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57: Ep. 57 Englands Deadliest Forest & It's 2000 Year Body Count

54 min · 15 jun 2026
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Just outside one of the most populated cities on earth sits a 6,000-acre forest that has been collecting bodies — and secrets — since before the Roman Empire. Epping Forest isn’t just haunted. It’s a thousand-year crime scene layered on top of an Iron Age battlefield, a highwayman’s lair, and a gangland dumping ground. And that’s before we even get to the pond that locals say is *evil beyond measure.* In this episode of Creepy Shit, we’re diving deep into the true, documented, and wildly disturbing history of Epping Forest — England’s most dangerous woodland. We’re talking Celtic warrior queen Boudica’s last stand in 61 AD, Dick Turpin the real highwayman (not the romantic version — the murderous one), the Kray twins using the forest as their personal graveyard, a 30-year cold case known as the Babes in the Wood murders, a hill where your car rolls uphill with the engine off, and a pond with no location on any map that people say *pulls* you toward it. This one is packed with true crime, real history, paranormal activity, and the kind of dark folklore that will make you rethink everything you think you know about forests.

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aflevering 57: Ep. 57 Englands Deadliest Forest & It's 2000 Year Body Count artwork

57: Ep. 57 Englands Deadliest Forest & It's 2000 Year Body Count

Just outside one of the most populated cities on earth sits a 6,000-acre forest that has been collecting bodies — and secrets — since before the Roman Empire. Epping Forest isn’t just haunted. It’s a thousand-year crime scene layered on top of an Iron Age battlefield, a highwayman’s lair, and a gangland dumping ground. And that’s before we even get to the pond that locals say is *evil beyond measure.* In this episode of Creepy Shit, we’re diving deep into the true, documented, and wildly disturbing history of Epping Forest — England’s most dangerous woodland. We’re talking Celtic warrior queen Boudica’s last stand in 61 AD, Dick Turpin the real highwayman (not the romantic version — the murderous one), the Kray twins using the forest as their personal graveyard, a 30-year cold case known as the Babes in the Wood murders, a hill where your car rolls uphill with the engine off, and a pond with no location on any map that people say *pulls* you toward it. This one is packed with true crime, real history, paranormal activity, and the kind of dark folklore that will make you rethink everything you think you know about forests.

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56: Ep. 56 The Bridge That Swallowed 844 Souls

In 1915, a ship everyone knew was dangerous capsized in the Chicago River — killing 844 people on their way to a company picnic. More deaths than the Titanic’s passenger list. 22 entire families, gone.  No one was ever held accountable.  And to this day, people standing on Chicago’s Clark Street Bridge report seeing faces in the water below. This is the SS Eastland disaster. And it’s been buried long enough. References & Resources: • Britannica: Eastland Disaster • History.com [http://History.com]: Hundreds Drown in Eastland Disaster • National Archives Chicago: Steamship Eastland Disaster • Chicagology.com [http://Chicagology.com]: 1915 Eastland Disaster (primary newspaper accounts) • Eastland Disaster Historical Society: eastlanddisaster.org [http://eastlanddisaster.org] • US Ghost Adventures: Clark Street Bridge haunting • CBS Chicago: Chicago Hauntings — Ghosts of the Eastland Disaster • Czech Consulate Chicago: 100-year anniversary article • Forest Park Historical Society: Eastland Ship Disaster • Strange Ago: SS Eastland Disaster Survivor Accounts

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