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 treated annually across the U.S. Nevertheless, ECT carries stigmas due to its tarnished and sordid history, marred by inhumane and forced procedures, torture, and wild experimentation. We investigate ECT’s controversial past, how the practice has been abused, and how it’s evolved since.

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Electroconvulsive Therapy's Shocking Origins

A darkly funny journey into the morbid, macabre, gruesome, curious, and unexplained, brought to you by comedians and friends Elyse Willems and Jessica Vasami. If it's creepy, we cover it! Death on cruise ships, nineteenth century superstitions, celebrity death hoaxes, obituary bandits, cursed objects, spontaneous human combustion, zombie apocalypses, screaming mummies, aliens, medical malpractice, cannibalism, serial killers and so much more. New episodes every Tuesday. ***Featured in Apple Podcast's New & Noteworthy 2022.***

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Badbye (For Now)

Legend has it that La Isla des las Muñecas, a dark tourism hot spot, is where a young girl was tragically found drowned to death. The dolls that decorate the island serve as both a tribute and a warning.  

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Why the Island of the Dolls is One of the Creepiest Places on Earth

Have you ever had something creepy happen to you or a family member that you can’t quite explain? If you’ve got a spooky story to tell, or like hearing other people’s, then this is the episode for you. 

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Spooky and Morbid Stories from YOU

How would you react if you saw a dead body that, after a year, still looked like the person had died just yesterday? What about after five years? A hundred? This type of preservation, called incorruptibility, can happen. And while some consider it a holy miracle, science tells a different story.

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Incorruptibility: Sainthood's Freshest Corpses

Ever wondered what exactly differentiates a coffin from a casket? So did we! We get to the bottom of things. Six feet under, to be exact. 

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Electroconvulsive Therapy's Shocking Origins

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