Yore Town

About Yore Town

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.

Publisher

Beard Laws Studio, Bleav

Category

history · true crime

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

3 Apr 2023

Latest episode

12 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

185 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   12 Oct 2026

   The Alien Buried in Texas: The Aurora UFO Crash of 1897

   In 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 Aurora UFO legend, the mysterious grave of an alleged alien named Ned, and the possibility that the entire story was invented to save a struggling town.

2. 

   5 Oct 2026

   The London Beer Flood: When a Million Pints Flooded the Streets

   In 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 responsible, and the brewery eventually received tax relief for the beer it lost.

3. 

   28 Sept 2026

   The River Kept Destroying This Town. They Kept Rebuilding.

   A 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 community became the abandoned ruins you can walk through today.

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

YouTube views

16,922,760

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.0 / 5

5 ratings

Spotify

4.9 / 5

59 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 72 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

77

Social presence

0

YouTube

93

Engagement

75

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