Dark History · Premium
HALLOWEEN SPECIAL: "Creepy Creations", the shop of horrors
In Peabody, near the witch town of Salem, there was a shop called "Kat's Creepy Creations", where the owner Katrina MacLean sold creepy dolls and "oddities". But in 2023, the FBI discovered a much more real horror: some of those works were made of real human remains, stolen from one of the most sacred places in medicine, Harvard Medical School. Managing the trafficking was Cedric Lodge, the morgue manager, who for years stole organs, bones, and even the faces of people donated to science before cremation. Lodge sold the remains to MacLean and other collectors through Facebook groups for a few hundred dollars. Once discovered, Lodge was sentenced to eight years in prison and MacLean to two and Harvard paid 53 million dollars to the victims' families. This story does not need ghosts to be scary: the monsters, this time, were alive.
Premium story: open the app to listen to it in full.
