The 10 Best The Morbid Curiosity Podcast Episodes
1) The Swapped Child
When most people think of fairies, they think of small winged humanoid creatures that are tricksters, but are mostly helpful to humans. This version of the fairy is far from the fae of traditional Eur...Show More
2) Death on Mt. Everest
There is a place where the bodies of the dead lie exposed for decades, frozen in their moment of death. Hundreds of people pass them every year, and even use them as landmarks. That place is the Rainb...Show More
3) Rabies
What condition causes the suppression of fear, heightened aggression, and is transmitted by the bite of an infected creature? Sadly, even though this condition sounds like something out of a horror mo...Show More
4) Three Stages of Stigma
History has given us a lingering fear surrounding the venereal disease syphilis. This episode discusses the symptoms, long term skeletal effects, history of the disease, the many treatments associate...Show More
ambahjay recommended:
A podcast about syphilis and its place in history. Very, very informative.
AUDIO REMOVED: The podcast creator has removed the audio for this episode.5) The Donner Party, Part 1
The Donner Party left Illinois in April 1846. Hoping to reach California by covered wagon before winter, they decided to take a brand new short cut. This short cut proved disastrous, and led to much h...Show More
6) The 1918 Influenza Pandemic
1918 saw the end of World War One but also a pandemic that killed more soldiers than the fighting. It wasn't until 1997 that the lethal disease, sometimes called the Spanish Flu, was identified as Inf...Show More
7) The Destruction of Pompeii
In the year 79 CE, Mt. Vesuvius erupted, burying the Roman city of Pompeii. The ruins were only rediscovered in the the late 1700s, and have been under excavation ever since. In this episode we discus...Show More
8) Hysteria, Part 2
In this episode, we discuss hysteria as a common psychiatric diagnosis of females from the 16th to the 20th century, including the ideas of Charcot, Freud and the contested diagnosis of male hysteria....Show More
9) Hysteria, Part 1
In this episode, we discuss the supposed Ancient Greek origins of Hysteria, a common psychiatric diagnosis of females from the 18th to the early 20th century. We also cover how the symptoms of hysteri...Show More
10) The Dyatlov Pass Incident pt. 1
In celebration of our 50th episode, we bring you our longest, most detailed episode yet on one of the most mysterious incidents in history. In January of 1959, 9 hikers mysteriously perished on the fr...Show More