A documentary series and written archive exploring haunted places, folklore and forgotten history—what happened, what was claimed, and what the stories reveal about the living.
Start here
Begin with The Pendle Witches: What a Nine-Year-Old Girl Said in Court—a story about fear, family and the testimony that helped send ten people to the gallows.
Season One
- The Pendle Witches — the child witness at the heart of England’s most notorious witch trial.
- Borley Rectory — separating the haunting from the legend of “England’s most haunted house”.
- Pluckley — how one Kent village became famous for its ghosts.
- The Salem Witch Trials — when visions and spectral evidence entered the courtroom.
- The Stanley Hotel — the place, the haunting and the birth of The Shining.
- Aokigahara — history and folklore beneath the sea of trees.
- The Tower of London — ghosts, history and the machinery of a national myth.
- The Myrtles Plantation — the legend of Chloe, the documented history and what the ghost story obscures.
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Listen to The Dark Atlas
The podcast follows the same trail through strange places and difficult histories. Listen on Spotify.
Fiction from the same dark ground
If you prefer your haunted landscapes in fiction, explore The Land Demands Blood and The Last Watch.
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