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…

Montague Summers and Pop Culture Occultism
The Devil In The Derwent Valley
Black Dog of Newgate: A Phantom Prisoner’s Revenge?
Dark Legends Of Betty’s Grave, Gloucestershire
Psychic Stain Plagues 16 Wardle Brook Avenue Murder Site
The Horrifying Truth about Barber Surgeons
How Ghosts Helped Discover Sutton Hoo’s Royal Treasure
7 Victorian Poisoners And Their Shocking Crimes
The Outcast Dead: Unconsecrated Burials in the Midlands
10 Deadliest Poisons In British Folklore That Will Kill You
The Tyburn Tree: London’s Most Infamous Gallows
The Manchester Pusher: Urban Legend or Serial Killer?
Pype Hayes Park Murder Coincidences Mystify Experts
The Mysterious Locked Room Death of Thomas Farrant
10 Things You Didn’t Know About Burke and Hare ‘The Bodysnatchers’
Shropshire’s Spooky Tale of Two Nells
The Cursed Name of Black Jack Adair
A Final Farewell from Abigail Whalley
A Corpse by Lamplight, the Horror of Smalls Lighthouse
Bloody Horrors at St Mary’s Church Hendon
Psychic Uncovers Horror At The Wheatsheaf Pub
Meet The Gypsy Queen of Norwood
The Horror Of Buckholm Tower
Jennet Preston, The Pendle Witch of Yorkshire