PLYMOUTH – The First Feast

Christmas Day, and the Carman Carrion goes north. Today, instead of one destination, we’re stitching together a frozen anthology from the most bone-chilled corners of the Eeriecast atlas. This compilation exists because the holiday deserves more than tinsel and cheer. It deserves ...  Show more

Explore the dark folklore lurking beneath Rovaniemi, Finland's cheerful Christmas facade, where ancient Sami legends of underground dwellers called maahiset reveal the sinister origins of Christmas helpers who emerge during the polar night to claim children for their eternal cele ...  Show more

The colonists of Roanoke Island in the 1580's were the very first English people to try to establish a permanent settlement in America. They completely disappeared. The only clue was the word 'CROATOAN' carved into a tree where they had been. What happened?

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A cargo hold, just 5 feet tall and divided up with canvas - this is what served as the living quarters for the 102 passengers of the Mayflower on their 66 day crossing to North America.

Don is joined by guest Anna Scott, a researcher from the University of Lincoln, t ...

More than 30 million people can trace their ancestry to the 102 passengers and 30 crew aboard the Mayflower when it landed in Plymouth Bay, Massachusetts in the harsh winter of 1620. On board were men, women and children from different walks of life across England and the city ...

In January 1608, fire blazed through the English settlement in Jamestown, Virginia. Nearly every building was reduced to ash. The destruction meant that the colonists would have to brave the winter with nothing but the clothes on their backs. More than ever before, their survi ...