In 1876, barrister Charles Bravo sat down to dinner at The Priory, a large white house in Balham. Four months married, and soon a mystery. Told softly.

The little house we lived in for five years: a hearse in the driveway one Halloween, cigarette smoke with no one around, and Lenox College, Part 2.

Glasgow, 1857. An architect's daughter, secret letters to a clerk from Jersey, and arsenic bought in her name. The secrets of Madeleine Smith, told softly.

On October 11, 1973, Charles Hickson and Calvin Parker went fishing on the Pascagoula River in Mississippi and came back with an account of a UFO.

You've heard the urban legend: a body hanging in a yard in late October that everyone thought was a Halloween decoration. Sometimes, it really happened.

Borley Rectory was called the most haunted house in England. A ghost story with a dash of possible true crime, and the more you read, the stranger it gets.

On February 8, 1855, snow fell along the River Exe in Devon. By morning, small hoof-shaped prints ran through town after town. The Devil's Footprints.

On August 6, 1930, New York Supreme Court Justice Joseph Force Crater left dinner in Manhattan and was never seen again. The disappearance of Judge Crater.

In 1972, Jeannette DePalma, 16, vanished from Springfield, New Jersey and was found six weeks later on a cliff. One of my first episodes, told again.

I spend a night after dark in Lenox College in Hopkinton, Iowa, with Justin from Generation Why and Lauren and Ken from Paradise After Dark. Part 1.

In February 1957, a little boy was found in a box in a field in Fox Chase, Philadelphia. No one came forward to claim him. The Boy in the Box, told softly.

Three listener letters for October: a childhood house, a gas station after midnight, and a rental where one staircase was never supposed to be used.

Lizzie Borden was tried and acquitted in 1893, and the jump-rope rhyme got almost everything wrong. The house on Second Street in Fall River, told softly.

Chicago in the 1890s, the World's Fair, and a brick building on Sixty-Third Street run by H.H. Holmes. The tourist version, and what's actually known.

On October 24, 1961, Joan Risch, 31, was last seen hurrying up her driveway in Lincoln, Massachusetts, carrying something red. Then she was gone.

Two stories from Shari, a friend of the show: a girl in a doorway, a handprint on a car window, and a voice on the basement stairs that said run.

In 1971 and 1972, six young Black girls and women were killed around Washington, D.C. The Freeway Phantom was never caught, and the case is still open.

A listener called John shares a family story they've told for 30 years: footsteps in the hall and running water in their old haunted house on 7th Street.

Night 1 of 31 Nights of Frights. My friend The Captain from True Crime Garage told me a weird, creepy story about a vanishing boy. Sleep well, dear listener.

October is coming. Starting October 1st, a new episode every night: 31 nights, 31 stories of true crime, paranormal encounters, and the unexplained.