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Dark Histories Podcast Transcripts

Ben Cutmore · 260 episodes with transcripts

Fortnightly narratives on the unsolved and the unexplained, mysteries, historical true crime, touches of the paranormal and cultural peculiarities.

Spoken has transcripts of 260 Dark Histories episodes, with the speakers named. The newest listed here is from September 21, 2026.

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Philip: The Ghost That Never Was

September 21, 2026

Ben Cutmore (0:03)

In the early 1970s, a small group of Canadians making up the Toronto Society for Psychical Research set out to prove the existence of ghosts and poltergeists. Such an investigation was sure to need a highly controlled experiment if it were to hold any integrity at all. And the Toronto group felt that they had…

Hello and welcome to Dark Histories Season 10, Episode 17 I'm your host Ben, and today I've got one of the more weirder episodes I think Dark Histories has probably ever done. I have a sort of malleable soft rule with Dark Histories that episodes will be set before the Second World War. I don't really deal with…

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