This is After Dark: Myths, Misdeeds and the Paranormal. The podcast that takes you to the shadiest c
King Arthur. Merlin. The Knights of the Round Table and the Sword in the Stone. We think we know the
One summer night in 1882 the Maamtrasna Valley in the West of Ireland became forever notorious when
How did Medieval people fight against the Undead? What motivated their Ghosts? And why do stories of
Edward II died by red-hot poker. William the Conqueror exploded on his way into the coffin. Mary II
The inspiration behind countless gothic novels, Countess Elizabeth Báthory is said to be one of the
On Christmas Day 1909, Gwen Ellen Jones was murdered by William Murphy in the Welsh town of Holyhead
Like Ebenezer Scrooge on Christmas Eve, we are visited by three Dickensian ghosts today. One rattlin
In a century of poisoners, William Palmer stands out as the prince of them all. Charles Dickens call
Why do people kill in the season of goodwill? Why are we fascinated when they do? And what doe
The Red Barn Murder in 1827 was ground zero for true crime podcasts. It become one of the first case
We talk the ghost of Anne Boleyn, Queen of England before Henry VIII chopped off her head, with the
Sex, Satanism and Scandal surrounded the Hellfire Club that operated out of a network of caves in th
Some estimates have it that Amelia Dyer killed more than 400 babies. It's hard to say for sure becau
Have you ever wondered what the ancient origins of witchcraft is? How did the black-hat-broomstick s
The Victorians created the unsettling art of death photography - posing their deceased love ones in
Did a Tudor prophetess correctly predict the English Civil War, the Crimean War, the sinking of the
Witch hunts blazed across Europe from the 1400s right into the 1700s. Their terror has been burned i
For Albert Pierrepoint, execution was a family affair. His father and uncle were hangmen and from th
What is spectrophilia? Well, it's a fetish for ghosts (as well as mirrors), so being turned on by an
What lurks beneath the dark waters of Loch Ness? The legendary monster? A piece of Celtic folklore?
