Episodes

Dec. 12, 2022

Transylvania - The Land Beyond the Forest, Part 2

Join me for an on-location audio trip to Transylvania, where we will stay in an old Saxon village, then head by cable car into the Carpathian mountains, to sleep in a hotel made of ice. Then it's off to the beautiful yet for…
Nov. 25, 2022

Transylvania - The Land Beyond the Forest, Part 1

Join me for an on-location audio trip to Transylvania, where we will stay in an old Saxon village, then head by cable car into the Carpathian mountains, to sleep in a hotel made of ice. Then it's off to the beautiful yet for…
Oct. 25, 2022

A Nightmare Before Halloween, Part 2

…1 campfire… …1 dark forest… …31 bone-chilling stories… …Will YOU survive the night? This Halloween season, enter the woods for a unique and truly epic podcast experience! Around the campfire Shane Waters will introduce 31 c…
Oct. 24, 2022

A Nightmare Before Halloween, Part 1

…1 campfire… …1 dark forest… …31 bone-chilling stories… …Will YOU survive the night? This Halloween season, enter the woods for a unique and truly epic podcast experience! Around the campfire Shane Waters will introduce 31 c…
Sept. 30, 2022

13: Zombies, Cannibals and Kinky S&M: The Truly Wild Life of Travel Writer, William Seabrook (Part 2)

Chances are, you’ve never even heard of him, yet without him…we wouldn’t have shows and movies like The Walking Dead, Resident Evil, Night of the Living Dead or Shaun of the Dead. That’s because travel writer, William Seabro…
Sept. 16, 2022

12: Zombies, Cannibals and Kinky S&M: The Truly Wild Life of Travel Writer, William Seabrook (Part 1)

Chances are, you’ve never even heard of him, yet without him…we wouldn’t have shows and movies like The Walking Dead, Resident Evil, Night of the Living Dead or Shaun of the Dead. That’s because travel writer, William Seabro…
Sept. 2, 2022

11: The Frightening Christian World of Jack Chick and his 'Chick Tracts'.

He's been called the most widely read cartoonist of all time. But also, the most popular theologian, too. Yet his legacy is truly shocking and controversial. When he died in 2016, many Evangelical Christians mourned the loss…
Aug. 19, 2022

10: Trapped in the Ice - The Astonishing Sea Voyage of The Sargon

If you'd been in the UK fishing town of Grimsby, in February 1923, you'd have sensed the sadness in the streets. The Sargon fishing trawler was 'much overdue' and was 'presumed lost with all hands.' Friends and family were l…
Aug. 5, 2022

09: Ze Arigo & Dr Fritz - The Mysterious Spirit Surgeons of Brazil

Explore 'Our Curious Past' and the mysterious case of Ze Ahigo. Known as a 'country bumpkin', he couldn't read or write...yet he performed operations on thousands of Brazilians without any medical training. He even used a ru…
July 22, 2022

08: The Nazi Massacre of Oradour-sur-Glane: Village of the Martyrs (Part 2)

This is the second and final part of a two part episode... For centuries, life in in the French village of Oradour-sur-Glane was happy and peaceful. Until June 10th, 1944 when the Nazi SS invaded. The trucks rolled in on a s…
July 8, 2022

07: The Nazi Massacre of Oradour-sur-Glane: Village of the Martyrs (Part 1)

For centuries, life in in the French village of Oradour-sur-Glane was happy and peaceful. Until June 10th, 1944 when the Nazi SS invaded. The trucks rolled in on a sunny, Saturday afternoon, and by that evening, every buildi…
June 24, 2022

06: The Conjoined Tocci Twins of Locana, Italy

Locana, Italy, 1877. Maria Mezzanrosa had a perfectly normal pregnancy and labour...until the midwife screamed at the birth. Her babies were joined from the sixth rib down. They had two full heads and necks, two pairs of arm…
June 10, 2022

05: Kelvedon Hatch Secret Nuclear Bunker (Part Two)

Kelvedon Hatch, UK (Part Two) Surrounded by fields and woodland, it looks like an average, brick bungalow. It isn't. Just a few steps through the doors reveals a huge tunnel leading to an amazing labyrinth of rooms, deep und…
May 27, 2022

04: Kelvedon Hatch Secret Nuclear Bunker (Part One)

Kelvedon Hatch, UK (Part One) Surrounded by fields and woodland, it looks like an average, brick bungalow. It isn't. Just a few steps through the doors reveals a huge tunnel leading to an amazing labyrinth of rooms, deep und…
May 13, 2022

03: The Nika Riots - Deadliest Sports Event Ever

Istanbul (formerly Constantinople). Sports fans are passionate, but this energy can sometimes lead to conflict or even all-out violence. This happened on a truly horrific scale in Constantinople, on Tuesday, January 13th, 53…
April 29, 2022

02: Padre Pio - Priest of the Supernatural Stigmata

San Gioavanni Rotondo, Italy Millions flock to the Italian town of San Gioavanni Rotondo each year. They come for two reasons. Firstly, it's home to the most efficient and advanced medical research hospital in Europe. Yet it…
April 14, 2022

01: The Hopeful Rise (and the Tragic Fall) of the R101 Airship

Cardington, England. On Saturday, October 4th, 1930 the R101 Airship, set off from Cardington England on it's first ever passenger flight. Hopes were high that this craft would help change the face of global travel. Yet the …