In this week’s episode, The Mystics unravel the eerie legacy of death masks 👹 The hauntingly accurate casts taken from the faces of the newly departed. The Gruesome Twosome dive deep into the long, strange history, from ancient funerary rituals to Renaissance artistry to the 19th-century obsession with capturing a person’s final expression 👨🏻‍🎨 Along the way, Amber and Lesley explore why people created them, how they were used, and what these uncanny memorials reveal about our fascination with mortality 💀 Amber takes us straight to the most infamous cast of them all... the death mask of Marie Antoinette. Is it really her? Why does it look so unsettlingly lifelike? And what conspiracy theories surround the mask of France’s most notorious queen? From artistic preservation to royal intrigue, these faces from the past have a lot more to say than you might expect 👺

THE IMPORTANT LINKS AND CRED

📸 Cover Art by Rainbowfishdesign

🎶 The Grimm Mystics Theme Song by Bear Golden and Abby Golden

BBC Article on Death Masks

Death Masks on Wikipedia

Death Masks