History Episodes
Queen Victoria and Her World Beyond the Veil
Death is something that shrouded Queen Victoria for most of her life- following her from childhood. Like many of her subjects, Victoria was caught up in the craze for spiritualism that swept the country during the early part ...
Letters With The Dead- Haunting Tales of the Reign of Terror
The Reign of Terror was a period of the French Revolution from September 5, 1793, to July 27, 1794. With civil war spreading from the Vendée and hostile armies surrounding France on all sides, the Revolutionary government dec...
Dark Tales of Premature Burial with Sarah Blake
Tucked away behind residential streets in the heart of Lurgan lies the centuries old Shankill Graveyard. As you creep through its wrought iron gate you will discover sinking tombstones with chilling stories to share- of a wom...
Ghosts and Folklore from Shropshire with Amy Boucher
Joining me in today's podcast is Amy Boucher a writer and folklorist who focuses on her native Shropshire. She is a passionate advocate of Shropshire’s folklore, ghostlore and local history, and the role these play in preserv...
The Great Noise- The Power of Witchcraft Panic
Everywhere through history you can see the scars of witch trials. Sweden is no different. In today's episode we explore the Torsåker witchcraft trials of 1668- 1676 and the mark it has left on the present with Easter celebrat...
Off With Her Head- The Nine Day Queen
In today’s episode we explore the story of a young girl caught up in the political conflicts of her time. It would see her rise to the highest echelon of Queen (a position she held for nine days.) Lady Jane …
Ghosts of The Future Yet To Come
And so we reach the last strike of the clock, as we enter the Witching Hour. In A Christmas Carol the Ghost of Christmas Future is introduced as an ominous and silent figure, "...a solemn Phantom, draped and hooded, coming, …
Ignorance and Want- Haunting Visits from the Present
"Most of all beware this boy, for on his brow I see that written which is Doom, unless the writing be erased." A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens. As the clock next strikes we take a look at Ghosts of the …
The Ghosts of Winter Past
The events of the past are but shadows. In Charles Dicken's creation A Christmas Carol The Ghost of Christmas Past is a strange, otherworldly creature which shimmers and flickers like a candlelight- in it's hand the Ghost hol...
Digging up History- Macabre Practices of the 1800s
Joining me in today's episode is Gina- one half of the double act we know on the podcast as Haunted History BC https://hauntedhistorybc.com . We are going to be exploring the resurrectionists, crime and punishment and a varie...
Bring Out Your Dead- The Haunting History of a Plague Village
In 1665 a tailor from Eyam ordered a box of materials relating to his trade from London. He unwittingly triggered a terrifying and deadly chain of events that would lead to 260 recorded deaths. Between the first death and the...
The Haunting of Borley Rectory
Borley Rectory was a house famous for being "the most haunted house in England" after being described as such by psychic researcher Harry Price. With tales of Borley’s ghosts first emerging as far back as 1863 it has a vast …
Monastic Ghosts- Haunting Tales from the Middle Ages
Abbeys and priories around the world with their ivy-clad ruins have stirred the imagination of many eighteenth and nineteenth century authors of Gothic fiction, drama and poetry. Some monasteries in fact have tales of ghosts ...
Paranormal Women- A Hidden History with Allison Jornlin
Joining me today is Allison Jornlin a leading haunted history researcher, Fortean researcher, writer and spooky history tour guide in Milwaukee to discuss how women were largely responsible for building the foundations of par...
A Journey In Death with Aoife Sutton
Joining me today is Aoife Sutton a doctoral researcher in archaeological and forensic sciences at the University of Bradford. Her research interests include death and dying, embalming, human remains in museums, and death in a...