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Mortuary Mythbusting, Wedding Officiating, and MORE TITANIC ALWAYS

Hello Deathlings,

New main channel video is in the works for early September (bold of me to make such a promise– but we're in the middle of editing). I tell the Patrons and so it shall be!

Until then, please enjoy my first appearan...

The Nazis Had a Titanic (That Also Sank) PATRON-ONLY

Hello Patrons!

This is a video just for you loveable goobers. Our decision to put it on Patreon MAY HAVE SOMETHING TO DO with knowing that the combination of "nazi" "shipwreck" "titanic" and "caitlin doughty" was going to get banned by Yout...

Lenin's Mausoleum, Titan's Moment of Doom, and other DEATH NEWS You Can Use [Patron-exclusive]

Hello NecroNews Consumers,

Well, what do we have here? Why, it's another edition of Caitlin's Death News You Can Use! A roundup of death stories gathered just for you by Sarah Chavez and yours truly. From the ocean floor, to the heights of a...

This Vicar's Body Has a DARK SECRET [Patron-Only VIDEO-PODCAST]

What can I say, I love this story.

I'm not even going to tell you the twist, all will be revealed.

I hope you've been enjoying all the Patreon content this month! (That sounds passive aggressive. "TELL ME YOU LIKE ME." "TELL ME YOU L...

I've Had It With David Sconce & The Mortician

Well, another episode of HBO's The Mortician has dropped and it's.... sorta the same as the first one. A Groundhog Day of funeral malfeasance.

Did you enjoy how this guy cremated 15 bodies at once in Episode One? How about 200 bodies at on...

Let's Talk about The Mortician on HBO

If you didn't watch last night, my yapping may still be of interest to you, as I do some recapping.

If you DID watch The Mortician, what did you think?

Should Sconce have been given a major platform?

Did you learn anything you ...

STILL The Worst Funeral Director Ever?

Well folks, it’s finally happened.

David “Little Hitler” Sconce, aka The Worst Funeral Director of All Time, is out of jail and back in a new HBO docuseries, The Mo...

The Weirdest Corpse in American Funeral History [NEW MAIN CHANNEL VIDEO]

Hello Deathlings,

Contrary to Caitlin mythology, I am a millennial lady-hag of many interests. When the camera is off and the mic is cold, I don't just power down – My Heart Will Go On playing softly in the background. I do things...

The Woman Who Tried to Sell Human Toes Regurgitated By Dogs {PATRON-EXCLUSIVE VIDEO}

🚨 EXPERIMENT ALERT 🚨

As I alluded to in my last post: ABA- Always Be Alluding–we here at Haus Caitlin are experimenting with new styles of content that will make us less dependent on YouTube.

One plan is to develop a more podc...

Why Don't You Make Videos Anymore, Caitlin?

Gentle Patrons,

There is a question I’ve been seeing, some of you may have even asked it:

Caitlin, please ma'am, tell us little guys why you don't make videos anymore?

Well first of all you adorable lil' cartoo...

Broadway Mummy and So Many Water Corpses: Caitlin's Death News You Can Use [Patron-Only]

Greetings my darlings and welcome to another edition of Caitlin's Death News You Can Use, a roundup of death stories carefully curated just for you by Sarah Chavez and yours truly. This month's crop of stories runs the gamut – from the bright li...

This Iconic Bridge Killed Its Builders [PATREON-EXCLUSIVE DOCUMENTARY]

Oh hi hello Patrons,

It's always, I feel, a good day to be our patron. But today is possibly...the best day EVER to be a patron? This is our first full length, fully realized video we've ever uploaded directly to Patreon.

Let's see how...

NEW VIDEO: The Orca Mother Who Carried Her Dead Calf Hundreds of Miles

WARNING:

This video is a heavy one. I'm proud of the advocacy message, but this story is not zippy and zany. But if you're like me and obsessed with both orcas and interactive grief centered on the dead body well.... you've come to the right...

Caitlin's Diatribe on the Couple "Forced" to Sit Next to a Corpse on a Plane [Patron-Only]

New main channel video tomorrow my little petunias.

But until then, you can listen to my thoughts on the above story. Then let me hear your thoughts!

You can watch the original interview with the Australian couple here: 2025-02-27 21:31:29 +0000 UTC View Post

NEW VIDEO: The Mysterious Fresh Body in the Civil War Grave

Last time we left our plucky heroine, she was having "Big Feelings"™ about video making while writing a research-heavy book. Since then, I have decided, and you heard it here first, to make twelve pieces of content this year. I've spaketh it and...

Oh No Caitlin is Having Some Big Feelings

“There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens.”  -Ecclesiastes 3

“A time to be born, a time to die, a time to plant, a time to reap.”  -The Byrds

[You k...

Smoke Book Club Replay [PATRON-ONLY]

Here we are my little snausages, a book club replay for those of you who could not make it on Thursday.

I really loved this one! It features a shocking tale from a nurse, hesitations from a mortuary worker, and a flock of murderous hell-par...

NEW VIDEO: The Two Tragedies of the Marchioness

Hello deathlings,

We've been working on this video for several months, and it's a fun one. And by "fun" I actually mean "an absolute s*%tshow of incompetence from a dredger captain and a coroner that made a boating tragedy on the Thames a m...

Book Club Thursday, New Video Friday

It's a busy week here at deathquarters!

Join me this week, for our second (and final) Smoke Gets in Your Eyes Book Club.

THIS THURSDAY 

Day: November 21

Time: 4 pm PST/7 pm EST

LINK: 2024-11-20 19:23:48 +0000 UTC View Post

VIDEO REPLAY: Smoke Gets in Your Eyes Patreon Book Club

For those of you who missed the first book club- and like, seriously, where were you?- here is the replay!

This was extremely fun, although to be honest I felt a bit rusty. I did almost nothing in the way of live events during my sabbatical ...

NEW VIDEO: The Decapitated Head that Changed England

Yes I know, you've been waiting patiently for a video. And you deserve a video, you deserve the world.

How about this absolutely bonkers story on the rise, Lord Protectorate, death, exhumation, dragging through the streets, postmortem execut...

Why, It's the Smoke Gets in Your Eyes Book Club Zoom Link [PATRON-ONLY]

Hello Readers (and listeners-- audiobookers welcome!),

THIS THURSDAY is the first Smoke Gets in Your Eyes Book Club.

DAY: October 24

TIME: 4pm PST/7pm EST

LINK: 2024-10-21 19:37:38 +0000 UTC View Post

Cannibalism & Disney+: Caitlin's Death News You Can Use [PATRON ONLY]

Welcome morbid petunias to another edition of Caitlin's Death News You Can Use, where the lovely Sarah Chavez and I hand-pick death stories we think you will find interesting, thrilling, frustrating, etc. We just want to make you FEEL SOMETHING, y...

Reading You My Cremation Memoir (and a Book Club!)

"A girl always remembers the first corpse she shaves," begins the iconic funeral industry memoir* by mortician and author Caitlin Doughty.

*That's not a quote from someone, that's just me claiming that. If you can't hype yourself how the hel...

PATRON-ONLY: Everyone Stop Asking Me to React to this Titanic Animated Film with a Rapping Dog

Ok, fine, no one was asking for this. But once you learn about this movie, like me, it will haunt your every waking moment and the deepest darkest parts of your dreams. Be mindful before clicking on this video- you can never go back to a time befo...

Petrified Mummies & Millennial Saints: Caitlin's Death News You Can Use [PATRON ONLY]

Hello deathlings,

Did you know that every month Sarah Chavez (my longtime colleague at the Order of the Good Death) and I exchange death news stories?* This helps us stay informed, plan new content– last month's Ortiz Funeral Malfeasance v...

Caitlin Faces Down AGE 40 (PATRON-ONLY)

'Allo loves,

Hopefully you enjoy this little insight into the DARK TWISTED MIND (jk it's just a normal mind) of Caitlin Doughty, death advocate, at 40.

Here are some of the questions I tackle in the video and want you to hear from yo...

Rats, Missing Bodies, and Next-Level Funeral Malfeasance [PATRON-EXCLUSIVE]

Let me introduce you to New York's worst funeral home chain.

Caitlin- how dare you run in here willy-nilly and label something "New York's WORST?" How can you be so sure? Well, lets you and I check out this funeral home's Google reviews and...

NEW DOCUMENTARY: The Civil War Submarine Missing for 136 Years

Hey folks,

Were you starting to think we'd never make a full-length documentary again? Well you're not alone–some days I thought that, too. But the siren song of just the right topic got the whole darn team back together.

I don't ev...

*Patron-Only* Revisting My First Titanic Dead Bodies Video

Hello, my dears. Is your brain a puddle of 3-day old microwaved mashed potatoes at this hour on a Friday? MINE IS. Especially since I only have a few days left in this month-long research trip and still. so. much. to. do.

Fortunately, the...