Corpse Medicine: Eating Egyptian Mummies
A skull a day! People ate people in the name of medicine across Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries. Charles II kept powdered skull in a bag on his belt and mummified corpses were the greatest cure ...
29 Aug 202435min
Giggling Granny Serial Killer
Picture a serial killer in your mind’s eye. What do you see... Is it your gran?Today is the story of one of America’s most notorious female serial killers: Nannie Doss, aka the Giggling Granny. She ki...
26 Aug 202434min
Salem Witch Trials: Interrogation & Torture
The second part of our story on the Salem Witch Trials. Anthony Delaney takes Maddy Pelling inside the courtroom as unbelievable stories of witchcraft are told and a terrifying power dynamic reveals i...
22 Aug 202453min
Harry Houdini: the Original Ghostbuster
Harry Houdini was the greatest magician that ever lived. He was also the greatest ghostbuster ever, exposing countless spiritual mediums as frauds. Why?Maddy Pelling and Anthony Delaney are joined by ...
15 Aug 202444min
"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...
12 Aug 202445min
American Serial Killer Family: Bloody Benders
When a series of mysterious disappearances and gruesome murders happened on the American Frontier in the 19th century, fingers started to point in the direction of not one murderer…but a family of kil...
8 Aug 202436min
Innocent or Axe Murderer? Lizzie Borden
It's one of the most infamous trials in American history, Lizzie Borden's story is breathtaking even today. In 1893 she was accused of using an axe to murder her father and step-mother. The case obses...
5 Aug 202458min
