Final Days of Rasputin
Grigori Rasputin, Russian mystic, survived multiple assassination attempts on the same night. He was poisoned, he was shot, he was drowned in a freezing St Petersburg river. His corpse was emasculated...
2 Jan 202541min
Is the Loch Ness Monster real?
What lurks beneath the dark waters of Loch Ness? The legendary monster? A piece of Celtic folklore? A warning of the Nazis' rise to power? A fraudster?Today Anthony and Maddy are examining grainy phot...
30 Dec 202443min
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 Dec 202437min
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 Dec 202447min
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 Dec 202440min
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 Dec 202449min
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 Dec 202439min
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 Dec 202449min
