Right then, settle in, because tonight's story is a cold one. Literally. Minus twenty, give or take.
It's 1978, and we're deep in the forests of Finnish Lapland, the kind of place where you can walk for a week and see nobody at all. That suits our man Henrik just fine. He's fifty-six, a big grizzled Norwegian who spent thirty years in the army. He tried civilian life, didn't like what he found there, and walked off into the woods. Five years on, he lives in a homemade yurt that smells faintly of feet, and his only company is a half-wild wolf called Captain. Captain is not his dog. Henrik will be very clear with you about that.
Then one morning the ravens lead Henrik to something nasty. Someone's been butchering reindeer for their antlers and leaving the meat to rot in the snow. Henrik's an old soldier, and he has opinions about that sort of thing, so he picks up the trail. Bootprints, fag-ends, empty vodka bottles. It's a two-day hunt through the snow, and it ends in a narrow valley at dusk, where things go very wrong, very fast.
It's a story about friendship, about kindness, and about what the forest gives back when you listen to it.
So grab a brew, maybe a blanket, and let's head north.

This is Captain

 

Hey everyone, welcome back to the show! Today, we’re looking at two entirely different kinds of dark, twisting tales, and trust me, you're going to want to lock your doors for both of them.

First up, we head to a quiet, snowy Canadian town in the winter of 1976. Meet Nathalie, a twenty-six-year-old hairdresser just trying to enjoy her cozy apartment life, spaghetti dinners, and a quiet evening in. But someone—or something—is sharing her space. From moved photographs and a television turning on by itself, to the terrifying discovery that a dark, infamous serial killer has been watching her from a hidden basement passage all along, it’s a chilling reminder of how vulnerable we are right where we feel safest.

Then, we pivot to the sun-bleached, historical limestone alleys of Valletta, Malta, for a sinister tale of obsession and revenge. We follow a narrator pushed to the absolute brink by a man named Fortunato. Under the chaotic, masked cover of the local Carnival celebrations, our narrator lures an intoxicated Fortunato down through the shadowy, saltpetre-encrusted catheps and subterranean vaults. What starts as a hunt for a rare cask of Amontillado wine quickly descends into a claustrophobic nightmare of brick, mortar, and inescapable doom, sealed away for half a century.

Two stories of obsession, betrayal, and chilling demises—so grab your headphones, get comfortable, and let's dive right in!

In the autumn of 1978, twenty-six-year-old hairdresser Nathalie starts noticing deeply unsettling things happening inside her ground-floor Ontario apartment—her family photo is turned upside down, her perfume is uncapped on the floor, and someone is clearly testing her locks at night. Relief seems to arrive when the building maintenance man, Eddie Kline, installs a brand-new deadbolt. But just days later, while her friend Claire is staying over, a shadowy intruder appears in the living room before stepping straight into a shallow utility closet and vanishing into thin air.

When the police investigate, they pull back the closet floorboards to reveal a hidden trapdoor leading into a network of abandoned coal cellars beneath the building. The horrifying twist arrives the next day when police arrest none other than Eddie Kline himself, unmasking the maintenance man as a ruthless serial killer who had been using the subterranean tunnels to spy on and hunt women from right beneath their floors.

 

Welcome back to the show, everyone! Today, we’re taking a deep dive into two gripping stories about resilience, the weight of history, and the fierce battle to protect what matters most.

First up, we're heading to a cozy, flour-dusted bakery in 1960s Brooklyn called Brenda’s Table. Brenda’s working herself to the bone running a sanctuary for her community, but things are boiling over. Her teenage boys are getting pulled into the angry, high-stakes political currents of the civil rights movement, flirting with radical action to fight back against redlining and systemic oppression. When local police officers show up with thinly veiled threats, Brenda is left fighting the hardest battle of all: trying to keep her sons fired up for justice without seeing them burn out or get locked away.

Second up we have three young lads who go exploring - an afternoon on their BMX bikes turns into a trip into a hidden cave, which is not uninhabited...

Grab your favorite coffee, get comfortable, and let’s dive right in!

Picture this: October 1967, the wild Patagonian coast. An experienced marine biologist and a eager young grad student named Caleb hop over to a tiny, rocky island to check out some elephant seals. Sounds like a peaceful day at the office, right?
Think again.
A brutal storm surges in, sweeps their boat away, and traps them on a shrinking ledge with *three hundred* massive, angry, multi-ton elephant seals—culminating in a terrifying face-off with a four-thousand-kilogram beachmaster in a cramped, dark rock cave.
Grab your headphones, because today we’re diving into a true story of survival, razor-thin escapes, and why you *never* mess with the heavyweights of the deep south. Let's get into it.

First, we journey into the Scottish Highlands in *'Shadows in the Cairngorms.'* What begins as a picturesque weekend camping trip for two Glasgow friends, Alfie and Douglas, quickly devolves into a waking nightmare. Stalked through the freezing night by an enormous, ape-wolf hybrid beast, the duo finds themselves in a desperate fight for survival, using nothing but sheer adrenaline and an improvised aerosol flamethrower to ward off the creature before it tears them apart.

Then, we plunge beneath the bustling streets of 1992 London in *'Descent into the Grey.'* Francis, a fit and methodical museum researcher, ventures into closed, Victorian-era storm culverts to study how urban wildlife adapts to hidden spaces. But deeper in the sweltering, humid brick tunnels, he uncovers an anomalous, heat-soaked ecosystem harboring a breeding population of massive, five-meter-long Komodo dragons. After surviving a brutal ambush and a venomous bite, Francis embarks on a harrowing escape, desperate to bring his terrifying discovery to the surface before it's too late.

 

First up, we have 'The Weight of the Iron Ring.' Set during World War II, it follows Barrat Singh, a nineteen-year-old from a small village in Punjab who joins the British Indian Army. Leaving behind his home and family, Barrat finds himself tossed into the frozen, brutal mud of Italy during the Battle of Monte Cassino. Wearing his traditional turban rather than a steel helmet, Barrat shows immense bravery on the front lines—rescuing his wounded sergeant under heavy machine-gun fire and leading his squad through the chaos. But the story takes an unbelievable turn after the battle, when Barrat unwraps his wet turban and discovers three flattened German machine-gun bullets lodged right inside the heavy cotton folds, inches from his head. It’s a remarkable tribute to faith, duty, and the invisible threads that carry us through the darkest times.

Then, we shift gears into the haunting mystery of 'The Red Soil and the Shadow.' We’re transported to the scorching, remote goldfield country of Western Australia. Carmel, a forty-five-year-old detective carrying her own family history, steps into a sun-baked, tin-roofed brothel to investigate the suspicious death of a young woman named Sarah Kelly. Sarah is found strangled, her wrists bearing faint marks, with a strange crescent of red dirt left under her bed. As Carmel inspects the scene, she realizes this isn't an isolated tragedy—it fits a sinister pattern connected to two other mysterious murders along the remote mining corridors. It sets the stage for a tense, atmospheric investigation into a transient killer lurking in the red dust.

Story 1: The Golden Phoenix 

 Jin is an experienced line cook surviving the grueling, high-heat pressure cooker of a basement kitchen at a traditional restaurant called The Golden Phoenix. Just as a chaotic Friday night rush is peaking, the dining room upstairs goes dead silent. Three slick, armed mobsters break in to violently shake down the elderly owner, Uncle Chen, over a late debt. When one of the enforcers heads down to the kitchen to keep the staff quiet, he has no idea he's stepping into a trap. As it turns out, before Jin wore a chef's apron, he ran with a rough crowd in Vancouver and knows a thing or two about survival. Using the kitchen environment as his weapon—improvising with congealed duck fat, a razor-sharp mandoline slicer, the walk-in freezer, and a roaring wok filled with boiling peanut oil—Jin methodically and brutally neutralizes the crew one by one to save the restaurant family. 

 Story 2: Double Dutch

Dr. Hendrik van der Meer is a Victorian surgeon and geographer who leaves behind the comforts of Amsterdam to map the "undulating blankness" of Inner Asia. When he finally stumbles upon a nomadic settlement, he’s instantly surrounded by hostile warriors who view him as a dangerous outsider. Language fails him, but Hendrik manages to diffuse the life-or-death situation through the universal languages of curiosity and craving—fascinating the clan leader with the inner workings of a mechanical pocket watch and winning him over with cubes of refined white sugar. Accepted into the community, Hendrik trades his European clothes for traditional robes and spends months falling in love with the beautiful, migratory simplicity of their life, completely disconnected from Western industrial noise. However, his peaceful new existence is pushed to the brink when the same leader who welcomed him is gored by a wild boar. With the warrior dying of blood loss and the village shaman resigned to his fate, Hendrik has to risk his own life by convincing the tribal elders to let him use his strange "iron needles" and Western surgical tools to perform a high-stakes, dirt-floor operation.

Ep. 006 - Settlers and Miners

Story 1: The Account of Thomas Harwood (1638)

Set in the early days of the Jamestown colony, this narrative chronicles the profound transformation of a young English settler who arrives in Virginia steeped in colonial bigotry and arrogance. After a panicked skirmish leaves him abandoned and dying of fever in the wilderness, he is rescued and nursed back to health by Nantaquas, a young Powhatan warrior. Living among the native people for six weeks, Thomas realizes that everything his leaders preached about the "savages" was a lie; he witnesses a society defined by sophisticated agronomy, deep communal justice, and a shared humanity. Returning to a disease-ridden, spiteful Jamestown, Thomas becomes an interpreter, using his unique position to subtly protect the Powhatan people from the blind greed of the English. Years later, following the devastating war of 1622 that permanently fractured their peace, an older Thomas reflects on the tragedy of an empire that treats the land as a carcass to be sold rather than a mother to be nurtured, preserving his account as a testament that before the blood dried, two vastly different cultures found a way to see each other as equal humans.

Story 2: The Rhondda Mine Disaster (1934)

Set against the stark backdrop of the Great Depression in South Wales, this story captures the fierce communal solidarity of a Welsh mining town during a catastrophic underground collapse at the Blaencreg Pit. When five miners—including young boys and fathers—are trapped beneath a massive wall of blue shale, Gwilym Vaughan leads a rescue brigade into a perilous, shifting mountain of stone. As the hours tick past and the ruthless colliery manager threatens to seal the mine to save corporate profits, the village unites; led by the fierce defiance of a miner’s wife, Sian, the community forms a human wall to force the owners to give them more time. Overcoming physical exhaustion, toxic air, and deep-seated panic, rescue teams from neighboring valleys join the effort, digging with their bare hands in a human chain to successfully pull all five men out of the blackness. The ordeal serves as a moving reminder that while the coal industry dictated their harsh physical lives, it was their unbreakable devotion to one another that kept the spirit of the valley alive.

 Short stories from WWI and WW2

The Account of Sergeant Arthur Green, 11th (Service) Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment. The Somme (The Crushing Weight of Industrial Warfare)

The story is a gritty, visceral account of industrial-scale slaughter during World War I, told through the dry, pragmatic voice of Sergeant Arthur Green. The narrative focuses on the physical and sensory overload of the trenches, stripping away any lingering romanticism of Edwardian patriotism

The Ledger of Saint-Denis (The Cold Architecture of Paranoia)

The second story is a tense, cinematic psychological thriller set in Nazi-occupied Paris on the eve of D-Day, experienced through Geneviève Laurent ("Clara"), a woman whose survival relies entirely on her ability to blend into the mundane fabric of a defeated city.

Ep. 003 - Yeti adventures and getting lost in the forest of India

Short stories of adventure, based on real events and myths from around the globe. The emerald labrynth: A botanist in the forests of 1930's India is lost, and stalked by a Leopard. Yeti Tibeti: A groups of explorers and mountaineers run into trouble on Mount Everest, and are helped by a mysterious creature.

Episode 002 - Wilderness Adventures

Three stories of wilderness adventures, and they're based on real life accounts. 

 Story 1: In Britain, the earth beneath our feet is rarely just dirt. In Stockport, a mile of red sandstone tunnels once sheltered thousands from the Blitz. In Exeter, medieval stone passages built for water pipes still snake beneath the High Street. And in Nottingham, over 800 caves and tunnels—some used as tanning pits, others as secret siege routes like Mortimer’s Hole—riddle the foundations of the city. This is a story of what happens when you find a door that was never meant to be reopened. 

 Story 2: The Account of Percival H. Sterling Extract from the Journals of the Zambezi Expedition, 1892 The sun reigns here as a most pitiless sovereign over the Luangwa Valley, dispensing its tyranny without reprieve or mercy. For three days past I have been abandoned to its dominion, my porters having fled in a fit of superstitious terror at the nocturnal lamentations of what they termed the “night-shouter”—by all evidence a hyena of uncommon magnitude and diabolical voice. In their panic they decamped with my provisions entire, including the precious crates of quinine and, with a cruelty I can scarcely commit to paper, my final tin of biscuits. Thus am I left to contend with the wilderness in a state of most disagreeable reduction: armed with but a Martini-Henry rifle, a mere four cartridges, and a compass which, in what I can only construe as a fit of mechanical perversity, has taken to revolving upon its axis with mocking indifference to the cardinal points. 

 Story 3: The White Stasis: This story is inspired by several accounts from Reddit’s r/survival and r/backcountry communities—specifically threads regarding "The Sucking Sound" of a sudden whiteout and the psychological phenomenon known as "The Third Man Factor."

 

4 Original Short Stories Based On Real Events

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Whether you’re a skeptic or a true believer, there’s no denying the chill that climbs your spine when the lights go out and the floorboards start to creak.

Welcome to Have You Ever Met, the place where we pull back the veil and listen to the things that go bump in the night. I’m your host, [Your Name], and every week, we share firsthand accounts of the unexplained—from restless spirits and glitch-in-the-matrix moments to encounters with things that simply shouldn't exist.

These aren't just urban legends or campfire tales. These are the real stories of ordinary people who stepped into the extraordinary and lived to tell the tale. So, lock your doors, turn down the lights, and keep your eyes on the shadows. You’re listening to Have You Ever Met.

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