Macabre : Dark History

We just got back from our first LIVE show at the Southern Oregon True Crime Summit in haunted Jacksonville, Oregon — and we're still recovering. While we shake off the ghosts (literally), we're digging one up from the vault for you.
This is D is for Dracula, exhumed from season one and still one of our all-time favorites. Vlad the Impaler. Dinner parties surrounded by forests of impaled corpses. The real history behind the vampire myth that makes Bram Stoker's version look like a bedtime story.
If you've been with us since the beginning, this one hits different now. If you're new to the morbs — welcome. This is where it all started.
We hope you enjoy this throwback to season 1.
☠ Here's to fighting the morbs. ☠

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When you think your 9-to-5 is bad... think again.
History had jobs where you could drown in sewage, get cancer from your paintbrush, or be buried alive for making a mistake. Real jobs. Real people. Real nightmare fuel.
Content warning: child labor, bodily fluids, radiation, slavery, live burial. Expect drama, death, and an unhealthy number of puns. Listener discretion is advised.In this Top 10 minisode, Halley and Blaire count down the most horrifying, disgusting, and occasionally hilarious occupations humans have ever endured. Numbers 10 through 6 are on the main feed .
Numbers 5 through 1 are EXCLUSIVELY or our Patreon members and Spotify paid subscribers.
🎧 Get the full Top 10: patreon.com/macabrepodcast or subscribe on Spotify
☠ Here's to fighting the morbs. ☠

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Buckle up, friends — this one's a double feature of pure historical insanity.
First, we're diving into Project X-Ray, the very real WWII plan where the U.S. government strapped tiny incendiary bombs to thousands of bats and planned to drop them on Japan. Yes, actual bats. Yes, it went exactly as wrong as you'd think. Spoiler: a test base may or may not have been set on fire by its own weapons.
Then we're stumbling into the bizarre, booze-soaked world of Tycho Brahe — the 16th-century rock star astronomer who mapped the stars from a castle, wore a metal nose after losing his real one in a duel over math, kept a psychic dwarf named Jepp under his dinner table, and had a pet moose that died falling down the stairs after getting drunk at a party. We're not making this up. History did.
🦇 This is a re-released bonus episode from our Patreon, where we drop our unhinged, extra-dark, extra-weird history content every month. If you love this kind of macabre, slurred, what-the-hell-did-I-just-learn storytelling, head to our Patreon for the full vault of supporter-only episodes — more drunken science, forgotten atrocities, and the historical horrors your textbook left out.
Pinkies up, cheers, and keep it MACABRE!

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Two men walked into history dripping in velvet, scandal, and an absolutely unhinged commitment to being the most interesting person in the room. One was a bisexual lord with a club foot and a bear named Thor who lived in his abbey. The other was a gay Irish playwright who once said “I have nothing to declare but my genius” at customs — and meant it. Neither one was going to survive being themselves. But God, what a show.
Join the Ladies of Macabre for this edition of Drunk History Gone WILDE.

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In this episode of MACABRE: Dark History, we descend into the unsettling origins of classic nursery rhymes.
Current vibes: Nursery rhymes… but make it ✨childhood trauma✨
This week we’re asking the important questions:— Who or what was Humpty Dumpty and why was he really on that wall?— What exactly were Jack and Jill doing up on that hill? 👀— And how does Henry VIII manage to ruin everything, including birds?

🎙️ Join the unhinged ladies of Macabre as we dig into the creepy, chaotic, and downright disturbing origins of the rhymes that raised us.

Perfect for fans of: Morbid, Last Podcast on the Left, My Favorite Murder, and anyone who loves a good true crime mystery with a side of comedy.
New to dark history podcasts? Welcome. Been here since episode one? Grab your wine.Loving MACABRE?
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