Some estimates have it that Amelia Dyer killed more than 400 babies. It's hard to say for sure because so... more

Have you ever wondered what the ancient origins of witchcraft is? How did the black-hat-broomstick stereotype emerge? And what causes... more

The Victorians created the unsettling art of death photography - posing their deceased love ones in family portraits as if... more

Did a Tudor prophetess correctly predict the English Civil War, the Crimean War, the sinking of the Titanic, World War... more

Witch hunts blazed across Europe from the 1400s right into the 1700s. Their terror has been burned into the collective... more

For Albert Pierrepoint, execution was a family affair. His father and uncle were hangmen and from the 1940s until the... more

What is spectrophilia? Well, it's a fetish for ghosts (as well as mirrors), so being turned on by anything lurking... more

What lurks beneath the dark waters of Loch Ness? The legendary monster? A piece of Celtic folklore? A warning of... more

Other countries celebrate their victories and independence. But in Britain, we celebrate a bungling terrorist from the 17th century. Why?... more

Can it be murder if you think you're killing a ghost? In 1804 the London suburb of Hammersmith was being... more