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After Dark: Myths, Misdeeds & the Paranormal

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.


Sign up to History Hit for hundreds of hours of original documentaries, with a new release every week and ad-free podcasts. Sign up at https://www.historyhit.com/subscribe.

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Episodes
  • The Most Notorious Viking Raid

    The Most Notorious Viking Raid
    Dec 18 2025

    The 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 there's more subtlety to it as well, as Maddy and Anthony learn today with returning guest Dr Eleanor Barraclough.


    Edited by Tim Arstall. Produced by Tomos Delargy. Senior Producer is Freddy Chick.


    You can now watch After Dark on Youtube! www.youtube.com/@afterdarkhistoryhit


    Sign up to History Hit for hundreds of hours of original documentaries, with a new release every week and ad-free podcasts. Sign up at https://www.historyhit.com/subscribe.


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    All music from Epidemic Sounds.


    After Dark: Myths, Misdeeds & the Paranormal is a History Hit podcast.

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    43 mins
  • Oscar Wilde's Very Victorian Scandal

    Oscar Wilde's Very Victorian Scandal
    Dec 15 2025

    In 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 joined by Merlin Holland, grandson of Oscar Wilde. Anthony and Merlin met while Anthony was filming his new History Hit documentary A Very Victorian Scandal: The Trials of Oscar Wilde.


    Sign up to History Hit to watch this and hundreds of other original documentaries, with a new release every week and ad-free podcasts. Sign up at https://www.historyhit.com/subscribe.


    Edited by Tim Arstall. Produced by Stuart Beckwith. Senior Producer is Freddy Chick.


    You can now watch After Dark on Youtube! www.youtube.com/@afterdarkhistoryhit


    You can take part in our listener survey here.


    All music from Epidemic Sounds.


    After Dark: Myths, Misdeeds & the Paranormal is a History Hit podcast.

    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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    1 hr and 6 mins
  • Does Every Family Hold A Dark Past?

    Does Every Family Hold A Dark Past?
    Dec 11 2025

    Maddy 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 and family historians Jenn Utley, Joe Buggy and Christina Copland.


    If you haven’t yet, head to here to start your own family history journey today for free. The AncestryDNA kit makes an amazing stocking stuffer. Be sure to subscribe to the Ancestry YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/@AncestryUS too!


    Edited by Tim Arstall. Produced by Freddy Chick, Peta Stamper and Charlotte Long.


    You can now watch After Dark on Youtube! www.youtube.com/@afterdarkhistoryhit


    Sign up to History Hit for hundreds of hours of original documentaries, with a new release every week and ad-free podcasts. Sign up at https://www.historyhit.com/subscribe.


    You can take part in our listener survey here.


    All music from Epidemic Sounds.


    After Dark: Myths, Misdeeds & the Paranormal is a History Hit podcast.

    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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    58 mins
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I can't stop listening to this podcast, informative, funny and inclusive. The casters know how to weave a story. Im a walking talking titbit of trivia now .

so interesting

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a wonderful mix of historical information, empathetic discussion of events and their contexts and what I can only describe as warm humour that is a balm for tough topics and difficult times

reigniting curiosity in listeners

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excellent podcast, highly recommend not only to history nerds- but anyone out there with even a passing interest in the stories and perspectives from our history.

intelligent people, interesting topics.

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