Antemortem
Culture
Antemortem is an exploration of any person, thing, or weird accident that results in human fatality.
Location:
United States
Description:
Antemortem is an exploration of any person, thing, or weird accident that results in human fatality.
Twitter:
@antemortempod
Language:
English
Episodes
Postmortem
7/19/2022
A short goodbye and thank you.
Duration:00:02:21
AM108: Hindenburg
6/22/2022
LZ-129 Hindenburg was the pride and joy of the Zeppelin company. The rigid airship took its final voyage in May 1937. Big and buoyant, its failure singlehandedly ruined commercial travel via dirigible.
Duration:00:20:01
AM107: Torture Methods
5/25/2022
This episode is torture.
Duration:00:20:35
AM106: Tornadoes
4/27/2022
When a big windy tunnel comes down from the sky
Duration:00:18:57
AM105: Lizzie Borden
3/16/2022
Lizzie Borden may or may not have given her father and stepmother a collective 31 whacks. We'll learn about the inhabitants of the household and their supposed whereabouts at the time of the infamous murders. Then, Lizzie goes to trial.
Duration:00:26:21
AM104: London Metro Bombings
2/16/2022
In July 2005, four terrorists attacked London at rush hour. We look at who they were and how it happened. A cameo from the Mother of Satan.
Duration:00:25:41
AM103: Surgery Part IV - Modern Medicine
1/19/2022
Goodbye, Galen. Hello, cyberknife!
Duration:00:29:16
AM102: Surgery Part III - The Industrial Age and American Civil War
12/22/2021
In this episode, John Hunter saves some legs and Civil War surgeons remove quite a few. Luckily for the soldiers, chloroform is in use.
Duration:00:26:10
AM101: Surgery Part II - The Middle Ages and Renaissance
12/1/2021
When it came to cutting people open during the medieval period and renaissance, the barber surgeon reigned supreme. The bandages were drunk, the c-sections were deadly, and da Vinci was slicing bodies open left and right.
Duration:00:28:06
AM100: Surgery Part I - The Ancient World
11/10/2021
We’re on episode 100 and it's time for Antemortem to have surgery! Part one of this series covers surgical practices of the ancient world. The doctors and "doctors" in this episode will be trepanning, castrating, and gently shoving someone's exposed intestines back inside their body.
Duration:00:29:17
AM099: Deepwater Horizon
10/27/2021
In 2010, the oil rig Deepwater Horizon experienced catastrophic failure. After the deadly blast, there came an oil spill of monstrous proportions.
Duration:00:25:16
AM098: Murder of JonBenét Ramsey
10/13/2021
If you like unsolvable murders with heaps of contradictory evidence and an inscrutable ransom note, you've come to the right episode. JonBenét Ramsey was killed in 1996 but even a decade-late confession has brought us no closer to knowing who's responsible. Listen to see if you can figure out whether the pineapple is important.
Duration:00:29:57
AM097: Battle of Bunker Hill
9/29/2021
The battle on Breed's Hill, known as the Battle of Bunker Hill, took place early in the war for American Independence. The British expected an easy victory but the colonists fought better than expected. Viva la revolución,
Duration:00:21:23
AM096: Murders Around the World II
9/10/2021
Antemortem busts out of quarantine and travels to some new nations in this episode. Four tales of murder await. And we'll visit our old friend, digitalis, too.
Duration:00:22:23
AM095: Titanic
8/11/2021
The year was 1912. The ocean was below freezing. The lifeboats were inadequate. The punctures of an iceberg took down the world's largest ship in under three hours. Based on the 1997 blockbuster, Titanic.
Duration:00:29:10
AM094: Israel Keyes
6/30/2021
Meet Israel Keyes: loner, carpenter, killer. Keyes murdered at least eight victims and committed a variety of other crimes. He wouldn't want us talking about him.
Duration:00:26:48
AM093: Great Chicago Fire
6/9/2021
Chicago in 1871 was a rapidly growing city full of wooden buildings. Two things it lacked were an adequately equipped fire department and precipitation. After three dry months, a barn on the city’s south side went up in flames. The tenacious fire crossed rivers and overwhelmed the city.
Duration:00:22:42
AM092: John List and Other Family Annihilators
5/26/2021
When faced with a difficult financial situation, John List chose the worst possible option.
Duration:00:27:24
AM091: Nat Turner Rebellion
5/12/2021
For a few days in August, 1831, Nat Turner led a rebellion that shocked and terrified the enslavers of Southampton County, Virginia and hastened abolition.
Duration:00:23:00
AM090: Tuberculosis Part II
4/28/2021
Episode 2 on tuberculosis explores some of the pre-antibiotic methods for dealing with the disease. You should probably try sitting outside and drinking milk before considering surgical options. Neither will cure you but you might be inspired to write a poem before you expire.
Duration:00:25:30