Show Notes
Weyburn Mental Hospital LSD experiments, a dark history sleep story set in the prairie asylum where psychedelic psychiatry began. In 1956, a patient in Saskatchewan’s largest psychiatric hospital describes the building being demolished, half a century before it happens. Then patients who have never met start describing the same hidden room beneath the hospital: white walls, a wooden chair, a clock with no hands, and a green door marked seventeen. Drift off to a slow, atmospheric story inspired by the real history of the Saskatchewan Hospital at Weyburn, Humphry Osmond, Abram Hoffer, and the early LSD research that gave the world the word “psychedelic.”
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The Somerton Man was found dead on an Australian beach in 1948. Seventy years later, he was found dead again. No ID. Labels cut from his clothes. A hidden scrap of paper reading “Tamám Shud.” The Somerton Man is one of the most famous unsolved mysteries in history. Then a demolition crew breaks into a sealed underground chamber and finds an elderly man with the same face, the same fingerprints and the same scar. A voice on the phone says there are eleven of them. Fall asleep to an original Cold War conspiracy thriller built on the real Somerton Man case: the Rubáiyát code, the Carl Webb DNA identification, and a secret identity that was never meant to die. Calm narration, about 100 minutes, made for sleep and relaxation.
Zodiac Killer sleep story: a retired detective reopens a fifty-year-old Sacramento murder once blamed on the Zodiac, and finds a killer who hid behind America’s most infamous unsolved case. This calm, slow-paced true crime story for sleep covers the Lake Herman Road, Blue Rock Springs, Lake Berryessa and Paul Stine attacks, the Zodiac letters and ciphers, and the 340 cipher solved in 2020. It then follows an imagined cold case into a forgotten murder, a blackmail photograph, and a tape locked in a safe for decades. Real Zodiac history is woven together with an original fictional investigation. Evelyn Harper, Daniel Mercer, and the conspiracy are invented.
WW2 sleep story about Colditz Castle, the Nazi prisoner of war camp built to hold the Allies’ most stubborn escape artists. In this history for sleep episode, a quiet British prisoner notices something nobody else has seen. The best escape plans keep failing, while a handful of men slip through gaps that shouldn’t exist. A door left unlocked. A search cancelled. A German guard who raises his rifle, then lowers it and walks away. The truth is darker than luck. Someone inside German intelligence is choosing who gets out, and the escapers don’t know they’re carrying a secret home. Every honest word they tell British intelligence was arranged for them to see. A sharp analyst in London spots the pattern before it leads to disaster. Decades later, a historian opens a carved wooden chess king and finds a list of names. One of them belongs to a celebrated escaper who may never have been a prisoner at all.
Tunguska event sleep story: the 1908 Siberian explosion that flattened 80 million trees and left no crater. Drift off to a calm, slow-paced historical mystery and sci-fi thriller about the real Tunguska blast, Leonid Kulik’s expeditions, and a hidden force that may have risen from the ground to meet whatever fell from the sky.
The Ariel School UFO encounter of 1994: sixty-two children in Ruwa, Zimbabwe saw a silver craft and small beings with large black eyes near their playground. This sleep story combines the real history of one of the most famous UFO cases ever recorded with an original sci-fi mystery about three witnesses who discover, thirty years later, that their visions were pieces of the same impossible memory. Settle in for over an hour of calm, cinematic storytelling: the Cynthia Hind investigation, John Mack’s interviews, the telepathic messages the children described, and a civilization that may have tried to warn us.