February 27, 2024

#11 – Museum of Death (Owners JD Healy and Cathee Shultz)

1 hour 52 minutes

Museum of Death owners/curators, JD Healy and Cathee Shultz, join us in the Crypt for Episode 11 to guide us through the eerie corridors of their world-famous museum, located in Hollywood, CA and New Orleans, LA.

We'll uncover the origins of the museum, the fascinating stories behind the acquisition of their gruesome collection, and the chilling artifacts that starkly remind us of life's fragility. From serial killer memorabilia gifted to them by the killers themselves, to mortician's tools and autopsy rooms, we explore the museum's most haunting exhibits and the impact they have on visitors.

Learn about the history, mission, and controversies surrounding this unique museum that continues to captivate and horrify visitors from around the globe after nearly 3 decades. Thoughts on afterlife, the paranormal, personal relationships with serial killers, GG Allin & The Murder Junkies, Kenneth Anger, and more!

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CHAPTERS:

00:00 – Warning

00:26 – Introduction

01:09 – Losing Money in Vegas

02:13 – Getting Recognized In Public For Owning the Museum of Death, The Goal of the Museum

06:08 – JD and Cathee Getting GG Allin Exhumed and Putting His Body On Display

09:23 – Todd Phillips Making ‘Hated’, Getting Arrested with GG Allin, & Joker / Heath Ledger Warned By Jack Nicholson

11:26 – Actors Winning Posthumous Awards

13:36 – The Museum of Death Started As A Gallery in San Diego's First Mortuary That Was Haunted, A Ghost Attacked Them

24:58 – JD & Cathee's Gallery Evolution, Covering Insane Topics No One Else Would Cover

27:51 – Early Issues and Controversy They Went Through, Investigators Came Through & The City Wanted to Shut Them Down

31:02 – Where Their Fascination With Death Was Born

33:14 – The Ethics of Kevorkian, Owning His Death Machine

35:40 – Death is Only Hard For The Living

37:22 – Reincarnation, What Comes After Death? JD and Cathee Will Have Their Bodies On Display at the Museum When They Die / Putting the Fun back in Funeral

43:22 – PT Barnum Taxidermed His Dead Elephant & Put Him on Display

45:09 – Becoming an "Overnight Success" After 28 Years, Death Follows Them Around, John Wayne Gacy Used to Call Cathee at Night, Someone Died Above the Museum

48:43 – The Evolution of the Museum of Death, The Start of Their Death Collection, Making a Return on Murderabilia & Crime Scene Photos

52:37 – People Would Pass Out In The Museum Looking at Photographs of “The Couple"

56:06 – How they get their items, like the decapitaded head of the bluebeard of france / how much a human head costs

1:02:48 – The infamous story of "the hand", an amputated hand that was randomly dropped off at the Museum of Death

1:16:20 – Gifted items to the Museum of Death, Kenneth Anger, Black Dahlia Photos, detectives would secretly gift them items

1:18:15 – What's Too Far? What Items Will They Not Take? A post-mortem scandal with a west coast college

1:20:00 – Celebrities offer items, like clothing from the exhumation of Rebecca Schaffer and the socks Sam Kinison died in

1:22:32 – The balance of shock and education, why do people want to see these things?

1:26:15 – Heaven's Gate, JD and Cathee own the real outfits and bed from the crime scene, how they got it

1:34:14 – We're All Fortunate to be Alive - You Can Die at Any Moment

1:35:44 – Would They Remove Something From The Museum if Someone Asked, When People Have asked if they could remove an item

1:39:32 – Moving the Museum of Death of New Orleans / Most of Us Die in Our Sleep / We All Die, So Do What You Love

1:44:29 – Cremation, Reincarnation, Afterlife, Ghosts, and Legal Execution

1:49:54 – Making Death Palatable, favorite items

1:52:01 – Outro

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