After Dark: Myths, Misdeeds & the Paranormal

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Episodes: 130

tom
 Dec 23, 2024
good topics, they can overanalyze a bit. not everything has to be analyzed from a gender perspective. Witches, I understand looking at the gender perspective but dragons? it's a bit of a overreach. A good podcast though, love the spookies


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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 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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Episode Date
Who was the "Elephant Man"? Joseph Merrick's True Story
Dec 23, 2024
Inside the Foundling: London's First Orphanage (Part 2)
Dec 19, 2024
Lost Children of Georgian London (Part 1)
Dec 16, 2024
Predicting Death: Strange History of the Premonitions Bureau
Dec 12, 2024
Ireland's First Witch: Medieval Murderer? (Part 2)
Dec 09, 2024
History's Greatest Ghost Hunters: the Warrens
Dec 05, 2024
Ireland's First Witch: Medieval Murderer? (Part 1)
Dec 02, 2024
Most Haunted House in America: The Amityville Horror
Nov 28, 2024
English Village Sacrificed to Plague (Part 2)
Nov 24, 2024
Ghosts of the Deep South
Nov 21, 2024
English Village Sacrificed to Plague (Part 1)
Nov 18, 2024
Queen Victoria's Funeral & the Cult of Death
Nov 14, 2024
Final Days of Captain Cook
Nov 11, 2024
Ghosts of Hampton Court Palace
Nov 07, 2024
Titanic: The Final Hours (Part 2)
Nov 04, 2024
The King's Witch Trial: North Berwick Witches
Oct 31, 2024
Titanic: The Doomed Ship (Part 1)
Oct 28, 2024
Irish Origins of Halloween
Oct 24, 2024
Execution of Lady Jane Grey
Oct 21, 2024
Final Days of Anne Boleyn
Oct 17, 2024
Ménage à Murder: 1920s Love Triangle Killers
Oct 14, 2024
Bodies in the Walls: Postwar London's Darkest Crime
Oct 10, 2024
Who was Jack the Ripper? The Doctor (Suspect 4)
Oct 07, 2024
Burke & Hare: Scotland’s Most Notorious Serial Killers
Oct 03, 2024
Who was Jack the Ripper? The Artist (Suspect 3)
Sep 30, 2024
Wounds of Christ: Macabre History of Stigmata
Sep 26, 2024
Who was Jack the Ripper? The Barber (Suspect 2)
Sep 23, 2024
Ned Kelly: Australia's Notorious Outlaw
Sep 19, 2024
Who was Jack the Ripper? The Prince (Suspect 1)
Sep 16, 2024
Lost Colony of Roanoke: Mystery of England's First American Settlers
Sep 12, 2024
Myth of the Minotaur: Half Man Half Bull
Sep 09, 2024
The Black Death: The Deadliest Plague
Sep 05, 2024
Macabre Death of Edgar Allan Poe
Sep 02, 2024
Corpse Medicine: Eating Egyptian Mummies
Aug 29, 2024
Giggling Granny Serial Killer
Aug 26, 2024
Salem Witch Trials: Interrogation & Torture
Aug 22, 2024
Salem Witch Trials: Hysteria & Accusations
Aug 19, 2024
Harry Houdini: the Original Ghostbuster
Aug 15, 2024
"The Elephant Man": Joseph Merrick's True Story
Aug 12, 2024
American Serial Killer Family: Bloody Benders
Aug 08, 2024
Innocent or Axe Murderer? Lizzie Borden
Aug 05, 2024
New York Morgue's Dark Secrets
Aug 01, 2024
The Final Days of Marie Antoinette
Jul 29, 2024
Slenderman & Mothman: Origins of Internet Horror
Jul 25, 2024
Victorian Teen Who Murdered Her Baby Brother
Jul 22, 2024
Real History of the Illuminati
Jul 18, 2024
Royal Murder: 1810 Death in St James's Palace
Jul 14, 2024
Tutankhamun's Curse
Jul 11, 2024
Bell Witch of Tennessee: America's Greatest Ghost Story
Jul 07, 2024
Real Life Crime in Victorian London
Jul 04, 2024
Public Executions: A Day At London's Hanging Tree
Jun 30, 2024
Spooky Origins of the Ouija Board
Jun 26, 2024
Ghost of Marie Antoinette
Jun 24, 2024
Last Witches of England
Jun 20, 2024
The ‘Genius’ Killer
Jun 17, 2024
Prison Hulks: Floating Hells for Convicts
Jun 13, 2024
Enfield Poltergeist: 1970's Suburban Horror
Jun 10, 2024
The Witch of New York: 1840's Murder Trials of Polly Bodine
Jun 06, 2024
The Real Mutiny on the Bounty: Revenge in Paradise (Part 2)
Jun 03, 2024
Real History of the Knights Templar
May 30, 2024
Victorian Thames Torso Murders
May 27, 2024
Hidden History of Garden Gnomes
May 23, 2024
Great Irish Famine: Coffin Ships & the Dark Truth (Part 2)
May 20, 2024
Oliver Cromwell's Decapitated Head & Charles II's Revenge
May 15, 2024
The Great Famine: Ireland’s Darkest Chapter (Part 1)
May 13, 2024
Harry Potter Monsters: The Ancient Origins
May 08, 2024
True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty (Part 1)
May 05, 2024
Execution of Charles I
May 01, 2024
1811 Ratcliffe Highway Murders: Birth of True Crime
Apr 29, 2024
Cannibalism in Scotland: Legend of Sawney Bean
Apr 24, 2024
What is the Yeti?
Apr 22, 2024
The Georgian Husband with Fourteen Wives
Apr 17, 2024
Bigfoot: the Origin Story
Apr 15, 2024
Deadly Dancing Plague of 1518
Apr 10, 2024
Bigfoot: Hunt for the Truth
Apr 08, 2024
Jack the Ripper
Apr 04, 2024
Medieval Mass Murdering Monk: Malmesbury Abbey
Apr 01, 2024
The Murdering Midwife of Covent Garden
Mar 28, 2024
Who is the Real Dracula? The Bloody History
Mar 25, 2024
England's Worst Witch Trial: Pendle Witches
Mar 21, 2024
St Patrick: Pirates, Snakes and Goatees
Mar 17, 2024
Medieval Torture: The Dark History
Mar 14, 2024
'Black Widow': Serial Killer of Victorian England
Mar 11, 2024
Pirate Queens: Mary Read & Anne Bonny
Mar 06, 2024
The First Alien Abduction
Mar 03, 2024
The Paris Morgue's Dark Story
Feb 29, 2024
Do Mermaids Exist? Historical Sightings & Myths
Feb 25, 2024
The Earliest Evidence of Ghosts
Feb 22, 2024
The Real Hannibal Lecter
Feb 18, 2024
Murder in Henry VIII's England
Feb 15, 2024
The Mystery of the Medieval Green Children
Feb 12, 2024
Dragons: From the Ancient World to the Hobbit
Feb 07, 2024
The Fairy Hoax That Fooled the World
Feb 04, 2024
The American Ripper
Feb 01, 2024
Alaskan Stories: Sedna the Sea-Goddess & Myth of Last Frontier
Jan 28, 2024
The Mythical Origins of Britain
Jan 25, 2024
The Real Dick Turpin
Jan 21, 2024
The Many Murders of Alexander the Great
Jan 18, 2024
Ghost Ship: The Mary Celeste
Jan 15, 2024
Myths of King Arthur: Origins, Creepy Sex & Magic Swords
Jan 11, 2024
Ireland's Bloodiest Murders: Maamtrasna Murders
Jan 08, 2024
Medieval Werewolves, Ghosts & Zombies
Jan 04, 2024
Exploding Kings & Red Hot Pokers: Gruesome Deaths of Monarchs
Jan 01, 2024
Blood Countess of Hungary: Sixteenth Century Serial Killer
Dec 28, 2023
Christmas Day Strangler: the murder of Gwen Ellen Jones
Dec 25, 2023
Charles Dickens' Christmas Ghosts
Dec 20, 2023
Palmer the Poisoner: Victorian England's Doctor of Death
Dec 18, 2023
Why Do People Kill at Christmas?
Dec 13, 2023
Ghost That Solved Its Own Murder: Red Barn Murder
Dec 10, 2023
The Ghost of Anne Boleyn
Dec 07, 2023
Hellfire Club: Sex, Scandal & Satanism in Georgian England
Dec 04, 2023
Amelia Dyer: Victorian Baby Farm Killer
Nov 29, 2023
The Real Origins of Witches
Nov 27, 2023
Victorian Death Photography: Postmortem Posers
Nov 23, 2023
Mother Shipton: Tudor Prophetess of England's Doom
Nov 20, 2023
The Real Witch Hunts: Persecution & Panic
Nov 16, 2023
The Man Who Hanged Nazis: Albert Pierrepoint
Nov 12, 2023
Ghost Fetishes: From Ancient World to Victorians
Nov 09, 2023
Origins of the Loch Ness Monster
Nov 06, 2023
Guy Fawkes & the 1605 Gunpowder Plot
Nov 01, 2023
Hammersmith Ghost: How to Murder a Poltergeist
Oct 29, 2023
Hauntings, Hangings & a Beast: Bodmin Jail
Oct 26, 2023
Last Witch of Scotland
Oct 23, 2023
Banshees: Ireland's Harbinger of Death
Oct 19, 2023
HMS Terror: Cursed Arctic Expedition
Oct 16, 2023
Burke & Hare: Scotland’s Most Notorious Serial Killers
Oct 16, 2023
Goriest Murders in Ancient Rome
Oct 16, 2023
The Origins of Halloween
Oct 16, 2023
The Murders That Shocked Georgian London
Oct 16, 2023
Welcome to After Dark: Myths, Misdeeds & the Paranormal
Oct 13, 2023