Explora Audio tours

22 tours playable·6 free·12 being narrated

Real cases. On location. Up close.

Explora plays you documented criminal cases exactly where they happened. Two hours, ten stops, puzzles along the way — no guide, no fixed time, no signal needed. One price per tour, not per person.

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Free app · pay per tour · no subscription

How it works ↓

Operation Rheingold · Düsseldorf · 10 stops

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from 9,99 € per tour

Covers the whole group

How a tour works · 4 steps

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Three genres · 34 tours

What kind of evening are you after?

Lead genre · 25 Touren

True
Crime

Documented criminal cases, told exactly where they happened. Investigation files, newspaper archives, court transcripts – no invented ghost stories. You stand in front of the building and hear what is on record. That sticks differently than a podcast on the sofa.

  • Case files, newspaper archives, trial reports
  • A task at every waypoint, not just narration
  • 10 stops · approx. 2 hours · 4–6 km
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Kürten case 1929 · 51.2202 N, 6.7928 E

4 tours

Espionage

Five real ciphers per mission – Caesar, Morse, Polybius, A1Z26, Atbash – plus dead drops and counter-surveillance. An escape room, but in the open air: you decrypt while you walk. One wrong code and your contact never shows.

Düsseldorf · Hannover · Hamburg · Köln

5 tours

Mystery

Archive-backed hauntings and city legends, told by a retired city archivist. He names sources, dates and contradictions – and says openly what cannot be settled. Goosebumps without being talked down to.

Düsseldorf · Hannover · Hamburg · Leipzig

Take part · not just listen

The difference from a podcast

Every tour has tasks you can only solve on location: ciphers, combination locks, observation puzzles. All 304 waypoints have one. Try three of them right here — this is exactly how they work in the app.

Tool 01

Caesar cipher

Intercepted message at the dead drop. Turn the ring until a word appears. This exact task is in “Operation Rheingold”.

Ciphertext

UKHLQJROG

Plaintext

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Tool 02

Code entry

Enter the decrypted code word. The app confirms your answer, then you move on to the next waypoint.

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Code word confirmed · Operation Rheingold

Tool 03

Sample puzzle

The witness gives three times: 21:40, 22:05, 22:50. The caretaker says the stairwell light was on for 12 minutes. Which statement contradicts the record?

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From the app · six screens

What you actually see out there

No mockups – real screenshots from the running app. Tap through the five steps of a tour. The app is in German.

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Coverage · 19 cities

Where the cases are

22 tours are fully narrated and playable right now, spread across 12 cities. The remaining cards show what we are working on: route and research are done, narration is under way. You can only buy what is finished.

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Sofa mode · lean back

You don't have to go outside

No time, bad weather, no energy? Every tour also runs as a pure audio story: chapters instead of waypoints, auto-advance instead of GPS. Same case, nothing missed. Sleep timer included, in case it would otherwise keep you up.

  • Auto-advance between chapters
  • Sleep timer: 15 · 30 · 45 minutes
  • Puzzles optional – the story keeps running
  • Free tours run far away from Düsseldorf and München and Hamburg and Leipzig and Köln
Tour cover: Die Jagd auf den Vampir von Düsseldorf

True Crime · Düsseldorf

Die Jagd auf den Vampir

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Original tour audio, in German · 20-second excerpt

Sleep 30 min

Pricing · one-off purchase

No subscription. Ever.

Guided city tours charge per person. Explora charges per tour: buy it once and five of you walk it on one device. And the tour stays yours — next year, with different guests, all over again.

Short tour

9,99 €

approx. 1 hour · 5 stops · 3–5 km

  • One case in 5 stops – fits into a lunch break
  • Same narrator, same kinds of task
  • Same rules: buy once, offline, per tour
  • A good way in if two hours is too much
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6 tours free to try

Standard tour

17,99 €

approx. 2 hours · 10 stops · 4–6 km

  • One price per tour – on your own or as five
  • Pay once, keep it forever
  • Fully offline, no data used on the route
  • Sofa mode and a local tip included
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Long tour

21,99 €

approx. 3 hours · 15 stops · 8,5 km

  • 15 stops instead of 10, longer route
  • More observation and quiz tasks
  • Same rules: buy once, offline, per tour
  • Currently being narrated – out next
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Kürten case · Düsseldorf · 10 chapters

The crime scene
is still standing.

Explora is out — on the App Store and on Google Play. Waiting for you: 22 finished tours, 6 of them free. The case files are not going anywhere.

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