Yore Town

Beard Laws Studio, Bleav

Yore Town Podcast is a true crime and dark history podcast uncovering
real small-town mysteries, forgotten crimes, unexplained events, and
buried history from places most people overlook.

Each episode delivers deep-dive storytelling into true crime cases,
unsolved disappearances, eerie local legends, historical cover-ups, and
strange but 100% real stories that actually happened. No clickbait. No
internet myths. Just well-researched, fact-checked episodes designed to
keep you listening until the very end.

From chilling murders and cold cases to strange historical moments and
unsettling mysteries, Yore Town Podcast blends true crime podcast
tension with immersive narrative storytelling. These are the kinds of
stories you’d expect to hear late at night—except they’re real, and they
happened closer to home than you think.

Perfect for fans of:

True crime podcasts

Dark history podcasts

Unsolved mysteries

Small-town crime stories

Long-form storytelling podcasts

If you’re searching for a true crime podcast with real research, a dark
history podcast, or a mystery podcast that focuses on small towns and
forgotten places, this is it.

Every town has a past.
Some of them don’t want to be found.

New episodes regularly on Spotify
Real people. Real places. Real stories.

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#177
Monday · 31 min
The Clymer Mine Disaster: 44 Men Went to Work and Never Came Home
On August 26, 1926, two explosions tore through the Clymer No. 1 coal mine in western Pennsylvania. Of the 57 men underground that afternoon, 44 would never come home. Rescue crews fought their way through smoke, wreckage and poisonous gas as families gathered outside waiting for news. Survivors crawled more than a mile through the darkness. Some families lost multiple loved ones. And by nightfall, a machine shop had been transformed into a temporary morgue. But one detail makes the Clymer Min
#176
August 17 · 27 min
Lake Nyos: The Night a Lake Killed 1,700 People
In 1986, a beautiful lake in Cameroon released an invisible cloud of carbon dioxide while nearby villages slept, killing roughly 1,700 people. Forty years later, the story of Lake Nyos remains one of the strangest and most terrifying natural disasters ever recorded.
#175
August 10 · 31 min
Owensboro and America’s Last Public Execution
Ninety years ago, thousands gathered in Owensboro, Kentucky to watch Rainey Bethea die in what became America’s last fully public execution. But was the infamous crowd really the bloodthirsty carnival history remembers, or did the national media turn Owensboro into something it wasn't?
#174
August 3 · 32 min
Philadelphia’s Bellevue Hotel Gave a Killer Its Name
In 1976, guests of Philadelphia’s Bellevue-Stratford Hotel began dying from a mysterious illness no doctor could identify. This is the true story of the deadly outbreak, the investigation that baffled the CDC, and the discovery that gave Legionnaires’ disease its name.
#173
July 27 · 34 min
The Ottawa, Illinois Radium Girls: The Story That Changed Worker Safety
Ottawa, Illinois looked like an ordinary Midwestern town, but behind its thriving watch industry was one of America's most disturbing workplace disasters. This week, we uncover the heartbreaking story of the women unknowingly exposed to radioactive paint and the fight that changed worker safety forever.
#172
July 20 · 37 min
New London: Why Gas Smells Like Rotten Eggs | Yore Town
New London: Why Gas Smells Like Rotten Eggs tells the true story behind the deadliest school disaster in American history. On March 18, 1937, nearly 300 students and teachers were killed when the London Consolidated School exploded without warning. There was no smell. No alarm. No chance to escape.
#171
July 13 · 32 min
Bath, Michigan: The First Explosion Wasn't the End
Bath, Michigan: The First Explosion Wasn't the End. The true crime history of the Bath School Disaster becomes even more disturbing after investigators uncover what really happened on May 18, 1927. Most people know the explosion. Almost nobody knows what happened next.
#170
July 6 · 30 min
Bath, Michigan: The Bomb Beneath the Children
Bath, Michigan: The Bomb Beneath the Children. The true crime history of the Bath School Disaster begins with an almost impossible fact: for months, children attended class directly above explosives hidden beneath their school.
#169
June 29 · 32 min
Buried Beneath the Perfect Suburb: The Love Canal Disaster
Love Canal: The American Dream That Poisoned America is one of the most shocking true crime history and environmental disaster stories in American history. What began as a quiet neighborhood in Niagara Falls, New York became one of the nation's darkest examples of government failure, buried toxic waste, and families fighting to save their children.
#168
June 22 · 33 min
Lily Dale's Secret: Why Thousands Still Seek the Dead | Yore Town
Lily Dale's Forgotten Mystery takes us to a tiny community in western New York where thousands of people still travel hoping to hear from loved ones who have died. This is the true crime history, spiritual history, and unsolved mystery of one of America's most unusual small towns.
#167
June 15 · 35 min
Dryden NY: Why Tragedy Kept Finding This Town | Yore Town
Dryden Mystery: Inside the Village of the Damned explores one of the most disturbing chapters in New York true crime history. For nearly a decade, the small town of Dryden, New York became the center of a string of murders, disappearances, suspicious deaths, and tragedies that left residents wondering if their community had somehow become cursed.
#166
June 8 · 32 min
Black Donnellys: The Family Nobody Would Save | Yore Town
Black Donnellys: The Family Nobody Would Save is the chilling true crime history of a family whose name became synonymous with fear, violence, and controversy in rural Ontario. This forgotten mystery explores how decades of feuds, rumors, and small-town resentment culminated in one of the most infamous acts of vigilante justice in Canadian history.
#165
June 1 · 32 min
Port Chatham: Why Did Everyone Leave? | Yore Town
Port Chatham: Why Did Everyone Leave? That's the question that has haunted this abandoned Alaskan settlement for decades. In this true crime history and unsolved mystery deep dive, we investigate the legend of the Nantiinaq, the mysterious creature some locals believed drove an entire town away.
#164
May 25 · 32 min
Ant Hill Kids Mystery: Canada’s Forgotten Nightmare | Yore Town Podcast
Deep in rural Quebec, the Burnt River Horror became one of the most disturbing true crime history cases Canada has ever seen. The Ant Hill Kids cult began as a peaceful back-to-the-land commune before transforming into a nightmare filled with manipulation, isolation, abuse, and horrifying amateur surgeries performed deep in the wilderness.
#163
May 18 · 33 min
Elisa Lam Mystery That Broke the Internet | Yore Town
The Elisa Lam mystery became one of the most disturbing true crime history cases the internet has ever seen. What began as a missing person case inside Los Angeles’ infamous Cecil Hotel quickly spiraled into an unsolved mystery filled with conspiracy theories, disturbing footage, internet obsession, and heartbreaking reality.
#162
May 11 · 27 min
Elisa Lam Mystery: What the Cecil Hotel Doesn’t Want Told | Yore Town
The Elisa Lam mystery is one of the most haunting unsolved mystery cases in modern true crime history—and it all leads back to a hotel with a past as dark as the story itself. In 2013, Elisa Lam vanished inside the infamous Cecil Hotel in Los Angeles, leaving behind an eerie elevator video that still confuses investigators and viewers to this day.
#161
May 4 · 28 min
Hydesville Crime They Don’t Talk About | Yore Town
Hydesville NY Mystery Explained | Yore Town dives into one of the most chilling pieces of true crime history tied to an unsolved mystery that blurred the line between belief and deception. This Hydesville, New York case didn’t just scare a small town—it reshaped how people across the country viewed death, the unknown, and what might be hiding in plain sight.
#160
April 27 · 32 min
Silent Twins: The Case They Still Can’t Explain | Yore Town
Silent Twins Mystery: A Deadly Pact | Yore Town explores one of the most disturbing true crime history cases ever documented—an unsolved mystery involving two sisters whose bond ended in death. The Silent Twins mystery remains one of the strangest small-town crime stories, where psychology, isolation, and obsession collide.
#159
April 20 · 33 min
Pearl Bryan's Head Was Never Found | The Crime That Haunts Indiana and Kentucky
Pearl Bryan The Missing Head Mystery is one of the most disturbing pieces of true crime history in small-town America. This unsolved mystery from 1896 still haunts investigators, historians, and anyone who dares to look deeper into what really happened.
#158
April 13 · 32 min
Camp Scott Murders They Could Have Stopped | Yore Town
Camp Scott Murders Explained | Yore Town Podcast dives into one of the most chilling unsolved mysteries in true crime history. The Camp Scott Murders remain a haunting example of small-town crime where warning signs were missed—and justice may have slipped away.

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