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The Darkives: Serious history. Told not so seriously
Hosted by Leo Eaton and Jamie Tavenner · history · EN
About this Podcast:
The Darkives is a history podcast where Jamie and Leo dive headfirst into the strangest, creepiest, and most disturbing stories the past tried to bury (and somehow manage to laugh along the way). Each week, we unravel forgotten voyages, infamous historical figures, bizarre disasters, and centuries-old true crime, breaking it all down the way you would with friends - curious, slightly horrified, and occasionally cracking jokes when things get too dark. Nothing is treated like a lecture, and nothing is off the table. If you like weird history, eerie true stories, and conversations that balance “that’s awful” with “how is this real?”, you’ll feel right at home here. Serious history. Told not so seriously.
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What is The Darkives: Serious history. Told not so seriously about?
The Darkives is a history podcast where Jamie and Leo dive headfirst into the strangest, creepiest, and most disturbing stories the past tried to bury (and somehow manage to laugh along the way).
Who hosts The Darkives: Serious history. Told not so seriously?
The Darkives: Serious history. Told not so seriously is hosted by Leo Eaton and Jamie Tavenner. The show has published 66 episodes to date.
What has The Darkives: Serious history. Told not so seriously covered recently?
Recent episodes include "King Tut’s Tomb: The Curse, the Treasure & the Truth" (23 October 2026, 36 minutes), "The Hammersmith Ghost: The Haunting That Ended in Murder" (16 October 2026, 33 minutes), and "Vampires! The Stories of Alnwick Castle, Jure Grando & Mercy Brown" (9 October 2026, 28 minutes).
How often does The Darkives: Serious history. Told not so seriously publish?
The Darkives: Serious history. Told not so seriously publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 36 minutes across 66 episodes.
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Booking probability for The Darkives: Serious history. Told not so seriously is 33%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. The Darkives: Serious history. Told not so seriously requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. The Darkives: Serious history. Told not so seriously's contact route on record: verified email.
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Leo Eaton and Jamie Tavenner hosts The Darkives: Serious history. Told not so seriously, a history podcast with 66 episodes published.
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Recent episodes
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Oct 16, 202633 minsupport the show https://patreon.com In 1803, reports of a ghost haunting the streets of Hammersmith, London, sparked fear throughout the community. When Francis Smith went looking for the Hammersmith Ghost, he shot and...
Oct 9, 202628 minsupport the show https://patreon.com Long before Dracula became the world's most famous vampire, stories of the undead were terrifying communities across Europe and America. We cover the 12th-century Alnwick Vampire in...
Oct 2, 202645 minsupport the show https://patreon.com This week on The Darkives, the history of Cheesman Park, from the Indigenous land to the old cemetery that became one of the city's most famous parks. When the graves were ordered...
Sep 25, 202631 minsupport the show https://patreon.com This week, we travel back thousands of years ago where people across Iron Age Europe were laid to rest in peat bogs. The unusual conditions preserved bodies for centuries. From...
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Sep 18, 202634 minsupport the show https://patreon.com This week, We cover the Lizzie Borden murder case of 1892, one of the most famous unsolved crimes in American history. Lizzie was accused of killing her father and stepmother with a...
Sep 11, 202634 minsupport the show https://patreon.com This week Jamie and Leo tell three true stories of history's feral children. Cases that inspired literature and raised questions about what it actually means to be human. In 1725...
Sep 4, 202653 minsupport the show https://patreon.com This week it's shark week, we dip our toes in the waters of the Jersey Shore, summer of 1916. Twelve days changed how we felt about sharks permanently. Five people were attacked...
Aug 28, 202635 minsupport the show https://patreon.com This week Jamie and Leo dig into the life of Viktor Frankl, his career before the war, the four camps he survived, and the book he wrote in nine days when it was all over. Man's...
Episode #57
Georgia Tann: The Tennessee Baby Farmer
Aug 21, 202637 minsupport the show https://patreon.com In this episode of The Darkives, we look at the history of adoption in the United States and the story of Georgia Tann. Georgia Tann ran the Tennessee Children’s Home Society in...
Aug 14, 202629 minsupport the show https://patreon.com This week Jamie and Leo take a tour through history's most disturbing execution methods across civilizations and centuries. From the Code of Hammurabi (one of the earliest written...
Aug 7, 202635 minsupport the show https://patreon.com This week Jamie and Leo dig into the story of Jane Toppan. Born Honora Kelley, and later she was known as Jolly Jane. Raised as an indentured servant, dismissed from two of...
Jul 31, 202623 minThis week Jamie and Leo dig into the full story of Mount Tambora. On April 10th, 1815, a volcano on the island of Sumbawa in Indonesia erupted. It was the largest volcanic eruption in recorded history. The explosion...
Jul 24, 202631 minThis week Jamie and Leo dig into spontaneous human combustion. We go over the the cases, the wick effect theory that might explain it, and question... how does a human body burn to ash while the chair next to them...
Jul 17, 202656 minThis week Jamie and Leo dig into the full story before the smoke cleared: who the Earps were and how they ended up in Tombstone, who the Clantons and McLaurys were and why they couldn't leave well enough alone, and how...
Jul 10, 202644 minThis week Jamie and Leo dig into the full story of the Britannic, her construction, her brief life as a hospital ship, and the disaster that put her on the ocean floor. Along the way, meet the crew members who somehow...
Jul 3, 202618 minIn this episode Jamie tells Leo a story involving a...umm...well, lets just say a 'messy' situation. King Henry VI, King of Germanic Europe during the Holy Roman Empire, did a slick job covering up a debacle involving a...
Episode #49
The Titanic: A Ticket to Disaster
Jun 26, 20261h 10mThis week, Jamie and Leo dig into the construction of the Titanic, the staggering gap between how her passengers lived on board, and the night everything went wrong. In 1912, the most luxurious ship ever built sank on...
May 29, 202624 minThis week Jamie and Leo dig into the life, the expedition, and the event that made sure James Jameson would be remembered for something much more sinister than being a naturalist. He was the grandson of the Jameson...
May 22, 202628 minA stolen fortune. A global manhunt. And a pirate who may have gotten away with it all. This week, Jamie and Leo sail into the chaotic world of Henry Every, the man often called the pirate who pulled off the greatest sea...
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