Podcast
Antemortem
Hosted by Hannah Daugherty · EN
Antemortem is an exploration of any person, thing, or weird accident that results in human fatality.
11episodes
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Postmortem
Jul 19, 202200:02:23Tap to summarizeA short goodbye and thank you.
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AM108: Hindenburg
Jun 22, 202200:20:04Tap to summarizeLZ-129 Hindenburg was the pride and joy of the Zeppelin company. The rigid airship took its final voyage in May 1937. Big and buoyant, its failure singlehandedly ruined commercial travel via dirigible.
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AM107: Torture Methods
May 25, 202200:20:37Tap to summarizeThis episode is torture.
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AM106: Tornadoes
Apr 28, 202200:18:59Tap to summarizeWhen a big windy tunnel comes down from the sky
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AM105: Lizzie Borden
Mar 16, 202200:26:23Tap to summarizeLizzie Borden may or may not have given her father and stepmother a collective 31 whacks. We'll learn about the inhabitants of the household and their supposed whereabouts at the time of the infamous murders. Then, Lizzie goes to trial.
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AM104: London Metro Bombings
Feb 17, 202200:25:42Tap to summarizeIn July 2005, four terrorists attacked London at rush hour. We look at who they were and how it happened. A cameo from the Mother of Satan.
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AM103: Surgery Part IV - Modern Medicine
Jan 20, 202200:29:17Tap to summarizeGoodbye, Galen. Hello, cyberknife!
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AM102: Surgery Part III - The Industrial Age and American Civil War
Dec 22, 202100:26:11Tap to summarizeIn this episode, John Hunter saves some legs and Civil War surgeons remove quite a few. Luckily for the soldiers, chloroform is in use.
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AM101: Surgery Part II - The Middle Ages and Renaissance
Dec 2, 202100:28:07Tap to summarizeWhen it came to cutting people open during the medieval period and renaissance, the barber surgeon reigned supreme. The bandages were drunk, the c-sections were deadly, and da Vinci was slicing bodies open left and right.
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AM100: Surgery Part I - The Ancient World
Nov 10, 202100:29:18Tap to summarizeWe're on episode 100 and it's time for Antemortem to have surgery! Part one of this series covers surgical practices of the ancient world. The doctors and "doctors" in this episode will be trepanning, castrating, and gently shoving someone's exposed intestines back inside their body.
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