The Morbid History Podcast

Episode 19: The Ground Beneath Us

A woman with a clipboard. A legal clerk who found the wrong file. A man who sent a fish to a lab.   This week: the places America poisoned and then tried to forget. A

MM#18 Without Consent

She walked into one of the only hospitals in Baltimore that would treat her.    A surgeon took a sample of her tissue without asking.  Without telling her.  She never

Episode 18: Dead Reckoning

A dead man's satchel. Nine handwritten pages. Thirty-eight years of silence.   In this episode: the people who bet everything on the grave keeping their secrets. A

MM#17 Random Acts Of Evil

He buried the weapons before he even had a victim in mind. That was the system.   Israel Keyes spent over a decade crossing the United States... flying into cities far

Episode 17: Danger In The Toy Aisle

They were approved, tested, wrapped, and put under Christmas trees. In this episode, we examine the dangerous, baffling, and occasionally radioactive history of American

MM#16 Behind Confederate Lines

In 1861, Alabama seceded from the United States. Not everyone went along with it.   Deep in the hill country of northwest Alabama sat Winston County—a place of shallow

Episode 16: The Poison Parlor

Progress has a price tag. And in Victorian America, it was usually fifty cents. In this episode, we pull back the ornate wallpaper of the nineteenth century and look a

MM#15 Run Like Hell

She just wanted to run. That's all.   Twenty years old, bib number 261, tucked into the middle of the pack on a cold, rainy morning in Hopkinton, Massachusetts. She had

Episode 15: Justice, Adjusted

Some crimes have consequences. Others have currency.   In this episode, we examine history's untouchables—the scientists, executives, kings, and killers whose genius,

MM#14 New Deal, Same As The Old Deal

They called it the New Deal.   A promise. A lifeline. It was the most ambitious expansion of federal protection for working Americans in the nation's history, and was d

Episode 14: The Promised Land Lie

Every utopia has a founder. Every founder has a vision.   And someone always pays for it.   In this episode, we examine the dark history of intentional communities —

MM#13 When Mama Sued The KKK

He was just going to the corner store.   In 1981, Michael Donald never made it home.   Two members of the Ku Klux Klan had been driving the streets of Mobile, Alabama

Episode 13: The Version They Cut

Some stories are too strange for fiction. Others are just too inconvenient for runtime.   In this episode, we go behind the screen — examining the true events Hollywo

MM#12 They Were Small Enough To Fit

They were small enough to fit. That’s why they chose them.   In 18th- and 19th-century England, thousands of young boys were forced to climb inside narrow chimneys to

Episode 12: The Art Of Theft

Some crimes are chaotic. Others are calculated.   In this episode, we examine history’s most notorious heists—beginning with the 1990 robbery at the Isabella Stewart G

Episode 11: Institutional Cruelty

For centuries, mental illness wasn’t treated… it was controlled.   In this episode, we step inside the brutal history of insane asylums and early psychiatric “care,” be

MM#11 Blood On The Senate Floor

He didn’t die on the Senate floor. But a part of him never left it.   In this episode, we examine the life and legacy of Charles Sumner—an abolitionist senator who sto

MM#10 Selling The Supernatural

Ghost stories used to be whispered around campfires. Now they’re printed on mugs.   In this episode, we explore how ghost lore in America went from local legends to f

Episode 10: Fatal Frames

Hollywood loves a good curse. But what if the real horror isn’t supernatural at all?   In this episode of Morbid History, we step behind the camera to examine the film

MM#9 How Not To Train A Dolphin

It started with a flooded house and a dolphin named Peter. It ended in LSD, obsession, and death.   In the 1960s, a young woman named Margaret Howe Lovatt moved into a