30 Morbid Minutes

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January 19 Reintroducing 30 Morbid Minutes with Jessica & Elyse!
It's time for a quick catch-up with your favorite gruesome twosome. Elyse and Jessica talk about the state of the podcast, what's to come, and of course, get a little silly.
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30 Morbid Minutes is made by Elyse Willems and Jessica Vasami, with theme music composed by Casey Edwards.

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25 min
December 29, 2025 Taking the Corpse Road
From their practical role in funerary processions, to the eerie folklore and superstitions that later surrounded them, this episode traces the history of corpse roads in Medieval England.
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30 Morbid Minutes is made by Elyse Willems and Jessica Vasami, with theme music composed by Casey Edwards.

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22 min
December 15, 2025 From the Crypt: Ghost Stories During Christmas - A Victorian Tradition We Need to Bring Back
This episode was originally released December 19, 2023
Gathering around the fire and telling ghost stories during the holiday season was extremely in vogue during the Victorian Era. We explore how a tradition of yuletide terror came to be, and the authors behind it.
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30 Morbid Minutes is made by Elyse Willems and Jessica Vasami, with music by Casey Edwards.

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29 min
December 01, 2025 What Does a Coroner Do? (Reddit AMA with a Coroner)
We’re doing a thorough examination of what life is like for a professional coroner, pulling questions from a Reddit AMA in which a real-life coroner gives personal insight into the ways in which they investigate deaths, locate and notify families of deaths, determine cause and manner of death, and relay information to the media.
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⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Elyse Willems⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠
⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Jessica Vasami⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠
Music by ⁠⁠Casey Edwards ⁠

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32 min
November 10, 2025 Is It Common to Die on Your Birthday?
Sometimes a surprise birthday party can result in an unforeseen death. We explore the dark statistical phenomenon that is the Birthday Effect.
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⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Elyse Willems⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠
⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Jessica Vasami⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠
Music by ⁠⁠Casey Edwards ⁠

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25 min
October 27, 2025 Cemetery Sleepovers: Not As Morbid As You Think?
What compels thrill-seekers and ghosthunters to spend the night amongst the gravestones? And how do local communities use cemeteries for special events and spooky movie nights? Find out, in 30 Morbid Minutes.

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⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Elyse Willems⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠
⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Jessica Vasami⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Music by ⁠Casey Edwards

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31 min
October 20, 2025 From the Crypt: The History of Halloween - 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 traditions like trick-or-treating come from, and how Halloween has evolved and popularized into more than just a commercial candy and costume fest. (This is a re-release of an episode originally released on October 4, 2022.)
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⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Elyse Willems⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠
⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Jessica Vasami⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Music by ⁠Casey Edwards

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35 min
October 13, 2025 More Cursed Objects: The Tallman Bunk Beds
In the 1987 the Tallman Family of Horicon, Wisconsin were driven from their home by paranormal activity caused by an unexpectedly haunted artifact: bunk beds.
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⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Elyse Willems⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠
⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Jessica Vasami⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Music by ⁠Casey Edwards

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35 min
October 06, 2025 From the Crypt: The Real Life Dr. Frankenstein
Examining the real life mad doctors and their galvanic experiments that inspired one of literature's most famous monsters. (This episode was originally released October 10, 2023.)
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⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Elyse Willems⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠
⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Jessica Vasami⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Music by ⁠Casey Edwards

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32 min
September 22, 2025 "What's it like to die NINE times?" - Q&A
Reddit user Generic Box was 20-years-old when they had their first out-of-hospital sudden cardiac arrest -- meaning, their heart just suddenly stopped beating. After being diagnosed with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, eight more sudden cardiac arrests and "deaths" happened to them. In this episode, we dive into their Reddit AMA and get to the heart of what it's like to cheat death and their various near death experiences.

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⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Elyse Willems⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠
⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Jessica Vasami⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Music by ⁠Casey Edwards

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35 min

About 30 Morbid Minutes

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Journey into the morbid, macabre, gruesome and unexplained, with comedians and friends Elyse Willems and Jessica Vasami. Covering topics like: untimely deaths on cruise ships, sleep paralysis demons, celebrity death hoaxes, obituary bandits, pesky cursed objects, spontaneous human combustion, zombie apocalypses, the Victorian obsession with death, screaming mummies, the Dark Forest alien paradox, medical malpractice, good old-fashioned cannibalism, and so much more.