Dark History: Where The Darkness See’s The Light

Send us a text. Thank you for your messages I really appreciate it 😁Hi everyone and welcome back to the dark history podcast hope everyone is well I’m Rob your host as always. in the mid 1840 an un wanted visitor came to the Irish shores , this visitor brought the country to its knees and their overlord did absolutely nothing to help. The visitor caused so many people to die and even more to leave. A visitor which would bring one of the worse famines of the 19th century and change the destinies of London and Dublin a like, today in episode 14 we will talk about phytophthora infestans or in English the blight and how it wiped so many people off of Irelands census. So with out further a do sit back and relax for more dark history. Sources The Famine Plot: England's Role in Ireland's Greatest Tragedy by Tim Pat CooganBlack Potatos The Story of the Great Irish Famine By Susan Campbell BartolettiHourly HistoryThe Great Famine: A History from Beginning to End (History of Ireland)https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Famine_(Ireland)https://www.history.com/.amp/topics/immigration/irish-potato-faminehttps://www.britannica.com/event/Great-Famine-Irish-historyLinksEmail: darkhistory2021@outlook.comTiktok: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMLSvwJJV/YouTube :https://youtube.com/c/DarkHistory2021Instagram: @dark_history21Support the show*** Patreon link https://patreon.com/Darkhistory2021?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator&utm_content=join_link *** Merch:https://www.teepublic.com/stores/dark-history?ref_id=36220 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/darkhistorypod?mibextid=LQQJ4d Discord https://discord.gg/3mHPd3xg Email: darkhistory2021@outlook.com Tiktok: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMLSvwJJV/ YouTube :https://youtube.com/c/DarkHistory2021 Twitter: @darkhistory2021 Instagram: @dark_history21

Send us a text. Thank you for your messages I really appreciate it 😁Hi everyone and welcome back to the dark history podcast hope everyone is well I’m Rob your host as always. Today we’re going to talk about the life of a man that to some is the very embodiment of evil, the very incarnation of the devil himself. but to l many Romanians he’s viewed as a national hero. He was one of the most respected rulers of Wallachia, a true defender of Christianity, a great warrior, and a brilliant politician who stood up agains the tyranny and cruelty of Ottoman Empire. In his time, he was know as Vlad the impaler thanks to his favourite form of execution. Today we remember him as the inspiration for Bram Stoker’s Dracula. So For today episode we will look at the bloody life of Vlad Tepes, So with out further a do sit back and relax for more dark history. Sources Dracula, Prince of Many Faces: His Life and His Times by Radu R Florescu and Raymond T McNally Vlad the Impaler: In Search of the Real Dracula, by M.J. TrowVlad the Impaler: A Life From Beginning to End (Medieval History)https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vlad_the_Impalerhttps://www.britannica.com/biography/Vlad-the-ImpalerLinksEmail: darkhistory2021@outlook.comTiktok: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMLSvwJJV/YouTube :https://youtube.com/c/DarkHistory2021Instagram: @dark_history21Support the show*** Patreon link https://patreon.com/Darkhistory2021?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator&utm_content=join_link *** Merch:https://www.teepublic.com/stores/dark-history?ref_id=36220 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/darkhistorypod?mibextid=LQQJ4d Discord https://discord.gg/3mHPd3xg Email: darkhistory2021@outlook.com Tiktok: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMLSvwJJV/ YouTube :https://youtube.com/c/DarkHistory2021 Twitter: @darkhistory2021 Instagram: @dark_history21

Send us a text. Thank you for your messages I really appreciate it 😁Hi everyone and welcome back to the dark history podcast hope everyone is well I’m Rob your host as always. In This episode it though I’d change the pace a little and bring you a collection of stories, some you may have heard some you may have not but I guarantee they will be bone chilling. First story takes us to Europe in the 60s and the Alexander family pretty unremarkable I know but when you hear this story, un remarkable it is not my dear listeners and I warn you that there are some very unsettling things to come so please listen with caution. So with out further a do sit back and relax for more dark history. Sourceshttps://queeniesdailysnippets.wordpress.com/2020/12/18/50-years-since-the-crime-of-the-century-in-tenerife/https://www.documentingreality.com/forum/f237/harald-frank-alexander-223779/https://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/03/disturbing-tales-ibadan-forest-horror/amp/https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibadan_forest_of_horrorhttps://tribuneonlineng.com/soka-metamorphosis-kidnappers-den-community-transformed-new-haven/LinksEmail: darkhistory2021@outlook.comTiktok: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMLSvwJJV/YouTube :https://youtube.com/c/DarkHistory2021Instagram: @dark_history21Support the show*** Patreon link https://patreon.com/Darkhistory2021?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator&utm_content=join_link *** Merch:https://www.teepublic.com/stores/dark-history?ref_id=36220 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/darkhistorypod?mibextid=LQQJ4d Discord https://discord.gg/3mHPd3xg Email: darkhistory2021@outlook.com Tiktok: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMLSvwJJV/ YouTube :https://youtube.com/c/DarkHistory2021 Twitter: @darkhistory2021 Instagram: @dark_history21

Send us a text. Thank you for your messages I really appreciate it 😁Hi everyone and welcome back to the dark history podcast hope everyone is well. Thank you again for the massive support shown on the previous episode and the season so far we recently hit 2500 plays and 250 downloads, all the support given is appreciated greatly. This episode as the last starts off with an apology for my timing or more so lack of it. Life is hectic at the minute with work and family life so if you could please bare with me for the time being I will get it back on track. So episode 9 takes us back to London, finally, and part 2 of our dark history of London series. I will be talking in this episode about the great fire of London and we will talk about the Tyburn gallows a place we’re thousands of people met their maker. I know there is a few events to do with London such as the Black Death and Jack the Ripper that would or should fall into this bracket but I feel they warrant their own stand alone episodes so I won’t be talking about them. so with out further ado please sit back and relax for more dark History. Sources Tyburn: The Story of London's Gallows by Robert BrandTyburnby Alan Brookehttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/TyburnThe Great Fire of London: Anniversary Edition of the Great Fire of 1666 by Emma Adam’sThe Diary of Samuel PepysBook by Samuel PepysLinksEmail: darkhistory2021@outlook.comTiktok: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMLSvwJJV/YouTube :https://youtube.com/c/DarkHistory2021Support the show*** Patreon link https://patreon.com/Darkhistory2021?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator&utm_content=join_link *** Merch:https://www.teepublic.com/stores/dark-history?ref_id=36220 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/darkhistorypod?mibextid=LQQJ4d Discord https://discord.gg/3mHPd3xg Email: darkhistory2021@outlook.com Tiktok: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMLSvwJJV/ YouTube :https://youtube.com/c/DarkHistory2021 Twitter: @darkhistory2021 Instagram: @dark_history21

Send us a text. Thank you for your messages I really appreciate it 😁Hi everyone and welcome to the dark history podcast hope everyone is well. Sorry that my scheduling has been off for this episode I do try to get these out on a Monday but I’ve been Ill for the past week and honestly could hardly talk so I do apologies . Thank you as always for the support on the episodes we’re constantly getting more and more plays and downloads every week. So episode 8, now I know I said would probably do part two on London, and I will in time, but I though I haven’t done a biography for a while so let’s do one of those, so episode 8 will be dedicated to the ladies as we talk about one of histories first and worst serial killers, the original Sado masochist femme fatal, a women that shows it’s not only the men that can be cruel, a women who’s exploited got her into the Record books. The countess of blood Elizabeth Bathory So with out further ado please sit back and relax for more dark history.Sources:Countess Elizabeth Bathory: The Life and Legacy of History's Most Prolific Female Serial Killer by Charles riversElizabeth Bathory: The Life and Legacy of History's Most Prolific Serial KillerBook by James Oliverhttps://www.history.com/.amp/this-day-in-history/bathorys-torturous-escapades-are-exposedhttps://www.britannica.com/biography/Elizabeth-Bathoryhttps://allthatsinteresting.com/elizabeth-bathoryLinks Email: darkhistory2021@outlook.comTiktok: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMLSvwJJV/YouTube :https://youtube.com/c/DarkHistory2021Support the show*** Patreon link https://patreon.com/Darkhistory2021?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator&utm_content=join_link *** Merch:https://www.teepublic.com/stores/dark-history?ref_id=36220 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/darkhistorypod?mibextid=LQQJ4d Discord https://discord.gg/3mHPd3xg Email: darkhistory2021@outlook.com Tiktok: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMLSvwJJV/ YouTube :https://youtube.com/c/DarkHistory2021 Twitter: @darkhistory2021 Instagram: @dark_history21

Send us a text. Thank you for your messages I really appreciate it 😁Hi everyone and welcome to episode 6 and to the dark history podcast hope everyone is well. todays episode as you’ve would have seen from the title is called the invasion of the wolves, yep I know strange title but I promise there is an interesting story behind it. We will focus on Paris, the city of lights and love, the French capital and the scene of not one but two invasions of man eating wolves, I know madness right, could you imagine. Sources https://johnknifton.com/2016/02/14/the-wolves-of-paris/https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf_of_Soissonshttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolves_of_TurkuLinks Email: darkhistory2021@outlook.comYouTube: https://youtube.com/channel/UCzboMBZzc1tImpF2GmdGBewTiktok: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMLSvwJJV/Support the show*** Patreon link https://patreon.com/Darkhistory2021?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator&utm_content=join_link *** Merch:https://www.teepublic.com/stores/dark-history?ref_id=36220 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/darkhistorypod?mibextid=LQQJ4d Discord https://discord.gg/3mHPd3xg Email: darkhistory2021@outlook.com Tiktok: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMLSvwJJV/ YouTube :https://youtube.com/c/DarkHistory2021 Twitter: @darkhistory2021 Instagram: @dark_history21

Send us a text. Thank you for your messages I really appreciate it 😁Hi everyone and welcome back to the dark history podcast. episode 5 is quite apt for the current climate with the escalations in Ukraine, I thought I would talk about the atrocities committed by Joseph Stalin and the Soviet Union through the use of hunger as an execution method. This era in Eastern European history is know by many names the Terror-Famine, Great Famine or the holodomor. Sources Blood lands by Timothy SnyderHolodomor the Ukrainian famine-genocide by Philip wolneyStalin's Genocides by Norman Naimark Links Email: darkhistory2021@outlook.comYouTube: https://youtube.com/channel/UCzboMBZzc1tImpF2GmdGBewTiktok: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMLSvwJJV/Support the show*** Patreon link https://patreon.com/Darkhistory2021?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator&utm_content=join_link *** Merch:https://www.teepublic.com/stores/dark-history?ref_id=36220 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/darkhistorypod?mibextid=LQQJ4d Discord https://discord.gg/3mHPd3xg Email: darkhistory2021@outlook.com Tiktok: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMLSvwJJV/ YouTube :https://youtube.com/c/DarkHistory2021 Twitter: @darkhistory2021 Instagram: @dark_history21

Send us a text. Thank you for your messages I really appreciate it 😁Hi everybody and welcome back to the dark history podcast I’m your host rob. I want to start as always thanking everyone for the overwhelming reaction to the previous episodes I really do appreciate it. So todays episode we will look into the dark history of London, more so the darker stories behind some of the landmarks, areas and events of this ancient city. This episode will be spread over two maybe three parts as nobody want to listen to me waffle for 3 hours. So without further ado sit back and relax for more dark history. Sources The Tower of London the biography by Stephen Porter The princes in the tower by Alison Weir The life and death of Anne Boleyn by Eric Ives https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_of_London. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bethlem_Royal_Hospital. Links. YouTube: https://youtube.com/channel/UCzboMBZzc1tImpF2GmdGBewTiktok: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZML2mdL32/Email: darkhistory2021@outlook.comSupport the show*** Patreon link https://patreon.com/Darkhistory2021?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator&utm_content=join_link *** Merch:https://www.teepublic.com/stores/dark-history?ref_id=36220 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/darkhistorypod?mibextid=LQQJ4d Discord https://discord.gg/3mHPd3xg Email: darkhistory2021@outlook.com Tiktok: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMLSvwJJV/ YouTube :https://youtube.com/c/DarkHistory2021 Twitter: @darkhistory2021 Instagram: @dark_history21

Send us a text. Thank you for your messages I really appreciate it 😁Hi everyone and welcome back to the dark history podcast again I want to thank people for listening and subscribing the support is massively appreciated. In episode 3 of our podcast we’re going to cover the Japanese Epidemic Prevention and Water Purification Department of the Kwantung Army or unit 731. This story is very dark and will go into detail on what unit 731 did to men women and children, the methods they used and experiments they performed so I would listen with caution but without further ado sit back and relax for more dark history. Links:YouTube: https://youtube.com/channel/UCzboMBZzc1tImpF2GmdGBewTiktok: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZML2mdL32/Email: darkhistory2021@outlook.comSourceshttps://whatculture.com/amp/offbeat/code-name-maruta-the-horrors-of-unit-731https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_731Japan's Infamous Unit 731: Firsthand Accounts of Japan's Wartime Human Experimentation ProgramBook by Hal GoldThe Second Sino-Japanese War: A Captivating Guide to Military Conflict That Began Between China and Japan, Including Events Such as the Japanese Invasion of Manchuria and the Nanjing MassacreBook by Captivating History Ishii Shiro: Josef Mengele of the EastBook by Jenny ChanSupport the show*** Patreon link https://patreon.com/Darkhistory2021?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator&utm_content=join_link *** Merch:https://www.teepublic.com/stores/dark-history?ref_id=36220 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/darkhistorypod?mibextid=LQQJ4d Discord https://discord.gg/3mHPd3xg Email: darkhistory2021@outlook.com Tiktok: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMLSvwJJV/ YouTube :https://youtube.com/c/DarkHistory2021 Twitter: @darkhistory2021 Instagram: @dark_history21

Send us a text. Thank you for your messages I really appreciate it 😁A secretive leader who murdered a quarter of the Cambodian population. Pol pot was one of the most evil men the world has ever seen. With this episode we will take a look at the life of Saloth Sar AKA Pol Pot from humble beginnings to the leader of Cambodia and mass murder. Sources: https://www.history.com/.amp/topics/cold-war/pol-potHistory of nightmares by phillip short First they killed my father loung unghttps://www.britannica.com/biography/Pol-PotSupport the show*** Patreon link https://patreon.com/Darkhistory2021?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator&utm_content=join_link *** Merch:https://www.teepublic.com/stores/dark-history?ref_id=36220 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/darkhistorypod?mibextid=LQQJ4d Discord https://discord.gg/3mHPd3xg Email: darkhistory2021@outlook.com Tiktok: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMLSvwJJV/ YouTube :https://youtube.com/c/DarkHistory2021 Twitter: @darkhistory2021 Instagram: @dark_history21