Plants That Kill Vol. 2

The Morbid Curiosity Podcast

Hallie Lloyd

Cryptid, Serialkiller, Science, Disease, Medicine, Scary, Skeleton, Historyofmedicine, Social Sciences, Ghost, History, Medical, Anthropology, Monsters, Archeology, Murder, Creepy, Skeptic, Paranormal, Prison

4.8 • 634 Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2020

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Back by popular request, Hallie discusses more toxic plants! Poisonous plants have been used throughout history for many purposes, including hunting, medicine, cosmetics, and of course, murder. In this episode we discuss several of the most poisonous plants with emphasis on those associated with murder and medicine.

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0:00.0	This episode was suggested by several listeners, Stephen, Shannon, Luna, Stacey, SCL, and more.
0:08.4	If you'd like to make a suggestion, you can do so on Facebook and Instagram at Morbid Curiosity Podcast,
0:14.0	on Twitter, at Morbid Podcast, and on our website, www.morbidCuriositypodcast.com. This episode contains discussions of death by poisoning,
0:25.5	suicide, abortion, and human and animal experimentation. If these aren't topics you want to hear about,
0:32.0	this may be a good episode to skip. The information in this episode is meant for interest only. All of the plants mentioned
0:40.0	in this episode can cause injury or death. The remedies discussed are historical and not recommended
0:46.3	as forms of medical treatment. We do not support the ingestion or use of any of these plants,
0:52.8	or any known toxic plants for that matter.
0:55.3	And therefore, the MCP and I cannot be held responsible for any injury caused by the misuse of
1:02.0	these plants. Please be responsible, and if you think you have ingested something poisonous,
1:07.4	call your local emergency services immediately.
1:21.6	Thank you. Poisonous, call your local emergency services immediately. Humans are fascinated by gore and violence, but even more so the mysterious and unsolved.
1:29.0	Interest in these disturbing and unpleasant subjects is called morbid curiosity, and it has
1:34.6	gripped hundreds of people throughout the ages. I am one of those people. My name is Halley,
1:41.0	and this is the Morbid Curiosity podcast.
1:47.6	Boy and Spachinktogh, I just call me a man-trash-mandered death in the garden. Poisonous plants have played a major part in history, be that in medicine, mythology, or murder.
2:14.6	This is because of the intense effects that they can have on the human body.
2:20.2	In the first Plants That Kill episode, we went over the documented uses of poisonous plants
2:25.9	throughout history, but emphasized those plants that were used in what was known as the
2:30.6	witch's flying potion. Those plants were Henbane, Hemlock, Belladonna, Mandrake,
2:37.1	aconite, and opium. So if you'd like to hear more about these plants, please listen to our
2:42.1	episode, Plants That Kill, which came out in June of 2019. Last time, we featured plants that
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