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S2 Ep 9S2 E9: The Mystery Of Egypt

Send us a text. Thank you for your messages I really appreciate it 😁 Imagine a vast expanse of golden desert stretching endlessly, its undulating dunes reminiscent of a colossal sea frozen in time. The scorching sun hangs high in the sky, casting its intense rays upon a land of captivating mysteries and ancient wonders. At the heart of this mesmerizing terrain, the mighty Nile River carves its serpentine path, a lifeline of emerald green amidst the arid surroundings. Its waters flowing nurturing the fertile soil Here, monumental structures rise like giants from the sands, their weathered facades telling tales of grandeur and architectural prowess. The towering pyramids stand as stoic sentinels, reaching towards the heavens with precision and mathematical mastery. Their limestone surfaces, weathered by time, hold secrets etched in hieroglyphic scripts, narrating the stories of pharaohs and gods. Majestic temples emerge, resplendent with intricate carvings and towering columns adorned with lotus blossoms and papyrus fronds. The air carries a heady scent of incense, wafting from sacred chambers where priests conduct solemn rituals, seeking divine favour and guidance. In the bustling streets of cities like Thebes and Memphis, are vibrant as life unfolds. The colours of flowing robes and headdresses dazzle the eye, with hues of royal blues, vibrant reds, and shimmering golds. Markets teem with exotic goods and the calls of merchants, as precious jewels, aromatic spices, and rare treasures from distant lands change hands. Vibrant frescoes adorn walls, where pigments of lapis lazuli, malachite, and ochre create breathtaking scenes of daily life, religious rituals, and mythological tales. Ancient Egypt, a realm of enigmatic allure, evokes a sense of awe and wonder. It beckons adventurers to unravel its mysteries, and it is it's mysteries that we are interested in today. Hi everyone and welcome back to the dark history podcast where we explore the darkest parts of human history. hope everyone is well I’m Rob your host as always. I Apologise for my terrible schedule over the last month, I was on holiday last week and before that both my younger children were Ill so it's been a little crazy, but I'm back and focused on getting these episodes out every other week again. Today's episode will be a change of pace, as we delve into the wonderous and mysterious land of Egypt. I've been fascinated with this civilisation since I was a child and the mysteries they left us. This isn't going to be a very dark episode but hopefully you will enjoy it all the same. So without further ado please sit back and relax next to the fire for moSupport the show *** Patreon link https://patreon.com/Darkhistory2021?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator&utm_content=join_link *** Merch: https://www.teepublic.com/stores/dark-history?ref_id=36220 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/darkhistorypod?mibextid=LQQJ4d Discord https://discord.gg/3mHPd3xg Email: [email protected] Tiktok: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMLSvwJJV/ YouTube :https://youtube.com/c/DarkHistory2021 Twitter: @darkhistory2021 Instagram: @dark_history21

Jun 7, 202328 min

S2 Ep 8S2 E8: The Superstition Of The Vampire

Send us a text. Thank you for your messages I really appreciate it 😁 Vampires, monsters that haunts our nightmares. The undead walking among the living feasting on the blood of humans. They possess the Power to live forever and enchant humans were the gaze. Maybe vampires are characters from the pages of bram stoker or Stephenie Meyer. Maybe they are just folklore a manifestation of superstitions an uneducated population. Or maybe just maybe back in time they were truly real to these people, an actual legitimate fear that stalked the dimly lite streets of towns and villages, ready to pounce on and drain the life forces of anyone with the misfortune to cross paths with one. Hi everyone and welcome back to the dark history podcast where we explore the darkest parts of human history. hope everyone is well I’m Rob your host as always. In Todays episode we’re going to delve into the folklore behind vampire and why these fictitious creatures still hold our fascination. weather it be in books or films the vampire still prickles our antiquated fear of the unknown. These monsters have hidden in the shadows of the human psyche for centuries, with these shadows and ghosts they have made people do some terrible things. So without further ado please sit back and relax next to the fire for more dark history. *** Patreon link patreon.com/Darkhistory2021 *** I’ve recently set up a Patreon this is a place we’re you can support the show. We have two tiers £2 gets you all the back catalogue ad free plus access to the scrip and show notes and £5 gets all of this and a Patreon only episode which will be me finding a horror or dark tale from your home town or which ever town you want. I hope you will be able to support the show but if not that is completely fine. Links Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/darkhistorypod?mibextid=LQQJ4d Discord https://discord.gg/3mHPd3xg Email: [email protected] Tiktok: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMLSvwJJV/ YouTube :https://youtube.com/c/DarkHistory2021 Twitter: @darkhistory2021 Instagram: @dark_history21 Support the show *** Patreon link https://patreon.com/Darkhistory2021?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator&utm_content=join_link *** Merch: https://www.teepublic.com/stores/dark-history?ref_id=36220 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/darkhistorypod?mibextid=LQQJ4d Discord https://discord.gg/3mHPd3xg Email: [email protected] Tiktok: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMLSvwJJV/ YouTube :https://youtube.com/c/DarkHistory2021 Twitter: @darkhistory2021 Instagram: @dark_history21

May 17, 202330 min

S2 Ep 7S2 E7: 100 Days of Death: the Rwandan Genocide

Send us a text. Thank you for your messages I really appreciate it 😁 As the sounds of crickets filled the warm and dry night air, I uncomfortably tossed and turn in bed. Was it the warmth that kept me awake or was it the fact Rwanda was again on a knife edge? The Two main tribes in our country have been at each other's throats for decades and I couldn’t help but feel the palpable tension blanketing the capital Kigali. Surely the violence that plagued the country in 1990 couldn’t return, surely the ceasefire signed by President Habyarimana Would hold. But as my eyes became heavy and I drift off to sleep, I remember seeing the calendar on the wall, tomorrow was the 6th of April 1994 the day our country plummets into the depths of hell for 100 days. Hi everyone and welcome back to the dark history podcast where we explore the darkest parts of human history. hope everyone is well I’m Rob your host as always. Just a quick thank you to you all for helping the show hit 50,000 downloads, when I started this just over a year ago I never thought I would get there and that is all down to you guys so thank you. In today’s episode, we will discuss the Rwandan genocide, one of the most brutal and devastating events to happen to a country in modern history. I’m going to try to explain it as if I myself was there at the time, This will be a tough episode to talk about there is a lot of suffering and despair attached to this one, so please keep that In mind when listening, So without further ado please sit back and relax next to the fire for more dark history. *** Patreon link patreon.com/Darkhistory2021 *** I’ve recently set up a Patreon this is a place we’re you can support the show. We have two tiers £2 gets you all the back catalogue ad free plus access to the scrip and show notes and £5 gets all of this and a Patreon only episode which will be me finding a horror or dark tale from your home town or which ever town you want. I hope you will be able to support the show but if not that is completely fine. Links Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/darkhistorypod?mibextid=LQQJ4d Discord https://discord.gg/3mHPd3xg Email: [email protected] Tiktok: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMLSvwJJV/ YouTube :https://youtube.com/c/DarkHistory2021 Support the show *** Patreon link https://patreon.com/Darkhistory2021?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator&utm_content=join_link *** Merch: https://www.teepublic.com/stores/dark-history?ref_id=36220 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/darkhistorypod?mibextid=LQQJ4d Discord https://discord.gg/3mHPd3xg Email: [email protected] Tiktok: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMLSvwJJV/ YouTube :https://youtube.com/c/DarkHistory2021 Twitter: @darkhistory2021 Instagram: @dark_history21

Apr 26, 202330 min

S2 Ep 6S2 E6: Dark Biography: The Demon Baby Farmer Amelia Dyer

Send us a text. Thank you for your messages I really appreciate it 😁 The Dimly flickering gas lamps glowed into the darkened Victorian cobbled streets. The peaceful slumber of the twilight, interrupted by the sounds of footsteps. Number 400 the woman thought as she tossed the small paper package into the Thames River. Little did she know this heinous act would be the last in a devilish career that spanned decades. Soon a grisly discovery would be made, the body of a tiny little girl. This innocent little girl would bring about the end of the dark and evil life of Amelia Dyer. Hi everyone and welcome back to the dark history podcast hope everyone is well I’m Rob your host as always. A little bit of housekeeping before we start. Back after a little delay I know it’s been about a month since episode five, real life got in the way but also I’ve taken a little time to try to improve the podcast, I’ve recently switched to Buzzsprout from Anchor and have gone back and listened to previous episodes to try and make the show better. One thing that I am going to try to do is to tell these more in a story format and I hope you enjoy them that way. I will go back to the Crusades in time but not just yet I feel that the episode didn’t perform as well as I hoped and maybe it was to saturated. Please keep in mind that this episode could be distressing to some people, So without further ado please sit back and relax next to the fire for more dark history. Links Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/darkhistorypod?mibextid=LQQJ4d Discord https://discord.gg/3mHPd3xg Email: [email protected] Tiktok: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMLSvwJJV/ YouTube :https://youtube.com/c/DarkHistory2021 Twitter: @darkhistory2021 Instagram: @dark_history21 Support the show *** Patreon link https://patreon.com/Darkhistory2021?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator&utm_content=join_link *** Merch: https://www.teepublic.com/stores/dark-history?ref_id=36220 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/darkhistorypod?mibextid=LQQJ4d Discord https://discord.gg/3mHPd3xg Email: [email protected] Tiktok: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMLSvwJJV/ YouTube :https://youtube.com/c/DarkHistory2021 Twitter: @darkhistory2021 Instagram: @dark_history21

Apr 12, 202332 min

S2 Ep 5S2 E5: The Crusades: A Pilgrimage or Holy War? part 1

Send us a text. Thank you for your messages I really appreciate it 😁 During the last four decades, the Crusades have become one of the most dynamic areas of historical enquiry, which points to an increasing curiosity to understand and interpret these extraordinary events. What persuaded people in the Christian West to want to recapture Jerusalem? What impact did the success of the First Crusade (1099) have on the Muslim, Christian and Jewish communities of the eastern Mediterranean? What was the effect of crusading on the people and institutions of western Europe? How did people record the Crusades and, finally, what is their legacy?Hi everyone and welcome back to the dark history podcast hope everyone is well I’m Rob your host as always. Episode 5 wow this season is moving fast. Episodes 5 and possibly 6 will be about the crusades it’s far to cast a topic for just one episode, and nobody wants to listen to me drone on for hours in one sitting. I did speak briefly about the crusades in episode 1 but as I said I feel we need to go into more depth. As we all know this was a time of around 200 years were religions were at loggerheads over the holy land. These differences would lead to some bloody wars and terrible acts of humanity So without further ado please sit back and relax for more dark history. LinksEmail: [email protected]: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMLSvwJJV/YouTube :https://youtube.com/c/DarkHistory2021Twitter: @darkhistory2021Instagram: @dark_history21Support the show *** Patreon link https://patreon.com/Darkhistory2021?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator&utm_content=join_link *** Merch: https://www.teepublic.com/stores/dark-history?ref_id=36220 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/darkhistorypod?mibextid=LQQJ4d Discord https://discord.gg/3mHPd3xg Email: [email protected] Tiktok: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMLSvwJJV/ YouTube :https://youtube.com/c/DarkHistory2021 Twitter: @darkhistory2021 Instagram: @dark_history21

Mar 15, 202325 min

S2 Ep 4S2 E4: When The Axeman Is In Town

Send us a text. Thank you for your messages I really appreciate it 😁 There is something graphic and Gorey when it comes to axe murders, Unfortunately for mankind, history has seen a lot of psychotic ax murderers in its time. You have probably heard of some of these ruthless slayers, like the infamous Lizzie Borden, but other stories you may have not.Hi everyone and welcome back to the dark history podcast hopes everyone is well I’m Rob your host as always. In episode 4 were going to talk about axe murders, if you hadn’t guessed, there will be some famous murders some obscure but unfortunately all blood thirsty and manic So without further ado please sit back and relax for more dark history. LinksEmail: [email protected]: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMLSvwJJV/YouTube :https://youtube.com/c/DarkHistory2021Twitter: @darkhistory2021Instagram: @dark_history21 Support the show *** Patreon link https://patreon.com/Darkhistory2021?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator&utm_content=join_link *** Merch: https://www.teepublic.com/stores/dark-history?ref_id=36220 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/darkhistorypod?mibextid=LQQJ4d Discord https://discord.gg/3mHPd3xg Email: [email protected] Tiktok: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMLSvwJJV/ YouTube :https://youtube.com/c/DarkHistory2021 Twitter: @darkhistory2021 Instagram: @dark_history21

Feb 27, 202329 min

S2 Ep 3S2 E3: The Dark Tale Of The Black Death

Send us a text. Thank you for your messages I really appreciate it 😁 Hell on Earth, the nightmare depicted by Flemish painter Pieter Bruegel in his mid-16th-century "The Triumph of Death" reflects the social upheaval and terror that followed the plague that devastated medieval Europe. Thought by most to be a scourge of the past, the bacteria of the plague still appears from time to time and has even been researched as a biological weapon by some countries.Hi everyone and welcome back to the dark history podcast hopes everyone is well I’m Rob your host as always. In episode 3 were going to talk about the Black Death, this topic seems like it was aeons ago but the emergents of Covid-19 and the quarantines it brought with it. Plunge us back in time with the same methods of containing such an outbreak. So without further ado please sit back and relax for more dark history. LinksEmail: [email protected]: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMLSvwJJV/YouTube :https://youtube.com/c/DarkHistory2021Twitter: @darkhistory2021Instagram: @dark_history21Support the show *** Patreon link https://patreon.com/Darkhistory2021?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator&utm_content=join_link *** Merch: https://www.teepublic.com/stores/dark-history?ref_id=36220 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/darkhistorypod?mibextid=LQQJ4d Discord https://discord.gg/3mHPd3xg Email: [email protected] Tiktok: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMLSvwJJV/ YouTube :https://youtube.com/c/DarkHistory2021 Twitter: @darkhistory2021 Instagram: @dark_history21

Feb 8, 202329 min

S2 Ep 2S2 E2: The Death Of Yugoslavia

Send us a text. Thank you for your messages I really appreciate it 😁 Yugoslavia is a name that to some of the framkenstien creation and the death of two empires. To some it hold find memory of sun sea and sand, the younger among us may never had heard of this once Baltic country but to some it brings memorys of war, death, destruction and genocide.Hi everyone and welcome back to the dark history podcast hope everyone is well I’m Rob your host as always. In episode 2 were going to look at the former country of Yugoslavia, up until recently the war that was fought here was the last fought in Europe. This is going to be another in a long line of grim tales from Europe, but it is up there with some of the most despicable and deplorable stories that have come out of this much civilized continent. Please don't judge me on my pronunciations in this I am going to murder quite a few. So without further ado please sit back and relax for more dark history. LinksEmail: [email protected]: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMLSvwJJV/YouTube :https://youtube.com/c/DarkHistory2021Twitter: @darkhistory2021Instagram: @dark_history21Support the show *** Patreon link https://patreon.com/Darkhistory2021?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator&utm_content=join_link *** Merch: https://www.teepublic.com/stores/dark-history?ref_id=36220 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/darkhistorypod?mibextid=LQQJ4d Discord https://discord.gg/3mHPd3xg Email: [email protected] Tiktok: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMLSvwJJV/ YouTube :https://youtube.com/c/DarkHistory2021 Twitter: @darkhistory2021 Instagram: @dark_history21

Jan 27, 202335 min

S2 Ep 1S2 E1: Why Is The Middle East Such A Basket Case?

Send us a text. Thank you for your messages I really appreciate it 😁 The Middle East, is a land of mystique, wonder and is the cradle of civilization. A land where people have flourished for thousands of years in the backdrop of a harsh and arid landscape, but unfortunately just like many places on this earth the ground is soaked in blood. This once prosperous and technologically advanced part of the world has decayed into a land of pain torture and misery.Hi everyone and welcome back to the dark history podcast hope everyone is well I’m Rob your host as always. Well, I hope everyone had a great Christmas and a happy new year, I hope everyone is over their hangovers and ready to get back to it. I thought I would start season two with something similar to season one but this time, if you hadn't guessed, we’ll be looking at the middle east. As you will hear this place has been the centre of the world on numerous occasions throughout history whether it be through empires or technological advances but has always had this sort of destabilising undertone that in modern times has ripped a lot of it apart. so without further ado please sit back and relax for more dark history. LinksEmail: [email protected]: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMLSvwJJV/YouTube :https://youtube.com/c/DarkHistory2021Twitter: @darkhistory2021Instagram: @dark_history21Support the show *** Patreon link https://patreon.com/Darkhistory2021?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator&utm_content=join_link *** Merch: https://www.teepublic.com/stores/dark-history?ref_id=36220 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/darkhistorypod?mibextid=LQQJ4d Discord https://discord.gg/3mHPd3xg Email: [email protected] Tiktok: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMLSvwJJV/ YouTube :https://youtube.com/c/DarkHistory2021 Twitter: @darkhistory2021 Instagram: @dark_history21

Jan 11, 202331 min

S1 Ep 22S1 E23: The Tales Of The Gory And Scary Ghost Stories Of Christmas’ Long Long Ago

Send us a text. Thank you for your messages I really appreciate it 😁 Hi everyone I want to wish you all a very merry Christmas and a happy new year. Thank you for all your support through this first year of the podcast. I really hope you enjoy the Christmas special Christmas is a time for cozying up in front of a roaring fire with family and friends, with gifts for giving and receiving, a time to eat drink and be merry and over indulgence. For those who are more religious amount us it’s a spiritual time of year, a celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ. How ever you spend your time our contemporary Christmas has changed dramatically over the century’s, it’s be morphed, polished and censored into a commercial wonderland of craziness. Hi everyone and welcome back to the dark history podcast hope everyone is well I’m Rob your host as always. So we are here episode 23 and the last of this season and this year. I’m going to start with a couple of apologies before we continue so first of all this episode is late as I have just got over Covid, I was unwell for the first week then the second week my voice just wasn’t right so I decided to delay this episode for a week so I could give it my all. Second I’ve had a bit of a mix up with my podcast distributor seem I put some episodes for subscription only. When I realised my mistake they were unpublished so I had to re publish them and now the sequencing is all out of whack. So yah am sorry about those two things. For episode 23 I though I would change it up a little, being the time of year and all I didn’t really want to spread doom and gloom, but I also didn’t want to go too far off topic so I decided to have a look at some of the Christmas folklore from around the world. There is still a modicum of death a distraction but this week it’s tied in a bow. so without further ado please sit back and relax for more dark history. LinksEmail: [email protected]: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMLSvwJJV/YouTube :https://youtube.com/c/DarkHistory2021Twitter: @darkhistory2021Instagram: @dark_history21Support the show *** Patreon link https://patreon.com/Darkhistory2021?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator&utm_content=join_link *** Merch: https://www.teepublic.com/stores/dark-history?ref_id=36220 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/darkhistorypod?mibextid=LQQJ4d Discord https://discord.gg/3mHPd3xg Email: [email protected] Tiktok: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMLSvwJJV/ YouTube :https://youtube.com/c/DarkHistory2021 Twitter: @darkhistory2021 Instagram: @dark_history21

Dec 16, 202220 min

S1 Ep 22S1 E22: Nazino Island: The Real Hunger Games

Send us a text. Thank you for your messages I really appreciate it 😁 Hi everyone and welcome to the m dark history podcast hope everyone is well. Thank you everyone for the massive support everyone has shown, I can’t believe how quickly this show is growing. So in episode 7 well were gunna go back to the good old Soviet Union and another one of stalins experiments. We spoke about the holodomor about a month a go now and if you haven’t listen to that episode what you doing go listen to it first, I’m only joking that episode isn’t connected to this episode, but I did talk about the kulaks and how they were arrested and taken to the gulag system unfortunate for those people the lucky ones were killed, so today we will be talking about the gulag system but one ordeal in particular the real hunger games or Nazino island, as a warning this does get very dark so listen with caution, with that out the way we will begin.Sources Cannibal Island: Death in a Siberian Gulag by Nicholas Werth and Jan Tomasz Grosshttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazino_tragedyGulag: A History of the Soviet Camps by Anne ApplebaumOne Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsynhttps://www.rferl.org/a/cannibal-island-in-1933-nearly-5-000-died-in-one-of-stalin-s-most-horrific-labor-camps/29341167.htmlhttps://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/books/horrors-unearthed-in-the-unknown-gulag-and-cannibal-island/Links Email: [email protected]: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMLSvwJJV/YouTube :https://youtube.com/c/DarkHistory2021Support the show *** Patreon link https://patreon.com/Darkhistory2021?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator&utm_content=join_link *** Merch: https://www.teepublic.com/stores/dark-history?ref_id=36220 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/darkhistorypod?mibextid=LQQJ4d Discord https://discord.gg/3mHPd3xg Email: [email protected] Tiktok: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMLSvwJJV/ YouTube :https://youtube.com/c/DarkHistory2021 Twitter: @darkhistory2021 Instagram: @dark_history21

Dec 5, 202227 min

S1 Ep 21S1 E21: The Mystery Of The Roanoke Colony

Send us a text. Thank you for your messages I really appreciate it 😁 Hi everyone and welcome back to the dark history podcast hope everyone is well.as always Thank you again for the massive support shown on the previous episode, all the support given is appreciated greatly.I can’t believe we’re at the podcasts 10th episode already. So yah episode 10 I will talk about a mystery that has endured the test of time, a mystery that refuses to be solved, one of history’s biggest mystery’s, sorry I couldn’t help rhyming that sentence, and that is the colony of Roanoke, so with out further a do please sit back and relax for more dark history. Sources Disputed Land by Tim pearsRoanoke island by Dave StickRoanoke by Lee millerhttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roanoke_Colonyhttps://www.history.com/.amp/news/what-happened-to-the-lost-colony-of-roanokehttps://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/131208-roanoke-lost-colony-discovery-history-raleighLinksEmail: [email protected]: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMLSvwJJV/YouTube :https://youtube.com/c/DarkHistory2021Support the show *** Patreon link https://patreon.com/Darkhistory2021?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator&utm_content=join_link *** Merch: https://www.teepublic.com/stores/dark-history?ref_id=36220 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/darkhistorypod?mibextid=LQQJ4d Discord https://discord.gg/3mHPd3xg Email: [email protected] Tiktok: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMLSvwJJV/ YouTube :https://youtube.com/c/DarkHistory2021 Twitter: @darkhistory2021 Instagram: @dark_history21

Dec 5, 202222 min

S1 Ep 20S1 E20: The German Extermination Machine

Send us a text. Thank you for your messages I really appreciate it 😁 Hi everyone and welcome back to the dark history podcast hope everyone is well I’m Rob your host as always. In episode 11 I’m going to talk about some that I alluded to way back in the first episode and that is Germany in Africa and the genocide of the nama and herero people, now if you’ve listen to the episode you will have heard about some of the imperialism in Africa by European power and if not then maybe go a listen to that first as I will be skimming certain points that I have spoken about previously like the Berlin conference and the scramble for Africa, yes that was a shameless plug. Now I know the title will drum up visions of the Holocaust or ww2 and believe topics of that scale will come up on this channel in the future, but I would like to talk about Germanys exploits in Africa and yes kettle calling the pot burnt arse a British man on his soap box about Germans killing people when Britain were the worst for it, the hypocrisy isn’t lost on me and again I will talk all about that in future episodes but this story up to a few years ago was never acknowledged by Germany and it sort of had an air of obscurity around it. This listen could be distressing to some people so please listen with caution there are description of death, mutilation, rape and racism so with out further ado sit back and relax for more dark history. Sourceshttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herero_and_Namaqua_genocidehttps://www.ushmm.org/collections/bibliography/herero-and-nama-genocideThe Genocidal Gaze: From German Southwest Africa to the Third ReichElizabeth Roberts Baer,The Kaiser's Holocaust: Germany's Forgotten Genocide and the Colonial Roots of NazismDavid Olusoga,LinksEmail: [email protected]: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMLSvwJJV/YouTube :https://youtube.com/c/DarkHistory2021Instagram: @dark_history21Support the show *** Patreon link https://patreon.com/Darkhistory2021?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator&utm_content=join_link *** Merch: https://www.teepublic.com/stores/dark-history?ref_id=36220 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/darkhistorypod?mibextid=LQQJ4d Discord https://discord.gg/3mHPd3xg Email: [email protected] Tiktok: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMLSvwJJV/ YouTube :https://youtube.com/c/DarkHistory2021 Twitter: @darkhistory2021 Instagram: @dark_history21

Dec 5, 202222 min

S1 Ep 19S1 E19: Tales Of Botched Executions

Send us a text. Thank you for your messages I really appreciate it 😁 Botched executions occur when there is a breakdown in, or departure from, the 'protocol' for a particular method of execution. The protocol can be established by the norms, expectations, and advertised virtues of each method or by the government’s officially adopted execution guidelines. Botched executions are 'those involving unanticipated problems or delays that caused, at least arguably, unnecessary agony for the prisoner or that reflect gross incompetence of the executioner.'Hi everyone and welcome back to the dark history podcast hope everyone is well I’m Rob your host as always. For episode 22, we’re going to look at some of history's botched executions. We will look at 3 individual cases through out history and hopefully you enjoy. Listeners' discretion is advised for this one as the descriptions are quite graphic. so without further ado please sit back and relax for more dark history. LinksEmail: [email protected]: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMLSvwJJV/YouTube :https://youtube.com/c/DarkHistory2021Twitter: @darkhistory2021Instagram: @dark_history21Support the show *** Patreon link https://patreon.com/Darkhistory2021?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator&utm_content=join_link *** Merch: https://www.teepublic.com/stores/dark-history?ref_id=36220 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/darkhistorypod?mibextid=LQQJ4d Discord https://discord.gg/3mHPd3xg Email: [email protected] Tiktok: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMLSvwJJV/ YouTube :https://youtube.com/c/DarkHistory2021 Twitter: @darkhistory2021 Instagram: @dark_history21

Nov 29, 202216 min

S1 Ep 18S1 E18: Dark Biography: King Leopold II of Belgium

Send us a text. Thank you for your messages I really appreciate it 😁 King Leopold II ruled over Belgium from 1865 to 1909. Today, the memory of his reign still lives on, and he is glorified with golden statues of his likeness in every major city in Belgium. In history classes, each generation is taught that he was a humanitarian who brought Christianity and the wonders of civilization to The Congo Free State. However, the truth has been kept away from the Belgian people. The reality is that King Leopold II is responsible for the murder and mutilation of 10 million Congolese people. This just may be the biggest cover-up in European history.Hi everyone and welcome back to the dark history podcast hope everyone is well I’m Rob your host as always. For episode 21 as you may have guessed is the dark biography of king Leopold the 2nd of Belgium we’ve not looked at an evil person for a while so I though who better to do then the person I spoke briefly about way back in episode one. now I will warn you this will get dark and there will be descriptions of death and mutilation in this episode, but if your a long time listener you know that pretty much all we talk about here . so without further ado please sit back and relax for more dark history. LinksEmail: [email protected]: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMLSvwJJV/YouTube :https://youtube.com/c/DarkHistory2021Instagram: @dark_history21Support the show *** Patreon link https://patreon.com/Darkhistory2021?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator&utm_content=join_link *** Merch: https://www.teepublic.com/stores/dark-history?ref_id=36220 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/darkhistorypod?mibextid=LQQJ4d Discord https://discord.gg/3mHPd3xg Email: [email protected] Tiktok: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMLSvwJJV/ YouTube :https://youtube.com/c/DarkHistory2021 Twitter: @darkhistory2021 Instagram: @dark_history21

Nov 15, 202229 min

S1 Ep 17S1 E17: Halloween Special: The Pendle Witches

Send us a text. Thank you for your messages I really appreciate it 😁 In the 16th and 17th centuries suspicion of witchcraft was at its height. In England and other nations across Europe there were trials and executions of suspected witches, Hundreds died in England as a result. Perhaps the most notorious witch trial of the 17th century, the legend of the Pendle witches is one of the many dark tales of imprisonment and execution at Lancaster Castle. just over three centuries saw witch trials held in England but fewer than 500 people were executed for this crime. This one series of trials in the summer of 1612 therefore accounts for 2% of all witches executed.Hi everyone and welcome back to the dark history podcast hope everyone is well I’m Rob your host as always. For episode 20 and the Halloween special we're going to look at something that happened a mere 40 miles from my house and that it the pendle witch trials. The trials of the Pendle witches in 1612 are among the most famous witch trials in English history, and some of the best recorded of the 17th century. so without further ado please sit back and relax for more dark history. LinksEmail: [email protected]: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMLSvwJJV/YouTube :https://youtube.com/c/DarkHistory2021Instagram: @dark_history21Support the show *** Patreon link https://patreon.com/Darkhistory2021?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator&utm_content=join_link *** Merch: https://www.teepublic.com/stores/dark-history?ref_id=36220 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/darkhistorypod?mibextid=LQQJ4d Discord https://discord.gg/3mHPd3xg Email: [email protected] Tiktok: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMLSvwJJV/ YouTube :https://youtube.com/c/DarkHistory2021 Twitter: @darkhistory2021 Instagram: @dark_history21

Oct 31, 202218 min

S1 Ep 16S1 E16: The Missing Part 1

Send us a text. Thank you for your messages I really appreciate it 😁 In the United States National Park System alone there are more than 84 million acres (35 million hectares) of preserved woods, deserts, mountains and other wilderness, so it's no surprise that in the past 100 years there have been a number of cases of hikers going missing. Many of those who vanished were young children and inexperienced hikers, but some were healthy and seasoned outdoorspeople. But is there more to these disappearances than just kids wandering off, or hikers becoming disoriented?Hi everyone and welcome back to the dark history podcast hope everyone is well I’m Rob your host as always. For episode 19, we're going to look at some of the stranger cases of missing people in American national parks, some of these are anomalously mind-bending and I'm excited to share them. Yes, I know the missing 411 is a thing, and some you may have heard these before but I'll go through a couple of separate stories and maybe we will do a couple of part of this. so without further ado please sit back and relax for more dark history. LinksEmail: [email protected]: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMLSvwJJV/YouTube :https://youtube.com/c/DarkHistory2021Instagram: @dark_history21Support the show *** Patreon link https://patreon.com/Darkhistory2021?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator&utm_content=join_link *** Merch: https://www.teepublic.com/stores/dark-history?ref_id=36220 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/darkhistorypod?mibextid=LQQJ4d Discord https://discord.gg/3mHPd3xg Email: [email protected] Tiktok: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMLSvwJJV/ YouTube :https://youtube.com/c/DarkHistory2021 Twitter: @darkhistory2021 Instagram: @dark_history21

Oct 18, 202219 min

S1 Ep 15S1 E15: The Flannan Island Mystery

Send us a text. Thank you for your messages I really appreciate it 😁 It was the transatlantic steamer Archtor that first noticed something was wrong. On its voyage to the port of Leith from Philadelphia, the Archtor passed the lighthouse on the Flannan Isles on the night of the 15th of December 1900 and the crew saw that its light was off. After docking in Leith three days later, the news was passed on to the Northern Lighthouse Board that something was amiss on Flannan. The question of what happened to the lighthouse keepers would become one of Scotland’s most intriguing mysteries.Hi everyone and welcome back to the dark history podcast hope everyone is well I’m Rob your host as always. For episode 18, I'm going to talk about the flannan island mystery, as you would have guessed, a strange tale of three lighthouse keepers who disappear in one of the world's most hostile and inhospitable places in the world so without further ado please sit back and relax for more dark history. Sources The Lighthouse: The Mystery of the Eilean Mor Lighthouse Keepers by Keith MccloskeyAll the Light We Cannot SeeBy Anthony Doerrhttps://www.heraldscotland.com/news/17639867.mystery-vanished-flannan-lighthouse-keepers-probed-new-book/https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flannan_Isles_LighthouseLinksEmail: [email protected]: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMLSvwJJV/YouTube :https://youtube.com/c/DarkHistory2021Instagram: @dark_history21Support the show *** Patreon link https://patreon.com/Darkhistory2021?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator&utm_content=join_link *** Merch: https://www.teepublic.com/stores/dark-history?ref_id=36220 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/darkhistorypod?mibextid=LQQJ4d Discord https://discord.gg/3mHPd3xg Email: [email protected] Tiktok: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMLSvwJJV/ YouTube :https://youtube.com/c/DarkHistory2021 Twitter: @darkhistory2021 Instagram: @dark_history21

Sep 29, 202216 min

S1 E14: What Happened Immediately After Hitler Died?

Sep 12, 202221 min

S1 E13: The Case of The Black Dahlia

Aug 25, 202220 min

S1 E12: Nakam And The Jewish Avengers

Aug 10, 202227 min

S1 E11: The Great Irish Hunger

Jul 27, 202225 min

S1 E10: Dark Biography: The Real Dracula Vlad The Impaler

Jul 13, 202220 min

S1 E9: Story Time

Jun 28, 202220 min

S1 E8: The Dark History Of London Part 2

May 4, 202227 min

S1 E7: Dark Biography: The Countess Of Blood Elizabeth Bathory

Apr 14, 202220 min

S1 E6: The Invasion Of The Wolves

Mar 14, 202218 min

S1 E5: The Holodomor Stalin’s Executions By Hunger

Mar 1, 202215 min

S1 E4: The Dark History Of London Part 1

Feb 17, 202219 min

S1 E3: Death, Disease and Dismemberment The Horrific Story of Unit 731

Feb 9, 202229 min

S1 E2: Dark Biography: Pol Pot

Jan 28, 202223 min

S1 E1: The European’s Atrocities In Africa

Jan 7, 202215 min

My introduction

Jan 5, 20221 min