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Do you actually know what happened on the 5th November to spark a national UK celebration for the rest of time? Find out about Guy Fawkes and the gunpowder plot, and what really went down in the Houses of Parliament in 1605.

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Llinos joins us again for our final episode of Spooky Month! She tells us about four well-known figures throughout history whose corpses continued to have a "life" after death, from being embalmed for decades to being transported from country to country.

People discussed:

• Eva Perón
• Vladimir Lenin
• Albert Einstein
• Oliver Cromwell

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It's our podcast's first birthday! In honour of this, Ellie discusses horror movie anniversaries - some of the films that are also celebrating big birthdays this year - and some of the creepy true crime and paranormal things that happened on their sets.

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In the third episode of Spooky Month, Charlotte talks about the most famous witch hunt in history: the Salem Witch Trials. Learn about what happened that fateful year in Salem, Massachusetts, as well as some of the ways witches would be put on trial.

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For our second Spooky Month episode, we're joined by Charlotte's good friend Bethan, who tells us all about a selection of cursed films: films that are known as being cursed because of multiple mysteries and strange deaths that are linked to them.

Bethan discusses:

• The Omen
• The Exorcist
• The Poltergeist franchise
• Rebel Without a Cause
• Atuk

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In this episode, we're kicking off Spooky Month! And we can't kick off the season of pumpkin spice and Hocus Pocus without talking about the festival that surrounds it all – Halloween. Ellie teaches us about the origins of Halloween and why we celebrate it the way we do.

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Music attribution: Nightmare Machine by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4133-nightmare-machine License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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Charlotte dives into the story of Hansel and Gretel — but more so, the true story that inspired the tale (and many other dark fairy tales that were written all over the world).

In this episode, you have a treat in store: I do a reading of the full story of Hansel and Gretel by the Brothers Grimm, and to make it more atmospheric, we've got sound effects! Grab a drink, maybe some popcorn, sit back, and enjoy!

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Would you smear lead or arsenic on your face, ingest radiation, or sit under an X-ray machine for 20 hours all in the name of beauty? That's what people throughout history did!

Ellie talks about some of history's most deadly makeup trends, from the horrifying origin of false eyelashes to the cages women wore on their heads to stop vermin being attracted to their lard-filled hair.

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We're joined by our first ever guest, and we're diving into a subject we haven't covered on the podcast before: true crime! Llinos joins us to talk about Lizzie Borden, an American woman who was accused of brutally murdering her father and stepmother. However, she was declared not guilty, and the case was never officially solved.

Thanks so much to Llinos for joining us - if you want to be a guest and teach us something, get in touch on our website!

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While we might think of Loki as a major villain of Norse mythology, it is actually Loki's children that are some of the most terrifying and interesting creatures in the Viking stories. In this episode, we learn about them!

Let us know if you want us to cover more Norse mythology by getting in touch with us on our website, or we're @learnaboutpod on Twitter and Instagram.

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