All Episodes

The Malleus Maleficarum: The Hammer of Witches & the Manual That Taught Europe to Burn

Who Gets Accused: Witch Trial Victims, Property, Gender & the Social Data Behind the Burnings

The Hammer Falls: The Würzburg Witch Trials, Bamberg & the Machinery of Mass Execution

The Devil’s Letter: Sister Maria Crocifissa, Possession, Cryptography, and the Unreadable Script

The Archbasilica of San Giovanni in Laterano — Where They Put the Corpse on Trial (Dastardly Places)

Tomás de Torquemada - God's Grand Inquisitor (Dastardly Figures)

The Infallibility Machine — How the Papacy Constructed Absolute Authority (Dastardly Ideas)

The Papacy's Hall of Shame — When the Vatican Went Off the Rails (Postscript)

The Corpse on the Throne — The Cadaver Synod of 897 AD

The Doctrine of Bodily Availability — Whose Corpse Belongs to Science (Dastardly Ideas)

Annabelle — The Doll and the Machine Built Around Her (Dastardly Objects)

Surgeons' Square, Edinburgh — The Market That Ran on Corpses (Dastardly Places)

Gilles de Rais - The Knight of Christ Who Murdered Children (Dastardly Figures)

Henrietta Lacks and the Century That Followed

The Body Market: Grave Robbers, Murder, and the Corpses That Built Modern Medicine

The Voynich Manuscript -The Book Nobody Can Read (Dastardly Objects)

What Happened After — The Long Tail of the Dancing Plague

Elizabeth Báthory -The Countess Who Bathed in Blood (Dastardly Figures)

They Danced Until They Died: The Dancing Plague of 1518 - Mass Hysteria, Medieval Suffering & the Body's Breaking Point

History Is a Crime Scene | Meet Velvet Guillotine