After Dark: Myths, Misdeeds & the Paranormal

A body is found at Stonehenge. It's the skeleton of a man - an archer - who lived at the time when it was built. How did he die? What secrets does his skeleton reveal about his life and the purpose of...

A four thousand(ish) year old murder trial. A procession of the dead. Kings who believed they could escape the gods by dressing gardeners in royal clothes...then killing them. Welcome to the Dark Side...

'Strike, man, strike!' were the last words of Sir Walter Raleigh as his neck lay on the block. After thirteen years in the Tower of London, (multiple) expeditions to find a city of gold, and a plot to...

Beneath the streets of the French capitol lurks a city of the dead: the Paris Catacombs. Why they were piled up there is a dark and fascinating story, that includes everything from the bloody days of ...

It was one of the most gruesome crimes of the Victorian era... and it ended up in David Attenborough's garden! Kate Webster, a servant, killed and dismembered her mistress, Julia Martha Thomas in 1879...

*TW: This episode contains references to sexual violence.* Mary Queen of Scots' life was defined by violence, heartbreak and ultimately, betrayal. Since her bloody death at the hands of her cousin, El...

Why are the Knights Templar surrounded by myths and legends? Is there any truth to the tales of the Holy Grail or that the Knights survived? Why does this medieval order, which disappeared in the 14th...

One split second - and one individual - can upturn an entire nation. This was definitely the case when John Wilkes Booth shot President Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre on the night of 14th April 186...

The lost colonists left behind one clue, the word "Croatoan" carved into a tree. Who were the Croatans? What were their lives like? How can we see this whole story differently if we examine it from th...

When people talk about Ancient Egypt, they often focus on the amazing pyramids, mummies, and the advanced civilisation. At After Dark, we love to explore the grim reality of all of this: what was lif...