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5 min readThe Coroner's First Strange Case
A small-town coroner in the Canadian Appalachians, who inherited the family business from his father, has spent ten years performing autopsies on bodies that never belong to locals. Every single corpse that lands on his table comes from somewhere else—hikers, tourists, people found in the woods. He has never once examined a resident of his own town, even though people must die there. This is the first of his strange stories, and it begins four days after he took over the practice.
A Body Without a Smell
The call came early on a frosty October morning, just before Halloween. Sheriff Williams, a weathered man in his sixties who had held his position for over twenty years, met the coroner outside the building. A body had been found an hour earlier, about a kilometer west of town, at the bottom of a small cliff. The sheriff assumed the fall had killed him.
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What you'll learn
- 1 Scary Stories - Autopsy: Timestamped Outline
- 2 (00:00-02:45) **Advertisements and Sponsors** - Multiple ad segments for go-kart racing, AI cybersecurity, Goya beans, Smart Bunny travel insurance, and Times Square attractions.
- 3 (02:47-04:08) **The Coroner's Origin Story** - The narrator explains how he became a coroner through family obligation, taking over from his father in a small Canadian Appalachian town.
- 4 (04:08-05:35) **The Central Mystery: Bodies That Aren't Local** - The narrator reveals the first strange pattern: in ten years, not a single body on his table was a resident of his town.
- 5 (05:35-06:18) **Three Bizarre Cases Teased** - The narrator briefly lists three of the strangest bodies he's received, setting up the episode's tone.
- 6 (06:18-07:41) **Ad Break** - Commercials for Sleep Number, QVC, and McDonald's.
- 7 (07:41-08:49) **The First Strange Body Arrives** - Four days after taking over the practice, the narrator's first unusual out-of-towner is brought in by Sheriff Williams.
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Show Notes
Confessions of a mortician
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