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…

Maggie Osborne and the Malt Cross Curse
Healey Dell’s witchcraft and fairy legends linked to Robin Hood
The Phantoms of Hollingworth Lake
What haunts The Guy Fawkes Inn in York?
London Burkers: How Resurrectionists Turned To Murder
The Charing Cross Trunk Murder: London’s Gruesome Parcel of Horror
Ireland’s Last Witch? 10 Things You Didn’t Know About Bridget Cleary
Ghosts in the Quarry: The Haunted History of St James Cemetery, Liverpool
Martha Ray’s Grave in Elstree: A Georgian Murder Remembered
Old Cankey, Middleton’s Most Notorious Grave Robber
The Manchester Mummy Won’t Stay Dead
When Archaeology Meets the Psi Factor
Corpse Roads: Walking England’s Ghostly Paths of the Dead
Blood Money: The Newcastle Witch Trials
Manchester Cholera Victims Haunt St John’s Gardens
Why Did Jack the Ripper Stop Killing?
The Haunting of Clifford’s Tower: York’s Blood-Soaked Sentinel
Angel Meadow, the horrors behind Manchester’s haunted Green Quarter
The Allendale Wolf, a beast remembered in fire
Queensberry House: Edinburgh’s Forgotten Cannibal Ghost
Arbor Low: Ancient Stone Circle Steeped in Mystery
Witch of Scrapfaggot Green: Essex’s Wartime Ghost Story
John Horwood: Was Justice Served or Was He a Victim?
Nottingham Killer William Saville Hanged Twice And Haunts Gallows Hill