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The Campden Wonder - The ‘Murder’ of William Harrison
Season 1
This week we’re in the town of Campden, Gloucestershire. The date August 16th, 1660. William Harrison, the ageing rent collector - disappears while o…
4 years, 4 months ago
Franz Reichelt - What Goes Up….
Season 2
Today’s tale is set on a freezing cold morning, 57 metres above the ground, in Paris, France. The date February 4th 1912. Our subject, one unfortunat…
4 years, 5 months ago
Spring Heeled Jack - The Terror of London
Season 1
Spring Heeled Jack would enter the public consciousness of Londoners at the tail end of 1837, as reports emerged of numerous attacks on lone women in…
4 years, 5 months ago
The Max Headroom Incident
Season 2
On 9:14 pm, 22nd November 1987, Chicago’s WGN TV was ‘zipped’ by a mysterious attacker - a figure wearing a rubber Max Headroom mask. The attacker wo…
4 years, 6 months ago
Willie The Wimp (and His Cadillac Coffin)
Season 1
South Side Chicago Still think of him often… so today we’re talking bout Willie ‘Wimp’ Stokes and his Cadillac Coffin.
This week’s Patreon only ep…
4 years, 6 months ago
Mussolini vs The Mob
Season 2
This week is all about presidents, dictators, mobsters, islands and how the theft of a hat was taken a little too seriously. Apologies again, voice …
4 years, 7 months ago
Giovanni Batista Belzoni - Tomb Raider.
Season 2
In July I asked readers and listeners to choose a subject from two real world influences on the Indiana Jones movie character. The majority of you ch…
4 years, 7 months ago
Ungern’s Army
Season 2
Content warning: This week’s episode features monsters doing monstrous things - as they are apt to do.
The after-effects of World War One on the West…
4 years, 8 months ago
eden ahbez - Nature Boy
Season 1
There was a boy, a very strange, enchanted boy - both his prototypical hippie lifestyle, long before the summer of love - and the ethereal song he le…
4 years, 8 months ago
Nellie Bly (Re-Upload)
Season 1
In an age where female reporters were few and far between, and wrote on little more than fashion and gardening - Nellie Bly got locked up in a ‘madho…
4 years, 9 months ago