Case file 035Ancient Mysteries
The Devil’s Looking Glass
John Dee’s famous spirit mirror turns out to have been made in Mexico, but the evidence that it ever belonged to him is thinner than its reputation.
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Case file 033Crime & Mystery
An Appointment with Nobody
Julia Wallace was killed in her Liverpool parlour while her husband searched for a man who did not exist, and his alibi became the case against him.
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Case file 023Power & Secrets
Guy Fawkes - The Fall Guy?
A plan to blow up King James and Parliament was foiled by an anonymous letter, but how much did the government know before it arrived?
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Case file 021Forgotten Histories
A Wonder from Godalming
Mary Toft’s supposed rabbit births fooled the king’s surgeons and made her a national joke, but the doctors wrote down far more than she ever got to say.
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