Horror at the Milk Bar
by Jarryd
Horror, history, true crime, survival, redemption, a mixture of them all and a few quick bites. Horror at the Milk bar digs into the odd, hopeful and horrifying stories that make life and death so interesting. Please enjoy, it's our pleasure and privilege to record these amazing stories......xoxoxoxoxoxo
Episodes
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She had 8 different names, but who was she really? - Episode
In 1970, a woman's badly burned body was discovered in a remote Norwegian valley. Her clothing labels had been removed, her identity was a mystery, and police soon uncovered multiple false names, wigs and coded notes. Was she a spy, a murder victim, or someone hiding a secret? More than 50 years...
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Episode 124 - Circleville Madness
In 1977, residents of the quiet town of Circleville, Ohio, began receiving mysterious anonymous letters. The letters contained disturbing accusations, intimate secrets and increasingly sinister threats. Whoever was writing them seemed to know an extraordinary amount about the people they were...
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Episode 123 - The Meon Hill Witchcraft Murder
n 1945, an elderly farm worker was found brutally murdered in a quiet English village. But as Scotland Yard investigated, the case became entangled with chilling tales of witchcraft, mysterious black dogs, a headless woman and an ancient curse. Was Charles Walton the victim of a ritual killing…
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Episode 122 - Blimp City Madness
In August 1942, a United States Navy blimp was spotted drifting strangely over Daly City, California, sagging, barely under control and slowly coming down over houses and power lines. When emergency crews finally reached it, they expected to find its two Navy airmen inside, but the gondola was...
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Episode 121 - The Devils' Tree Florida
Deep in the woods of Port St. Lucie, Florida, stands a scarred old oak known as the Devil’s Tree. Locals say chainsaws failed against it, a priest tried to cleanse it, and even fire couldn’t destroy it. But behind the paranormal stories is a very real and horrifying connection to former sheriff’s...
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Episode 120 - O.P. Rock
Deep in the unforgiving landscape of Afghanistan, a remote military observation post becomes the setting for something the soldiers stationed there cannot explain. Footsteps in the darkness, phantom muzzle flashes, whispered Russian voices and the unmistakable smell of death begin to torment one...
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119 - POWWOW
In 1928, three people entered an isolated Pennsylvania farmhouse convinced its owner had cursed their lives. What followed became one of America’s strangest murder cases — involving folk magic, a mysterious spell book, a failed fire, and a belief in witchcraft that turned deadly.
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Episode 118 - Gas Town U.S.A.
In 1944, families in the small town of Mattoon, Illinois, began waking in the middle of the night to a strange sweet smell inside their homes. Soon after, they became violently ill, and some suddenly found themselves unable to move. Then people started noticing something outside their windows.…
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Episode 117 - The Tiny Lighthouse Horror
In 1801, two lighthouse keepers were stationed together on one of the most isolated structures off the coast of Wales. The men were known to hate each other, but when violent storms cut them off from the mainland, something went terribly wrong. For weeks, Thomas Howell kept the lighthouse burning...
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Episode 116 - The Black Hope Haunting
In the early 1980s, Sam and Judith Haney moved into a brand-new home in Crosby, Texas. But after a series of strange and increasingly terrifying events, they began asking questions about the land their house had been built on. What they eventually discovered beneath their own backyard would…
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Episode 115 - The Red Barn Nightmares
In 1827, Maria Marten left her home dressed as a man, supposedly to elope with her lover, William Corder. For months, her family was assured she was alive and well. Then Maria’s stepmother began having a series of disturbing dreams about the Red Barn — dreams that would lead to a horrifying...
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Episode 114 - The Elanthoor Sacrifices
In 2022, police investigating the disappearance of a lottery ticket seller in the quiet Indian town of Elanthoor uncovered one of the country's most disturbing modern murder cases. What began as a routine missing persons investigation exposed a web of manipulation, fake online identities, ritual...
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Episode 113 - Fairy Lights
When seven-year-old Misty Harper begins building a tiny fairy village behind her father's old shed in rural Idaho, she believes she's made friends with the magical creatures living beyond the trees. Every afternoon, she leaves them letters. And somehow... they begin writing back. As the weeks…
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Episode 112 - The Haunting of Room 611
The Haunting of Room 611 In the early 1970s, Ken moved into Room 611 at Queen's University Belfast expecting an ordinary student life. Instead, he experienced a series of unsettling encounters that would stay with him for the next fifty years. After sharing his story decades later, former…
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Episode 111 - Batavia's Graveyard - Retribution
In the final part of Batavia’s Graveyard, Francisco Pelsaert returns from Java aboard the Sardam to find that Jeronimus Cornelisz has led a reign of terror, murdering more than 216 men, women and children. Only the courage of Wiebe Hayes and his band of survivors, who fought off repeated attacks…
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Episode 110 - Batavia's Graveyar part 3 - The Massacre begins.....
What begins as desperation descends into calculated slaughter. Men, women, and children are hunted, drowned, stabbed, and silenced in the night. The sick are executed where they lie. The weak are deemed expendable. Entire groups are lured away and murdered, their deaths hidden beneath lies and...
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Episode 109 - Life on the the Batavia, Mutiny, scurvy and punishments at sea
The Batavia sets sail—packed with silver, secrets, and men with everything to gain… and nothing to lose. Beneath the promise of unimaginable wealth, tension brews as disease, filth, and power struggles take hold on the open ocean. As alliances form and dark ideas begin to surface and the seeds of...
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Episode 108 - Batavia's Graveyard - Part 1 - Shipwreck and intro to a madman....
13,000 miles into her maiden voyage carrying around 330 people, the pride of the Dutch East India Company struck a reef off the coast of Western Australia. But the shipwreck was only the beginning of the horror. What followed was a sadistic reign of terror led by Jeronimus Cornelisz, a man…
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Episode 107 - Gregory P. Smith Part 3 - Out of the Forest
This is the astonishing conclusion to Gregory’s story so far. We pick up where we left off at the Tweed Heads Hospital, with a bag full of illicit materials. Gregory is about to experience a life-altering event that will reroute his entire life course, take his place among his ancestors, and lead...
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Episode 106 - Gregory P. Smith Part 2 - Out of the Forest
Today, we pick up where we left off. Gregory is atop Mt Goonengerry. The skies have opened in a torrent of monsoon rain, and Gregory is hunched beneath his Driza-Bone, covered in leeches, wondering if he should return to society or go deeper into the forest. Get ready—this is a spectacular trip...
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Episode 105 - Gregory P. Smith
The first episode in our series tells the extraordinary true story of Gregory P. Smith, based on his powerful autobiography Out of the Forest. From a childhood marked by violence, institutional abuse, and survival on the streets, Gregory’s life spirals through addiction, crime, and...
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Episode 104 - Jan Baalsrud part 3
In this final instalment, the last desperate plan to get Jan across the mountains to Sweden unfolds—while German patrols and brutal weather threaten to end his journey once and for all......
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Episode 103 - Jan Baalsrud part 2
In this instalment, Jan’s fight for survival reaches its darkest moment. Alone in the mountains, suffering from gangrene and starvation, he endures weeks buried in snow and performs a desperate act to stay alive.
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Episode 102 - Jan Baalsrud Part 1
Our story takes place in Nazi-occupied Norway in 1943, in the frozen fjords and mountains of the Arctic north. It follows the almost unbelievable ordeal of Jan Baalsrud, a Norwegian resistance fighter whose mission behind enemy lines goes catastrophically wrong. What follows is a desperate fight...
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Episode 101 - Brink's-Mat Robbery
On 26 November 1983, armed robbers broke into a Brink’s-Mat security warehouse near Heathrow Airport in London expecting to steal cash. Instead, they discovered a vault holding 3,000 kilograms of gold bullion along with diamonds and money, worth about £26 million at the time. The gang escaped…
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Episode 100 - Dnepropetrovsk Maniacs
In 2007, a series of brutal attacks in eastern Ukraine escalated into one of the country’s most disturbing criminal cases. As investigators worked to trace stolen property and identify those responsible, a graphic video filmed by the perpetrators surfaced online, drawing international attention....
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Epusode 99 - The 1970 Bhola Cyclone
In November 1970, a powerful cyclone struck the low-lying coast of what was then East Pakistan (now Bangladesh). A storm surge estimated up to ten metres high swept across islands in the Ganges Delta, submerging entire villages overnight. Between 300,000 and 500,000 people were killed, making it...
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Episode 98 - Bruce Saunders
In November 2017, the death of Queensland man Bruce Saunders was first reported as a horrific workplace accident involving a woodchipper on a rural property near Gympie. But almost immediately, police sensed something was wrong. What followed was one of Queensland’s most disturbing murder...
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Episode 97 - Tia Landers
In June 2014, 28-year-old mother of four Tia Landers went to a suburban home in Brighton, north of Brisbane, to conduct what she believed was a routine drug transaction. She brought two friends with her. None of them expected what would unfold inside that house over the following hours. This...
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Episode 96 - The Halifax Explosion
The Halifax Explosion occurred on 6 December 1917 and remains one of the largest non-nuclear explosions in history. It was caused by a collision in Halifax Harbour between two ships, one of which was carrying a massive load of wartime explosives. The resulting blast devastated much of the city,...
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Episode 95 Three tales for the holidays
Three tales that get significantly more disturbing as they go! Also, Thank you endlessly for your support, I'm not bloody joking around, this is serious, it means the world to met that you would take time out to listen in each week, especailly as the show has changed and grown (hopefully for the...
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Episode 94 - Who's Who??
This true story became the inspiration for a 1.67 billion dollar film franshise!
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Episode 93 - Good luck Tucker & Tie your Shoelaces
A special two part episode today!
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Episode 92 - Butterfly Windchimes
Therese had struggled with alcoholism for over a decade and now things were getting scary and she desparateely needed a change, or she was sure, she would die and maybe take others along with her. The change came in the form of two unesxpected strangers and what came next is reminder that…
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Episode 91 - Horror on the Rickshaw
Todays story, is truly devastating for the victims and personally I don't believe there was ever enough outrage over this case. Please listen with care, some details may be confronting for some listeners. Bless you x
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Episode 90 - Lake Nyos Disaster
Christian Manga lived a quiet life in a town near the Nigerian Border in Camaroon, near lake Nyos. One night he put his family and animals to bed and awoke the next morning with a strong metalic taste in his mouth, a splitting headache and noticed an unnatural silence in the valley. Before long,...
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Episode 89 - Close calls - Double feature
Tonight’s episode is two stories. The first takes place deep in the woods, where a man camping alone came within arm’s reach of something he couldn’t see but will never forget. The second begins on a quiet backroad, where another man accepted a ride from a stranger on what should have been an...
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Episode 88 - The road less travelled
Rafael and María set out for a guided trip through Egypt’s White Desert, permits in hand and everything fully planned. It was meant to be a once-in-a-lifetime adventure. No one could have predicted what happened next...........
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Episode 87 - Mother Daughter Trip
A mother and daighter take a trip to Bali to reconcile their lost relationship.....
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Episode 86 - Falling Apart
A man struggles with something burrowing deep within him, causing phantom wounds, foul smells and digging up memories from a past he would rather forget. In the ashes of a Cambodia trying to rebuild in the 1990's, Sovann Kim was a casino worker trying his best to make a go of what little…
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Episode 85 - Family Tree
In May 2001, Leslie Preer’s life in Chevy Chase, Maryland, looked picture-perfect — a happy home, a steady career, and a close-knit family. But one ordinary weekday morning, everything changed. When Leslie didn’t show up for work, her husband and boss went to check on her — and found a scene that...
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Episode 84 - A long weekend
In the summer of 1974, the Cowden family — Richard, Belinda, and their two young children — decided to spend Labor Day weekend camping in the quiet mountains of southern Oregon. It was meant to be a peaceful getaway, a few days surrounded by pine trees, fresh air, and the sound of running creek...
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Episode 83 - The finer details
Today’s true story takes place in Australia, in the early 1960s — a time when the country felt unstoppable. New suburbs were rising, families were buying homes, and people believed the future could only get better. But sometimes, the smallest choices — the ones that seem meaningless — end up...
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Episode 82 - Fontainebleau Trust
Today’s true story takes place at the crossroads of wealth and prestige, where the question of ‘enough’ is an unrecognisable concept. It is a cautionary tale and a reminder that Jealousy and greed truly do not discriminate based on wealth or worldly possessions......
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Episode 81 - Two men one Ghost
Today’s story will be told in two parts… taking place in the lives of two men — both of whom fought in the First World War. These men did not serve together. In fact, they came from very different worlds, wore different uniforms, and carried different burdens. Yet both served the same country —...
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Episode 80 - T.O.S. 1981
María Luisa García thought it was just a cold. A little cough, some aches — nothing she hadn’t pushed through before. But within days, her body began to fail her. Her muscles locked, her chest burned, and her skin took on a strange, grey hue. In her small Madrid apartment, her husband watched...
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Episode 79 - The Philly Killer
Bill Singleton was on his way to the American Legion convention in Philadelphia — a reunion he’d looked forward to all year. The city was buzzing with celebration, the hotels packed with veterans swapping stories, flags waving in the summer heat. But soon after he checked into the grand...
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Episode 78 - El Silbon
From the misty plains of Venezuela and Colombia comes the terrifying legend of El Silbón — “The Whistler.” Once a spoiled young man who murdered his father, his cursed spirit now roams the countryside carrying a sack filled with his father’s bones. His eerie whistle drifts through the night — a...
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Episode 77 - Okikus Well
At Himeji Castle in Japan lies Okiku’s Well — a place steeped in sorrow and legend. The story tells of Okiku, a loyal servant falsely accused of losing one of her master’s ten precious plates. When she could not find the missing dish, she was thrown into the well and left to die. Ever since, her...
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Episode 76 - The Hidebehind
Deep in the shadowy forests of North America lurks the Hidebehind — a creature said to stalk lumberjacks and wanderers who stray too far from camp. Described as impossibly fast and able to twist its body to remain unseen, it hides behind trees whenever looked at directly. Victims vanish without a...
About this show
Horror, history, true crime, survival, redemption, a mixture of them all and a few quick bites. Horror at the Milk bar digs into the odd, hopeful and horrifying stories that make life and death so interesting. Please enjoy, it's our pleasure and privilege to record these amazing stories......xoxoxoxoxoxo
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