Yore Town
by Beard Laws Studio, Bleav
The Buffalo Cave Mystery: A Body Hidden for 63 Years
About this podcast
Yore Town Podcast is a true crime and dark history podcast uncovering
real small-town mysteries, forgotten crimes, unexplained events, and
buried history from places most people overlook.
Each episode delivers deep-dive storytelling into true crime cases,
unsolved disappearances, eerie local legends, historical cover-ups, and
strange but 100% real stories that actually happened. No clickbait. No
internet myths. Just well-researched, fact-checked episodes designed to
keep you listening until the very end.
From chilling murders and cold cases to strange historical moments and
unsettling mysteries, Yore Town Podcast blends true crime podcast
tension with immersive narrative storytelling. These are the kinds of
stories you’d expect to hear late at night—except they’re real, and they
happened closer to home than you think.
Perfect for fans of:
True crime podcasts
Dark history podcasts
Unsolved mysteries
Small-town crime stories
Long-form storytelling podcasts
If you’re searching for a true crime podcast with real research, a dark
history podcast, or a mystery podcast that focuses on small towns and
forgotten places, this is it.
Every town has a past.
Some of them don’t want to be found.
New episodes regularly on Spotify
Real people. Real places. Real stories.
Episodes
The newest 20 of 188 episodes
- The Buffalo Cave Mystery: A Body Hidden for 63 Years · 38 min · Episode 187In 1979, a family exploring an Idaho cave discovered a remarkably preserved human torso, but investigators had no idea the man had been missing for more than 60 years. Join Matt…
- The Axeman of New Orleans: Play Jazz or Die · 33 min · Episode 186In 1919, a mysterious letter warned New Orleans that anyone not playing jazz could face a deadly visitor. Matt and Megh uncover the terrifying attacks attributed to the Axeman of…
- The Greenbrier Ghost: A Murder Solved by the Dead? · 39 min · Episode 185In 1897 West Virginia, a grieving mother claimed her murdered daughter's ghost returned four times to reveal who killed her. What followed was a shocking exhumation, a real…
- The Alien Buried in Texas: The Aurora UFO Crash of 1897 · 35 min · Episode 184In 1897, a Texas newspaper claimed that a mysterious airship crashed into a windmill and that its extraterrestrial pilot was buried in a local cemetery. Matt and Megh investigate…
- The London Beer Flood: When a Million Pints Flooded the Streets · 33 min · Episode 183In 1814, a massive vat inside a London brewery burst, sending more than a million pints of porter into one of the city’s poorest neighborhoods. Eight people died, nobody was held…
- The River Kept Destroying This Town. They Kept Rebuilding. · 32 min · Episode 182A catastrophic flood nearly erased Virginius Island in 1870, but the survivors rebuilt. Then the Shenandoah River came back again, and again, until a thriving 13-acre industrial…
- The Great Diamond Hoax of 1872: The Fortune That Never Existed · 32 min · Episode 181In 1872, two men planted real diamonds in the American West and convinced some of America's wealthiest investors they'd discovered a fortune. The investors found the diamonds…
- The Burning: The Movie Night That Devastated Dromcollogher · 31 min · Episode 180In 1926, roughly 150 people in the tiny Irish village of Dromcollogher climbed into a loft above a hardware store to watch a movie. Within minutes, a fallen candle turned the…
- The Buffalo World's Fair Where a President Was Assassinated · 30 min · Episode 179In 1901, Buffalo built a spectacular temporary city to show America the future. Then President William McKinley was shot inside it, Theodore Roosevelt raced toward Buffalo to…
- The Great Hinckley Fire: The Town That Couldn't Outrun the Flames · 31 min · Episode 178In 1894, a massive firestorm descended on Hinckley, Minnesota, forcing an entire town to make life-or-death decisions in a matter of minutes. From burning evacuation trains and…
- The Clymer Mine Disaster: 44 Men Went to Work and Never Came Home · 32 min · Episode 177On August 26, 1926, two explosions tore through the Clymer No. 1 coal mine in western Pennsylvania. Of the 57 men underground that afternoon, 44 would never come home. Rescue…
- Lake Nyos: The Night a Lake Killed 1,700 People · 27 min · Episode 176In 1986, a beautiful lake in Cameroon released an invisible cloud of carbon dioxide while nearby villages slept, killing roughly 1,700 people. Forty years later, the story of…
- Owensboro and America’s Last Public Execution · 31 min · Episode 175Ninety years ago, thousands gathered in Owensboro, Kentucky to watch Rainey Bethea die in what became America’s last fully public execution. But was the infamous crowd really the…
- Philadelphia’s Bellevue Hotel Gave a Killer Its Name · 33 min · Episode 174In 1976, guests of Philadelphia’s Bellevue-Stratford Hotel began dying from a mysterious illness no doctor could identify. This is the true story of the deadly outbreak, the…
- The Ottawa, Illinois Radium Girls: The Story That Changed Worker Safety · 34 min · Episode 173Ottawa, Illinois looked like an ordinary Midwestern town, but behind its thriving watch industry was one of America's most disturbing workplace disasters. This week, we uncover…
- New London: Why Gas Smells Like Rotten Eggs | Yore Town · 37 min · Episode 172New London: Why Gas Smells Like Rotten Eggs tells the true story behind the deadliest school disaster in American history. On March 18, 1937, nearly 300 students and teachers…
- Bath, Michigan: The First Explosion Wasn't the End · 33 min · Episode 171Bath, Michigan: The First Explosion Wasn't the End. The true crime history of the Bath School Disaster becomes even more disturbing after investigators uncover what really…
- Bath, Michigan: The Bomb Beneath the Children · 31 min · Episode 170Bath, Michigan: The Bomb Beneath the Children. The true crime history of the Bath School Disaster begins with an almost impossible fact: for months, children attended class…
- Buried Beneath the Perfect Suburb: The Love Canal Disaster · 33 min · Episode 169Love Canal: The American Dream That Poisoned America is one of the most shocking true crime history and environmental disaster stories in American history. What began as a quiet…
- Lily Dale's Secret: Why Thousands Still Seek the Dead | Yore Town · 33 min · Episode 168Lily Dale's Forgotten Mystery takes us to a tiny community in western New York where thousands of people still travel hoping to hear from loved ones who have died. This is the…
