Story Time: Dark Rituals & Pagan Rites14 April 2024Hi everyone, something a little different this week, but I'll be back as usual with next episode. Thanks as always!-------For almost anything, head over to the podcasts hub at darkhistories.com Support the show by using our link when you sign up to Audible: http://audibletrial.com/darkhistories or v...00:54:36
Counterfeiting, Undercover Agents & The Abduction of Abraham Lincoln02 April 2024The ingenuity of the criminal class has rarely been criticised for lacking in imagination. One of the finer examples of this concept was put on full display in America, on the eve of the presidential election in 1876, When a group of shady crooks, who took the American Dream of making money a little...01:09:36
The Mysterious Murder of Mary Jane Bennett19 March 2024In Victorian England, the press were never shy of calling a crime the “sensation of the century” or a murder, “the most astonishing the world had ever seen.” When the body of a young woman showed up on the beach of a popular seaside resort town, no-one would have imagined it would provoke just such ...01:17:27
Prophecy, Second Sight & John Barker’s Premonitions Bureau04 March 2024“As to the divination which takes place in sleep, and is said to be based on dreams, we cannot lightly either dismiss it with contempt or give it implicit confidence.” These were the words of Aristotle, written in 350 BCE, and taken very much to heart by a British psychiatrist in the 1960’s, when he...01:06:15
The Druce-Portland Affair: The Duke That Never Was19 February 2024Cases of stolen, mistaken and fraudulent identity were not an entirely uncommon thing in Victorian Britain. Somewhat more unusual was the bizarre allegation that an English aristocrat, the 5th Duke of Portland, had lived a double life and eventually faked his own death in order to escape the web of ...01:08:16
Zsuzsanna Fazekas & The Angel Makers of Nagyrév11 February 2024Hungary during the first world war was a difficult place to live, especially if you happened to live in one of the many rural villages, far away from the grand city of Budapest, where the harsh conditions imposed on a country losing a war bit the hardest. Even if you managed to survive all the fight...01:06:46
The Saltwood & Hythe Mothman23 January 2024Sightings of winged creatures flying through the sky have long been a staple of folklore, mythology and legend across the world and across time and cultures. In the ancient world, Gods and monsters were depicted with enormous, scaled and feathered wings, whilst in modern times, sightings have become...01:00:12
May Blackburn & The Divine Order of the Royal Arms of the Great Eleven12 January 2024Since the 1960s California has always been a place associated with alternative beliefs, countercultural movements and alternative lifestyles. The hippy movement, with it’s summer of love, fueled by the west coast psychedelic music scene will always be a highlight from the era, but the truth is, the ...01:41:33
Christmas Campfire 2023 (Part 2)30 December 2023Part two of this years Christmas Campfire is here! I hope you all had a lovely Christmas and wishing you a very happy and healthy New Year!00:47:14
Christmas Campfire 2023 (Part 1)24 December 2023Merry Christmas everyone! Thank you so much for your kind support throughout the year, to wrap us up for Christmas, here is this years campfire stories episode. There were loads of great submissions again this year, certainly enough for two episodes, so here is the first part and the second shall fo...00:55:46