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After Dark: Myths, Misdeeds & the Paranormal

History Hit

This is After Dark: Myths, Misdeeds and the Paranormal. The podcast that takes you to the shadiest corners of the past, unpicking history’s spookiest, strangest, and most sinister ...

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Episode list

55

  • December 23, 2024

    47 min

    Who was the "Elephant Man"? Joseph Merrick's True Story

    The life of Joseph Merrick, the man they dared to call "The Elephant Man", will fill you with pain and anger. He was treated so cruelly by society that he found becoming a freak sh...

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  • December 19, 2024

    40 min

    Inside the Foundling: London's First Orphanage (Part 2)

    (2/2) We find out what life inside the Foundling Hospital was like as we complete the heartbreaking and heartwarming history of London's first orphanage. We discover a building tha...

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  • December 16, 2024

    49 min

    Lost Children of Georgian London (Part 1)

    Today Anthony and Maddy look into the heartbreaking history of the Foundling Hospital, now London’s saddest museum. Starting in the 18th century, hear the story of Thomas Coram, th...

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  • December 12, 2024

    39 min

    Predicting Death: Strange History of the Premonitions Bureau

    Can we see beyond the veil, glimpse the future before it arrives? John Barker, a psychiatrist with a fascination for the unexplained, thought maybe we could. In 1966, he created a ...

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  • December 9, 2024

    49 min

    Ireland's First Witch: Medieval Murderer? (Part 2)

    (Part 2/2) Anthony returns to his hometown of Kilkenny to conclude the tale of the first person to be executed for witchcraft in Ireland. Set 700 years ago in 1324, this is the sto...

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  • December 5, 2024

    33 min

    History's Greatest Ghost Hunters: the Warrens

    Ghost hunting couple Ed and Lorraine Warren transformed twentieth century America into an enchanted land dotted with haunted houses, cursed objects, and portals to hell. Their expl...

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