Mysteries at Bedtime
From the creator of the chart topping Crime at Bedtime comes Mysteries at Bedtime - Step into the unknown with Mysteries at Bedtime — a podcast that takes you deep into the world’s strangest unsolved mysteries, eerie disappearances, and real-life encounters with the unexplained.Each week, journalist and storyteller Jack Laurence guides you through immersive, true stories of UFO sightings, missing persons, paranormal events, government secrets, and historical oddities. Told in a calm, captivating style perfect for late-night listening, Mysteries at Bedtime is your weekly ritual for drifting off to stories that chill, intrigue, and mesmerise.So relax take a minu...
Episodes
The Mystery of Overtoun Bridge: Why Do Dogs Keep Jumping?
Listener discretion advised: This story contains subject matter some may find upsetting.In the quiet Scottish countryside, just outside Dumbarton, lies an elegant stone bridge that has become infamous around the world. Since the 1950s, Over…
Circleville: The Town Terrorised by Anonymous Letters
In 1976, the small town of Circleville, Ohio, began receiving letters, hundreds of them.Each one was anonymous. Each one accused neighbours, teachers, and officials of dark secrets. And each one carried the same eerie signature: none at all…
The Disappearance of Paula Jean Welden: Vermont’s Enduring Mystery
In December 1946, 18-year-old Bennington College student Paula Jean Welden set out for a short hike on Vermont’s Long Trail. She was seen by motorists and hikers and then she was gone. Despite one of the largest searches in state history, n…
The Vanishing of Walter Collins
In 1928, nine-year-old Walter Collins vanished on his way to the cinema in Los Angeles. Months later, police declared they had solved the case and returned a boy to his grieving mother. But when Christine Collins insisted the child was not …
The Havana Syndrome: Strange Noises, Sick Diplomats, and an Unsolved Mystery
In December 2016, American diplomats in Havana, Cuba, began reporting a strange set of symptoms, nausea, dizziness, headaches, and hearing loss. Many described hearing a high-pitched sound, like marbles rolling inside a funnel, just before …
The Disappearance of Ryan Chambers: The Australian Backpacker Who Vanished in India
In August 2005, 21-year-old Australian backpacker Ryan Chambers walked barefoot out of an ashram in Rishikesh, India, leaving behind his passport, wallet, phone, and shoes. He was never seen again. For nearly two decades, his family searche…
Elisa Lam and the Cecil Hotel: The Elevator Video and a Vanishing
n January 2013, 21-year-old Canadian student Elisa Lam checked into Los Angeles’ infamous Cecil Hotel. Known for its dark history of crime, tragedy, and mystery, the hotel was the last place Elisa was seen alive.When she failed to check out…
The Ghost Ship Mary Celeste: The Crew That Vanished Without a Trace
In 1872, the merchant brigantine Mary Celeste left New York Harbor on a routine voyage to Italy. On board were Captain Benjamin Briggs, his wife Sarah, their young daughter Sophia, and a crew of seven experienced sailors. Just weeks later, …
The Sodder Family Fire: Five Children Lost Without a Trace
On Christmas Eve 1945, a fire tore through the Sodder family home in West Virginia. George and Jennie escaped with some of their children, but five never made it out. When no remains were found in the ashes, suspicion turned to sabotage, ki…
The Emilcin Abduction: A Farmer’s Encounter with the Unknown
It was an ordinary May morning in 1978 when Polish farmer Jan Wolski set out in his horse-drawn cart. By the end of that ride, he would tell a story that has haunted Emilcin ever since. He described tall, silent beings, a hovering craft wit…
The Vatican Girl: The Disappearance of Emanuela Orlandi
In June 1983, fifteen-year-old Vatican citizen Emanuela Orlandi vanished on her way home from a music lesson in Rome. What began as a missing-person case soon spiralled into one of Italy’s greatest mysteries — entangled with whispers of Col…
Inside the Vandenberg UFO Encounter – A Cold War Mystery
In 1964, at California’s Vandenberg Air Force Base, a routine missile test turned into one of the most compelling UFO encounters of the Cold War era. Radar operators, engineers, and officers reported seeing something they could not explain.…
The Disappearance of Dr. Sneha Anne Philip: The Missing Woman of 9/11
On September 11, 2001, thousands of lives were lost when the Twin Towers collapsed — but one case still stands apart. Dr. Sneha Anne Philip, a 31-year-old physician living just blocks from the World Trade Center, vanished in the hours befor…
Did Russia Silence Boris Berezovsky? Inside the Mysterious 2013 Death
In March 2013, Russian billionaire and outspoken Putin critic Boris Berezovsky was found dead in the bathroom of his Berkshire estate. Officially, his death was left an “open verdict,” with investigators unable to rule suicide or foul play.…
India’s Reincarnation Mystery – The Extraordinary Story of Shanti Devi
In 1930s Delhi, a young girl stunned her parents and teachers with memories she should not have had. Shanti Devi insisted she had lived before — in a town over 100 miles away, with a husband, a home, and a death during childbirth. Her case …
The Toxic Lady: The Bizarre Case of Gloria Ramirez
When 31-year-old Gloria Ramirez was rushed to Riverside General Hospital, no one expected the chaos that would follow. Medical staff began fainting, vomiting, and collapsing as they tried to treat her. Was her body giving off toxic fumes, o…
Pam Reynolds’ Near-Death Experience During Standstill Surgery – A Medical Mystery
In 1991, American singer-songwriter Pam Reynolds underwent a rare, high-risk procedure known as a hypothermic cardiac arrest “standstill” surgery to remove a giant brain aneurysm. Her body temperature was lowered to just 15°C, her heartbeat…
Westall UFO Mystery: Hundreds Witness a Saucer Over Melbourne
On 6 April 1966, in the Melbourne suburb of Clayton South, more than 200 students and teachers claimed to see a silver, saucer-shaped object hover over a school before darting away at incredible speed. Minutes later, mysterious men arrived …
Flight 19: The Vanishing That Created the Bermuda Triangle Legend
On December 5, 1945, five U.S. Navy Avenger torpedo bombers known as Flight 19 took off from Fort Lauderdale on a routine training mission over the Atlantic. But somewhere over the sea, things began to go terribly wrong. The pilots reported…
The Lead Masks Case: Brazil’s Most Bizarre Unsolved Deaths
In 1966, the bodies of two men were discovered on a remote hill outside Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. They were lying side by side, dressed in matching suits and waterproof coats. What made the scene truly eerie were the lead masks covering their…
The Ghost in the Machine: The Mysterious Emails Sent After Jack Froese’s Death
In 2011, 32-year-old Jack Froese died suddenly from a heart arrhythmia in Pennsylvania. But just months after his funeral, emails began arriving from Jack’s account, sent to close friends and family. These weren’t generic messages. They wer…
The Christmas Eve Flight That Ended in Mystery – Mull, 1975
On a cold Christmas Eve in 1975, experienced pilot and former RAF serviceman Peter Gibbs took off in a light aircraft from the Glenforsa Airfield on Scotland’s remote Isle of Mull. The runway was unlit, the skies dark, and no one expected h…
America’s Cold War Secret and the Mystery of the Missing Room
Beneath the opulent halls of The Greenbrier Hotel in West Virginia lies one of America's best-kept Cold War secrets a massive underground fallout shelter built in the 1950s, known as Project Greek Island. For over 30 years, this covert gove…
The Dodleston Messages: Time Travel or Hoax? The BBC Micro Mystery
In the quiet village of Dodleston, Cheshire, a bizarre and baffling mystery began unfolding in 1984. Ken Webster, a schoolteacher, was working on a BBC Micro computer when strange messages began to appear—written in an archaic form of Engli…
Welcome to Mysteries at Bedtime
Mysteries at Bedtime is a twice weekly narrative podcast from the creator of the hit shows Crime at Bedtime and One Minute Remaining. This new series explores the world’s strangest unexplained phenomena. Paranormal encounters, mysterious di…
The Disappearance of Granger Taylor: The Mechanic Who Spoke to Aliens
On a stormy night in November 1980, 32-year-old Granger Taylor left a hand-written note for his family saying he was going on a journey “aboard an alien spaceship” and then vanished without a trace. A self-taught mechanical genius from Vanc…
The Vanishing Sailor: Donald Crowhurst and the Golden Globe Race Mystery
In 1968, an amateur sailor named Donald Crowhurst set out from England in a homemade trimaran to compete in the Sunday Times Golden Globe Race—the first ever solo, non-stop circumnavigation of the globe. But what began as a bold quest for f…
Reincarnation in Scotland: The True Story of Cameron Macaulay
In the early 2000s, a young Scottish boy named Cameron Macaulay stunned his family and baffled researchers when, at just five years old, he began speaking in vivid detail about a life he claimed to have lived before. Cameron described a whi…
The Ariel School UFO Encounter: When 62 Children Saw Something Unbelievable
In September 1994, at a small private school in rural Zimbabwe, 62 children ran into their classrooms—terrified. What they described to teachers and later to UFO investigators would go on to become one of the most compelling mass UFO sighti…
The Last Words of Brandon Swanson: ‘Oh, S—!’… Then Silence.
One of the last things Brandon Swanson ever said was a sudden exclamation during a 47-minute call with his father… then the line went dead. What followed was a search that would stretch over years, with no remains, no phone, and no solid le…
The Travis Walton UFO Abduction: Truth, Hoax, or Something Else?
In 1975, 22-year-old Travis Walton vanished in the Arizona woods after a terrifying close encounter with what witnesses described as a flying saucer. When he reappeared five days later, shaken and disoriented, his story of being taken aboar…
The Pollock Twins: Proof of Reincarnation?
When six-year-old Joanna and eleven-year-old Jacqueline Pollock were killed in a car accident in 1957, their parents were shattered. A year later, they gave birth to twin girls — Gillian and Jennifer — who would grow to eerily mirror the si…
The Black Monk of Pontefract: Britain’s Most Violent Haunting
It began in a modest council house on East Drive, in the sleepy Yorkshire town of Pontefract. What followed would go down as one of the most aggressive and disturbing hauntings in British history. The Pritchard family reported levitating ob…
James Leininger: The WWII Pilot Who Came Back as a Child?
Born in Louisiana in 1998, young James Leininger shocked his parents with terrifying dreams of dying in a fiery plane crash. But when those dreams led to real names, real aircraft, and real history, their search for answers uncovered a myst…
The Belgium UFO Wave: Europe's Most Credible Mass Sighting?
In the late 1980s and early '90s, thousands of Belgian citizens—including police officers, air traffic controllers, and military personnel—reported seeing large, silent, triangular UFOs in the skies. With radar-confirmed sightings and an of…
The Dyatlov Pass Incident – Russia’s Most Chilling Mystery
In 1959, nine experienced hikers vanished in Russia’s Ural Mountains under circumstances that defy explanation. Found dead in the snow with crushed ribs, missing eyes, and radiation on their clothing, their story sparked decades of conspira…
The Disappearance of Frederick Valentich – Vanished Over Bass Strait
In 1978, a young Australian pilot vanished mid-flight over Bass Strait after reporting a strange object hovering above his aircraft. His final radio transmission? A metallic scraping sound… and silence. No wreckage was ever found. In this c…
The Rendlesham Forest Incident – Britain’s Roswell
n December 1980, strange lights were spotted near a U.S. Air Force base in Suffolk, England. What followed became one of the UK’s most compelling UFO cases. Military officers reported a landed craft, radiation readings were taken, and an of…