The Morbid History Podcast

In 1955, Ruth Ellis shot her lover in broad daylight. Three months later, she became the last woman in Britain to be executed.

But behind the headlines was a woman already broken.

In this episode…

Some crimes end in a trial.

Others end in silence.

In this episode, we descend into the eerie world of the unexplained. A place where locked rooms hide secrets, bodies are found with coded notes, …

She was everywhere. But no one knew her name.

Audrey Munson was the most visible woman in America. She was immortalized in bronze, marble, and stone. Her face still crowns city halls, fountains, an…

Faith can inspire. Faith can heal.

But blind faith can kill.

In this chilling episode, Thomas Gloom descends into the world of religious cults. A place where devotion turns deadly and salvation com…

They came cloaked in black.

Beaked. Faceless. Feared.

But behind the mask was something even stranger: an attempt at science.

Join me, as we examine the eerie history of the plague doctor costume—…

Some disasters are natural. Others are man-made. And then there are the ones we build ourselves—one arrogant decision at a time.

In this episode, we plunge into the catastrophic consequences of hum…

A desert paradise.
A shimmering sea.
A dream built on a mistake.

Bombay Beach once lured Hollywood stars and hopeful tourists to its sunny shores. Water-skiing. Fishing. Cocktails beneath the pal…

Fathers are meant to protect. But history remembers the ones who didn’t.

In this episode, we descend into the dark legacies of dads who became monsters—locking children in basements, stacking bodie…

Bodies donated to science.

Trusted hands.

Unthinkable betrayal.

Cedric Lodge managed the Harvard Medical School morgue—until investigators uncovered a macabre black market of human remains.

Skulls…

Food is supposed to nourish—but history tells a darker tale. In this episode, we bite into the morbid side of food production: poisoned candy, hallucinogenic bread, deadly dinners, and a surgeon who …

In the 1800s, surgery was pain.

The only relief? A surgeon fast enough to beat the scream.

Robert Liston was that surgeon.

Until one operation claimed the lives of three.

Was it legend… or a horr…

History’s darkest visitors don’t always come with warning. In this debut episode, we step into the shadows to uncover stories of mysterious intruders—from the Phantom Barber of Pascagoula to the chil…

Morbid History is a nonfiction podcast focused on the darker, stranger, and more mysterious aspects of history. 

Join your host, Thomas Gloom, for a journey into the pages of humanity's near and dist…