Real Life Crime in Victorian London
"You've got to pick a pocket or two" says Fagan to Oliver Twist about the foggy streets of Victorian London where poverty and oppression abounded. Today we look at the every day crimes of Victorian Lo...
4 Jul 202433min
Public Executions: A Day At London's Hanging Tree
Would you have gone? Would you have drunk with the condemned? Paid your way into their prison the night before? Public executions in London were big business with hundreds of thousands carousing throu...
30 Jun 202437min
Spooky Origins of the Ouija Board
Do you dare try? The Ouija board was invented in 1890. It was an idea lifted from Spiritualist devices for communicating with the dead. Find out the spooky origin story of the Ouija board and our atte...
26 Jun 202448min
Ghost of Marie Antoinette
What if a leisurely visit to the Palace of Versailles transported you back to the court of Marie Antoinette — would you believe it or question your sanity?This is the story of two English women from S...
24 Jun 202441min
Last Witches of England
This is the dark history of the last people to be executed for witchcraft in England. In 1682, Temperance Lloyd, Mary Trembles and Susannah Edwards, from the town of Bideford in the South-West of Engl...
20 Jun 202443min
The ‘Genius’ Killer
The so-called 'Genius' Killer was a murderer who seemed to be both philosopher and psychopath, whose brain was one of the largest ever recorded. But was Edward Rulloff really as smart as all that?Madd...
17 Jun 202441min
Prison Hulks: Floating Hells for Convicts
Convicts, illegal dissections, disease, all taking place on ships described as "Wicked Noah's Arks" where conditions were even worse than in notorious prisons like Newgate. Transportation to Australia...
13 Jun 202438min
Enfield Poltergeist: 1970's Suburban Horror
The Enfield Poltergeist is Britain's most infamous haunting - set in the late 1970s on the outskirts of London, it continues to be told and retold. Most famously in the film The Conjuring 2.But this i...
10 Jun 202446min
