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After Dark: Myths, Misdeeds & the Paranormal

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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…

After Dark: Myths, Misdeeds & the Paranormal

How To Be A Medieval Spy

What Did The Vikings Do With Their Dead?

Wild Shipwreck and Cannibal Story That Inspired Moby Dick

Britain's Bloodiest Mutiny

Murder In The Medici Court

The Most Disastrous Voyage in Navy History

Britain's Worst Airship Disaster

Would You Rather Be On The Titanic Or In Pompeii?

The Story of England's First Drag Queen

The Woman Who Had Sex With Ghosts

The Tragic Execution of a Victorian Murderess

The Witch Men of Iceland

The Secret Lesbian Affair under Mary Queen of Scots

The Murder Network That Terrified Versailles

History's Greatest Ghosts with Uncanny's Danny Robins

Most Famous Murder In Ancient Egypt

The Dark History of the Quakers

The Sicilian Catacombs of the Living Dead

How Boudica Took On The Roman Empire

The Gruesome History of Sexual Disease

Who tried to kill Queen Victoria?

Burke & Hare's Serial Killing Dissection Business

Ancient Rome's Bloodiest Murders

The Doctor Who Shocked Victorian Britain

Inside the Egyptian Underworld

400 Year Old Artist's Dark Revenge

BONUS: Hear a chapter of Maddy's new book, Hoax

Human Sacrifice In The Aztec Empire

The Dark Mystery of Princess Caraboo

The Haunting of Cock Lane

Speaking with the Dead: Ancient Necromancy

Dark Side of Prehistoric Britain

Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand

Titanic's Biggest Myths Debunked

The Murder that Shook Mary Queen of Scots

The Victorian Sex Scandal of Fanny & Stella

Henry VIII's Descent into Darkness

The Victorian Era's Wildest Murder

The Real Outlander

The Man Who Ate Everything

Britain's First Ghost Hunt

Dark Side of the Celts: Wicker Men and Trophy Heads

Were the Princes in the Tower murdered?

The Human Cost of Fame

The Black Death As It Happened

Who Killed Julius Caesar?

The Medieval Murder of Thomas Becket

Mysterious History of Tarot Cards

Origins of Victorian Murder Detectives

Who Was the Man In The Iron Mask?

The Dark Truth about the Haitian Revolution

The French Revolution's Reign of Terror

The Dark Truth about Wuthering Heights

Bloody Beginning of the French Revolution

Al Capone and the Valentine's Day Massacre

Dark Truth About Victorian 'Freak Shows'

Essex's Darkest Witch Hunt

Who Was the Witchfinder General?

Inside A Medieval Leper Colony

The Victorian's Dark Obsession with Ancient Egypt

The Deadly Arctic Witch Trials

The Great Fire of London As It Happened

Day in the Life of a Salem Puritan

Inside the Victorian Asylum

The Truth About the Conjuring's Ghost Hunters

Banshees: Herald of Death

Ghosts of Henry VIII's Palace

Dark Truth About Sweeney Todd

The Most Notorious Viking Raid

Oscar Wilde's Very Victorian Scandal

Does Every Family Hold A Dark Past?

What Happened The Day Pompeii was Destroyed?

The Dark Side of the Vikings

The Only Prime Minister Ever Assassinated

Who Was Medieval Europe's Most Evil Monarch?

Who was the Last Witch of Scotland?

Could you Survive the Medieval Apocalypse?

Why Did Henry VIII Kill Catherine Howard?

Who Was Nostradamus?