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  • The Train Robbers and the Monopoly Board
    Oct 26 2026
    A red signal stopped the Glasgow-to-London mail train. A few days later, a farmhouse full of ordinary objects gave investigators a trail to follow.

    The 1963 Great Train Robbery took roughly £2.6 million. Follow the false signal, the injured driver, the abandoned postal sacks and the Monopoly board that became part of a much larger investigation. Later claims about an insider remain distinct from what the original enquiry established.

    True Crime Stories for No Sleep. Carefully researched historical mysteries, told in a warm conversational voice with non-graphic detail.

    Follow the show for new stories on Monday and Thursday at noon, Algeria time. Narration is AI-generated.

    Chapters:
    00:00 A signal everyone trusted
    05:21 The farmhouse trail
    10:35 Claims, courts and the long aftermath

    Sources:
    https://www.btp.police.uk/poli...
    https://www.thamesvalley.polic...
    https://artsandculture.google....
    https://www.nationalarchives.g...
    https://hansard.parliament.uk/...
    https://www.smithsonianmag.com...

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    16 min
  • The Money They Could Not Share
    Oct 23 2026
    The Brink's robbers carried a fortune out of Boston in 1950. Years later, one of them was in jail, asking his partners for help with his legal bills. Follow the falling-out, the damaged banknotes and the evidence that finally connected the men behind the masks.

    A calm historical mystery from True Crime Stories for No Sleep. Non-graphic narration; participant accounts are identified as such, and unresolved money trails are kept distinct from established facts.

    Related listening: The Man Who Walked Out with the Mona Lisa; Hatton Garden: The Vault They Entered Twice.

    New episodes Monday and Thursday. Follow the show for another quiet story.

    Narration is AI-generated with Kristelle.

    Sources:
    https://www.fbi.gov/history/ca...
    https://law.justia.com/cases/m...
    https://www.fbi.gov/history/ar...
    https://content.time.com/time/...

    Chapters:
    00:00 The money and the masks
    03:45 The plan before the robbery
    07:54 The partnership breaks
    12:06 Damaged bills and the trial

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    16 min
  • The Man Who Walked Out with the Mona Lisa
    Oct 19 2026
    A worker removes a portrait from the Louvre. More than two years later, a letter signed Leonard V. leads to a Florence hotel room and the recovery of the Mona Lisa. Follow the theft, the attempted sales, and the mistaken belief behind a very real crime.

    A calm historical story from True Crime Stories for No Sleep, told with non-graphic detail. The theft reconstruction is attributed to post-arrest statements; motives and interpretation are kept distinct from established events.

    Follow the show for another quiet mystery. Related listening: The Gardner Museum Heist: Thirteen Works, Empty Frames.

    Narration is AI-generated with Kristelle.

    Sources:
    https://www.louvre.fr/en/explo...
    https://mini-site.louvre.fr/tr...
    https://archiviodistatofirenze...
    https://archiviodistatofirenze...
    https://archiviodistatofirenze...
    https://archiviodistatofirenze...
    https://archiviodistatofirenze...
    https://archiviodistatofirenze...
    https://guides.loc.gov/chronic...
    https://www.ina.fr/ina-eclaire...

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    14 min
  • Flight 19: The Journey That Did Not Come Home
    Oct 13 2026
    Five Navy aircraft left Florida for a training exercise in December 1945. Their radio messages point toward navigational trouble. This episode follows the historical record beyond the Bermuda Triangle legend.

    True Crime Stories for No Sleep. Calm, carefully researched stories for unwinding. Each episode stands alone; confirmed facts and possible explanations are kept distinct. Historical disappearances do not necessarily involve a crime.

    If you are new here, start with Hatton Garden. For a related story, look for The Flannan Isles: Three Keepers, One Silent Lighthouse or The Empty Ship at Diamond Shoals.

    Follow the show to find your next quiet story.

    Sources:
    https://www.history.navy.mil/a...
    https://www.history.navy.mil/b...
    https://www.history.navy.mil/r...
    https://www.history.navy.mil/r...
    https://www.history.navy.mil/n...
    https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/...

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    8 min
  • The Night Someone Took Over Chicago Television
    Oct 12 2026
    On November 22, 1987, two Chicago television stations were interrupted by an unauthorized signal. Engineers restored the picture, but a verified identity never emerged.

    True Crime Stories for No Sleep. Calm, carefully researched stories for unwinding. Each episode stands alone; confirmed facts and possible explanations are kept distinct. Historical disappearances do not necessarily involve a crime.

    If you are new here, start with Hatton Garden. For a related story, look for D.B. Cooper: The Man Who Left the Plane or Alcatraz: The Escape That Never Reached an Ending.

    Follow the show to find your next quiet story.

    Sources:
    https://news.wttw.com/2017/11/...
    https://cuttingsarchive.org/in...
    https://www.wbur.org/endlessth...

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    5 min
  • Mary Celeste: A Ship Without Its People
    Oct 11 2026
    (00:00:00) Welcome and the empty ship
    (00:00:57) The voyage and ten people
    (00:01:33) The last log entry
    (00:01:46) The discovery
    (00:02:40) The survey report
    (00:03:32) Pumps and observations
    (00:04:30) Possible explanations
    (00:05:17) Fiction and the historical record

    The Mary Celeste was recovered in the Atlantic in 1872. The ten people aboard were not. A surveyor’s inventory brings us close to the abandoned ship, but cannot explain the decision to leave her.

    True Crime Stories for No Sleep. Calm, carefully researched stories for unwinding. Each episode stands alone; confirmed facts and possible explanations are kept distinct. Historical disappearances do not necessarily involve a crime.

    If you are new here, start with Hatton Garden. For a related story, look for The Empty Ship at Diamond Shoals or The Flannan Isles: Three Keepers, One Silent Lighthouse.

    Follow the show to find your next quiet story.

    Sources:
    https://www.rmg.co.uk/stories/...
    https://maryceleste.net/survey...
    https://maryceleste.net/facts....
    https://www.smithsonianmag.com...

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    7 min
  • Alcatraz: The Escape That Never Reached an Ending
    Oct 10 2026
    Three false heads hid three empty beds. Follow Frank Morris and the Anglin brothers through the 1962 Alcatraz escape, and the evidence that cannot tell us whether they survived the bay.

    True Crime Stories for No Sleep. Calm, carefully researched stories for unwinding. Each episode stands alone; confirmed facts and possible explanations are kept distinct. Historical disappearances do not necessarily involve a crime.

    If you are new here, start with Hatton Garden. For a related story, look for D.B. Cooper: The Man Who Left the Plane or The Gardner Museum Heist: Thirteen Works, Empty Frames.

    Follow the show to find your next quiet story.

    Sources:
    https://www.fbi.gov/history/ca...
    https://archives.fbi.gov/archi...
    https://www2.fed.bop.gov/about...

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    9 min
  • The Gardner Museum Heist: Thirteen Works, Empty Frames
    Oct 9 2026
    Two men in police uniforms entered a Boston museum in March 1990. Eighty-one minutes later, thirteen works of art were gone. Their empty frames remain part of the story.

    True Crime Stories for No Sleep. Calm, carefully researched stories for unwinding. Each episode stands alone; confirmed facts and possible explanations are kept distinct. Historical disappearances do not necessarily involve a crime.

    If you are new here, start with Hatton Garden. For a related story, look for Hatton Garden: The Burglars Who Came Back or The Ruby Slippers and the Single Red Sequin.

    Follow the show to find your next quiet story.

    Sources:
    https://www.gardnermuseum.org/...
    https://www.fbi.gov/history/ca...

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    11 min