After Dark: Myths, Misdeeds and the Paranormal - Halloween is just around the corner, so it feels right for a new series delving into some of the spookiest stories in history. Brought to you by History Hit, the same team behind Dan Snow’s History Hit and Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal and Society, hosts Maddy Pelling and Anthony Delaney chart some of the spookiest stories in the UK, from a Cornish haunted jail to the story of the last person to be executed for witchcraft in the north of Scotland.
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