30 Morbid Minutes
Journey into the morbid, macabre, gruesome and unexplained, with comedians and friends Elyse Willems and Jessica Vasami. Covering topics like: untimely deaths on cruise ships, sleep paralysis demons, celebrity death hoaxes, obituary bandits, pesky cursed objects, spontaneous human combustion, zombie apocalypses, the Victorian obsession with death, screaming mummies, the Dark Forest alien paradox, medical malpractice, good old-fashioned cannibalism, and so much more.
Episodes on Mondays.
***Featured in Apple Podcast's New & Noteworthy 2022.***
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Coffin Birth
May contain triggering topics.
34 min
77
The Mandela Effect
How do we explain mass societal misrememberings?
38 min
78
America's Most Haunted City? Savannah's Ghost Town
A city built atop cemeteries.
39 min
79
Deadly Medical Malpractice
Botched procedures that leave patients in gut-wrenching pain.
39 min
80
The Screaming Mummy
The legends of not just one but two Screaming Mummies.
32 min
81
Organ Theft: Not Just An Urban Legend
Organ theft, trafficking, and transplant tourism.
30 min
82
The Beheading of Marie Antoinette
A teenage queen meets her end at the blade of a guillotine.
50 min
83
The Radium Girls
Radium Girls and the business practices that cut their lives short.
34 min
84
Could A Zombie Apocalypse Actually Happen?
What could a parasitic fungus actually do?
36 min
85
Human Skin: Lampshades, Wallets, Books, Oh My!
From Scythians to serial killers.
39 min
86
The Dark Origins of Nursery Rhymes
From the dark to the macabre.
30 min
87
Electroconvulsive Therapy's Shocking Origins
ECT’s controversial past, misuse, and how it’s evolved.
37 min
88
Giants: From Myth to Modern Day Hoax
Debunking archaeology's infamous giant skeleton hoaxes.
37 min
89
The Hangman's Gallows
The origins, methods, and theatrics of the Tyburn Gallows.
33 min
90
Deadly Beauty Standards in Victorian England
Is the "Consumptive Chic" look coming back in style?
36 min
91
Spontaneous Human Combustion
Over 200 people have burned to death with no discernible cause.
36 min
92
Causes of Death in 1632 London
Explaining causes of death in historical context.
44 min
93
Sky Burials
A sky burial is a funerary practice in which the body of a deceased person is prepared, placed, and left exposed in a place of high elevation so that vultures and other scavenging birds will consume it and carry the deceased's soul to the heavens. In this episode we explore the history and theological origins of sky burials, who practices it, and why this unique burial rite is in decline.
33 min
94
Season 4 Coming January 10!
Jessica and Elyse return January 10th with even more morbid history and topics to make your head think and skin crawl!
1 min
95
Horrors of the Deep: The Mariana Trench
Investigating the unusual creatures that dwell within the deep.
35 min
96
Cursed & Haunted Objects, Artifacts, Dolls & More
Learn the history behind some of the world's most cursed objects.
31 min
97
Human Sacrifice
Walk down history's morbid memory lane of sacred slaughter.
40 min
98
Halloween: The History of North America's Most ...
How Halloween has evolved into more than candy and costumes.
34 min
99
Death Clocks & the Morbid Nature of Time
Investigating the personification of time, through imagery and art.
35 min
100
CTE and the Risks of High Contact Sports
Promising athletic careers and lasting legacies marred by CTE.
36 min