The Morbid History Podcast

MM#9 How Not To Train A Dolphin

It started with a flooded house and a dolphin named Peter. It ended in LSD, obsession, and death.
 
In the 1960s, a young woman named Margaret Howe Lovatt moved into a house filled with water to teach a dolphin how to speak. Backed by NASA and fueled by fringe science, the experiment soon spiraled into something far more disturbing.
 
LSD got involved, and what followed was a bizarre and tragic chapter in the history of animal research…This tale is a haunting reminder that intelligence doesn’t equal consent.
 
This isn’t just weird science.
It’s the moment science stopped asking if it even should.
 
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Episode 9: Maritime Nightmares

The sea is beautiful... until it isn’t.
 
In this episode, we plunge into the darkest waters of maritime history: the doomed Franklin Expedition, frozen in the Arctic and driven to madness and cannibalism, and the Batavia, where a shipwreck unraveled into a brutal cult of murder and terror on a barren island.
 
Along the way, we examine ghost ships drifting without crews, lighthouse keepers who vanished into thin air, sailors devoured by hunger after a whale attack, and an entire vessel found with its crew dead, faces twisted in fear.
 
These aren’t just shipwrecks.
They’re reminders that the ocean keeps secrets... and it rarely gives anything back.
 
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MM#8 Ice Cold Negligence

She didn’t die because of the cold.
She died because no one fixed the door.
 
In 2023, 63-year-old Nguyet Le was found dead inside the walk-in freezer of an Arby’s restaurant in Louisiana.
 
In this episode, we examine a horrifying case of corporate neglect, corner-cutting, and quiet cruelty... and how it led to one of the most preventable workplace deaths in recent memory.
 
Horror doesn’t always wear a mask.
 
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Episode 8: The Thinning Veil

Every October, the air grows colder, the nights stretch longer, and the boundary between the living and the dead begins to fade.
 
In this Halloween special, we'll trace the haunting origins of the holiday. From the fires of ancient Samhain and the prayers of All Hallows’ Eve, to poisoned candy panics, witch trials, and the worldwide traditions that still honor the dead today.
 
It’s a story of masks and memory, fear and fire, life and death... and the one night a year when both worlds meet.
 
Because Halloween isn’t about celebrating death.
It’s about remembering it.
 
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MM#7 Mountain Meadows Massacre

In 1857, over 120 emigrants were slaughtered in the Utah desert under a white flag of peace. The killers? Mormon militia. The blame? Pinned on Native tribes.
 
In this episode, we uncover the dark and deliberate horror of the Mountain Meadows Massacre. It was an ambush cloaked in religious fear and racial scapegoating.
We explore how a brutal execution of men, women, and children was carefully staged to look like a Native attack… and how the truth was buried for decades under silence, scripture, and lies.
 
It wasn’t just a massacre of people.
It was a massacre of truth.
 
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Episode 7: Bloody Betrayals

Samurai dramas paint feudal Japan in gleaming armor and noble duels.
But the truth was far darker.
 
In this episode, we descend into the Sengoku era, which was a century of civil war, betrayal, and blood. From Oda Nobunaga, the self-styled “Demon King of the Sixth Heaven” who burned monks alive on a mountain, to Toyotomi Hideyoshi, the peasant who rose to power only to fall to ambition, to Tokugawa Ieyasu, the patient schemer who built an empire on the ashes of his rivals.
 
Along the way, we'll uncover massacres, betrayals, ninja shadows, and curses that linger to this day.
 
This is the true story of how Japan was unified... through fire, treachery, and rivers of blood.
 
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MM#6 Last Woman Hanged

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, we uncover the tragic life of Ruth Ellis (a nightclub hostess turned convicted murderer) whose story was shaped as much by violence and betrayal as by the bullet she fired.
From glamour to scandal, from abuse to execution, Ruth wasn’t just a criminal. She was a victim of love, class, and a justice system with no room for mercy.
 
This isn’t just about a murder.
It’s about how a country turned its back…
and a woman paid the ultimate price.
 
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Episode 6: Unsolved

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, and the truth remains just out of reach.
 
From the brutal and baffling death of Artemus Ogletree in a Kansas City hotel… to two Brazilian men found on a hillside wearing lead masks and waiting for a signal that never came. These are stories that refuse to be solved.
 
Because sometimes, what haunts us most… isn’t what we don’t know.
It’s that someone, somewhere, might.
 
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MM#5 Marble & Madness

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, and public parks across the country.
 
But behind the statues was a woman who fell from fame into scandal… and then into silence.
 
In this episode, we trace the haunting rise and ruin of America’s first supermodel. From museum galleries and silent films to a psychiatric hospital where she lived in obscurity for over six decades.
 
This isn’t just a story about forgotten fame.
It’s about what we do to the women we turn into symbols.
 
And what’s left when the sculptor walks away.
 
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Episode 5: Deadly Devotion

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 comes with a price.
 
Whether it's the eerie calm of Heaven’s Gate, the poisoned jungle of Jonestown, or the ritual fires of the Order of the Solar Temple, this episode explores the dark places where belief becomes a weapon.
 
Some promises lead to paradise.
These led to mass graves.
 
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