Macabre London

When you hear "Whitechapel", one name springs to mind, Jack the Ripper, but todays old true crime case is one I can guarantee you won't have heard about. This case has everything, adultery, a chase through London and a horrendous reveal which left London reeling. This time on Macabre London, we uncover the Whitechapel Tragedy. Podcast: www.acast.com/macabrelondon Thanks so much for watching! MAGIC...

Ever wondered if a robot could replace you? I experimented with A.I to see if a robot could write a better episode of my History podcast - macabre London - than I could. I think I'm safe for the time being but I reckon A.I is definitely getting there and maybe in a few years time, all I'll have to do is type the topic in and press write! I don't think it would be the same though. Podcast: www.acas...

The town of Centralia in Pennsylvania has been on fire for the past 60 years! An underground network of mines was accidentally set fire to after firefighters decided to solve the towns trash problem by setting it alight. Two weeks later, the ground was still smouldering and it wasn't long before the earth beneath the gentile community led town, was set ablaze seemingly forever putting its resident...

The bravery of the first female soldier in World War One knew no bounds. At the age of just 17, Dorothy Lawrence went to war. She was there to be the first female war correspondent, except nobody knew what she was up to. She disguised herself as a mine layer and fought on the front line before it all went wrong, leaving her a shell of a woman. Today, we uncover the story of Dorothy Lawrence, the f...

Stories of haunted houses regularly graced the pages of Victorian newspapers. The paranormal phenomena was investigated and given more of a critical eye than you may expect but why did ghost stories suddenly become all the rage, with thousands of copies of books selling at the time about the spooky tales. The history is stranger than you think and it may have well been to do with the industrial re...

England in the 14th century was in crisis.  Famine had torn through the country in the first half of the century & extreme weather had battered the residents' properties, ports and farms causing widespread damage, taking years to recover from.  The black death had swept over the world killing an estimated 25 million people globally and half of England's population overall. A poll tax...

England in the 14th century was in crisis. Famine had torn through the country in the first half of the century & extreme weather had battered the residents' properties, ports and farms causing widespread damage, taking yeas to recover from. The black death had swept over the world killing an estimated 25 million people globally and half of England's population overall. The feudal system was e...

Botox Camels disqualified from Beauty Pageant & Hut Found on Moon | Weird News December 2021 If you would like to watch this episode then please click here: https://youtu.be/4Zg3bDNjOIk Story 1: Botox Camels disqualified from Beauty Pageant. Over 40 camels were disqualified from a beauty pageant for having had botox, fillers and other cosmetological enhancements. Story 2: Hut Found on Moon. Th...

Australia Bans Cats & Pigs Take Over Golf Course | Weird News 2021 November https://youtu.be/naskv6V5REA Story 1: Australians decided they've had enough of cats! Don't be too worried though, this isn't a complete ban but more in order to protect the national wildlife that's suffering as a result of feral cats. We explore how the authorities are coping (and in some cases, not coping) with the f...

Demon Pact Killer Danyal Hussein Jailed & Mysterious Space Signals | Weird News 2021 October Story one: Danyal Hussein faced trial for the murders of Bibaa Henry and Nicole Smallman after they were having a picnic in Fryent country Park in June 2020 and failed to return home. I give a recap of the case and the reasons that led to Danyal's arrest. Story 2: Mysterious signals were detected in sp...

Shakira Mugged by Wild Boar & Missing man finds himself during search | Weird News 2021 September You thought the episodes of weird 2021 were already, super weird...well today we step into two stories which could definitely be sitcom plot lines. First off, we have a man who joined a search party for himself! Then, Shakira is mugged by two wild boar in a barcelona park. I promise you the storie...

Ever wonder what Stonehenge is made from? The clue is in the title...but someone else has decided to make it from Spam. Today we're combining both July and August in this episode as Spamhenge was apparently the only weird thing that happened in July. To make up for it though, we have two tales in August which are both very odd. First up we have the case of the Coleman family which is a very sad ta...

Welcome back to another episode of Weird news 2021. Today we're looking at two stories which made the weird news in June 2021. First off we have A weird story involving Prince Charles and Camilla Duchess of Cornwall. Simon Durante-Day a British born man now living in Australia, believes he is the son of the royal pair and was adopted out when he was just 8 months old. Sorry two, we circle back to...

Welcome back to another episode of our year in review of all things weird that happened in 2021! This time we discover the Brood X infestation of periodical cicadas that fly around spreading fungus which changes their brains. We then discover a strange deep sea creature which washed up in California which may make lots of people happy for hundreds of years to come. Thanks so much for watching! If...

The news in 2021 got pretty weird! There were time travellers on TikTok and Yeti's in Yorkshire. Join me today to find out more about these weird stories. First up we learn about a tiktoker who is apparently from the future. Tiktok user Timetraveller2582 popped up claiming they were from the future and prophesying the weirdest events that may happen in the next few years. Then, a YouTube channel p...

Aliens land in Tesco Car park and cause all sorts of problems with car keys. A village in Bangladesh experiences 500 fires in one year due to birds, children and a ton of other reasons. 2021 was quite the year of weird news so I figured what would be fun is if we went back of the year, month by month before the year is through to regale some of the stranger stories from the year. As there are quit...

2021 was quite the year of weird news so I figured what would be fun is if we went back of the year, month by month before the year is through to regale some of the stranger stories from the year. As there are quite a few strange stories, I'll be spreading this out over a few episodes before the end of 2021 like a cathartic cleansing ritual, so if you’re new here, make sure you subscribe so you do...

2021 was quite the year of weird news so I figured what would be fun is if we went back of the year, month by month before the year is through to regale some of the stranger stories from the year. Now even though 2021 has felt fairly uneventful to the majority of us who spent a large time of it in our sweatpants at home, plenty of strange things happened throughout the year and so I thought it mig...

You can watch this episode here: https://youtu.be/8TkL_p03UqI On a dull and overcast morning on Tuesday the 28th of june 1887, a curious situation occured at a lodging house in the east end of London. The body of a young woman was found on her bed in her lodging house. Her skin was quickly eroding from her face and arms. What had happened to this woman and why was her skin disintegrating. Furtherm...

For most people it’s generally believed that your soul leaves your body when you die and that if you believe in reincarnation, that’s the point when a new life may begin. But what if one night you went to sleep and woke up the next day in the same body but with an entirely new soul, a new personality and even a new name, leaving the old you behind and picked up where you’d left off in your old lif...

https://youtu.be/AqfEzXini9o Louis Wain was one of the most popular artists of the Edwardian era. If you headed back in time and found yourself in an Edwardian drawing room, you’d more than likely be drawn to a print upon the wall. These prints which adorned many abodes were regarded for their whimsical portrayal of cats but behind the frivolous playful kittens hid a dark secret. Today on Macabre...

If anyone was going to plan the worlds most mysterious disappearance, it was definitely Agatha Christie! On the 4th of December 1926, a 36 year old woman tucked her daughter into bed, grabbed an attache case containing her personal documents, some clothing and some cash and got into her car driving off into the night. The next day the Morris Cowley car belonging to the woman, was seen perilously h...

Sabina Nessa was found dead in Cator park In Kidbrooke South East London after being brutally murdered. She wasn't found until 5:30pm the next day. Her body had been covered by leaves. Police have arrested and charged Koci Selamaj for her murder. He is awaiting trial. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/sep/28/sabina-nessa-man-charged-murder-teacher-sabina-nessa-koci-selamaj Sarah Everard was...

A little rainstorm in the middle of the night would more than likely go unnoticed by the average joe, fast asleep in their beds. One such overnight rainstorm in a little town in Washington should’ve been nothing to worry about but when residents awoke the following morning, they were treated to something unexplainable, a large amount of gelatinous blobs all over the town. Join me as we travel down...

The murder of Emily Armstrong was in danger of being lost as a story. Historical true crime is such a good learning tool for attitudes of the past and today, we learn about not one, not two but THREE unsolved murders in the same area of London which may have just had a little to do with each other, particularly when it came to how the victims were treated. --------------------------------- PATREON...