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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.


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Episodes
  • Great Fire of London As It Happened

    Great Fire of London As It Happened
    Jan 12 2026

    The Fire that struck London in 1666 was one of the city's darkest chapters. In this episode, Anthony and Maddy examine the accounts of people who witnessed the disaster at the time, tracing the story from its origin in Pudding Lane right up until its dying embers...


    Who quickly did the Fire spread? How did the terrified population turn to scapegoating the innocent? And how did the aftermath of this catastrophe shape the city we know today?


    Edited by Tim Arstall, Produced by Tom Delargy, Senior Producer was 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.


    All music from Epidemic Sounds.


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

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    50 mins
  • Day in the Life of a Salem Puritan

    Day in the Life of a Salem Puritan
    Jan 8 2026

    What did it feel like to wake up Salem Village during the darkest days of the witch trials? Would you be able to swallow down your beer and pottage breakfast? As you walked towards the simple wooden Meetinghouse in the afternoon, what feeling would have been in your breast?


    Anthony & Maddy are on a quest to find out!


    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 Tom Delargy. Senior Producer is Freddy Chick.


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


    All music from Epidemic Sounds.

    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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    49 mins
  • Inside the Victorian Asylum

    Inside the Victorian Asylum
    Jan 5 2026

    One of the dark symbols of the Victorian age is the asylum. It struck fear into the mind but what was the reality of life inside its walls? Maddy Pelling tells Anthony Delaney the story today.


    Edited by Richard Powers, Produced by Stuart Beckwith, Senior Producer was 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.


    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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    41 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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