30 Morbid Minutes

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April 21, 2025 The Final Moments of Pompeii
Buried in an instant. Preserved for eternity. What really happened in the final moments of Pompeii? Plus, Jessica reminisces about her phallic-filled tour.

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Elyse Willems
Jessica Vasami

Music by Casey Edwards - @ComposerCasey

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40 min
April 07, 2025 Fireworks Made with Human Ashes: The Explosive New Post-mortem Trend
If you’re considering cremation as an alternative to traditional burial, we might be able to help you take things up a notch with fireworks displays containing actual human cremated remains. Did you know that there are pyrotechnic companies around the world that will memorialize your deceased loved one by firing their remains up into the sky in tiny rockets? We look into the rules and logistics behind this new post-mortem trend, and talk about the famous writer who had it done.

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Elyse Willems
Jessica Vasami

Music by Casey Edwards - @ComposerCasey

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31 min
March 24, 2025 Death on Airplanes: How Do Flight Crews Handle a Death Onboard?
In-flight medical emergencies occur about once every 604 flights, with a mortality rate of 0.3% of those incidents. While extremely rare, if someone dies, specification actions must be taken. So what happens when a plane passenger dies during a flight? Or even the pilot? We investigate.

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Elyse Willems
Jessica Vasami

Music by Casey Edwards - @ComposerCasey

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25 min
March 03, 2025 From the Crypt: Death on Cruise Ships (New Intro)
Revisiting one of our fan favorite classic episodes with a newly recorded introduction!

An estimated 200 people die every year while taking a cruise. As a result, ships and their crews have developed intricate systems, code words, and protocol in the event a passenger dies on board. Still, dire complications can arise out on the open water, and not all deaths are by natural causes…

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Elyse Willems
Jessica Vasami

Music by Casey Edwards - @ComposerCasey

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53 min
February 17, 2025 The Deranged Doctor Who Stole the Corpse of the Woman He Obsessed Over
Karl Tanzler, also known as Count Carl von Cosel, was a radiologist in Key West, Florida who developed an unhealthy obsession for his young patients, Elena Milagro Hoyos. His obsession continued, even after Elena died from tuberculosis in 1931...

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Elyse Willems
Jessica Vasami

Music by Casey Edwards - @ComposerCasey

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30 min
February 03, 2025 Battling Vampires (and Tuberculosis) in the 19th Century
Did a deadly disease spark the legend of vampires? Or were bloodthirsty creatures really lurking in the shadows? We learn how the rampant spread of the "wasting disease" (tuberculosis) contributed to mass panic and vampire hysteria in the nineteenth century.

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Elyse Willems
Jessica Vasami

Music by Casey Edwards - @ComposerCasey

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38 min
January 27, 2025 If you like 30 Morbid Minutes, checkout Slaycation: True Crimes, Murders, and Twisted Vacations
Slaycation brings a darkly comic, unique vantage point to chilling, thrilling and WTF? stories of vacations gone horribly wrong. Listen to this excerpt from "Ep 40 How NOT to Scuba in Aruba" and checkout the full episode available on all major podcast platforms. Just search for “Slaycation” on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen.

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19 min
January 20, 2025 How to Legally Marry Someone Who is Dead...
Necrogamy, or posthumous marriage, involves a living person marrying someone who is dead, or two dead people being married to each other, and is legally recognized in certain parts of the world. We look into what it takes to marry a deceased person in France, and how this unusually morbid custom was codified into French law.

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Music by Casey Edwards - @ComposerCasey

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29 min
January 06, 2025 Death by Laughter isn't Funny... OK?
The concept of "laughing oneself to death" has been around for centuries in folklore, myth, and media, but it CAN happen in real life, too. Laugh along with us as we cover real stories and dig into the underlying causes.

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Elyse Willems - @ElyseWillems
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Music by Casey Edwards - @ComposerCasey

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36 min
December 23, 2024 The Flying Dutchman and Other Famous Ghost Ships
A ghost ship is a lot like a Wild West ghost town. The kind with abandoned buildings and a tumbleweed rolling through. Except in this case, the town is the water, and the ship is the tumbleweed. In this episode we share some of history's eeriest ghost ship sightings that have never been explained, and which King of England swore to have seen the infamous Flying Dutchman.

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30 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.