History Episodes

Joining me today is Simon Entwistle an award winning tour guide and author of Ghostly Tales of the Unexpected. He has a knack for storytelling and regaling his audiences with history, ghosts, heroes, villains, murders, myster...

Joining me today is Kevin Charity, the C.E.O. of The Coaching Inn Group, as we discuss the role of the coaching inn within our communities and his role in helping to restore and preserve the history of the locations within …

Joining me today is guest Amanda Woomer as we explore her books : 'A Very Frightful Victorian Christmas,' and 'Krampus's Great Big Book of Yuletide Monsters.' The idea of the holidays being a dark and frightening time is not ...

Joining me today is medium and paranormal investigator Beverley Turney to discuss the location Bicclescombe Mill in Ilfracombe. First listed in 1795 as a corn mill Beverley shares her insight as to some of the paranormal acti...

Joining me today is author and paranormal investigator Amanda Woomer to talk about her book Harlots and Hauntings which is an exploration of the voices and stories of sex workers that have been silenced for centuries. Through...

If you were visiting Paris today, you’d probably find yourself walking past the love padlocks on the Pont des Arts, walking through Notre Dame and a mile on from there you’d be at the Louvre. If you were in Paris …

Joining me today is Richard Blewett the proprietor of Pengenna Manor. The Manor is an 800-year-old private house set in over 300 acres of beautiful Cornish countryside that has been Richard's family home for several generatio...

A Casquette Girl (French: fille à la cassette ) but also known historically as a Casket Girl or a Pelican Girl, was a woman brought from France to the French colonies of Louisiana to marry. The name derives from the …

The real vampires were not suave, polished, cultivated or rich. They looked like ordinary dead peasants – usually shabby, and often fat. Some of them never drank blood. Others ate apples, nuts, grapes, or green beans. Yet for...

Like the witchcraft trials as a whole, the trial of supposed werewolves emerged in what is now Switzerland (especially the Valais and Vaud) during the Valais Witch Trials in the early 15th century and spread throughout Europe...

Joining me in today’s podcast is Diane Chambers as we discuss Chillingham Castle situated in Northumberland. Chillingham Castle boasts some of the highest levels of paranormal activity in the country, with a large collection ...

Joining me in today’s podcast is folksinger Jim Causley as we discuss the life of poet Charles Causley and the area of Launceston in Cornwall. We discuss the role of the Causley Trust and an exciting upcoming Halloween even...

Cemeteries are designed as places for the dead to rest in peace. In today's podcast we explore dark history and tales of the supernatural involving cemeteries and how sometimes finding eternal rest was not always so easy to c...

Joining me today are the authors behind the book 'A Haunted History Of Invisible Women: True Stories of America's Ghosts' a book which explores sorrowful widows, vengeful jezebels, innocent maidens, wronged lovers, former sla...

In today's episode we explore some of the history and hauntings from within The White House. From ghostly knocks, to apparitions of a soldier walking the grounds and a First Lady completing her laundry The White House has man...