Dark Histories Podcast
1) A Boyâs Best Friend is his Mother: The Horrors of Ed Gein
Behind the doors of an isolated farmhouse on the outskirts of Plainfield, Wisconsin, a trove of macabre secrets were stashed out of sight of the locals that blurred the line between reality and nightm...Show More
2) Introducing: CONSPIRACY THEORIES, CULTS, AND CRIMES
From Jonestown to Heavenâs Gate, to the Octopus Murders and the Waco Siege, the world is full of deception, manipulation, and destruction. Listen to Conspiracy Theories, Cults, and Crimes every Wednes...Show More
3) The Literary Miracles of Patience Worth
In 1913, a St. Louis housewife named Pearl Curran sat down at a Ouija board and claimed to make contact with a spirit called Patience Worthâa seventeenth-century Englishwoman who spoke in archaic lang...Show More
4) Yesterday Today - 10/08
This week we're taking a quick look at the end of the second World War in teh Pacific, as well as rummaging through a host of summer ghost stories from the 19th century. There's also a small story tha...Show More
5) The Murderous Mannings & The Bermondsey Horror
In the summer of 1849, Patrick OâConnor, a prosperous London customs officer, vanished without warning. His trail ended in a quiet Bermondsey house, home to Frederick and Maria Manningâa married coupl...Show More
6) Summer Holiday & Introducing: Macabrium Lore & Legends
It's that time of year where the sun is out for more than 10 minutes a day over here in England, so that must mean it's summer holiday! I'll be off for just a short two weeks, but until then, I though...Show More
7) Yesterday Today - 06/07
Welcome back to Dark Histories and Yesterday Today, where this week we're going all the way back to 1776 to have a quick look at the declaration of independence, before zipping ahead to 1947 and the w...Show More
8) Murder, Madness and The Unusual Life of William Minor
When you pick up a dictionary and look up a word, have you ever stopped to consider who it was that compiled such meticulous work? Was it a scholar, or group of scholars, holed up in a musty backroom ...Show More
9) Yesterday Today - 22/06
Back with another off-shoot episode of Dark Histories, this time digging up some old ghost stories, the Queen's coronation, and some rather solid advice from Beatrice Fairfax, an advice columnist from...Show More
10) The Judica-Cordiglia Brothers & The Lost Cosmonauts of the Cold War
In the murky-corners of Cold War history, beneath layers of radio static, the chilling tale of the Judica-Cordiglia brothers emerges. Armed with makeshift radio equipment and relentless curiosity, th...Show More