Completed in 1875, the Hoosac Tunnel was known to those who built it as the bloody pit owing to the 195 people that were killed during its construction.

Today people are warned not to venture into the tunnel, but not only because you might get hit by a train...

Written by Neil McRobert and produced by Richard MacLean Smith

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Part two of Season 08 Episode 12: The Dark Banquet

Continuing on from last week's episode, we take a look at what inspired Bram Stoker's Dracula. And just what a real-life vampire might actually look like...

Written by Diane Hope and produced by Richard MacLean Smith

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In the 15th century, in a citadel perched high above a cliff, there lived a bloodthirsty ruler, considered by some to have been among the most feared and brutal in history.

His name was Vlad Dracul III...

Written by Diane Hope and produced by Richard MacLean Smith

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At the northern edge of the Brecon Beacons in Cymru, in the shadow of the Pen y Fan peak, sits a large stone house. Named Heol Fanog, or Road to the Peaks, for one couple who moved there in 1989 the house was everything they had ever dreamed of.

Little did they know that, in truth, it would soon become the place of their worst nightmares.

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In April 1991, music executive Christopher Case told his friend that he'd been cursed by a woman he met while on a night out. The woman apparently told him that he'd be dead within a week.

Then Chris stopped answering his calls.

Written by James Conor Patterson and produced by Richard MacLean Smith.

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There is a story told over centuries, by local Congolese and explorers alike – a story that calls into question what we truly know about our world, and what may lurk still in the parts of the map that have yet to be fully filled in…

It's name is mokele-mbembe.

Written by Neil McRobert and produced by Richard MacLean Smith.

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In October 1929, Bessie and Glen Hyde set out to become the fastest people ever to traverse the Grand Canyon by boat.

For a landscape so saturated in mystery, the story of the Hydes might be one of its greatest...

Written by Neil McRobert and produced by Richard MacLean Smith.

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In July 1692 strange things are afoot in Massachusetts, America.

In Salem village, 11 women and one man are languishing in jail as they await trial, accused of witchcraft. Meanwhile, 20 miles away in the county of Gloucester, something perhaps even stranger is about to occur...

Written by James Conor Patterson and produced by Richard MacLean Smith

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