Just a quick note, this is part two of a two-part series, both of which discuss death and suicide.

If you know someone who's feeling depressed or you need to talk to someone, you can always

call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-8255, more info in the show

notes.

Okay, I'm on the show.

We're going to part two of our two-part series on the nutshell studies of unexplained death.

In part one, we visited the 18 little dioramas of death in the Baltimore Medical Examiner's

office.

They're the creations of Francis Glesnerly, and perfect little models of the many ways

that a person's life can end unexpectedly.

In this episode, we're going to walk down the hall to another diorama of death.

Except this one is on a very different scale.

And did she say to you, do you want to be a dead body?

Yeah, basically.

She's like, I have this really cool opportunity for you.

It's life-size, well, death-size.

Let's call it full-scale, and in place of a three-inch doll is me.

It goes from being super goofy fun to being like, oh yeah, and this is about like training

people to go into people's homes where someone they love to has just killed themselves.

I'm Dylan Therese, and this is Atlas Obscura, and today we're going into the Scarpetta

House, sometimes called the most violent room in Baltimore.

It's an immersive classroom for students of death-seen investigation.

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