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  • Episode 93: Adios, Amigos!

    Episode 93: Adios, Amigos!
    Mar 5 2026
    In today’s death story, we are going to talk about the parting words of those who were handed the ultimate punishment, and our funeral home story tells of the time the undertaker had to say goodbye to his dearest friend — forever. Email us! morgueratspod@gmail.com Follow us! Instagram - morgueratspod Facebook - morgue rats Sources: Elder, Robert K.; Last Words of the Executed; University of Chicago Press; 2010
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    35 min
  • Episode 92: Beating Around The Bush!

    Episode 92: Beating Around The Bush!
    Feb 19 2026
    In today’s death story, we are going to talk about crimes where pubic hair cracked the case, and our funeral home story tells of the time the undertaker and his assistant noticed something strange in the prep room. Email us! morgueratspod@gmail.com Follow us! Instagram - morgueratspod Facebook - morgue rats https://da.venturacounty.gov/mediacenter/notable/people-v-ricardo-villa/ https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2004-apr-21-me-vnsolve21-story.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Berdella https://crimewatch.net/us/pa/bucks/da/29567/post/cold-case-finds-justice-suspect-identified-1962-murder-carol-ann-dougherty https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blanche_Taylor_Moore https://murderpedia.org/female.M/m/moore-blanche-taylor.htm
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    28 min
  • Episode 91: Call Me Maybe!

    Episode 91: Call Me Maybe!
    Feb 5 2026
    In today’s death story, we are going to talk about people who valued their phones more than life, and our funeral home story tells of the time the undertaker saw firsthand how an attachment to a phone led to a horrible death. Email us! morgueratspod@gmail.com Follow us! Instagram - morgueratspod Facebook - Morgue Rats Sources: 10 Horrific Deaths Caused By Cell Phones - Listverse https://www.thurswell.com/blog/6-year-sentence-texting-driver-killed-teens-auto-accident/ https://www.wkyc.com/article/news/local/summit-county/watch-driver-who-killed-2-coventry-township-teens-sentenced-today/95-564651221 https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/wbna19764563 https://www.pjstar.com/story/news/fire/2014/07/29/bartonville-woman-dies-after-running/36767579007/ https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/police-man-found-dead-in-garbage-chute-was-looking-for-his-cell-phone/ https://www.fox29.com/news/mom-arrested-after-three-children-drown-in-apartment-pool.amp
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    32 min
  • Episode 90: Too Much Stuff!

    Episode 90: Too Much Stuff!
    Dec 11 2025
    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 Email us! morgueratspod@gmail.com Follow us! Instagram - morgueratspod Facebook - Morgue Rats Sources: 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/
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    30 min
  • Episode 89: Thankskilling!

    Episode 89: Thankskilling!
    Nov 27 2025
    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 Email us! morgueratspod@gmail.com Follow us! Instagram - morgueratspod Facebook - Morgue Rats Sources: 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
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    31 min
  • Episode 88: Beautiful Words, Tragic Lives

    Episode 88: Beautiful Words, Tragic Lives
    Nov 13 2025
    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 Email us! morgueratspod@gmail.com Follow us! Instagram - morgueratspod Facebook - Morgue Rats Sources: 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
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    31 min
  • Episode 87: It Wasn’t Supposed To Go Like That!

    Episode 87: It Wasn’t Supposed To Go Like That!
    Oct 30 2025
    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 Email us! morgueratspod@gmail.com Follow us! Instagram - morgueratspod Facebook - Morgue Rats Sources: 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
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    24 min
  • Episode 86: Get Back, You Filthy Animal!

    Episode 86: Get Back, You Filthy Animal!
    Oct 16 2025
    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 Email us! morgueratspod@gmail.com Follow us! Instagram-morgueratspod Facebook-Morgue Rats Sources: 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
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    35 min