Carol Ann from The InBetween joins Tales From The Dark for a deep conversation about high strangeness, haunted history, and what it takes to build a strange little corner of the internet from scratch.

We get into where she lands on the skeptic-to-believer scale, the cases that followed her home after the mics went off, time slips and the Dark Watchers, whether the trickster behind all of this wants to be understood or is just having a laugh at our expense, and the one piece of evidence she would put in front of a hard skeptic.

We also talk about building The InBetween alongside Mr. InBetween, growing a community of 20,000-plus InBetweeners, and her advice for anyone thinking about starting a show of their own. 

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A retired couple from a one-stoplight town in Michigan found a flaw in a state lottery game and, over nine years, legally won close to twenty-seven million dollars.

No ghost, no crime, just arithmetic and a whole lot of nerve.

This week on Tales From the Dark, the true story behind Jerry and Marge Selbee, a game called Cash WinFall, and a locked door that turned out never to have been locked at all.

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The horror stories are back, and this time they're wearing red, white and blue. This one's a shorter throwback to our old horror stories format, an armful of creepy, true-ish tales with a Fourth of July coat of paint.

We start in the sky, because the Fourth is the single most common date on the whole calendar for UFO reports, and we land in Tinley Park, Illinois, where the lights over the fireworks came with a very earthly list of suspects and one very unsettling backup location.

From there it's a petty little history lesson on why the country's been blowing out the candles two days late since 1776, a batch of facts that includes the president who was taken out by a bowl of cherries, and the reason Jaws is secretly a Fourth of July movie.

A listener sends in a haunted house story where a pack of kids goes ghost hunting instead of watching the show, and it ends on a face in a window that more than one of them saw.

And we close on the eerie one, the three founding fathers who all died on the Fourth of July, two of them within hours of each other, and the ghosts a few of them supposedly left behind.

Also my chihuahua Charles, who experiences every fireworks display as a personal act of war.

Grab a hot dog. Try not to look up. 

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The Philadelphia Experiment is the most famous ghost story the U.S. Navy ever had to deny: a destroyer escort, the USS Eldridge, supposedly wrapped in a green glow at the Philadelphia Navy Yard in 1943, turned invisible, and teleported to Norfolk and back, leaving sailors fused into the steel decks and others who never came back.

 For seventy years it's been passed around as proof of a wartime government cover-up, complete with Einstein, secret unified-field physics, and, later, time travel.

This episode follows it all the way down. The real wartime science the legend grew out of, the brilliant drifter who invented the whole thing in a handful of letters, the documents that put the ship hundreds of miles from Philadelphia on the day it supposedly disappeared, and the claims that welded the Eldridge to the Montauk Project and the year 2749. 

And one detail almost nobody tells you: the man who sold the Philadelphia Experiment to the world as fact later stood up at a conference and confessed to being a paid government disinformation agent. The documents say one thing. The legend says another.

I lay them side by side and let you stand on the pier yourself.

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In this episode I'm joined by Mr E Files, the voice behind one of the fastest-rising channels in the true crime and unexplained space.

We get into the seam where a real crime starts to feel like something stranger, how he builds a researched case into cinematic storytelling without bending the facts to do it, the MrBallen influence he's never shy about, and the question every creator is circling right now: where AI belongs in this kind of work, if it belongs at all.

Come on down the rabbit hole.

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Beneath a freeway overpass in Pasadena, California, there is a hundred-year-old flood-control dam, a tunnel mouth with the word HELL painted above it, and a rock shaped like the face of the devil. Locals call it Devil's Gate, and the stories that cling to it are some of the strangest in the state.

In this episode, we climb down into the Arroyo Seco to pull the legend apart from the record. At the center of it is Jack Parsons: the brilliant, self-taught chemist who helped found the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and modern American rocketry, and who recited Aleister Crowley's Hymn to Pan over his rocket tests while running the West Coast's leading Thelemic lodge out of a Pasadena mansion. 

We get into the Babalon Working, the 1946 occult ritual Parsons performed alongside future Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard.

We dig into the Tongva cemetery unearthed in 1938 to build a reservoir, the children said to have vanished at the dam, and the freeway-building serial killer Mack Ray Edwards, whose shadow still falls across the unsolved disappearance of eight-year-old Tommy Bowman.

Portal to hell, haunted dam, occult conspiracy, and an unsolved cold case — we lay the folklore and the documented history side by side and let you decide what is really buried at Devil's Gate.

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Weeks before Roswell, a log salvager named Harold Dahl watched six donut-shaped craft over Puget Sound and the next morning a stranger in a dark suit met him for breakfast and recited the whole thing back to him.

 It's the case that may have birthed the Men in Black, killed two intelligence officers, and trailed a man who'd later be subpoenaed in the JFK investigation.

Officially the dirtiest hoax in UFO history. Unofficially, nobody can quite close the lid. Maury Island, 1947.


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Every July, the most powerful men in America disappear into a private redwood forest called Bohemian Grove and burn an effigy at the foot of a forty-foot owl.

We separate what's documented from what got invented: the real 1942 Manhattan Project meeting held in those woods, the Cremation of Care ritual, Philip Weiss's week undercover inside the camp, Alex Jones's hidden-camera footage and the man it sent in with a rifle, and how the UFO angle, the owls, and the Rockefeller disclosure files got bolted on.

No verdict. Just the file.

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Four ghost lights.

One dead railroad man who somehow haunts four different states. 

We drive out to the Dover Lights and the Gurdon Light here in Arkansas, the famous Brown Mountain Lights of North Carolina, and the Ghost Road of Saratoga in the Texas Big Thicket — and follow the facts, from a 1922 government geologist who called his shot in the dark to the real 1931 murder buried under a "headless brakeman" legend.


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Documented 911 calls with no clean explanation — built from released call audio, sheriff's reports, FOIA records, and radar logs.

A Bigfoot on the line. A UFO a meteorologist tracked himself. A call placed from an empty funeral home at three in the morning. And two voices, a vanished man and a missing child, whose last words are on tape.

The dispatcher couldn't tell a crank from a crisis from something real. Neither can we.

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