Dark Realms: Britain's Last Witch
The Dark Paranormal
The Dark Paranormal
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 9 March 2026
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Welcome back, to Dark Realms.
In today's show, we explore the eerie and deeply unsettling case of Helen Duncan, the Scottish medium often remembered as Britain’s “last witch,” whose séances, spirit claims, and wartime notoriety drew the attention of the British state at the height of World War II. Moving through a world of darkened séance rooms, grief-stricken families, government secrecy, and ancient law, this episode examines how a woman associated with ectoplasm, spiritualism, and contact with the dead became entangled in one of the most infamous legal cases in British paranormal history. As the story unfolds, questions of belief, fraud, fear, and control begin to blur, revealing a haunting collision between wartime paranoia, the supernatural, and the law. For anyone fascinated by Helen Duncan, this is a chilling look at the moment when what was said in the dark became far too dangerous to ignore.
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| 0:00.0 | Not all of our minisodes need to be from listeners. In fact, places or lesser known cases can sometimes take us to Dark Realms. |
| 0:16.4 | Hello everyone and welcome back to another installment of Dark Realms. |
| 0:22.1 | Now as you know by now, we've started to cast the net out when we're looking at these dark realms. |
| 0:28.9 | No longer are we just confined to looking at places, we're looking at people, situations, experiences and anything else that may fall under the gamut of a dark realm. |
| 0:41.3 | Now the realm we will be taking a peek at today is something that we often associate with many hundreds of years ago. |
| 0:51.3 | And with trials and with burnings, etc., I'm talking about witchcraft. |
| 0:58.7 | And it's often something that we do resign to history. And I mean, as in middle ages, etc. |
| 1:06.1 | But not today. Today we're going to take a look at a case of witchcraft |
| 1:12.4 | that included legal proceedings and consequences and changed the law. |
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