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Back to SearchThe Unsavoury Tale of the Maryland Snallygaster
Season 10 Episode 10
In the fall of 1909, a strange fear settled over the hills and farms of Maryland. Newspapers carried reports of a monstrous winged creature said to s…
8 hours ago
Mary Pearcey & The Hampstead Tragedy
Season 10 Episode 8
In 1890, the murders of Phoebe Hogg and her infant daughter in Hampstead became one of the most widely reported criminal cases of the Victorian perio…
2 weeks ago
Amazing Stories & The Shaver Mystery
Season 10 Episode 9
In 1945, the end of the second world war was approaching, atom bombs were on the way, and science fiction felt more like speculative prophecies than …
4 weeks ago
BONUS: 10 Year Q+A
Season 10 Episode 6
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 so much if…
1 month, 1 week ago
The Big Grey Man of Ben MacDui
Season 10 Episode 7
High in the mist-shrouded Cairngorms, where the winter wind bites like a vice, lies the domain of a long-spoken, unsettling presence. For over a hund…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
The Ghost Ship Carroll A. Deering
Season 10 Episode 6
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 struggle…
2 months ago
The Witches of Warboys
Season 10 Episode 5
In the late 16th century, in the small village of Warboys, just outside Cambridge, everyday life was unsettled by growing fear and uncertainty, when …
2 months, 2 weeks ago
The 19th Century West Ham Vanishings
Season 10 Episode 4
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 area beca…
2 months, 4 weeks ago
George Psalmanazar, The Man From Formosa
Season 10 Episode 3
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 a fantas…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
George Joseph Smith: The Case of the Brides in the Bath
Season 10 Episode 2
At the turn of the twentieth century, a pattern of unusual deaths began to surface, when three unrelated women were found drowned in their bathtubs, …
3 months, 4 weeks ago