…12 dates … …14 love gone wrong stories… …Will YOU be my Valentine? This Valentine’s Day, prepare for a unique podcast experience! Shane Waters will introduce 14 crime podcast hosts. Each host brings a new, love gone wrong true story to mix. It’s an extra special, two part, more than two-hour, Valentine event.  Part 2 of 2. Podcasts are listed here in order of appearance: In this Part 2 Episode: 1. Sirens 2. The Trail Went Cold 3. Method and Madness 4. True Crime Cases with Lanie 5....

…12 dates … …14 love gone wrong stories… …Will YOU be my Valentine? This Valentine’s Day, prepare for a unique podcast experience! Shane Waters will introduce 14 crime podcast hosts. Each host brings a new, love gone wrong true story to mix. It’s an extra special, two part, more than two-hour, Valentine event.  Part 1 of 2. Podcasts are listed here in order of appearance: In this Part 1 Episode: 1. Murder She Told 2. True Crime Island 3. Hillbilly Horror Stories 4. Tapes from the...

Have you ever had a bad dream, or an ominous feeling that…something terrible was going to happen? Some take those feelings very seriously indeed. They might even change their plans in light of that foreboding. However, many others would simply put this all down to superstition, worry…or plain overthinking. Today on Our Curious Past we explore a series of disasters that culminate in a catastrophe that would devastate a small Welsh town in the 19th century. Yet we will learn that a staggering...

Join me for an on-location audio trip to Transylvania, where we will stay in an old Saxon village, then head by cable car into the Carpathian mountains, to sleep in a hotel made of ice. Then it's off to the beautiful yet formidable looking Bran Castle and more. Along the way we'll explore the life of author Bram Stoker, whose hit novel Dracula popularise this country (and it's vampires). Help support our show through Patreon. Find us on all podcasting platforms.

Join me for an on-location audio trip to Transylvania, where we will stay in an old Saxon village, then head by cable car into the Carpathian mountains, to sleep in a hotel made of ice. Then it's off to the beautiful yet formidable looking Bran Castle and more. Along the way we'll explore the life of author Bram Stoker, whose hit novel Dracula popularise this country (and it's vampires). Visit us online. Help support our show through Patreon. Find us on all podcasting platforms. Episode...

…1 campfire… …1 dark forest… …31 bone-chilling stories… …Will YOU survive the night? This Halloween season, enter the woods for a unique and truly epic podcast experience! Around the campfire Shane Waters will introduce 31 crime podcast hosts, including Peter at Our Curious Past. Each host brings a new, nerve-wracking true story to the circle. It’s an extra special, two part, five-hour, Halloween event, but before hitting play you might want to ask yourself…can you really handle this much...

…1 campfire… …1 dark forest… …31 bone-chilling stories… …Will YOU survive the night? This Halloween season, enter the woods for a unique and truly epic podcast experience! Around the campfire Shane Waters will introduce 31 crime podcast hosts, including Peter from Our Curious Past. Each host brings a new, nerve-wracking true story to the circle. It’s an extra special, two part, five-hour, Halloween event, but before hitting play you might want to ask yourself…can you really handle this much...

Chances are, you’ve never even heard of him, yet without him…we wouldn’t have shows and movies like The Walking Dead, Resident Evil, Night of the Living Dead or Shaun of the Dead. That’s because travel writer, William Seabrook was the first to introduce the idea of 'zombies' to popular culture. This was back in 1929, with his smash hit account of travels in Haiti, called 'The Magic Island'. And if you google his name, that’s often how he’ll be described, as simply the man who brought zombies...

Chances are, you’ve never even heard of him, yet without him…we wouldn’t have shows and movies like The Walking Dead, Resident Evil, Night of the Living Dead or Shaun of the Dead. That’s because travel writer, William Seabrook was the first to introduce the idea of 'zombies' to popular culture. This was back in 1929, with his smash hit account of travels in Haiti, called 'The Magic Island'. And if you google his name, that’s often how he’ll be described, as simply the man who brought zombies...

He's been called the most widely read cartoonist of all time. But also, the most popular theologian, too. Yet his legacy is truly shocking and controversial. When he died in 2016, many Evangelical Christians mourned the loss of a great Christian leader. Others held online parties to say good riddance to who they said was a homophobic, racist and unloving man. His little palm sized religious comics (known as Chick Tracts) are still used today. People find them scattered in public places, or...

If you'd been in the UK fishing town of Grimsby, in February 1923, you'd have sensed the sadness in the streets. The Sargon fishing trawler was 'much overdue' and was 'presumed lost with all hands.' Friends and family were left devastated, and mystified...what happened to the ship? In time, a gripping and shocking story would be pieced together. It was a voyage that would surprise everybody. I'm Peter Laws and tonight we take to the sea to explore Our Curious Past as we become “Trapped in...

Explore 'Our Curious Past' and the mysterious case of Ze Ahigo. Known as a 'country bumpkin', he couldn't read or write...yet he performed operations on thousands of Brazilians without any medical training. He even used a rusty knife, but his patients praised him as a great medical man. How was he so successful? The answer, he claimed, was that he was the channel for a German Army doctor called Dr Adolph Fritz. Learn about this fascinating and bizarre story of so called 'Spirit Surgery' in...

This is the second and final part of a two part episode... For centuries, life in in the French village of Oradour-sur-Glane was happy and peaceful. Until June 10th, 1944 when the Nazi SS invaded. The trucks rolled in on a sunny, Saturday afternoon, and by that evening, every building in the village would be destroyed. Yet far worse...642 men, woman and children were dead. It is the worst Nazi war crime to ever take place on French soil, yet many outside of France are not aware of what...

For centuries, life in in the French village of Oradour-sur-Glane was happy and peaceful. Until June 10th, 1944 when the Nazi SS invaded. The trucks rolled in on a sunny, Saturday afternoon, and by that evening, every building in the village would be destroyed. Yet far worse...642 men, woman and children were dead. It is the worst Nazi war crime to ever take place on French soil, yet many outside of France are not aware of what happened. In this special two part episode, we'll walk through...

Locana, Italy, 1877. Maria Mezzanrosa had a perfectly normal pregnancy and labour...until the midwife screamed at the birth. Her babies were joined from the sixth rib down. They had two full heads and necks, two pairs of arms, but only one shared set of legs. Her husband Giovanni Tocci fainted in shock, but it didn't take him long to see a blessing, instead of a curse. After a mere four weeks later he was taking the tiny boys to Turin to exhibit them for money. Regardless of the ethics, his...

Kelvedon Hatch, UK (Part Two) Surrounded by fields and woodland, it looks like an average, brick bungalow. It isn't. Just a few steps through the doors reveals a huge tunnel leading to an amazing labyrinth of rooms, deep under the hillside. This is Kelvedon Hatch Secret Nuclear Bunker. Built in secrecy and strict military security, you will join Peter Laws as he tours the bunker. In this special two part episode, explore the twilight world of the cold war and learn how Britain tried to...

Kelvedon Hatch, UK (Part One) Surrounded by fields and woodland, it looks like an average, brick bungalow. It isn't. Just a few steps through the doors reveals a huge tunnel leading to an amazing labyrinth of rooms, deep under the hillside. This is Kelvedon Hatch Secret Nuclear Bunker. Built in secrecy and strict military security, you will join Peter Laws as he tours the bunker. In this special two part episode, explore the twilight world of the cold war and learn how Britain tried to...

Istanbul (formerly Constantinople). Sports fans are passionate, but this energy can sometimes lead to conflict or even all-out violence. This happened on a truly horrific scale in Constantinople, on Tuesday, January 13th, 532 C.E. The sport was Chariot Racing, and while the fans of the opposing Greens and Blues had clashed before, this revolt was different. After a botched public execution, the fans joined forces against the Emperor Justinian, and the city exploded into chaos. Five days...

San Gioavanni Rotondo, Italy Millions flock to the Italian town of San Gioavanni Rotondo each year. They come for two reasons. Firstly, it's home to the most efficient and advanced medical research hospital in Europe. Yet it's also a magnet for Catholic pilgrims. They come to see the body of Padre Pio who lived and died here, in 1968. This famous Saint who was known for having stigmata - where believers develop spontaneous marks on their bodies, to reflect the wounds of Jesus on the...

Cardington, England. On Saturday, October 4th, 1930 the R101 Airship, set off from Cardington England on it's first ever passenger flight. Hopes were high that this craft would help change the face of global travel. Yet the following morning, this majestic and epic ship would be a smouldering wreck, strewn across a field in France, killing 48 men. It was a disaster that would put an end to airship production in the UK, but what led to the crash, and could it have been avoided? Today on...