The Darker Side of History
True stories of executions, haunted places, cursed objects and extraordinary lives.
- The Diplomat Hanged As A Traitor And Honoured As A Saint
The man who exposed Congo's atrocities was hanged for treason, then given a hero's state funeral decades later.
Pentonville Prison, London, United Kingdom · 1916
- The King's Favourite Who Bet Against Richelieu
A dazzling young courtier gambled his head against Cardinal Richelieu, and lost it in a public square.
Place des Terreaux, Lyon, France · 1642
- The Most Haunted House In London
For a whole Victorian generation, one Mayfair townhouse carried a reputation no other address in London could match.
Berkeley Square, London, United Kingdom · 1879
- The Murder Dickens Turned Into Fiction
A cold, calculated murder buried a body in a Bermondsey kitchen, and became fodder for the country's most famous novelist.
Bermondsey, London, United Kingdom · 1849
- The Real Survival Story Behind The Revenant
Mauled by a bear and left for dead, a frontier trapper crawled across hundreds of miles of wilderness to survive.
Shadehill, South Dakota, United States · 1823
- England's Most Fought-Over Haunted Castle
Centuries of border warfare and torture wrote Chillingham's darkness into history long before anyone spoke of ghosts.
Chillingham, Northumberland, United Kingdom · 1245