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Hello and welcome to True Crime Sleep Stories, where you can settle in with a good true crime tale while drifting off into a safe sleepy slumber. Sip on a cup of hot tea, grab a warm fleece blanket, or cozy up by the fire... just make sure you’re comfortable and ready for relaxation.
And now it’s time to get comfy… because I’m going to tell you a bedtime story.

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#97
Today · 24 min
97: The Borley Rectory Hauntings | 31 Nights of Frights on True Crime Sleep Stories
Welcome back to 31 Nights of Frights on True Crime Sleep Stories. Tonight's episode is about the Borley Rectory, and it is a ghost story with a dash of possible true crime. If you grew up reading old ghost books like I did, Borley was always in there, usually with that grainy photo of the big brick house and a caption calling it the most haunted house in England. What I love about this case is that the more you read, the less it's about a ghost and the more it's about people. You've got a Victorian minister with fourteen kids. You've got his son, who apparently loved telling the story. You've got a new minister and his wife who just wanted a job and ended up with reporters camped on their lawn. And then you've got Lionel and Marianne Foyster, which honestly could be its own episode. A sick older husband writing down every bump in the night, and a young wife who, it turns out, had a whole second life no one knew about. And of course there's Harry Price. Harry is really my favorite sort of story character, and he makes me forget that this is actually a TRUE story, not fiction. Patreon Exclusive: Ad-free version & bonus content available now for supporters. Your support keeps the stories coming... thank you! 💤 Listen & Connect • Watch on YouTube: youtube.com/@SleepyTimeCreepyTime • Listen on Apple Podcasts | Spotify Stay in Touch Facebook Instagram: @truecrimesleepstories | @kellibrink TikTok: @truecrimesleepstories Buy the True Crime Sleep Stories Books by Kelli Brink Vol. 1: amzn.to/3Z8jx5L Vol. 2: amzn.to/4kAthhj Vol. 3: amzn.to/3H9xfPQ Support the show on Patreon True Crime Sleep Stories is hosted and created by Kelli Brink, produced with the support of our dedicated team. Subscribe, rate, and review us on your favorite podcast platform to help us keep telling these haunting tales. Visit patreon.com/kellibrink for exclusive content and to join our community. Thank you for listening, and we'll meet you in the shadows next time. Until then, stay safe out there, and lock your doors. 🌑 Goodnight. #TrueCrimePodcast #SleepStories #UnsolvedMysteries
#96
Yesterday · 25 min
96: The Devil's Footprints | 31 Nights of Frights on True Crime Sleep Stories
Welcome to another night of 31 Nights of Frights on True Crime Sleep Stories. On the night of February 8, 1855, snow fell over the villages along the River Exe in South Devon, England. The next morning, people in Topsham, Lympstone, Exmouth, Woodbury, Starcross, Dawlish, and Teignmouth found a line of small hoof-shaped prints in the snow. They came in a single file, about eight and a half inches apart. They went up to doors, over tall walls, across rooftops, over haystacks, and through a drainpipe. They showed up on both sides of a two-mile-wide estuary. Tonight we follow those tracks through the frightened villages, into the pages of The Times and the Illustrated London News, and into the sermons and notes of two local vicars, the Reverend G. M. Musgrave and the Reverend Henry Thomas Ellacombe. Then we look at the explanations people have offered ever since, from badgers and wood mice to a runaway balloon from the Devonport dockyard. Was it the Devil? Or something more benign? Patreon Exclusive: Ad-free version & bonus content available now for supporters. Your support keeps the stories coming... thank you! 💤 Listen & Connect • Watch on YouTube: youtube.com/@SleepyTimeCreepyTime • Listen on Apple Podcasts | Spotify Stay in Touch Facebook Instagram: @truecrimesleepstories | @kellibrink TikTok: @truecrimesleepstories Buy the True Crime Sleep Stories Books by Kelli Brink Vol. 1: amzn.to/3Z8jx5L Vol. 2: amzn.to/4kAthhj Vol. 3: amzn.to/3H9xfPQ Support the show on Patreon True Crime Sleep Stories is hosted and created by Kelli Brink, produced with the support of our dedicated team. Subscribe, rate, and review us on your favorite podcast platform to help us keep telling these haunting tales. Visit patreon.com/kellibrink for exclusive content and to join our community. Thank you for listening, and we'll meet you in the shadows next time. Until then, stay safe out there, and lock your doors. 🌑 Goodnight. #TrueCrimePodcast #SleepStories #UnsolvedMysteries
#95
Monday · 28 min
95: The Disappearance of Judge Crater | 31 Nights of Frights on True Crime Sleep Stories
Welcome to 31 Nights of Frights on True Crime Sleep Stories... On August 6, 1930, New York Supreme Court Justice Joseph Force Crater disappeared after dinner at a West 45th Street chophouse in Manhattan. He had returned from Maine earlier that week, spent the morning with files in his chambers, cashed checks for more than $5,000, and arranged a theater ticket before meeting two companions. No confirmed sighting exists after he left the restaurant. A later grand jury found the evidence insufficient to determine whether he had left of his own accord, suffered amnesia, or been the victim of a crime. His wife Stella later discovered a will, cash, and a short note in their apartment; the police closed the missing-person file in 1979 with no remains identified. This episode recounts the known sequence of events and leaves the rest open. Patreon Exclusive: Ad-free version & bonus content available now for supporters. Your support keeps the stories coming... thank you! 💤 Listen & Connect • Watch on YouTube: youtube.com/@SleepyTimeCreepyTime • Listen on Apple Podcasts | Spotify Stay in Touch Facebook Instagram: @truecrimesleepstories | @kellibrink TikTok: @truecrimesleepstories Buy the True Crime Sleep Stories Books by Kelli Brink Vol. 1: amzn.to/3Z8jx5L Vol. 2: amzn.to/4kAthhj Vol. 3: amzn.to/3H9xfPQ Support the show on Patreon True Crime Sleep Stories is hosted and created by Kelli Brink, produced with the support of our dedicated team. Subscribe, rate, and review us on your favorite podcast platform to help us keep telling these haunting tales. Visit patreon.com/kellibrink for exclusive content and to join our community. Thank you for listening, and we'll meet you in the shadows next time. Until then, stay safe out there, and lock your doors. 🌑 Goodnight. #TrueCrimePodcast #SleepStories #UnsolvedMysteries
#94
Sunday · 15 min
94: The Death of Jeannette DePalma, Revisited | 31 Nights of Frights on True Crime Sleep Stories
Tonight’s episode is one of the oldest on the show, from back when True Crime Sleep Stories was still new and I was often recording on my cell phone. Most of you never heard the original, so for 31 Nights of Frights it felt like the right time to tell it again. This is the 1972 case of 16-year-old Jeannette DePalma, who vanished from Springfield, New Jersey, and was found six weeks later on a cliff the locals called the Devil’s Teeth. Almost at once, the rumors turned to witchcraft. Thank you for sticking with me over the years. The room is a lot fuller now than it was when this one first went out, and I'm glad you're here. Settle in. Get cozy. And I'll see you tomorrow night for a longer story. Patreon Exclusive: Ad-free version & bonus content available now for supporters. Your support keeps the stories coming... thank you! 💤 Listen & Connect • Watch on YouTube: youtube.com/@SleepyTimeCreepyTime • Listen on Apple Podcasts | Spotify Stay in Touch Facebook Instagram: @truecrimesleepstories | @kellibrink TikTok: @truecrimesleepstories Buy the True Crime Sleep Stories Books by Kelli Brink Vol. 1: amzn.to/3Z8jx5L Vol. 2: amzn.to/4kAthhj Vol. 3: amzn.to/3H9xfPQ Support the show on Patreon True Crime Sleep Stories is hosted and created by Kelli Brink, produced with the support of our dedicated team. Subscribe, rate, and review us on your favorite podcast platform to help us keep telling these haunting tales. Visit patreon.com/kellibrink for exclusive content and to join our community. Thank you for listening, and we'll meet you in the shadows next time. Until then, stay safe out there, and lock your doors. 🌑 Goodnight. #TrueCrimePodcast #SleepStories #UnsolvedMysteries
#93
Saturday · 12 min
93: Lenox College & Haunted Hopkinton Part 1 | 31 Nights of Frights on True Crime Sleep Stories
Welcome back to 31 Nights of Frights on True Crime Sleep Stories. This weekend I’ll be walking the halls of Lenox College in Hopkinton, Iowa, after dark. Not alone. Joining me are several true crime podcasters crossing over for a paranormal investigation: Justin from Generation Why, Lauren and Ken from Paradise After Dark and the Florida Themis Project. Lauren and I have done this before. We spent a night inside the Villisca axe murder house. This one is different. No known victim. Just a school that ran out of students, and a few stories that never quite left. This is part 1. I’ll be back with a full report of my thoughts on the hauntings after the expedition. :-) Until next time, sleep well. Thank you for your support! Patreon Exclusive: Ad-free version & bonus content available now for supporters. Your support keeps the stories coming... thank you! 💤 Listen & Connect • Watch on YouTube: youtube.com/@SleepyTimeCreepyTime • Listen on Apple Podcasts | Spotify Stay in Touch Facebook Instagram: @truecrimesleepstories | @kellibrink TikTok: @truecrimesleepstories Buy the True Crime Sleep Stories Books by Kelli Brink Vol. 1: amzn.to/3Z8jx5L Vol. 2: amzn.to/4kAthhj Vol. 3: amzn.to/3H9xfPQ Support the show on Patreon True Crime Sleep Stories is hosted and created by Kelli Brink, produced with the support of our dedicated team. Subscribe, rate, and review us on your favorite podcast platform to help us keep telling these haunting tales. Visit patreon.com/kellibrink for exclusive content and to join our community. Thank you for listening, and we'll meet you in the shadows next time. Until then, stay safe out there, and lock your doors. 🌑 Goodnight. #TrueCrimePodcast #SleepStories #UnsolvedMysteries
#92
Friday · 14 min
92: The Boy in the Box | 31 Nights of Frights on True Crime Sleep Stories
Welcome to 31 Nights of Frights on True Crime Sleep Stories. In the late winter of 1957, Fox Chase was a quiet corner of northeast Philadelphia, all rowhouses, corner stores, and rough fields at the edge of town. In February, in a brushy field off Susquehanna Road, a little boy was found wrapped in a flannel blanket inside a cardboard box that had once held a department-store bassinet. No one came forward to claim him. Tonight's episode follows the long, patient effort to give that child back his name: fingerprints checked against birth records, hundreds of thousands of flyers mailed with gas bills, a box traced to a JCPenney store, and a medical examiner's investigator, Remington Bristow, who carried the case for more than thirty years. We'll come to December 2022, when DNA and genetic genealogy finally named him: Joseph Augustus Zarelli, four years old. Patreon Exclusive: Ad-free version & bonus content available now for supporters. Your support keeps the stories coming... thank you! 💤 Listen & Connect • Watch on YouTube: youtube.com/@SleepyTimeCreepyTime • Listen on Apple Podcasts | Spotify Stay in Touch Facebook Instagram: @truecrimesleepstories | @kellibrink TikTok: @truecrimesleepstories Buy the True Crime Sleep Stories Books by Kelli Brink Vol. 1: amzn.to/3Z8jx5L Vol. 2: amzn.to/4kAthhj Vol. 3: amzn.to/3H9xfPQ Support the show on Patreon True Crime Sleep Stories is hosted and created by Kelli Brink, produced with the support of our dedicated team. Subscribe, rate, and review us on your favorite podcast platform to help us keep telling these haunting tales. Visit patreon.com/kellibrink for exclusive content and to join our community. Thank you for listening, and we'll meet you in the shadows next time. Until then, stay safe out there, and lock your doors. 🌑 Goodnight. #TrueCrimePodcast #SleepStories #UnsolvedMysteries #TheBoyInTheBox
#91
Thursday · 13 min
91: Listener Stories | 31 Nights of Frights on True Crime Sleep Stories
Welcome to 31 Nights of Frights on True Crime Sleep Stories. Tonight, three listener letters. A childhood house. A gas station after midnight. A rental where a staircase was not supposed to be used. Denise, winter of 1994, outside Moline. A mushroom nightlight. Her sister’s red parka on the hook. A sleeve that lifted like a wave. Marcus, 2011, Highway 218. A Kum & Go. A tan Taurus with a trash bag taped over the back window. A plate number on a receipt, and a deputy who could only say it came back to Keokuk. Lori, summer of 2006, 4th Street in Dubuque. Four screws, painted over. A strip of blue tape that never broke. A carpenter’s pencil she did not own. If you have a story like this, a house, a road, a night you still cannot explain, write to me at: truecrimesleepstories@gmail.com. You can stay anonymous if you’d like. Patreon friends, the ad-free version of tonight is already waiting for you. That support is how these stories keep coming. Until tomorrow night... Lock your doors. Sleep well. Goodnight. Patreon Exclusive: Ad-free version & bonus content available now for supporters. Your support keeps the stories coming... thank you! 💤 Listen & Connect • Watch on YouTube: youtube.com/@SleepyTimeCreepyTime • Listen on Apple Podcasts | Spotify Stay in Touch Facebook Instagram: @truecrimesleepstories | @kellibrink TikTok: @truecrimesleepstories Buy the True Crime Sleep Stories Books by Kelli Brink Vol. 1: amzn.to/3Z8jx5L Vol. 2: amzn.to/4kAthhj Vol. 3: amzn.to/3H9xfPQ Support the show on Patreon True Crime Sleep Stories is hosted and created by Kelli Brink, produced with the support of our dedicated team. Subscribe, rate, and review us on your favorite podcast platform to help us keep telling these haunting tales. Visit patreon.com/kellibrink for exclusive content and to join our community. Thank you for listening, and we'll meet you in the shadows next time. Until then, stay safe out there, and lock your doors. 🌑 Goodnight. #TrueCrimePodcast #SleepStories #UnsolvedMysteries
#90
October 7 · 30 min
90: Lizzie Borden & the House on Second Street | 31 Nights of Frights on True Crime Sleep Stories
Welcome to another night of 31 Nights of Frights on True Crime Sleep Stories... "Lizzie Borden took an axe, And gave her mother forty whacks. When she saw what she had done, She gave her father forty-one." The kids jump-rope rhyme got almost everything wrong. It was not an axe, it was not her mother, and the forty whacks were made up to fit the beat. Lizzie Borden was tried and acquitted in 1893. Nobody else was ever charged. More than 130 years later, the murders of Andrew and Abby Borden are still unsolved, a case that went cold because 1892 had no tools to close it. Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story, the 4th Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan Monster season, premiered on Netflix on September 17, 2026, and does what that series did with Dahmer, the Menendez brothers, and Ed Gein... it fills the blank morning with plot and calls it the story. This episode does not. We walk the house on Second Street, mark the rumor when we meet it, and leave the verdict where the jury left it. Thank you for being here. If this one kept you company, the next one will be waiting in the shadows. Patreon Exclusive: Ad-free version & bonus content available now for supporters. Your support keeps the stories coming... thank you! 💤 Listen & Connect • Watch on YouTube: youtube.com/@SleepyTimeCreepyTime • Listen on Apple Podcasts | Spotify Stay in Touch Facebook Instagram: @truecrimesleepstories | @kellibrink TikTok: @truecrimesleepstories Buy the True Crime Sleep Stories Books by Kelli Brink Vol. 1: amzn.to/3Z8jx5L Vol. 2: amzn.to/4kAthhj Vol. 3: amzn.to/3H9xfPQ Support the show on Patreon True Crime Sleep Stories is hosted and created by Kelli Brink, produced with the support of our dedicated team. Subscribe, rate, and review us on your favorite podcast platform to help us keep telling these haunting tales. Visit patreon.com/kellibrink for exclusive content and to join our community. Thank you for listening, and we'll meet you in the shadows next time. Until then, stay safe out there, and lock your doors. 🌑 Goodnight. #TrueCrimePodcast #SleepStories #UnsolvedMysteries #LizzieBorden
#89
October 6 · 18 min
89: HH Holmes & The World's Fair Hotel | True Crime Sleep Stories
Welcome back to “31 Nights of Frights” on True Crime Sleep Stories. Tonight we go to Chicago in the 1890s, when the World's Columbian Exposition was filling the city with light and crowds, and a block of brick and glass on Sixty-Third Street in Englewood was being run by a man who called himself H.H. Holmes. You have probably heard the tourist version. Trapdoors. Soundproof rooms. Acid vats. Hundreds of fair visitors who checked in and never checked out. Some of that story is so familiar it feels like fact. A lot of it is not. What the record supports is quieter and, in its way, worse. Patreon Exclusive: Ad-free version & bonus content available now for supporters. Your support keeps the stories coming... thank you! 💤 Listen & Connect • Watch on YouTube: youtube.com/@SleepyTimeCreepyTime • Listen on Apple Podcasts | Spotify Stay in Touch Facebook Instagram: @truecrimesleepstories | @kellibrink TikTok: @truecrimesleepstories Buy the True Crime Sleep Stories Books by Kelli Brink Vol. 1: amzn.to/3Z8jx5L Vol. 2: amzn.to/4kAthhj Vol. 3: amzn.to/3H9xfPQ Support the show on Patreon True Crime Sleep Stories is hosted and created by Kelli Brink, produced with the support of our dedicated team. Subscribe, rate, and review us on your favorite podcast platform to help us keep telling these haunting tales. Visit patreon.com/kellibrink for exclusive content and to join our community. Thank you for listening, and we'll meet you in the shadows next time. Until then, stay safe out there, and lock your doors. 🌑 Goodnight. #TrueCrimePodcast #SleepStories #UnsolvedMysteries #HHHolmes
#88
October 5 · 28 min
88: The Disappearance of Joan Risch | 31 Nights of Frights on True Crime Sleep Stories
Lincoln, Massachusetts. October 24, 1961. Joan Risch, 31, spends an ordinary Tuesday morning with her two small children while her husband is on an overnight business trip to New York. A dentist visit. Lunch, a nap, a little pruning in the yard. Around 2:15 a neighbor sees her moving quickly up the driveway in a trench coat, carrying something red. It is the last confirmed sighting. By late afternoon the children are home alone. The kitchen is overturned. A trail of blood leads to the car and stops. Nothing is stolen. The mail is still in the box. Joan had lost both parents in a house fire at 8 years old. She had been an editorial assistant in New York before marriage. In the months before she vanished, her library card showed a run of books about murders and missing people. Sightings were reported along Route 2A and Route 128. None were confirmed. Middlesex case 61-2623 has never been closed. Patreon Exclusive: Ad-free version & bonus content available now for supporters. Your support keeps the stories coming... thank you! 💤 Listen & Connect • Watch on YouTube: youtube.com/@SleepyTimeCreepyTime • Listen on Apple Podcasts | Spotify Stay in Touch Facebook Instagram: @truecrimesleepstories | @kellibrink TikTok: @truecrimesleepstories Buy the True Crime Sleep Stories Books by Kelli Brink Vol. 1: amzn.to/3Z8jx5L Vol. 2: amzn.to/4kAthhj Vol. 3: amzn.to/3H9xfPQ Support the show on Patreon True Crime Sleep Stories is hosted and created by Kelli Brink, produced with the support of our dedicated team. Subscribe, rate, and review us on your favorite podcast platform to help us keep telling these haunting tales. Visit patreon.com/kellibrink for exclusive content and to join our community. Thank you for listening, and we'll meet you in the shadows next time. Until then, stay safe out there, and lock your doors. 🌑 Goodnight. #TrueCrimePodcast #SleepStories #UnsolvedMysteries #TrueCrimeForSleep
#87
October 4 · 17 min
87: Shari's Scary Stories | 31 Nights of Frights on True Crime Sleep Stories
Welcome to 31 Nights of Frights on True Crime Sleep Stories. :-) Tonight Kelli reads 2 stories from a listener & friend of the show, Shari. A little girl in a doorway, a handprint on the inside of a car window, and a road her brother never took. Then a rental house, a growling cat, and a voice on the basement stairs that said "run". Thank you for being here. Sleep well. Patreon Exclusive: Ad-free version & bonus content available now for supporters. Your support keeps the stories coming... thank you! 💤 Listen & Connect • Watch on YouTube: youtube.com/@SleepyTimeCreepyTime • Listen on Apple Podcasts | Spotify Stay in Touch Facebook Instagram: @truecrimesleepstories | @kellibrink TikTok: @truecrimesleepstories Buy the True Crime Sleep Stories Books by Kelli Brink Vol. 1: amzn.to/3Z8jx5L Vol. 2: amzn.to/4kAthhj Vol. 3: amzn.to/3H9xfPQ Support the show on Patreon True Crime Sleep Stories is hosted and created by Kelli Brink, produced with the support of our dedicated team. Subscribe, rate, and review us on your favorite podcast platform to help us keep telling these haunting tales. Visit patreon.com/kellibrink for exclusive content and to join our community. Thank you for listening, and we'll meet you in the shadows next time. Until then, stay safe out there, and lock your doors. 🌑 Goodnight. #TrueCrimePodcast #SleepStories #UnsolvedMysteries #TrueCrimeForSleep
#86
October 3 · 31 min
86: The Freeway Phantom | 31 Nights of Frights on True Crime Sleep Stories
Welcome to 31 Nights of Frights on True Crime Sleep Stories. In 1971 and 1972, six young Black girls and young women were killed in and around Washington, D.C. Their bodies were found along freeways in the District and Prince George’s County. The killer was never caught. The case is still open. Carol Spinks, Darlenia Johnson, Brenda Crockett, Nenomoshia Yates, Brenda Woodard, and Diane Williams. The youngest was ten. The oldest was eighteen. Content note: child victims, kidnapping, sexual assault, and strangulation. Details are not described. Thank you for being here. Sleep well. Patreon Exclusive: Ad-free version & bonus content available now for supporters. Your support keeps the stories coming... thank you! 💤 Listen & Connect • Watch on YouTube: youtube.com/@SleepyTimeCreepyTime • Listen on Apple Podcasts | Spotify Stay in Touch Facebook Instagram: @truecrimesleepstories | @kellibrink TikTok: @truecrimesleepstories Buy the True Crime Sleep Stories Books by Kelli Brink Vol. 1: amzn.to/3Z8jx5L Vol. 2: amzn.to/4kAthhj Vol. 3: amzn.to/3H9xfPQ Support the show on Patreon True Crime Sleep Stories is hosted and created by Kelli Brink, produced with the support of our dedicated team. Subscribe, rate, and review us on your favorite podcast platform to help us keep telling these haunting tales. Visit patreon.com/kellibrink for exclusive content and to join our community. Thank you for listening, and we'll meet you in the shadows next time. Until then, stay safe out there, and lock your doors. 🌑 Goodnight. #TrueCrimePodcast #SleepStories #UnsolvedMysteries #TrueCrimeForSleep
#85
October 2 · 22 min
85: John's Letter: The Haunted House on 7th Street | 31 Nights of Frights on True Crime Sleep Stories
Good evening, dear listeners. A listener wrote to me and asked for his story to be featured on our October "31 Nights of Frights" series on True Crime Sleep Stories. He asked to be called John. That's not his real name. What he sent was a family story they've been telling for 30 years. They still call the place their old haunted house. One night after a party, he woke to footsteps in the hall. Water running. A toilet flush. Someone walking back to the other bedroom. Nobody was there. If you have a story like this... a house, a hallway, a night you still cannot explain... you can write to me. You can stay anonymous if you'd like. ;-) We would love to read it in October on 31 Nights of Frights. Thank you for being here. Sleep well. Patreon Exclusive: Ad-free version & bonus content available now for supporters. Your support keeps the stories coming... thank you! 💤 Listen & Connect • Watch on YouTube: youtube.com/@SleepyTimeCreepyTime • Listen on Apple Podcasts | Spotify Stay in Touch Facebook Instagram: @truecrimesleepstories | @kellibrink TikTok: @truecrimesleepstories Buy the True Crime Sleep Stories Books by Kelli Brink Vol. 1: amzn.to/3Z8jx5L Vol. 2: amzn.to/4kAthhj Vol. 3: amzn.to/3H9xfPQ Support the show on Patreon True Crime Sleep Stories is hosted and created by Kelli Brink, produced with the support of our dedicated team. Subscribe, rate, and review us on your favorite podcast platform to help us keep telling these haunting tales. Visit patreon.com/kellibrink for exclusive content and to join our community. Thank you for listening, and we'll meet you in the shadows next time. Until then, stay safe out there, and lock your doors. 🌑 Goodnight. #TrueCrimePodcast #SleepStories #UnsolvedMysteries #TrueCrimeForSleep
#83
October 1 · 19 min
83: The Captain & the Vanishing Boy | 31 Nights of Frights on True Crime Sleep Stories
Welcome to Night 1 of "31 Nights of Frights" on True Crime Sleep Stories, in honor of Spooky Season. My friend The Captain from True Crime Garage told me a weird & creepy story the other day, and I knew it belonged here. This is that story. You can also find it as a bonus episode on True Crime Garage’s Off The Record. Go follow them if you aren’t already! Sleep well, dear listener. Patreon Exclusive: Ad-free version & bonus content available now for supporters. Your support keeps the stories coming... thank you! 💤 Listen & Connect • Watch on YouTube: youtube.com/@SleepyTimeCreepyTime • Listen on Apple Podcasts | Spotify Stay in Touch Facebook Instagram: @truecrimesleepstories | @kellibrink TikTok: @truecrimesleepstories Buy the True Crime Sleep Stories Books by Kelli Brink Vol. 1: amzn.to/3Z8jx5L Vol. 2: amzn.to/4kAthhj Vol. 3: amzn.to/3H9xfPQ Support the show on Patreon True Crime Sleep Stories is hosted and created by Kelli Brink, produced with the support of our dedicated team. Subscribe, rate, and review us on your favorite podcast platform to help us keep telling these haunting tales. Visit patreon.com/kellibrink for exclusive content and to join our community. Thank you for listening, and we'll meet you in the shadows next time. Until then, stay safe out there, and lock your doors. 🌑 Goodnight. #TrueCrimePodcast #SleepStories #UnsolvedMysteries #TrueCrimeForSleep
#84
September 30 · 1 min
84: 31 Nights of Frights: Coming in October, on True Crime Sleep Stories
Welcome to True Crime Sleep Stories... October is coming... And this year, we're not waiting for Halloween. Starting October 1st, True Crime Sleep Stories will release a new episode every single night. 31 nights. 31 stories. True crime that still doesn’t sit right... Paranormal encounters that were never supposed to be shared... Nostalgic terrors from childhood bedrooms and back roads... The unexplained… the kind that follows you home... A few familiar voices will join us along the way. Personalities you already know. Guests who have their own stories to tell in the dark. If you have one that needs telling, a brush with something you still can’t explain, a house that never felt empty, a night you still think about, write to us: truecrimesleepstories@gmail.com This is also a great moment to support the show. For about the cost of a cup of coffee, Patrons receive every episode ad-free. That support is how these stories keep coming. We notice it. We appreciate it. Get ready. 31 Nights of Frights. Coming in October on True Crime Sleep Stories. Keep sending in those stories. Until next time… Lock your doors. See you soon. Goodnight. Sleep well, dear listener. Patreon Exclusive: Ad-free versions & bonus content available for supporters. Your support keeps the stories coming... thank you! 💤 Listen & Connect • Watch on YouTube: youtube.com/@SleepyTimeCreepyTime • Listen on Apple Podcasts | Spotify Stay in Touch Facebook Instagram: @truecrimesleepstories | @kellibrink TikTok: @truecrimesleepstories Buy the True Crime Sleep Stories Books by Kelli Brink Vol. 1: amzn.to/3Z8jx5L Vol. 2: amzn.to/4kAthhj Vol. 3: amzn.to/3H9xfPQ Support the show on Patreon True Crime Sleep Stories is hosted and created by Kelli Brink, produced with the support of our dedicated team. Subscribe, rate, and review us on your favorite podcast platform to help us keep telling these haunting tales. Visit patreon.com/kellibrink for exclusive content and to join our community. Thank you for listening, and we'll meet you in the shadows next time. Until then, stay safe out there, and lock your doors. 🌑 Goodnight. #TrueCrimePodcast #SleepStories #UnsolvedMysteries #TrueCrimeForSleep
#82
September 28 · 27 min
82: Belle Gunness & the Farm on McClung Road | True Crime Sleep Stories
Tonight we travel to northern Indiana in the spring of 1908. La Porte. A farm on McClung Road. A Norwegian widow named Belle Gunness lives there with three children. She keeps hogs. She writes letters. Neighbors see men come and go, trunks left behind, a life that looks busy and respectable enough... from the road. Then, a fire changed everything. Bodies, a trail of money, and a mystery that has never been totally put to rest. Sleep well, dear listener. Patreon Exclusive: Ad-free version & bonus content available now for supporters. Your support keeps the stories coming... thank you! 💤 Listen & Connect • Watch on YouTube: youtube.com/@SleepyTimeCreepyTime • Listen on Apple Podcasts | Spotify Stay in Touch Facebook Instagram: @truecrimesleepstories | @kellibrink TikTok: @truecrimesleepstories Buy the True Crime Sleep Stories Books by Kelli Brink Vol. 1: amzn.to/3Z8jx5L Vol. 2: amzn.to/4kAthhj Vol. 3: amzn.to/3H9xfPQ Support the show on Patreon True Crime Sleep Stories is hosted and created by Kelli Brink, produced with the support of our dedicated team. Subscribe, rate, and review us on your favorite podcast platform to help us keep telling these haunting tales. Visit patreon.com/kellibrink for exclusive content and to join our community. Thank you for listening, and we'll meet you in the shadows next time. Until then, stay safe out there, and lock your doors. 🌑 Goodnight. #TrueCrimePodcast #SleepStories #UnsolvedMysteries #TrueCrimeForSleep
#81
September 25 · 29 min
81: When The Nights Get Longer... | True Crime Sleep Stories
Tonight on True Crime Sleep Stories, 3 quiet disappearances for the soft start of spooky season. Tara Leigh Calico, 19, left home near Belen, New Mexico, on the morning of September 20, 1988, on her mother’s neon-pink Huffy. She told her mother, Patty Doel, to come get her if she was not back by noon. She never came home. Frieda Langer, 53, slipped into a stream near Somerset Reservoir in Vermont on October 28, 1950. She said she would take a shortcut back to the cabin to change. She did not arrive. Her remains were found the next May. Brandon Victor Swanson, 19, drove into a ditch after midnight on May 14, 2008, near rural Minnesota. He called his parents and walked toward lights he thought were a nearby town. After about 47 minutes, the line went quiet. He has never been found. Ordinary plans that did not finish... Thank you for listening. Goodnight. Patreon Exclusive: Ad-free version & bonus content available now for supporters. Your support keeps the stories coming... thank you! 💤 Listen & Connect • Watch on YouTube: youtube.com/@SleepyTimeCreepyTime • Listen on Apple Podcasts | Spotify Stay in Touch Facebook Instagram: @truecrimesleepstories | @kellibrink TikTok: @truecrimesleepstories Buy the True Crime Sleep Stories Books by Kelli Brink Vol. 1: amzn.to/3Z8jx5L Vol. 2: amzn.to/4kAthhj Vol. 3: amzn.to/3H9xfPQ Support the show on Patreon True Crime Sleep Stories is hosted and created by Kelli Brink, produced with the support of our dedicated team. Subscribe, rate, and review us on your favorite podcast platform to help us keep telling these haunting tales. Visit patreon.com/kellibrink for exclusive content and to join our community. Thank you for listening, and we'll meet you in the shadows next time. Until then, stay safe out there, and lock your doors. 🌑 Goodnight. #TrueCrimePodcast #SleepStories #UnsolvedMysteries #TrueCrimeForSleep
#80
September 18 · 23 min
80: A Handle Worn Smooth: Haunting Axe Murders | True Crime Sleep Stories
Tonight on True Crime Sleep Stories, we follow a tool (the axe) instead of a single town or a single crime. In the late 1800s & early 1900s, an axe hung in nearly every woodshed. It split kindling to keep the stove roaring. Because it already belonged to the house, it sometimes became the last object a household ever used. This episode visits Fall River in 1892, Colorado Springs in 1911, a Bavarian farm in 1922, and a few other haunting cases... Settle in and sleep well, if you can. Patreon Exclusive: Ad-free version & bonus content available now for supporters. Your support keeps the stories coming... thank you! 💤 Listen & Connect • Watch on YouTube: youtube.com/@SleepyTimeCreepyTime • Listen on Apple Podcasts | Spotify Stay in Touch Facebook Instagram: @truecrimesleepstories | @kellibrink TikTok: @truecrimesleepstories Buy the True Crime Sleep Stories Books by Kelli Brink Vol. 1: amzn.to/3Z8jx5L Vol. 2: amzn.to/4kAthhj Vol. 3: amzn.to/3H9xfPQ Support the show on Patreon True Crime Sleep Stories is hosted and created by Kelli Brink, produced with the support of our dedicated team. Subscribe, rate, and review us on your favorite podcast platform to help us keep telling these haunting tales. Visit patreon.com/kellibrink for exclusive content and to join our community. Thank you for listening, and we'll meet you in the shadows next time. Until then, stay safe out there, and lock your doors. 🌑 Goodnight. #TrueCrimePodcast #SleepStories #UnsolvedMysteries #TrueCrimeForSleep
#79
September 16 · 27 min
79: The Red Barn Murder | True Crime Sleep Stories
Tonight on True Crime Sleep Stories, a young woman leaves her father’s cottage on a May afternoon and does not come home. The last place she was seen was a barn on a Suffolk hill. Months of letters follow. Then, strange dreams plague her stepmother. Tonight we walk the lanes of Polstead... ponds, cherry blossoms, a molecatcher’s iron, and a meeting that became one of England’s most remembered crimes. Patreon Exclusive: Ad-free version & bonus content available now for supporters. Your support keeps the stories coming... thank you! 💤 Listen & Connect • Watch on YouTube: youtube.com/@SleepyTimeCreepyTime • Listen on Apple Podcasts | Spotify Stay in Touch Facebook Instagram: @truecrimesleepstories | @kellibrink TikTok: @truecrimesleepstories Buy the True Crime Sleep Stories Books by Kelli Brink Vol. 1: amzn.to/3Z8jx5L Vol. 2: amzn.to/4kAthhj Vol. 3: amzn.to/3H9xfPQ Support the show on Patreon True Crime Sleep Stories is hosted and created by Kelli Brink, produced with the support of our dedicated team. Subscribe, rate, and review us on your favorite podcast platform to help us keep telling these haunting tales. Visit patreon.com/kellibrink for exclusive content and to join our community. Thank you for listening, and we'll meet you in the shadows next time. Until then, stay safe out there, and lock your doors. 🌑 Goodnight. #TrueCrimePodcast #SleepStories #UnsolvedMysteries #TrueCrimeForSleep
#78
September 9 · 37 min
78: The Lady of the Dunes: The Woman Behind the Mystery | True Crime Sleep Stories
For nearly 50 years, the identity of a woman found murdered in the dunes of Provincetown, Massachusetts, remained a mystery. Known only as the “Lady of the Dunes,” investigators searched for decades to discover who she was, & who was responsible for her death. In 2022, advances in genetic genealogy finally gave her back her name: Ruth Marie Terry. Tonight, we explore Ruth’s life, the decades-long investigation, and the discovery that finally brought one of Cape Cod’s biggest mysteries to a close. Patreon Exclusive: Ad-free version & bonus content available now for supporters. Your support keeps the stories coming... thank you! 💤 Listen & Connect • Watch on YouTube: youtube.com/@SleepyTimeCreepyTime • Listen on Apple Podcasts | Spotify Stay in Touch Facebook Instagram: @truecrimesleepstories | @kellibrink TikTok: @truecrimesleepstories Buy the True Crime Sleep Stories Books by Kelli Brink Vol. 1: amzn.to/3Z8jx5L Vol. 2: amzn.to/4kAthhj Vol. 3: amzn.to/3H9xfPQ Support the show on Patreon True Crime Sleep Stories is hosted and created by Kelli Brink, produced with the support of our dedicated team. Subscribe, rate, and review us on your favorite podcast platform to help us keep telling these haunting tales. Visit patreon.com/kellibrink for exclusive content and to join our community. Thank you for listening, and we'll meet you in the shadows next time. Until then, stay safe out there, and lock your doors. 🌑 Goodnight. #TrueCrimePodcast #SleepStories #UnsolvedMysteries #TrueCrimeForSleep

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