Season 2
20186 episodes
6.5
Season 2 marks a deeper dive into the surprising characters and real-life stories behind some of the world's historical atrocities. Ranging from the Middle Ages to the Age of Rockets, Lore 2 explores the motivations of the damned and the bloody and far-reaching aftermath of that damnation.
All Episodes
55m
Episode 1
Burke and Hare: In the Name of Science
7
October 18, 2018
Two shunned Irish immigrants in Scotland start off as grave robbers to sell the dead to doctors, but decide that creating their own inventory is much easier, and become the most prolific mass-murdering duo in history.
36m
Episode 2
Elizabeth Bathory: Mirror, Mirror
8
October 18, 2018
The aging Countess of Blood, running out of virginal peasants to drain of their youthful essence, brings in a bright-eyed noble to start a new cycle of torture and murder.
53m
Episode 3
Hinterkaifeck: Ghosts in the Attic
7
October 18, 2018
In the German hinterlands, between World Wars, a family goes to bed, not knowing that their killer has been living in the walls and attics of their home like a ghost, watching, waiting for his chance to strike, in one of the most famous unsolved mysteries of all time.
40m
Episode 4
Prague Clock: The Curse of the Orloj
7
October 18, 2018
As two clockmakers race against the curse of the Orloj, a curse that has already driven the city of Prague to madness and death with the Black Plague, these brothers will discover the price of trying to change history.
35m
Episode 5
Mary Webster: The Witch of Hadley
7
October 18, 2018
A young woman, raised in a town controlled by a religious zealot, must rectify a fatal mistake before a ravenous mob hangs the Old Witch, Mary Webster, in this story set just 11 years before and 100 miles from Salem, Massachusetts.
44m
Episode 6
Jack Parsons: The Devil and the Divine
3
October 18, 2018
In 1922, only one person, Jack Parsons, believed that we could send a rocket into space and conjure a demon. By 1952, he had done both. But all he cared about was the Scarlet Woman he had both summoned, and lost, Marjorie Cameron.