After Dark: Myths, Misdeeds & the Paranormal

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  • This is After Dark: Myths, Misdeeds and the Paranormal. The podcast that takes you to the shadiest corners of the past, unpicking history’s spookiest, strangest, and most sinister stories.


    Join historians Anthony Delaney and Maddy Pelling, every Monday and Thursday to take a look at the darker side of history. From haunted pubs and Houdini, to witch trials and weird UFO sightings.


    After Dark: Myths, Misdeeds and the Paranormal - a podcast by History Hit, the world's best history channel and creators of award-winning podcasts Dan Snow's History Hit, Gone Medieval, and Betwixt the Sheets.

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  • Harry Houdini: the Original Ghostbuster
    Aug 15 2024

    Harry Houdini was the greatest magician that ever lived. He was also the greatest ghostbuster ever, exposing countless spiritual mediums as frauds. Why?


    Maddy Pelling and Anthony Delaney are joined by Efram Sera-Shriar, historian of the occult and author of "Psychic Investigators: Anthropology, Modern Spiritualism, and Credible Witnessing in the Late Victorian Age".


    Get ready for the moving story of Harry Houdini, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and a son's love for his mother that would not die even after she was gone.


    Edited by Ella Blaxill. Produced by Freddy Chick. Senior Producer is Charlotte Long.


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  • "The Elephant Man": Joseph Merrick's True Story
    Aug 12 2024

    The life of Joseph Merrick, the man they dared to call "The Elephant Man", will fill you with pain and anger. He was treated so cruelly by society that he found becoming a freak show exhibit preferably to the life available to him elsewhere. Yet alongside darkness there is light and love in his story, and a sense of his own indomitable spirit throughout it all.


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    Written by Anthony Delaney. Edited by Tomos Delargy. Produced by Freddy Chick. Senior Producer is Charlotte Long.


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  • American Serial Killer Family: Bloody Benders
    Aug 8 2024

    When a series of mysterious disappearances and gruesome murders happened on the American Frontier in the 19th century, fingers started to point in the direction of not one murderer…but a family of killers. As the case unraveled, their grisly crimes cemented their place in history and earned their nickname as the 'Bloody Benders'.


    Joining Maddy Pelling and Anthony Delaney this episode is Susan Jonusas, historian and author of 'Hell's Half-Acre: The Untold Story of the Benders, A Serial Killer Family on the American Frontier'.


    This episode was edited by Tomos Delargy and produced by Freddy Chick. The senior producer is Charlotte Long.


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love it

love love absolutely love this podcast the two presenters are fantastic first episode and already hooked can't wait for more

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Best podcast

Absolute favorite podcast channel. I anxiously await each new episode and I am never disappointed

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interesting conversation. enlightened.

beautiful narration, vivid and informative discussion of terrible historical character. Who know countess Bathory herself died from torture and neglect? it's new news to me

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So entertaining and enlightening

I love the presenters! They are a joy to listen to, and their passion for the subjects can be felt. Already on to my second listen on the episodes and always excitedly waiting for new ones to drop.

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