MAYHEM IN THE MORGUE | Ghost Stories
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🗓️ 9 November 2025
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Content Warning: This episode contains disturbing descriptions of the death of an individual. If you’re sensitive to this topic, this episode may not be for you.
In the stillness of dawn at the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office, a baby’s cry echoes through the halls, breaking the silence of the morgue. In this special Halloween episode of Mayhem in the Morgue, Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Kendall Crowns shares eerie encounters from his forensic pathology career that defy explanation. From the spectral Lady in Red who visits dying patients to a gruesome Halloween murder displayed on a suburban porch, these stories teeter on the edge of science and the supernatural.
Highlights
- (0:00) Welcome to Mayhem in the Morgue with Dr. Kendall Crowns
- (0:30) The morgue on Halloween: no ghosts, no portals, just an ordinary workday
- (2:30) Sounds of a baby crying in the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office and a haunting coincidence
- (4:45) Linda Turner’s story: a dying patient’s wise advice for a young Dr. Crowns
- (12:45) Lady in Red, a spectral figure said to visit dying hospital patients
- (18:00) The Halloween homicide: a son, his mother, and a gruesome porch display
- (27:00) A Halloween “scary story” assignment takes an unexpected turn when the teacher learns it’s real
About the Host: Dr. Kendall Crowns
Dr. Crowns is the Chief Medical Examiner for Travis County, Texas, and a nationally recognized forensic pathologist. He las led death investigations in Travis County, Fort Worth, Chicago, and Kansas. Over his career, he has performed thousands of autopsies and testified in court hundreds of times as an expert witness. A frequent contributor to Crime Stories with Nancy Grace, Dr. Crowns brings unparalleled insight into the strange, grisly, and sometimes absurd realities of forensic pathology.
About the Show
Mayhem in the Morgue takes listeners inside the bloody, bizarre, and often unbelievable world of forensic pathology. Hosted by Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Kendall Crowns, each episode delivers real-life cases from the morgue, the crime scene, and the courtroom. Expect gallows humor, hard truths, and unforgettable investigations.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:04.4 | Today's episode includes a graphic and horrific story about the death of an individual. |
| 0:10.1 | If this sort of thing upsets you, this is definitely not the episode for you. |
| 0:15.4 | Welcome to Mayhem in the morning with your host, Dr. Kendall Counds. |
| 0:26.7 | Today's episode, Ghost Stories. |
| 0:29.8 | Happy Halloween for Mayhem and the Morg. |
| 0:32.5 | People think that something special happens at the morgue on this day, but sadly, nothing |
| 0:37.1 | really ever does. |
| 0:38.5 | The dead don't rise up for their body bags. |
| 0:41.0 | Portals to hell don't open up in the bathrooms, and there are no ghostly voices crying out from the cooler. |
| 0:47.4 | All in all, it's just like any other day. Nothing special. |
| 0:51.9 | Maybe someone dies in a costume, but beyond that, it's the same, the same as it ever was. |
| 0:58.6 | Today for Halloween, I'm going to talk about a few ghostly encounters that I have had, and one, |
| 1:05.1 | gruesome Halloween story. I am not one for ghosts. I do enjoy haunted houses, though, but that's different because it's not |
| 1:13.4 | real, and they can't touch you. I actually find the paranormal something that I stay away from. My brother |
| 1:20.3 | used to scare me as a child with stories about the Amonneville horror and the Exorcist. Shows like |
| 1:26.1 | Ghost Hunters and Destination Fear will keep me up at night, |
| 1:29.6 | so I avoid them. I try not to get involved in the debate about ghosts, whether they're real or not |
| 1:36.0 | real. But sometimes, no matter what I do, you just can't skirt the issue. At the Cook County Medical |
| 1:43.3 | Examiner's Office in Chicago, Illinois. The topic would |
| 1:47.1 | occasionally come up, and we would get into a debate about the office being haunted. I would always say |
| 1:53.2 | that people don't die here, so why would they haunt a morgue? The very element of ghost stories is the |
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