Hollywood loves a good curse.

But what if the real horror isn’t supernatural at all?

In this episode of Morbid History, we step behind the camera to examine the films said to be “cursed”—from The Twilight Zone: The Movie, where a fatal on-set disaster changed Hollywood forever, to The Omen, a production haunted by a trail of eerie coincidences and tragedy.

Along the way, we explore the chaos surrounding The Exorcist, the deaths linked to Poltergeist, the fatal negligence that killed Brandon Lee during The Crow, and the obsession-driven productions of Apocalypse Now and Fitzcarraldo.

These aren’t stories about haunted sets or angry spirits.

They’re stories about pressure, ambition, and what happens when no one says stop.

Because sometimes the most dangerous thing in Hollywood isn’t a curse... it’s the belief that the shot is worth the cost.

Original music in this episode is provided by the talented: SHDWLRKR

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It started with a flooded house and a dolphin named Peter. It ended in LSD, obsession, and death.

In the 1960s, a young woman named Margaret Howe Lovatt moved into a house filled with water to teach a dolphin how to speak. Backed by NASA and fueled by fringe science, the experiment soon spiraled into something far more disturbing.

LSD got involved, and what followed was a bizarre and tragic chapter in the history of animal research… This tale is a haunting reminder that intelligence doesn’t equal consent.

This isn’t just weird science.

It’s the moment science stopped asking if it even should.

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Original music in this episode is provided by the talented: SHDWLRKR

The sea is beautiful... until it isn’t.

In this episode, we plunge into the darkest waters of maritime history: the doomed Franklin Expedition, frozen in the Arctic and driven to madness and cannibalism, and the Batavia, where a shipwreck unraveled into a brutal cult of murder and terror on a barren island.

Along the way, we examine ghost ships drifting without crews, lighthouse keepers who vanished into thin air, sailors devoured by hunger after a whale attack, and an entire vessel found with its crew dead, faces twisted in fear.

These aren’t just shipwrecks.

They’re reminders that the ocean keeps secrets... and it rarely gives anything back.

Original music in this episode is provided by the talented: SHDWLRKR

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