Whether you have fifteen minutes to kill, or longer, you've found your new favourite podcast for digestible distractions that delve deep into the Dark Earth.

Welcome to 15Minutes2Kill: Dark Travel Journals, True Crime, and Creatures of Shadow.

From Berlin to Beverly Hills, 120 countries, forty-five US states, and counting . . . an industry CEO told me I was too old and ugly for podcasting, but here we are. I'm horror author D. J. Swales, your new tour guide around this Dark Earth. Tour Guide of the Damned, some might say . . . and this is your one-way ticket into the void.

So pack your bags and grab a scone or two – we've got places to go. First class or cattle class, it's wonderful to meet you, but don't forget your travel insurance for this whirlwind of dark journeys and investigations. I'm the sole writer, producer, and host of this show. An unholy trinity of tasks allowing me to explore the macabre and the mysterious of life. The footprints of dark history, and the wretched things that lurk in plain sight, or watch us from the shadows.

Join me as I continue to chase the ghost of my Irish sea-dog grandfather around this Dark Earth, from Manila to Melbourne, from Jakarta to Jacksonville. A Dark Earth my sailor grandfather circled for years, until the fateful day he was knocked down the hold of a ship in Hamburg. But I've sensed his spirit in harbours around the world, from Hamburg to Hong Kong.

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Before the murder, there was the world that spawned it. Where parasocial obsessions met the grind of content creation.

Airi Sato was a social media influencer and live streamer murdered on the streets of Tokyo by a former fan. Discover the details of the crime after a short introduction to Japan's largest red light districts. Places where your host, D.J. Swales, has often wandered after dark, to write in the windows of 711 convenience stores, and watch the neon-bathed workers and clients of Japan's underworlds whisk by.

Dark travel journals, true crime, and creatures of shadow. Welcome to 15Minutes2Kill.

Recorded in Times Square, New York City.

KEY WORDS: TOKYO UNDERWORLD, AIRI SATO, STALKER, PARASOCIAL, LIVE STREAM, RED LIGHT DISTRICT, K-POP, HYUNAH, PARIS FASHION WEEK, TUILERIES PALACE

"In the hunt for a serial killer nicknamed the Gay Slayer, the U.K.’s top crime show outed me to the entire country. They then doubled-down, comparing me to a gay teenage street prostitute. Everyone has their own path to the world of true crime. That was mine. . ."

Author D. J. Swales, international tumbleweed of 120 countries and 45 U.S. states, invites you to explore the Dark Earth. Discover a new perspective on true crime, dark travel journals, serial killers, twisted history, mysteries, cryptids, and terrifying folklore.

When D. J.'s travel journals burned in Seoul, he wrote new ones. Enjoy all your favourite dark themes from wanderings on the open road. From the dangerous world of London rent boys, to familiar places seen from dark paths after midnight.

Discover the Dark Earth through the eyes of someone who has lived it. His only constant companion, a huge suitcase called Letitia.

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Before the murder, there was the world that spawned it. Where parasocial obsessions met the grind of content creation.

Airi Sato was a social media influencer and live streamer murdered on the streets of Tokyo by a former fan. This prelude and Dark Journal takes the listener from the host bars of Shinjuku to the front row of Paris Fashion Week — where your host D.J. Swales worked alongside K-Pop megastar HyunA and the late designer Kenzo. With a detour through history, we go from the glittering heights of live streaming to its perilous shadows. The same tool. Very different worlds.

Meet Yuriko: fictional, but completely real. A farm girl turned Kabukichō hostess, live streaming her way through Shinjuku's neon alleyways, feeding the algorithm and ignoring the creeps in the comments. Yuriko is every brave young woman who believes that visibility should never have to compromise safety.

Dark travel journals, true crime, and creatures of shadow. Welcome to 15Minutes2Kill.

Recorded in Times Square, New York City.

KEY WORDS: TOKYO UNDERWORLD, AIRI SATO, STALKER, PARASOCIAL, LIVE STREAM, RED LIGHT DISTRICT, K-POP, HYUNAH, PARIS FASHION WEEK, TUILERIES PALACE

"In the hunt for a serial killer nicknamed the Gay Slayer, the U.K.’s top crime show outed me to the entire country. They then doubled-down, comparing me to a gay teenage street prostitute. Everyone has their own path to the world of true crime. That was mine. . ."

Author D. J. Swales, international tumbleweed of 120 countries and 45 U.S. states, invites you to explore the Dark Earth. Discover a new perspective on true crime, dark travel journals, serial killers, twisted history, mysteries, cryptids, and terrifying folklore.

When D. J.'s travel journals burned in Seoul, he wrote new ones. Enjoy all your favourite dark themes from wanderings on the open road. From the dangerous world of London rent boys, to familiar places seen from dark paths after midnight.

Discover the Dark Earth through the eyes of someone who has lived it. His only constant companion, a huge suitcase called Letitia.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.