Podcast
Morbid and Mundane
Hosted by Mak and Emily · EN
Ghosts, Ghouls, and the grotesque meet in this chilling podcast! Join Emily and Mak every Wednesday for stories of ghosts, murder, and haunting phenomena! Here, the mundane meets the morbid!
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E64: Practical Murder Outfit
Apr 19, 202301:53:13Tap to summarizeThis episode has Mak covering the famous Enfield Poltergeist. This case has one of the most famous images of ghost activities ever and features a guest appearance by Ed and Lorraine Warren.Emily covers Daniel LaPlante, a teen killer who lives in the walls. Emily manages to sandwich a ghost story in between two separate cases involving LaPlante, so strap in for the scariest Oreo of your life.
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E63: Casual Bone Death
Apr 5, 202302:32:06Tap to summarizeMak covers a French conman who famously impersonated a slew of missing children. The serial imposter named Frederic Bourdin, aka the chameleon is found out for impersonating a missing Texas teen. Emily, meanwhile, covers the case of the toxic woman. A woman who caused her doctors to pass out, and get sick, this case is a rare moment in history with some really weird science behind it.
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E62: That’s The Devil Doin’ Somethin’
Mar 15, 202302:12:13Tap to summarizeMak covers the Dancing Plague of 1518, a sickness that spread through the Holy Roman Empire that made citizens dance until they died. Emily covers the famous Glen Tavern Inn, a haunted hotel famous for cowboys, among other things.
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E61: Critically Thinking About Mass Murder
Mar 1, 202302:00:23Tap to summarizeMak covers one of the most cursed items of all time, the Hope Diamond. The podcast follows the story chronologically, with bouts of history and misfortune.Emily covers The Nun of Monza, aka Sister Virgina. She and her partner Giovanni did everything in their power to keep their relationship a secret.
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E60: Spoiler Alert for the Civil War
Feb 22, 202302:06:17Tap to summarizeWe're baaaccckkk~Despite all of the odds- the holidays, sickness, school etc- the podcast lives on!Mak and Emily grace your ears with another morbid set or stories. Mak covers the famous Michael Malloy, AKA Mike the impenetrable. Emily circles back to give the Mountain Medows Massacre its own full episode.
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E59: Yee Old Misogony
Nov 16, 202202:09:20Tap to summarizeThis episode is riddled with nonsense.Mak covers the famous White Lady archetype of a ghost, following different variations of the spirit across cultures. This ranges from a woman falling from a waterfall, all the way to a headless mule on fire.Emily matches the spooky vibes by covering the haunting of Cachtice Castle. If that name sounds familiar, it's because that is the castle that Elizabeth Bathory operated out of, and was later imprisoned in.This episode is a triple whammy, with folklore, ghosts, and one of the most famous true crime cases ever. Strap in!
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E58: A Lot of Go Big, Not A Lot of Go Home
Oct 19, 202202:39:24Tap to summarizeMak covers the insanely haunted Loftus Hall, a manor on a beach in Ireland that is allegedly the birthplace of the antichrist. It has its very own haunted history, complete with a civil war and a woman in white.Emily covers Aileen Wuornos, a woman famous for murdering 17 men. Emily covers everything about her life, from her terrible childhood all the way up to her final words before the death penalty
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E57: A Theif, A Marine, And A Mule
Oct 12, 202203:02:55Tap to summarizeMak covers the lost girls of Panama. Two Dutch tourists were lost deep in the Panamanian jungle, leaving behind a slew of odd clues and circumstantial evidence. To this day, no one is exactly sure what happened to them.Emily covers... The Grand Canyon? The whole thing is littered with morbid happenings, from strange disappearances to 'accidental' deaths, and even a plane graveyard.
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E56: Cyberbullied On Wikipedia
Sep 28, 202202:35:39Tap to summarizeThis episode is one for the books. This episode has it all, including a bone-chilling moment where Emily and Mak fully think that they covered the same thing.Thankfully that's not the case, as Mak covers The Headless Horseman and his renditions across countries. Including, but not limited to, headless saints, and a mule that spits fire. Emily meanwhile FINALLY covers the one, the only, Bigfoot. The evidence ranges from trail markers to footprints, with each being weirder than the last.
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E55: John Bob, The Original Karen
Sep 21, 202202:25:15Tap to summarizeWe're baaaack ~Seriously though, the podcast is back from hiatus with season 2!This episode is a wild one, with Mak covering the McRaven house in Vicksburg Mississippi, allegedly one of the most haunted towns in the country. Emily covers the orphans of route 66, her first of three Arizona-specific stories.Strap in for spooky lofts and lots of prairie dog talk.
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