Dark History

Weird, disturbing, wacky, horrific, nightmarish – these are all some of the many words to describe the dark history of the UK and Ireland…

Mary Bateman: The Dark Deeds Of A Yorkshire Witch
10 Grisly Victorian Murders That Weren’t Jack the Ripper
Murder and Dripping Fat: Kate Webster Horrors
Tales from the Necropolis, Liverpool Ghost Tour REVIEW
St Mary’s at Lambeth: Grimoires, Graves and Curiosities
Lambeth’s Occult Secrets: David Turnbull Interview
Bartlow Hills, the Pyramids of Essex
Buried Alive: The Chilling Tale of Margorie McCall
Old Scarlett, Peterborough’s Spookiest Gravedigger
The Horrific Truth of Ireland’s Bog Bodies
Curse of Alloa Tower: The Erskine Family’s Lament
Holy Trinity Church, The Bone Crypt of Rothwell
Henry Trigg, the Grocer who Refused the Grave
The Day Agatha Christie Disappeared: A Real-Life Mystery
Mystery of Roanoke: How 117 English Settlers Vanished Into Thin Air
Ruth Ellis: The Last Woman Executed in England
The Billinge Vampire Grave

The Billinge Vampire Grave

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Blackbeard: The Ghostly Legend of Bristol’s Most Infamous Pirate
Jemmy Whitehat: Witch Doctor of Heywood
The Warning of the ‘Chewing Gum’ Grave
Hatchet Inn: Blackbeard and Ghosts in Bristol’s Oldest Pub
Woodvale Cemetery: Victorian Beauty and Crowley’s Final Farewell
Jack Ketch: The Executioner Who Horrified London
Campden Wonder: A Mystery of False Confessions and Injustice