An occult history of post-war Western society, exploring how a sleazy cast of spooks, gangsters, politicians, business leaders, and outright monsters have shaped our glitching reality, unleashing dark, dangerous forces in the process.
The Ghost Stories For The End Of The World podcast is an absolute gem in the world of storytelling and conspiracy theories. From the moment I listened to the first episode, I was immediately hooked and could not stop listening. This podcast expertly blends meticulous research, aural atmosphere, and real human feeling to create a captivating experience. It delves into the tales of actors who unknowingly brought about the apocalypse, keeping hope alive while stoking a sense of dread.
One of the best aspects of this podcast is its meticulous research. Each episode is thoroughly and thoughtfully researched, providing listeners with a deep understanding of the history behind various conspiracies. The host lays out all the confusing details in a clear-eyed and clearly articulated fashion, making it easy for even those unfamiliar with these topics to follow along. This dedication to research sets this podcast apart from others in its genre and ensures that listeners are getting accurate information.
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However, one downside to this podcast is its sometimes long wait time for new episodes. While all of the host's content is worth waiting for due to its thoroughness and execution, it can be frustrating for eager fans wanting more frequent updates. Nevertheless, it is clear that each episode takes time and effort to produce, resulting in high-quality content that is well worth the wait.
In conclusion, The Ghost Stories For The End Of The World podcast is an exceptional piece of storytelling that delves into fascinating conspiracy theories with meticulous research and incredible attention to detail. Despite occasional wait times for new episodes, this podcast never fails to deliver captivating content that keeps listeners on edge while also providing a sense of hope. If you're looking for a podcast that will keep you hooked from the very first episode, this is the one to listen to. Don't make the same mistake I did; start listening today and prepare to be enthralled.
You don't make up for your sins in church. You do it in the streets. You do it at home. The rest is bullshit, and you know it. **SUPPORT THE SHOW HERE** https://www.patreon.com/c/GhostStoriesForTheEnd SHOW SOUNDTRACKS AVAILABLE HERE: https://ghoststoriesfortheendoftheworld.bandcamp.com/
Proxima hebdomade, seriem incipimus nos reversuros esse ut per annum proximum vel sic intermittant. Ecclesia catholica. De Deo loquor. De diabolo loquor. De Caelo, Inferno, et de ultimis diebus loquor. Nemo mea opera iudicet nisi Pater. Proba fidem tuam et opera mea confirma per donando hic https://www.patreon.com/c/GhostStoriesForTheEnd Fruere hymnis hic https://ghoststoriesfortheendoftheworld.bandcamp.com/
We're setting the table for the year ahead in Ghost Stories, and to do so we'll be following a number of threads that may or may not have much to do with each other. Key to this one is the UK's relationship with the US, which we use to explore how unnerving it feels to be alive in the Hermit Kingdom in the last days, its mind blown out by redundant upper management and a deep state that no longer has any purpose. We mainline the DMT released from the dying spider's brain, exploring Keir Starmer as the Last Man, dreams in the imperial core, surveillance, terrorism, the dregs of empire, classified US-UK programs like GHOSTHUNTER and APPARITION, temporal dislocation, and long-dead spree killers haunting the Yorkshire moors.
People try to be the king but the ace is back, with a banging new theme tune and a story that explores the decadence of the Palermo Belle Époque. The mafia is now well entrenched and reaching ever further into the Italian system; a banking crisis exposes industrial-scale fraud and leads to the first eminent corpse. This episode is free to all but most subsequent BOW episodes will be available ONLY ON PATREON, which is HERE: https://www.patreon.com/GhostStoriesForTheEnd Check out the imposing walls of sound I have erected to accompany various episodes and miniseries here: https://ghoststoriesfortheendoftheworld.bandcamp.com/
It's been too long since last we took the Saucer of Insight out for a spin through the feverish Caverns of the Mind, so tonight we're finally getting weird again to talk about those lovable scamps in human skin in black suits: THE MEN IN BLACK. Who they? Where be? What is? And but? All these questions and more will be answered as our good friend Robert Skvarla joins myself and Bradley to explore the social, cultural and political history of the MIB phenomenon. SUPPORT THE SHOW HERE: https://www.patreon.com/c/GhostStoriesForTheEnd
This one goes off the rails in a major way because I'm out of practice and it's been a very long month. We begin with an overview of where the main show is heading and our plans for the future, then we talk about (in no particular order here): poison eurodwarf Polanski, occultism and control, Aktion T4, Yorkshire Aunties, pandemics, apartments, left wing thinkpieces, serial killers, if Boris Johnson really had covid, exorcism, the Catholic Church, escaped nazis, lockdowns, American voters, generational warfare, Ira Levin, my Donald Trump impression, homeworking, Satanic panics, hippies, the importance of commute time, and more besides. I am running on fumes and I need sleep. I love you all. SUPPORT THE SHOW HERE: https://www.patreon.com/c/GhostStoriesForTheEnd BELGIAN X-FILES SOUNDTRACK AVAILABLE HERE: https://ghoststoriesfortheendoftheworld.bandcamp.com/album/the-belgian-x-files-a-soundtrack
"A couple travel to Sweden to visit their friend's rural hometown for its fabled midsummer festival, but what begins as an idyllic retreat quickly devolves into an increasingly violent and bizarre competition at the hands of a pagan cult." None of the synopses really get the pitch right but what the hell, this'll do. Dir: Ari Aster Joined for this one by Marcus and Seb of THE RETURN OF THE REPRESSED podcast
"Set against the backdrop of Belgium's most notorious unsolved crime spree, 1985 begins as three friends - Vicky, her brother Franky, and his best friend Marc - begin a new chapter of their lives, when they set off from their hometown to Brussels. But as their adulthood and careers in the big city commence, the trio risks losing their innocence and noble illusions, as they find themselves caught in the middle of the horrifying events that shocked a generation and will come to leave a scar on the entire country." Nic joins me for an epilogue of sorts to talk about the very good TV show 1985 and kickstart MOVIE SEASON the right way. SUPPORT THE SHOW HERE: https://www.patreon.com/c/GhostStoriesForTheEnd BELGIAN X-FILES SOUNDTRACK HERE: https://ghoststoriesfortheendoftheworld.bandcamp.com/album/the-belgian-x-files-a-soundtrack
Join Nic and I for the final Belgian X-File. This is how it ends. UNLOCK THE REST OF THE EPISODE HERE: https://www.patreon.com/GhostStoriesForTheEnd SOUNDTRACK NOW AVAILABLE HERE
Myself and @IRC_NIC discuss the sheer size of the case and consider what The Sprawl means. We go long on how the cops and the media conspired to kill the network angle, and then we look at the truly global scale of the Dutroux Affair and break down what, exactly, the Network was, its historical origins, the social context, how it worked, where it came from, and how it dealt with the threat of exposure. **SUPPORT THE SHOW HERE** https://www.patreon.com/GhostStoriesForTheEnd
EXTREME CONTENT WARNING Regina Louf talks about her experience in the network, the pressure mounts on the investigating team, people continue to die, the families of the victims are pushed to the edge of madness, and Belgium finds itself on the brink of revolution. **UNLOCK THE FULL EPISODE HERE** https://www.patreon.com/GhostStoriesForTheEnd
Seemed fitting to unlock these two episodes, solder them together through the miracle of sound editing, and make them free to all given the news this week of Oasis reforming. Enjoy. **SUPPORT THE SHOW HERE**: https://www.patreon.com/GhostStoriesForTheEnd
Dutroux and his accomplices start to talk, the people of Belgium try to process news of the staggering investigative failings, prosecutors Bourlet and Connerotte gaze into the abyss, and a young woman steps forward with astonishing information about corruption and savagery at the heart of the Belgian establishment. Next episode Thursday 29th. ***SUPPORT THE SHOW HERE*** https://www.patreon.com/GhostStoriesForTheEnd
@irc_nic guides us through 1996. **SUPPORT THE SHOW HERE** https://www.patreon.com/GhostStoriesForTheEnd
EXTREME CONTENT WARNING: This episode contains some very harrowing and upsetting material. I don't recommend you listen to it if you're in a bad place/are likely to be triggered by the subject matter. Please take care. The part about the murders. @irc_nic joins me once again for this journey into Belgium's heart of darkness. ***TRAILER*** UNLOCK THE FULL SHOW HERE: https://www.patreon.com/GhostStoriesForTheEnd
Nic (@irc_nic) guides us through the life story of Marc Dutroux. We look at his childhood, his descent into crime, and how he may have become a fixer for the Belgian political mafia. "The Kludde" read by Michael S. Judge of Death is Just Around the Corner with our immense thanks. **SUPPORT THE SHOW HERE** https://www.patreon.com/GhostStoriesForTheEnd
Nic (@irc_nic) joins us once again for a panoramic sweep across Belgium at the end of the Cold War, and on the eve of the Dutroux Affair in multi-chapter anthology style episode. 0:53: Prologue 10:00: Chapter 1 - The Paul Vanden Boeynants Kidnapping 52:15: Chapter 2 - The Belgian Gladio Inquiry 82:40: Chapter 3 - The Murder of Gerald Bull 91:21: Chapter 4 - The Murder of André Cools 131:26: Chapter 5 - The Atlas Report and the Nebula 143:38: Chapter 6 - The Murder of Katrien De Cuyper SUPPORT THE SHOW HERE: https://www.patreon.com/GhostStoriesForTheEnd
Tonight we tie off Brabant Killers Redux by looking at an especially bizarre event that occurred just before the final massacre, using it as an illustrative example of how deep into the weeds you can fall, if you so wish, in trying to understand this most eerie of true stories. We then explore various theories people have put forward over the years to explain the crimes, and offer our own holistic take for good measure. We close by discussing what became of major players in the case, and set up threads we will pursue for the remaining episodes of TBXF. ***PREVIEW*** TO UNLOCK THE FULL SHOW SUBSCRIBE HERE: https://www.patreon.com/GhostStoriesForTheEnd
Particularly strange deaths connected to the Brabant Killers attacks. SUPPORT THE SHOW HERE: https://www.patreon.com/GhostStoriesForTheEnd
The first Gang Commission, the aftermath of the Brabant Killers operation, and the consequences. https://www.patreon.com/GhostStoriesForTheEnd Note: This is actually the first part of a four hour recording we did, but after some discussion we decided to cut it down into more manageable 60 - 90 minute instalments. This means Aftermath pt ii will land next week and, most likely, there will be an Aftermath iii dropping the week after. Then we're back to the usual 2 week release schedule. This now means that instead of 10 or 11 X-Files episodes there will probably be 13 or 14. Hope you enjoy, and have a good weekend.
The second wave. UNLOCK THE FULL SHOW HERE: https://www.patreon.com/GhostStoriesForTheEnd
I'm joined again by @irc_nic as the Belgian Autumn begins. Prince Albert and the Belgian business class over-promise and under-deliver in a trade deal with the Saudis. The resulting financial scandal exposes a vice network, blackmail operations and massive embezzlement. The Belgian establishment scrambles to cover it all up, but things take a dramatically darker turn when a psychiatrist files for divorce and his wife decides to share explosive secrets about extremely powerful people. *SUPPORT THE SHOW HERE*: https://www.patreon.com/GhostStoriesForTheEnd
I'm joined by Belgian researcher Nic (@irc_nic) to talk about the post-war far-right in Belgium: what it believed, what it did, how it ensured loyalty, who profited...and who didn't. Paramilitary groups, Gladio, cults, dirty cops, gangsters and crooked spooks. They formed subterranean networks of mind-warping size that covertly influenced the course of modern Belgian history and planned everything from coups to terror attacks. Before us looms The Belgian Autumn. This is the first hour or so free; UNLOCK THE FULL 2 1/2 HOUR SHOW HERE: https://www.patreon.com/GhostStoriesForTheEnd
We conclude our time in Congo by discussing how they killed Lumumba, colonial ghosts returning to the imperial core, and the politics of forgetting. SUPPORT THE SHOW HERE: https://www.patreon.com/GhostStoriesForTheEnd
Leopold. Congo. Belgium. The neo-aristocracy and generational suffering. The Belgian X-Files 2. TO UNLOCK THE FULL EPISODE: https://www.patreon.com/GhostStoriesForTheEnd
We look at Belgium under Nazi occupation and the Royal Question, then discuss the assassination of Communist Party leader Julien Lahaut and the hidden networks in the Belgian establishment.
Bradley (https://twitter.com/bpleasies) and Mark Pilkington (https://twitter.com/markopilkington) sit down to discuss UFOs, the latest round of "disclosure", Mirage Men, bigfoot erotica, black helicopters and more besides. Mirage Men blog: https://miragemen.wordpress.com/ Support the show here: https://www.patreon.com/GhostStoriesForTheEnd Buy the Ghost Stories official soundtrack album here: https://ghoststoriesfortheendoftheworld.bandcamp.com/album/the-octopus-music-and-atmospheres-from-the-sea-floor
**SUPPORT THE SHOW HERE** https://www.patreon.com/GhostStoriesForTheEnd We discuss Forrest Gump and boomers. The film arrived at a time when competing claims of ownership over the legacy of the 60s and “what it all meant” were becoming a major cultural issue, manifesting everywhere from the halls of Congress to The Simpsons to the work of pop horror guru Stephen King. What Forrest Gump perfectly demonstrates is how the American imaginary has misinterpreted its own history. From early meetings with Elvis Presley and an encounter with the civil rights movement, to a spell in Vietnam and a chat with John Lennon, Forrest embodies the American as it would like to see itself, merely floating on the river of history, without bearing any responsibility for the shape it takes. We then probe the deeper implications of the films reactionary politics, and the death of nancy adam susan nancy adam susan the 60s dream. For the last third of the episode we discuss how Ron Howard unwittingly applies the technique of a “broadcast signal interruption” to historical narratives, and we then explore what implications this may have for the eyes watching unblinking a far more sinister agenda.
The story of a psyops agent called Colin Wallace, MI5 coups against the British state, Gladio in Northern Ireland and abuse rings sanctioned by the secret city. **TEASER CLIP** UNLOCK THE FULL EPISODE HERE: https://www.patreon.com/GhostStoriesForTheEnd
Gold heists, cocaine, gangsters, money laundering, Freemasons, dirty cops, PABLO ESCOBAR, Nazis, the CIA, MI5, MI6 and more. HAVE A BITE. **SUPPORT THE SHOW HERE**: https://www.patreon.com/GhostStoriesForTheEnd
**TO UNLOCK THE FULL SHOW CLEAN YOUR BLOOD MONEY HERE**: https://www.patreon.com/GhostStoriesForTheEnd We discuss Azerbaijan, MI6, oil, al Qaeda, coups, assassinations, the Turkish deep state, the rise of the private intelligence agencies and more besides.
We use Prince Andrew as an example of the Account Man, the connection between different nodes in the vast circuitry of the Machine. We talk offshore accounts, money laundering, guns and oil. SUPPORT THE SHOW HERE: https://www.patreon.com/GhostStoriesForTheEnd
The ghosts have broken into the material world, and they are more real than the living. UNLOCK HERE: https://www.patreon.com/GhostStoriesForTheEnd OCTOPUS SOUNDTRACK HERE: https://ghoststoriesfortheendoftheworld.bandcamp.com/album/the-octopus-music-and-atmospheres-from-the-sea-floor
This is a story about a haunted house. To hear the rest head over to: https://www.patreon.com/GhostStoriesForTheEnd
If the rule you followed brought you to this, of what use was the rule? Arla Dawn, the Swedish Stay Behind, the reason Olof Palme was murdered. Everything converges, everything ends. Support the show here: https://www.patreon.com/GhostStoriesForTheEnd Official Ghost Stories soundtrack available here: https://ghoststoriesfortheendoftheworld.bandcamp.com/album/the-octopus-music-and-atmospheres-from-the-sea-floor Please check out The Return of the Repressed here: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-return-of-the-repressed/id1623796875
[Plug for Patreon page here]: TEASER ONLY! SUPPORT THE SHOW HERE! www.patreon.com/ghoststoriesfortheend [Episode summary designed to intimidate listeners and rivals into believing this shit is possibly too heavy for them here]: COLD WAR PARANOIA, the search for mind control, Martin Scorcese, Hong Kong, LSD, armed robbery, Jungian archetypes, gentrification, the immigrant experience, Hollywood, the changing face of Boston, political intrigue, the crime boss as cultural totem, the totalitarian impulse and the individual, psychological trauma, colonialism, declining empires, MKUltra. Get some. [Obligatory merch plug here]: https://ghoststoriesfortheendoftheworld.bandcamp.com/album/the-octopus-music-and-atmospheres-from-the-sea-floor
The role of South African intelligence, assorted right-wing networks, slimeball operators and scumbag mercs in the assassination of Olof Palme. We are closing in on the heart of darkness, people. SUPPORT THE SHOW HERE: https://www.patreon.com/GhostStoriesForTheEnd RETURN OF THE REPRESSED HERE: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-return-of-the-repressed/id1623796875 https://www.patreon.com/TheReturnOfTheRepressed OCTOPUS SOUNDTRACK HERE: https://ghoststoriesfortheendoftheworld.bandcamp.com/album/the-octopus-music-and-atmospheres-from-the-sea-floor
GUNS. LOTS OF GUNS. Let's talk Bofors, Bush, bastards, bullets, bombs, bribes, and blackmail. It's a rogues gallery, a compendium of intrigue, a thesis statement about the fallen world in which we live. Support the show HERE: https://www.patreon.com/GhostStoriesForTheEnd Return of the Repressed HERE: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-return-of-the-repressed/id1623796875
**TEASER** - UNLOCK THE FULL SHOW HERE: https://www.patreon.com/GhostStoriesForTheEnd I'm joined again by Marcus and Sebastian to take a look at reactionary oddball and graphic designer STIG ENGSTROM, from his childhood spent in India to his possible role in the murder of Olof Palme and his courting of media attention in the years afterwards.
More theories, more suspects, more SWEDES. Nazi cops, Kurdish leftists, crooked spooks, shady politicians, wild theories. It's all happening. SUPPORT THE SHOW HERE: https://www.patreon.com/GhostStoriesForTheEnd Check out The Return of the Repressed here: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-return-of-the-repressed/id1623796875
Marcus of Return of the Repressed once again joins me to explore how the police handled the immediate aftermath of the Palme hit and the troubling witness accounts that undermined the early attempts to establish an Official Narrative. SUPPORT THE SHOW HERE: https://www.patreon.com/GhostStoriesForTheEnd SOUNDTRACK AVAILABLE HERE: https://ghoststoriesfortheendoftheworld.bandcamp.com/album/the-octopus-music-and-atmospheres-from-the-sea-floor
We step back from the Palme murder to explore the Palme family and the rise and rise of Olof in Swedish politics. Also there are psychics and nazis in this one. UNLOCK THE FULL SHOW HERE: https://www.patreon.com/GhostStoriesForTheEnd GHOST STORIES SOUNDTRACK HERE: https://ghoststoriesfortheendoftheworld.bandcamp.com/album/the-octopus-music-and-atmospheres-from-the-sea-floor
SUPPORT THE SHOW HERE: https://www.patreon.com/GhostStoriesForTheEnd When he had opened the fourth seal I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, "Come and see." And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat upon him was Death, and Hell followed with him. OCTOPUS soundtrack available here: https://ghoststoriesfortheendoftheworld.bandcamp.com/album/the-octopus-music-and-atmospheres-from-the-sea-floor Deep state ambiance: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1K5u6jESjv9snQgdiuUTKB
I'm joined this evening by friend of the show Travis Linnemann - author, academic and associate professor at Kansas University - to discuss the cops, the uncanny, the weird and the eerie. Travis is the author of THE HORROR OF POLICE. Get a copy pronto. Support the show here: https://www.patreon.com/GhostStoriesForTheEnd OCTOPUS SOUNDTRACK HERE: https://ghoststoriesfortheendoftheworld.bandcamp.com/album/the-octopus-music-and-atmospheres-from-the-sea-floor
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SUPPORT THE SHOW HERE: https://www.patreon.com/GhostStoriesForTheEnd This was actually supposed to be up on Friday just gone but technical issues delayed release. A chill discussion about the journey, and our final thoughts on The Octopus story. No fireworks in this one but some good vibes.
https://www.patreon.com/GhostStoriesForTheEnd "Back in the days of hippie simplicity, people liked to blame 'the CIA' or 'a secret rogue operation.' But this is a new enemy, unnameable, locatable on no organization chart or budget line. Who knows? Maybe even the CIA's scared of them.” Turn on the evening news some time. Everything ends. Soundtrack available here: https://ghoststoriesfortheendoftheworld.bandcamp.com/album/the-octopus-music-and-atmospheres-from-the-sea-floor
SUPPORT THE SHOW: https://www.patreon.com/GhostStoriesForTheEnd OCTOPUS SOUNDTRACK AVAILABLE HERE: https://ghoststoriesfortheendoftheworld.bandcamp.com/album/the-octopus-music-and-atmospheres-from-the-sea-floor We go deep on 1980s Arkansas and tie off many loose threads as we barrel towards the end of this epic odyssey into the narcotic, technological psychosphere.
*TEASER* - UNLOCK THE FULL EPISODE BY LAUNDERING MONEY HERE: https://www.patreon.com/GhostStoriesForTheEnd OCTOPUS SOUNDTRACK AVAILABLE HERE: https://ghoststoriesfortheendoftheworld.bandcamp.com/releases Poppy Bush exits the White House and pardons his underbosses on the way out the door. The Clintons take the reins, their rise to power assisted by mob bagmen, shady financial deals and a corrosive Third Way platform. The Inslaw case is dead, PROMIS is now a technomyth, and history has ended. But a number of political operatives, spooks, hustlers, shakedown artists and disinformation agents are starting to talk to anyone who'll listen about dark compromises, drug trafficking, contract hits and espionage stretching back to the early 80s.
WE ARE BACK. Support the show here: https://www.patreon.com/GhostStoriesForTheEnd We talked to Bill Hamilton and our tiny minds were blown, so many thanks to him for answering our questions. We begin with a look at how the Inslaw case, PROMIS and the intelligence underworld collided head-on with the 90s. We talk about how things ended for the Hamiltons, then pivot to exploring where PROMIS may have gone, or what it may have become, by looking at the rise of the surveillance state, privatization, 9/11, managed violence, Silicon Valley and more. Even though PROMIS role in the story is mostly finished, THE TRAIN KEEPS ROLLING BABY. OCTOPUS SOUNDTRACK NOW AVAILABLE HERE: https://ghoststoriesfortheendoftheworld.bandcamp.com/releases
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