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Season 6 Episode 9: Hoping for a Spark
In Brazil, in August 1966, two years into a military dictatorship, there was every reason to assume the bodies of two men, found dead on a hill outsi…
4 years, 1 month ago
Season 6 Episode 8 Extra: Alone in a Darkened Room
It may seem far-fetched to believe that a vampire had been living at the site of London's Highgate Cemetery since the 18th century.
But did you know …
4 years, 1 month ago
Season 6 Episode 8: The Rising
In the late 1960s, a large number of acts of vandalism perpetrated in English churchyards were thought to be linked to a resurgent interest in black …
4 years, 1 month ago
Season 6 Episode 7 Extra: Square Root
Author Elliot O’Donnell wrote widely about all manner of apparent hauntings in Britain and the United States, but there was one story – or rather loc…
4 years, 1 month ago
Season 6 Episode 7: That Cold Black Cloud
(Please note: the following episode is adapted from the live episode I presented at the London Podcast Festival in 2016 and later released on this st…
4 years, 2 months ago
Season 6 Episode 6 Extra: So Many Monsters
Almost every culture it seems has a story of wild mythical creatures living out in the woods and mountains.
Sometimes they break out from the myth, …
4 years, 2 months ago
Season 06 Episode 6: Tales From the Cryptid
In July, 1924, a group of prospectors returned from a trip working their claim in the Cascade Mountains of the Pacific Northwest, with an incredible …
4 years, 2 months ago
Season 06 Episode 5 Extra: The Circular Ruins
More on Kaspar Hauser with some thoughts on the myth of the 'noble savage', the Allegory of the Cave, and the problem with 'Original Sin'...
Go to tw…
4 years, 3 months ago
Season 06 Episode 5: The Boy Who (Pt. 2 of 2)
Part Two of Season 06 Episode 5: The Boy Who.
As Kaspar Hauser’s mind begins to expand, so too does his sense of self and the world around him.
Meanw…
4 years, 3 months ago
Season 06 Episode 5: The Boy Who (Pt. 1 of 2)
One afternoon in May 1828, a mysterious boy stumbled into a quiet square in the picturesque city of Nürnberg, in what was then the German Confederati…
4 years, 3 months ago