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Episode 1

Burke and Hare: In The Name of Science

Synopsis

Two shunned Irish immigrants in Scotland start off as grave robbers to sell the dead to doctors, but decide that creating their own inventory is much easier, and become the most prolific mass-murdering duo in history.

Episode 2

Mins

Elizabeth Bathory: Mirror, Mirror

Synopsis

The aging Countess of Blood, running out of virginal peasants to drain of their youthful essence, brings in a bright-eyed noble to start a new cycle of torture and murder.

Episode 3

Mins

Hinterkaifeck: Ghosts in the Attic

Synopsis

In the German hinterlands, between World Wars, a family goes to bed, not knowing that their killer has been living in the walls and attics of their home like a ghost, watching, waiting for his chance to strike, in one of the most famous unsolved mysteries of all time.

Episode 4

Mins

Prague Clock: The Curse of the Orloj

Synopsis

As two clockmakers race against the curse of the Orloj, a curse that has already driven the city of Prague to madness and death with the Black Plague, these brothers will discover the price of trying to change history.

Episode 5

Mins

Mary Webster: The Witch of Hadley

Synopsis

A young woman, raised in a town controlled by a religious zealot, must rectify a fatal mistake before a ravenous mob hangs the Old Witch, Mary Webster, in this story set just 11 years before and 100 miles from Salem, Massachusetts.

Episode 6

Mins

Jack Parsons: The Devil and the Divine

Synopsis

In 1922 only one person, Jack Parsons, believed that we could send a rocket into space and conjure a demon. By 1952 he had done both. But all he cared about was the Scarlet Woman he had both summoned, and lost, Marjorie Cameron.