Ghost Stories For The End Of The World
An occult history of post-war politics, deep state intrigue, true crime, and the spooks, gangsters, politicians and outright monsters who've shaped our unnerving reality.
Episodes
VATICAN SHADOWS BOOK 1: Opus Dei iii - Ireland
I'm joined by independent researcher and unlicensed Irish PI Ryan to discuss the Catholic Church in Ireland, the arrival of Opus Dei, and a bizarre ritualistic murder that took place in 1973.  TEASER - TO UNLOCK THE FULL SHOW SUBSCRIBE HER…
VATICAN SHADOWS BOOK 1: Opus Dei part ii
We explore the origins of the Vatican-CIA alliance and Josemaria's arrival in Rome. While Opus Dei consolidates its power in Spain and reaches an uneasy accommodation with Vatican II, it begins a major expansion into the new world, collecti…
98 - VATICAN SHADOWS BOOK 1: Opus Dei i
You don't make up for your sins in church. You do it in the streets. You do it at home. The rest is bullshit, and you know it.  **SUPPORT THE SHOW HERE** https://www.patreon.com/c/GhostStoriesForTheEnd  SHOW SOUNDTRACKS AVAILABLE HERE: ht…
It's time for church
Proxima hebdomade, seriem incipimus nos reversuros esse ut per annum proximum vel sic intermittant. Ecclesia catholica. De Deo loquor. De diabolo loquor. De Caelo, Inferno, et de ultimis diebus loquor. Nemo mea opera iudicet nisi Pater.  P…
97 - These Dreams of Menwith Hill
We’re setting the table for the year ahead in Ghost Stories, and to do so we’ll be following a number of threads that may or may not have much to do with each other. Key to this one is the UK’s relationship with the US, which we use to expl…
BOOKS OF WAR 4: Belle Époque
People try to be the king but the ace is back, with a banging new theme tune and a story that explores the decadence of the Palermo Belle Époque. The mafia is now well entrenched and reaching ever further into the Italian system; a banking …
DULCE MIDNIGHT RADIO 6: The Men in Black ft. Robert Skvarla
It's been too long since last we took the Saucer of Insight out for a spin through the feverish Caverns of the Mind, so tonight we're finally getting weird again to talk about those lovable scamps in human skin in black suits: THE MEN IN BL…
ROSEMARY'S BABY (1968) and REC (2007)
This one goes off the rails in a major way because I'm out of practice and it's been a very long month. We begin with an overview of where the main show is heading and our plans for the future, then we talk about (in no particular order her…
MIDSOMMAR (2019)
"A couple travel to Sweden to visit their friend's rural hometown for its fabled midsummer festival, but what begins as an idyllic retreat quickly devolves into an increasingly violent and bizarre competition at the hands of a pagan cult." …
96 - The Belgian X-Files 19: 1985 (Epilogue)
"Set against the backdrop of Belgium's most notorious unsolved crime spree, 1985 begins as three friends - Vicky, her brother Franky, and his best friend Marc - begin a new chapter of their lives, when they set off from their hometown to Br…
95 - The Belgian X-Files 18 - Dutroux Affair vii: C'est comme ça que ça termine
Join Nic and I for the final Belgian X-File.  This is how it ends.  UNLOCK THE REST OF THE EPISODE HERE: https://www.patreon.com/GhostStoriesForTheEnd  SOUNDTRACK NOW AVAILABLE HERE  Â
94 - The Belgian X-Files 17 - Dutroux Affair vi: A World Inside the World
Myself and @IRC_NIC discuss the sheer size of the case and consider what The Sprawl means. We go long on how the cops and the media conspired to kill the network angle, and then we look at the truly global scale of the Dutroux Affair and br…
93 - The Belgian X-Files 16: Dutroux Affair v - Witnesses
EXTREME CONTENT WARNING Regina Louf talks about her experience in the network, the pressure mounts on the investigating team, people continue to die, the families of the victims are pushed to the edge of madness, and Belgium finds itself on…
**UNLOCKED** - The Parapolitics of Britpop: Omnibus
Seemed fitting to unlock these two episodes, solder them together through the miracle of sound editing, and make them free to all given the news this week of Oasis reforming. Enjoy.  **SUPPORT THE SHOW HERE**: https://www.patreon.com/Ghost…
92 - The Belgian X-Files 15 - Dutroux Affair iv - Casework
Dutroux and his accomplices start to talk, the people of Belgium try to process news of the staggering investigative failings, prosecutors Bourlet and Connerotte gaze into the abyss, and a young woman steps forward with astonishing informat…
91 - The Belgian X-Files 14: Dutroux iii - Summer Came Early That Year (1996)
@irc_nic guides us through 1996. Â **SUPPORT THE SHOW HERE** https://www.patreon.com/GhostStoriesForTheEnd Â
90 - The Belgian X-Files 13: Dutroux Affair ii - Voices in the Walls
EXTREME CONTENT WARNING: This episode contains some very harrowing and upsetting material. I don't recommend you listen to it if you're in a bad place/are likely to be triggered by the subject matter. Please take care.  The part about the …
89 - The Belgian X-Files 12: Dutroux Affair i - The Lost Girls (1956 - 1995)
Nic (@irc_nic) guides us through the life story of Marc Dutroux. We look at his childhood, his descent into crime, and how he may have become a fixer for the Belgian political mafia.  "The Kludde" read by Michael S. Judge of Death is Just …
The Belgian X-Files 11: Land of the Dead
Nic (@irc_nic) joins us once again for a panoramic sweep across Belgium at the end of the Cold War, and on the eve of the Dutroux Affair in multi-chapter anthology style episode.  0:53: Prologue 10:00: Chapter 1 - The Paul Vanden Boeynants…
87 - The Belgian X-Files 10: BRABANT KILLERS REDUX - Aftermath iii
Tonight we tie off Brabant Killers Redux by looking at an especially bizarre event that occurred just before the final massacre, using it as an illustrative example of how deep into the weeds you can fall, if you so wish, in trying to under…
86 - The Belgian X-Files 9: BRABANT KILLERS REDUX - Aftermath ii
Particularly strange deaths connected to the Brabant Killers attacks. Â SUPPORT THE SHOW HERE: https://www.patreon.com/GhostStoriesForTheEnd Â
85 - The Belgian X-Files 8: BRABANT KILLERS REDUX - Aftermath pt 1 (1985 - now)
The first Gang Commission, the aftermath of the Brabant Killers operation, and the consequences.  https://www.patreon.com/GhostStoriesForTheEnd  Note: This is actually the first part of a four hour recording we did, but after some discuss…
84 - The Belgian X-Files 7: BRABANT KILLERS REDUX pt 2
The second wave. Â UNLOCK THE FULL SHOW HERE: https://www.patreon.com/GhostStoriesForTheEnd Â
82 - The Belgian X-Files 5: The Pinon Affair
I'm joined again by @irc_nic as the Belgian Autumn begins.  Prince Albert and the Belgian business class over-promise and under-deliver in a trade deal with the Saudis. The resulting financial scandal exposes a vice network, blackmail oper…
81 The Belgian X-Files 4: Chaos, Fascism and Solar Temples
I'm joined by Belgian researcher Nic (@irc_nic) to talk about the post-war far-right in Belgium: what it believed, what it did, how it ensured loyalty, who profited...and who didn't. Paramilitary groups, Gladio, cults, dirty cops, gangsters…
80 - The Belgian X-Files 3: The Bees Made Honey in the Lion's Skull II
We conclude our time in Congo by discussing how they killed Lumumba, colonial ghosts returning to the imperial core, and the politics of forgetting. Â SUPPORT THE SHOW HERE: https://www.patreon.com/GhostStoriesForTheEnd Â
79 - TBXF 2: The Bees Made Honey in the Lion’s Skull (part i)
Leopold. Congo. Belgium. The neo-aristocracy and generational suffering. The Belgian X-Files 2. Â TO UNLOCK THE FULL EPISODE: https://www.patreon.com/GhostStoriesForTheEnd Â
78 - The Belgian X-Files 1: Some Years Ago (1945 - 1960 or so)
We look at Belgium under Nazi occupation and the Royal Question, then discuss the assassination of Communist Party leader Julien Lahaut and the hidden networks in the Belgian establishment.
DULCE MIDNIGHT RADIO 5 ft. Mark Pilkington
Bradley (https://twitter.com/bpleasies) and Mark Pilkington (https://twitter.com/markopilkington) sit down to discuss UFOs, the latest round of "disclosure", Mirage Men, bigfoot erotica, black helicopters and more besides.  Mirage Men blog…
77 - The Deep Politics of Forrest Gump
**SUPPORT THE SHOW HERE** https://www.patreon.com/GhostStoriesForTheEnd  We discuss Forrest Gump and boomers. The film arrived at a time when competing claims of ownership over the legacy of the 60s and “what it all meant” were becoming a …
76 - Clockwork
The story of a psyops agent called Colin Wallace, MI5 coups against the British state, Gladio in Northern Ireland and abuse rings sanctioned by the secret city.  **TEASER CLIP** UNLOCK THE FULL EPISODE HERE: https://www.patreon.com/GhostSt…
75 - The Gangs of London: Brink’s-Mat, Freemasons, the Met Police and The Long Good Friday
Gold heists, cocaine, gangsters, money laundering, Freemasons, dirty cops, PABLO ESCOBAR, Nazis, the CIA, MI5, MI6 and more. HAVE A BITE.  **SUPPORT THE SHOW HERE**: https://www.patreon.com/GhostStoriesForTheEnd   Â
74 - CARTELWORLD: Coups, pimps, private spooks and collapse
**TO UNLOCK THE FULL SHOW CLEAN YOUR BLOOD MONEY HERE**: https://www.patreon.com/GhostStoriesForTheEnd  We discuss Azerbaijan, MI6, oil, al Qaeda, coups, assassinations, the Turkish deep state, the rise of the private intelligence agencies…
73 - CARTELWORLD: Guns, oil, princes
We use Prince Andrew as an example of the Account Man, the connection between different nodes in the vast circuitry of the Machine. We talk offshore accounts, money laundering, guns and oil.  SUPPORT THE SHOW HERE: https://www.patreon.com/…
72 - The Parapolitics of Britpop 2: Midnight, the Stars and You
The ghosts have broken into the material world, and they are more real than the living.  UNLOCK HERE: https://www.patreon.com/GhostStoriesForTheEnd  OCTOPUS SOUNDTRACK HERE: https://ghoststoriesfortheendoftheworld.bandcamp.com/album/the-o…
71 - The Parapolitics of Britpop 1: ”But Doctor,” said the United Kingdom, ”I *am* the great clown Pagliacci!”
This is a story about a haunted house. To hear the rest head over to: Â https://www.patreon.com/GhostStoriesForTheEnd Â
70 - Olof Palme 8: Arla Dawn
If the rule you followed brought you to this, of what use was the rule? Arla Dawn, the Swedish Stay Behind, the reason Olof Palme was murdered. Everything converges, everything ends.  Support the show here: https://www.patreon.com/GhostSt…
69 - Heaven Holds the Faithful Departed (Tripping Up to Boston Remix) **TEASER**
[Plug for Patreon page here]: TEASER ONLY! SUPPORT THE SHOW HERE! www.patreon.com/ghoststoriesfortheend  [Episode summary designed to intimidate listeners and rivals into believing this shit is possibly too heavy for them here]: COLD WAR P…
68 - Olof Palme 7: South Africa
The role of South African intelligence, assorted right-wing networks, slimeball operators and scumbag mercs in the assassination of Olof Palme. We are closing in on the heart of darkness, people.  SUPPORT THE SHOW HERE: https://www.patreon…