Macabre : Dark History Podcast

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January 26 The Chained Oak Curse : A Forgotten Mystery
Every town has a secret.This one just happens to be rooted in a curse.
On this episode of MACABRE, we’re digging into The Chained Oak Mystery — where legends linger, truths rot beneath the surface, and curiosity might just get you killed.
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Sources:

• Wikipedia – Chained Oak (legend & history)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chained_Oak
• Atlas Obscura – The Chained Oak story
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/the-chained-oak
• Burials & Beyond – Legend of the Chained Oak
https://burialsandbeyond.com/2023/12/18/the-legend-of-the-chained-oak/
• TowersTimes – The real Chained Oak history
https://www.towerstimes.co.uk/history/the-real-chained-oak/
• Wikipedia – Hex: The Legend of the Towers (based on the oak legend)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hex_%E2%80%93_The_Legend_of_the_Towers
20 min
January 19Roasting Adolf Hitler- H is for Hitler
This week on MACABRE: A Dark History Podcast, we’re doing the only appropriate thing with Adolf Hitler — roasting him.
No glorification. No myth-making. Just the weird obsessions, fragile ego, and deeply pathetic details of Adolf Hitler's life.
Content Warning: This episode contains discussion of historical figures associated with violence and genocide, as well as dark humor, satire, and adult language. The subject is presented critically and for the purpose of historical commentary and ridicule — not glorification.

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SOURCES
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lj1oo7mjvkQ 50 Insane Facts about Hitler
Wikipedia – Adolf Hitler (general biography):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler Wikipedia
Britannica – Adolf Hitler (biography summary):
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Adolf-Hitler Encyclopedia Britannica
Jewish Virtual Library – Adolf Hitler biography:
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/adolf-hitler Jewish Virtual Library
US Holocaust Memorial Museum – Adolf Hitler: Early Years:
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/adolf-hitler-early-years-1889-1921 Holocaust Encyclopedia
Wikipedia — Paintings by Adolf Hitler (includes Academy rejection info):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paintings_by_Adolf_Hitler Wikipedia
Britannica / History sections in general biography (covers WWI service):
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Adolf-Hitler Encyclopedia Britannica
History.com – Hitler’s early life & WWI service:
https://www.history.com/articles/adolf-hitler HISTORY
HistoryHit – Facts about Eva Braun:
https://www.historyhit.com/facts-about-eva-braun/ History Hit
Wikipedia – Blondi (Hitler’s dog):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondi Wikipedia
Wikipedia – Possible monorchism of Adolf Hitler:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Possible_monorchism_of_Adolf_Hitler Wikipedia
https://www.historyextra.com/period/second-world-war/did-adolf-hitler-really-only-have-one-testicle/
42 min
January 12G is for Ed Gein: The Man Who Turned Death Into Décor
Welcome back to MACABRE: Dark History, where today we descend into the farmhouse from hell and meet the man who didn’t just haunt Wisconsin—he rewired horror forever.
In this episode, we unravel the deeply disturbing life of Ed Gein, the quiet loner from Plainfield, Wisconsin whose crimes blurred the line between reality and nightmare. From a suffocatingly religious upbringing and obsessive attachment to his mother, to grave robbing, body snatching, and the unspeakable creations found inside his home—this is the true story behind the inspiration for some of horror’s most iconic monsters.
We explore what was actually proven, what became exaggerated by the press, and how Gein’s crimes shaped pop culture, influencing everything from slasher films to psychological horror tropes still used today. Along the way, we dig into the investigation, the trial, the mental health questions, and why Gein remains one of the most unsettling figures in American history—despite having a relatively low confirmed body count.
It’s grotesque. It’s grim. It’s deeply uncomfortable.
And it’s another reminder that sometimes the scariest monsters are painfully real.
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SOURCES:
Encyclopaedia Britannica – Ed Gein
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ed-Gein
Wisconsin Historical Society – Edward Gein (1906–1984)
https://www.wisconsinhistory.org/Records/Article/CS2454
FBI – Behavioral Science Unit case references (used in criminal profiling education; Gein frequently cited in training materials)
Radford University – Serial Killer Information Center: Edward Theodore Gein (PDF)
https://maamodt.asp.radford.edu/psyc%20405/serial%20killers/gein%2C%20ed.pdf
History.com – The Real-Life Psycho: Ed Gein
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/july-26/real-life-psycho-ed-gein-dies
Biography.com – Ed Gein Biography
https://www.biography.com/crime/ed-gein
Deviant by Harold Schechter
(One of the most cited and detailed biographies of Gein)
CrimeReads – Behind the Masks of Ed Gein
https://crimereads.com/behind-the-masks-of-ed-gein/
A&E – Ed Gein: The Real Story
https://www.aetv.com/articles/ed-gein
Associated Press – Archival reporting on Gein’s arrest, trial, and death (1957–1984)
1 hr 35 min
January 09 Strange Deaths of the Baroque Era: Flaming Wigs, Molten Medicine & Worst Ways to Die
On this episode, join the Ladies of Macabre for a blast from the past for a hilarious look at the Worst Ways people died during the Baroque Period.
From flaming wigs, to molten medicine, this installment of MACABRE EXHUMED digs up a PATREON exclusive episode for your listening pleasure.
Hold on to your powdered wig and tighten your corsets for this unhinged episode of MACABRE.
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34 min
January 05 Death Row Meals- Ted Bundy, John Wayne Gacey and More!
The Ladies of MACABRE have given a lot of thought to what their last meals would be if they were on death row? Join Blaire and Halley as they discuss last meals chosen by some of the most famous serial killers. Who had the biggest meal? Who's was the most expensive? Who refused to eat?
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36 min
December 29, 2025 First Responders Tales of the Paranormal -Listener Tales
On this episode of MACABRE Exhumed, we've dug up an episode of the spooky kind. This episode is all about our beloved first responders who are trained to face chaos, tragedy, and death—but some experiences fall far outside the boundaries of logic and reason. In this episode, we explore chilling accounts of the paranormal from first responders and healthcare workers .
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55 min
December 29, 2025 MACABRE Exhumed- This CAN'T be Happening
Join the ladies of MACABRE for this VERY Uncomfortable Patreon episode from season's past. We're digging up one of our favorites for your cringey listening pleasure.
Dating a mortician? What could go possibly go wrong?
Meet a stranger on vacation and hit it off? What could go wrong?
5 star all inclusive resort in Mexico hanging with friends? What could go wrong?
Buckle up, because THIS CAN'T BE HAPPENING.
37 min
December 26, 2025Escape From Auschwitz- Jerzy Tabeau, The Man Who Told the World
Jerzy Tabeau was only a teenager when he was imprisoned in Auschwitz. He was not a soldier, not a spy—just a young man swallowed by the machinery of extermination. What he witnessed inside the camp would haunt him for the rest of his life: starvation, brutality, medical experiments, and the systematic murder of thousands.
But Jerzy did something almost impossible.
In 1943, he escaped Auschwitz.
This episode follows Jerzy’s harrowing flight through occupied Poland, his narrow survival outside the camp, and the written report he helped deliver to the world—one of the earliest, most detailed eyewitness accounts of Auschwitz’s horrors. A warning that was almost too horrific to believe… and largely ignored.
This is a story about terror, courage, and the unbearable weight of truth.
Content warning: This episode contains descriptions of concentration camp violence, starvation, and death.

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Sources:

Polish Major’s Report (Jerzy Tabeau) – Auschwitz eyewitness account
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_Major%27s_Report
Jerzy Tabeau biography & role in early Auschwitz reports
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerzy_Tabeau
Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial & Museum – Prisoner escapes and resistance
https://www.auschwitz.org/en/history/prisoners/escapes/
Auschwitz escape reports and underground resistance
https://www.auschwitz.org/en/history/resistance/
Holocaust Research Project – Auschwitz escape testimonies
http://www.holocaustresearchproject.org/holoprelude/auschwitzescape.html
Jewish Virtual Library – Auschwitz escape attempts
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/auschwitz-escapes
25 min
December 24, 2025 Marcel Marceau- The Mime Who Defied the Nazis
This Christmas, Macabre: Dark History steps away from jingling bells and into the shadows of World War II to tell one of the most haunting—and hopeful—stories of the Holocaust.
Before he was the world’s most famous mime, Marcel Marceau was a teenage Jewish boy using silence as a weapon against death. While Nazi forces closed in, Marceau helped smuggle Jewish children to safety, entertaining them into calm, masking fear, and quite literally saving lives without ever speaking a word.
This is a Christmas story not about miracles from above—but about quiet bravery, resistance, and humanity whispered through the power of silence.
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30 min
December 22, 2025The Pagan Origins of Christmas: Saturnalia, Yule & the Nightmare of Perchtenlauf
Think Christmas has always been wholesome and holy? Think again.
In A Very Pagan Christmas, we rip the halo off the holiday and dive headfirst into its messier origins — from the boozy chaos of Saturnalia, to bonfires, goat symbolism, and the general “let’s survive winter” vibes of Yule. We even take a detour into the nightmare fuel that is Perchtenlauf — because nothing says seasonal cheer like demon masks and public terror.
We unpack how Christianity quietly rebranded all of this into Christmas, why the joy-killing Puritans literally banned the holiday, and how the Victorian era dragged it back from the dead, added mistletoe, and told us all to behave.
It’s festive. It’s forbidden. It’s historically unhinged — and it’ll make you question everything you were taught about Christmas.

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SOURCES:
🎄 Pagan & Pre-Christian Traditions
Saturnalia
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Saturnalia-Roman-festival
https://www.history.com/topics/ancient-rome/saturnalia
https://penelope.uchicago.edu/~grout/encyclopaedia_romana/calendar/saturnalia.html
Yule
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Yule
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/why-winter-solstice-was-feared-by-ancient-cultures
https://www.history.com/topics/christmas/history-of-christmas
Perchtenlauf
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/perchtenlauf
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Perchta
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/perchtenlauf-alpine-winter-festival-180979394/
https://www.history.com/topics/christmas/history-of-christmas
https://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/christianity/holydays/christmas.shtml
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/christmas-history-pagan-origins
https://www.history.com/news/when-christmas-was-banned
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/when-christmas-was-banned-boston-180973403/
https://www.massmoments.org/moment-details/christmas-is-banned-in-boston.html
https://www.bl.uk/victorian-britain/articles/christmas-in-victorian-britain
https://www.history.com/topics/christmas/history-of-christmas-trees
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Christmas/Victorian-revival
https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/victorians/christmas_01.shtml
46 min

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MACABRE is a dark history and true crime podcast exploring haunted places, medical history, serial killers, unsolved mysteries, paranormal encounters, and the strangest deaths of the past. New episodes every Monday. WARNING: MACABRE may not be suitable for all audiences. Listener discretion is advised.