Our Curious Past

…1 campfire… …1 dark forest… …31 bone-chilling stories… …Will YOU survive the night? This Halloween season, enter the woods for a unique and truly epic podcast experience! Around the campfire Shane Waters will introduce 31 crime podcast hosts, including Peter at Our Curious Past. Each host brings a new, nerve-wracking true story to the circle. It’s an extra special, two part, five-hour, Halloween...

…1 campfire… …1 dark forest… …31 bone-chilling stories… …Will YOU survive the night? This Halloween season, enter the woods for a unique and truly epic podcast experience! Around the campfire Shane Waters will introduce 31 crime podcast hosts, including Peter from Our Curious Past. Each host brings a new, nerve-wracking true story to the circle. It’s an extra special, two part, five-hour, Hallowee...

Chances are, you’ve never even heard of him, yet without him…we wouldn’t have shows and movies like The Walking Dead, Resident Evil, Night of the Living Dead or Shaun of the Dead. That’s because travel writer, William Seabrook was the first to introduce the idea of 'zombies' to popular culture. This was back in 1929, with his smash hit account of travels in Haiti, called 'The Magic Isl...

Chances are, you’ve never even heard of him, yet without him…we wouldn’t have shows and movies like The Walking Dead, Resident Evil, Night of the Living Dead or Shaun of the Dead. That’s because travel writer, William Seabrook was the first to introduce the idea of 'zombies' to popular culture. This was back in 1929, with his smash hit account of travels in Haiti, called 'The Magic Isl...

He's been called the most widely read cartoonist of all time. But also, the most popular theologian, too. Yet his legacy is truly shocking and controversial. When he died in 2016, many Evangelical Christians mourned the loss of a great Christian leader. Others held online parties to say good riddance to who they said was a homophobic, racist and unloving man. His little palm sized religious co...

If you'd been in the UK fishing town of Grimsby, in February 1923, you'd have sensed the sadness in the streets. The Sargon fishing trawler was 'much overdue' and was 'presumed lost with all hands.' Friends and family were left devastated, and mystified...what happened to the ship? In time, a gripping and shocking story would be pieced together. It was a voyage that would s...

Explore 'Our Curious Past' and the mysterious case of Ze Ahigo. Known as a 'country bumpkin', he couldn't read or write...yet he performed operations on thousands of Brazilians without any medical training. He even used a rusty knife, but his patients praised him as a great medical man. How was he so successful? The answer, he claimed, was that he was the channel for a German A...

This is the second and final part of a two part episode... For centuries, life in in the French village of Oradour-sur-Glane was happy and peaceful. Until June 10th, 1944 when the Nazi SS invaded. The trucks rolled in on a sunny, Saturday afternoon, and by that evening, every building in the village would be destroyed. Yet far worse...642 men, woman and children were dead. It is the worst Nazi war...

For centuries, life in in the French village of Oradour-sur-Glane was happy and peaceful. Until June 10th, 1944 when the Nazi SS invaded. The trucks rolled in on a sunny, Saturday afternoon, and by that evening, every building in the village would be destroyed. Yet far worse...642 men, woman and children were dead. It is the worst Nazi war crime to ever take place on French soil, yet many outside...

Locana, Italy, 1877. Maria Mezzanrosa had a perfectly normal pregnancy and labour...until the midwife screamed at the birth. Her babies were joined from the sixth rib down. They had two full heads and necks, two pairs of arms, but only one shared set of legs. Her husband Giovanni Tocci fainted in shock, but it didn't take him long to see a blessing, instead of a curse. After a mere four weeks...

Kelvedon Hatch, UK (Part Two) Surrounded by fields and woodland, it looks like an average, brick bungalow. It isn't. Just a few steps through the doors reveals a huge tunnel leading to an amazing labyrinth of rooms, deep under the hillside. This is Kelvedon Hatch Secret Nuclear Bunker. Built in secrecy and strict military security, you will join Peter Laws as he tours the bunker. In this speci...

Kelvedon Hatch, UK (Part One) Surrounded by fields and woodland, it looks like an average, brick bungalow. It isn't. Just a few steps through the doors reveals a huge tunnel leading to an amazing labyrinth of rooms, deep under the hillside. This is Kelvedon Hatch Secret Nuclear Bunker. Built in secrecy and strict military security, you will join Peter Laws as he tours the bunker. In this speci...

Istanbul (formerly Constantinople). Sports fans are passionate, but this energy can sometimes lead to conflict or even all-out violence. This happened on a truly horrific scale in Constantinople, on Tuesday, January 13th, 532 C.E. The sport was Chariot Racing, and while the fans of the opposing Greens and Blues had clashed before, this revolt was different. After a botched public execution, the fa...

San Gioavanni Rotondo, Italy Millions flock to the Italian town of San Gioavanni Rotondo each year. They come for two reasons. Firstly, it's home to the most efficient and advanced medical research hospital in Europe. Yet it's also a magnet for Catholic pilgrims. They come to see the body of Padre Pio who lived and died here, in 1968. This famous Saint who was known for having stigmata - w...

Cardington, England. On Saturday, October 4th, 1930 the R101 Airship, set off from Cardington England on it's first ever passenger flight. Hopes were high that this craft would help change the face of global travel. Yet the following morning, this majestic and epic ship would be a smouldering wreck, strewn across a field in France, killing 48 men. It was a disaster that would put an end to air...