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 i...
10 Tammi 202335min
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! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
3 Tammi 20232min
Horrors of the Deep: The Mariana Trench
The Mariana Trench is the deepest location on earth and widely unexplored. The harsh conditions make it impossible for shallow ocean life to exist, and chartered explorations are a challenge, even wit...
25 Loka 202237min
Cursed & Haunted Objects, Artifacts, Dolls & More
A chair. A doll. A painting. Relatively innocuous, but ask a paranormal expert and you might hear otherwise. In this episode we learn the history behind some of the world's most notoriously cursed and...
18 Loka 202233min
Human Sacrifice
Ritualistic human sacrifice was a common practice in early and classical cultures. While we know it was done to earn the blessings of the gods, many scholars and archaeologists point to the underlying...
11 Loka 202242min
Halloween: The History of North America's Most Morbid Holiday
Spooky enthusiasts rejoice, it's the most wonderful time of year: Halloween season! No better time than now to dive into the history behind America's most morbid holiday; how it started, where certain...
4 Loka 202236min
Death Clocks & the Morbid Nature of Time
Time can be a truly scary concept. In this episode, we investigate the personification of time, through imagery and art. We talk about chronophobia, the fear of time, and how Doomsday Clocks and Mille...
27 Syys 202237min
CTE and the Risks of High Contact Sports
The average lifespan of someone diagnosed with CTE is just 51 years. Promising athletic careers have been cut short, and lasting legacies have been marred by this debilitating neurodegenerative diseas...
20 Syys 202238min
