Tales From The Dark

Why do ghosts wear sheets, vampires wear capes, and witches wear pointy hats?

For our 2026 Halloween Special, we’re digging into the stories behind Halloween’s most familiar traditions, from jack-o’-lanterns to trick-or-treat candy.

Along the way, we’re sharing favorite costumes, debating seasonal staples, and tackling some spooky “would you rather” questions.

Grab some candy and celebrate with us!

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An ordinary Marketplace listing leads to a conversation with a stranger and plans to meet.
Nothing unusual at first.

A price, an address, someone saying they'll be home after work.

These stories follow what happens when people show up and realize the person they've been messaging has left a few things out.

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Volume five.

Six stories sent in by you, and this time Haley and Tim are doing the reading. An 8-year-old in Texas gets up early on a Saturday and finds a tall figure standing in the living room. He says it ran down the hall toward the garage and was "darker than dark."

A small town in the '90s starts getting late-night phone calls from someone reading off long strings of numbers, and then one day it just stops.

A 16-year-old in Wisconsin tells us about a dream he had at six that he still can't shake, and what it left behind. Then it gets heavier.

An anonymous listener's house has been escalating for a while: tarot cards in the basement, a figure in the bathroom that looked like them, a hidden crawlspace locked with four deadbolts, and opera singing coming out of the woods.

A former paranormal investigator from the Point Pleasant area takes us back to 2013, when a kid in Gallipolis, Ohio started talking to something called Cristoff, and a holy water test that was supposed to catch a faker didn't go the way anyone planned.

We close with a story from the late Terry Aitken: a diamond bracelet that vanished from the bottom of the stairs, turned up months later in a stack of towels, and what he and his wife saw in the corner of the room that night. This one's dedicated to Terry, and to Whitney and Carter.

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In 2023 An anonymous poster on a dying imageboard claims to have managed a research team at a facility that studies craft nobody's supposed to have.

No galactic federation, no channeled messages just a guy describing what sounds like a job. UFOs are mostly unmanned drones.

They're built in a mobile construction facility that sits in the ocean and disappears every time we get close.

The people flying them aren't hostile, they're just not very interested in us, and the poster compares the arrangement to zookeepers who don't hate the animals but aren't there to talk to them either.

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Sylvia Browne told Amanda Berry's mother her daughter was dead. She told Shawn Hornbeck's parents the same thing about their son.

Both of those kids were alive.

Haley and I go through how she said it worked including her spirit guide Francine, the trance sessions, what she had to say about Ouija boards.

Then we start checking. The End of Days paragraph everybody shared during COVID, including the half nobody posts.

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Six of your stories this week. A security guard alone in a locked building who pulled the badge logs to prove it. A shadow man in an old-fashioned hat on a third floor.

A house in southwest Missouri with a history nobody can find. A white sphere on a Wisconsin back road that got named before it got proven.

Two men in tracksuits at four in the morning in the UK, asking one question too many.

And a stopped clock in an Indiana jail that started ticking at 11:11.

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In 1980 three witnesses on their way to a night of bingo encountered the impossible.

A glowing object in the sky emitting in intense heat and flames that allegedly was accompanied by a formation of military helicopters in East Texas.

In this episode the truth is followed by more layers than I could have prepared for.

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This week I sat down with JD Lauriat, the creator of Haunted House Flippers a comedy/horror audio drama about a couple who inherit an old Victorian in Uncanoonuc, New Hampshire and set out to fix it up and sell it.

Janet wants to learn some new skills. Tom is convinced he's found the Holy Grail of haunted houses. The whole thing is told through the handheld recorder Tom refuses to put down.

We talked about the show, how it came together, and what goes into building an entire haunted universe out of nothing but sound.

Check it out here: https://www.hhfpodcast.com

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Summer 1988, Bishopville, South Carolina. A seventeen-year-old changes a flat tire at 2 a.m. on the edge of Scape Ore Swamp and reports that something seven feet tall came out of the field after him.

Within weeks: plaster footprint casts, chewed-up cars, a million dollar reward for a live capture, monster hunters in the woods, and merchandise.

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Allen Greenfield has been doing this since 1960. He is the co-founder of the National UFO Conference, author of Secret Cipher of the UFOnauts, and the man Greg and Connor drove to Atlanta to meet in Hellier.

He gave me nearly ninety minutes on where ufology started, where it is now, Hellier 3, and a lot more

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Meat. Blood. Live fish.

A purple blob that dissolved before anyone could keep it. 175 years of the American sky dropping things it shouldn't plus it's now officially Jimothy Summer and a Connecticut Bigfoot (without boobs).

Would you eat the sky meat?

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A raccoon becomes a cryptid, six Bigfoot sightings hit Ohio in four days and vanish, a psychic predicts an alien abduction at the World Cup, and a metal sphere in Colombia keeps growing new powers.

2026 is completely unhinged.

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In February 1958, bottles started unscrewing their own caps and emptying across the floor of a quiet Long Island ranch house while the Herrmann family stood and watched.

The papers named the culprit "Popper." History remembers it as the Seaford Poltergeist. Over about five weeks, more than sixty separate disturbances tore through the home at 1648 Redwood Path in Seaford, New York. Bottles popped, a sugar bowl exploded, a bookcase went over, and objects sailed across rooms with nobody standing near them.

Police showed up. Reporters showed up. A local detective all but moved in trying to catch someone faking it and left without his hoax. Two parapsychologists from Duke University logged the whole ordeal and walked away with a theory and no tidy ending.

This is also the case that loosely inspired one of the most famous horror movies ever made, minus the Hollywood inventions people still repeat as fact.

We're staying with what the witnesses actually reported and what the investigators actually wrote down, right up to the possibilities nobody has managed to rule out in almost seventy years.

An adolescent boy under stress? A trapped something? A prank committed enough to fool a homicide investigator and a room full of skeptics? You get to decide.

We're just here to put it all on the table.

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In 2021, Tales From The Dark investigated a job posting for the Dallas Cellar Club: a supposed upscale wine lounge hiring hostesses for twenty-two dollars an hour.

What I found instead was a twenty-minute recruitment recording, a rotating cast of phone numbers, and a pattern that looked a lot like something far worse than a bad job. I couldn't prove what it was, and we said so.

This is the follow-up.

In 2024, a listener reached out with four self-recorded phone calls documenting months of contact with the same operation, now recruiting under a different name. What's on those recordings is worse than anything in the original episode.

This time, I traced the operation back over fifteen years, across at least five names and twenty-four cities, and found it's still actively recruiting right now.

This episode contains explicit sexual language, racialized degradation, and descriptions of psychological manipulation.

It is not my usual paranormal format. Listener discretion is strongly advised.

The complete, unedited recordings referenced in this episode are available in full on our Patreon at patreon.com/talesfromthedark.

If you recognize any part of this investigation, report it to the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center at ic3.gov, or call the FBI's tip line at 1-800-CALL-FBI (1-800-225-5324).

We'll also be posting current job listings and phone numbers tied to this operation directly in the Tales From The Dark Facebook group as I find them.

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Carol Ann from The InBetween joins Tales From The Dark for a deep conversation about high strangeness, haunted history, and what it takes to build a strange little corner of the internet from scratch.

We get into where she lands on the skeptic-to-believer scale, the cases that followed her home after the mics went off, time slips and the Dark Watchers, whether the trickster behind all of this wants to be understood or is just having a laugh at our expense, and the one piece of evidence she would put in front of a hard skeptic.

We also talk about building The InBetween alongside Mr. InBetween, growing a community of 20,000-plus InBetweeners, and her advice for anyone thinking about starting a show of their own.

If you are not already subscribed to The InBetween, fix that. Everything Carol Ann and Antony do lives here: https://linktr.ee/InBetweenTales

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A retired couple from a one-stoplight town in Michigan found a flaw in a state lottery game and, over nine years, legally won close to twenty-seven million dollars.

No ghost, no crime, just arithmetic and a whole lot of nerve.

This week on Tales From the Dark, the true story behind Jerry and Marge Selbee, a game called Cash WinFall, and a locked door that turned out never to have been locked at all.

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The horror stories are back, and this time they're wearing red, white and blue. This one's a shorter throwback to our old horror stories format, an armful of creepy, true-ish tales with a Fourth of July coat of paint.

We start in the sky, because the Fourth is the single most common date on the whole calendar for UFO reports, and we land in Tinley Park, Illinois, where the lights over the fireworks came with a very earthly list of suspects and one very unsettling backup location.

From there it's a petty little history lesson on why the country's been blowing out the candles two days late since 1776, a batch of facts that includes the president who was taken out by a bowl of cherries, and the reason Jaws is secretly a Fourth of July movie.

A listener sends in a haunted house story where a pack of kids goes ghost hunting instead of watching the show, and it ends on a face in a window that more than one of them saw.

And we close on the eerie one, the three founding fathers who all died on the Fourth of July, two of them within hours of each other, and the ghosts a few of them supposedly left behind.

Also my chihuahua Charles, who experiences every fireworks display as a personal act of war.

Grab a hot dog. Try not to look up.

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The Philadelphia Experiment is the most famous ghost story the U.S. Navy ever had to deny: a destroyer escort, the USS Eldridge, supposedly wrapped in a green glow at the Philadelphia Navy Yard in 1943, turned invisible, and teleported to Norfolk and back, leaving sailors fused into the steel decks and others who never came back.

For seventy years it's been passed around as proof of a wartime government cover-up, complete with Einstein, secret unified-field physics, and, later, time travel.

This episode follows it all the way down. The real wartime science the legend grew out of, the brilliant drifter who invented the whole thing in a handful of letters, the documents that put the ship hundreds of miles from Philadelphia on the day it supposedly disappeared, and the claims that welded the Eldridge to the Montauk Project and the year 2749.

And one detail almost nobody tells you: the man who sold the Philadelphia Experiment to the world as fact later stood up at a conference and confessed to being a paid government disinformation agent. The documents say one thing. The legend says another.

I lay them side by side and let you stand on the pier yourself.

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In this episode I'm joined by Mr E Files, the voice behind one of the fastest-rising channels in the true crime and unexplained space.

We get into the seam where a real crime starts to feel like something stranger, how he builds a researched case into cinematic storytelling without bending the facts to do it, the MrBallen influence he's never shy about, and the question every creator is circling right now: where AI belongs in this kind of work, if it belongs at all.

Come on down the rabbit hole.

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Beneath a freeway overpass in Pasadena, California, there is a hundred-year-old flood-control dam, a tunnel mouth with the word HELL painted above it, and a rock shaped like the face of the devil. Locals call it Devil's Gate, and the stories that cling to it are some of the strangest in the state.

In this episode, we climb down into the Arroyo Seco to pull the legend apart from the record. At the center of it is Jack Parsons: the brilliant, self-taught chemist who helped found the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and modern American rocketry, and who recited Aleister Crowley's Hymn to Pan over his rocket tests while running the West Coast's leading Thelemic lodge out of a Pasadena mansion.

We get into the Babalon Working, the 1946 occult ritual Parsons performed alongside future Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard.

We dig into the Tongva cemetery unearthed in 1938 to build a reservoir, the children said to have vanished at the dam, and the freeway-building serial killer Mack Ray Edwards, whose shadow still falls across the unsolved disappearance of eight-year-old Tommy Bowman.

Portal to hell, haunted dam, occult conspiracy, and an unsolved cold case — we lay the folklore and the documented history side by side and let you decide what is really buried at Devil's Gate.

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