Sleep Theories

Canewdon Church, England's most haunted witch village, and the legend of the Devil's thirteenth bell. Settle in for a dark, atmospheric sleep story set at St Nicholas' Church in Essex. Folklore says six witches will always live in Canewdon as long as the tower stands, and anyone who runs anticlockwise around the church three times on Halloween will summon the Devil.
In 1998, three friends test the legend at midnight. The bell rings thirteen times, the camera stops recording, and a woman who died decades ago looks straight into the lens. What follows draws on the real history of Rose Pye, the Essex witch trials, the Witchfinder General, and the cunning man George Pickingill. It leads to a sealed chamber beneath the tower and something that wears the faces of the people you love.

Peach Mountain, Ohio's Area 51, is the subject of tonight's sleep story. It explores the secret history of GE's Peebles test site in Adams County and the conspiracy of what may be buried beneath it.
In 1954, General Electric quietly bought thousands of acres of remote Ohio forest to test rocket engines. The work was secret, the land was isolated, and strange stories soon followed: spinning compasses, lights rising over the trees, and an anonymous late-night radio caller describing compartmentalized propulsion research in southern Ohio. Tonight we follow the engineers, guards and scientists of Peach Mountain deep underground, toward something that may have been waiting there long before anyone arrived.

Khamar-Daban sleep story — the 1993 Siberian hiker deaths, a buried Soviet container, and a conspiracy about an experiment that outlived the country that built it. A 99-minute conspiracy sleep story for deep sleep, insomnia relief, and calm listening in the dark.
In August 1993, seven hikers led by instructor Lyudmila Korovina entered the Khamar-Daban mountains south of Lake Baikal. Six died. One seventeen-year-old girl walked out alone. Tonight's story follows a retired Soviet toxicologist who recognizes the location on the map — and begins pulling on a thread that leads to an abandoned research station, a buried cylinder, and a recording nobody should still be able to hear.

1896 mystery airship sightings, a secret inventor, and a breakaway civilization, told as a calm conspiracy sleep story for deep, relaxing sleep. On November 17, 1896, hundreds of people in Sacramento watched a bright light move deliberately across the sky, and some swore they heard men's voices calling down from it. Seven years before the Wright brothers, a San Francisco attorney claimed his secret client had built a working airship. Then the inventor vanished and was never seen again.
Tonight's story imagines where he went. It follows a hidden society of engineers who kept flying and never came back, and one historian who finds the iron anchor rings they left behind.

The Thomas Bay mystery is one of Alaska's strangest legends. In Devil's Country, prospector Harry Colp recorded the account of a gold hunter named Charlie. Around 1900, Charlie followed secret directions up the Patterson River to a half-moon lake, where he found rich quartz, an abandoned mine, and small hair-covered creatures that drove him out of the mountains. Decades later, Colp wrote the story down as Devil's Country, later published as The Strangest Story Ever Told. But did he leave out the most important part?