The Dallas Cellar Club: What I Found Five Years Later

In 2021, Tales From The Dark investigated a job posting for the Dallas Cellar Club: a supposed upscale wine lounge hiring hostesses for twenty-two dollars an hour.

What I found instead was a twenty-minute recruitment recording, a rotating cast of phone numbers, and a pattern that looked a lot like something far worse than a bad job. I couldn't prove what it was, and we said so.

This is the follow-up.

In 2024, a listener reached out with four self-recorded phone calls documenting months of contact with the same operation, now recruiting under a different name. What's on those recordings is worse than anything in the original episode.

This time, I traced the operation back over fifteen years, across at least five names and twenty-four cities, and found it's still actively recruiting right now.

This episode contains explicit sexual language, racialized degradation, and descriptions of psychological manipulation.

It is not my usual paranormal format. Listener discretion is strongly advised.

The complete, unedited recordings referenced in this episode are available in full on our Patreon at patreon.com/talesfromthedark.

If you recognize any part of this investigation, report it to the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center at ic3.gov, or call the FBI's tip line at 1-800-CALL-FBI (1-800-225-5324).

We'll also be posting current job listings and phone numbers tied to this operation directly in the Tales From The Dark Facebook group as I find them.

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