The Ventura twins are yanked into another dimension where they meet a distant cousin who gives them an extraordinary mission: travel through time to witness their culture’s true history. Alexa and Beni visit three continents across the span of five centuries, meeting people who have left their mark on Puerto Rican heritage. In the twenty-first century, the twins navigate school, friendship, and family while keeping their time-traveling quests a secret.
Timestorm is produced by Cocotazo Media and is a proud member of TRAX from PRX. Support for TRAX comes from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Additional support comes from the Google Podcasts creator program and our loyal Patreon community.
Dania Ramos (Creator, head writer, producer)
Michael Aquino (Sound designer, composer, producer)
TimestormSeries.com | TRAX.fm | Kids Listen
Twitter & Instagram: @TimestormPod | Facebook: facebook.com/CocotazoM
Equipment sponsor: 3DioSound | Series art: Hispanic Legacy Studio
Timestorm Patreon Community
Timestorm resources: Series Listening Guide | Episode Guides & Transcripts | More About Puerto Rico | Map Guides
Timestorm is produced in Essex County, New Jersey, which is situated on the traditional territory of the Leni Lenape people.
Parent info: Timestorm is recommended for ages 6-10 and 11 plus. It's a Story led show that should be listened to in order. Made in the USA, it's about History and Time Travel for kids. Launched in 2019, it has 3 seasons.
Lalo recounts his cousin's ghostly encounter in an Old San Juan hotel.…
Lalo shares a mysterious legend about an iconic fort in Old San Juan.…
Lalo shares a tale about his grandfather's encounter with a theater ghost in Old San Juan.…
The Ventura twins create their own quest and return a trio of artifacts to where they belong.…
An anomaly lets Horacio say goodbye.…
Lalo helps the Ventura twins locate the arrowhead before Kaylee returns. When an anomaly is triggered, Horacio, Alexa, and Beni find themselves in a murky place.…
Horacio recalls a visit to Old San Juan on the day he left for the School of Infantry.…
Josie, Alexa, and Beni head to the El Yunque National Rainforest to retrieve a metal container from the base of an observation tower...unaware that someone else is also searching for it.…
El Yunque, 1938: In the mountainous rainforest, the Ventura twins come across Gael, a Civilian Conservation Corps worker, who hides a metal container in the foundation of a future observation tower.…
Horacio recalls when his abuelo gave him a gift for his eleventh birthday.…
Josie and Janelly join the twins on a trip to the Tibes Indigenous Ceremonial Center to complete the quest. Tensions rise when Janelly and the twins disagree about what to do after the artifact is freed from the stone.…
Tibes, 1980: The Ventura twins run into a pair of archeologists while searching for an artifact in an excavation site of a former Taíno village.…
The Ventura twins return to the lighthouse they visited one hundred years earlier where they find an artifact in an unexpected place.…
The Ventura twins seek a clue for their next quest inside a lighthouse in Aguadilla during the flu pandemic of 1918.…
The Ventura twins hunt for three sacred artifacts in a thrilling cross-island adventure that takes them from the ruins of a lighthouse to towering heights in a tropical rainforest.…
Horacio and Atabey prepare the Ventura twins for their upcoming quests—and additional clues are revealed.…
After Sonia wins the Newark Sounds contest, the studio version of her original song hits the airwaves.…
Bloopers, outtakes, and lots of laughs with the lead actors of Timestorm.…
The Ventura twins meet a mysterious figure and learn the name of the treasure they will soon seek.…
Michael Aquino shares how he collaborated with musicians to create the music featured in season 2 of Timestorm.…
Guaynia, Borikén, 1510: Aguey walks in the woods with his wife Karaya. They recall a simpler time before the Spanish arrived on the island and life as they knew it changed forever.…
The Ventura twins make new connections in their family tree.…
Josie shows the secret tapestry to Alexa and Beni and plans for the three of them to travel to the other store together…but someone tags along.…
The Ventura twins travel to San Juan in 1999 where they find a message from family inside an iconic park.…
Janelly finds a mysterious item hidden inside Taíno Comics and Games. Alexa, Beni, and Sonia join her investigation to uncover the identity of the person who hid the secret object.…
Loiza, Puerto Rico, 1890: The Ventura twins meet a family of storytellers and recognize one member from a previous quest.…
When the Ventura twins land inside La Academia de San Fernando in Madrid in 1852, they must find Francisco Oller, an art student who can help them with their quest.…
Beni recalls an unsettling moment during the music festival that left him speechless.…
A look back at the moment when Datu learned about Josie's secret tapestry.…
The Venturas spend the day at a music festival in Branch Brook Park. Janelly does some solo investigating at Taíno Comics and Games. Datu joins Josie on a visit to her other store.…
The Ventura twins are sent to Guaynia, Borikén, in 1488 to carve the beat of three motherlands. They meet Aguey, a teen boy afraid to recite the Taíno creation tale at his village’s areíto.…
After the Ventura twins return from their journey to nineteenth-century Senegal, they face unfinished business with their friends back home in twenty-first-century Newark.…
In 1810, the Ventura twins search for the beat of three motherlands in a Wolof village in the Saint-Louis region of Senegal in West Africa. They meet Idrissa, who invites them to a baby-naming ceremony for his nephew.…
When a spring thunderstorm approaches the city of Newark, the Ventura twins hope they’ll soon be heading back into the timestorm. But first, Beni and Janelly suspect there's something mysterious happening at Taíno Comics and Games.…
The Ventura twins are back! Their new adventures will send them to 3 continents…and 3 centuries.…
A bonus episode featuring moments with women teachers: Celestina Cordero, Lolita Tizol, and Monsi Román’s fictional teacher, Señora Ramirez.…
A brief chat with cast members Claudio Venancio (Beni) and Leilany Figueroa (Alexa).…
Michael Aquino shares how he created the music featured in season 1 of Timestorm.…
A behind-the-scenes episode about how the Timestorm team recorded violinist Aurora Méndez performing ”Consolación,” which was composed by Claudio Brindis de Salas Garrido.…
Thad makes an admission, a deal, and an offer.…
The twins do some sleuthing about L. J. Ortega and find a strange clue: secret audio with mysterious voices.…
Several stages of Sonia's songwriting.…
A Newark neighborhood unites to get donated goods shipped to Puerto Rico. The Venturas finally hear word about family on the island.…
The Ventura twins travel to 1975 to find an invisible danger at the University of Puerto Rico. They meet Monsi Román, a primary school student visiting the campus for a local science fair when a mysterious illness spreads among the judges.…
The Ventura twins come to terms with their changing neighborhood, friendships, and lives. The library gets critical help with hurricane relief efforts.…
The Ventura twins travel to Ponce during the turn of the twentieth century to retrieve a broken promise. They meet future educator Lola Tizol and world-renowned violinist Claudio Brindis de Salas Garrido.…
The twins struggle to navigate their ordinary lives while keeping their time-traveling quests a secret.…
San Juan, 1838: The twins head to La Fortaleza to confront the Spanish guard officer who has stolen the plea for equality.…
In San Juan, 1838, Alexa and Beni must retrieve a plea for equality. They meet Maestra Celestina Cordero who is fighting for supplies for her schoolgirls.…
The twins return to the timestorm ready to join Horacio’s mission. They meet an incorporeal entity that helps them prepare for their first quest.…
The Venturas learn their family in Puerto Rico will have to brace for a second hurricane in two weeks.…
Alexa and Beni Ventura are yanked into a timestorm where they meet a distant cousin who gives them an extraordinary mission: travel through time to preserve their culture’s true history.…
The Ventura twins travel through time to preserve Puerto Rico’s true history.…
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