After Dark: Myths, Misdeeds & the Paranormal

After Dark: Myths, Misdeeds & the Paranormal

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 stories.


Join historians Anthony Delaney and Maddy Pelling, every Monday and Thursday to take a look at the darker side of history. From haunted pubs and Houdini, to witch trials and weird UFO sightings.


After Dark: Myths, Misdeeds and the Paranormal - a podcast by History Hit, the world's best history channel and creators of award-winning podcasts Dan Snow's History Hit, Gone Medieval, and Betwixt the Sheets.


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Episoder(315)

Mystery of the Ghost Ship: Mary Celeste

Mystery of the Ghost Ship: Mary Celeste

In 1872 the ghost ship Mary Celeste is found sailing across the Atlantic without a single crew member left on board. Theories over what happened on the Mary Celeste range from insurance fraud to a vio...

26 Des 202437min

Who was the "Elephant Man"? Joseph Merrick's True Story

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 show exhibit preferabl...

23 Des 202447min

Inside the Foundling: London's First Orphanage (Part 2)

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 that contained so many ...

19 Des 202440min

Lost Children of Georgian London (Part 1)

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, the hospital's founder...

16 Des 202449min

Predicting Death: Strange History of the Premonitions Bureau

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 bureau for people wh...

12 Des 202439min

Ireland's First Witch: Medieval Murderer? (Part 2)

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 story of a successful b...

9 Des 202449min

History's Greatest Ghost Hunters: the Warrens

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 exploits are the basis f...

5 Des 202433min

Ireland's First Witch: Medieval Murderer? (Part 1)

Ireland's First Witch: Medieval Murderer? (Part 1)

(Part 1/2) 700 years ago, in 1324, the first person to be executed for witchcraft in Ireland died in Kilkenny. This is the story of a successful business woman called Alice Kyteler, her servant Petron...

2 Des 202448min

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