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…

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
Gruesome Tales of Friars Bush Graveyard
Charles Peace: The Victorian Killer Who Still Haunts Yorkshire
St Edmund Arrowsmith: Lancashire’s Martyr, Miracle Worker and Mystery
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