Hey folks, Aaron here. When I think about the listeners who love my deep dive shows, unobstured and

grim and mild presents, I think of people who really love to take their time, people who love

the little details, and digging just a little farther into the soil to find the bigger story.

For years, you let me do that on this show, taking you on a multi-episode journey

on a big major topic. From the Salem Witch Trials and the fascinating world of sideshow performers

to Jack the Ripper and pirate lore, you have been supportive, encouraging, and dare I say,

hungry for more good historical knowledge.

So what do you say we do it again?

I've put together a massive exploration of a topic that I dearly, dearly love,

one that goes all the way back to the beginning of lore and then ties in a ton of ideas and

stories that I've learned along the way.

It's about Mercy Brown, the young woman

at the center of the New England vampire panic, and how her community got to the point where

they felt it was okay to exhume her corpse, cut out her heart, and use its ashes as medicine

for her dying brother. You know, normal stuff, right? The result is a brand new book called Exhumed.

And the best way to think of it is this.

Where Unabstured or Grim and Mild Presents typically spent about 10 episodes on a single

topic, Exhumed is twice that length.

In hardcover and e-book, that's 20 whole chapters, but in the audiobook version,

narrated by me, of course, you can think of it as 20 episodes. Now granted, it is not a podcast,

but it is the beginning of a new adventure for us all, because you'll be able to buy it once,

ad-free, and soak it in at your own pace. Plus, being in bookstores around the country,

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