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Horrors of the UK

Further Reading For Horrors of the UK

The History Of Torture Through The Ages by George Ryley Scott

The Life and Ideas of the Marquis de Sade by Geoffrey Gorer

Nuremberg Diary by G. M. Gilbert

Heinrich Himmler by Peter Longerich

Kiss of the whip by Edwin J. Henri

Sexual Anomalies and Perversions by Magnus Hirschfeld

Execution: The Guillotine, the Pendulum, the Thousand Cuts, the Spanish Donkey, and 66 Other Ways of Putting Someone to Death by Geoffrey Abbott

Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler

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Slippity slap! It’s an episode dedicated to the horrific urban legends of the United Kingdom. This episode focuses much too generally on the legend of Spring Heeled Jack, an utterly bizarre legend from 1800’s London about a man with a devilish appearance who terrorized locals with tricks, fire, and all-out assault before escaping by leaping away over walls and fences without so much as a single problem.

Also on deck is the story of Ian Brady and Myra Hindley, The Moors Murderers, a truly horrific serial murder pair on par with the horrors visited upon England by Fred and Rose West. This awful pair kidnapped, tortured, raped, and murdered 5 children in the UK in the 1960’s. This pair deserves and will one day inevitably get their own full-length episode. Until then, we have to settle with this much too brief rundown on what is a truly terrible series of crimes.

Rounding out the episode is a series of strange legends from the trenches in France of World War 1. The Great War left a profoundly black mark on Europe as the constant shelling from German Artillery and the horrific up-close violence of trench to trench warfare burned the hell on earth chaos and inhumanity into the very souls of the men who fought. Naturally, the stress of constant battles and shelling and the ubiquitous specter of death led fragile minds to witness things beyond their understanding and spread word of mouth horrors about the things they saw on the battlefield that sometimes defied description.

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