Horror at the Milk Bar

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.

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. What followed would send an entire town into panic and create one of the strangest unsolved mysteries in American history.

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 while his fellow keeper, Thomas Griffith, remained outside the window... waving at him.This is the terrifying true story of the Smalls Lighthouse tragedy.

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 become the centre of one of Texas's most disturbing hauntings.

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 discovery.What followed became one of Victorian England’s most infamous murder cases, complete with deception, a nationwide manhunt, a shocking confession and, unbelievably, a book bound in the killer’s own skin.

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 killings and a sinister promise of unimaginable wealth. In this episode of Horror at the Milk Bar, we unravel the true story of the Elanthoor "Black Magic" murders, following the investigation step by step to reveal how one man's deception led two ordinary people down an unthinkable path.

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 pass, the mysterious messages encourage Misty to venture a little closer to the forest each time. But whenever she tries, the neighbour's old German Shepherd erupts into furious barking, sending her running home in tears. Convinced the dog hates her, Misty has no idea it's trying to warn her of something lurking just beyond the tree line.After a local child's disappearance and a horrifying police investigation, the true meaning behind the fairy letters, the dancing lights in the forest and the German Shepherd's desperate barking is finally uncovered.

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 by the mutineers, prevents Cornelisz from seizing the rescue ship. Cornelisz and his followers are arrested and brutally executed, bringing one of the darkest and most shocking true stories in maritime history to its dramatic end.