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Back to SearchGordon Cummins: The Blackout Ripper
Season 5 Episode 5
“In war, one of our great protections against the dangers of air attack after nightfall will be the "blackout". On the outbreak of hostilities all ex…
5 years, 2 months ago
Phantom Airships of the 19th Century
Season 5 Episode 4
In the winter of 1896, a spate of airship sightings spread out from California, stampeding across the United States until, in the Spring of 1897, the…
5 years, 3 months ago
Haunted Bones: Screaming Skulls
Season 5 Episode 3
Haunted human remains are a trope popular in modern horror, from the twisted ivory puppet in the House on Haunted Hill to the skeletal corpses, flo…
5 years, 3 months ago
The Homunculus: From Science Fact to Gothic Fiction
Season 5 Episode 2
With a long and winding path through history from ancient times, to the renaissance and beyond, Alchemy was a vast subject with a multitude of prac…
5 years, 4 months ago
William Dove & The Wizard
Season 5 Episode 1
The mid 19th Century newspaper headlines saw no shortage of cases involving poison. Unsurprisingly, given the relative ease of obtaining such deadly …
5 years, 4 months ago
Christmas Campfire 2020 (Part 2)
Season 4 Episode 24
Heya! I hope you had a great Christmas and are relaxing and taking it easy before the New Year. Here's the second part to this years Christmas Campfi…
5 years, 5 months ago
Christmas Campfire 2020 (Part 1)
Season 4 Episode 23
Merry Christmas everyone! It wouldn't be Christmas in 2020 if it wasn't at least a bit of a cock-up right?! Half way through recording this episode, …
5 years, 5 months ago
Loup-Garou: Witches, Cannibalism & The Werewolves of France
Season 4 Episode 22
From Salem to East Anglia, Bordeaux to the black forest of Germany, it seems there is no end of infamous witch trials that took place in history, spa…
5 years, 6 months ago
A Small Amendment
Season 4 Episode 22
Wrong email address for the submissions! My apologies! The link in the shows original notes should be right, so if you went by that rather than my no…
5 years, 6 months ago
Nandor Fodor & The Alma Fielding Poltergeist
Season 4 Episode 21
(There was a bit of an issue with the sound getting scrambled in the original upload of this episode. If you find you bump into this, please delete t…
5 years, 6 months ago