Marked Safe: A Disaster Podcast

This week, Brianne throws herself a curveball in Midwestern food brackets, Melanie matches energy, some maintenance staff have excessive job responsibilities, playful tigers are not necessarily whimsical, we float a new HGTV show, and a New Year's wish goes wrong.

Content warnings: sometimes graphic death of animals from around 30:00 on, brief mention of discussion of suicide/depression 13:20-15:30, aquarium leak, inhumane zoos, tiger attack, limb loss/amputation, death by drowning, structure fire.

Not One More Vet is an organization doing important work to address the suicide and depression rates among veterinary professionals. Please check out nomv.org to learn more about their work.

Links:
Dubai aquarium leak: The inside story
Dubai Aquarium springs a leak
DUBAI: Mall shoppers shocked as massive shark tank cracks
Escaped zoo tiger kills man in Tbilisi, Georgia
Georgia flood: Tbilisi residents warned over zoo animals after devastating flood
German zoo fire: three women hand themselves in to police
Leak in 2-million gallon shark tank in world’s largest mall in Dubai
Krefeld zoo fire: German police suspect three women
Krefeld Zoo: Overcoming the trauma of a deadly fire
New Dubai Mall evacuated after cracks appear in giant aquarium
Shark-filled aquarium in Dubai shopping centre cracks open
Tbilisi Zookeeper Lives, Dies For Her Animals
*The Night the Zoo Burned
The tragedy of Tbilisi zoo – what happened next?
“When they were tearing my flesh up, I felt pain that I did not know existed” - Zookeeper who survived a tiger attack tells her story
Zoo Animals Escape Amid Heavy Flooding in Tbilisi, Georgia
Zoo Animals on the Loose in Tbilisi After Flooding

This week, Melanie's the ho, the midwest abandons God, Brianne gets a little defensive, Melanie has advice about boning, Captain Nash saves a life, and we're all on the same page about Ohio.

Content warnings: pregnancy loss, loss of pet, near-drowning, COVID-related isolation, broken bones.

Links:
Apple Confirms #TattooGate Problem is Real
Apple Watch
Apple Watch 4 Adds ECG, EKG, and More Heart-Monitoring Capabilities
Apple Watch fall detection helps save life of 92-year-old farmer after fall from a ladder
Apple Watch helps track down missing Victorian father and son | 7NEWS
Apple Watch saves life of 92-year old Nebraska farmer who fell 21 feet from ladder
Apple Watch Series 7 | 911 | Apple
Bike crash left Spokane man unconscious, so his Apple Watch called 911
Florida woman meets 'angel' 911 operator
Florida woman recounts moments leading up to her rescue from submerged car
How An Apple Watch Saved A Paddleboarder — And Could Help You, Too
How #tattoogate has highlighted a wider problem with wearables
iPhone and Apple Watch Help Florida Woman Escape Flipped, Sinking Car
Man who fell through ice in Somersworth was rescued
Man who fell through ice saved by Apple Watch
Paddleboarder rescued from ocean says Siri called 911
Salsman, 92, recovering from 21-foot fall
Saved by an Apple Watch
Spokane man credits Apple Watch with saving dad's life after bike crash
Use Emergency SOS on your Apple Watch
Victorian father and son saved from drowning by Apple Watch

SHOW NOTES

This week, we break some news too terrible even for a bat dress, two yummy sandwiches go head to head, Melanie adds to the Quicksand Irrational Fears Hall of Fame and gets aggressive about pancakes.

Content warnings: second trimester loss, grief, funeral planning, death by burning, alcoholism, animal experimentation.

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06 Jul 1951, 12
08 Jun 1805, 3
13 Jan 1819, 2
15 Feb 1828, 1
20 Apr 1822, 2
31 Oct 2019, T6
A fire within
Burn, Baby, Burn: Understanding the Wick Effect
Death of Michael Faherty
'First Irish case' of death by spontaneous combustion
HOT TOPIC Spontaneous human combustion is REAL and burns you ‘like an incendiary bomb’, top scientist claims
Is spontaneous human combustion real?
New light on human torch mystery
Spontaneous combustion in St. Petersburg? The curious case of Mary Reeser.
Spontaneous human combustion
Spontaneous Human Combustion: Facts & Theories
Temperance movement
The Anatomy of Drunkenness

SHOW NOTES

Melanie isn't nervous but Brianne has stage fright, Melanie doesn't want her sex tape released, Brianne has her most controversial hot take of all time and most upsetting episode of all time, we learn about the Fujita scale together and acknowledge that the world needs thrill-seeking bubbas.

Content warnings: tornadoes, missing spouse, severe injuries, brain injury/memory loss, very sad death of mother in front of child at 44:15, injured/imperiled baby who survives, infant death 47:00, critically injured/comatose children, very sad death of mother in front of child at 50:40, graphic death of horse at 52:20, death of spouse, death of dog at 54:00, death of infant at 54:05, death of child at 54:15, death of dog at 55:25, vague mention of impalement.

Links:
05 May 1999
07 Jun 1999
08 May 1999
20 Years Later: Victims Remember May 3 Tornado
1999 Bridge Creek–Moore tornado
Afterward A Paramedic Works Alone
Cara Lynn Webster
Deadly Tornado Sends City Into Extreme Chaos
Enhanced Fujita scale
F6 Tornadoes-What's the Closest We've Come?
Fujita scale
'I SHOULD HAVE HELD ON'
List of F6/EF6 tornadoes (TG)
Man's Search for Wife's Missing Body Finally Ends
May 3, 1999 — The Bridge Creek–Moore Tornado
May 3, 1999 tornado deaths
Overpasses prove inadequate storm shelters
PROFILES OF LIFE
Remembering the May 3, 1999 tornado outbreak
Survivors reflect on the day tornadoes hit four years ago
Tornado_1999
Tornado Victim Showed Integrity In Life, Death, Loved Ones Say

This week, we write wedding vows, the battle of the beef goes down, a miniature shantytown full of miniature shopkeepers appears, we briefly achieve moral superiority over Canadians, Brianne plans international crimes, Melanie makes everyone cry, and we really want your bucket lists.

Content warnings: death of grandparent, postpartum depression, hypothermia, drowning death, first responder PTSD.

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05 Feb 1912
05 Feb 1912
05 Feb 1912
05 Feb 1912
06 Feb 1912
06 Feb 1912
A Dedication Born of Tragedy
Eldridge Stanton
In 1912, Niagara Falls ice bridge cracks, and three are swept to their deaths
Niagra Falls Ice Bridge
Niagra Falls Info

This week, Ava has concerns about Black Friday, we revisit Momo and raise theories on Jerry's whereabouts, Brianne's villain origin story is finally revealed, fan favorite funeral potatoes appear on the bracket, a man whose name means fox stands up to the mafia, a sexy move with a lightbulb goes terribly wrong, we get mad at hospitals and float some alternatives to blood donation, a young man gets Final Destination-ed, Melanie loves mushy bananas in her mouth, and Brianne has on-air beef with her mom.

Content warnings: alcohol, death by shooting, building fire with mass fatalities, very graphic burn injuries/deaths, dismemberment, respiratory failure, death of adult children.

Links:
A Brief History of Triage
Charles Solomon (racketeer)
Cocoanut Grove fire
Condominiums to Rise on Site of Cocoanut Grove Fire
Devastating Photos Of The Deadliest Nightclub Disaster In History
History of burns: The past, present and the future
Last Dance at the Cocoanut Grove
Recalling Cocoanut Grove
The Cocoanut Grove Fire
The Cocoanut Grove inferno
The Cocoanut Grove Revisited
The Speakeasies of the 1920s
The Story of the Cocoanut Grove Fire
The Tragic Story of America’s Deadliest Nightclub Fire
This Day in Jewish History | 1933: Boston Bootlegger Gunned Down

This week, Melanie does a cemetery crawl, Brianne gets inspired by pettiness beyond the grave, alligator feet present a setback for the anti-smoking lobby, green beans ruin the day, Melanie victim blames and slut shames sheep, and lightkeepers are all haunted.

Content warnings: cemeteries/graves/decomposition, drugs, Hurricane Katrina deaths, drowning, boat capsizing, structural fire, burn injuries, adult jokes, depression/psych meds.

Links:
13 Jan 1886, 4
16 Tales that Make these Historic Lighthouses Unexpectedly Interesting
31 Aug 2019, A9
A Rock and a Hard Place: Storms, Death and Madness at the Smalls Lighthouse
Copp's Hill Burying Ground
Death of a Keeper on the Eddystone
Eddystone Lighthouse
Fake news and Macfadden
Flannan Isles Lighthouse
George Worthylake
Guardians of the Lights
Henry Hall (lighthouse keeper)
Iconography of gravestones at burying grounds
Packard Humanities Institute: The Papers of Benjamin Franklin
Smalls Lighthouse
The disappearances of the lighthouse keepers on Eilean Mor
The eerie disappearance of the Eilean Mor lighthouse keepers
The enduring mystery of the disappearance of Eilean Mor lighthouse keepers
The Lighthouse Tragedy
The mysterious disappearance of the Eilean Mor lighthouse keepers.
The tragedy of Smalls Lighthouse

AUDIO DISCLAIMER: Melanie is at it again - she attempted a new recording set-up and the audio did not work out as planned. We've learned our lesson and won't be mixing it up again, sorry for the iffy sound this week!

This week, the Midwestern food bracket has two tasty contenders, Melanie forgets this is a family show and is too willing to exhume a corpse, sewer alligators get gaslit out of existence, Brianne faces her phobia head-on for the sake of research, and reptiles encounter labia yet again.

Content warnings: live burial, dissection of corpse, stillbirth/infant loss 15:40, depression, coma, graphic murder of dog in urban legend 23:55, another dog murder at 28:14, meanness to alligators, decapitation, death from hit and run, brief mention of alcoholism, knife assault, non-graphic mention of rape.

Links:
A decades-old ‘slasher’ tale is circulating on TikTok now
Can Alligators Live in Sewers?
Can Humans (Briefly) Survive Decapitation?
Corpse mistaken for Halloween decoration
Decapitation in Rats: Latency to Unconsciousness and the ‘Wave of Death’
Did Anne Boleyn really try to speak after being beheaded?
Do You Really Stay Conscious After Being Decapitated?
How Urban Legends Like 'The Licked Hand' Are Born
Police still searching for man in brazen Salt Lake City rape
Sewer Alligator
Sewer alligator
Slasher Under the Car
The Alligator In The Sewer: Evidence Behind NYC's Urban Legend
The Horrid Story Of Octavia Hatcher, A Grieving Mother Who Was Buried Alive
The Licked Hand
The Story of Octavia Hatcher
The True Story Of Octavia Hatcher - History vs. Myth 
The Truth About Alligators in the Sewers of New York
URBAN YARN OF `MALL SLASHER` JUST WON`T DIE
Woman raped in downtown parking lot in broad daylight

This week, Brianne throws a wrench in the Midwestern food bracket on day one, Melanie is forcibly drafted into the world of hot takes, we investigate the secret lives of farm children, Brianne has questions about necking, and we offer legal advice for anyone with a Kyle in their inbox.

Content warnings: vomiting/nausea, adult jokes, murder, pigs eating people, violence, robbery, brief mention of rape, decapitation, bugs/spiders laying eggs under your skin, very gross veterinary medicine story, trypophobia, pimple popping, stalking, brief mention of threatened suicide, depression/mental health crisis.

Links:
Fed to Pigs
Oregon farmer eaten by his pigs
Can Pigs Make A Body Disappear? Almost.
Pig farmer 'eaten by his own pigs' leaving only bones for neighbours to find
Farmer EATEN ALIVE by his own pigs in shocking attack
Susan Monica
Italian mafia boss ‘fed alive to pigs’
The Hook
Texarkana Moonlight Murders
Lovers' lane
Texarkana Murder Mystery
The Hook
Bloody Mary (folklore)
Strange-face-in-the-mirror illusion
Troxler's fading
Locking Eyes with a Monster
In a Dark, Dark Room and Other Scary Stories
A Wife Should Have No Secrets: Unthinking Privilege and Privacy in Carmen Maria Machado’s “The Husband Stitch”
The Husband Stitch
11 Bugs That Will Lay Their Eggs Inside You
Real-Life ‘Alien’: Meet The Parasitic Botfly That Bursts Through Human Skin
Myth: Spiders can lay their eggs under human skin in wounds created by their bites.
Stalker broke into teenage girl's home and spent the night hiding under her BED after sending a text saying 'I'm watching you'
TEEN'S HORROR I found stalker under my bed

This week, Melanie wants to listen to the podcast in space with Jeff Bezos, Brianne aspires to chaotic good behavior, the Florida man bracket crashes to an end, TAG continues to pull strings, Melanie wants to suckle a cow, lessons are learned about rabies testing, we pause to fact-check an infamous Marilyn Manson rumor, Melanie has concerning beliefs about dentists, we rank fire safety devices, and Melanie finally misses a dirty joke opportunity.

Content warnings: tuberculosis, decapitation of dogs for rabies testing, plane crash, burning death, processing of dead bodies, adult jokes, gnarly surgeries, ghosts, suicide, botched abortion, extremely young pregnancy, rape, knife-fight, fist-fight, graphic beating, elder abuse in long term care facility, death of child 53:58-54:17.

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05 Aug 1915
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06 May 1923
08 Jun 1958
09 Jul 1949
11 Jul 1922
12 Jul 1922
16 May 1922
17 Jun 1922
18 Jun 1922
18 Jun 1922
19 Mar 1981
20 Mar 1981
21 Oct 1926
22 Apr 1954
22 Dec 1950
24 Jul 1960
26 Jun 1922
27 Aug 1911
Basic TB Facts
Bowman Field (Kentucky)
How Waverly Got Its Name
Notes For Unsolved: Waverly Hills Sanatorium
Official Waverly Hills Sanatorium/ Woodhaven Geriatric Center Memorial & Historical Resource
Waverly Hills Sanatorium
Waverly Hills Sanatorium
Waverly Hills Sanatorium: The Creeper and Other Ghost Stories
Welcome To Waverly