The Macabrecast

Episode 32: The White Witch of Rose Hall

We're honored to present our first guest episode! Please enjoy a two week sequence where our friends and mentors Yelena and Traynor join us for some chilling tales.
As a suggestion from Yelena, Holly covers the White Witch of Rose Hall--a haunting plantation in Jamaica. Murder, torture, colonization, this episode is not for the faint of heart. 

Episode 31: The Ghost of Gunnuhver

Hot springs, hot mud, hot mess. The gang is back in Iceland, but this time for a ghostly tale of revenge. The ghost of Gunnuhver will not disappoint you, and she may still be clinging to the edge of the mud pit--ready for revenge!

Episode 30: The Jointless Hugag

Welcome back to the land of fearsome creatures! Guided by the illustrious William T Cox, Brooke tells us the tale of the Hugag, another mysterious critter in the Midwest. A harmless creature with a very dysfunctional body.

Episode 29: Gay Pirates!

For our second Pride themed episode, Brooke covers the much anticipated Pirate Queens, Mary Read and Anne Bonny. This episode is about a couple swashbuckling women who fall in love while in secretly in drag!

Episode 28: Queer Love for the Ages

Happy Pride from the Macabrecast! For Episode 28, we venture through queer history. Holly honors four queer couples with interesting lives, deaths, and tombs! 

Episode 27: The Soap Maker of Correggio

Welcome back to a second SOAPisode as Holly tells the story of Leonarda Cianciulli—Italy's Soap Maker of Correggio. Trust us when we tell you, you're not ready for this one.

Episode 26: Soap Bodies and The Lady of The Lake

This week Brooke takes us to Crescent Lake, Washington for murder and scientific phenomena. If you’d like to know how a corpse becomes soap, then you’ve come to the right place!

Episode 25: The Lier Sykehus

Brooke kicks off our 25th episode with the Lier Sykehus. We'll be heading to Norway to talk about the history of this asylum and the conditions that their patients had to endure. This place may not be haunted, but it's definitely haunting.

Episode 24: Visiting the Not-So-Love-ly Canal

This week's episode may be about the Love Canal, but it's not going to have anything to do with love. Holly walks us through Love Canal's tragic history--a community near Niagara Falls that became a chemical dumping ground and devastated the residents. 

Episode 23: Agatha Christie’s Eleven-Day Disappearance

We all know of the famous mystery author Agatha Christie, but do we all know about her disappearance? This week, Holly goes into the details of Agatha Christie's mysterious 11 day disappearance and her even more alarming reappearance! What happened in those 11 days has never been uncovered, but that hasn't stopped us from speculating.