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…

All Fall Down: What was the Hollinwell Mystery?
‘Naming Jack the Ripper’ doesn’t prove Jack
Has DNA proved Aaron Kosminski was Jack the Ripper?
Dublin’s Hellfire Club: A Disturbing History
Last Sunday in August is Eyam’s Plague Sunday
Who Were The Golden Dawn, Britain’s Most Famous Occultists?
A Madman Feeds And Dances With A Corpse: Is This The Foulest Story Ever?
Who was Susan Willis Fletcher, Convicted Spiritualist Fraud?
How Medieval Welsh Historians Taught Us About The Occult
Isobel Gowdie, Witch of Auldearn
The Maggie Wall Witchcraft Monument, Dunning
Greyfriars Kirkyard, the Ultimate City of the Dead
What Happened On Friday the 13th July, 1894?
Dr Crippen’s Ghost and Other Murderer Spirits
5 Strange Victorian Deaths That’ll Make You Laugh and Cry
Gruesome Death of Robert Wilfred Skeffington Lutwidge
Vampire of the Villas Victim Choked on Garlic
5 Strange Great Fire of London Facts
The Jack the Ripper Show
Victorian Lunatic Asylums – The Living Tombs!
Bolton Strid Deadly Waters Inspire Tales Of Horror
Ghosts and Gravestones of Haworth by Philip Lister REVIEW
The Gorbals Vampire and the Southern Necropolis
Scottish Bodysnatchers: A Gazetteer by Geoff Holder BOOK REVIEW