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After Dark: Myths, Misdeeds & the Paranormal

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This is After Dark: Myths, Misdeeds and the Paranormal. The podcast that takes you to the shadiest corners of the past, unpicking history’s spookiest, strangest, and most sinister stories.Join historians Anthony Delaney and Maddy Pelling,…

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The Wild Story of America's Biggest Traitor 2026-09-03 · 44m
Is This New York's Craziest Murder Case? 2026-08-31 · 39m
Magdalene Laundries: Ireland's Dark Secret 2026-08-27 · 61m
The Brutal Murder of Catherine Howard 2026-08-24 · 52m
18th Century France's Most Outrageous Spy 2026-08-20 · 59m
The Spy Who Fooled The Nazis 2026-08-17 · 48m
The Murder That Changed Britain 2026-08-13 · 70m
How To Be A Medieval Spy 2026-08-10 · 65m
What Did The Vikings Do With Their Dead? 2026-08-06 · 55m
Wild Shipwreck and Cannibal Story That Inspired Moby Dick 2026-08-03 · 42m
Britain's Bloodiest Mutiny 2026-07-30 · 31m
Murder In The Medici Court 2026-07-27 · 48m
The Most Disastrous Voyage in Navy History 2026-07-23 · 49m
Britain's Worst Airship Disaster 2026-07-20 · 50m
Would You Rather Be On The Titanic Or In Pompeii? 2026-07-16 · 48m
The Story of England's First Drag Queen 2026-07-13 · 43m
The Woman Who Had Sex With Ghosts 2026-07-09 · 49m
The Tragic Execution of a Victorian Murderess 2026-07-06 · 47m
The Witch Men of Iceland 2026-07-02 · 46m
The Secret Lesbian Affair under Mary Queen of Scots 2026-06-29 · 54m
The Murder Network That Terrified Versailles 2026-06-25 · 46m
History's Greatest Ghosts with Uncanny's Danny Robins 2026-06-22 · 54m
Most Famous Murder In Ancient Egypt 2026-06-18 · 64m
The Dark History of the Quakers 2026-06-15 · 56m
The Sicilian Catacombs of the Living Dead 2026-06-11 · 52m
How Boudica Took On The Roman Empire 2026-06-08 · 59m
The Gruesome History of Sexual Disease 2026-06-04 · 64m
Who tried to kill Queen Victoria? 2026-06-01 · 46m
Burke & Hare's Serial Killing Dissection Business 2026-05-28 · 52m
Ancient Rome's Bloodiest Murders 2026-05-26 · 37m
The Doctor Who Shocked Victorian Britain 2026-05-21 · 42m
Inside the Egyptian Underworld 2026-05-18 · 55m
400 Year Old Artist's Dark Revenge 2026-05-14 · 45m
BONUS: Hear a chapter of Maddy's new book, Hoax 2026-05-12 · 55m
Human Sacrifice In The Aztec Empire 2026-05-11 · 68m
The Dark Mystery of Princess Caraboo 2026-05-07 · 53m
The Haunting of Cock Lane 2026-05-04 · 65m
Speaking with the Dead: Ancient Necromancy 2026-04-30 · 45m
Dark Side of Prehistoric Britain 2026-04-27 · 43m
Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand 2026-04-23 · 49m
Titanic's Biggest Myths Debunked 2026-04-20 · 58m
The Murder that Shook Mary Queen of Scots 2026-04-16 · 48m
The Victorian Sex Scandal of Fanny & Stella 2026-04-13 · 59m
Henry VIII's Descent into Darkness 2026-04-09 · 50m
The Victorian Era's Wildest Murder 2026-04-06 · 41m
The Real Outlander 2026-04-02 · 62m
The Man Who Ate Everything 2026-03-30 · 44m
Britain's First Ghost Hunt 2026-03-26 · 53m
Dark Side of the Celts: Wicker Men and Trophy Heads 2026-03-23 · 49m
Were the Princes in the Tower murdered? 2026-03-19 · 64m
The Human Cost of Fame 2026-03-16 · 51m
The Black Death As It Happened 2026-03-12 · 39m
Who Killed Julius Caesar? 2026-03-09 · 45m
The Medieval Murder of Thomas Becket 2026-03-05 · 57m
Mysterious History of Tarot Cards 2026-03-02 · 56m
Origins of Victorian Murder Detectives 2026-02-26 · 44m
Who Was the Man In The Iron Mask? 2026-02-23 · 46m
The Dark Truth about the Haitian Revolution 2026-02-19 · 57m
The French Revolution's Reign of Terror 2026-02-16 · 58m
The Dark Truth about Wuthering Heights 2026-02-12 · 33m
Bloody Beginning of the French Revolution 2026-02-09 · 53m
Al Capone and the Valentine's Day Massacre 2026-02-05 · 37m
Dark Truth About Victorian 'Freak Shows' 2026-02-02 · 49m
Essex's Darkest Witch Hunt 2026-01-29 · 45m
Who Was the Witchfinder General? 2026-01-26 · 50m
Inside A Medieval Leper Colony 2026-01-22 · 33m
The Victorian's Dark Obsession with Ancient Egypt 2026-01-19 · 40m
The Deadly Arctic Witch Trials 2026-01-15 · 41m
The Great Fire of London As It Happened 2026-01-12 · 50m
Day in the Life of a Salem Puritan 2026-01-08 · 49m
Inside the Victorian Asylum 2026-01-05 · 41m
The Truth About the Conjuring's Ghost Hunters 2026-01-01 · 34m
Banshees: Herald of Death 2025-12-29 · 42m
Ghosts of Henry VIII's Palace 2025-12-25 · 43m
Dark Truth About Sweeney Todd 2025-12-22 · 38m
The Most Notorious Viking Raid 2025-12-18 · 43m
Oscar Wilde's Very Victorian Scandal 2025-12-15 · 66m
Does Every Family Hold A Dark Past? 2025-12-11 · 58m
What Happened The Day Pompeii was Destroyed? 2025-12-08 · 53m
The Dark Side of the Vikings 2025-12-04 · 57m
The Only Prime Minister Ever Assassinated 2025-12-01 · 46m
Who Was Medieval Europe's Most Evil Monarch? 2025-11-27 · 49m
Who was the Last Witch of Scotland? 2025-11-24 · 29m
Could you Survive the Medieval Apocalypse? 2025-11-20 · 45m
Why Did Henry VIII Kill Catherine Howard? 2025-11-17 · 52m
Who Was Nostradamus? 2025-11-13 · 33m
Day in the Life of a Tudor Executioner 2025-11-10 · 42m
Henry VIII's Murderous Reign 2025-11-06 · 52m
The Perfume Poisoner Who Killed 500 Men 2025-11-03 · 31m
Introducing a chilling new podcast: TWISTED TALES WITH HEIDI WONG 2025-11-01 · 8m
Truth About Irish Funeral Beliefs 2025-10-30 · 38m
'She Devil' Serial Poisoner of Victorian England 2025-10-27 · 45m
Witches of Cornwall 2025-10-23 · 44m
Britain's Coldest Murder Case 2025-10-20 · 34m
Day in the life of a Black Death Rat 2025-10-16 · 33m
The Dark Truth About Madam Tussauds 2025-10-13 · 54m
Who Was The Ultimate Tudor Traitor? 2025-10-09 · 45m
The Railway Murder That Shook Victorian Britain 2025-10-06 · 44m
The Dark Reality of Life at Sea 2025-10-02 · 39m
Dark Side of Elizabeth I 2025-09-29 · 44m
Who Was Ancient Egypt's Most Evil Pharaoh? 2025-09-25 · 54m
Who Was Ancient Rome's Darkest Emperor? 2025-09-22 · 42m
Day In The Life Of A Body Snatcher 2025-09-18 · 42m
Georgian England's Notorious Dumpling Poisoner 2025-09-15 · 43m
Dark Truth About Ancient Egypt's Mummification 2025-09-11 · 56m
Who was the 'Man-Monster' Of New York? 2025-09-08 · 48m
BONUS: Hear a chapter of Anthony's new book, Queer Georgians 2025-09-05 · 45m
Dark Side of Ancient Rome's Colosseum 2025-09-04 · 42m
Gay Sex Scandal that Outraged the Georgians 2025-09-01 · 56m
Jack the Ripper: Invention of a Monster 2025-08-28 · 40m
The Dark Side of Medieval England 2025-08-25 · 42m
The Darkest Scandal in Victorian Britain 2025-08-21 · 42m
New York's Wildest Murder Case 2025-08-18 · 39m
Victorian Love Triangle Murder 2025-08-14 · 48m
The Body In The Trunk: France's Shocking 19th Century Murder Case 2025-08-11 · 48m
Bloodiest Mutiny & Shipwreck in History: Batavia 2025-08-07 · 49m
Britain’s Most Prolific Executioner 2025-08-04 · 38m
Could You Survive The Victorian Workhouse? 2025-07-31 · 46m
Day In The Life Of A Plague Doctor 2025-07-28 · 38m
Final Days of Napoleon 2025-07-24 · 44m
The Great Plague of London 2025-07-21 · 32m
Dark History of the Luddites 2025-07-17 · 44m
The Plague That Shook The Roman Empire 2025-07-14 · 48m
The Truth About Frankenstein 2025-07-10 · 48m
How Bloody Was 'Bloody Mary'? 2025-07-07 · 40m
The Final Days of Anastasia Romanov 2025-07-03 · 51m
Bloody Mary: The Real Woman in the Mirror 2025-06-30 · 43m
Poison in the Tower of London 2025-06-26 · 44m
Stonehenge: 10 Strangest Facts 2025-06-23 · 36m
Could You Survive Victorian Surgery? 2025-06-19 · 41m
Murder at Stonehenge 2025-06-16 · 41m
Dark Side of Ancient Mesopotamia 2025-06-12 · 47m
Final Days of Sir Walter Raleigh 2025-06-09 · 30m
Inside the Paris Catacombs 2025-06-05 · 39m
Victorian England's Most Gruesome Murder 2025-06-02 · 40m
The Ghost of Mary Queen of Scots 2025-05-29 · 41m
The Truth About the Knights Templar 2025-05-26 · 38m
Final Days of Abraham Lincoln 2025-05-22 · 44m
Lost Colony of Roanoke: the Untold Story 2025-05-19 · 29m
The Dark Side of Ancient Egypt 2025-05-15 · 42m
Lost Colony of Roanoke: Mystery of Virginia Dare 2025-05-12 · 37m
The Murder That Shocked Edwardian Britain 2025-05-08 · 60m
The Dark Side of Ancient Rome 2025-05-05 · 38m
Spring-Heeled Jack: Terror of Victorian London 2025-05-01 · 36m
England's Darkest Folklore 2025-04-28 · 39m
Final Days of 'Mad' George III 2025-04-24 · 55m
Hammersmith Ghost: How to Murder a Poltergeist 2025-04-21 · 31m
Wales' Darkest Folklore 2025-04-17 · 38m
Ireland's Darkest Folklore 2025-04-14 · 34m
Tudor England's Dumbest Murder 2025-04-10 · 40m
Scotland's Darkest Folklore 2025-04-07 · 32m
Easter Rising: First World War In Dublin 2025-04-03 · 63m
Black Death: Scapegoats & Persecution 2025-03-30 · 40m
Easter Rising: Build-Up To Irish Rebellion 2025-03-27 · 52m
Black Death: 5 Strangest Cures 2025-03-24 · 42m
Final Days of Joan of Arc: Trial & Execution 2025-03-20 · 35m
Black Death: Inside Medieval Lockdown 2025-03-17 · 46m
Final Days of Joan of Arc: Rise to Fame 2025-03-13 · 36m
Black Death: The Origin Story 2025-03-10 · 41m
Death at the Savoy Mansions: Post-War London's Drug Underworld 2025-03-06 · 39m
The Servants' Revenge: Arsenic & a Poisoned Pint of Beer 2025-03-03 · 52m
The Curse of King Tutankhamun's Tomb 2025-02-26 · 57m
Final Days of Thomas Cromwell 2025-02-24 · 53m
Glencoe Massacre: Haunted Highlands 2025-02-20 · 39m
Peasants' Revolt: Murder in the Tower of London 2025-02-17 · 42m
Glencoe Massacre: Hell in the Scottish Highlands 2025-02-13 · 35m
Peasants' Revolt: Medieval Rebellion 2025-02-10 · 35m
Final Days of the Romanovs (Part 2) 2025-02-06 · 35m
Sweating Sickness: Deadly Tudor Plague 2025-02-03 · 41m
Final Days of the Romanovs (Part 1) 2025-01-30 · 43m
Typhoid Mary: Original Super-Spreader? 2025-01-27 · 44m
Is the Devil Dead? 2025-01-23 · 37m
Final Days of Henry VIII 2025-01-20 · 40m
Origins of the Devil 2025-01-16 · 50m
Great Fire of London: Mobs, Firestorms, and Revenge 2025-01-13 · 47m
Final Days of Mary Queen of Scots 2025-01-09 · 48m
Great Fire of London: Who started it? 2025-01-06 · 40m
Final Days of Rasputin 2025-01-02 · 42m
Is the Loch Ness Monster real? 2024-12-30 · 44m
Mystery of the Ghost Ship: Mary Celeste 2024-12-26 · 38m
Who was the "Elephant Man"? Joseph Merrick's True Story 2024-12-23 · 47m
Inside the Foundling: London's First Orphanage (Part 2) 2024-12-19 · 40m
Lost Children of Georgian London (Part 1) 2024-12-16 · 49m
Predicting Death: Strange History of the Premonitions Bureau 2024-12-12 · 40m
Ireland's First Witch: Medieval Murderer? (Part 2) 2024-12-09 · 50m
History's Greatest Ghost Hunters: the Warrens 2024-12-05 · 34m
Ireland's First Witch: Medieval Murderer? (Part 1) 2024-12-02 · 48m
Most Haunted House in America: The Amityville Horror 2024-11-28 · 30m
English Village Sacrificed to Plague (Part 2) 2024-11-24 · 43m
Ghosts of the Deep South 2024-11-21 · 52m
English Village Sacrificed to Plague (Part 1) 2024-11-18 · 47m
Queen Victoria's Funeral & the Cult of Death 2024-11-14 · 38m
Final Days of Captain Cook 2024-11-11 · 37m
Ghosts of Hampton Court Palace 2024-11-07 · 43m
Titanic: The Final Hours (Part 2) 2024-11-04 · 48m
The King's Witch Trial: North Berwick Witches 2024-10-31 · 34m
Titanic: The Doomed Ship (Part 1) 2024-10-28 · 43m
Irish Origins of Halloween 2024-10-24 · 49m
Execution of Lady Jane Grey 2024-10-21 · 40m
Final Days of Anne Boleyn 2024-10-17 · 37m
Ménage à Murder: 1920s Love Triangle Killers 2024-10-14 · 49m
Bodies in the Walls: Postwar London's Darkest Crime 2024-10-10 · 50m
Who was Jack the Ripper? The Doctor (Suspect 4) 2024-10-07 · 40m
Burke & Hare: Scotland’s Most Notorious Serial Killers 2024-10-03 · 45m
Who was Jack the Ripper? The Artist (Suspect 3) 2024-09-30 · 50m
Wounds of Christ: Macabre History of Stigmata 2024-09-26 · 35m
Who was Jack the Ripper? The Barber (Suspect 2) 2024-09-23 · 52m
Ned Kelly: Australia's Notorious Outlaw 2024-09-19 · 39m
Who was Jack the Ripper? The Prince (Suspect 1) 2024-09-16 · 37m
Lost Colony of Roanoke: Mystery of England's First American Settlers 2024-09-12 · 41m
Myth of the Minotaur: Half Man Half Bull 2024-09-09 · 36m
The Black Death: The Deadliest Plague 2024-09-05 · 49m
Macabre Death of Edgar Allan Poe 2024-09-02 · 35m
Corpse Medicine: Eating Egyptian Mummies 2024-08-29 · 35m
Giggling Granny Serial Killer 2024-08-26 · 34m
Salem Witch Trials: Interrogation & Torture 2024-08-22 · 53m
Salem Witch Trials: Hysteria & Accusations 2024-08-19 · 48m
Harry Houdini: the Original Ghostbuster 2024-08-15 · 44m
"The Elephant Man": Joseph Merrick's True Story 2024-08-12 · 45m
American Serial Killer Family: Bloody Benders 2024-08-08 · 36m
Innocent or Axe Murderer? Lizzie Borden 2024-08-05 · 58m
New York Morgue's Dark Secrets 2024-08-01 · 53m
The Final Days of Marie Antoinette 2024-07-29 · 43m
Slenderman & Mothman: Origins of Internet Horror 2024-07-25 · 35m
Victorian Teen Who Murdered Her Baby Brother 2024-07-22 · 54m
Real History of the Illuminati 2024-07-18 · 41m
Royal Murder: 1810 Death in St James's Palace 2024-07-14 · 48m
Tutankhamun's Curse 2024-07-11 · 57m
Bell Witch of Tennessee: America's Greatest Ghost Story 2024-07-07 · 34m
Real Life Crime in Victorian London 2024-07-04 · 33m
Public Executions: A Day At London's Hanging Tree 2024-06-30 · 37m
Spooky Origins of the Ouija Board 2024-06-26 · 48m
Ghost of Marie Antoinette 2024-06-24 · 42m
Last Witches of England 2024-06-20 · 44m
The ‘Genius’ Killer 2024-06-17 · 41m
Prison Hulks: Floating Hells for Convicts 2024-06-13 · 38m
Enfield Poltergeist: 1970's Suburban Horror 2024-06-10 · 47m
The Witch of New York: 1840's Murder Trials of Polly Bodine 2024-06-06 · 42m
The Real Mutiny on the Bounty: Revenge in Paradise (Part 2) 2024-06-03 · 44m
Real History of the Knights Templar 2024-05-30 · 38m
Victorian Thames Torso Murders 2024-05-27 · 36m
Hidden History of Garden Gnomes 2024-05-23 · 33m
Great Irish Famine: Coffin Ships & the Dark Truth (Part 2) 2024-05-20 · 41m
Oliver Cromwell's Decapitated Head & Charles II's Revenge 2024-05-15 · 39m
The Great Famine: Ireland’s Darkest Chapter (Part 1) 2024-05-13 · 37m
Harry Potter Monsters: The Ancient Origins 2024-05-08 · 42m
True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty (Part 1) 2024-05-05 · 44m
Execution of Charles I 2024-05-01 · 39m
1811 Ratcliffe Highway Murders: Birth of True Crime 2024-04-29 · 41m
Cannibalism in Scotland: Legend of Sawney Bean 2024-04-24 · 32m
What is the Yeti? 2024-04-22 · 34m
The Georgian Husband with Fourteen Wives 2024-04-17 · 38m
Bigfoot: the Origin Story 2024-04-15 · 36m
Deadly Dancing Plague of 1518 2024-04-10 · 40m
Bigfoot: Hunt for the Truth 2024-04-08 · 37m
Jack the Ripper 2024-04-04 · 52m
Medieval Mass Murdering Monk: Malmesbury Abbey 2024-04-01 · 28m
The Murdering Midwife of Covent Garden 2024-03-28 · 56m
Who is the Real Dracula? The Bloody History 2024-03-25 · 38m
England's Worst Witch Trial: Pendle Witches 2024-03-21 · 46m
St Patrick: Pirates, Snakes and Goatees 2024-03-17 · 47m
Medieval Torture: The Dark History 2024-03-14 · 42m
'Black Widow': Serial Killer of Victorian England 2024-03-11 · 54m
Pirate Queens: Mary Read & Anne Bonny 2024-03-06 · 42m
The First Alien Abduction 2024-03-03 · 45m
The Paris Morgue's Dark Story 2024-02-29 · 41m
Do Mermaids Exist? Historical Sightings & Myths 2024-02-25 · 42m
The Earliest Evidence of Ghosts 2024-02-22 · 39m
The Real Hannibal Lecter 2024-02-18 · 39m
Murder in Henry VIII's England 2024-02-15 · 35m
The Mystery of the Medieval Green Children 2024-02-12 · 35m
Dragons: From the Ancient World to the Hobbit 2024-02-07 · 41m
The Fairy Hoax That Fooled the World 2024-02-04 · 53m
The American Ripper 2024-02-01 · 67m
Alaskan Stories: Sedna the Sea-Goddess & Myth of Last Frontier 2024-01-28 · 45m
The Mythical Origins of Britain 2024-01-25 · 25m
The Real Dick Turpin 2024-01-21 · 44m
The Many Murders of Alexander the Great 2024-01-18 · 40m
Ghost Ship: The Mary Celeste 2024-01-15 · 37m
Myths of King Arthur: Origins, Creepy Sex & Magic Swords 2024-01-11 · 32m
Ireland's Bloodiest Murders: Maamtrasna Murders 2024-01-08 · 40m
Medieval Werewolves, Ghosts & Zombies 2024-01-04 · 52m
Exploding Kings & Red Hot Pokers: Gruesome Deaths of Monarchs 2024-01-01 · 39m
Blood Countess of Hungary: Sixteenth Century Serial Killer 2023-12-28 · 37m
Christmas Day Strangler: the murder of Gwen Ellen Jones 2023-12-25 · 28m
Charles Dickens' Christmas Ghosts 2023-12-20 · 32m
Palmer the Poisoner: Victorian England's Doctor of Death 2023-12-18 · 38m
Why Do People Kill at Christmas? 2023-12-13 · 40m
Ghost That Solved Its Own Murder: Red Barn Murder 2023-12-10 · 52m
The Ghost of Anne Boleyn 2023-12-07 · 33m
Hellfire Club: Sex, Scandal & Satanism in Georgian England 2023-12-04 · 47m
Amelia Dyer: Victorian Baby Farm Killer 2023-11-29 · 41m
The Real Origins of Witches 2023-11-27 · 35m
Victorian Death Photography: Postmortem Posers 2023-11-23 · 27m
Mother Shipton: Tudor Prophetess of England's Doom 2023-11-20 · 35m
The Real Witch Hunts: Persecution & Panic 2023-11-16 · 42m
The Man Who Hanged Nazis: Albert Pierrepoint 2023-11-12 · 38m
Ghost Fetishes: From Ancient World to Victorians 2023-11-09 · 25m
Origins of the Loch Ness Monster 2023-11-06 · 41m
Guy Fawkes & the 1605 Gunpowder Plot 2023-11-01 · 50m
Hammersmith Ghost: How to Murder a Poltergeist 2023-10-29 · 32m
Hauntings, Hangings & a Beast: Bodmin Jail 2023-10-26 · 43m
Last Witch of Scotland 2023-10-23 · 29m
Banshees: Ireland's Harbinger of Death 2023-10-19 · 42m
HMS Terror: Cursed Arctic Expedition 2023-10-16 · 40m
Burke & Hare: Scotland’s Most Notorious Serial Killers 2023-10-16 · 41m
Goriest Murders in Ancient Rome 2023-10-16 · 37m
The Origins of Halloween 2023-10-16 · 31m
The Murders That Shocked Georgian London 2023-10-16 · 37m
Welcome to After Dark: Myths, Misdeeds & the Paranormal 2023-10-13 · 4m
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