Encounters With the Black-Eyed Children

A dark figure at the foot of the bed. A weight on the chest. A scream that won’t come out. We're going to look at the terrifying world of shadow people. We might have heard of The Hat Man and the Old Hag, but did you know that there have been documented cases where shadow figures ...  Show more

A failed musician disappears… and returns months later as a master. This is the legend of Robert Johnson, the man said to have made a deal with the devil. Stories of haunted crossroads rituals and ghostly recordings that sound like more than one man playing, all surrounded Robert ...  Show more

Story One – The Devil in the Doll Whilst stories of haunted dolls can be traced back many generations, it was not until the arrival of Hollywood characters such as ‘Chucky’ and ‘Annabel’ that the concept of possessed puppets truly cemented itself within the wider public conscious ...  Show more

Convicted child killer Robert Black was caught when a curious postman turned his head to look at the unfamiliar van as it passed on his street and in those seconds saw a child’s feet disappear into the back.The sliding-doors moment meant the end of the road for Black but the star ...  Show more

Irish folktales tell of stolen children, whisked away in the dead of night by the fairies. These children were taken to act as servants, to sate the curiosity of fairies curious about human children, or as an act of revenge. In the stolen child's place, they would leave a fairy c ...  Show more

Simon und ich wollen Gespenster jagen. Aber wir finden keine. Wahrscheinlich, weil es noch nicht dunkel ist. Aber solche Probleme kann ein Riese leicht lösen. (Eine Geschichte von Meike Haas, erzählt von Axel Milberg)