Talking till Dawn

From the half-shark, half-octopus Lusca of the Bahamian blue holes... to the tragic tale of the Pensacola monster... to the 19th Century oddities of the Cape Ann sea serpent... and the obscure man-ea…

Mike and Martin dive deep to explore the facts and folklore surrounding accounts of giant sea monster attacks. In the first episode of a two-parter, we examine the supposedly true story of a sea serp…

December 29th, 1980: On a back road outside Houston, Texas, three people had a terrifying close encounter with a huge UFO and a fleet of mystery helicopters. These witnesses later suffered unexplaine…

Jolly old fat men stuck in chimneys. Venerable fodder for corny Santa jokes, beloved Christmas songs... and one of the most shocking urban legends of the festive period. The movie Gremlins popularize…

Ecuador, 1980: A flash flood on the Rio Ambato uncovers the bodies of four young girls in shallow graves, and an incident at a street market leads to the capture of Pedro Alonso López, a man who woul…

Talking Till Dawn takes to the airwaves to explore just a few of the strangest mystery broadcasts of history. Come with us as we deep dive into the worlds of Cold War spy "numbers stations", satelli…

Deep beneath the modern cities of Europe lie thousands of mysterious tunnels. Known as erdstalls, no one is certain who built them, but theories surrounding these strange underground labyrinths invok…

In probably our weirdest episode to date, we take to the skies to examine persistent rumours and reports of bizarre atmospheric beasts inhabiting the skies of Earth. Join us on a journey that takes i…

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 s…

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 decapitat…

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 mu…

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 …

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 cho…

Join Mike and Martin as they discuss why Nessie definitely isn't a plesiosaur (sorry!) and go on a bizarre quest to figure out what she might actually be. Och aye!

Our final trip to Scotland's lochs …

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 h…

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 th…

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 murder victim or somet…

Mike and Martin dig deeper into legends of monsters in Loch Ness, breaking open hoaxes, examining the photographic and video evidence, and reviewing the various expeditions and studies that have soug…

Mike and Martin investigate claims of a very unusual ghostly possession in 1930s Italy. A Ghastly Tales Production

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