Mysteries at Bedtime

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  Wow!: The Signal from Sagittarius 28.07.2026 25min

  On the evening of Monday the 15th of August 1977, in a field outside the small town of Delaware, Ohio, a radio telescope the size of three football fields was listening to the sky. There were no astronomers present. The telescope could not be steered. It sat on the ground, pointed straight up, and let the rotation of the Earth do its work for it. As the planet turned, patches of the night sky drifted, slowly, across its stationary field of view. At approximately 22:16 that evening, the telescope was scanning a patch of sky in the constellation Sagittarius. At that moment, a signal reached it. It was narrow. It was strong. It was almost exactly at 1420 megahertz, which is the natural emission frequency of neutral hydrogen. The hydrogen line. The frequency that in 1959, two physicists at Cornell University had predicted, in the pages of the journal Nature, would be the exact frequency that any alien civilisation trying to contact humanity would logically choose. The signal rose in intensity over 36 seconds. It peaked at approximately 30 times the background noise of the surrounding cosmos. Then it fell in intensity over the following 36 seconds. And then, at 22:17, it was gone. Three days later, a former physics professor named Jerry Ehman, working at the observatory as an unpaid volunteer, sat down at his desk to review the printouts. He found a vertical column of numbers and letters that made him take his red ballpoint pen, circle the sequence, and write, in the margin, a single word. Wow! It is, as of 2026, the closest thing that any radio telescope on Earth has ever recorded to the exact kind of signal that scientists have, since 1959, expected an alien civilisation to send. It has never, in the 48 years since it was detected, been observed again.You can get early and ad free access to this show and more here Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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  The Thing on the Hill: The Flatwoods Monster 21.07.2026 28min

  At approximately 7:15 in the evening on Friday the 12th of September 1952, three young boys were playing in the schoolyard of Flatwoods Elementary School, in the small Appalachian town of Flatwoods, West Virginia. It was almost fully dark. One of them looked up. A bright, pulsating object was streaking across the sky. It appeared to descend and crash on a nearby hillside, on the property of a local farmer. The boys ran home to tell their mother, 27-year-old Kathleen May. Kathleen called on her 17-year-old cousin, a National Guardsman named Eugene Lemon. Two other local boys joined the group. The family dog, Rickie, came along. Seven of them altogether. Six boys, one mother, one dog. What they said they found in a clearing at the top of the hill has become one of the most persistently unsettling paranormal encounters in American history. They said they saw a creature. They said it was ten feet tall. They said its head was shaped like an ace of spades, glowing red and orange in the dark. They said it emitted a foul, sulphurous mist that burned their throats and eyes. They said it did not walk. It glided toward them. By the time they got back to the May family home, six of the seven witnesses were vomiting. Their eyes were red. Their throats were swollen. The dog was cowering. The local sheriff came. The local newspaper editor came, with a shotgun. Multiple neighbours reported strange lights that night. Nothing physical was ever found at the site. But for the rest of their lives, all seven witnesses would stand by exactly what they had seen. And nearly 74 years later, no one has ever definitively explained what it was.You can get early and ad free access to this show and more here Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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  An Adventure: The Versailles Time Slip 14.07.2026 27min

  On the afternoon of Saturday the 10th of August 1901, two English women stepped off a train at Versailles, near Paris, on holiday together. One was 55-year-old Charlotte Anne Moberly, the first Principal of St Hugh's College, Oxford. The other was 38-year-old Eleanor Jourdain, her incoming Vice Principal. They toured the palace. They found it uninspiring. They opened their guidebook and decided to walk to the smaller chateau at the end of the grounds, the Petit Trianon, which had once been the private retreat of Marie Antoinette. They took a wrong turn at an unmarked lane. And over the following 30 minutes, in the gardens of Versailles, they would claim to have seen palace bodyguards in green-grey coats and three-cornered hats, an old plough beside a farmhouse that had long since been demolished, and a woman sitting on a terrace sketching, in an old-fashioned summer dress and a shady white hat. Moberly would come to believe that the woman was Marie Antoinette herself. Neither of them knew, at the time, that the date they had chosen was the 109th anniversary of the fall of the French monarchy. Sixty years of research followed. A book was published in 1911. It became one of the most famous ghost stories in the English language. And to this day, no one has ever been able to prove or disprove what the two women said they had seen.You can get early and ad free access to this show and more here Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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  The Lost Cosmonauts 07.07.2026 31min

  On a winter night in 1961, in a stone bunker on a hilltop outside Turin, two young Italian brothers sat in front of a wall of homemade radio equipment and heard something they would spend the rest of their lives trying to explain. The slow, wet sound of a man breathing his last breaths from somewhere above the Earth. Over the following years, Achille and Giovanni Battista Judica-Cordiglia would record eight more transmissions just like it. Morse code SOS signals from spacecraft in trouble. A capsule drifting into deep space. A female voice, calm at first and then terrified, counting down numbers in Russian as her capsule appeared to burn up around her. They were the dying breaths of Soviet cosmonauts on missions that, officially, never happened. Or they were one of the most extraordinary fabrications of the Cold War. Sixty years on, no one has been able to decide which.You can get early and ad free access to this show and more here Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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  The Boy Who Was His Own Grandfather - Sam Taylor 30.06.2026 28min

  A young father in Vermont was changing his eighteen-month-old son's nappy when the little boy looked up at him and said something that no toddler should be able to say. Daddy, when I was your age, I used to change your nappies. His father searched his face for a smile. There was none. The little boy looked back at him with the calm certainty of a child stating a fact. And the strange thing was, his paternal grandfather had died eighteen months before the boy was born. The exact length of time it would take for a soul to return. In the months and years that followed, the little boy named Sam began saying things he could not possibly have known. About kitchen appliances. About cars. About a great aunt who had been murdered sixty years before. This is the story of one of the most studied cases of childhood past-life memory in modern science. Investigated, documented, and to this day, never explained.You can get early and ad free access to this show and more here Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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  The Ghosts of Muncaster Castle 23.06.2026 27min

  High on a hillside above the River Esk in Cumbria stands one of the oldest occupied houses in England. Muncaster Castle has been home to the Pennington family for over 800 years. A king once sheltered here after losing his throne. A cruel jester named Tom Fool once stalked its grounds. A young carpenter was beheaded in its stables. A housemaid was murdered on the road outside its main gate. And in a quiet room at the end of a first floor corridor, where dark tapestries hang from the walls and iron fire dogs shaped like devils' heads guard the fireplace, an academic named James Cartland heard something in 1988 that he would never be able to explain. The sound of a child crying. The soft voice of a woman singing. And the slow realisation that the room he was sleeping in had once been a nursery, where a little girl had died over a century before.You can get early and ad free access to this show and more here Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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  From the Vault - New Years Mystery 16.06.2026 32min

  Hello legends, Jack here, host of Mysteries at Bedtime. I'm currently travelling to the US because my other show, One Minute Remaining, was lucky enough to be nominated for an award. I’ll be back very soon, but while I’m away, I’m diving into the vault to bring you some fascinating and mysterious stories from Crime at Bedtime.These are stories focused on people who have vanished under mysterious circumstances, and today we look at the case of Ben Smart and Olivia Hope from New Zealand. On New Year’s Eve 1997, they were seen partying and celebrating with friends. By the following morning, they were gone...This is their story.New Year’s Eve, 1997. Hundreds of partygoers pack into Furneaux Lodge in New Zealand’s remote Marlborough Sounds. By morning, two young friends – Ben Smart and Olivia Hope – have vanished after stepping from a water taxi onto a stranger’s yacht. They are never seen again. In this Crime at Bedtime episode, we walk carefully through one of New Zealand’s most controversial murder cases: the disappearance of Ben and Olivia and the conviction of Scott Watson. We follow the movements of that final night, the mystery man on the yacht, the massive search, the forensic hair evidence, and the witness identifications that helped secure a guilty verdict – along with the doubts and challenges that have followed ever since. Told in a calm, measured way for listening at night, this episode lays out the key facts so you can decide what you make of the Scott Watson case.You can get early and ad free access to this show and more here Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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  From the Vault - Into the Darkness 09.06.2026 23min

  Hello legends, Jack here, host of Mysteries at Bedtime. I'm currently travelling to the US because my other show, One Minute Remaining, was lucky enough to be nominated for an award. I’ll be back very soon, but while I’m away, I’m diving into the vault to bring you some fascinating and mysterious stories from Crime at Bedtime.These are stories focused on people who have vanished under mysterious circumstances, and today we look at the case of Asha Degree — a young girl who disappeared on a rainy night in 2000, last seen clutching her backpack and walking off into the darkness.She has never been seen again...On a rainy February night in 2000, nine-year-old Asha Degree vanished from her Shelby, North Carolina, home. Clutching her backpack, she walked into the cold darkness, never to return. Twenty-three years later, her case remains a haunting mystery with more questions than answers. Why did she leave? Where was she going? And what clues did the few items left behind reveal?Join me as we unravel the known facts and chilling details surrounding Asha’s disappearance, exploring the theories, hopes, and the enduring search for answers in one of America's most perplexing missing child cases.You can get early and ad free access to this show and more here Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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  From the Vault - Gone in Minutes 02.06.2026 25min

  On a quiet April night in 1991, 20-year-old Angela Hammond made a routine call to her fiancé from a payphone in the small town of Clinton, Missouri. She was four months pregnant, cheerful, and had just dropped a friend home. But what happened next would spark one of the most haunting and baffling missing persons cases in American history.While on the phone, Angie suddenly became alarmed by a strange man circling the parking lot in a truck. Her fiancé, Rob Shafer, was still on the line when he heard her scream—and then, silence. He raced to the scene, even passing a suspicious vehicle speeding in the opposite direction. But Angela was gone, and no trace of her has ever been found.Was it a random abduction? Or was Angela targeted? And who was the mysterious man with the “fish mural” on his truck?In this episode of Crime at Bedtime, we journey back to that fateful night, revisiting every chilling detail, from Angela’s final moments and Rob’s frantic search, to the strange inconsistencies that followed in the investigation.Featuring eyewitness accounts, evolving theories, and the lasting impact on those who loved her, this is a story that still grips the nation more than three decades later.Somewhere, someone knows what happened to Angela Hammond.This is her story.Clinton Missouri Police Department Chief Kevin Miller1-660-885-2679Missouri State Highway Patrol Missing Persons Clearinghouse1-800-877-3452You can get early and ad free access to this show and more here Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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  The Seven Year Dream 26.05.2026 22min

  In June 2025, a 19 year old woman in Lyon, France, was placed into a medically induced coma. For the next three weeks, she lay still in a hospital bed, kept alive by machines while her body healed. But inside her mind, something extraordinary was happening. Clélia Verdier was falling in love. She was getting married. She was giving birth to triplets she named Mila, Maïlée, and Miles. She was burying the little boy who died shortly after birth. She was watching her two daughters grow from babies into seven year old girls with distinct personalities and bedtime stories and walks in the park. When Clélia finally opened her eyes, the first thing she did was ask the nurses where her children were. And when her parents arrived, she told them they were grandparents. What happens to a woman who lives an entire life inside her own mind. Who grieves children no one else can remember. And who has to find a way back to a reality that no longer feels real.You can get early and ad free access to this show and more here Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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  The Vanishing at Lake Oconee: The Dermond Murders 19.05.2026 24min

  On the afternoon of Saturday 3 May 2014, neighbours in the exclusive gated community of Reynolds Great Waters at Lake Oconee, Georgia, gathered for a Kentucky Derby watch party. Two of the invited guests never arrived. Three days later, a neighbour found 88 year old Russell Dermond's decapitated body in the garage of his million dollar lakefront home. His head was missing. His 87 year old wife Shirley was nowhere to be found. Ten days later, fishermen discovered Shirley's body floating in Lake Oconee, weighed down with cinder blocks. There were no signs of forced entry. Nothing was stolen. The community's security cameras were not recording. Twelve years on, Russell's head has never been found, no arrests have ever been made, and the FBI calls it one of the strangest cases they have ever investigated. Someone walked into that house. Someone knows what happened.You can get early and ad free access to this show and more here Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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  Where is Shelly? 12.05.2026 22min

  Michele Diane "Shelly" Miscavige was once one of the most powerful women in the Church of Scientology—the wife of its leader, David Miscavige, and a commanding figure within the organisation's elite Sea Org division. But in August 2005, Shelly vanished from public view following a reported confrontation with her husband. For years, no one outside Scientology's inner circle saw or heard from her. Her disappearance sparked intense speculation, celebrity involvement, and even a missing person's report filed by actress Leah Remini in 2013. The Church insists Shelly is alive, well, and working at a secret Scientology compound in California—but she hasn't been seen in public for nearly two decades. This is the story of Shelly Miscavige—a woman who rose to the heights of power within one of the world's most secretive organisations, only to disappear without a trace.You can get early and ad free access to this show and more here Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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  The Baby in White Robes: The 42-Year Search for Holly Clouse 05.05.2026 28min

  January 12, 1981. A dog wandered into the woods north of Houston and returned home carrying a decomposed human arm. Search parties found two bodies. A young man, bound and beaten to death. A young woman, strangled and posed in prayer. For 40 years, they remained unidentified. Buried in anonymous graves. Forgotten. Until genetic genealogy finally gave them their names: Harold Dean Clouse Junior, 21, and Tina Gail Linn Clouse, 17. A young couple from Florida who had moved to Texas with their one-year-old daughter, Holly. But when the families learned the truth, they asked one question investigators had never considered: where is the baby? No infant's body had been found with Dean and Tina. No Baby Doe cases matched. Had she been taken by the killers? Was she still alive? The search led to barefoot women in white robes, a nomadic religious cult called the Christ Family, and a baby left at an Arizona church. This is the story of a 42-year mystery, a daughter who grew up not knowing her own name, and a reunion that defied all odds.You can get early and ad free access to this show and more here Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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  The Vanishing Scientists: Ten Disappearances, One Terrifying Pattern 28.04.2026 23min

  February 27, 2026. Albuquerque, New Mexico. Retired Air Force Major General William McCasland left his home between 11:10am and 12:04pm. He took his wallet, hiking boots, a .38-calibre revolver, and a red backpack. He left behind his phone, glasses, and wearable devices. Seventeen days later, despite helicopters, drones, search dogs, and 700 homes canvassed, there was no trace of him. But McCasland was not the first. Six months earlier, government contractor Steven Garcia walked out of his Albuquerque home carrying only a handgun. He left his phone, wallet, keys, and car behind. He was never seen again. Monica Reza disappeared whilst hiking in California. Anthony Chavez vanished from Los Alamos. Melissa Casias was last seen walking on a highway, her phones wiped clean. By April 2026, the list had grown to ten. Ten scientists, government contractors, and military experts. All connected to America's most classified nuclear and aerospace programmes. All disappeared or dead under mysterious circumstances. And on April 16, 2026, the White House announced it was investigating. This is the mystery of the vanishing scientists.You can get early and ad free access to this show and more here Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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  The Man Who Vanished from His Chair 21.04.2026 16min

  On a warm June evening in 1768, a 69-year-old paralysed man named Owen Parfitt sat outside his sister's cottage in Shepton Mallet, England, dressed in his nightshirt and propped up on his folded greatcoat. Just a dozen yards away, farm workers laboured in full view of the porch. Around 7 PM, Owen's elderly sister Mary and a young neighbour, Susannah Snook, went inside to fetch him before an approaching storm. Minutes later, they returned to find Owen gone. The chair remained. The greatcoat remained. But Owen Parfitt—a man who couldn't move by himself—had vanished. The farm workers had seen nothing. Heard nothing. An exhaustive search through the storm and the days that followed found no trace. Owen had been a sailor in his youth, regaling locals with wild tales of piracy, smuggling, and black magic across Africa, America, and the high seas. Mary went to her grave believing the Devil had taken her brother as payment for his wicked life. Others suspected "men from Bristol" had silenced him to claim hidden treasure or stop his garrulous tales. Investigations in 1813, 1814, and 1933 uncovered no answers. More than 250 years later, Owen Parfitt's disappearance remains one of England's most baffling unsolved mysteries. Did the Devil claim him? Was he murdered? Or is there another explanation buried somewhere in the fields of Shepton Mallet?You can get early and ad free access to this show and more here Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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  Did CERN Break Reality? 14.04.2026 23min

  In 2016, a 13-year-old genius named Max Loughan went viral with an extraordinary claim: CERN destroyed our universe. Not with an explosion—but by shifting us all into a parallel reality. When scientists at CERN's Large Hadron Collider smashed particles together in 2012 and discovered the Higgs boson, Max believed the sheer energy tore a hole in spacetime, sliding humanity into a neighbouring universe almost identical to our own. Almost. The proof? The Mandela Effect. Millions of people remember Kit Kat having a hyphen. It never did. They remember C-3PO being all gold. He's always had a silver leg. They remember the Mona Lisa with no smile. She's always been smiling. They remember the Monopoly Man wearing a monocle. He never has. Are these false memories—or scars from our original universe? Max's theories spread across the internet, educating millions. Then, in 2018, he vanished. Social media went silent. No interviews. No updates. Some say he simply grew up and chose privacy. Others wonder if he knew too much. Did CERN's experiments break reality? Are we living in a parallel universe? And what happened to the boy who tried to warn us?You can get early and ad free access to this show and more here Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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  The Basketball Star Who Vanished at Sea - BISON DELE 07.04.2026 24min

  In July 2002, NBA champion Bison Dele sailed from Tahiti aboard his catamaran, the Hakuna Matata, with his girlfriend Serena Karlan, French captain Bertrand Saldo, and his troubled older brother Miles Dabord. On July 8, all communication ceased. Twelve days later, the boat returned to Tahiti—renamed, repainted, with patched bullet holes—and only Miles stepped off. Two months later, he tried to buy $152,000 in gold using Bison's passport. Before authorities could question him, Miles overdosed on insulin in Mexico and died without regaining consciousness. He'd confessed to his girlfriend that a fight had spiraled into three deaths, bodies weighted and thrown overboard. But FBI forensics found no evidence supporting his story. Was it murder for money, or a tragic accident gone wrong? The bodies were never found, and the Pacific Ocean keeps its secrets.You can get early and ad free access to this show and more here Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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  The Man Who Vanished from a Moving Bus 31.03.2026 23min

  On a snowy December night in 1949, 68-year-old James Tedford boarded a bus in Vermont, heading home to the Bennington Soldiers' Home. Fourteen passengers and the driver saw him sleeping peacefully in his seat at the last stop before Bennington. But when the bus pulled into the station, Tedford was gone—his luggage still in the rack, an open timetable on his empty seat. No one saw him leave. No one heard the door open. He had simply vanished.Three years earlier to the day, a college student had disappeared on a hiking trail in the same area. A year before that, an experienced hunting guide had vanished in the same mountains. This was the Bennington Triangle—a remote corner of Vermont where people seemed to slip out of reality itself.Skeptics point to conflicting witness accounts and sightings in nearby Brandon. They note Tedford's severe depression and his statement that he "never intended to return." But how does a man disappear from a bus full of witnesses? And why has no trace of him ever been found in seventy-five years?Did James Tedford walk into the wilderness in a moment of despair? Or did something far stranger claim him on that winter night in the mountains?Tonight, we explore the mystery of the man who vanished from a moving bus.You can get early and ad free access to this show and more here Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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  Student Vanishes, Wakes Up 700 Miles Away 15 Months Later With No Memory | Steven Kubacki 24.03.2026 21min

  In February 1978, Steven Kubacki (23) disappeared whilst cross-country skiing near Lake Michigan. His footprints led to the frozen lake's edge and stopped. Authorities concluded he'd drowned. Fifteen months later, on 5 May 1979, Steven woke up in a field in Pittsfield, Massachusetts—720 miles from where he vanished—wearing unfamiliar clothes with a backpack full of maps showing travel across multiple states. He had no memory of the missing time. Medical experts suggested dissociative fugue. Steven completed his degree, earned a Ph.D. in linguistics, became a psychologist, and has refused to discuss his disappearance for decades. The case remains one of America's most baffling unexplained reappearances. Lake Michigan Triangle connection explored.You can get early and ad free access to this show and more here Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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  Australian Family Flees Home in Shared Delusion | Tromp Family Mystery 2016 17.03.2026 22min

  In August 2016, the entire Tromp family—Mark (51), Jacoba (53), and their three adult children—fled their Victorian farm without phones, passports, or cards, convinced they were being hunted. Over five days, they drove 500 miles, split up one by one, stole cars, and were found across two states. One daughter was discovered catatonic in a truck bed. Police called it "the most bizarre case in 30 years." The family never explained what they feared. Full story of folie à plusieurs (shared psychosis) with crisis resources.You can get early and ad free access to this show and more here Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.