Macabre : Dark History

It's spooky season and boy oh boy do we have a full month of spooky episodes on deck for you! Let's open the door to spooky season with the letter O. On today's episode O is for Ouija. Some think it’s a bunch of bull, some think it’s a useful tool of communication; and some refuse to allow it in the house. Take a seat, strap in, deep breath! The Ladies of Macabre are going to dig into...

Come on now, Dracula can’t have all the bloody fun! Tales of the undead spread across cultures and stretch far back into time. Join the Ladies of Macabre as they discuss the treatment of corpses, precautions during burial, and the accounts of the “after-devourers.”   Can't get enough of MACABRE? Does your dark heart crave more? Hit that SPOTIFY Subscription button so you don't miss out on...

Grab your bottle of rum, Row Row Row your boat… and watch your booty because on today’s episode the letter M is for Macabre Maritime Disasters. This episode checks off all of the boxes for dark history macabre and it’s a little bit spooky. We've got ghastly ghost ships, missing mariners, and frozen in time. Grab your dinghy and hold on tight. This macabre ship is setting sail on the high seas...

  Our National Parks are known to harbor secrets. On this epsiode of Hometown Macabre Blaire and Halley tag team on two of the US National Parks, Crater Lake and Lake Mead, to expose what is lurking in the depths . From a strange "old man tree" that moves along the bottom of the lake bed, to skeletal remains making their presence known as a drought continues to deplete the largest man ma...

  Is it a full moon? Or is it just us? On this episode the Ladies of Macabre do a deep dive into Lyncanthropy 101. Grab your silver bullets, your wooden stakes, and buckle up because this is going to be one crazy epsiode on real cases of lycans and werewolves throughout history.     Can't get enough of MACABRE? Does your dark heart crave more? Hit that SPOTIFY SUBSCRIBE button so you don't...

A female serial killer? From the Renaissance era!? Makeup. Women who aspired to be widows. A woman that started an underground business that really made a killing. Join the Macabre Ladies as they talk about the lady behind over 600 murders and the soup that ended it all. Zuppa Tofana anyone?   Can't get enough of MACABRE? Does your dark heart crave more? Hit that SPOTIFY SUBSCRIBE button so yo...

On this episode, we unravel the horrifying reality of cholera, a disease that bears a chilling resemblance to a zombie outbreak. Join us as we delve into the heroics of John Snow...a man who does know something...He single handedly unraveled the connection between contaminated water and cholera, proving that a little fecal matter goes a long way.   Can't get enough of MACABRE? Does your dark h...

Join the Ladies of Macabre as they get as giddy as school girls, talking about the phrases we commonly use today that are taken for granted and actually have very dark meanings. We thought we’d do something a little dark, but a little bit fun on this episode, considering we have covered a lot of very heavy topics lately. This episode won’t be all kittens and rainbows…but it will be slightly less d...

Get ready for drama, scandal, and historic catfights as we present "The Real Housewives of Henry VIII!" Join us as we spill the tea on King Henry's infamous marriages. Divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived – these ladies knew how to keep Tudor court buzzing with gossip! Let the royal baby mamma drama begin!   Music: Intro: The Worms Crawl In by JackHunterMusic &...

Murder is the most macabre of MACABRE. And today the ladies of MACABRE are going to unpack the case of serial killer, Gary Ridgway...who was one of the worst of the worst. He was convicted of 49 murders but claims he killed at least 80 women. Most of his victims were murdered between 1982 and 1984 but continued his killing spree until 1998. Can't get enough of MACABRE? Does your dark heart cra...

It was a dark and stormy night, nah, more like a rainy afternoon when it happened. A challenge had commenced among some friends to pass the time. The challenge: who could create the scariest story? Turns out, Mary had a macabre side…and a very macabre life.   Can't get enough of MACABRE? Does your dark heart crave more? Hit that SPOTIFY SUBSCRIBE button so you don't miss out on bonus episo...

Everyone rots eventually? Or do they?  In this episode we talk about body preservation techniques throughout history. Ancient cultures like the Egyptians and Arabians had unique body preservation techniques that mimicked human jerky and sickeningly sweet human rock candy. Leonardo da Vinci even performed embalmings on cadavers in pursuit of perfecting his art. And good ole Abraham Lincoln might ha...

You think you know the infamous man with the fangs? There’s more to the classic horror story than just blood and mists. Join the Macabre ladies as they talk about Stoker’s odd past, sexual tension (and awakening) London’s paranoia, and the legend of the tenth student. It’s a bloody good time! Music: Intro: The Worms Crawl In by JackHunterMusic & Outro by Epidemic Sound Ghosted SOOP. Can't...

You’re going to need a stiff drink for this one! Pour yourself a glass of whiskey (If you’re over 21) because on this episode we’re digging into the graves of the recently deceased to expose the once booming "underground" black market business of body snatching in the US during the 19th Century in Baltimore.  Can't get enough of MACABRE? Does your dark heart crave more? Hit that SPOT...

Bed chains and peeping Tom’s are just the beginning of the dark secrets hidden inside London’s most notorious psychiatric hospital, Bedlam Asylum. Join the ladies of Macabre as they strap on their straightjackets and hug themselves tight. Together we will enter the chaos and mayhem that is the world's oldest operational asylum.  Can't get enough of MACABRE? Does your dark heart crave more?...

In the Victorian Era no one was safe, not even in their own home. Houses were ticking time bombs. Eating food was its own game of roulette. Not to mention, the fashion was absolutely to die for! Join the Ladies of Macabre as they talk Murder Bottles, exploding toilets, and much more!   ***Oopsie. I say camera "film" when referring to photographers...but they did not have "film"...

You might be asking yourself, what is the Macabre Podcast all about? Every other week, your hosts, Blaire & Halley cover a macabre topic that syncs up with the alphabet so you can learn just like kiddos did back in the day. Except this time, we are teaching macabre history from (A)rsenic to (Z)ombies. The Ladies of Macabre are ready to satisfy your ear worms with all things macabre, disturbing...