Rylan Clark teams up with anthropologist Professor Alice Roberts to investigate one of the darkest and most harrowing chapters in British history - the murder of hundreds of women accused of witchcraft. Each episode centres on a specific witch trial, with Rylan and Alice opening a cold case into the stories behind some of the women accused of witchcraft during the 16th and 17th centuries, many of whom were found guilty and sentenced to death by hanging. A woman’s haunting encounter with a ghost leads us deep into England’s dark history of witchcraft, fear, and control. Discover how the hysteria spread and how the state used it to turn neighbour against neighbour.