Christmas Campfire 2025 (Part 1)

Christmas Campfire 2025 (Part 1)

Author: Ben Cutmore December 24, 2025 Duration: 54:32
It's Christmas Eve, so it must be time for the Christmas Campfire! Thank you so much to everyone that submitted their stories this year, it's been another great year for entires and there's plenty enough for two episodes. I'll release the second part sometime after Christmas and before the New Year when I return home after visiting family and whatnot. I hope you enjoy this episode, and have a wonderful Christmas! Best wishes to you and all your loved ones! Ben xx Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Every two weeks, Ben Cutmore invites you into the shadowy corners of our past, where facts blur with folklore and case files remain stubbornly open. Dark Histories is less a lecture and more an exploration, weaving meticulous research into compelling narratives that linger long after the episode ends. You’ll hear detailed accounts of events that defy easy explanation, from long-forgotten crimes and bizarre hoaxes to oddities that shaped societies. The focus is always on the human stories within these enigmatic tales, told with a careful balance of skepticism and an appreciation for the strange. This isn't just about ghosts or monsters, but the very real, often unsettling peculiarities documented throughout history. Each installment of this podcast feels like piecing together a puzzle where some pieces are forever missing, offering no easy answers but plenty to ponder. It’s for anyone who finds themselves drawn to the edges of the map, where the documented record meets the unexplained. Settle in for a journey through the archives of the bizarre and the unresolved, where every story is a reminder that the past is rarely as simple as it seems.
Author: Language: English Episodes: 100

Dark Histories
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Ringcroft of Stocking & The Mackie Poltergeist [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 47:17
In 1695, a small rural, farming community of southwest Scotland was shaken by strange events at the farmhouse of Ringcroft of Stocking. What began with the shuffling around of livestock, soon escalated into unexplained n…
Yesterday Today - 07/09 [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 25:36
This week we look into some of the press reports from the second Jack the Ripper Murder, as well as some highlights of Hitchcock's Psycho release, from 1960. There's also sea serpents, haunted houses, and wise words that…
A Boy’s Best Friend is his Mother: The Horrors of Ed Gein [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:06:51
Behind the doors of an isolated farmhouse on the outskirts of Plainfield, Wisconsin, a trove of macabre secrets were stashed out of sight of the locals that blurred the line between reality and nightmare. Unearthed in 19…
Introducing: CONSPIRACY THEORIES, CULTS, AND CRIMES [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 9:49
From Jonestown to Heaven’s Gate, to the Octopus Murders and the Waco Siege, the world is full of deception, manipulation, and destruction. Listen to Conspiracy Theories, Cults, and Crimes every Wednesday as we explore th…
The Literary Miracles of Patience Worth [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:18:23
In 1913, a St. Louis housewife named Pearl Curran sat down at a Ouija board and claimed to make contact with a spirit called Patience Worth—a seventeenth-century Englishwoman who spoke in archaic language and spun tales…
Yesterday Today - 10/08 [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 28:45
This week we're taking a quick look at the end of the second World War in teh Pacific, as well as rummaging through a host of summer ghost stories from the 19th century. There's also a small story that would go on to for…
The Murderous Mannings & The Bermondsey Horror [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:20:51
In the summer of 1849, Patrick O’Connor, a prosperous London customs officer, vanished without warning. His trail ended in a quiet Bermondsey house, home to Frederick and Maria Manning—a married couple bound to him by se…
Summer Holiday & Introducing: Macabrium Lore & Legends [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 41:28
It's that time of year where the sun is out for more than 10 minutes a day over here in England, so that must mean it's summer holiday! I'll be off for just a short two weeks, but until then, I thought I'd introduce a po…
Yesterday Today - 06/07 [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 29:31
Welcome back to Dark Histories and Yesterday Today, where this week we're going all the way back to 1776 to have a quick look at the declaration of independence, before zipping ahead to 1947 and the weird reprts coming f…
Murder, Madness and The Unusual Life of William Minor [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 56:55
When you pick up a dictionary and look up a word, have you ever stopped to consider who it was that compiled such meticulous work? Was it a scholar, or group of scholars, holed up in a musty backroom somewhere dedicating…