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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The Iron Lung
Is this seemingly outdated technology still used today?
36 min
77
Harrowing Sex Disasters
30 Morbid Minutes... after dark.
40 min
78
Titanic Conspiracy Theories
Separating Titanic fact from fiction.
45 min
79
The Science Behind Fear
Why are people susceptible to different fears?
48 min
80
Coffin Birth
May contain triggering topics.
34 min
81
The Mandela Effect
How do we explain mass societal misrememberings?
38 min
82
America's Most Haunted City? Savannah's Ghost Town
A city built atop cemeteries.
39 min
83
Deadly Medical Malpractice
Botched procedures that leave patients in gut-wrenching pain.
39 min
84
The Screaming Mummy
The legends of not just one but two Screaming Mummies.
32 min
85
Organ Theft: Not Just An Urban Legend
Organ theft, trafficking, and transplant tourism.
30 min
86
The Beheading of Marie Antoinette
A teenage queen meets her end at the blade of a guillotine.
50 min
87
The Radium Girls
Radium Girls and the business practices that cut their lives short.
34 min
88
Could A Zombie Apocalypse Actually Happen?
What could a parasitic fungus actually do?
36 min
89
Human Skin: Lampshades, Wallets, Books, Oh My!
From Scythians to serial killers.
39 min
90
The Dark Origins of Nursery Rhymes
From the dark to the macabre.
30 min
91
Electroconvulsive Therapy's Shocking Origins
ECT’s controversial past, misuse, and how it’s evolved.
37 min
92
Giants: From Myth to Modern Day Hoax
Debunking archaeology's infamous giant skeleton hoaxes.
37 min
93
The Hangman's Gallows
The origins, methods, and theatrics of the Tyburn Gallows.
33 min
94
Deadly Beauty Standards in Victorian England
Is the "Consumptive Chic" look coming back in style?
36 min
95
Spontaneous Human Combustion
Over 200 people have burned to death with no discernible cause.
36 min
96
Causes of Death in 1632 London
Explaining causes of death in historical context.
44 min
97
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
98
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
99
Horrors of the Deep: The Mariana Trench
Investigating the unusual creatures that dwell within the deep.
35 min
100
Cursed & Haunted Objects, Artifacts, Dolls & More
Learn the history behind some of the world's most cursed objects.
31 min