Dead Girls Talking

Granny witches, folk healing, mountain magic, whatever name you may know it by, these practices have been swirling around the Appalachian mountains  for centuries.  Minda and Jenna sit down with North Carolina folk healer Nikki Chester to discuss her family's legacy of mountain magic and how it interplays with current culture, how she turned her knowledge of natural healing into a business and of course, her 10 cats! Nikki was rece...

Illegal adoptions. Mass infant graves. Sadistic nuns.  Such are the tales from one of Ireland's 18 infamous mother baby homes, in operation from 1920 through 1970, the Sean Ross Abbey. With the discovery of 796 children believed to be buried in a former septic tank on the grounds of the Tuam mother and baby home, investigations have been launched to discover the truth behind these mother baby homes. Minda & Jenna sit down with Gerr...

Part 2 of Minda & Jenna's powerful interview with Chad Nance and Carissa Joines, the filmmaking team behind the upcoming docuseries Hometown America.  We continue to unravel the hidden depths of the opioid crisis and it's effects on America's favorite small town, Mt. Airy, NC.  One mother's journey to shed light on the devastation that is being wrought on families touched by addiction, and her brave stand against being silenced.  W...

For 117 years, Key West, Florida has been home to one of America's most haunted objects: Robert the Doll.  An extensive history filled with terrifying and unexplained phenomenon's, alleged curses and Ozzy Osbourne, Robert the Doll has drawn  many a curious traveler south to witness the unexplained.  On this episode, Minda and Jenna sit down with author David L. Sloan, curator of Sloan's Ghost Fort Adventures and keeper of Robert th...

The Dead Girls talk with NYC drag king and professional death doula Cas aka Vigor Mortis about embracing mortality, voicing final wishes, and navigating the death industry as a minority. A death doula (also sometimes called end-of-life doula, or death midwife) is a trained nonmedical professional who provides emotional, physical, and educational support for someone nearing death.  Cas explains how important representation is for LB...

Minda and Jenna chat with the Feral Hogs Comedy Team, Hilliary Begley and Bridgette Martin. You may recognize Hilliary as Aunt Lucy from the Netflix smash hit “ Dumplin’” with Jennifer Aniston. It’s a wild ride with comedy, body positivity and movie making!

Hilliary Begley's southern charm combined with her sass make for an unforgettable night of storytelling. From tales of her religious upbringing to those of adulthood, Hilliary w...

Did you know tucked away in Maryland there is a museum devoted entirely to Urology? Jenna did! Minda and Jenna are joined by Tupper Stevens, an expert and guide for the Urology Museum. In the not to distant past, a bladder stone removal was much more serious than it is now, oftentimes the treatment was a kill or cure situation.  Tupper guides us through the history of urology, the more unusual exhibits in the museum and answers all...

Minda & Jenna sit down with the incredible Bruce Goldfarb, author of 18 Tiny Deaths: The Untold Story of the Woman Who Invented Modern Forensics and the executive assistant to the OCME of Baltimore, MA.  Bruce tell us about Frances Glessner Lee (1878-1962) who crafted her extraordinary “Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death”—exquisitely detailed miniature crime scenes—to train homicide investigators to “convict the guilty, clear th...