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5 min readThe Coroner Who Learned Not to Look Too Closely
The first body arrived four days after the narrator took over his father's coroner practice in a tiny town of fewer than 1,000 people in the Canadian Appalachians. The sheriff met him at the door before dawn, cigarette hanging from his lips, and explained they'd found a man an hour earlier, face down in a creek at the bottom of a small cliff. Fall seemed like the obvious cause. But when the narrator unzipped the body bag, there was no smell—no "gross old human soup" of decomposition—despite the corpse looking like an "overly full water balloon ready to pop." The skin was bluish-green, the tongue swollen and discolored, the fingers sausage-like. And when he ran his hands along the shin, he found no broken bones. Not one.
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What you'll learn
- 1 (00:00) **Episode Introduction and Host Background** - The narrator introduces himself as a small-town coroner in the Canadian Appalachians, a job he inherited from his father.
- 2 (05:53) **The First Strange Corpse: Setup and Initial Observations** - The narrator describes his first truly bizarre case, which occurred just four days after he took over the practice.
- 3 (13:49) **The Discovery in the Throat** - During the autopsy, the narrator finds a hard object lodged in the corpse's throat.
- 4 (17:45) **The Sheriff's Cryptic Warning** - Sheriff Williams dismisses the narrator's concerns about the wallet, suggesting he will see plenty of weird things in this profession.
- 5 (19:47) **A Shocking Turn of Events** - The narrator reveals that his policy of ignoring the weirdness became impossible when a dead body on his table sat up and screamed.
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Confessions of a mortician
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