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The Morbid Museum

Katie Meade and Luke Boyd

Join two museum professionals as they take you on a wild and often lighthearted tour through a virtual cabinet of curiosities, including the strangest artifacts and tales from historic sites and museums around the world! From ghost towns and death masks, to serial killers and US Presidents assassinated by bacteria, you have NO IDEA what you might find in The Morbid Museum!

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01:00:56

Dead Horse Bay

The Morbid Museum ·

2022/08/22

Deep in the outer boroughs of New York City, the secrets of a growing city lie buried on Barren Island. Today, the legacy of urban renewal is dredged up with the tides at Dead Horse Bay.Dead Horse Bay contamination not ‘significant health risk’Good Work of School on Barren Island | Brooklyn Eagle 18 Aug 1901Dead Horse Bay Environmental Cleanup Project - Gateway National Recreation Area (U.S. National Park Service)Hylan Makes Issue of Richmond Garbage | New York TimesJamaica Bay: A History | National

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01:37:47

Rasputin

The Morbid Museum ·

2022/08/15

This week, Katie parses fact and fiction surrounding the life and death of one of the most morbid, mythical, and mysterious human beings of all time - Grigori Rasputin"Rasputin Was Poisoned, Shot, Beaten, and Drowned. But Did His Penis Survive? Answering the big question about Gregori Rasputin’s penis." By Kristin Winet, June 24, 2015"Rasputin myths busted: Murder, height, and where is his penis?" By Evelyn Richards, 28 Oct 2021Юсуповский дворец на мойке (Yusupov Palace on the Moika River)How was

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57:41

The Collyer Brothers

The Morbid Museum ·

2022/08/08

Luke covers the famed story of New York recluses Homer and Langley Collyer, whose hoarding transformed their family brownstone in 1930s Harlem into an impenetrable fortress of rubbish and found objects."Harlem House Mystery Ends: Tale of Love" | Aug 7 1942, Gettysburg Times | Google News Archive Collyer Brothers Park - New York City Department of Parks & RecreationThe Dazzle review | Theatre | The Guardian"Booby Traps Kill Hermit" San Jose Evening News Inside the Collyer brownstone: The story of

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45:13

The Dance of Death

The Morbid Museum ·

2022/07/18

For centuries artists have depicted our dance with death. Whether paintings or prose they all arrive at the same conclusion - death comes for us all.Saint-Saëns: Facts, pronuncation, works and more about the great composer - Classic FMSaint-Saëns: unfashionable, underrated – and overdue for reappraisal | Classical music | The GuardianDance of Death | Allegorical Concept | Britannica The Fantastic in Art and Fiction, Sponsored by Cornell University's Institute for Digital CollectionsCATHOLIC

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01:00:45

London Stinks Part II: The Great Smog

The Morbid Museum ·

2022/07/11

In Part II of our series “London Stinks” we look into the history of air pollution in this world city, which began more than 500 years ago, and culminated in the deadliest smog in recorded memory, killing as many as 12,000 people in 1952.Medium: The Great SmogBreathing in London's history: from the Great Stink to the Great SmogYouTube: London’s Great Smog of 1952, The London MuseumBattersea Power Station | Our StoryMonet's obsession with London fog | Claude Monet | The GuardianBBC NEWS | UK |

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01:02:52

London Stinks Part I: The Broad Street Pump

The Morbid Museum ·

2022/07/04

In Part I of our series "London Stinks,", we will be exploring the immensely tragic, completely disgusting, but incredibly important story of the Broad Street Pump and how it changed science forever."The Lesson of John Snow and the Broad Street Pump" Mitali Banerjee Ruths, MD"Once Deemed ‘Biologically Dead,’ a New Report Shows London’s River Thames Recovering" Rasha Aridi November 12, 2021 -Sunderland and the Public Health ActCholera - Vibrio cholerae infection | Cholera | CDCWHO: CholeraLaing,

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01:09:52

Lincoln's Body

The Morbid Museum ·

2022/06/27

In April 1865, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth in Washington D.C. The body of the fallen President endured a series of morbid misadventures before being finally laid to rest in 1901. This is the true story of Lincoln's body.Sources:My Daguerreotype Boyfriend, Lewis PowellWok & Roll Restaurant (Mary Surratt's Boarding House) National Museum of Health and Medicine (NMHM): Medical Care During President Lincoln's Final Hours Commemorated in New ExhibitMütter Minute:

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01:29:50

The Grand Guignol

The Morbid Museum ·

2022/06/20

Prepare yourself as we embark on a sordid and macabre tour through the story of Le Theatre du Grand-Guignol, the theatre of horror that entertained and terrified Parisian audiences for 65 years, leaving behind an incredible legacy that continues to inspire film and theater makers to this very day. Content warning - this one isn't for the squeamish or prudish!Sources:The Grand Guignol : Theatre of Fear and Terror by Mel Gordon Grand-Guignol: The French Theatre of Horror (Exeter Performance Studies)

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01:24:06

Cropseyland

The Morbid Museum ·

2022/06/13

This week, Luke takes us on an epic journey parsing the tall tale of the "Cropsey Maniac," the true crime stories of missing children and murders on Staten Island that echoed the Cropsey myth, and the haunting landscape of abandoned institutions that inspire urban legends and urban exploration today.Sources:The Cropsey Maniac by Lee Haring and Mark BreslermanArtifacts Journal Blog The Cropsey ManiacJasper Cropsey Biography for the Catalogue Raisonne'The Burning' Pre-Production via Hysteria LivesNYC

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01:01:53

Death Masks

The Morbid Museum ·

2022/06/06

It's our first full episode! This week, Katie tours us through the totally creepy, centuries-old practice of creating death masks. Yep. It's as weird as it sounds.Sources:Death Mask Radiolab EpisodeEdward III and Philippa of Hainault | Westminster AbbeyThe curious and gruesome art of human death masksLCP Art & Artifacts - Death MasksResusci Anne and L'Inconnue: The Mona Lisa of the SeineNew-York Historical Society - Aaron Burr Death MaskRecreating Roman Wax Masks Vol 6 Iss 3, Expedition Magazine in

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29:45

Introducing The Morbid Museum!

The Morbid Museum ·

2022/05/24

Welcome to The Morbid Museum! Step inside and learn a little about your tour guides Katie and Luke, and what they have in store for you this season on The Morbid Museum! (cue maniacal laugh)New Episodes every Morbid Monday! See what we did there?

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