Episodes

  • Season 09 Episode 15: Red Dust (Pt. 1 of 2)
    Mar 20 2026

    In the winter of 1937, in Beijing, a young woman vanished on her way home under the shadow of the Fox Tower — a crumbling relic long associated with whispers, superstition, and unease.

    What followed would become one of the most haunting mysteries in the history of Beijing...

    Written by Diane Hope and Richard MacLean Smith.

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    33 mins
  • Season 09 Episode 14: Cats in the Cradle
    Mar 13 2026

    In the winter of 2016, a bizarre story began to unfold about a farming family from a small town just east of Melbourne, Australia. The family appeared to have fled their home in a state of utter panic, telling no one why or where they had gone. The truth was even stranger than anyone could possibly have imagined.

    Written by Richard MacLean Smith and James Connor Patterson

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    30 mins
  • Season 09 Episode 13: The Weight of Empty Space
    Mar 6 2026

    On November 17, 1981 an event occurred at the construction site of the soon to be Manila Film Centre in the Philippines that is almost too shocking to believe.

    Today the site is one of many that has become part of a burgeoning Dark Tourism scene...

    Written by Richard MacLean Smith and Diane Hope

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    32 mins
  • Season 09 Episode 12: Eyes that Shine a Burning Red (Pt.3 of 3)
    Feb 27 2026

    The third and final part of Season 09 Episode 12: Eyes that Shine a Burning Red

    Digging into the local history, investigators uncover strange tales of witchcraft that have plagued the area for generations, including the chilling case of Ann Tenant. But surely, it couldn't possibly have had anything to do with Charles' murder, could it?

    Written by Richard MacLean Smith, James Conor Patterson and Emma Dibdin.

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    31 mins
  • Season 09 Episode 12: Eyes that Shine a Burning Red (Pt.2 of 3)
    Feb 20 2026

    Part two of Season 09 Episode 12: Eyes that Shine a Burning Red.

    With local police ill-equipped to deal with such a strange and brutal murder, the London Met's greatest living police officer, Detective Inspector Robert Fabian, is drafted in to help.

    Despite presiding over every criminal case imaginable in all his twenty years of service, he hasn't seen anything yet...

    Written by Richard MacLean Smith, James Conor Patterson and Emma Dibdin.

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    30 mins
  • Season 09 Episode 12: Eyes that Shine a Burning Red (Pt.1 of 3)
    Feb 13 2026

    To some, folk beliefs are little more than the harmless superstitions of a bygone age.

    For others, such beliefs and practices are something to be deeply feared as nothing less than the work of the Devil…

    Written by Richard MacLean Smith, James Conor Patterson and Emma Dibdin.

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    32 mins
  • Season 09 Episode 11: The Grey Zone
    Feb 6 2026

    In 1925, experienced mountaineer and man of science Prof. John Norman Collie gave a lecture to a climbing club in the Scottish Highlands.

    Concluding his talk, Collie told his stunned audience that he believed there was something very strange stalking the highest peak of the local Cairngorm's mountain range. Something that had so frightened him, he would never go back there again...

    Written by Diane Hope and produced by Richard MacLean Smith.

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    32 mins
  • Season 09 Episode 10: Me and the Devil Blues
    Jan 30 2026

    Sometime in the mid 1930s, a young budding bluesman appeared on the scene, suddenly possessed of a talent for playing the guitar, which he’d never shown before.

    Over time a strange rumour began to spread, that the young man hadn't achieved his talent all on his own...

    Written by James Conor Patterson and Richard MacLean Smith.

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    30 mins