True Crime For Bedtime

Stranger Than Fiction | True Crime for Bedtime Bumper Edition 🌙🦉

Welcome, night owls. 🌙 Tonight, we'll spend some time together exploring three stranger than fiction true crime mysteries, accompanied by the soothing sound of rainfall to help you drift off to sleep. 🦉 Asunta Basterra 🦉 Holly Marie Clouse 🦉 Mary Stuart Let me know where in the world you're listening from, and follow the channel for more true crime for sleep. 🌙

She Was Three Minutes From Home… Then Vanished Into a 30-Year Mystery | Melanie Road | Rain & Thunder Background 🦉🌙

In June 1984, seventeen-year-old Melanie Road was walking home through Bath after a night out with friends. She was just three minutes from her front door when her life was taken. For more than thirty years, her murder remained one of Britain’s most haunting cold cases. Then, by chance, a routine enquiry led investigators to the man who had been hiding in plain sight all along. Told gently against a backdrop of rain and distant thunder, this true crime bedtime episode follows Melanie’s story, the long fight for justice, and the forensic breakthrough that finally gave her family answers.

The 14-Year-Old Who Made a Secret Journey… and Never Came Home | Andrew Gosden | Train ASMR | True Crime for Sleep 🦉🌙

On 14 September 2007, fourteen-year-old Andrew Gosden left home for school, withdrew £200, bought a one-way train ticket to London, and vanished. In this gentle true crime for bedtime episode, we follow Andrew’s final confirmed journey from Doncaster to King’s Cross and explore the unanswered questions surrounding one of Britain’s most haunting missing-person cases. Told against the soft background sounds of a moving train carriage, this is a quiet, atmospheric retelling of the Andrew Gosden mystery. Perfect for fans of true crime for sleep. 🦉Join our night owls community and leave a comment to let us know where in the world you're listening from. 🌙 Or subscribe for ad-free bonus content.

She Answered a Babysitting Ad... Then Vanished Forever | The Margaret Ellen Fox Mystery

Quick note: Due to feedback, I'm testing a slightly different narration style in this episode. I'd love your feedback in the poll below as I continue improving the show. Tonight, we explore one of the most unsettling missing person cases ever recorded. In April 1974, 14-year-old Margaret Ellen Fox left her New Jersey home after answering a babysitting advertisement. She never returned. What began as an ordinary afternoon quickly became every parent's worst nightmare. Days later, a chilling phone call suggested Margaret had been kidnapped. Yet despite a massive investigation, countless leads, and decades of searching, the truth behind her disappearance remains a mystery. So settle in, relax, and let the rain and distant thunder carry you into tonight's story. This episode includes gentle rain and thunderstorm ambience designed to help you unwind while listening. True Crime For Bedtime is a relaxing true crime podcast featuring mysterious disappearances, unsolved cases, and fascinating real-life investigations told in a calm, immersive style. If you enjoy bedtime stories, unsolved mysteries, cold cases, missing persons investigations, and atmospheric true crime, be sure to follow the podcast for new episodes.

He Ran Out of the Airport... and Vanished Forever | The Lars Mittank Mystery

One summer morning in 2014, a 28-year-old German tourist walked into Varna Airport in Bulgaria. Moments later, he suddenly dropped his luggage, sprinted out of the terminal, climbed a fence, and vanished into the surrounding countryside. His name was Lars Mittank. What happened next became one of the most baffling missing-person cases in modern history. In this episode of True Crime For Bedtime, we follow Lars's final known movements—from a holiday dispute and a mysterious head injury to his increasingly fearful behaviour in the days before he disappeared. Was he suffering from paranoia? Was he frightened of someone? Or did something far more sinister happen after he ran from the airport? More than a decade later, the grainy airport footage remains the last confirmed sighting of Lars Mittank. Settle in, relax, and join me as we explore one of Europe's most enduring mysteries.