Episode Revisit: The Radium Girls

Morbid

Ash Kelley & Alaina Urquhart

Comedy, Dark History, Paranormal, True Crime

4.4 • 100.8K Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2026

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

Today we are revisiting a tragic case of negligence which originally captivated us back in 2024. When Marie and Pierre Curie discovered radium in 1898, the chemical element was quickly adopted by manufacturers for its luminescent properties that would go on to be used in, among other things, the painting of clock faces, watches, and instrument panels, allowing them to be seen in the dark. At the time, the introduction of radioluminescent materials into manufacturing was hailed as a scientific solution to an age-old frustration, but it didn’t take long before that solution was shown to have terrible consequences.

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0:00.0	Hey, weirdos, I'm Ash.
0:02.7	And I'm Elena.
0:03.4	And this is Morbin.
0:05.2	This is Morbin.
0:22.2	Ash is morbid. Ash don't even know why I sang it. It just started happening and I went with it.
0:24.5	Ash is scunty.
0:25.0	Yeah.
0:29.7	I believe the words you're looking for. Is scunty.
0:31.4	It's scunty.
0:31.8	It's scary and cunty.
0:35.2	Me and Mikey have determined that she shall remain as such today.
0:42.1	That was my Diet Coke opening, because that's a skunty behavior.
0:46.7	She is in a place of skunt right now.
0:51.5	Serving scunt, scunt, scunt, scud scud scud truly serving scun we did magic this morning
1:00.8	we did why are you laughing that's the truth what she's like i don't know We just did magic this morning.
1:11.2	There's more to it.
1:13.1	There's more.
1:14.7	We did magic this morning and we did manifestations.
1:17.9	And I manifested self, love and light and abundance.
1:24.4	And I'm feeling all of those things.
1:26.3	She's feeling abundance.
1:27.8	I think, because mine went crazy.
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