Dr. Ohta & the Killer Prophet

Morbid

Ash Kelley & Alaina Urquhart

Comedy, Dark History, Paranormal, True Crime

4.4 • 100.8K Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2026

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

In the early evening of October 19, 1970, police and firefighters were called to the Santa Cruz County home of Dr. Victor Ohta, a well-respected ophthalmologist, for a report of a house fire. Intending to siphon water from the pool out back, firefighters ran a hose from the truck to the backyard. However, when they reached the pool, the made a horrible discovery—floating in the pool were the bodies of Mr. and Mrs. Ohta, as well as their two children, and the doctor’s secretary, Dorothy Cadwallader. When they searched the scene, investigators discovered a cryptic note stuck under the windshield wiper of Victor Ohta’s car that made references to the occult and the counterculture movement. At the time of the murders, Southern California was experiencing an unprecedented wave of violent murders by multiple serial and spree killers, as well as the notorious murders committed by the Manson family. Given the content of the note and the potentially ritualistic way in which the Ohta family had been killed, investigators and residents couldn’t help but fear that they may have another murderous cult on their hands.

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0:00.0	Hey, weirdos, I'm Ash.
0:02.3	And I'm Elena.
0:03.3	And this is morbid.
0:18.6	This is morbid.
0:20.5	It's also kind of like an 800 call service because I have a sexy voice.
0:25.2	It's true. She does.
0:26.1	It's like in and out though.
0:27.5	Like I can force it to not be so.
0:30.7	Yeah.
0:31.8	It's the allergies.
0:33.7	It's the allergies.
0:34.9	It's the asthma.
0:36.4	The asthma.
0:41.6	It's just, it's a whole bunch of things, you know.
0:56.2	Yeah, you know. What are you going to do? It's the goddamn pollen. It's here to stay. I don't know when it's, we've had several rains, several intense rains. Yeah. Stoms even. It rains every fucking weekend. It's raining all the time. And it's like,
1:03.5	and then we wake up and it's just somehow more pollen on my porch. And now just puddles of pollen.
1:09.0	Now the pollen has gathered. The pollen puddles gross me the fuck out. I'm also driving a pollen mobile. Yeah. If you If you have a black car, Paulinmobile. Yeah, there's no, don't get your car washed in New England right now. I recently did, and I don't know why I did. It was a waste of $22. Yeah. I know. Like, that's actually wild that you did that. I just hate, like, when it builds up to a certain point,
1:27.9	I like can't handle it. I know. It's true, but I'm just like, it's going to get this way tomorrow.
1:31.6	I know. But then I'm like, am I like breathing this in, like having, probably, like sitting in my Pollinmobile? You're breathing it in everywhere. I know. It's coming into your house. Oh, I know. I need to get my um my air ducts cleaned out this is 30 there you go yeah guys I'm officially
1:46.8	30 so many people messaged me like really nice things so thank you guys for the birthday wishes
1:52.3	the birthday wishes I still haven't quite celebrated my 30th birthday was the most 30th birthday
1:57.3	it was so low key and so great they usually yeah they get chiller I loved it. Drew was like, you don't want to do anything. I was like, no, I want to order takeout. Yeah. And I want to lay on the couch. That's all I ever want to do for my birthday. And I saw my grandparents. Yeah. And Elena. Yep. And that was great. That was enough for me. That's all I want. Yeah. But we are going out soon to celebrate.
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