In Japan, if you are sentenced to death, you are not told when. Not the year. Not the month. Not the night before. The guards come in the morning, and it happens within hours, and your family finds out afterwards. Iwao Hakamada woke up like that for...
EARLY DROP: Escape Double Bill: Finger of Doom & The Adaptive Ultimate You’re getting this one early, because the Tale Teller is packing a bag. I’m heading over east for an event this weekend, so rather than leave you waiting, I’ve lit...
Halloween Special Part 1 of 4. Japanese true crime and Japanese folklore. On Halloween night 2021, a man in a Joker costume boarded a packed Tokyo train. For eight seconds, nobody moved. On 31 October 2021, a man in...
The last night — and the one I nearly didn’t write… Mørketid ends tonight. Sweden. Fair warning on this one… This episode is about children. The bäckahästen drowns them and the Myling is one that was left in the woods to die, and while I’ve...
Night three of Mørketid is out. Norway. She Carries a Rake… A craft decision I want to explain… The draug should have been the finale. He’s the better monster by any obvious measure — a drowned fisherman in oilskins with a mass...
NIGHT TWO — FINLAND Night two: Finland has a word for a person who isn’t lost, isn’t taken, and cannot be found — while standing right in front of you. Night two of Mørketid is out. Finland. Metsänpeitto It translates as “the forest...
Four nights of Nordic folklore. Night one: Denmark buried things alive under its churches — and some of them are still working.Something different for the next four weeks. No true crime at all. Mørketid — Four Nights North is a mini-series:...
Japanese true crime and Japanese folklore, one candle at a time. In June 1981, a Japanese literature student in Paris asked a Dutch classmate to come to his apartment and help him with his German pronunciation. Renée Hartevelt was...
What happens when folklore becomes too terrible to be fiction? Can you listen past the performance and find the true forensic history? Welcome back to Stories Fables Ghostly Tales. In tonight’s interactive special, the Tale Teller presents an...
Turn the lights down low… It is time for Tall Tales and True Crime… In this episode of Stories Fables Ghostly Tales, we explore one of the most widely discussed and psychologically complex cases in modern Japan: The 1997 Kobe Case, historically...