The Dark Atlas

Somewhere in Kent there is a wood that screams. Pluckley has a highwayman pinned to a tree, a lady buried in seven coffins and the famous Screaming Woods. But one of its ghosts was a real woman, and what happened to her is worse than any haunting.

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Content note: this episode discusses suicide and accidentaldeaths.

Borley Rectory — the most haunted house in England — is famous for a phantom nun who almost certainly never existed. This episode of The Dark Atlas tells the real story.

In the 1930s, pleading messages began appearing on the walls, addressed by name to a living woman: Marianne Foyster, the rector's wife. We cover Harry Price, the magician who built a national haunting; the séance that named the ghost; the 1939 fire; and the report that took the whole case apart.

And the part that still resists explanation — the Borley Rectory wall writings, and what it means that we remember the invented dead and forget the real.

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The Pendle Hill Witch Trials | Dark Atlas

In 1612, twelve people living in the shadow of Pendle Hill were accused of witchcraft. Ten would be executed, creating one of Britain's most infamous witch trials.

In this episode of Dark Atlas, we separate documented history from enduring folklore as we explore the events that unfolded beneath Pendle Hill, the fears that fuelled the accusations, and why this landscape continues to attract historians, paranormal enthusiasts and curious travellers more than 400 years later.

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