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Back to SearchSorcery, Witchcraft & Murder: The Affair of the Poisons
Season 8 Episode 18
In France during the 17th Century, a string of unexpected deaths lead to a murder inquiry that uncovered the dark practices of a serial poisoner, wh…
1 year, 8 months ago
Summer Holiday 2024 - Algernon Blackwood
Season 8 Episode 17
This week I'm off on my Summer holiday for a trip in the woods, so what better episode to do than read a few stories from Algernon Blackwood, all abo…
1 year, 9 months ago
The Spectacular Life of Donald Omand, Exorcist Extraordinaire
Season 8 Episode 16
When one thinks of exorcisms, it’s hard to get past the infamous imagery published to the world in 1973, of a young girl, floating above a bed, flan…
1 year, 9 months ago
Smuggling, Riots & The Sampford Peverell Ghost
Season 8 Episode 15
In the heart of Devon, in the quaint village of Sampford Peverell, an information board refers the curious tourist to a now demolished building that …
1 year, 10 months ago
The Cleaver, The Fiend & The Axeman's Jazz of New Orleans
Season 8 Episode 14
In the humid nights of New Orleans in the early years of the 1900’s, a shadowy figure prowled the moonlit streets.
“They have never caught me and t…
1 year, 10 months ago
Murder Aboard the Herbert Fuller
Season 8 Episode 13
In the eerie stillness of a moonlit Atlantic night in 1896, aboard the doomed Herbert Fuller, a savage cry pierced the darkness. What followed was a …
1 year, 11 months ago
The Wreck of the Wager
Season 8 Episode 12
In 1741, amidst the treacherous waters of Cape Horn, on the southernmost tip of South America, the British warship HMS Wager pushed through a violent…
1 year, 11 months ago
A Shot in the Dark: The Hammersmith Ghost of 1804
Season 8 Episode 11
In the last twenty-five years, ghost hunting has entered something of a golden age, with all sorts of technology playing its part and filling up an i…
2 years ago
William Corder & The Red Barn Murder
Season 8 Episode 10
In the first half of the 19th century, there was a single murder that, having ensnared the English countryside in a web of scandal, permeated through…
2 years ago
Fritz Haarmann: The Vampire of Hanover
Season 8 Episode 9
Following the first world war, Germany, having never found its feet economically throughout the conflict, now found itself crumbling under the furthe…
2 years, 1 month ago