Today, we are diving into real spooky listener stories sent in from across Portugal, stories of ancient walls, restless spirits, unexplained shadows, and moments that still send chills. Thank you to everyone who sent their stories. Visual Episode: https://youtu.be/y76Tgxlqhc4 Spotify episode: https://open.spotify.com/episode/59k0tfRTec6FVFTCvbp2Ur?si=4a1399b21ebd4fcd Available on all Podcast platforms. ———- Music by: […]
The Storytelling Podcast – Ep43 – Cursed Books That Were Never Meant to Be Read
DISCLAIMER — PLEASE LISTEN BEFORE THE EPISODE The stories you are about to hear are shared for historical, cultural, and storytelling purposes only. This episode is not meant to encourage anyone to search for, purchase, recreate, practice, or experiment with any of the books, rituals, manuscripts, or ideas mentioned in […]
The Storytelling Podcast – Ep42 – When History Went Wrong
Today, we are exploring the history of human error, a collection of real and documented moments where history went wrong, not because of evil plans or great disasters, but because of oversight, misjudgment, misplaced confidence, and very human mistakes. 10 historic stories that make you think who ordered and why […]
The Storytelling Podcast – Ep41 – The Town That Banned Death
Today’s story takes us to a place of snow, silence, and long polar nights. A place so cold that the ground never truly softens. A place where bodies do not decay the way they should. And a place where, slowly and quietly, dying became illegal. This is the story of […]
The Storytelling Podcast – Ep40 – The Great Cheese Riot of 1766
Today’s story may sound funny when you first hear its title, and yes, there is something undeniably absurd about it. But behind the laughter lies a very real and deeply human experience. We are travelling back in time to 18th-century England, to a moment in history that sounds almost unbelievable, […]
The Storytelling Podcast – Ep39 – Original: The Light That Was Never Meant to Return
An Original Story for The Storytelling Podcast Before we begin, I want you to imagine standing alone at the edge of the world. No city lights behind you. No voices. No certainty that the ground beneath your feet is solid or safe. Only the sound of the sea breathing in […]
The Storytelling Podcast – Ep38 – The Affair of the Poisons
Today, I am taking you into one of the darkest and strangest scandals in French history, a case involving poison, witchcraft, forbidden rituals, and secret trials that many powerful people wanted erased forever. In seventeenth-century France, reputation meant survival, appearances mattered more than truth, and secrets were a form of […]
The Storytelling Podcast – Ep37 – Savannah, America’s Most Haunted City
Savannah feels old in a way that goes beyond architecture. It feels heavy, as if the ground itself carries memory. This is a city that has seen more death than most people realize. Long before ghost tours and haunted hotel rooms, Savannah was shaped by war, disease, slavery, and repeated […]
The Storytelling Podcast – Ep36 – King Louis XIV: The Sun King
Today I have another long episode, and we are diving into the extravagant, obsessive, dramatic, and often ridiculous life of King Louis the Fourteenth of France, better known as the Sun King. He did not simply inherit a crown and issue laws. He transformed himself into a living symbol, a […]