The Case of Elizabeth Fenning & The Poison Dumplings
In the streets of Regency London,the young servant, Elizabeth Fenning, faced a sinister charge - attempted murder by poison. Accused of lacing her employer’s dinner with arsenic, the 21-year-old cook ...
7 Okt 20241h 2min
The Ghost Hunts of George Albert Smith: Mesmerist & Film Maker
The life and times of George Albert Smith are not particularly well known. Despite working for several years as a stage hypnotist and psychic, the owner of a popular pleasure park and then eventually ...
22 Sep 20241h 2min
Sorcery, Witchcraft & Murder: The Affair of the Poisons
In France during the 17th Century, a string of unexpected deaths lead to a murder inquiry that uncovered the dark practices of a serial poisoner, who had plied her trade in the streets of Paris, using...
9 Sep 20241h 14min
Summer Holiday 2024 - Algernon Blackwood
This week I'm off on my Summer holiday for a trip in the woods, so what better episode to do than read a few stories from Algernon Blackwood, all about weird woods. What was I thinking... ------...
26 Aug 202455min
The Spectacular Life of Donald Omand, Exorcist Extraordinaire
When one thinks of exorcisms, it’s hard to get past the infamous imagery published to the world in 1973, of a young girl, floating above a bed, flanked by two priests, flinging holy water and yelling...
11 Aug 20241h 27min
Smuggling, Riots & The Sampford Peverell Ghost
In the heart of Devon, in the quaint village of Sampford Peverell, an information board refers the curious tourist to a now demolished building that had once been known as “The Ghost House.” The scene...
28 Jul 202450min
The Cleaver, The Fiend & The Axeman's Jazz of New Orleans
In the humid nights of New Orleans in the early years of the 1900’s, a shadowy figure prowled the moonlit streets. “They have never caught me and they never will. They have never seen me, for I am i...
19 Jul 20241h 27min
Murder Aboard the Herbert Fuller
In the eerie stillness of a moonlit Atlantic night in 1896, aboard the doomed Herbert Fuller, a savage cry pierced the darkness. What followed was a chilling discovery: The Captain, his wife, and the ...
2 Jul 20241h 19min
