History

The Morbid History Podcast

by Thomas Gloom

Share this ranking Is this your show? Claim it

Listen on Apple Podcasts Pocket Casts RSS feed

Chart positions today · United States

Not on the United States charts we track today.

If you like The Morbid History Podcast, try…

The Rest Is History

Also in History

Lore

Also in History

The Team House

Also in History

The Ancients

Also in History

Sleepy History

Also in History

Conspiracy Theories

Also in History

Latest episodes

MM#20 The Hand Of Glory

October 14, 2026 · 20 min

Somewhere in northern England, a serving girl is watching through a keyhole. She sees a stranger pull something dark and withered from a sack. She sees him set it upright on the table like a candlestick. She sees the fingers begin to…
Episode 20: Unclaimed

September 30, 2026 · 46 min

A funhouse prop. A pocketbook bound in human skin. A brain in a mayonnaise jar. In this episode: what happens to a body once nobody steps forward to claim it. An outlaw who died broke and unmourned, then spent sixty-five years as a…
MM#19 Ten Feet Away

September 16, 2026 · 20 min

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…
Episode 19: The Ground Beneath Us

September 2, 2026 · 55 min

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…
MM#18 Without Consent

August 19, 2026 · 21 min

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…

Show 7 more episodesShow fewer episodes

Episode 18: Dead Reckoning

August 5, 2026 · 48 min

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…
MM#17 Random Acts Of Evil

July 22, 2026 · 16 min

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…
Episode 17: Danger In The Toy Aisle

July 8, 2026 · 43 min

They were approved, tested, wrapped, and put under Christmas trees. In this episode, we examine the dangerous, baffling, and occasionally radioactive history of American toys. From a 1950’s science kit that came with actual uranium ore…
MM#16 Behind Confederate Lines

June 24, 2026 · 13 min

In 1861, Alabama seceded from the United States. Not everyone went along with it. Deep in the hill country of northwest Alabama sat Winston County—a place of shallow soil, steep ridges, and small farmers who had no slaves, no…
Episode 16: The Poison Parlor

June 10, 2026 · 51 min

Progress has a price tag. And in Victorian America, it was usually fifty cents. In this episode, we pull back the ornate wallpaper of the nineteenth century and look at what was underneath. From the snake oil industry that dosed babies…
MM#15 Run Like Hell

May 27, 2026 · 14 min

She just wanted to run. That's all. Twenty years old, bib number 261, tucked into the middle of the pack on a cold, rainy morning in Hopkinton, Massachusetts. She had trained over a thousand miles for this. She was ready. The men…
Episode 15: Justice, Adjusted

May 13, 2026 · 48 min

Some crimes have consequences. Others have currency. In this episode, we examine history's untouchables—the scientists, executives, kings, and killers whose genius, wealth, or strategic value placed them beyond the reach of ordinary…