Mysteries at Bedtime

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Mysteries at Bedtime is a mystery podcast exploring the world's strangest unsolved mysteries, unexplained disappearances, UFO sightings, paranormal encounters, government secrets and bizarre historical events — told in a calm, captivating style for late-night listening. From the creator of the chart-topping Crime at Bedtime, each episode takes you deep into a fascinating true story of the strange and unexplained — from missing persons and mysterious disappearances to UFO encounters, paranormal events, strange historical mysteries and cases that continue to defy explanation . Each week, journalist and storyteller Jack Laurence guides you through the story in a relaxed, immersive style designed for listeners who love mysteries but also want something they can unwind to at the end of the day. So relax, take a minute, unwind and let me tell you a fascinating story. Mysteries at Bedtime is created and hosted by Australian podcaster Jack Laurence. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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  1. 4d ago

    Ninety Flashes in the Dark: The Disappearance of Kris Kremers and Lisanne Froon

    The disappearance of Kris Kremers and Lisanne Froon in April 2014 is one of the most haunting and hotly debated mysteries of the modern age, and more than a decade later, no one agrees on what really happened. The two young Dutch women, best friends near the end of the trip of a lifetime, set out on a popular jungle trail near Boquete, Panama, on a bright afternoon. They photographed themselves smiling at the foot of the trail at 11 in the morning. They never came back. Six hours later, one of their phones dialled the emergency number. It did not connect, and for the next ten days the phones kept trying, again and again, and never once reached a soul. Then, one week in, in the dead of night, their camera took ninety photographs in near-total darkness: rocks, jungle, running water, and images no one has ever been able to fully explain. Ten weeks later, a backpack was found by a remote river, dry and neatly packed, far from where the two women should ever have been. In this episode of Mysteries at Bedtime, we tell the full story of Kris Kremers and Lisanne Froon: the ten days of calls into the void, the ninety flashes in the dark, the strange condition of the backpack and the remains, and the two competing explanations that still divide everyone who studies the case. Settle in, get comfortable, and let us tell you the story of the ninety flashes in the dark. You can get early and ad free access to this show and more here Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    Ninety Flashes in the Dark: The Disappearance of Kris Kremers and Lisanne Froon

  2. 5d ago • Subscribers Only

    The Man Who Walked Off Camera: The Disappearance of Steven Koecher

    The disappearance of Steven Koecher in December 2009 is one of the most quietly baffling vanishings of the modern age, and more than sixteen years later, not a single trace of him has ever been found. Steven Koecher was a devout and much-loved 30-year-old journalist from Utah who, in the days before he disappeared, made a series of long and secret road trips that he explained to no one. On a sunny Sunday two days before Christmas, he drove 135 miles to a retirement community in Henderson, Nevada, a place where he knew no one and had no reason on earth to be. A residential security camera caught him parking his car, getting out, and walking purposefully down a quiet suburban sidewalk with something tucked under his arm. He turned a corner, out of the camera's view, and was never seen again. His car sat for days, full of Christmas presents he never came back for, and in the days after he vanished, his phone pinged from a tower miles away. In this episode of Mysteries at Bedtime, we tell the full story of the disappearance of Steven Koecher: the secret drives, the last footage of a man walking off camera, the untouched Christmas gifts, the phone that moved without him, and a mystery so complete that every theory anyone has offered runs straight into a wall. Settle in, get comfortable, and let us tell you the story of the man who walked off camera.

  3. Sep 1

    The Mystery of Kaspar Hauser: The Boy Who Came From Nowhere

    The mystery of Kaspar Hauser has haunted Europe for nearly 200 years, and it began on a spring afternoon in 1828 when a bewildered teenage boy appeared in the streets of Nuremberg, barely able to speak. He carried two letters and a single strange request: he wanted to be a cavalryman, like his father. He could not use a candle without burning himself. He recoiled from meat and drank only water. And when he could finally tell his own story, it was almost unbelievable: he claimed to have spent his entire life imprisoned alone in a darkened cell, never seeing another human face. Kaspar Hauser became a sensation across Europe, and a theory soon took hold that he was a stolen prince, the true heir to a German throne, hidden away by a ruthless plot. Five years later he was stabbed to death in circumstances that have never been explained. In this episode of Mysteries at Bedtime, we tell the full story of Kaspar Hauser: the boy who came from nowhere, the letters that may have been forged in his own hand, the lost-prince theory, the mirror-writing note found beside his dying body, the question of whether he was murdered or died by his own hand, and the remarkable DNA analysis of 2024 that finally answered one question about him while leaving the deepest mystery exactly as it was. Settle in, get comfortable, and let us tell you the story of the riddle of his time. You can get early and ad free access to this show and more here Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    The Mystery of Kaspar Hauser: The Boy Who Came From Nowhere

  4. Aug 25

    The Unread Message: The Ciphers of the Zodiac Killer

    The Zodiac Killer ciphers are among the most famous unsolved codes in the world, and after more than fifty years, two of them have still never been cracked. Between 1969 and 1970, the unidentified serial killer who called himself the Zodiac sent four coded messages to San Francisco newspapers, each a block of strange symbols mixing letters, numbers, and astrological signs. He promised that his codes would reveal his identity. The first cipher, 408 characters long, was solved in about a week by a schoolteacher and his wife at their kitchen table, but it revealed only a chilling boast, not a name. The second, known as Z340, defeated the FBI, the NSA, and the world's best codebreakers for 51 years, until an international team of three amateurs finally cracked it in December 2020, one of them working through Melbourne's COVID lockdown on the far side of the world. And two ciphers remain unsolved to this day, including a 13-character message that the Zodiac introduced with the words "My name is". In this episode of Mysteries at Bedtime, we tell the full story of the Zodiac ciphers: how the codes worked, who solved them, why the last two may be impossible to crack, and the genuinely haunting possibility that the name of a killer who was never caught has been sitting in plain sight, printed on a newspaper page, for more than half a century, in a code that no one has ever been able to read. Settle in, get comfortable, and let us tell you the story of the unread message. You can get early and ad free access to this show and more here Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    The Unread Message: The Ciphers of the Zodiac Killer

  5. Aug 18

    The Solway Firth Spaceman: The 1964 Photograph No One Can Explain

    The Solway Firth Spaceman is one of the most famous unexplained photographs in British history, and after more than sixty years, people are still arguing about what it shows. On the afternoon of the 23rd of May 1964, a Carlisle firefighter named Jim Templeton took three photographs of his five-year-old daughter Elizabeth on Burgh Marsh, overlooking the Solway Firth in Cumberland, England. It was an ordinary family day out on an ordinary spring afternoon. But when the film came back from Kodak, the middle photograph showed something that should not have been there: a tall figure in what looked like a white spacesuit, standing silently in the empty marsh behind the little girl. Templeton swore no one had been there when he took the picture. The police examined it and found nothing suspicious. Kodak confirmed the negative had not been faked or tampered with. Within days, the photograph was in newspapers around the world. Then two strange men in dark suits arrived at Templeton's fire station, refused to give their names, and demanded he take them to the marsh. And on the far side of the world, at a rocket testing range in Australia, a launch was said to have been aborted after two similar figures were seen on the firing range. In this episode of Mysteries at Bedtime, we tell the full story of the Solway Firth Spaceman: the photograph, the family, the Men in Black, the Blue Streak missile connection, and the surprisingly persuasive explanation, offered nearly fifty years later, that may finally have solved it, or may only have deepened the mystery. Settle in, get comfortable, and let us tell you the story of the figure on the marsh. You can get early and ad free access to this show and more here Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    The Solway Firth Spaceman: The 1964 Photograph No One Can Explain

  6. Aug 11

    The Thing on the Hill: The Mothman of Point Pleasant

    Shortly after midnight on the morning of Tuesday the 15th of November 1966, in the small Ohio River town of Point Pleasant, West Virginia, in the county of Mason, two young married couples in a black 1957 Chevrolet drove out along State Route 62 to see what there was to see at the abandoned munitions plant seven miles north of town. The plant had been decommissioned since the end of the Second World War. It was known, to everyone in Mason County, as the TNT Area. It consisted of several hundred acres of overgrown vegetation, crumbling concrete storage bunkers, and an abandoned power plant building. The four young people in the car were Roger Scarberry and his wife Linda, and Steve Mallette and his wife Mary. Roger was driving. It was a Monday night rolling over into a Tuesday morning. They had been out. On the drive back into town, they had decided to take the long way home, past the TNT Area. As they approached the abandoned power plant building at approximately five minutes past midnight, their headlights fell on what appeared to be two red points of light standing beside the road. Roger slowed the car. The four of them looked out through the windscreen. The two red points of light, they realised as they got closer, were not lights. They were eyes. The eyes belonged to a figure that was standing perfectly still at the side of the road, watching them. The figure was, in Roger Scarberry's later description to police, shaped like a man, but bigger. Approximately six or seven feet tall. It was covered in a dark grey substance that might have been feathers, or might have been skin, or might have been something else entirely. Behind its back, folded, were what appeared to be a pair of very large wings. For a moment, the four young people in the car sat and looked at it. Then the figure moved. The story of the 13 months that followed, in which more than 100 people across Mason County reported sightings of the same creature. Of the extraordinary investigation conducted by American paranormal researcher John Keel. Of the disturbing dreams that spread through Point Pleasant in the autumn of 1967. And of the terrible event that occurred, in the darkness of the early evening of Friday the 15th of December 1967, exactly 13 months and one day after the first sighting, that killed 46 people and, in a strange coincidence that has never been explained, ended the Mothman sightings entirely. You can get early and ad free access to this show and more here Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    The Thing on the Hill: The Mothman of Point Pleasant

  7. Aug 4

    The Fishermen and the Craft: The Pascagoula Abduction

    At approximately 11 o'clock on the evening of Thursday the 11th of October 1973, two men walked into the Jackson County Sheriff's Office in the small Gulf Coast city of Pascagoula, Mississippi, and told the sheriff on duty that a few hours earlier, on the west bank of the Pascagoula River, they had been abducted by aliens. The older of the two men was Charles Hickson. He was 42 years old. He was a former military man. He was a shipyard fitter at the local Walker Shipyard. The younger was Calvin Parker. He was 19 years old. He was Hickson's co-worker. Neither of them, prior to that Thursday evening, had ever given a moment's thought to flying saucers. They had brought with them, to the sheriff's office, two catfish. They had, they explained, been fishing on the river when it happened. They had brought the catfish as evidence that the fishing part of their story, at least, was true. The sheriff, a man named Fred Diamond, listened to them describe a piercing sound in the air, blue lights on the water, an oval-shaped craft hovering silently at the edge of the river, and three creatures with grey folded skin, no visible eyes, and pincer-like claws for hands, who had paralysed them, floated them aboard the craft, and subjected them to a medical examination before returning them to the pier. Sheriff Diamond assumed, as any sheriff in Mississippi in 1973 would have assumed, that it was a hoax. He then, in the way that experienced law enforcement officers deal with suspected hoaxes, decided to test it. He put both men in an interview room. He ran a hidden tape recorder. He left them alone, expecting to catch them laughing. What he captured, on that tape, was two men, believing themselves to be unobserved, still absolutely terrified. Fifty-three years later, that tape has been recovered from a lost archive, listened to by researchers, and analysed alongside polygraph results, radiation testing, multiple corroborating witnesses, and the testimony of an American astronomer who had spent his career debunking UFO claims and who described this one, in careful language, as credible and deeply puzzling. The story of a night on the Pascagoula River in October 1973, of two ordinary men who reported an extraordinary experience, and of a mystery that has, in the 52 years since it happened, never been 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.

    The Fishermen and the Craft: The Pascagoula Abduction

  8. Jul 28

    Wow!: The Signal from Sagittarius

    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.

    Wow!: The Signal from Sagittarius
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Mysteries at Bedtime is a mystery podcast exploring the world's strangest unsolved mysteries, unexplained disappearances, UFO sightings, paranormal encounters, government secrets and bizarre historical events — told in a calm, captivating style for late-night listening. From the creator of the chart-topping Crime at Bedtime, each episode takes you deep into a fascinating true story of the strange and unexplained — from missing persons and mysterious disappearances to UFO encounters, paranormal events, strange historical mysteries and cases that continue to defy explanation . Each week, journalist and storyteller Jack Laurence guides you through the story in a relaxed, immersive style designed for listeners who love mysteries but also want something they can unwind to at the end of the day. So relax, take a minute, unwind and let me tell you a fascinating story. Mysteries at Bedtime is created and hosted by Australian podcaster Jack Laurence. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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