a very different future. In this episode […]

People disappear in the wilderness every year. Most cases have explanations. Some do not. In this episode of The Storytelling Podcast, we enter the world of Missing 411, the name given by researcher David Paulides to a collection of strange and unexplained missing-person cases, many involving national parks, forests and […]

Imagine opening an app and asking it to choose your next destination. Just a random point on a map. That was the basic appeal of Randonautica, an application that became an internet phenomenon during the pandemic. Users could generate random coordinates within a chosen area and then travel to see […]

There is something different about a strange sound coming from an abandoned building than from the room next to yours. An abandoned house can be frightening because it is empty. When something unexplained happens there, it becomes much harder to dismiss. For this episode of The Storytelling Podcast, listeners from […]

There is something unsettling about an old book. Perhaps it is the age of the paper, the handwriting, the faded ink or the knowledge that someone sat down centuries ago and carefully decided that these particular words were worth preserving. But some historical books carry an additional weight. They were […]

Some recordings become frightening only after you know how they end. Elliot Mercer is spending a stormy night alone at Blackwood Forest Station, covering an overnight shift after another worker calls in sick. The Last Broadcast from Blackwood Forest is an original supernatural mystery from The Storytelling Podcast, exploring memory, identity, […]