Harry Houdini: the Original Ghostbuster
Harry Houdini was the greatest magician that ever lived. He was also the greatest ghostbuster ever, exposing countless spiritual mediums as frauds. Why?Maddy Pelling and Anthony Delaney are joined by ...
15 Aug 202444min
"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 show exhibit preferabl...
12 Aug 202445min
American Serial Killer Family: Bloody Benders
When a series of mysterious disappearances and gruesome murders happened on the American Frontier in the 19th century, fingers started to point in the direction of not one murderer…but a family of kil...
8 Aug 202436min
Innocent or Axe Murderer? Lizzie Borden
It's one of the most infamous trials in American history, Lizzie Borden's story is breathtaking even today. In 1893 she was accused of using an axe to murder her father and step-mother. The case obses...
5 Aug 202458min
New York Morgue's Dark Secrets
The unclaimed dead of New York City's streets and rivers were once brought to the notorious New York Morgue. It's a history that has never been studied before, full of dark stories and buried secrets....
1 Aug 202452min
The Final Days of Marie Antoinette
How did Marie Antoinette, last Queen of France, spend her final days before the guillotine took her head? Did she ever really stand a chance? Anthony Delaney takes Maddy Pelling on a journey back to t...
29 Jul 202443min
Slenderman & Mothman: Origins of Internet Horror
"The internet is full of dark and wicked things" said a police chief after a shocking crime by two children claiming to be acolytes of the Slenderman. Today we unpick the origins of Slenderman - the i...
25 Jul 202434min
Victorian Teen Who Murdered Her Baby Brother
In 1860 Britain was rocked by the brutal murder of 3-year-old Francis Kent inside his family home. Scotland Yard sent their finest but when a teenage sister, Constance Kent, was accused there was outc...
22 Jul 202454min
