The Ghosts of the Catacombs of London

Throughout the Spanish Inquisition in Mexico, scribes recorded actual cases that were taken to tribunals of witchcraft accusations. Today, these cases are used to see how brujería was used to give power to people who were stripped of it, and changing the power dynamic between the ...  Show more

On should have been a regular sunny day, harvesters in the small town of Woolpit, England, made a strange discovery. In a pit made to trap wolves that would attack their livestock, they found two children: a young boy and his older sister. They would've been considered ordinary c ...  Show more

In the mid-19th century, London was literally filling with corpses. When the city was in the grips of a cholera epidemic, the already-overfilled cemetaries couldn't handle the extra bodies. So when there's literally no room in the soil for another dead body, what's a city to do? ...  Show more

Catacombs of Paris - in Paris France an extensive network of underground tunnels and chambers beneath the streets of Paris with are macabre display of bones and skulls lining the walls, creating a haunting and unsettling environment. Discover more TERRIFYING podcasts at http://e ...  Show more

As London grew throughout the 1800s, it became clear that there wasn't enough real estate for its deceased citizens. Learn how the London Necropolis Railway took the funerary show on the road in this classic episode of BrainStuff.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy informatio ...  Show more