Why I’m Obsessed With The Macabre

What you'll learn

• 1 (01:26) **Welcome to the Macabre Oddities Department** - Brittany introduces the episode’s macabre theme, her new Victorian-inspired set, and her lifelong fascination with death and the morbid.
• 2 (02:56) **Descending Into the Paris Catacombs** - Brittany recounts her long-awaited visit to the catacombs, describing the descent and the eerie atmosphere.
• 3 (04:56) **The Grisly History of the Catacombs** - She explains how 1780s Paris, plagued by disease and overflowing mass graves, led to the mass exhumation and relocation of millions of bones underground.
• 4 (07:05) **Face to Face With Anonymous Death** - Brittany describes the visceral experience of walking past stacked human femurs and skulls, arranged like lumber, with no barriers.
• 5 (08:36) **A Temple of the Dead, Silent and Overwhelming** - She describes the profound existential feeling of being 66 feet underground in absolute silence, surrounded by the remains of millions.
• 6 (11:09) **An Existential Crisis Among Ancient Bones** - Brittany describes her mental spiral, realizing the bones are older than the United States and questioning the value of youth and a notable death.
• 7 (14:36) **The Lamp Dream Creepypasta** - Brittany pivots to a viral internet horror story that has been traumatizing TikTok, reading the full "Lamp Dream" creepypasta aloud.

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