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Back to SearchElectroconvulsive Therapy's Shocking Origins
Season 4 Episode 35
Today, electroconvulsive therapy is still used to treat those struggling with severe depression, bipolar II, schizophrenia, and other treatment-resis…
2 years, 10 months ago
Giants: From Myth to Modern Day Hoax
Season 4 Episode 34
Our "biggest" episode yet, covering all things GIANTS. We learn how classical cultures and folklore embraced the myths and fantastical stories of gia…
2 years, 11 months ago
The Hangman's Gallows
Season 4 Episode 33
Some of England's worst criminals met their end at the Tyburn Gallows, an infamous site at which the public could purchase tickets to attend executio…
2 years, 11 months ago
Deadly Beauty Standards in Victorian England
Season 4 Episode 32
From dress fires to corrosive skin treatments, the women living during the nineteenth century subjected themselves to harmful and horrific procedures…
2 years, 11 months ago
Spontaneous Human Combustion
Season 4 Episode 31
There are over 200 known cases where people have been found burned to death with no discernible cause. These cases have contributed to the theory of …
2 years, 11 months ago
Causes of Death in 1632 London
Season 4 Episode 30
Bills of Mortality originated in the late sixteenth century as a way for parish networks to track weekly plague outbreaks. Eventually, over time, thi…
3 years ago
Sky Burials
Season 4 Episode 29
A sky burial is a funerary practice in which the body of a deceased person is prepared, placed, and left exposed in a place of high elevation so that…
3 years ago
Season 4 Coming January 10!
Season 4
Jessica and Elyse return January 10th with even more morbid history and topics to make your head think and skin crawl!
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3 years ago
Horrors of the Deep: The Mariana Trench
Season 3 Episode 28
The Mariana Trench is the deepest location on earth and widely unexplored. The harsh conditions make it impossible for shallow ocean life to exist, a…
3 years, 2 months ago
Cursed & Haunted Objects, Artifacts, Dolls & More
Season 3 Episode 27
A chair. A doll. A painting. Relatively innocuous, but ask a paranormal expert and you might hear otherwise. In this episode we learn the history beh…
3 years, 3 months ago