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20/12/2019

🎄🐪🎄**CHRISTMAS SPECIAL**🎄⭐️🎄

Were you once scared of finding a lump of coal in your stocking on Christmas morning?

Kids in many Alpine countries have bigger things to worry about in Krampus - the terrifying Christmas goat demon who might eat you or take you to hell if you've been bad this year.

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Krampus, St. Nick's terrifying companion, comes out on December 5th to punish and steal naughty children. Catch a Krampusnacht parade in Austria or Germany

05/11/2019

🔥 It's Bonfire Night in the UK 💥

What's the pyromania all about? Read below and find out 👇

Guy Fawkes, born in York, was one of 13 Catholics who conspired to blow up James I in the 1605 Gunpowder Plot and was subsequently hanged at Westminster.

08/09/2019

**NEW POST** **QUICK READ**

Ever noticed these small plaques in the street during a city break in Europe?

They commemorate victims of the Holocaust, placed outside the last place people lived or worked before they were deported and murdered by the N***s.

Stolpersteine are memorials for Holocaust victims across Europe. You can find many on the streets of Amsterdam, especially in the Jewish Quarter.

31/10/2018

Bloedstraat (Blood Street) in Amsterdam’s red light district - said to be one of the most haunted streets in the city, where the blood of executed prisoners drained from Nieuwmarkt into the canal.

31/10/2018

👻🧛‍♂️HAPPY HALLOWEEN FROM TRAVEL DARKLY!🧟‍♂️🎃

We're all witchy today with our *NEW POST* about the Museum of Witchcraft in Cornwall, UK.

🐖Halloween bonus: a lucky two-headed pig. 🐖

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The Museum of Witchcraft and Magic, Boscastle – UK witchcraft history, witchcraft meaning and information about who practised witchcraft and witches today

22/08/2018

‘Here lived Isaak Stopper born 1899. Arrested Aug. 1943, deported 1943 from Westerbork. Murdered 31-3-1944, Auschwitz’. There are 400 of these memorial plaques in Amsterdam outside the former homes of Holocaust victims.

17/08/2018

☢️ Long overdue *NEW POST* on Travel Darkly! ☢️

The Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum and the A-Bomb Dome dedicated to the events of the 6th August 1945.

The Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park is dedicated to the events of the 6th August 1945, and shows the devastating effects of nuclear war on normal people.

03/11/2017

Last night was the grand opening of the Museum of Witchcraft & Magic in London at The Last Tuesday Society & The Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities in Bethnal Green. Fans of Pitt Rivers Museum and of interesting objects in general will enjoy...

31/10/2017

NEW post on the blog today. The Wi******er Mystery House, San Jose, California. Because it wouldn't be without a haunted house...

The Wi******er Mystery House, soon to be featured in the movie Wi******er starring Helen Mirren, is purportedly one of the most haunted houses in the world

31/10/2017

Halloween in Tokyo right now....

21/10/2017

Game of Thrones star Kit Harington stars alongside Lord of the Rings star Liv Tyler in Gunpowder tonight on BBC One. Here's our Guy Fawkes post...

Guy Fawkes, born in York, was one of 13 Catholics who conspired to blow up James I in the 1605 Gunpowder Plot and was subsequently hanged at Westminster.