Tales From The Dark

Tales From The Dark
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Bringing you tales from the darker side of our strange world. Cryptids, Conspiracies, Paranormal and more. Deep dives from real world experiences and stories. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/tales-from-the-dark--5003311/support.

  1. The Philadelphia Experiment: The Navy's Invisible Ship Conspiracy

    1h ago

    The Philadelphia Experiment: The Navy's Invisible Ship Conspiracy

    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. Got a story of your own? Something unexplained? Something that still keeps you up at night? Send it to talesfromthedarkyt@gmail.com or message me directly at patreon.com/talesfromthedark. Your story could be next. 🔔We would love to see more of you! Head over to Facebook and join the Tales From The Dark group to keep up with up to date information and current investigations! 📌If you love the show and want to get more exclusive content, check out our Patreon at patreon.com/talesfromthedark ! Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/tales-from-the-dark--5003311/support.

    54 min
  2. Our Strange World With Mr E Files

    5d ago

    Our Strange World With Mr E Files

    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. Check Out His Content HERE Got a story of your own? Something unexplained? Something that still keeps you up at night? Send it to talesfromthedarkyt@gmail.com or message me directly at patreon.com/talesfromthedark. Your story could be next. 🔔We would love to see more of you! Head over to Facebook and join the Tales From The Dark group to keep up with up to date information and current investigations! 📌If you love the show and want to get more exclusive content, check out our Patreon at patreon.com/talesfromthedark ! Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/tales-from-the-dark--5003311/support.

    1 hr
  3. Devil's Gate: The Rocket Scientist and the Portal to Hell

    Jun 22

    Devil's Gate: The Rocket Scientist and the Portal to Hell

    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. Got a story of your own? Something unexplained? Something that still keeps you up at night? Send it to talesfromthedarkyt@gmail.com or message me directly at patreon.com/talesfromthedark. Your story could be next. 🔔We would love to see more of you! Head over to Facebook and join the Tales From The Dark group to keep up with up to date information and current investigations! 📌If you love the show and want to get more exclusive content, check out our Patreon at patreon.com/talesfromthedark ! Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/tales-from-the-dark--5003311/support.

    37 min
  4. The First Man in Black (Before Roswell)

    Jun 17

    The First Man in Black (Before Roswell)

    Weeks before Roswell, a log salvager named Harold Dahl watched six donut-shaped craft over Puget Sound and the next morning a stranger in a dark suit met him for breakfast and recited the whole thing back to him.  It's the case that may have birthed the Men in Black, killed two intelligence officers, and trailed a man who'd later be subpoenaed in the JFK investigation. Officially the dirtiest hoax in UFO history. Unofficially, nobody can quite close the lid. Maury Island, 1947. Got a story of your own? Something unexplained? Something that still keeps you up at night? Send it to talesfromthedarkyt@gmail.com or message me directly at patreon.com/talesfromthedark. Your story could be next. 🔔We would love to see more of you! Head over to Facebook and join the Tales From The Dark group to keep up with up to date information and current investigations! 📌If you love the show and want to get more exclusive content, check out our Patreon at patreon.com/talesfromthedark ! Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/tales-from-the-dark--5003311/support.

    43 min
  5. Bohemian Grove: Aliens, the Atom Bomb, and the Most Powerful Men on Earth

    Jun 12

    Bohemian Grove: Aliens, the Atom Bomb, and the Most Powerful Men on Earth

    Every July, the most powerful men in America disappear into a private redwood forest called Bohemian Grove and burn an effigy at the foot of a forty-foot owl. We separate what's documented from what got invented: the real 1942 Manhattan Project meeting held in those woods, the Cremation of Care ritual, Philip Weiss's week undercover inside the camp, Alex Jones's hidden-camera footage and the man it sent in with a rifle, and how the UFO angle, the owls, and the Rockefeller disclosure files got bolted on. No verdict. Just the file. Got a story of your own? Something unexplained? Something that still keeps you up at night? Send it to talesfromthedarkyt@gmail.com or message me directly at patreon.com/talesfromthedark. Your story could be next. 🔔We would love to see more of you! Head over to Facebook and join the Tales From The Dark group to keep up with up to date information and current investigations! 📌If you love the show and want to get more exclusive content, check out our Patreon at patreon.com/talesfromthedark ! Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/tales-from-the-dark--5003311/support.

    43 min
  6. Ghost Lights

    Jun 5

    Ghost Lights

    Four ghost lights. One dead railroad man who somehow haunts four different states.  We drive out to the Dover Lights and the Gurdon Light here in Arkansas, the famous Brown Mountain Lights of North Carolina, and the Ghost Road of Saratoga in the Texas Big Thicket — and follow the facts, from a 1922 government geologist who called his shot in the dark to the real 1931 murder buried under a "headless brakeman" legend. Got a story of your own? Something unexplained? Something that still keeps you up at night? Send it to talesfromthedarkyt@gmail.com or message me directly at patreon.com/talesfromthedark. Your story could be next. 🔔We would love to see more of you! Head over to Facebook and join the Tales From The Dark group to keep up with up to date information and current investigations! 📌If you love the show and want to get more exclusive content, check out our Patreon at patreon.com/talesfromthedark ! Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/tales-from-the-dark--5003311/support.

    52 min
  7. What's Your Emergency? Real 911 Calls No One Can Explain

    May 26

    What's Your Emergency? Real 911 Calls No One Can Explain

    Documented 911 calls with no clean explanation — built from released call audio, sheriff's reports, FOIA records, and radar logs. A Bigfoot on the line. A UFO a meteorologist tracked himself. A call placed from an empty funeral home at three in the morning. And two voices, a vanished man and a missing child, whose last words are on tape. The dispatcher couldn't tell a crank from a crisis from something real. Neither can we. Got a story of your own? Something unexplained? Something that still keeps you up at night? Send it to talesfromthedarkyt@gmail.com or message me directly at patreon.com/talesfromthedark. Your story could be next. 🔔We would love to see more of you! Head over to Facebook and join the Tales From The Dark group to keep up with up to date information and current investigations! 📌If you love the show and want to get more exclusive content, check out our Patreon at patreon.com/talesfromthedark ! Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/tales-from-the-dark--5003311/support.

    58 min
  8. YOUR Tales From The Dark Volume: III

    May 21

    YOUR Tales From The Dark Volume: III

    Three more listener-submitted accounts from across North America, told the way they deserve to be told. A haunted property with music boxes buried in the woods, a Canadian family who fought off a smiling shadow figure during a pregnancy, two hunters in the Virginia Appalachians who heard something they couldn't explain and more. These aren't my stories. They're yours. Got a story of your own? Something unexplained? Something that still keeps you up at night? Send it to talesfromthedarkyt@gmail.com or message me directly at patreon.com/talesfromthedark. Your story could be next. 🔔We would love to see more of you! Head over to Facebook and join the Tales From The Dark group to keep up with up to date information and current investigations! 📌If you love the show and want to get more exclusive content, check out our Patreon at patreon.com/talesfromthedark ! Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/tales-from-the-dark--5003311/support.

    40 min
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Bringing you tales from the darker side of our strange world. Cryptids, Conspiracies, Paranormal and more. Deep dives from real world experiences and stories. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/tales-from-the-dark--5003311/support.

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  • Creator
    Tales From The Dark
  • Years Active
    2020 - 2026
  • Episodes
    256
  • Rating
    Explicit
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    © Copyright Tales From The Dark
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