Used as a creepy Gothic backdrop for countless films by Hammer and other filmmakers, The Oakley Court Hotel on the banks of the Thames in Berkshire harbours dark and evil secrets of its own.
Feared as an all-conquering invader during his lifetime, William the Conqueror suffered an ignominious death and a farcical funeral. His remains were repeatedly desecrated for 1000 years afterwards.
Who was the menacing and malevolent stranger who climbed into Tom Cox’s Hackney Carriage on All Hallows Eve 1684 who not only terrified him out of his wits, but changed his life forever?
The astonishing life and extraordinary death of Jacobean alchemist and magician Doctor John Lambe
A triple murder of unparalleled brutality in Georgian England, gave rise to speculation that the Devil himself had touched this Staffordshire hamlet. Was this a case of super-nature or human nature?