The Macabrecast

**We've got a sound warning! You'll notice about one minute of distorted audio in this episode. Don't worry, it gets better and thank you for listening.** This week let's talk about a Bolivian festival called the Festival of the Skulls or la Fiesta de los Natitas! Holly talks about the origins of the holiday and tells us about all the ways the Natitas (skulls) have been a part of their communities...

We've talked about the Headless Horseman, now let's talk about some ghosts! Holly will be taking us to Italy this week to the haunted Island of Poveglia. This Island near Venice was a plague Island, a body dumping ground, and home to a mental institution. There's no shortage of spirits who have unfinished business here.

It's our favorite time of year again! Welcome to Spooky Season with the Macabrecast, we've got a great one to start us off. Brooke covers a very special Halloween figure to her: the Headless Horseman. We'll be talking about all the ways the Headless Horseman has shown up across literature and even delving into some mythological figures!

Happy one year anniversary to the Macabrecast!! Thank you all for joining us on this wonderful adventure through the macabre. The horrors persist in this episode about the accident in Mount Gambier. Brooke unlocks a new fear for Holly while she tells us all about the tragic cave diving accident in 1973 that would claim the lives of some of the divers. This story has sink holes, nitrogen narcosis,...

This week, join us for the second part of a two-part episode where we talk about the tragic murder of Sandra Rivett. Holly goes over Sandra's life, the lives of Lord and Lady Lucen, and the strange circumstances around this murder. Get ready for a tale of disappearances, odd letters, and intrigue. 

This week, join us for a two-part episode where we talk about the tragic murder of Sandra Rivett. Holly goes over Sandra's life, the lives of Lord and Lady Lucen, and the strange circumstances around this murder. Get ready for a tale of disappearances, odd letters, and intrigue. 

Need a new career path? We might have one for you to consider! Get "bready" for Holly to tell us all about what it meant to be a Sin Eater and all the gruesome details that go with it.

We're back in the Midwest with another cryptid! Meet the Beast of Bray Road, a truly stinky sight to behold. Let's talk mangey bears and burial grounds! Get ready to clutch your pearls and blame it on the devil.

Get ready for a whirlwind history recap with Brooke as she covers the making of the Paris Catacombs! We’ll talk geology, burial methods, goth parades(?), and architecture. Come decay with us! 

Holly takes the creepy cake this week with the Nasnas. This disturbing cryptid tale will include slapping feet, high pitched screams, and Brooke’s breaking point!

We're back for week #2 featuring our friends and mentors Yelena and Traynor! It was a joy hosting them, and we hope they'll join the Macabre-gang again in the future.  As a suggestion from Traynor, Brooke covers the Radcliffe Highway Murders. Two families, nearly all decapitated, and no clear motive for the kill. And, as a little side quest, Traynor explains how the writer Thomas De Quincey influe...

We're honored to present our first guest episode! Please enjoy a two week sequence where our friends and mentors Yelena and Traynor join us for some chilling tales. As a suggestion from Yelena, Holly covers the White Witch of Rose Hall--a haunting plantation in Jamaica. Murder, torture, colonization, this episode is not for the faint of heart. 

Hot springs, hot mud, hot mess. The gang is back in Iceland, but this time for a ghostly tale of revenge. The ghost of Gunnuhver will not disappoint you, and she may still be clinging to the edge of the mud pit--ready for revenge!

Welcome back to the land of fearsome creatures! Guided by the illustrious William T Cox, Brooke tells us the tale of the Hugag, another mysterious critter in the Midwest. A harmless creature with a very dysfunctional body.

For our second Pride themed episode, Brooke covers the much anticipated Pirate Queens, Mary Read and Anne Bonny. This episode is about a couple swashbuckling women who fall in love while in secretly in drag!

Happy Pride from the Macabrecast! For Episode 28, we venture through queer history. Holly honors four queer couples with interesting lives, deaths, and tombs! 

Welcome back to a second SOAPisode as Holly tells the story of Leonarda Cianciulli—Italy's Soap Maker of Correggio. Trust us when we tell you, you're not ready for this one.

This week Brooke takes us to Crescent Lake, Washington for murder and scientific phenomena. If you’d like to know how a corpse becomes soap, then you’ve come to the right place!

Brooke kicks off our 25th episode with the Lier Sykehus. We'll be heading to Norway to talk about the history of this asylum and the conditions that their patients had to endure. This place may not be haunted, but it's definitely haunting.

This week's episode may be about the Love Canal, but it's not going to have anything to do with love. Holly walks us through Love Canal's tragic history--a community near Niagara Falls that became a chemical dumping ground and devastated the residents. 

We all know of the famous mystery author Agatha Christie, but do we all know about her disappearance? This week, Holly goes into the details of Agatha Christie's mysterious 11 day disappearance and her even more alarming reappearance! What happened in those 11 days has never been uncovered, but that hasn't stopped us from speculating. 

Our story this week takes us back to one of our favorite topics: witch trials. Brooke tells us all about the history around witches in England and the feuding families that contributed to this particular trial. Join us as we learn more about this trial with a nine-year-old star witness! 

We're diving into mythology this week! Holly tells us about an Iranian mythological figure, the Simurgh. This giant bird-like creature is a key figure in many myths and has a few different attributes including wisdom and healing. Buckle in for this unexpectedly non-spooky episode. 

Prepare to be spooked. Brooke shares the biggest ghost story of US history, the Bell Witch. Well, not so much a witch but a VERY disturbed entity. Dare to enjoy this very convincing tale. 

Holly brings us to Scotland this week for a haunting disappearance. On December 15, 1900, three lighthouse keepers went missing on Eilean Mor (aka Flannan Isles) without a trace. Were they swept away in the sea? Abducted by aliens? We will explore all the theories!  **We had some audio hiccups on this episode, we promise we aren't trying to make Brooke quiet! We'll be back to regular audio next we...