Antemortem

The riot rages on this episode as we get an account of the violence inside the New Mexico State Penitentiary. As the sie... Read more

No one in the early 1970s guessed that Dean Corll, the bachelor who owned a van and handed out free candy to strange chi... Read more

The Bosnian War and genocide campaign therein took place from 1992 to 1995. Bosnia and Herzegovina, a former republic o... Read more

By the time Challenger had its 1986 liftoff, NASA could boast of 23 successful space shuttle missions. Challenger’s 10th... Read more

Dracula's reign of terror really gets going.

In 1941, Germany unleashed its most powerful warship to attack Britain's merchant shipping. Bismarck displayed her capa... Read more

Henry VIII blows through three wives in this episode. Now that he’s free from Catherine of Aragon, he can marry Anne Bol... Read more

In this episode, Antemortem introduces you to some of the world’s lesser-known horrifying diseases. You’ll come out with... Read more

In April 2013, Dr. Autumn Klein was stricken with an unidentified medical condition. Three days and zero diagnoses later... Read more

Bees? Bees! But not just any bees. The hybrid subspecies of Africanized honey bee was created in Brazil. Scientists were... Read more

The maid was just trying to finish her shift when she opened the door to Room 237 and found a bloodbath inside. How? Why... Read more

When the Civil War ended, thousands of former prisoners of war needed to travel north from Vicksburg to get home. Their ... Read more

Today’s episode is about the unpredictable (and occasionally man-eating) phenomenon known as the sinkhole. They appear a... Read more

The last two women to marry Henry VIII were Catherine Howard and Catherine Parr. Both were English and both would have ... Read more

California didn’t exactly have a shortage of serial killers in the 1970s. Rodney Alcala was one of them. The extent of h... Read more

Episode one of the Osama bin Laden series covers the long manhunt for the notorious terrorist. He co-founded al-Qaeda in... Read more

From the dog bites of 4,000 years ago to the raccoon attacks of today, rabies has menaced the world's mammals. Humans ha... Read more

Vlad the Impaler's homeland was nestled tightly between the warring Holy Roman and Ottoman Empires. In this episode we ... Read more

Caligula is remembered as one of the most notorious leaders the world has known. He loved his horse, his sister, and ord... Read more

Known to the youth of Tucson as Smitty, Charles Howard Schmid Jr. was a pathological, murderous, boot-wearer. He killed ... Read more