Dark History

About Dark History

The worst things in these stories are the documented ones. Disasters, trials, epidemics, and institutions that harmed the people in their care are covered here from the record outward.

We name sources, quote primary documents where they exist, and avoid dramatizing the deaths of real people.

Sourcing: drawn from archives, primary documents, and contemporary reporting. Where accounts conflict, the disagreement is noted rather than resolved for effect.