The Tape Library - Archive of the Paranormal & the Unexplained

For over two decades, a man in Yorkshire claims he was watched by a tall, shadow-like figure that appeared repeatedly throughout his life.

What began as a childhood sighting slowly became something more disturbing, witnessed not just by him, but by others around him.

This episode examines the testimony, the timeline, and the wider history of shadow figures, separating what is known from what remains unexplained.

This is The Tape Library—your home for paranormal, dark folklore, and the strangest stories ever told.

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Archive of the Paranormal, the strange and the unexplained.

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02:13 Welcome to The Tape Library

5:21 Hereditary

8:37 Watching, Waiting

17:12 Close to Home

26:31 The Downward Spiral

39:04 Don't Let It Get Worse

43:51 He Wasn't Alone

52:01 The Running Man

59:10 What Really Happened?

1:07:53 Wrapping Up

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Over 8000 of you voted on your favourite episodes of The Tape Library in 2025 and for the next few weeks we're going to count down the top 3.

The episode you guys voted as the best of the year, The Return of Sam the Sandown Clown...

The Sandown Clown case is one of the strangest paranormal mysteries ever recorded. In 1973, two children claimed to meet a bizarre entity on the Isle of Wight known as Sam the Clown.
Now, new information has come to light. A man says he has found the girl from the original encounter, and according to her, she had multiple encounters with Sam throughout her life — not just the one that made the case famous.
Join me as we explore this chilling new chapter in the Sandown Clown mystery.

Original Sam episode - https://youtu.be/n_P_h8yv3Ms
Modern Fairy Sightings Episode - https://youtu.be/2lhJxCnbcPA
AP Strange Episode - https://youtu.be/AufaEBPgtHs
Pauls next talk - https://www.bembridgefort.org/whats-on-events?store-page=Hello-are-you-still-there-The-Sandown-Clown-Part-Two-01-11-2025-p758049215
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Archive of the Paranormal, the strange and the unexplained. The Tape Library brings you the creepiest stories, to keep you horror junkies up all night. True scary stories of ghosts, cryptids, UFOs and true crime.

Additional footage and audio from Evanto, Artgrid, Epidemic Sounds, Singularity, Midjourney and Pexels. Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio and the youtube audio library.
All other footage used under fair use.

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Over 8000 of you voted on your favourite episodes of The Tape Library in 2025 and for the next few weeks we're going to count down the top 3.

In second place it's Summerwind Mansion...

Abandoned, eerie, and shrouded in mystery—Summerwind Mansion is one of the most infamous haunted houses in America. Once a beautiful estate, it became a hotspot for ghostly activity, strange voices, and horrifying encounters that drove its owners away. What caused this serene mansion to turn into a place of fear? We uncover the mansion’s history, its spine-chilling hauntings, and the legends that still surround it today.

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Archive of the Paranormal, the strange and the unexplained. The Tape Library brings you the creepiest stories, to keep you horror junkies up all night. True scary stories of ghosts, cryptids, UFOs and true crime.

Additional footage and audio from Evanto, Singularity, Midjourney and Pexels.
All other footage used under fair use.

SpectreVision Radio is a bespoke podcast network at the intersection between the arts and the uncanny, featuring a tapestry of shows exploring creativity, the esoteric, and the unknown. We’re a community for creators and fans vibrating around common curiosities, shared interests and persistent passions.

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Over 8000 of you voted on your favourite episodes of The Tape Library in 2025 and for the next few weeks we're going to count down the top 3.

In third place it's Gef the Talking Mongoose...

Was he a spirit, a hoax, or something else entirely? Gef the Talking Mongoose is one of the strangest paranormal cases ever recorded. In the 1930s, a small family on the Isle of Man claimed they were haunted by a mysterious talking creature with a mischievous personality. Some believed he was a ghost, others thought he was a cryptid, and skeptics called it a hoax. But decades later, the mystery of Gef remains unsolved. Join us as we explore this bizarre and chilling case.

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Archive of the Paranormal, the strange and the unexplained. The Tape Library brings you the creepiest stories, to keep you horror junkies up all night. True scary stories of ghosts, cryptids, UFOs and true crime.

Additional footage and audio from Epidemic, Evanto, Singularity, Midjourney and Pexels.
All other footage used under fair use.

SpectreVision Radio is a bespoke podcast network at the intersection between the arts and the uncanny, featuring a tapestry of shows exploring creativity, the esoteric, and the unknown. We’re a community for creators and fans vibrating around common curiosities, shared interests and persistent passions.

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Tune into Night Drive Paranormal tonight to hear 8 brand new real life paranormal stories, perfect to relax to.

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Additional footage and audio from Evanto, Artgrid, Epidemic Sounds, Singularity, Midjourney and Pexels. Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio and the youtube audio library.
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CHAPTERS
00:00 Night Drive Paranormal
02:52 The Dare
21:18 Pay Your Respects
26:19 It Wasn't Me
29:59 The Corridor
34:03 My Father
37:12 The Visitor
42:45 Knock Knock Knock
46:37 Something in the Woods
52:59 Wrapping Up
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