The Haunted History Club
The Haunted History Club is a storytelling podcast featuring original historical horror fiction, told as standalone episodes. Each story drops listeners into haunted castles, forgotten villages, lonely coastlines and shadowed streets where history, folklore and the supernatural overlap. The tales are narrated in a calm British voice and backed by atmospheric music and sound design. It is designed for late-night listening — winding down, falling asleep, or drifting into the darker side of Britain's past.
Episodes
The October Creature - Episode 12
The October Creature | Original Horror Story | The Haunted History ClubOctober, 1924. Deep in the English countryside, something ancient is stirring in the woods surrounding Harwood Manor.Livestock have been found mutilated, a young farmhand has vanished without a trace, and the terrified villagers refuse to venture beyond their homes after dark.When two experienced hunters are summoned to the est
The Wicker Sacrifices | Roman Historical Horror - Episode 11
AD 61. The Ninth Legion has been defeated.Deep in the forests of Roman Britain, five surviving soldiers are desperately attempting to escape the victorious British tribes and return to the safety of their garrison.But when four of them are captured, the last remaining Roman follows their captors into the wilderness, where a mysterious ancient celebration is being prepared.Hidden among the trees ov
The Blackmere Marshes - Episode 10
Desperate to provide for his young family, Jake Hale reluctantly agrees to join a ruthless gang of bodysnatchers.But during his very first night in the graveyard, something happens that none of the others can see.Standing beside the open grave is the pale figure of the dead man whose body they have just stolen.And he is furious.Jake plans to walk away, but the gang have no intention of letting a m
Jack the Ripper - Episode 9
Step into the fog-shrouded streets of Whitechapel in 1888, as fear begins to spread across Victorian London.In this episode of The Haunted History Club, you are placed inside the world of the East End as news of a brutal murder begins to move through the streets.What begins as unsettling local gossip soon becomes something far more terrifying.Mary Ann Nichols.Annie Chapman.Elizabeth Stride.Catheri
The Asylum - Episode 8
A young woman is taken from her London bedroom in the dead of night.Her crime?She heard something she was never supposed to hear.Locked inside a secluded asylum controlled by the sinister Dr Silas Crowe, Eleanor Harcourt discovers that many of its patients are not insane at all. They are people the powerful would rather forget.When her husband Edward returns from military service and begins search
The Pendle Witch Trials - Episode 7
In 1612, a chance encounter on a lonely Lancashire road would help trigger one of the most infamous witch trials in English history.When travelling pedlar John Law collapsed shortly after being cursed by a young woman named Alizon Device, suspicion quickly spread through the communities around Pendle Hill. Accusations followed. Families turned on one another. A child gave evidence against her own
Journey Of The Witch - Episode 6
Autumn, 17th-century England.When parish constable Edwin Rook and his companion Jacob Mercer arrest Elspeth Blackwood for witchcraft, there is little question of her guilt. She confesses almost immediately, calmly admitting that she has called things from places no Christian man should ever look.Their task should be simple: deliver her to the magistrates in the neighbouring town before dawn.But th
The Black Death in England | True Dark History for Sleep - Episode 5
England, 1348. The Black Death has arrived.As plague spreads through towns and cities, medieval people are confronted by a disease they cannot understand and cannot stop. Families disappear, burial grounds fill, and fear begins to reshape everyday life.In this true dark-history episode of The Haunted History Club, we explore what the Black Death was like for the people who lived through it, how th
The Pale Lady - Episode 4
The Pale Lady | The Haunted History ClubFor the first time in its long history, the rooms of an ancient Tudor castle are opened for an exclusive overnight stay.Five young influencers are invited to be the first guests. By morning, four of them are dead.The only survivor is found outside the castle—barefoot, trembling and unable to speak. But scattered throughout the rooms are the cameras they left
The Screaming Woods - Episode 3
Pluckley, Kent — a village with a long reputation for hauntings.When disappearances and terrifying screams begin to disturb the surrounding woods, Inspector Arthur Smith is sent to investigate. What he uncovers at the edge of the village points to something far older and more dangerous than local superstition.The Screaming Woods is an original historical horror story from The Haunted History Club,
The Dead Lanterns - Episode 2
Along the dark coast of Kent, strange lights are appearing beyond the shore.When people begin disappearing near the Goodwin Sands, a Revenue officer is drawn into an old mystery involving shipwrecked smugglers, a surviving cabin boy and something unnatural hidden within a sea cave.The Dead Lanterns is an original historical horror story from The Haunted History Club, blending maritime folklore, gh
The Plague Pit - Episode 1
London, 1940. As German bombs fall across the city, an air-raid warden makes a discovery beneath the streets that should have remained buried.What begins as a wartime excavation soon reveals something far older — and far more dangerous. Beneath the rubble lies a forgotten plague pit, along with a darkness that has waited centuries to be disturbed.The Plague Pit is an original historical horror sto
