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 ...
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...
moreDecember 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...
moreDecember 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...
moreDecember 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 ...
moreDecember 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...
moreDecember 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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