30 Morbid Minutes

By 30 Morbid MinutesSociety & Culture True Crime History

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September 08, 2025 America's Most Isolated Family: The Whittakers
Who are the Whittakers, and why has the world become so fascinated with them and their isolated West Virginia way of life? We take a look at their insular family tree, and the genetic fallout that can occur with inbreeding.
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⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Elyse Willems⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠
⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Jessica Vasami⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Music by Casey Edwards

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38 min
August 25, 2025 The Unspoken Rules of Appalachia
Is the rich history of Appalachian folklore meant to be taken literally? Do cryptids, spirits and supernatural dangers exist in those rugged hills? If you hear a voice say your name in the woods, should you respond? (Spoiler: no.) In this new episode, we examine the unspoken rules of Appalachia and give a brief history of the mountain range.

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⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Elyse Willems⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠
⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Jessica Vasami⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Music by Casey Edwards - @ComposerCasey

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28 min
August 11, 2025 "Have You Ever Seen a Ghost?" Q&A with a Cemetery Groundskeeper
In this episode, we pull the most interesting questions and responses from Reddit user odd_fisch's cemetery groundskeeper AMA! They live at and maintain a historic and still active cemetery.
https://www.reddit.com/r/CemeteryPorn/comments/1l79n8e/im_a_cemetery_grounds_keeper_ama/

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⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Elyse Willems⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠
⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Jessica Vasami⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Music by Casey Edwards - @ComposerCasey

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33 min
July 28, 2025 Cemeteries vs. Graveyards: What's REALLY the Difference?
Cemeteries and graveyards aren’t actually the same thing. An important distinction that probably doesn’t matter much… if you’re dead. In this episode, we examine the historical and practical differences that set these two bone yards apart.

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⁠⁠⁠⁠Elyse Willems⁠⁠⁠⁠
⁠⁠⁠⁠Jessica Vasami⁠⁠⁠⁠

Music by Casey Edwards - @ComposerCasey

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27 min
July 14, 2025 Corpse Cleaning: Crime Scenes, Hoarders, and Detective Work
Ever wonder what happens after a crime scene gets cleared? When the cops leave, the body’s been removed, and the yellow tape comes down? What happens to all the... mess? The blood, the broken glass, the smell?
Well, someone has to clean it up. And that job falls on a very specific group of people, known as trauma cleaners or biohazard cleanup crews. Learn what goes on behind-the-scenes in this morbid and messy profession.

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⁠⁠⁠Elyse Willems⁠⁠⁠
⁠⁠⁠Jessica Vasami⁠⁠⁠

Music by Casey Edwards - @ComposerCasey

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36 min
June 30, 2025 From the Crypt: Tombstones, Epitaphs & Symbols Explained (New Intro)
This is a rerelease of an episode that originally aired July 19, 2022 with a new intro from Elyse & Jessica.

Exploring the origins of the modern tombstone and what the future of memorial monuments might hold. Plus, we break down the anatomy of epitaphs, and share some of history’s most bizarre and funny ones.

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⁠⁠⁠⁠Elyse Willems⁠⁠⁠⁠
⁠⁠⁠⁠Jessica Vasami⁠⁠⁠⁠

Music by Casey Edwards - @ComposerCasey

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43 min
June 16, 2025 From the Crypt: Funeral Home Secrets (New Intro)
This is a rerelease of an episode that originally aired September 13, 2022 with a new intro from Elyse & Jessica.

The modern funeral industry capitalizes on stigmas about death, creating a deliberate air of mystery and secrecy around how funeral homes operate. We go inside the unspoken practices of morticians, and debunk some of the myths and tall tales surrounding the post-mortem process.

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⁠⁠⁠Elyse Willems⁠⁠⁠
⁠⁠⁠Jessica Vasami⁠⁠⁠

Music by Casey Edwards - @ComposerCasey

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46 min
June 05, 2025 30 Morbid Minutes Presents Petty Crimes: Airbnb Boat featuring Ego Nwodim
Check out this episode of the podcast Petty Crimes!
The rental listing said “please don’t unsnap.” Spoiler alert…she snapped. Follow Ego Nwodim on Instagram and listen to her podcast, Thanks Dad with Ego Nwodim.
... And look for new episodes of 30 Morbid Minutes, every other Monday.

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47 min
May 26, 2025 The First Televised Royal Funeral and a Death Headline Fit for a King
Both George V and George VI succumbed to declining health and respiratory ailments. The latter, was the first royal to have his funeral televised, whereas the former's death was seemingly expedited to meet the morning headlines -- a secret unearthed fifty years after his passing.

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⁠⁠Elyse Willems⁠⁠
⁠⁠Jessica Vasami⁠⁠

Music by Casey Edwards - @ComposerCasey

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33 min
May 12, 2025 Ranking the Most Morbid Facts
It's an apples to oranges of morbidity as Jessica and Elyse take ten random yet gruesome facts and, using their macabre expertise, rank them from least to most disturbing.

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⁠Elyse Willems⁠
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Music by Casey Edwards - @ComposerCasey

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49 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.