ShortHand: Hell

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🗓️ 7 October 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Boiled in blood, hacked at by knives, torn apart by iron dogs… the world’s religions differ on what exactly might await sinners in the afterlife. But one thing they can all agree on is that if you were naughty on Earth, you are in for one hell of a horrible time.

We take a quick tour of history’s grimmest netherzones: from freezing poison rain in the Norse Helheim, to a river of excrement, where monstrous aquatic beings eat your flesh, down in the Hindu Narakas. Welcome to Hell.

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0:00.0	Wonderly Plus subscribers can listen to RedHounded early and add free.
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0:29.6	Okay. Oh, we sound fine. So let's continue. Because there is no greater hell. That is podcasting hell, isn't it? Recording a bunch of episodes, a bunch of content. And then you
0:35.8	listen back and you're like, sound like you're
0:38.3	at the bottom of a sea.
0:41.1	I think the greater podcasting hell is when there's nothing there at all.
0:46.3	Oh, yes.
0:48.6	Anyway.
0:49.3	Anyway, let's not dwell on that.
0:50.8	We'll have plenty of time to talk about personal hells, I'm sure, in the rest of this episode.
0:54.7	So, let's kick it off and we'll start at the end.
0:59.0	You're dead.
1:00.3	Uh-oh.
1:00.8	Mm-hmm.
1:02.2	So, tough luck.
1:04.6	And hopefully, you didn't have too painful of a time on your way out, but still, according
1:09.5	to most of the world's religions,
1:11.4	what happens next is quite likely to be a lot worse.
1:18.3	History's brightest theological minds have reported all manner of ways that you might be
1:22.6	punished for all the naughty stuff that you did in your time on earth.
1:27.4	Religions and philosophers, theologies, etc., differ exactly on what might await you in the
1:33.4	grim nether zone.
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