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Sleepy Hollow & the Haunted Hudson
31 October 2022On Halloween, Elizabeth Bradley tells Don about Washington Irving's famous story, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, its headless horseman and the...
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Sorcery and the Tudor Court
31 October 2022It's a little known fact that the Tudor monarchs and their councillors used - and feared - magic and the occult. At this time of great religious...
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Tactical Nuclear Weapons
31 October 2022In a scathing attack on the West, Russian President Vladimir Putin has declared the world faces its most dangerous decade since WW2 - having...
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Smugglers of Jamaica Inn
31 October 2022Stories of shipwrecks, smugglers and ghosts. Built in the mid-18th century, over the years many of the Jamaica Inn's patrons have been less...
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Ukraine's Ancient Greek City
30 October 2022Located in modern day Ukraine, Olbia was the largest ancient Greek settlement on the coast of the Black Sea. A mix of Scythian and Greek culture,...
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Paranormal Technology
30 October 2022Welcome to Patented-Gone-Paranormal!! Thomas Edison tried to make a telephone that called the spirit world. One of the pioneers of radio believed...
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Vlad the Impaler
29 October 2022Vlad the Impaler - Vlad Dracula - is one of history’s most brutal figures, who has enjoyed a bizarre afterlife as a cult character. Although a...
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Seances
28 October 2022Everybody hold hands! We're going for a seance!
How long have we've been trying to talk to dead people for? And have we ever actually been...
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Blitzkrieg: How Britain Invented, Then Ignored It
28 October 2022Here’s a special episode of Cautionary Tales, a podcast from our friends at Pushkin Industries.
On Cautionary Tales, bestselling author...
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A Short History of Seances
27 October 2022From their origins in necromancy to their ritualisation in the religion of Spiritualism, seances have long been a staple in the occultist's...
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America's Psychedelic '60s: Timothy Leary and LSD
27 October 2022In 1963, a Gilded Age estate in Millbrook, New York, became a venue for academic research into therapeutic uses for LSD, led by psychologist...
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Nur Jahan: Empress of Mughal India
27 October 2022In 1611, the daughter of a Persian nobleman and widow of a subversive official, became the 20th and favourite wife of the Mughal Emperor Jahangir....
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