Morbid

By Morbid Network | Wondery

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What's Morbid about?

It’s a lighthearted nightmare in here, weirdos! Morbid is a true crime, creepy history and all things spooky podcast hosted by an autopsy technician and a hairstylist. Join us for a heavy dose of research with a dash of comedy thrown in for flavor.

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In the fall of 1961, Betty and Barney Hill took a trip to Niagara Falls. On the drive back from Canada to their home in Portsmouth, NH, the Hills claimed their trip was interrupted when, after stopping to investigate a ...

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10.02.2023 Episode 499: The Abduction of Betty and Barney Hill In the fall of 1961, Betty and Barney Hill took a trip to Niagara Falls. On the drive back from Canada to their home in Portsmouth, NH, the Hills claimed their trip was interrupted when, after stopping to investigate a ...
09.28.2023 Episode 498: Listener Tales 78 It’s wackadoodle time on this week’s listener tales. In this installment we have the only and only butt mountain, possible imposter police officers, attempted kidnappings, psychic friends, demon filled dorm rooms, and haunted airbnbs. If you have a tale you ...
09.25.2023 Episode 497: The Haunting of Doris Bither In the summer of 1974, paranormal investigators and UCLA students Barry Taff and Kerry Gaynor were approached in a bookstore by a woman who’d overheard their conversation about the supernatural and said she had a friend who needed help from ...
09.21.2023 Episode 496: Half-Hanged Mary In the depths of American history there are few examples of mass hysteria that loom larger than the Salem witch trials of 1692. As horrific as it was, it was far from the only example of witch-hunting in Massachusetts’ history. ...
09.19.2023 ReWatch “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” Every Week with Ash & Alaina Did you know that on The ReWatcher: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Ash & Alaina find themselves in Sunnydale every single Monday? Yup, Welcome to The Hellmouth Weirdos! They’re watching Buffy from the very beginning. Alaina grew up a diehard fan ...
09.18.2023 Episode 495: The Horrific Murder of Jack Tupper- Part 2 On August 6, 1978, the body of thirty-five-year-old bar owner Jack Tupper was found in a vacant lot in the Bronx, just across the street from the local firehouse. His face had been severely slashed, his head and body badly ...
09.14.2023 Episode 494: Jack Tupper Part 1 On August 6, 1978, the body of thirty-five-year-old bar owner Jack Tupper was found in a vacant lot in the Bronx, just across the street from the local firehouse. His face had been severely slashed, his head and body badly ...
09.11.2023 Episode 493: The Attempted Murder of Olga Rocco On the morning of December 31, 1946, nineteen-year-old Pearl Lusk boarded a crowded subway train in Brooklyn. A few days earlier, she’d met a man named Allen in a bar who offered her a very strange, yet simple job: she ...
09.07.2023 Episode 492: The Haunted S.K. Pierce Mansion In the spring of 2009, Edwin Gonzalez and his girlfriend, Lillian Otero, fled their house in Gardner, MA, less than one year after moving into what they believed was their dream home. Later, once they were safely away from the ...
09.04.2023 Episode 491: The Murder of Bridget Cleary On March 15, 1895, thirty-five-year-old Michael Cleary murdered his wife, twenty-six-year-old Bridget Cleary in their home in Ballyvadlea, County Tipperary. While terrible, the murder was just the last act in a series of bizarre atrocities committed against Bridget, whom her ...
08.31.2023 Episode 490: Listener Tales 77 It's Listener Tales 77 AND it's August so you know what that means.... It is obviously time for Halloween tales! This week we have a spook-a-dook installment filled with tales of bullet wounds that go undetected, sleep paralysis demons, deaths ...
08.28.2023 Episode 489: Rainbow Family Murders In the summer of 1980, nineteen-year-old Nancy Santomero, and two friends, twenty-six-year-old Vicki Durian and nineteen-year-old Liz Johndrow, left Durian’s parents’ home in Iowa to hitchhike to West Virginia to attend a gathering of the Rainbow Family. Five days later, ...
08.24.2023 Episode 488: Walter Freeman Pt 2 American neurologist Walter Jackson Freeman had refined Moniz’s procedure and developed a non-surgical procedure that could be performed in a doctor’s office, which he called a transorbital lobotomy. Freeman’s procedure involved inserting a medical instrument similar to an icepick into ...
08.21.2023 Episode 487: Walter Freeman When Portuguese neurologist Egas Moniz developed the lobotomy in 1935, it was little more than a crude surgery developed as a blanket treatment for mental illness that involved drilling into the skull and scrambling the neural connections in the frontal ...
08.17.2023 Episode 486: Murder of Sophie Lancaster In the early morning hours of August 11, 2007, Sophie Lancaster and her boyfriend, Robert Maltby, were passing through Stubbylee Park in Lancashire, UK, when they were attacked by a group of teenage boys who beat the couple savagely, resulting ...
08.14.2023 Episode 485: The Jersey Devil Ft Jodie Sweetin Among the Pine Barrens of New Jersey (a sprawling forest ecosystem in southern New Jersey), it is said there lives an elusive creature that has haunted and delighted the residents of New Jersey and northern Pennsylvania for centuries. The Jersey ...
08.10.2023 Episode 484: The Alleged Smurl Family Haunting pt 2 On August 19, 1986, a curious news item appeared in the Wilkes-Barre Times Leader regarding the home of West Pittston, PA family Jack and Janet Smurl. The couple claimed, for more than eighteen months their home had been a battleground ...
08.07.2023 Episode 483: The Alleged Smurl Family Haunting pt 1 On August 19, 1986, a curious news item appeared in the Wilkes-Barre Times Leader regarding the home of West Pittston, PA family Jack and Janet Smurl. The couple claimed, for more than eighteen months their home had been a battleground ...
08.03.2023 Episode 482: The Murders of Jennifer Corbin and Dolly Hearn- Part 2 The more Gwinnett County detectives dug into Bart Corbin’s life and history, the more convinced they were that the forty-year-old dentist wasn’t just responsible for the death of his wife, but also for the death of his girlfriend nearly a ...
07.31.2023 Episode 481: The Murder of Jennifer Corbin- Part 1 When Gwinnett County sheriff’s officers responded to a call about a shooting at the home of Dr. Barton Corbin on the morning of December 4, 2004, they discovered the body of the doctor’s wife, Jennifer Corbin, dead from what appeared ...
07.27.2023 Episode 480: Listener Tales 76 It’s Listener tales 76 and guess what!?! It’s brought to you by you, for you, from you, and ALL ABOUT YOU! This installment is all about your spooky haunted demon homes. We’ve got ghosts on ghosts up in here. We ...
07.24.2023 Episode 479: World's End Murders On October 15, 1977, seventeen-year-olds Christine Eadie and Helen Scott met some friends at the World’s End Pub in Edinburgh’s Old Town neighborhood to celebrate their new jobs and what they assumed would be the start of their adult lives. ...
07.20.2023 Episode 478: Michele Neurauter On August 28, 2017, police in Corning, NY responded to a call about “suspicious circumstances” at the home of forty-six-year-old mother of three Michele Neurauter. Upon entering the home, the scene appeared to be a fairly straightforward suicide; however, investigators ...
07.17.2023 Episode 477: The Murder of Teresita Basa On the evening of February 21, 1977, Chicago firefighters responded to a call at the Pine Grove apartment complex. Once they’d extinguished the fire, they discovered the nude body of forty-eight-year-old Teresita Basa with a kitchen knife protruding from her ...
07.13.2023 Episode 476: Bobby Mackey's Music World When musician Bobby Mackey opened Bobby Mackey’s Music World in 1978, he had hoped for nothing more than to open a small nightclub where audiences could enjoy the traditional country music he had devoted his life to for decades. Yet ...
07.10.2023 Episode 475: Denise Huber- Part 2 In Part 2, we talk through the killer’s background and troubling history with women in his life. We also go through Denise’s horrific injuries, as well as the investigation and trial that followed. Thank you to the stupendous David White ...
07.06.2023 Episode 474: Denise Huber- Part 1 On the evening of June 2, 1991, twenty-three-year-old Denise Huber went out to a concert in Inglewood, California with a friend. While driving home after the concert, Denise got a flat tire on the Corona del Mar Freeway, just a ...
07.03.2023 Episode 473: Hayward Bissell and the Murder of Patricia Booher On January 24, 2000, sheriff’s deputies in Mentone, Alabama stopped an older model Lincoln with Ohio plates that they suspected was involved in a hit-and-run accident earlier that day. The driver was thirty-seven-year-old Hayward Bissell of Norwalk, Ohio and strapped ...
06.29.2023 Episode 472: Listener Tales 75 Listener Tales 75!!! This installment features a CRAY-CRAY reincarnation story, a husband turned Scooby-Doo villain and ghost turned grandma! If you have a listener tale you’d like to send in please send it to Morbidpodca[email protected] See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy ...
06.26.2023 Episode 471: Joe Metheny On December 15, 1996, Baltimore police discovered the body of twenty-three-year-old Kimberly Spicer buried under a trailer on the property of a pallet factory in the city’s southwest side. Later that day, police arrested Joseph Methainy, a man who lived ...
06.22.2023 Episode 470: The Murder of Mandy Stavik In late November 1989, college freshman Mandy Stavik returned to her hometown of Acme, Washington to celebrate the holidays with her family. On the afternoon of November 24, the day after Thanksgiving, Mandy told her family she was going for ...
06.19.2023 Episode 469: Elroy Kent & The Murder of Delia Congdon On the morning of July 24, 1908, Delia Congdon, a deaf and non-verbal woman living alone in East Wallingford, Vermont, was found dead in her pantry—presumed to have been murdered while she prepared breakfast. At first, investigators suspected a local ...
06.15.2023 Episode 468: The Tragic Murder of Grace Millane On December 2, 2018, the parents of twenty-one-year-old Grace Millane, a British tourist on vacation in New Zealand, became concerned when the birthday wishes they sent their daughter went unacknowledged. Having completed her degree at the University of Lincoln a ...
06.12.2023 Episode 467: The Murder Of Elizabeth Riser & The Attempted Murder Of Brandi Hicks On May 23, 2000, teens Elizabeth "Liz" Reiser and Brandi Hicks went down to the local video store in New Philadelphia, Ohio to rent a movie. While there, they met a man who told them he had no way to ...
06.08.2023 Episode 466: The Murder of Dawn Hacheney On the morning of December 26, 1997, police and fire services responded to a call about a structure fire at the home Bremerton, WA home of Nick and Dawn Hacheney. When they were finally able to extinguish the flames and ...
06.05.2023 Episode 465: The Devil Made Me Do It On the evening of February 16, 1981, nineteen-year-old Arne Johnson stabbed his friend and landlord Alan Bono to death during an argument, after which Johnson fled the scene and was arrested several miles away later that night. Under normal circumstances, ...
06.01.2023 Episode 464: The Pamela Smart Case (Part2) A little after 10:00 pm on the evening of May 1, 1990, Pamela Smart returned home from work to find her husband, twenty-four-year-old Gregg Smart, lying dead just beyond the front door of their condominium, a single bullet hole in ...
05.29.2023 Episode 463: The Pamela Smart Case (Part 1) Mention the Pamela Smart case to someone in New Hampshire, and they'll know exactly what you're talking about. The case captivated the nation in the early 90's and at the center of it all, of course, was Pamela. A New ...
05.25.2023 Episode 462: Listener Tales 74 with Jon Lee Brody We've got a listener tale up in here!! This week we are joined by Alaina's #bffAF, the one and only Jon Lee Brody. On today's installment we feature stories of spooky road adventures, badass moms, asshole friends & some demon ...
05.22.2023 Episode 461: H.H. Holmes Part 5 In the final chapter of our coverage of H.H.Holmes, we talk about the theories connecting him to Jack the Ripper, his final days on the run and a trial and execution that has gone down in history. Thank you to ...
05.18.2023 Episode 460: H.H. Holmes Part 4 In Part 4 of H.H. Holmes, it gets even wilder. This man has now headed to Texas with his 500th wife and is ready to join his partner in crime, Benjamin Pitezel to steal Minnie Williams' inherited land. He has ...
05.15.2023 Episode 459: H.H. Holmes Part 3 In Part 3 H.H. Holmes isn't done being adulterous and he's taking evil to another level. He's conning wives left and right and then takes to arson to earn a quick buck. Today, we go deeper into the design of ...
05.11.2023 Episode 458: H.H. Holmes Part 2 In part 2 we talk about the infamous "Murder Castle" and begin to dive into the crimes committed there. Holmes' brutality and savagery knew no bounds and now he has a whole building to do it in. Thank you to ...
05.08.2023 Episode 457: H.H. Holmes Part 1 When Boston police arrested Dr. Henry Howard Holmes in a West End boarding house on November 17, 1894, they assumed they had apprehended an interstate criminal guilty of defrauding the Fidelity Insurance company of $10,000 and of being a horse ...
05.04.2023 Episode 456: The Bonebreaker Case When the body of fourteen-year-old Chris Steiner was discovered floating in the Wisconsin River on July 10, 1994, it brought a heartbreaking end to the search for the boy who had mysteriously disappeared from his Baraboo, Wisconsin home a week ...
05.01.2023 Episode 455: The Amato Family Murders On the morning of January 25, 2019, Seminole County sheriff’s deputies were dispatched to a home in Chuluota, Florida to conduct a well-being check on thirty-one-year-old Cody Amato, who failed to show up for work that day. Upon entering the ...
04.27.2023 Episode 454: That Time I Met A Murderer II ft. Bailey Sarian We have another fantastic batch of listener tales about the time some of our listeners MET a MURDERER!!! Only this one is super special because we are joined by the exquisite Bailey Sarian!! How fucking exciting. This batch of tales ...
04.24.2023 Episode 453: Curses: Micah Rood & The Omen Today we are looking at CURSES. We talk about the curse of Micah Rood and his bloody apples which stems from murder, execution and a haunting! Then, we get into the truly real, fatal and terrifying events surrounding the production ...
04.20.2023 Episode 452: Doris Duke and the Murder of Eddie Tirella On a cold October afternoon in 1966, billionaire heiress Doris Duke returned to her palatial Newport estate in the company of friend and interior decorator Eduardo Tirella, stopping her car just outside the large iron gate that barred entrance to ...
04.17.2023 Episode 451: The Legend of Lavinia Fisher with RedHanded Some say Lavinia would lure men to the inn and lull them into a false sense of calm, before robbing and killing them, then dumping their bodies in the cellar under Six-Mile House. Others say Lavina would drug the weary ...

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Morbid episodes:

Episode 499: The Abduction of Betty and Barney Hill

Episode 498: Listener Tales 78

Episode 497: The Haunting of Doris Bither

Episode 496: Half-Hanged Mary

ReWatch “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” Every Week with Ash & Alaina

Episode 495: The Horrific Murder of Jack Tupper- Part 2

Episode 494: Jack Tupper Part 1

Episode 493: The Attempted Murder of Olga Rocco

Episode 492: The Haunted S.K. Pierce Mansion

Episode 491: The Murder of Bridget Cleary

Episode 490: Listener Tales 77

Episode 489: Rainbow Family Murders

Episode 488: Walter Freeman Pt 2

Episode 487: Walter Freeman

Episode 486: Murder of Sophie Lancaster

Episode 485: The Jersey Devil Ft Jodie Sweetin

Episode 484: The Alleged Smurl Family Haunting pt 2

Episode 483: The Alleged Smurl Family Haunting pt 1

Episode 482: The Murders of Jennifer Corbin and Dolly Hearn- Part 2

Episode 481: The Murder of Jennifer Corbin- Part 1

Episode 480: Listener Tales 76

Episode 479: World's End Murders

Episode 478: Michele Neurauter

Episode 477: The Murder of Teresita Basa

Episode 476: Bobby Mackey's Music World

Episode 475: Denise Huber- Part 2

Episode 474: Denise Huber- Part 1

Episode 473: Hayward Bissell and the Murder of Patricia Booher

Episode 472: Listener Tales 75

Episode 471: Joe Metheny

Episode 470: The Murder of Mandy Stavik

Episode 469: Elroy Kent & The Murder of Delia Congdon

Episode 468: The Tragic Murder of Grace Millane

Episode 467: The Murder Of Elizabeth Riser & The Attempted Murder Of Brandi Hicks

Episode 466: The Murder of Dawn Hacheney

Episode 465: The Devil Made Me Do It

Episode 464: The Pamela Smart Case (Part2)

Episode 463: The Pamela Smart Case (Part 1)

Episode 462: Listener Tales 74 with Jon Lee Brody

Episode 461: H.H. Holmes Part 5

Episode 460: H.H. Holmes Part 4

Episode 459: H.H. Holmes Part 3

Episode 458: H.H. Holmes Part 2

Episode 457: H.H. Holmes Part 1

Episode 456: The Bonebreaker Case

Episode 455: The Amato Family Murders

Episode 454: That Time I Met A Murderer II ft. Bailey Sarian

Episode 453: Curses: Micah Rood & The Omen

Episode 452: Doris Duke and the Murder of Eddie Tirella

Episode 451: The Legend of Lavinia Fisher with RedHanded

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