5. Spooky Season reveal: What's Lurking in the North This October?

Who was digging up the dead of the North? What would you give up so a city a hundred miles away could turn on a tap? And how did a holiday in Whitby create the most famous toothed monster in the world?

In this short voice note, Lucy says a heartfelt thank you for taking Bad, Mad & Northern into the UK history charts within days of launch, and previews a properly dark October.

Coming up this spooky season:

• The body snatchers. Burke and Hare were just the tip of the iceberg. This is the whole northern trade in the dead.
• The drowned villages. These are the homes, chapels and graves the North gave up to keep its cities running.
• Dracula (two parts). A shipwreck, a black dog, a clifftop graveyard and Bram Stoker's notebook.
• The Pendle witches (two parts). In 1612, a Lancashire hillside and a trial still argued about four hundred years later.
• Surprise content. It won't be announced. It'll just appear.

New episodes drop every Wednesday, starting with a double drop this week, then two a week through October.

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