Forgotten Dread Tales

Forgotten Dread Tales unearths the moments where history frays into horror vanishings that rewired entire towns, moral panics that turned neighbors into mobs, and crimes so uncanny they read like folklore… until you see the videos. Each episode is built with a historian’s eye and a horror writer’s timing: quiet setup, mounting tension, and a factual payoff grounded in real dates, places, and names.

Primary and period sources—court records, coroner reports, prison logs, newspaper archives, ship manifests, parish registers, letters, maps, and early criminology texts—so you always know what’s documented versus what’s inferred. Context matters here: we show the social pressures, technology, and beliefs of the era so these cases make sense in their own time.