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…

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
The Titanic: 10 Chilling Facts You Didn’t Know
The Possession Of Richard Dugdale, The Surey Demoniac
Scotland Apologises for Historic Witchcraft Trials and Executions
St David, Wales’ Patron Saint: 10 Facts You Should Know
Suicides and Burials: Sacrilege in Days Gone By
Aleister Crowley Sites In England You Can Visit
5 Spooky Reasons to Stay in Blackwater Castle, County Cork
5 English Pubs With Skulls And Other Dark Objects