Folk Exorcism & The Cornish Ghost Layers
The early modern period was a rocky time for religion across Europe, fundamental pinnings of everyday life were being questioned and changin...
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20 of 253 episodesThe Unsavoury Tale of the Maryland Snallygaster
In the fall of 1909, a strange fear settled over the hills and farms of Maryland. Newspapers carried reports of a monstrous winged creature...
Mary Pearcey & The Hampstead Tragedy
In 1890, the murders of Phoebe Hogg and her infant daughter in Hampstead became one of the most widely reported criminal cases of the Victor...
Amazing Stories & The Shaver Mystery
In 1945, the end of the second world war was approaching, atom bombs were on the way, and science fiction felt more like speculative prophec...
BONUS: 10 Year Q+A
Hey everyone! Here is there first of the bonus episodes I have lined up to go along with the 10 year anniversary of Dark Histories! Thanks s...
The Big Grey Man of Ben MacDui
High in the mist-shrouded Cairngorms, where the winter wind bites like a vice, lies the domain of a long-spoken, unsettling presence. For ov...
The Ghost Ship Carroll A. Deering
In January 1921, a five-masted schooner was discovered run aground off the coast of North Carolina with no crew aboard and no clear signs of...
The Witches of Warboys
In the late 16th century, in the small village of Warboys, just outside Cambridge, everyday life was unsettled by growing fear and uncertain...
The 19th Century West Ham Vanishings
The East London district of West Ham might be best known globally for the football team of the same name, but in the late 19th century, the...
George Psalmanazar, The Man From Formosa
In the early 1700s, when maps still had blank spaces and “here be dragons” felt like a reasonable warning, a stranger arrived in Europe with...
George Joseph Smith: The Case of the Brides in the Bath
At the turn of the twentieth century, a pattern of unusual deaths began to surface, when three unrelated women were found drowned in their b...
The Curious Case of Edgar Vandy
In 1933 when a young, London inventor died under suspicious circumstances, his two surviving brothers turned to the talents of spiritualist...
Christmas Campfire 2025 (Part 2)
Happy New Year! Here is part two of the Christmas Campfire for 2025, though I guess it's more of a New Years Campfire! I hope you enjoy it,...
Christmas Campfire 2025 (Part 1)
It's Christmas Eve, so it must be time for the Christmas Campfire! Thank you so much to everyone that submitted their stories this year, it'...
The Spirit of Old Jeffery: John Wesley & The Epworth Poltergeist
Over the Christmas of 1716, during a time of political tension and uncertainty in England, strange events began to trouble Epworth Rectory....
The Whaleship Essex & The Real Life Story of Moby Dick
In the summer of 1819, the whaleship Essex set sail from Nantucket, chasing fortune across the vast and indifferent Pacific. What began as a...
Flying Carrots & Little Divers: The French UFO Wave of 1954
In the autumn of 1954, France found itself gripped by a strange and unnerving spectacle. From quiet rural villages to bustling towns and cit...
Yesterday Today - 09/11
In this week's episode of Yesterday Today I had a bit of a dive into teh murder of Mary Jane Kelly and how it was presented in the London pa...
The Martins Croft Poltergeist: The Devil of Ylöjärvi
In the frozen landscape of Finnish winter, 1885, the quiet croft of Efraim Martin in Ylöjärvi became the center of local attention thanks to...
The Paris Bluebeard: The Life & Lies of Marcel Petiot
In the shadows of war-torn Paris, a charming young doctor lived a double life. Physician by day, and resistance fighter by night, his underg...