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…

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

5 November 2024

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
Epping Forest’s Haunting Suicide Pool