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Each week hosts Spencer Henry (Cult Liter Podcast) and Madison Reyes sit back and read outlandish, hilarious, and sometimes scathing obituaries. Every Thursday they come to the table with bizarre history, strange funeral traditions, and so much more! Each episode ends with a ‘dumb criminals’ segment in which they each talk about hilarious run-ins with the law.

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OBITCH not a witch... Mar 17, 2022

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OBITCH…this week Madison brings us the insanity behind witch burials, Spencer comes through with an awful disease brought on by cannibalism, we’ve got an obituary for for a spy, one that’s just right, and of course, some dumb.ass.criminallllls.

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https://allthatsinteresting.com/kuru
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuru_(disease)
https://www.healthline.com/health/kuru#causes
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/15/obituaries/aline-griffith-model-countess-author-and-spy-is-dead.html
https://digventures.com/2014/10/why-was-this-13-year-old-girl-buried-face-down/
https://www.newsweek.com/face-witch-tortured-revealed-1452333
https://archive.archaeology.org/online/features/halloween/plague.html#:~:text=The%20solution%2C%20a%20sort%20of%20vampire%20exorcism%2C%20would,out%20of%20the%20grave%20and%20spreading%20the%20plague
https://www.donkeyjunk.com/post/the-hag-of-the-fylde-meg-shelton-the-fylde-witch-of-woodplumpton
https://historycollection.com/18-reasons-one-is-executed-for-witchcraft-during-the-burning-times/
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2041671/800-year-old-remains-witch-discovered-graveyard-Tuscany-Italy.html
https://kmel.iheart.com/featured/the-sana-g-morning-show/content/2020-02-man-fools-churches-into-believing-hes-ed-sheeran-fake-report-goes-viral/
https://obits.columbian.com/us/obituaries/columbian/name/pat-simon-obituary?id=32956005

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OBITCH matchmaker, matchmaker, make me a match... Mar 10, 2022

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This week your favorite historians….yeah we said it, are bringing you the hottest episode to date. Spencer takes us through the horrifying phenomenon of ‘phossy jaw’ and then Madison’s bringing us True Life: I’m an executioner. We’ve got an obituary for an inanimate object, one that rhymes, and one that looks like it was pulled straight outta Linkedin. OH and as always, we’ve got some dumb.ass.criminallllllls!

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Sources:
https://www.dailynews.com/2008/12/08/butt-bandit-gets-a-year-in-jail/amp/
http://wwwchem.uwimona.edu.jm/courses/CHEM2402/Myths_General/P_Matches.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phossy_jaw
https://allthatsinteresting.com/phossy-jaw
https://www.wearethemighty.com/mighty-history/took-be-executioner-medieval-times/
https://sofrep.com/news/the-executioner-as-a-profession-in-medieval-times/
https://www.livescience.com/medieval-executioner-life.html
http://berlinbooks.org/brb/2009/12/gods-executioner/
https://nexusnewsfeed.com/article/ancient-mysteries/the-dark-life-of-a-medieval-executioner-a-cut-away-from-the-rest/
https://www.dannydutch.com/post/a-day-in-the-life-of-a-medieval-executioner-in-their-16th-century-heyday
https://www.grunge.com/211401/what-the-final-24-hours-of-a-prisoner-on-death-row-are-like/
http://theappendix.net/posts/2014/06/a-short-history-of-the-executioner

https://hobanvisor.news/an-obituary-to-a-pencil-sharpener/

http://theappendix.net/posts/2014/06/a-short-history-of-the-executioner
https://www.grunge.com/211401/what-the-final-24-hours-of-a-prisoner-on-death-row-are-like/
https://twitter.com/KevinRollason/status/1495483613663707142/photo/1
https://people.com/food/hot-dog-robbery-shoots-himself-penis/
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2017/11/2/18330967/no-bond-for-man-who-shot-himself-in-penis-while-robbing-hot-dog-stand

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OBITCH I will love you till the end of time.. Mar 03, 2022

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This week the gruesome twosome discuss everything from necrophilia to the unappetizing life of sin-eaters. We’ve got an obituary for a, perhaps too-trusting lady, and one that maybe should’ve never hit the papers. And of course, we’ve got some dumb.ass.criminalllllllls let’s go!

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Sources:

https://allthatsinteresting.com/sin-eater
https://gizmodo.com/the-weird-but-true-history-of-sin-eaters-479990066
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sin-eater
https://www.news4jax.com/news/2019/03/08/florida-woman-charged-with-stealing-rental-car-says-demons-took-it/
https://listverse.com/2018/03/18/10-twisted-facts-about-necrophilia/
https://medium.com/humanity-dawns/necrophilia-crime-or-condition-1d20fad78724
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/François_Bertrand
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/29089/historic-vampires
https://www.ripleys.com/weird-news/carl-tanzler/
https://allthatsinteresting.com/carl-tanzler
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/16840791/necrophiliac-morgue-rat-sex-40-corpses-coffins/
https://birthmoviesdeath.com/2013/10/31/ghoul-of-your-dreams-proud-necrophiliac-karen-greenlee
https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/jsonline/name/mary-mullaney-obituary?id=3365786
https://www.oxygen.com/crime-time/duane-johnson-charged-with-murder-wife-debra-johnson-after-alleged-meth-fueled-death-party

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OBITCH go out with a bang.. Feb 24, 2022

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In yet another chaotic installment, this week your hosts with the most are taking you through spontaneous human combustion, and a part two of poisons, oh baby radium gives you wings. We’ve got an obituary for an icon and a man who has the right idea about how to live life. OH, we almost forgot, we’ve also got some dumb.ass.criminalllllllls!

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OBITCH a little arsenic won't hurt... Feb 17, 2022

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Ohhh Geoffs…are you ready? This week we’ve got some bad advice from the victorians, and then some hot tips from the longest living people ever. We’ve got a catty obituary, an outlaw, and one that just encapsulated the deceased’s life. Oh we almost forgot, we’ve also got some dumb.ass.criminalllllllls.
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https://www.mysuncoast.com/2019/04/30/deputies-florida-man-woman-pretended-be-detectives-try-get-friend-out-jail/
https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/potterleaderenterprise/name/hubert-cox-obituary?id=32103088
https://www.spin.com/2022/02/snacks-best-coast-cat-dies/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeanne_Calment
https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/03/asia/kane-tanaka-turns-119-intl-scli/index.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiroemon_Kimura
https://www.insider.com/secrets-to-long-life-that-people-reached-100-swore-by-2020-4
https://listverse.com/2017/07/16/10-dreadful-ways-the-victorians-accidentally-poisoned-themselves/

https://www.babybottle-museum.co.uk/murder-bottles/

https://www.alnwickcastle.com/explore/on-screen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Im4iekcPlc0
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http://gothicwestern.com/site/doc-holliday-obituary/
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/doc-hollidays-grave
https://viraltab.news/naked-florida-woman-breaks-into-home-and-grabs-oap-resident-by-the-balls/
https://www.wbtw.com/news/national/florida-woman-accused-of-walking-into-home-undressing-then-hugging-and-sitting-on-people/
https://crosscut.com/2010/09/arsenic-victorians-secret
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-poisonous-beauty-advice-columns-of-victorian-england

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OBITCH gimme brain... Feb 10, 2022

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HELLO! Happy Thursday Geoffs! This week you are in for a wild ride. What’s got us spinning in our coffins? Maternal somatic support after brain death, posthumous sperm retrieval, and the truth about organ donation! We’ve got an obituary for an inventor, a two-for-one and of course, we’ve got some dumb.ass.criminalssssss!

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Sources:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/02/business/john-koss-dead.html
organdonor.gov
https://www.scoopwhoop.com/Unbelievable-Organ-Transplant-Stories-That-Are-True/
americantransplantfoundation.com
https://www.verywellhealth.com/brain-death-what-does-it-mean-3157217
https://core.org
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_lEJsNcnWA
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/58074222/julie-marie-helgeson
https://www.newsweek.com/florida-man-68-crashes-lawn-mower-cop-car-tells-police-officer-f-im-drunk-1420389
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/gary-wayne-anderson-dui-lawnmower_n_5cd09fa6e4b0e4d75736e1cf
https://nypost.com/2022/01/31/semi-nude-women-advertise-funeral-service-in-tasteless-video/
https://bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1741-7015-8-74
https://www.tampabay.com/archive/1997/06/17/death-reunites-dovey-with-twin-lovey/?outputType=amp
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posthumous_sperm_retrieval
https://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/documents/rc_con_cfaith_doc_19870222_respect-for-human-life_en.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maternal_somatic_support_after_brain_death

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OBITCH we're doing the breast we can... Feb 03, 2022

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Join us for possibly our most chaotic episode to date…it might even need a graphic advisory? Madison comes in with some bizarre famous wills, and then Spencer gets into a weird question that had his coffin spinning this week. We’ve got some iconic obituaries, and of course we’ve got some dumb.ass.criminallllllls!

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https://smartasset.com/estate-planning/what-is-a-will
http://www.thelostdutchmangoldmine.com/lost-dutchman/james-kidd-missing/
https://www.encyclopedia.com/science/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/kidd-james-1879-ca-1949
https://www.wcax.com/2021/11/05/bowman-mansion-mausoleum-be-honored-with-historical-marker/
https://brovidly.com/famous-last-wills/
http://www.houdini.org/seance.html
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/70298/enduring-tradition-houdini-seance-halloween
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2003/06/marilyn-monroe-and-lee-strasberg-200306
http://thedamienzone.com/2010/12/30/marilyn-monroes-estate-is-mrs-strasberg-greedy-you-judge/
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/70298/enduring-tradition-houdini-seance-halloween#:~:text=Bess%20held%20the%20first%20séance%20after%20Houdini’s%20death,promote%20the%20Houdini%20name%20after%20the%20magician’s%20death
https://mix957gr.com/im-not-drunk-i-just-have-big-boobs-stupid-criminal-of-the-day/
https://mix957gr.com/im-not-drunk-i-just-have-big-boobs-stupid-criminal-of-the-day/
https://www.bustle.com/articles/109465-what-happens-to-breast-implants-after-you-die-mortician-caitlyn-doughty-gives-us-mortals-the-411
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3836773/
https://www.quora.com/If-a-lactating-woman-dies-is-it-possible-to-get-by-pumping-the-last-batch-of-milk-from-her-dead-body-s-breasts

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OBITCH say cheese... Jan 27, 2022

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OBITCH say cheese…

Strike a pose Geoff’s, this week Spencer covers death photography aka post-mortem photography, then Madison brings us to life with some bizarre wakening tactics and the horrifying truth behind being buried alive! We’ve got some obituaries both old and new, and of course, we’ve got some dumb.ass.criminallllls!

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Sources:

https://bcmj.org/special-feature/special-feature-tobacco-smoke-enemas
https://historycollection.com/16-death-tests-doctors-used-to-determine-if-someone-was-really-dead-in-the-18th-and-19th-centuries/16/
https://allthatsinteresting.com/buried-alive
https://www.joincake.com/blog/safety-coffin/
https://knowledgenuts.com/2014/05/30/the-contest-to-properly-diagnose-death/
https://longstreet.typepad.com/thesciencebookstore/2009/10/the-worst-job-of-the-19th-century-tonguepullers-nipplepinchers-anal-tobacco-blowers-try-to-revive-th.html
https://gizmodo.com/9-weird-and-unreliable-ways-to-avoid-burying-someone-al-1448575444
https://historycollection.com/buried-alive-common-victorian-era-doctors-used-10-methods-prevent/7/
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/54818/4-people-who-were-buried-alive-and-how-they-got-out
https://www.newspapers.com/image/?clipping_id=86987088&fcfToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJmcmVlLXZpZXctaWQiOjM4ODEwNjc2NiwiaWF0IjoxNjQyNjU0MjQ3LCJleHAiOjE2NDI3NDA2NDd9.6qXiskULkkclbkYlMDQqE0KolLVHvo7PEhF5ZA82Hzs
https://www.thethings.com/15-funny-obituaries-that-will-make-you-die-from-laughter/
https://www.oxygen.com/crime-time/joseph-sireci-florida-man-jailed-after-giving-girlfriend-wet-willy
https://www.notesfromthefrontier.com/post/death-photography
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-mortem_photography
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-36389581
https://www.thecollector.com/post-mortem-photography/

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OBITCH order in the court... Jan 20, 2022

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Happy Thursday Geoffs! This week you are in for a wild ride. Madison discusses the wild world of crime scene cleaners, Spencer has the trial of the century…well a century anyway..we’ve got some legendary obituaries, and of course, some dumb.ass.criminalllllllls! Let’s do this!

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Sources:

http://www.legacy.com/ns/sylvia-browne-obituary/168121834
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/morbid-monday-cadaver-synod
https://www.ripleys.com/weird-news/cadaver-synod/
https://www.newsweek.com/coffin-confessor-tell-secrets-beyond-grave-1529381
https://cooperfuneralhome.com/tribute/details/661/Frank-Ranallo-Sr/obituary.html#tribute-start
https://www.foxnews.com/us/florida-storm-drain-texas-tunnel
https://biorecovery.com/safety-gear-when-cleaning-crime-scenes/#:~:text=Equipment%20commonly%20used%20by%20professionals%20to%20clean%20up,protective%20suit%2C%20disposable%20non-porous%20gloves%20and%20filtered%20respirators
https://www.ladbible.com/more/interesting-what-happens-in-the-life-of-a-crime-scene-cleaner-20170202
https://www.aetv.com/shows/the-first-48/real-crime/crime-scene-cleaners-neal-smither-interview
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/553028/secrets-crime-scene-cleaners
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_scene_cleanup
https://www.smcoloradosprings.com/evidence-left-behind-cleaning-up-a-crime-scene/

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OBITCH I'd rather be cursed than broke... Jan 13, 2022

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It’s Thursday and boy oh boy have we got a show for you today. This week Spencer teaches us how to get ready for a burial, and then Madison tells us how we can memorialize that forever with a death mask! We’ve got a range of obituaries from sweet to scientific, and of course, we’ve got, some dumb.ass.criminalsssssss.

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Sources:
https://work.chron.com/average-pay-mortuary-makeup-artist-17793.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederik_Ruysch
https://bartonfuneral.com/funeral-basics/history-of-embalming/
https://www.businessinsider.com/a-mortician-reveals-what-its-like-to-work-at-the-morgue-2013-2
https://www.joincake.com/blog/how-do-funeral-homes-dress-bodies/
https://www.britannica.com/topic/death-mask

https://www.grunge.com/240887/the-crazy-true-history-of-death-masks/?utm_campaign=clip
https://www.biography.com/news/famous-death-masks
https://www.cnn.com/style/article/death-masks/index.html
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/phrenology-the-pseudoscience-of-skull-shapes
http://www.theterrestrial.com/interview/nick-reynolds/
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2013/feb/28/bruce-reynolds
https://historycollection.com/unmasking-the-dead-10-eerie-and-infamous-death-masks/10/
https://www.joincake.com/blog/death-mask/
https://historycollection.com/queen-death-masks-madame-tussaud-narrowly-escaped-death-morbid-bargain/2/
https://medium.com/omgfacts/death-masks-the-heirloom-nobody-asked-for-61a6382d2b2
https://discover.hubpages.com/education/The-Bloody-History-of-Madame-Tussauds-Wax-Museums
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/mark-loescher-says-hes-half-orangutan_n_1290576

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