The Thing About Witch Hunts

History Podcasts

The Thing About Witch Hunts explores historical witch trials and modern witchcraft persecution worldwide. Hosted by Josh Hutchinson and Sarah Jack, each episode investigates the real history behind witch hunts — from the Salem Witch Trials to the...

Episodes

Blood Countess: The Lies that Made Elizabeth Bathory a Serial Killer with Shelley Puhak

The American Revolution and Salem Witch Trials Families with Dan Gagnon

Fairy History, Folklore, and Belief with Dr. Francis Young

Devil, Witchcraft and English Demonology with Prof. Darren Oldridge

The Conjuring Explained: The Real Bathsheba Sherman and Salem Witch Trials Victim Mary Esty

Cunning Folk at Stanford's Cantor Arts Center: Witchcraft and Occult Knowledge

Vampires, Witchcraft, and the Dangerous Dead in Folklore and Ritual: Professor John Blair

Salem Witch Trials Daily Covers the Witchcraft Panic of 1692 in Real Time

Scottish Witch Trials: The Story of the Peebles Witch Trials Comes Alive in Rope and Flame Play

Podcasthon 2026: The Anatomy of a Moral Panic — Salem, McCarthyism, and the Satanic Panic

Give to Gain: Raising Voices for Women Accused of Witchcraft in Nigeria

Salem Witch Trials: Tituba in Two Centuries of Literature with Samaine Lockwood

Salem Witch Trials on Stage: Nicole Brooks on Obeah Opera

Witches, Rakes, and Rogues: Unearthing Boston's Hidden History with D. Brenton Simons

The Deadly Exorcism of Arely Procter: Spiritual and Ritual Abuse Happens Right Here in the U.S.

Witsh, a Welsh Witch Trial Story, with Mari Ellis Dunning

Connecticut's Final Witchcraft Execution: Mary Barnes and the Greensmiths

The Witch in Old Connecticut: Righting a Troubled Legacy with Richard Ross

A History of Scottish Witches with Mary W. Craig

Peter Mintir Amadu on Helping the Innocent Women in Ghana's so-called Witch Camps