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Fall Asleep in a Renaissance Painter's Workshop | Sleep Story

October 22, 2026 · 1 hr 58 min

A small boxwood board, a silver drawing point, and a twelve-year-old boy beginning his apprenticeship in Renaissance Florence. Before he can paint a face, there are years of colors to grind, wooden panels to prepare, and gold leaf to…
Fall Asleep in Old Japan | The Story of Handmade Paper

October 21, 2026 · 2 hr 6 min

In the hills west of old Edo, papermakers spent the cold winter months turning mulberry bark into soft, strong sheets of handmade paper. Each sheet would eventually find its way into the ordinary lives of people far beyond the…
Fall Asleep in a Quiet Victorian Manor | History Sleep Story

October 16, 2026 · 1 hr 10 min

A Victorian country house stands almost empty while its owners spend the summer in London. Behind the closed shutters, a small household of servants keeps the rooms, gardens, and quiet routines of the old estate. You don't need to stay…
Fall Asleep to Ancient China | A Walk Through a 900-Year-Old Painting

October 13, 2026 · 1 hr 15 min

A nine-hundred-year-old silk painting opens onto misty fields, willow trees, and a road leading toward a bustling city in ancient China. We'll unroll it slowly, one quiet scene at a time. If you fall asleep before we reach the bridge, the…
Fall Asleep Aboard the RMS Olympic (1913) | Sleep Story

October 10, 2026 · 1 hr 26 min

In the summer of 1913, a family settles into third class aboard the RMS Olympic, crossing the Atlantic beneath electric lights and the steady hum of enormous engines. In their small cabin, a little girl has begun collecting the oranges…

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A Quiet Night with Pirates | Sleep Story

October 8, 2026 · 1 hr 16 min

Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. Around seventeen twenty, a pirate ship lies on her side in the shallows of a quiet bay off Madagascar, while her crew spends the weeks scraping, mending and preparing her for the…
Fall Asleep in a Roman Fort at the Edge of the Empire

October 6, 2026 · 1 hr 31 min

Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. Around the year one hundred, on the northern edge of Roman Britain, someone wrote a short note about socks, sandals and underpants. Two thousand years later, that ordinary little…
A Quiet Night Behind the Trenches | Sleep Story

October 3, 2026 · 1 hr 5 min

Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. A winter night in Flanders, nineteen fifteen going into nineteen sixteen. Behind the front line, soldiers drink strong tea, dry their socks, borrow books, sleep in old brick vaults…
Nikola Tesla Before the Fame | Sleep Story

October 1, 2026 · 1 hr 5 min

Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. Before the laboratories, the famous machines and the photographs of artificial lightning, Nikola Tesla was a boy beside a mountain stream, taking clocks apart, building little…
The Year Before the First Crusade | Sleep Story

September 29, 2026 · 1 hr 17 min

Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. In 1096, thousands of households across France were getting ready for someone to leave. Land was pledged, silver counted, crosses sewn onto cloaks, harvests brought in, and keys…
Inside Five Points: Everyday Life in 1850s New York | Sleep Story

September 26, 2026 · 58 min

Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. In the early eighteen fifties, a few crowded streets in lower Manhattan held families from Ireland, Germany, England and elsewhere, living in rooms behind shops and courtyards just…
Fall Asleep in a 1930s California Migrant Camp | Sleep Story

September 24, 2026 · 53 min

Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. At the far end of a long road, a family finally stops — beneath canvas, beside the cotton fields of California. A long, slow one. There's no ending you need to reach, and nothing…

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About the show

The Sleepkeeper is a quiet place for the end of the day. Each episode is a slow, immersive journey designed to give your mind somewhere gentle to go while you fall asleep. You might spend a night inside an ancient monastery, walk through a forgotten city, drift along a distant coastline, explore a quiet moment in history, or simply follow a story that becomes softer and slower as the night goes on. There is nothing to remember, nothing to solve, and nowhere you need to get to. The stories are calm, atmospheric, and unhurried — made for late nights, restless minds, and anyone who finds it easier to sleep when there is a quiet voice nearby. Come in, get comfortable, and let the story carry the night for you. Sleep well, friend.