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Inside the Victorian Asylum
Jan 05, 2026One of the dark symbols of the Victorian age is the asylum. It struck fear into the mind but what was the reality of life inside its walls? Maddy Pelling tells Anthony Delaney the story today. Edited ...
The Truth About the Conjuring's Ghost Hunters
Jan 01, 2026Ghost hunting couple Ed and Lorraine Warren transformed twentieth century America into an enchanted land dotted with haunted houses, cursed objects, and portals to hell. Their exploits are the basis f...
Banshees: Herald of Death
Dec 29, 2025Today we're delving back into the After Dark vaults to revisit our episode on Banshees... Siobhan McSweeney (Derry Girls) joins Anthony Delaney and Maddy Pelling for the story of the Banshee. The Bans...
Ghosts of Henry VIII's Palace
Dec 25, 2025We’re re-running this episode because it’s one of our favourites — and it’s worth another listen! The ghost of Catherine Howard, fifth wife of Henry VIII, screaming down a corridor. A nursemaid's spin...
Dark Truth About Sweeney Todd
Dec 22, 2025Sweeney Todd - the demon barber of Fleet Street who beheads people and then sends their bodies through a trapdoor to be made into pies. It's just a story right? Right? There's not any real history to ...
The Most Notorious Viking Raid
Dec 18, 2025The Viking attack on the monastery at Lindisfarne, a remote tidal island in North East England, sent psychological and cultural shockwaves through the history. It's a story of blood and terror, but th...
Oscar Wilde's Very Victorian Scandal
Dec 15, 2025In 1895, the world witnessed its first true celebrity trial when Oscar Wilde was charged with “Gross Indecency". To tell the powerful story of Wilde's life in its fullness, Anthony and Maddy are joine...
Does Every Family Hold A Dark Past?
Dec 11, 2025Maddy and Anthony dig into their own family history in collaboration with Ancestry! They find stories from the darker side of the past in their own family trees. Huge thanks to Ancestry's genealogists...
What Happened The Day Pompeii was Destroyed?
Dec 08, 2025We all know the story of Pompeii: the Roman town reduced to ash when Mount Vesuvius erupted. Roughly two-thousand years later, archaeologists have been able to uncover the stories of its victims. What...
The Dark Side of the Vikings
Dec 04, 2025How dark really were the Vikings? How much of a part did human sacrifice play in their world? And what was their relationship with magic? Joining Anthony and Maddy in today's episode is historian, aut...