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.Enjoy unlimited access to award-winning original documentaries that are released weekly and AD-FREE podcasts. Get a subscription for £1 per month for 3 months with code AFTERDARK - sign up at historyhit.com/subscribe.You can take part in our listener survey here.
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episode 48: 'Black Widow': Serial Killer of Victorian England
Mary Ann Cotton is known as the first British female serial killer. A trail of bodies, many her own children, followed her through life. Bodies she happened to have insurance policies out on. Arsenic appears to have been her poison. How very Victorian.
But Mary Ann Cotton was only proved to be guilty of killing one of her alleged victims. So was she really a serial killer? How hard could life be for working class women in Victorian society?
Maddy tells Anthony the story...
episode 47: Mary Read & Anne Bonny: Pirate Queens
Mary Read and Anne Bonny are legendary female pirates from the golden age of piracy. Raised as boys, they sailed with captain Calico Jack and fought their enemies bare-breasted, if legends are to be believed...
episode 46: The First Alien Abduction
In 1961 Betty and Barney Hill became the first people ever to be abducted by aliens. Their story of being taken and examined by extraterrestrials on board a spaceship became the blueprint that others would follow. Whether you believe it or not, their account would go on to change our world.
Maddy tells Anthony the story this week.
Written by Maddy Pelling. Edited by Tom Delargy. Produced by Freddy Chick. Senior Producer is Charlotte Long...
episode 45: The Paris Morgue's Dark Story
Citizens of Paris in the 19th century could stroll down to the Morgue to try to identify the unknown dead or to gawp at celebrity murder victims. Though its most famous resident of all was perhaps not dead at all...
Our guest today is the marvellous Cat Byers, who is a writer, photographer and historian based in Paris. She’s currently finishing a PhD on the nineteenth-century morgues of Paris and New York. Get ready for a story full of poignant humour, Donald Trump, and party hats...
episode 44: Do Mermaids Exist? Historical Sightings & Myths
Did you know President Benjamin Franklin began his career reporting mermaid sightings? Or that there's a mermaid on every cup of Starbucks coffee?
Join us as we search the oceans for history's greatest mermaid stories. Anthony tells Maddy this story with special help from children from year 5 of Harris Primary Academy Coleraine Park.
Written by Anthony Delaney. Produced by Freddy Chick. Senior Producer is Charlotte Long...
episode 43: The Earliest Evidence of Ghosts
The earliest evidence of human belief in ghosts comes from 5,000 years ago in Mesopotamia...
episode 42: The Real Hannibal Lecter
At the tender age of 23, Thomas Harris, author of The Silence of the Lambs, was sent to interview an alleged murderer inside a Mexican prison. What happened that day lived rent free in his mind for the rest of his life.
Anthony tells Maddy this story of murder and of love that blurs the lines between truth and fiction.
Written by Anthony Delaney. Produced by Freddy Chick. Senior Producer is Charlotte Long...
episode 41: Murder in Henry VIII's England
In a world before police, what happened when someone was murdered? How were murderers caught? How did the wheels of justice turn?
We talk to Steven Veerapen, author of Of Blood Descended, about murder under the bloodiest King of all, Henry VIII.
Edited by Tom Delargy. Produced by Freddy Chick. Senior Producer is Charlotte Long.
Enjoy unlimited access to award-winning original documentaries that are released weekly and AD-FREE podcasts...
episode 40: Green Children of Woolpit
Two green children walked into the village of Woolpit in Suffolk, England, sometime in the 12th century. They said they were from a magic land where everything was as green as they were. What on earth was going on?
Maddy tells Anthony this story that has drawn in curious minds for hundreds of years.
Written by Maddy Pelling. Produced by Freddy Chick. Senior Producer is Charlotte Long...
episode 39: Dragons: From the Ancient World to the Hobbit
Take dinosaur bones, snake poison, volcanic lava, fear of the unknown. Mix it all together and you have a dragon!
Today we're finding out about the ancient origins of dragons and why there used to be a much wider variety of dragon types than we see today. Our guide is dragon expert Jasmine Elmer. Jasmine's new documentary "Dragons: Myth & Reality" is out now on History Hit.
Edited by Tom Delargy, Produced by Freddy Chick, Senior Producer is Charlotte Long...