HeyJaredThe Morbid History Podcast
A nonfiction podcast focused on the darker, stranger, and more mysterious aspects of history.
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MM#19 Ten Feet Away (opens the original)
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In 1947, police broke into a Harlem brownstone through a second-story window. It took them five hours of digging to find the first body. The second one took three weeks. Homer and Langley Collyer were Columbia-educated men (a lawyer and a concert pianist) who had slowly sealed themselves inside their family's brownstone and never came out. By the time anyone thought to check on them, the house contained over 140 tons of collected material: 25,000 books, more than a dozen pianos, a horse-drawn ca
Episode 19: The Ground Beneath Us (opens the original)
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A woman with a clipboard. A legal clerk who found the wrong file. A man who sent a fish to a lab. This week: the places America poisoned and then tried to forget. A neighborhood built on 21,000 tons of chemical waste, sold to a school district for one dollar. A town that's been on fire underground since 1962. A military base where up to a million people drank contaminated water for decades while a Marine's nine-year-old daughter died of leukemia and nobody told him why. Seven sites. Sixty years.
MM#18 Without Consent (opens the original)
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She walked into one of the only hospitals in Baltimore that would treat her. A surgeon took a sample of her tissue without asking. Without telling her. She never knew. Her name was Henrietta Lacks. Her cells went on to help develop the polio vaccine, the COVID-19 vaccine, and countless other medical breakthroughs. They generated billions of dollars in profit. Yet, her own family couldn't even afford health insurance. In this episode, we trace the century-long habit of a medical system that looke
Episode 18: Dead Reckoning (opens the original)
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A dead man's satchel. Nine handwritten pages. Thirty-eight years of silence. In this episode: the people who bet everything on the grave keeping their secrets. A knighted BBC icon who groomed an entire nation while institutions looked away, protected by charity and fame until fourteen months after his funeral. A quiet librarian who confessed to murder the same night he committed it, then carried the proof in a bag for four decades. Plus six more killers, hoaxers, and fugitives who all made the s
MM#17 Random Acts Of Evil (opens the original)
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He buried the weapons before he even had a victim in mind. That was the system. Israel Keyes spent over a decade crossing the United States... flying into cities far from his targets, renting cars, driving hundreds of additional miles, paying cash for everything, turning his phone off while he drove. He had no victim type. No preferred location. No signature. Just buckets. Up to twelve of them, buried in remote locations across the country. Inside: guns, ammunition, rope, duct tape, Drano, lye.
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