Morgue Rats

Episode 90: Too Much Stuff!

In today’s death story, we are going to talk about people who just couldn’t get rid of their “treasures” and died amid their junk, and our funeral home story tells of the time the undertaker had to respond to a death in a hoarder house
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https://listverse.com/2022/07/03/10-hoarders-who-died-in-their-own-filth/
https://people.com/human-interest/set-decorator-evelyn-sakash-found-dead-under-debris-inside-home-6-months/
https://www.news.com.au/finance/real-estate/hoarders-dead-body-found-entombed-in-mountains-of-rubbish-at-his-home-and-it-took-five-hours-to-recover/news-story/815e88e4aaf242dc7bc4830ed9f9f162?amp
https://abc7.com/archive/8833733/
https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/2-pythons-rescued-from-peoria-home-weeks-after-woman-was-found-dead-inside-along-with-hundreds-of-rats.amp
https://www.freep.com/in-depth/news/local/michigan/detroit/2019/08/01/detroit-hoarder-squalor-dead-eaten-dog-sally-honeycheck/1492124001/
https://nypost.com/2021/06/01/mummified-man-left-to-decompose-for-15-years-inside-house-of-horrors/

Episode 89: Thankskilling!

In today’s death story, we are going to talk about horrible crimes committed on the one day set aside for being thankful, and our funeral home story tells of the time the undertaker experienced a death that hit a little too close to home on Thanksgiving Day
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https://www.investigationdiscovery.com/crimefeed/murder/no-thanks-5-notorious-crimes-committed-on-thanksgiving-day
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murders_of_Haile_Kifer_and_Nicholas_Brady
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/thanksgiving-massacre-witness-paul-merhige-ate-dinner-sang-songs-then-executed-family/
https://www.cnn.com/2011/10/27/justice/florida-thanksgiving-killings
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omaima_Nelson

Episode 88: Beautiful Words, Tragic Lives

In today’s death story, we are going to talk about famous authors who had tumultuous personal lives, and suffered untimely deaths, and our funeral home story tells of the time some saucy love letters made their way into the funeral home
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https://www.grunge.com/1208000/authors-who-had-tragic-deaths/
https://www.ncpedia.org/death-zelda-fitzgerald
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Foster_Wallace
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kennedy_Toole#:~:text=This%20was%20succeeded%20by%20a,car%20on%20March%2026%2C%201969.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Woolf

Episode 87: It Wasn’t Supposed To Go Like That!

In today’s death story, we are going to talk about Halloween pranks gone awry, and our funeral home story tells of the time the undertaker went on a gruesome death call and gained some artistic inspiration
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https://people.howstuffworks.com/culture-traditions/cultural-traditions/10-halloween-pranks-that-went-horribly-and-tragically-wrong.htm#google_vignette
https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/minnesota/news/harvest-of-horror-haunted-hayride-death-alexander-mick-report/
https://www.ranker.com/list/accidental-hanging-deaths/april-a-taylor

Episode 86: Get Back, You Filthy Animal!

In today’s death story, we’re going to talk about some disgusting (and deadly) diseases you can get from animals, and our funeral home story tells of the time the undertaker’s daughter brought the class pet home for the weekend and subsequently gave a bully the fright of his life
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https://www.dvm360.com/view/the-5-deadliest-zoonotic-diseases-and-pathogens
https://www.cfr.org/report/global-governance-emerging-zoonotic-diseases#:~:text=Zoonotic%20diseases%20are%20responsible%20for:%20*%202.5,including%20climate%20change%2C%20deforestation%2C%20and%20habitat%20destruction
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/rabies/symptoms-causes/syc-20351821
https://www.acsh.org/news/2019/01/04/woman-suffers-terrifying-death-rabies-after-puppy-bite-13707
https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/9756-toxoplasmosis
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12464539/#:~:text=Toxoplasmosis%20is%20a%20rare%20but,in%20regions%20with%20low%20seroprevalence.
https://www.livescience.com/health/viruses-infections-disease/32-diseases-you-can-catch-from-animals
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Death
https://science.umd.edu/classroom/bsci424/BSCI223WebSiteFiles/PlagueCaseStudy.htm
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2746638/
https://bmcinfectdis.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12879-016-1403-8

Episode 85: The Agony of Defeat

In today’s death story, we’re going to talk about how competition can have deadly consequences, and our funeral home story tells of the time the undertaker and his wife faced an odd situation after a softball game.
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https://wildcatsports.com/news/2008/7/20/4045944.aspx
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Chapman
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Johnson_(ice_hockey)
https://www.newsweek.com/matt-petgrave-adam-johnson-nhl-players-1839844
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cly2wkl17d7o.amp
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrés_Escobar
https://www.goal.com/en-us/lists/andres-escobar-tragic-own-goal-colombia-world-cup-murder/bltcc01b39beb5c5e61
https://www.through-the-turnstiles.com/political-football/colombian-narco-football

Episode 84: Glad You Didn’t

*Content Warning - Suicide Attempts*
Today’s death story is about hope. We’re going to talk about people who attempted suicide and survived, then drew on their experiences to help others, and our funeral home story tells of the time the undertaker and his assistant received a call from a desperate person on the edge.
Resources:
Suicide and Crisis Hotline -988
www.helpingheroesusa.org
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_suicide_locations
https://www.healthcentral.com/condition/depression/kevin-hines-survived-golden-gate-bridge-suicide
https://www.fox8live.com/2022/11/22/louisiana-woman-paralyzed-after-suicide-attempt-shares-warning-signs-mental-health-struggles/?outputType=amp
https://www.myascension.us
https://www.mlb.com/amp/news/drew-robinson-shares-story-after-suicide-attempt.html
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drew_Robinson

Episode 83: Missionary Position

Get your mind outta the gutter! In today’s death story, we are going to delve into the Tragedy at Waiilaptu, also known as the Whitman Massacre, and our funeral home story tells of the time a Native American chief gave the undertaker his Indian name.
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https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6300234/
https://www.historylink.org/File/5192
https://www.oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/whitman_massacre/
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitman_massacre
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregon_Territory
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cayuse_Five

Episode 82: You Get What You Pay For!

In today’s death story, we’re going to talk about people who cut corners to save money and paid for it with their lives—or worse, the lives of others, and our funeral home story tells of the time the undertaker met a family who scrimped on their loved one’s casket.
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https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/36203213/dad-died-house-fire-ebike-bradford/
https://m.sevendaysvt.com/news/a-stowe-zip-line-guide-was-killed-when-a-26-piece-of-equipment-failed-will-his-death-spur-change-35751176
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2008/mar/15/military.defence
https://listverse.com/2011/12/21/10-terrible-scrooges/
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_tourism
https://api-prod.gothamist.com/news/bronx-woman-dies-from-tummy-tuck-in-dominican-republic/
https://www.pbkglawyers.com/blog/new-york-woman-dies-during-surgery-in-dominican-republic/
https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/american-dead-plastic-surgery-dominican-republic/

Episode 81: What’d You Say?!

For today’s death story, we’re going to talk about how mispronounced and misheard words led to mayhem and even death, and our funeral home story tells of the time the funeral home office went into upheaval over a mispronounced word.
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Part 112 RIP Lydia Schatz
TikTok
5/27/2023
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT6k44hBf/
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Lydia_Schatz
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/da-kevin-and-elizabeth-schatz-killed-daughter-with-religious-whips-for-mispronouncing-word/
https://www.philstar.com/the-freeman/opinion/2022/02/07/2158995/editorial-lessons-chona-mae/amp/
https://www.cracked.com/article_40055_5-disasters-that-came-down-to-mishearing-one-word.html
https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/what-happened-during-the-shiloh-baptist-church-stampede.html
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parsley_massacre