Dark History: Where The Darkness See’s The Light

Send us a text. Thank you for your messages I really appreciate it 😁 During the last four decades, the Crusades have become one of the most dynamic areas of historical enquiry, which points to an increasing curiosity to understand and interpret these extraordinary events. What persuaded people in the Christian West to want to recapture Jerusalem? What impact did the success of the First Crusade (...

Send us a text. Thank you for your messages I really appreciate it 😁 There is something graphic and Gorey when it comes to axe murders, Unfortunately for mankind, history has seen a lot of psychotic ax murderers in its time. You have probably heard of some of these ruthless slayers, like the infamous Lizzie Borden, but other stories you may have not. Hi everyone and welcome back to the dark histo...

Send us a text. Thank you for your messages I really appreciate it 😁 Hell on Earth, the nightmare depicted by Flemish painter Pieter Bruegel in his mid-16th-century "The Triumph of Death" reflects the social upheaval and terror that followed the plague that devastated medieval Europe. Thought by most to be a scourge of the past, the bacteria of the plague still appears from time to time and has e...

Send us a text. Thank you for your messages I really appreciate it 😁 Yugoslavia is a name that to some of the framkenstien creation and the death of two empires. To some it hold find memory of sun sea and sand, the younger among us may never had heard of this once Baltic country but to some it brings memorys of war, death, destruction and genocide. Hi everyone and welcome back to the dark history...

Send us a text. Thank you for your messages I really appreciate it 😁 The Middle East, is a land of mystique, wonder and is the cradle of civilization. A land where people have flourished for thousands of years in the backdrop of a harsh and arid landscape, but unfortunately just like many places on this earth the ground is soaked in blood. This once prosperous and technologically advanced part of...

Send us a text. Thank you for your messages I really appreciate it 😁 Hi everyone I want to wish you all a very merry Christmas and a happy new year. Thank you for all your support through this first year of the podcast. I really hope you enjoy the Christmas special Christmas is a time for cozying up in front of a roaring fire with family and friends, with gifts for giving and receiving, a time to...

Send us a text. Thank you for your messages I really appreciate it 😁 Hi everyone and welcome to the m dark history podcast hope everyone is well. Thank you everyone for the massive support everyone has shown, I can’t believe how quickly this show is growing. So in episode 7 well were gunna go back to the good old Soviet Union and another one of stalins experiments. We spoke about the holodomor ab...

Send us a text. Thank you for your messages I really appreciate it 😁 Hi everyone and welcome back to the dark history podcast hope everyone is well.as always Thank you again for the massive support shown on the previous episode, all the support given is appreciated greatly. I can’t believe we’re at the podcasts 10th episode already. So yah episode 10 I will talk about a mystery that has endured t...

Send us a text. Thank you for your messages I really appreciate it 😁 Hi everyone and welcome back to the dark history podcast hope everyone is well I’m Rob your host as always. In episode 11 I’m going to talk about some that I alluded to way back in the first episode and that is Germany in Africa and the genocide of the nama and herero people, now if you’ve listen to the episode you will have hea...

Send us a text. Thank you for your messages I really appreciate it 😁 Botched executions occur when there is a breakdown in, or departure from, the 'protocol' for a particular method of execution. The protocol can be established by the norms, expectations, and advertised virtues of each method or by the government’s officially adopted execution guidelines. Botched executions are 'those involving u...

Send us a text. Thank you for your messages I really appreciate it 😁 King Leopold II ruled over Belgium from 1865 to 1909. Today, the memory of his reign still lives on, and he is glorified with golden statues of his likeness in every major city in Belgium. In history classes, each generation is taught that he was a humanitarian who brought Christianity and the wonders of civilization to The Cong...

Send us a text. Thank you for your messages I really appreciate it 😁 In the 16th and 17th centuries suspicion of witchcraft was at its height. In England and other nations across Europe there were trials and executions of suspected witches, Hundreds died in England as a result. Perhaps the most notorious witch trial of the 17th century, the legend of the Pendle witches is one of the many dark tal...

Send us a text. Thank you for your messages I really appreciate it 😁 In the United States National Park System alone there are more than 84 million acres (35 million hectares) of preserved woods, deserts, mountains and other wilderness, so it's no surprise that in the past 100 years there have been a number of cases of hikers going missing. Many of those who vanished were young children and inexp...

Send us a text. Thank you for your messages I really appreciate it 😁 It was the transatlantic steamer Archtor that first noticed something was wrong. On its voyage to the port of Leith from Philadelphia, the Archtor passed the lighthouse on the Flannan Isles on the night of the 15th of December 1900 and the crew saw that its light was off. After docking in Leith three days later, the news was pas...

Send us a text. Thank you for your messages I really appreciate it 😁 On April 30, 1945, Adolf Hitler took his life in his subterranean Berlin bunker. The impact of Hitler's suicide on the war was more emotional than strategic. He killed himself because he understood that surrender and capture were inevitable. Still, in the aftermath of Hitler's suicide, there were many consequences and reactions...

Send us a text. Thank you for your messages I really appreciate it 😁 At 10 AM. January 15, 1947. Betty Bersinger, a local housewife, was walking down Norton Avenue in Los Angeles when she saw something disturbing in an empty lot on the street. When she first saw the corpse, Bersinger said that the body was so white that at first she assumed it had to be a mannequin. But when she realized that wha...

Send us a text. Thank you for your messages I really appreciate it 😁 Hi everyone and welcome back to the dark history podcast hope everyone is well I’m Rob your host as always. Episode 15 I can’t believe it, it seem a lifetime ago i published my first episode way back in January scary how time flies. Since then The show is so close to have 10 thousand individual plays which is insane and also the...

Send us a text. Thank you for your messages I really appreciate it 😁 Hi everyone and welcome back to the dark history podcast hope everyone is well I’m Rob your host as always. in the mid 1840 an un wanted visitor came to the Irish shores , this visitor brought the country to its knees and their overlord did absolutely nothing to help. The visitor caused so many people to die and even more to lea...

Send us a text. Thank you for your messages I really appreciate it 😁 Hi everyone and welcome back to the dark history podcast hope everyone is well I’m Rob your host as always. Today we’re going to talk about the life of a man that to some is the very embodiment of evil, the very incarnation of the devil himself. but to l many Romanians he’s viewed as a national hero. He was one of the most respe...

Send us a text. Thank you for your messages I really appreciate it 😁 Hi everyone and welcome back to the dark history podcast hope everyone is well I’m Rob your host as always. In This episode it though I’d change the pace a little and bring you a collection of stories, some you may have heard some you may have not but I guarantee they will be bone chilling. First story takes us to Europe in the...

Send us a text. Thank you for your messages I really appreciate it 😁 Hi everyone and welcome back to the dark history podcast hope everyone is well. Thank you again for the massive support shown on the previous episode and the season so far we recently hit 2500 plays and 250 downloads, all the support given is appreciated greatly. This episode as the last starts off with an apology for my timing...

Send us a text. Thank you for your messages I really appreciate it 😁 Hi everyone and welcome to the dark history podcast hope everyone is well. Sorry that my scheduling has been off for this episode I do try to get these out on a Monday but I’ve been Ill for the past week and honestly could hardly talk so I do apologies . Thank you as always for the support on the episodes we’re constantly gettin...

Send us a text. Thank you for your messages I really appreciate it 😁 Hi everyone and welcome to episode 6 and to the dark history podcast hope everyone is well. todays episode as you’ve would have seen from the title is called the invasion of the wolves, yep I know strange title but I promise there is an interesting story behind it. We will focus on Paris, the city of lights and love, the French...

Send us a text. Thank you for your messages I really appreciate it 😁 Hi everyone and welcome back to the dark history podcast. episode 5 is quite apt for the current climate with the escalations in Ukraine, I thought I would talk about the atrocities committed by Joseph Stalin and the Soviet Union through the use of hunger as an execution method. This era in Eastern European history is know by ma...

Send us a text. Thank you for your messages I really appreciate it 😁 Hi everybody and welcome back to the dark history podcast I’m your host rob. I want to start as always thanking everyone for the overwhelming reaction to the previous episodes I really do appreciate it. So todays episode we will look into the dark history of London, more so the darker stories behind some of the landmarks, areas...