'Black Widow': Serial Killer of Victorian England
Mary Ann Cotton is known as the first British female serial killer. A trail of bodies, many her own children, followed her through life. Bodies she happened to have insurance policies out on. Arsenic ...
11 Mar 202454min
Pirate Queens: Mary Read & Anne Bonny
Mary Read and Anne Bonny are legendary female pirates from the golden age of piracy. Raised as boys, they sailed with captain Calico Jack and fought their enemies bare-breasted, if legends are to be b...
6 Mar 202442min
The First Alien Abduction
In 1961 Betty and Barney Hill became the first people ever to be abducted by aliens. Their story of being taken and examined by extraterrestrials on board a spaceship became the blueprint that others ...
3 Mar 202445min
The Paris Morgue's Dark Story
Citizens of Paris in the 19th century could stroll down to the Morgue to try to identify the unknown dead or to gawp at celebrity murder victims. Though its most famous resident of all was perhaps not...
29 Feb 202440min
Do Mermaids Exist? Historical Sightings & Myths
Did you know Benjamin Franklin began his career reporting mermaid sightings? Or that there's a mermaid on every cup of Starbucks coffee?Join us as we search the oceans for history's greatest mermaid s...
25 Feb 202441min
The Earliest Evidence of Ghosts
The earliest evidence of human belief in ghosts comes from 5,000 years ago in Mesopotamia. Who were these first ghosts? What was the underworld they lived in like? What do these most ancient ghosts te...
22 Feb 202439min
The Real Hannibal Lecter
At the tender age of 23, Thomas Harris, author of The Silence of the Lambs, was sent to interview a convicted murderer inside a Mexican prison. What happened that day lived rent free in his mind for t...
18 Feb 202438min
Murder in Henry VIII's England
In a world before police, what happened when someone was murdered? How were murderers caught? How did the wheels of justice turn?We talk to Steven Veerapen, author of Of Blood Descended, about murder ...
15 Feb 202434min
