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Kerry Borthwick @kerryborthwick.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

@yeoldecrimepodcast.bsky.social 18th Of July 1822. The Body Of English Poet Percy Bysshe Shelley Is Washed Up On The Beach Near Viareggio. His Boat, The "Don Juan", Had Sunk In A Storm. His Body Is Cremated On The Beach In The Presence Of Lord Byron And Edward John Trelawny

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Kerry Borthwick @kerryborthwick.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

@yeoldecrimepodcast.bsky.social 1st Of November 1822. Sydney, Australia: The Wearing Of A Log And Chain Is Introduced As Punishment For Convicts In Work Gangs

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Kerry Borthwick @kerryborthwick.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

@yeoldecrimepodcast.bsky.social Wish I could come u two would love it

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Kerry Borthwick @kerryborthwick.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

@yeoldecrimepodcast.bsky.social Charles Delauney Bravo (30 November 1845 – 21 April 1876) was a British lawyer who was fatally poisoned with antimony in 1876. The case is still sensational, notorious and unresolved. The case is also known as The Charles Bravo Murder and the Murder at the Priory.

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Kerry Borthwick @kerryborthwick.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

@yeoldecrimepodcast.bsky.social The Regent's Park skating disaster occurred on 15 January 1867 when 40 people died after the ice broke on the lake in London's Regent's Park, pitching about 200 people in. Most were rescued by bystanders, but 40 people died either from hypothermia or by drowning.

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Kerry Borthwick @kerryborthwick.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

@yeoldecrimepodcast.bsky.social The Galveston Hurricane most tragic story is about St. Mary's orphanage, All 10 sisters and at least 90 children perished in the storm. Only 3 boys survived. As reported in papers : The Catholic Orphan Asylum disappeared leaving but slight traces

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Kerry Borthwick @kerryborthwick.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

@yeoldecrimepodcast.bsky.social The Brooklyn Bridge stampede occurred on May 30, 1883, the week after the Brooklyn Bridge opened. Twelve people died and 36 were seriously injured. The Brooklyn Bridge in 1883 The stampede occurred on Memorial Day (which at the time was always observed on May 30),

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Kerry Borthwick @kerryborthwick.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

@yeoldecrimepodcast.bsky.social The ss Valencia ran aground in foggy seas. After sending a distress message, various issues prevented rescue, including lack of tugboats, ships to search, life rafts on board the ship and on passing vessels attempting rescue, and incorrect navigation information.

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Kerry Borthwick @kerryborthwick.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

@yeoldecrimepodcast.bsky.social In 1897, an annual charity bazar held in Paris, staffed and attended by Paris's nobles, broke out in flames after a technical malfunction with the cinematograph. 126 people, mostly noblewomen, were burned or trampled to death in the blaze.

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Kerry Borthwick @kerryborthwick.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

@yeoldecrimepodcast.bsky.social The Park Place disaster occurred on August 22, 1891, in New York City when benzene vapor from a bronze powder manufacturer ignited, causing an explosion that resulted in the collapse of the five-story Taylor Building that housed the manufacturer

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Kerry Borthwick @kerryborthwick.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

@yeoldecrimepodcast.bsky.social Near the end of 1803, many people claimed to have seen or even been attacked by a ghost in the Hammersmith area of London, a ghost believed by locals to be the spirit of a suicide victim. On January 3, 1804, a 29-year-old excise officer named Francis Smith,

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Kerry Borthwick @kerryborthwick.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

@yeoldecrimepodcast.bsky.social The Thames Torso Murders, often called the Thames Mysteries or the Embankment Murders, were a sequence of unsolved murders of women occurring in London, England from 1887 to 1889. The series included four incidents which were filed as belonging to the same series.

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Kerry Borthwick @kerryborthwick.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

@yeoldecrimepodcast.bsky.social Browsing American graves from before 1900s and found this amazing gem

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Kerry Borthwick @kerryborthwick.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

@yeoldecrimepodcast.bsky.social In 1762, the Cock Lane ghost captivated London in a massive media circus. At the center were inexplicable scratching and knocking sounds in a lodging house near Smithfield. Attributed to "Scratching Fanny," a deceased former tenant,

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Kerry Borthwick @kerryborthwick.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

@yeoldecrimepodcast.bsky.social the Burwell Puppet Show Disaster of 1727, who perished in a fire that engulfed the barn where a Punch and Judy show was being performed. Due to overcrowding, the door was nailed shut to stop more people from entering the already packed barn- preventing

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Kerry Borthwick @kerryborthwick.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

@yeoldecrimepodcast.bsky.social Convicted Murderer. On August 6, 1890, William Kemmler became the first person to be electrocuted in the electric chair in the United States. He was executed at Auburn Penitentiary in New York for the murder of his common-law wife, Mathilda "Tillie" Ziegler.

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Kerry Borthwick @kerryborthwick.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

@yeoldecrimepodcast.bsky.social If you hear it bark once, you have time. Twice, and you should already be running. Three times, and it is too late. The Cu Sith is the fairy hound of the Highlands, It is dark green, the size of a young bull, with a long tail coiled and braided over its back and

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Kerry Borthwick @kerryborthwick.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

@yeoldecrimepodcast.bsky.social If you met a woman washing bloodstained linen at a Highland ford at dawn, tradition said one thing. Do not let her see you first. She is the Bean Nighe, the Washer at the Ford, one of the oldest and most unsettling figures in Gaelic folklore.

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Kerry Borthwick @kerryborthwick.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

@yeoldecrimepodcast.bsky.social In 1839 lady flora Hastings belly began to swell and she was in great pain she saw the royal physician but refused him to check her due to her being a unmarried women so he said she was pregnant that was spread as a rumour in court

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 15/07/2026

#OtD 15 Jul 1381 John Ball, an English Lollard priest and one of the leaders of the Peasants' Revolt, was executed in St. Albans, England. Ball was well known for advocating social equality and preaching in English instead of Latin stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8675...

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Kerry Borthwick @kerryborthwick.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

@yeoldecrimepodcast.bsky.social Western Schism, in the period from 1378 to 1417, there were two, and later three, rival popes, each with his own following, his own Sacred College of Cardinals, and his own administrative offices.

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Kerry Borthwick @kerryborthwick.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

@yeoldecrimepodcast.bsky.social Ida Bell Wells-Barnett (July 16, 1862 – March 25, 1931) was an American investigative journalist, sociologist, educator, and early leader in the civil rights movement.

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Kerry Borthwick @kerryborthwick.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

@yeoldecrimepodcast.bsky.social The Guernsey Martyrs were three women who were burned at the stake for their Protestant beliefs, in Guernsey, Channel Islands, in 1556 during the Marian persecutions. The execution was carried out on or around 18 July 1556. All three were burnt on the same fire;

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Kerry Borthwick @kerryborthwick.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

@yeoldecrimepodcast.bsky.social My towns museum is selling these bookmarks and I thought of u lindsey

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Kerry Borthwick @kerryborthwick.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

@yeoldecrimepodcast.bsky.social In 1887, a 14 year old peasant boy named Robert "Bob" Page from Hull, Yorkshire, tragically died 47 days after being struck in the abdomen by a football made from a butchered pig's bladder. "Not gone from memory, nor from love, but gone to his Father's home above"

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Kerry Borthwick @kerryborthwick.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

@yeoldecrimepodcast.bsky.social At an unknown date, Anne Bonny travelled to the Bahamas where she became acquainted with the pirate John Rackham. In August 1720, Bonny joined Rackham's crew, alongside another female pirate, Mary Read.

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Kerry Borthwick @kerryborthwick.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

@yeoldecrimepodcast.bsky.social The redcap (or powrie) is a type of malevolent, murderous goblin found in folklore of the Anglo-Scottish border region. The redcap is said to inhabit ruined castles along the Anglo-Scottish border,

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Kerry Borthwick @kerryborthwick.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

@yeoldecrimepodcast.bsky.social A Vestal who committed incestum breached Rome's contract with the gods; she became a contradiction, a visible religious embarrassment. By ancient tradition, she must die, but she must seem to do so willingly, and her blood could not be spilled.

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Kerry Borthwick @kerryborthwick.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

@yeoldecrimepodcast.bsky.social 163 years ago , Richard Ewell’s troops won the Battle of Second Winchester inflicting a 15-to-1 casualty rate upon Milroy’s US force. 162 years ago , USCT proved themselves yet again in storming and capturing Battery Nine in the opening actions at Petersburg.

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Kerry Borthwick @kerryborthwick.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

@yeoldecrimepodcast.bsky.social The Witch-Hares: Legends tell of women in Danby Dale and neighboring Westerdale who could turn into hares to evade hunters or cause mischief.

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Kerry Borthwick @kerryborthwick.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

@yeoldecrimepodcast.bsky.social The Hells Canyon Massacre was the mass murder of up to 34 Chinese gold miners in May 1887.it is recognized as one of the deadliest hate crimes against Chinese immigrants in United States history.

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Ye Olde Crime Podcast @yeoldecrimepodcast.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

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Kerry Borthwick @kerryborthwick.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

@yeoldecrimepodcast.bsky.social Nicola de la Haie (born c. 1150; d. 1230),of Swaton in Lincolnshire, (also written de la Haye) was an English landowner and administrator who inherited from her father not only lands in both England and Normandy

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Kerry Borthwick @kerryborthwick.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

@yeoldecrimepodcast.bsky.social The Nephi massacre was an 1853 incident when a group of Mormons invited a group of peace-seeking Goshute Native American men, children, and one woman into their fort in Nephi, Utah and executed the seven men and took the remaining three as prisoners.

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Kerry Borthwick @kerryborthwick.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

@yeoldecrimepodcast.bsky.social Mountain Meadows Massacre On September 7, 1857, John D. Lee led a group of Paiute Indians and Mormon militiamen to attack the Baker-Fancher wagon train. After a prolonged gun battle, siege,

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Kerry Borthwick @kerryborthwick.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

@yeoldecrimepodcast.bsky.social The Bear River Massacre was a United States military attack that killed an estimated 250 to 493 children, women, and men at a Shoshone winter encampment on January 29, 1863.

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Kerry Borthwick @kerryborthwick.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

@yeoldecrimepodcast.bsky.social 1800s anti Vax propaganda

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Kerry Borthwick @kerryborthwick.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

@yeoldecrimepodcast.bsky.social The Cat Sìth is a fairy cat of the Sidhe that haunted the Scottish highlands. Both the Cat Síth and its dog-like counterpart, Cù Sìth, would steal the souls of humans, although unlike the Cù Sìth, the Cat Sìth would take the souls from corpses awaiting burial.

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Kerry Borthwick @kerryborthwick.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

@yeoldecrimepodcast.bsky.social John Langdon Haydon Down (18 November 1828 – 7 October 1896) was a British physician best known for his description of the genetic condition Down syndrome which he originally classified in 1862.

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Kerry Borthwick @kerryborthwick.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

@yeoldecrimepodcast.bsky.social A centuries-old vision of a mechanical volcano has finally erupted into reality, as two University of Melbourne engineering students recreated a design first imagined in 1775 by volcanology enthusiast Sir William Hamilton.

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Kerry Borthwick @kerryborthwick.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

@yeoldecrimepodcast.bsky.social The hot weather here has revealed a mystery in the local state home Belton house gardens they have no idea why it is here or whose initials it was as it's a and b

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