The Macabrecast

Happy Pride from the Macabrecast! For Episode 28, we venture through queer history. Holly honors four queer couples with interesting lives, deaths, and tombs! 

Welcome back to a second SOAPisode as Holly tells the story of Leonarda Cianciulli—Italy's Soap Maker of Correggio. Trust us when we tell you, you're not ready for this one.

This week Brooke takes us to Crescent Lake, Washington for murder and scientific phenomena. If you’d like to know how a corpse becomes soap, then you’ve come to the right place!

Brooke kicks off our 25th episode with the Lier Sykehus. We'll be heading to Norway to talk about the history of this asylum and the conditions that their patients had to endure. This place may not be haunted, but it's definitely haunting.

This week's episode may be about the Love Canal, but it's not going to have anything to do with love. Holly walks us through Love Canal's tragic history--a community near Niagara Falls that became a chemical dumping ground and devastated the residents. 

We all know of the famous mystery author Agatha Christie, but do we all know about her disappearance? This week, Holly goes into the details of Agatha Christie's mysterious 11 day disappearance and her even more alarming reappearance! What happened in those 11 days has never been uncovered, but that hasn't stopped us from speculating. 

Our story this week takes us back to one of our favorite topics: witch trials. Brooke tells us all about the history around witches in England and the feuding families that contributed to this particular trial. Join us as we learn more about this trial with a nine-year-old star witness! 

We're diving into mythology this week! Holly tells us about an Iranian mythological figure, the Simurgh. This giant bird-like creature is a key figure in many myths and has a few different attributes including wisdom and healing. Buckle in for this unexpectedly non-spooky episode. 

Prepare to be spooked. Brooke shares the biggest ghost story of US history, the Bell Witch. Well, not so much a witch but a VERY disturbed entity. Dare to enjoy this very convincing tale. 

Holly brings us to Scotland this week for a haunting disappearance. On December 15, 1900, three lighthouse keepers went missing on Eilean Mor (aka Flannan Isles) without a trace. Were they swept away in the sea? Abducted by aliens? We will explore all the theories! 

**We had some audio hiccups on this episode, we promise we aren't trying to make Brooke quiet! We'll be back to regular audio next week.**