Death and Friends Podcast
1) D&F&F Ep3 | Cemetery tour of Graceland with Coimetromania (Grace Robbins) and Yes the Audio Gets Better
Hang out with us at our games and trivia night 11/1/2024! Join us as we explore the rich tapestry of history, art, and mystery woven into Chicago's iconic Graceland Cemetery. This episode features th...Show More
2) S5 E13 | Nominative Determination: The Time A Slaver Ship Captain Called Joseph White Was Brutally Murdered
Welcome back, Skeleton Army! I We don't often support ship captains being murdered, but when we do, it's slave driving Captain Joseph White. How will his large fortune be inherited? Per Capita or Per...Show More
3) D&F&F Ep2 | Epoch Preservation: History Brought Back to Life Through Gravestone Restoration
Ever wondered what it takes to bring an overgrown and forgotten cemetery back to life? Rachel Meyer and Josh Gerloff from Epoch Preservation (@epochpreservation) join us to share their incredible jour...Show More
4) D&F&F Ep1 | Medieval Literature and Black Death revisited with Dr. Mary M. Alcaro
Dr. Mary M. Alcaro, a visiting assistant professor of literature at Bryn Mawr College, takes us on a captivating journey through the intersections of plague, trauma, and Middle English texts. This epi...Show More
5) S5 E12 | Teenage Lobotomy: Walter Freeman and the Ice Pick
DISCLAIMER: Hi everybody, this is Angel. A quick reminder, Death and Friends is not a podcast for the light of heart. Dark and serious subjects may come up. Listener discretion is advised. This episod...Show More
6) S5 E11 | We Need to Talk About Jessica Mitford: the Problem With American Funerals
It’s 1963, and famous communist slash journalist slash British ex-pat slash all-around badass Jessica Mitford discovers the American public is being absolutely swindled by the American funerary system...Show More
S5 E11 | We Need to Talk About Jessica Mitford: the Problem With American Funerals
43:26 | Jun 20th, 2024
7) S5 E10 | True Crime Time Part 2: William Henry Bury and The 13 Hour Criminal Trial
On the back door of the flat, chalk graffiti says “JACK RIPPER IS AT THE BACK OF THIS DOOR” and no one is mentioning that at all in the police headquarters. Join Nash and Angel as they try to parse ou...Show More
S5 E10 | True Crime Time Part 2: William Henry Bury and The 13 Hour Criminal Trial
38:51 | May 30th, 2024
8) S5 E9 | True Crime Time Pt 1: Hide Your Wives (In A Large, Weirdly Empty Trunk You Have For No Reason): William Henry Bury, The Time He Maybe Definitely Killed His Wife, and Was Maybe Jack the Ripper
It’s true crime o’clock, and in today’s episode, Angel and Nash find themselves in Scotland, in a basement flat, with the body of a woman in a trunk. She definitely didn’t put herself there, and the g...Show More
9) S5 E8 | Back to the Future: The Other Pandemic That Almost Ended The Modern World - The Spanish Flu
A pandemic AND a world war?? Wow, that sounds really hard. We wouldn’t know anything about that today, because we solved medicine and warfare, thankfully. Phew! Oh wait, just kidding. In today’s compl...Show More
10) S5 E7 | Do You Smell What The Rocks Are Cooking? Surprise, It’s Death!: A History of The Paris
Angel and Nash are enjoying a lovely holiday in Paris. Or they would be, if they could expense it. Since they can’t, join them as they deep dive on the city’s catacombs and how they came to be. Hey, i...Show More