The Gunpowder Plot As It Happened
'Remember, remember the 5th of November, Gunpowder, treason and plot...'Every year across Britain, people come together to burn bonfires in commemoration of the failed plot to blow up Parliament and t...
5 Nov 58min
Scotland's Worst Poltergeist
How long could you stand living in a house haunted by a vengeful poltergeist?That's the situation a Scottish family found themselves in in the late 17th century. As members of the local community gath...
2 Nov 39min
The Pendle Witches | Cautionary Tales
What’s better than a witch story on Halloween? Today, we’ve got a special episode from Cautionary Tales’ Tim Harford to share. Back in 1612 Lancashire, a chance roadside argument between a peddler and...
31 Okt 40min
London's Most Iconic Ghost Story
We're celebrating Maddy's new documentary all about London's most famous ghost - the ghost of Cock Lane! It's out today on History Hit - https://www.historyhit.com/This is a rerun of our episode from ...
29 Okt 1h 2min
American Vampire Panic
This is a shocking story that saw families digging up their dead relatives, believing them to be vampires.What makes it all the more shocking, is that it was as recent as 1892.Join Anthony and Maddy t...
26 Okt 42min
Most Haunted House in England
Built in 1862, Borley Rectory became known as England's most haunted house. From ghostly nuns and unexplained disturbances to paranormal investigator Harry Price's controversial investigations, discov...
22 Okt 53min
Myth of the Golem of Prague
In the sixteenth-century, down the winding cobbled streets of Prague, there once lived a towering supernatural being: the Golem. Legend has it that it was conjured to life through mystic rituals, and ...
19 Okt 44min
The 'Changeling Murder' of Bridget Cleary
The story goes that in 1895 Bridget Cleary was burned to death by her husband who believed she was a 'changeling' fairy.In today's episode, Anthony and Maddy interrogate the stories we've been told ab...
15 Okt 1h 17min
