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This Halloween, The Dark History Podcast takes you inside one of the most terrifying true hauntings in British history — the Black Monk of Pontefract. In the 1960s, the Pritchard family’s ordinary council house at 30 East Drive became the site of violent paranormal attacks that defied explanation. Furniture moved on its own. Objects flew across rooms. And a dark, hooded figure watched silently from the shadows.

Was the infamous Pontefract poltergeist the restless spirit of a medieval monk, condemned and buried beneath the estate? Or something far darker — a demonic force feeding on fear?

Join Rob for this chilling Halloween special as we uncover the history, the eyewitness accounts, and the terrifying legacy of 30 East Drive — the house that still draws ghost hunters and sceptics alike.

If you enjoy real hauntings, historical mysteries, and the darker side of British folklore, this is one episode you won’t want to miss.

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What happens when a person simply ceases to exist? When one moment they are here—walking to work, stepping onto a train, or marching into history—and the next, they’re gone? No struggle, no evidence, just a void where a life should be.

In this episode of The Dark History Podcast, Rob takes you into the chilling world of unexplained disappearances—real stories where the trail ends in silence and speculation fills the gap. From modern America to Victorian England, from the dawn of cinema to the chaos of revolution, these cases remind us how fragile our presence in the world really is.

You’ll hear about Cindy Anderson, a nineteen-year-old secretary who vanished in broad daylight from a locked law office, leaving behind an open novel that eerily mirrored her fate. Then, a leap back to 1873, where a drunken wager ended with a man literally vanishing mid-run on a Warwickshire road. We’ll follow Louis Le Prince—the forgotten father of cinema—who boarded a train in France and never arrived, erasing not only himself but his claim to history. And finally, we’ll trace the footsteps of Ambrose Bierce, the legendary American writer who walked into the Mexican Revolution and disappeared into myth.

Each story is an open wound in history—unsolved, unsettling, and impossible to forget. Were these people victims of crime, of circumstance, or of something stranger still? Rob examines the evidence, the folklore, and the eerie coincidences that keep these disappearances alive more than a century later.

Because sometimes, it’s not the ghosts of the dead that haunt us… it’s the silence of the missing.

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During the American Civil War, the nation was bleeding on the battlefield—but another war was being waged in the shadows. Counterfeiters flooded the Union with fake money, threatening to destroy its fragile economy from within. Amid the chaos, Abraham Lincoln faced an invisible enemy that struck at the very idea of trust itself.

In this episode of The Dark History Podcast, Rob Bradley speaks with historian Andrea Nolen, author of Lincoln’s Counterfeiters, to uncover the hidden story of 19th-century forgery, financial collapse, and the desperate creation of the U.S. Secret Service. Together, they expose the network of con men, printers, and opportunists who thrived during America’s darkest hour—and reveal how this forgotten war shaped the modern world of crime and security.

What happens when truth becomes negotiable, and even money can’t be trusted? Lincoln found out the hard way.

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