In September 1876, a group of Yale students broke into the mysterious headquarters of the Skull and Bones secret society, expecting to uncover the secrets of America's academic elite. What they discovered inside the windowless Tomb was considerably stranger, and occasionally more ridiculous, than the legends suggested.

The A6 murder case began with a terrifying roadside attack in August 1961 and became one of Britain's longest-running arguments about criminal justice. Forty years after James Hanratty went to the gallows, forensic science delivered a devastating answer to a question that had divided investigators, journalists and campaigners for decades.

In 1969, The Owl Service brought ancient Welsh mythology, adolescent jealousy and supernatural dread into an ordinary Sunday-afternoon television slot. Discover how Granada's extraordinary adaptation became a British folk horror landmark, and why its original audience never saw the programme quite as its creators intended.