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After Dark: Myths, Misdeeds & the Paranormal

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.Sign up to History Hit for hundreds of hours of original documentaries, with a new release every week and ad-free podcasts. Sign up at https://www.historyhit.com/subscribe. 

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New York's Wildest Murder Case
Britain’s Most Prolific Executioner
Day In The Life Of A Plague Doctor
Final Days of Napoleon
The Great Plague of London
Dark History of the Luddites
How Bloody Was 'Bloody Mary'?
Bloody Mary: The Real Woman in the Mirror
Poison in the Tower of London
Could You Survive Victorian Surgery?
Murder at Stonehenge
Inside the Paris Catacombs
Victorian England's Most Gruesome Murder
The Dark Side of Ancient Rome
Spring-Heeled Jack: Terror of Victorian London
England's Darkest Folklore
Hammersmith Ghost: How to Murder a Poltergeist
Wales' Darkest Folklore
Ireland's Darkest Folklore
Tudor England's Dumbest Murder
Scotland's Darkest Folklore
Black Death: Scapegoats & Persecution
Final Days of Joan of Arc: Trial & Execution
Final Days of Joan of Arc: Rise to Fame
Black Death: The Origin Story
Death at the Savoy Mansions: Post-War London's Drug Underworld
Glencoe Massacre: Haunted Highlands
Peasants' Revolt: Murder in the Tower of London
Glencoe Massacre: Hell in the Scottish Highlands
Peasants' Revolt: Medieval Rebellion (Part 1)
Peasants' Revolt: Medieval Rebellion
Sweating Sickness: Deadly Tudor Plague
Final Days of the Romanovs (Part 1)
Typhoid Mary: Original Super-Spreader?
Is the Devil Dead?
Is the Devil Dead? (Part 2)
Final Days of Henry VIII
Great Fire of London: Who started it?
Final Days of Rasputin
Is the Loch Ness Monster real?
Mystery of the Ghost Ship: Mary Celeste
Inside the Foundling: London's First Orphanage (Part 2)
History's Greatest Ghost Hunters: the Warrens
English Village Sacrificed to Plague (Part 2)
Queen Victoria's Funeral & the Cult of Death
Final Days of Captain Cook
Ghosts of Hampton Court Palace
The King's Witch Trial: North Berwick Witches
Titanic: The Doomed Ship (Part 1)
Execution of Lady Jane Grey
Final Days of Anne Boleyn
Who was Jack the Ripper? The Doctor (Suspect 4)
Burke & Hare: Scotland’s Most Notorious Serial Killers
Wounds of Christ: Macabre History of Stigmata
Ned Kelly: Australia's Notorious Outlaw
Who was Jack the Ripper? The Prince (Suspect 1)
Lost Colony of Roanoke: Mystery of England's First American Settlers
Myth of the Minotaur: Half Man Half Bull
Corpse Medicine: Eating Egyptian Mummies
Giggling Granny Serial Killer
Harry Houdini: the Original Ghostbuster
American Serial Killer Family: Bloody Benders
The Final Days of Marie Antoinette
Slenderman & Mothman: Origins of Internet Horror
Real History of the Illuminati
Real Life Crime in Victorian London
Public Executions: A Day At London's Hanging Tree
Ghost of Marie Antoinette
Last Witches of England
The ‘Genius’ Killer: Murderer with Largest Brain in History
Prison Hulks: Floating Hells for Convicts
The Witch of New York: 1840's Murder Trials of Polly Bodine
The Real Mutiny on the Bounty: Revenge in Paradise (Part 2)
Real History of the Knights Templar
Victorian Thames Torso Murders
Hidden History of Garden Gnomes
Great Irish Famine: Coffin Ships & the Dark Truth (Part 2)
True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty
Execution of Charles I
1811 Ratcliffe Highway Murders: Birth of True Crime
Cannibalism in Scotland: Legend of Sawney Bean
Bigfoot: Hunt for the Truth
Who is the Real Dracula? The Bloody History
Medieval Torture: The Dark History
Pirate Queens: Mary Read & Anne Bonny
The Ghost of Anne Boleyn
Amelia Dyer: Victorian Baby Farm Killer
The Real Origins of Witches
Mother Shipton: Tudor Prophetess of England's Doom
The Real Witch Hunts: Persecution & Panic
The Man Who Hanged Nazis: Albert Pierrepoint

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Victorian Love Triangle Murder
The Body In The Trunk: France's Shocking 19th Century Murder Case
Bloodiest Mutiny & Shipwreck in History: Batavia
Could You Survive The Victorian Workhouse?
The Plague That Shook The Roman Empire
The Final Days of Anastasia Romanov
The Murder That Shocked Edwardian Britain
Final Days of George III
Easter Rising: Build-Up To Irish Rebellion
Black Death: Inside Medieval Lockdown
The Servants' Revenge: Arsenic & a Poisoned Pint of Beer
The Curse of King Tutankhamun's Tomb
Final Days of Thomas Cromwell
Origins of the Devil (Part 1)
Great Fire of London: Mobs, Firestorms, and Revenge
Final Days of Mary Queen of Scots
Who was the "Elephant Man"? Joseph Merrick's True Story
Ireland's First Witch: Medieval Murderer? (Part 2)
Ireland's First Witch: Medieval Murderer? (Part 1)
Ghosts of the Deep South
English Village Sacrificed to Plague (Part 1)
Titanic: The Final Hours (Part 2)
Irish Origins of Halloween
Ménage à Murder: 1920s Love Triangle Killers
Bodies in the Walls: Postwar London's Darkest Crime
Who was Jack the Ripper? The Artist (Suspect 3)
Who was Jack the Ripper? The Barber (Suspect 2)
The Black Death: The Deadliest Plague
"The Elephant Man": Joseph Merrick's True Story
Innocent or Axe Murderer? Lizzie Borden
New York Morgue's Dark Secrets
Victorian Teen Who Murdered Her Baby Brother
Royal Murder: 1810 Death in St James's Palace
Spooky Origins of the Ouija Board
Enfield Poltergeist: 1970's Suburban Horror
Jack the Ripper
The Murdering Midwife of Covent Garden
St Patrick: Pirates, Snakes and Goatees
'Black Widow': Serial Killer of Victorian England
Hellfire Club: Sex, Scandal & Satanism in Georgian England