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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  • Ghosts of the Deep South

    Ghosts of the Deep South
    Nov 21 2024

    The Deep South is a haunted landscape where dark tourism thrives, supplying spine-tingling thrills to eager visitors. But is there a darker truth behind these tales? Maddy and Anthony's guest today is Tiya Miles, author of Tales from the Haunted South. Tiya reveals how ghost tours exploit and distort the true history of slavery for profit, feeding troubling narratives.


    Tiya Miles is the Michael Garvey Professor of History and Radcliffe Alumnae Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. Her latest book is Night Flyer: Harriet Tubman and the Faith Dreams of a Free People (Penguin 2024).


    Edited by Freddy Chick. Produced by Sophie Gee. Senior Producer is Charlotte Long.


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    52 mins
  • English Village Sacrificed to Plague (Part 1)

    English Village Sacrificed to Plague (Part 1)
    Nov 18 2024

    (Part 1/2) They could've run, but they stayed. In 1665 plague arrived in the idyllic English village of Eyam. What followed was a story of suffering and self-sacrifice.


    Maddy tells Anthony the story. Today we set the scene with the outbreak of the plague in London and how the pestilence arrived, via a bolt of cloth, in the village of Eyam.


    With special guest Rebecca Rideal, author of "1666: Plague, War and Hellfire".


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    47 mins
  • Queen Victoria's Funeral & the Cult of Death

    Queen Victoria's Funeral & the Cult of Death
    Nov 14 2024

    Queen Victoria was synonymous with grief and the Victorian cult of death. Yet her own funeral wasn't that at all. Today Dan O'Brien explains to Anthony Delaney and Maddy Pelling how to bury a Queen like Victoria.


    Dr Dan O'Brien is a of historian of undertakers and funerals in Eighteenth Century England and researcher at the Centre for Death and Society, University of Bath.


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    38 mins

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so interesting

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 .

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