A funhouse prop. A pocketbook bound in human skin. A brain in a mayonnaise jar.
 
In this episode: what happens to a body once nobody steps forward to claim it. An outlaw who died broke and unmourned, then spent sixty-five years as a carnival attraction before a TV crew found him hanging in a funhouse wall. Two Edinburgh men who realized dead bodies were worth money, and figured out it was faster to make their own supply than wait for someone to die.
 
Plus the woman displayed as a scientific curiosity for longer after her death than she lived, the revolutionary whose hands outlived the rest of him, and the philosopher who saw all of this coming and decided to beat everyone to it.
 
The dead don't get a vote. 
Which means somebody else always decides for them.
 
 
Original music in this episode is provided by the talented: 
<a href='https://soundcloud.com/user-693376863'>SHDWLRKR</a>
<a href='https://www.thomasgloom.com/morbidhistorypod'>www.MorbidHistoryPod.com</a>
The Morbid History Substack: 
<a href='https://morbidhistorypod.substack.com'>https://morbidhistorypod.substack.com</a>

A funhouse prop. A pocketbook bound in human skin. A brain in a mayonnaise jar. In this episode: what happens to a body once nobody steps forward to claim it. An outlaw who died broke and unmourned, then spent sixty-five years as a carnival attraction before a TV crew found him hanging in a funhouse wall. Two Edinburgh men who realized dead bodies were worth money, and figured out it was faster to make their own supply than wait for someone to die. Plus the woman displayed as a scientific curiosity for longer after her death than she lived, the revolutionary whose hands outlived the rest of him, and the philosopher who saw all of this coming and decided to beat everyone to it. The dead don't get a vote. Which means somebody else always decides for them. Original music in this episode is provided by the talented: SHDWLRKR www.MorbidHistoryPod.com The Morbid History Substack: https://morbidhistorypod.substack.com

A funhouse prop. A pocketbook bound in human skin. A brain in a mayonnaise jar.
&nbsp;
In this episode: what happens to a body once nobody steps forward to claim it. An outlaw who died broke and unmourned, then spent sixty-five years as a carnival attraction before a TV crew found him hanging in a funhouse wall. Two Edinburgh men who realized dead bodies were worth money, and figured out it was faster to make their own supply than wait for someone to die.
&nbsp;
Plus the woman displayed as a scientific curiosity for longer after her death than she lived, the revolutionary whose hands outlived the rest of him, and the philosopher who saw all of this coming and decided to beat everyone to it.
&nbsp;
The dead don't get a vote.&nbsp;
Which means somebody else always decides for them.
&nbsp;
&nbsp;
Original music in this episode is provided by the talented: 
<a href="https://soundcloud.com/user-693376863" rel="noopener noreferrer">SHDWLRKR</a>
<a href="https://www.thomasgloom.com/morbidhistorypod" rel="noopener noreferrer">www.MorbidHistoryPod.com</a>
The Morbid History Substack: 
<a href="https://morbidhistorypod.substack.com" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://morbidhistorypod.substack.com</a>

Episode 20: Unclaimed

A dead man's satchel. 
Nine handwritten pages. 
Thirty-eight years of silence.
 
In this episode: the people who bet everything on the grave keeping their secrets. A knighted BBC icon who groomed an entire nation while institutions looked away, protected by charity and fame until fourteen months after his funeral. A quiet librarian who confessed to murder the same night he committed it, then carried the proof in a bag for four decades. Plus six more killers, hoaxers, and fugitives who all made the same calculation: that death was far enough away from accountability.
 
Some of them were right. Some weren't.
The grave is deep. It's not always deep enough.
 
Original music in this episode is provided by the talented: 
<a href='https://soundcloud.com/user-693376863'>SHDWLRKR</a>
<a href='https://www.thomasgloom.com/morbidhistorypod'>www.MorbidHistoryPod.com</a>

A dead man's satchel. Nine handwritten pages. Thirty-eight years of silence. In this episode: the people who bet everything on the grave keeping their secrets. A knighted BBC icon who groomed an entire nation while institutions looked away, protected by charity and fame until fourteen months after his funeral. A quiet librarian who confessed to murder the same night he committed it, then carried the proof in a bag for four decades. Plus six more killers, hoaxers, and fugitives who all made the same calculation: that death was far enough away from accountability. Some of them were right. Some weren't. The grave is deep. It's not always deep enough. Original music in this episode is provided by the talented: SHDWLRKR www.MorbidHistoryPod.com

A dead man's satchel. 
Nine handwritten pages. 
Thirty-eight years of silence.
&nbsp;
In this episode: the people who bet everything on the grave keeping their secrets. A knighted BBC icon who groomed an entire nation while institutions looked away, protected by charity and fame until fourteen months after his funeral. A quiet librarian who confessed to murder the same night he committed it, then carried the proof in a bag for four decades. Plus six more killers, hoaxers, and fugitives who all made the same calculation: that death was far enough away from accountability.
&nbsp;
Some of them were right. Some weren't.
The grave is deep. It's not always deep enough.
&nbsp;
Original music in this episode is provided by the talented: 
<a href="https://soundcloud.com/user-693376863" rel="noopener noreferrer">SHDWLRKR</a>
<a href="https://www.thomasgloom.com/morbidhistorypod" rel="noopener noreferrer">www.MorbidHistoryPod.com</a>

Episode 18: Dead Reckoning

The sea is beautiful... until it isn’t.
 
In this episode, we plunge into the darkest waters of maritime history: the doomed Franklin Expedition, frozen in the Arctic and driven to madness and cannibalism, and the Batavia, where a shipwreck unraveled into a brutal cult of murder and terror on a barren island.
 
Along the way, we examine ghost ships drifting without crews, lighthouse keepers who vanished into thin air, sailors devoured by hunger after a whale attack, and an entire vessel found with its crew dead, faces twisted in fear.
 
These aren’t just shipwrecks.
They’re reminders that the ocean keeps secrets... and it rarely gives anything back.
 
Original music in this episode is provided by the talented: 
<a href='https://soundcloud.com/user-693376863'>SHDWLRKR</a>
<a href='https://www.thomasgloom.com/morbidhistorypod'>www.MorbidHistoryPod.com</a>

The sea is beautiful... until it isn’t. In this episode, we plunge into the darkest waters of maritime history: the doomed Franklin Expedition, frozen in the Arctic and driven to madness and cannibalism, and the Batavia, where a shipwreck unraveled into a brutal cult of murder and terror on a barren island. Along the way, we examine ghost ships drifting without crews, lighthouse keepers who vanished into thin air, sailors devoured by hunger after a whale attack, and an entire vessel found with its crew dead, faces twisted in fear. These aren’t just shipwrecks. They’re reminders that the ocean keeps secrets... and it rarely gives anything back. Original music in this episode is provided by the talented: SHDWLRKR www.MorbidHistoryPod.com

The sea is beautiful... until it isn’t.
&nbsp;
In this episode, we plunge into the darkest waters of maritime history: the doomed Franklin Expedition, frozen in the Arctic and driven to madness and cannibalism, and the Batavia, where a shipwreck unraveled into a brutal cult of murder and terror on a barren island.
&nbsp;
Along the way, we examine ghost ships drifting without crews, lighthouse keepers who vanished into thin air, sailors devoured by hunger after a whale attack, and an entire vessel found with its crew dead, faces twisted in fear.
&nbsp;
These aren’t just shipwrecks.
They’re reminders that the ocean keeps secrets... and it rarely gives anything back.
&nbsp;
Original music in this episode is provided by the talented: 
<a href="https://soundcloud.com/user-693376863" rel="noopener noreferrer">SHDWLRKR</a>
<a href="https://www.thomasgloom.com/morbidhistorypod" rel="noopener noreferrer">www.MorbidHistoryPod.com</a>

Episode 9: Maritime Nightmares

Morbid History is a nonfiction podcast focused on the darker, stranger, and more mysterious aspects of history. 
Join your host, Thomas Gloom, for a journey into the pages of humanity's near and distant past. Exhume weird, scary, or forgotten events--one intriguing tale at a time.
New episodes are released every other Wednesday.
For more, visit <a href='https://www.thomasgloom.com/morbidhistorypod'>www.MorbidHistoryPod.com</a>

Morbid History is a nonfiction podcast focused on the darker, stranger, and more mysterious aspects of history. Join your host, Thomas Gloom, for a journey into the pages of humanity's near and distant past. Exhume weird, scary, or forgotten events--one intriguing tale at a time. New episodes are released every other Wednesday. For more, visit www.MorbidHistoryPod.com

Morbid History is a nonfiction podcast focused on the darker, stranger, and more mysterious aspects of history.&nbsp;
Join your host, Thomas Gloom, for a journey into the pages of humanity's near and distant past. Exhume weird, scary, or forgotten events--one intriguing tale at a time.
New episodes are released every other Wednesday.
For more, visit <a href="https://www.thomasgloom.com/morbidhistorypod" rel="noopener noreferrer">www.MorbidHistoryPod.com</a>

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