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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Latest episodes
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The Gunpowder Plot As It Happened
#26 trending · History
'Remember, remember the 5th of November, Gunpowder, treason and plot...'
Every year across Britain, people come together to burn bonfires in commemoration of the failed
Nov 5 58 min
Scotland's Worst Poltergeist
How long could you stand living in a house haunted by a vengeful poltergeist?
That's the situation a Scottish family found themselves in in the late 17th century. As mem
Nov 2 39 min
The Pendle Witches | Cautionary Tales
What’s better than a witch story on Halloween? Today, we’ve got a special episode from Cautionary Tales’ Tim Harford to share. Back in 1612 Lancashire, a chance roadside
Oct 31 40 min
London's Most Iconic Ghost Story
We're celebrating Maddy's new documentary all about London's most famous ghost - the ghost of Cock Lane! It's out today on History Hit - https://www.historyhit.com/
This
Oct 29 1 h 02 min
American Vampire Panic
This is a shocking story that saw families digging up their dead relatives, believing them to be vampires.
What makes it all the more shocking, is that it was as recent
Oct 26 42 min
Most Haunted House in England
Built in 1862, Borley Rectory became known as England's most haunted house. From ghostly nuns and unexplained disturbances to paranormal investigator Harry Price's contro
Oct 22 53 min
Myth of the Golem of Prague
In the sixteenth-century, down the winding cobbled streets of Prague, there once lived a towering supernatural being: the Golem. Legend has it that it was conjured to lif
Oct 19 44 min
The 'Changeling Murder' of Bridget Cleary
The story goes that in 1895 Bridget Cleary was burned to death by her husband who believed she was a 'changeling' fairy.
In today's episode, Anthony and Maddy interrogat
Oct 15 1 h 17 min
Medieval Origins of Dracula
With Halloween just around the corner, it's the perfect time to really get to know the familiar figure of Dracula.
What vampires came before him? What fears were the Vic
Oct 12 49 min
The Real Werewolf Trials of Europe
You've heard of the witch trials, but have you heard of the werewolf trials?!
This fascinating history takes us to back to the 16th and 17th centuries, when panic spread
Oct 8 1 h 00 min
The Dark Side of the Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales
When the studious, unassuming brothers Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm left home for university, little did they know their fairy-tale collections would take Europe by storm.
We
Oct 5 58 min
"HMS Terror" Death on the Arctic Tundra
In 1845 two Royal Navy ships, HMS Terror & HMS Erebus, departed Britain on an expedition into the Arctic. Along their ill-fated icy expedition, they disappeared almost co
Oct 1 56 min
Did Robin Hood Exist?
It's a story that's been around for a good 800 years, but is there any evidence that Robin Hood actually existed?
Find out what really went on inside Sherwood Forest, ho
Sep 28 50 min
The Bloodiest Anglo Saxon Royal Murders
When the Romans left Britain in the 5th century, what happened next?
The following centuries saw a messy and bloody struggle for power that left us with some gruesome ro
Sep 24 50 min
America's 'Innocent Axe-Murderer' Lizzie Borden
Today we're revisiting an episode which explores one of the most infamous trials in American history. Lizzie Borden's story is breathtaking even today.
In 1893 she was a
Sep 21 58 min
How Grim Were Victorian Slums?
We've spent a lot of time in of Victorian London on this podcast- a world of cobbled streets, grimy buildings and crowded homes. But how accurate is this- what was it rea
Sep 17 53 min
Dark History From The Caribbean Plantations
In 1675, a planned uprising by the enslaved people of Barbados was crushed before it had a chance to come to fruition. For three years, the conspirators' lives revolved a
Sep 14 1 h 02 min
When Medieval Peasants Attacked London
In 1381, thousands of ordinary people rose up against the Crown, marched on London, and came close to bringing England’s political establishment to its knees... In this e
Sep 10 1 h 09 min
Georgian London's Celebrity Criminal
What is it about a ‘bad boy’ that we love? That’s as true today as it was in the 18th century. In this episode of After Dark, Anthony and Maddy unravel the extraordinary
Sep 7 55 min
The Wild Story of America's Biggest Traitor
Benedict Arnold was celebrated as a war hero of the American Revolution before he betrayed George Washington and the Continental Army by joining the British.
In today's
Sep 3 43 min
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I love Maddie and Anthony - just the right mix of banter, personality, and well-researched history. Never dry or boring the way some history is told. Don’t listen to the critics who want you to be boring robots!
katesmamabear98 · Sep 2026
Update: I just listened to the episode about the man and the iron mask and I just want to say, please never stop being chaotic on the show! Anthony narrating the delivery of his glasses made me laugh on my commute to work!
I really enjoy this show. Maddy and Anthony are great hosts & historians. I really enjoy their banter and sense of humor while also respecting the gravity of some of the histories they are telling and analyzing.
Brn86 · Aug 2026
Each episode feels like if I gave my smart and qualified friends license to geek out on a historical topic for an hour. I love learning about history in this approachable conversational way. It’s educational without being stuffy and dry. There’s some fun banter, but it still stays on topic. Love it!
Burtrude11 · Aug 2026
Omg I love this podcast so much! I found it recently, and now it is literally all that I listen to. It is so well researched and they set the scene so well. I have a suggestion for something to talk about on the podcast, which is the Green Children of Woolpit, and I think it is something worth looking into.
Crazyhistorynerd · Aug 2026
Started out so promising and interesting! So much chattering on and diving down off topic rabbit holes and talking over each other that I started to learn more about the hosts’ book preferences and museum jaunts than about the actual history that I was there for. Couldn’t make it through an episode.
RaisedinLA · Aug 2026
This podcast suffers from the same drawback that most with multiple hosts do- way too much banter between hosts rather than focusing on the narrative/story.
Valmet81 · Jul 2026
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