Electroconvulsive Therapy's Shocking Origins
Today, electroconvulsive therapy is still used to treat those struggling with severe depression, bipolar II, schizophrenia, and other treatment-resistant disorders. An estimated 100,000 people are tre...
21 Feb 202339min
Giants: From Myth to Modern Day Hoax
Our "biggest" episode yet, covering all things GIANTS. We learn how classical cultures and folklore embraced the myths and fantastical stories of giant, flesh-eating, humans; debunk archaeology's infa...
14 Feb 202339min
The Hangman's Gallows
Some of England's worst criminals met their end at the Tyburn Gallows, an infamous site at which the public could purchase tickets to attend executions. This episode explores the origins of hanging-st...
7 Feb 202334min
Deadly Beauty Standards in Victorian England
From dress fires to corrosive skin treatments, the women living during the nineteenth century subjected themselves to harmful and horrific procedures, all in the pursuit of a warped beauty influenced ...
31 Jan 202338min
Spontaneous Human Combustion
There are over 200 known cases where people have been found burned to death with no discernible cause. These cases have contributed to the theory of spontaneous human combustion, the idea that a perso...
24 Jan 202337min
Causes of Death in 1632 London
Bills of Mortality originated in the late sixteenth century as a way for parish networks to track weekly plague outbreaks. Eventually, over time, this medical journal evolved to become a standard prac...
17 Jan 202346min
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 Jan 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 Jan 20232min
