Eight true, unexplained stories, told slowly over gentle rain. Three lighthouse keepers who vanished in 1900. A bomber found in the Sahara fifteen years after it disappeared. A masked man who hijacked two Chicago TV stations and was never caught. A city that couldn't stop dancing. A lake that breathed out. A keeper alone on a rock in a storm. A doctor who tried to weigh the soul. And a village where people kept falling asleep. No jump scares, no loud sounds. If you drift off, the rain keeps going until the hour is up.

CHAPTERS

0:00 Welcome

1:14 Three Keepers

5:32 The Bomber in the Sand

9:45 The Face in the Signal

14:06 The Summer the City Danced

18:29 The Lake That Breathed Out

22:56 The Keeper on the Rail

27:16 Three Quarters of an Ounce

31:35 The Village That Kept Falling Asleep

35:59 Rain until morning

These are real cases, told from the historical record. Where the sources disagree, or a famous detail is legend, the story says so. Sources for every story are below.

Watch every episode on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZQTFsBiiqpA

SOURCES

Three Keepers (Flannan Isles, 1900): National Records of Scotland, https://nrscotland.gov.uk/learning-and-events/for-the-safety-of-all-scotlands-lighthouses/the-flannan-islands-lighthouse-a-disappearance/ ; Northern Lighthouse Board, https://www.nlb.org.uk/lighthouses/flannan-islands/

The Bomber in the Sand (Lady Be Good, 1943): U.S. National Archives, https://unwritten-record.blogs.archives.gov/2017/06/16/lost-and-found-the-story-of-lady-be-good-and-her-crew/ ; Air & Space Forces Magazine, https://www.airandspaceforces.com/article/0214lady/

The Face in the Signal (Max Headroom, 1987): Vice, https://www.vice.com/en/article/headroom-hacker/ ; Chicago Sun-Times, https://chicago.suntimes.com/2014/11/22/18445550/27-years-ago-saturday-chicago-tv-got-hacked-in-the-max-headroom-incident

The Summer the City Danced (Strasbourg, 1518): John Waller, The Public Domain Review, https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/the-dancing-plague-of-1518/ ; National Geographic, https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/dancing-plague-of-1518-strasbourg-choreomania

The Lake That Breathed Out (Lake Nyos, 1986): USGS Open-File Report 87-97, https://pubs.usgs.gov/of/1987/0097/report.pdf ; Kling et al., Science 236 (1987), https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.236.4798.169

The Keeper on the Rail (the Smalls, about 1800): Trinity House, https://www.trinityhouse.co.uk/lighthouses-and-lightvessels/smalls-lighthouse ; J. S. Rees, Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire (citing the 1858 account), https://www.hslc.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/100-9-Rees.pdf

Three Quarters of an Ounce (MacDougall, 1907): MacDougall's 1907 paper, full text, https://newdualism.org/papers/D.MacDougall/soul-substance.htm ; New York Times, 11 March 1907, https://www.nytimes.com/1907/03/11/archives/soul-has-weight-physician-thinks-dr-macdougall-of-haverhill-tells.html

The Village That Kept Falling Asleep (Kalachi, 2013 to 2015): The Guardian, https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jul/17/mystery-kazakhstan-sleeping-sickness-solved ; Tengrinews, https://en.tengrinews.kz/emergencies/kazakhstani-scientists-explain-kalachi-sleeping-syndrome-260466/