Hello Deathlings,
New main channel video is in the works for early September (bold of me to make such a promise– but we're in the middle of editing). I tell the Patrons and so it shall be!
Until then, please enjoy my first appearance on a podcast in FOREVER. I had to come out of podtirement– that's podcast retirement– for the...
2025-08-28 20:43:34 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello Patrons!
This is a video just for you loveable goobers. Our decision to put it on Patreon MAY HAVE SOMETHING TO DO with knowing that the combination of "nazi" "shipwreck" "titanic" and "caitlin doughty" was going to get banned by Youtube faster than a fidget spinner in a 2017 American middle school.
The story of the Cap A...
2025-07-25 17:11:31 +0000 UTC View Post![Lenin's Mausoleum, Titan's Moment of Doom, and other DEATH NEWS You Can Use [Patron-exclusive]](https://img5.samukata.com/storage/8/dq/aq/4e9b88-019e8505-b014-7a50-a4bc-6e0cc0bde143.png)
Hello NecroNews Consumers,
Well, what do we have here? Why, it's another edition of Caitlin's Death News You Can Use! A roundup of death stories gathered just for you by Sarah Chavez and yours truly. From the ocean floor, to the heights of a landfill, to a Russian mausoleum, this month's stories have a little something to tickle everyone's...
2025-07-02 21:00:14 +0000 UTC View Post![This Vicar's Body Has a DARK SECRET [Patron-Only VIDEO-PODCAST]](https://img5.samukata.com/storage/7/eh/sf/4e9b88-019e8505-b035-70d3-8a65-f6f998ca3480.jpg)
What can I say, I love this story.
I'm not even going to tell you the twist, all will be revealed.
I hope you've been enjoying all the Patreon content this month! (That sounds passive aggressive. "TELL ME YOU LIKE ME." "TELL ME YOU LOVE MY OFFERINGS.") We've enjoyed making the content. I appreciate going where my passions take me.....
2025-06-27 14:29:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Well, another episode of HBO's The Mortician has dropped and it's.... sorta the same as the first one. A Groundhog Day of funeral malfeasance.
Did you enjoy how this guy cremated 15 bodies at once in Episode One? How about 200 bodies at once in Episode Two?! That's so many more bodies! (But I hope you didn't want more context for Sconce'...
2025-06-11 21:13:50 +0000 UTC View Post
If you didn't watch last night, my yapping may still be of interest to you, as I do some recapping.
If you DID watch The Mortician, what did you think?
Should Sconce have been given a major platform?
Did you learn anything you didn't already know?
Did the program teach you anything about the funeral industry, or did yo...
2025-06-02 20:08:31 +0000 UTC View Post
Well folks, it’s finally happened.
David “Little Hitler” Sconce, aka The Worst Funeral Director of All Time, is out of jail and back in a new HBO docuseries, The Mortician, premiering this Sunday, June 1st. You may remember Sconce from our 2025-05-30 15:17:59 +0000 UTC View Post
![The Weirdest Corpse in American Funeral History [NEW MAIN CHANNEL VIDEO]](https://img5.samukata.com/storage/10/jp/xh/4e9b88-019e8505-b079-790e-bebe-bc6b4f80a5a4.jpg)
Hello Deathlings,
Contrary to Caitlin mythology, I am a millennial lady-hag of many interests. When the camera is off and the mic is cold, I don't just power down – My Heart Will Go On playing softly in the background. I do things! I have outside hobbies and interests! Such as:
Swimming
Reading books about boats
<... 2025-05-16 18:53:57 +0000 UTC View Post
🚨 EXPERIMENT ALERT 🚨
As I alluded to in my last post: ABA- Always Be Alluding–we here at Haus Caitlin are experimenting with new styles of content that will make us less dependent on YouTube.
One plan is to develop a more podcast-like style to telling certain stories. Maybe even launch a podcast! Still using well-researched ...
2025-05-13 19:59:39 +0000 UTC View Post
Gentle Patrons,
There is a question I’ve been seeing, some of you may have even asked it:
Caitlin, please ma'am, tell us little guys why you don't make videos anymore?
Well first of all you adorable lil' cartoon mouse, if we care about FACTS here, I do make videos. We've made five videos in the last ...
2025-05-01 00:41:40 +0000 UTC View Post![Broadway Mummy and So Many Water Corpses: Caitlin's Death News You Can Use [Patron-Only]](https://img5.samukata.com/storage/7/lb/qf/4e9b88-019e8505-b0b0-7fe4-8e1b-29e754a3c07c.jpg)
Greetings my darlings and welcome to another edition of Caitlin's Death News You Can Use, a roundup of death stories carefully curated just for you by Sarah Chavez and yours truly. This month's crop of stories runs the gamut – from the bright lights of Broadway to the murky depths of a watery grave.
Plus, if you've been watching our vide...
2025-04-25 21:21:07 +0000 UTC View PostOh hi hello Patrons,
It's always, I feel, a good day to be our patron. But today is possibly...the best day EVER to be a patron? This is our first full length, fully realized video we've ever uploaded directly to Patreon.
Let's see how it goes, shall we! Will I like it, will you all like it? Who can say, life unfolds before our very ...
2025-03-28 17:28:14 +0000 UTC View Post
WARNING:
This video is a heavy one. I'm proud of the advocacy message, but this story is not zippy and zany. But if you're like me and obsessed with both orcas and interactive grief centered on the dead body well.... you've come to the right place. Time to feel some feelings, people!
As one commenter has already posted on YouTube: "o...
2025-02-28 21:08:35 +0000 UTC View Post![Caitlin's Diatribe on the Couple "Forced" to Sit Next to a Corpse on a Plane [Patron-Only]](https://img5.samukata.com/storage/3/wk/wh/4e9b88-019e8505-b0cd-7f52-b344-c4cf4082e972.jpg)
New main channel video tomorrow my little petunias.
But until then, you can listen to my thoughts on the above story. Then let me hear your thoughts!
You can watch the original interview with the Australian couple here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7...
2025-02-27 21:31:29 +0000 UTC View Post
Last time we left our plucky heroine, she was having "Big Feelings"™ about video making while writing a research-heavy book. Since then, I have decided, and you heard it here first, to make twelve pieces of content this year. I've spaketh it and it shall be real.
Some of the content will be more experimental. If it's REAL experimental i...
2025-01-31 19:13:21 +0000 UTC View Post
“There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens.” -Ecclesiastes 3
“A time to be born, a time to die, a time to plant, a time to reap.” -The Byrds
[You know me, I love to start a post with a Bible quote.]
More than a year ago, I came out of sabbat...
2024-12-27 20:24:27 +0000 UTC View Post![Smoke Book Club Replay [PATRON-ONLY]](https://img5.samukata.com/storage/5/qb/fj/4e9b88-019e8505-b103-72d9-84e2-e3b103b9b4a7.jpg)
Here we are my little snausages, a book club replay for those of you who could not make it on Thursday.
I really loved this one! It features a shocking tale from a nurse, hesitations from a mortuary worker, and a flock of murderous hell-parrots roaming the neighborhood. Plus a wide-ranging discussion on ways the book helped readers decide...
2024-11-25 19:55:50 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello deathlings,
We've been working on this video for several months, and it's a fun one. And by "fun" I actually mean "an absolute s*%tshow of incompetence from a dredger captain and a coroner that made a boating tragedy on the Thames a million times worse than it had to be. "
2024-11-23 01:49:28 +0000 UTC
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It's a busy week here at deathquarters!
Join me this week, for our second (and final) Smoke Gets in Your Eyes Book Club.
THIS THURSDAY
Day: November 21
Time: 4 pm PST/7 pm EST
LINK: https://...
2024-11-20 19:23:48 +0000 UTC View Post
For those of you who missed the first book club- and like, seriously, where were you?- here is the replay!
This was extremely fun, although to be honest I felt a bit rusty. I did almost nothing in the way of live events during my sabbatical and I am spending most of my days currently in my research and writing cave for hags (RAWCFH). But I...
2024-10-30 19:43:34 +0000 UTC View Post
Yes I know, you've been waiting patiently for a video. And you deserve a video, you deserve the world.
How about this absolutely bonkers story on the rise, Lord Protectorate, death, exhumation, dragging through the streets, postmortem execution, decapitation, head on a spike, head's time on the roof of a government building, head's multipl...
2024-10-25 21:07:47 +0000 UTC View Post![Why, It's the Smoke Gets in Your Eyes Book Club Zoom Link [PATRON-ONLY]](https://img5.samukata.com/storage/3/te/ib/4e9b88-019e8505-b13e-723c-838a-9a5c489cefec.png)
Hello Readers (and listeners-- audiobookers welcome!),
THIS THURSDAY is the first Smoke Gets in Your Eyes Book Club.
DAY: October 24
TIME: 4pm PST/7pm EST
LINK: https://us05web.z...
2024-10-21 19:37:38 +0000 UTC View Post![Cannibalism & Disney+: Caitlin's Death News You Can Use [PATRON ONLY]](https://img5.samukata.com/storage/9/pg/st/4e9b88-019e8505-b148-7011-af75-6c36a4f9dac6.jpg)
Welcome morbid petunias to another edition of Caitlin's Death News You Can Use, where the lovely Sarah Chavez and I hand-pick death stories we think you will find interesting, thrilling, frustrating, etc. We just want to make you FEEL SOMETHING, you know?
Up first, an update from the Ask a Mortician vault.
The Franklin Expedi...
2024-10-19 15:19:32 +0000 UTC View Post
"A girl always remembers the first corpse she shaves," begins the iconic funeral industry memoir* by mortician and author Caitlin Doughty.
*That's not a quote from someone, that's just me claiming that. If you can't hype yourself how the hell are you going to hype someone else, amiright?
It's been 10 YEARS. TODAY. This book absolutel...
2024-09-16 19:33:44 +0000 UTC View Post
Ok, fine, no one was asking for this. But once you learn about this movie, like me, it will haunt your every waking moment and the deepest darkest parts of your dreams. Be mindful before clicking on this video- you can never go back to a time before knowing it exists.
Hello from jolly ol' England where I not only celebrated my birthday bu...
2024-08-27 14:30:38 +0000 UTC View Post![Petrified Mummies & Millennial Saints: Caitlin's Death News You Can Use [PATRON ONLY]](https://img5.samukata.com/storage/10/mp/gv/4e9b88-019e8505-b186-73ba-a087-d31501507e5f.png)
Hello deathlings,
Did you know that every month Sarah Chavez (my longtime colleague at the Order of the Good Death) and I exchange death news stories?* This helps us stay informed, plan new content– last month's Ortiz Funeral Malfeasance video, for example– and generally geek out on the death news of the day. We thought you Patrons mig...
2024-08-12 16:17:40 +0000 UTC View Post
'Allo loves,
Hopefully you enjoy this little insight into the DARK TWISTED MIND (jk it's just a normal mind) of Caitlin Doughty, death advocate, at 40.
Here are some of the questions I tackle in the video and want you to hear from you as well. Are you trying to fight aging? Are you satisfied with your life and career after 40...
2024-07-23 15:23:19 +0000 UTC View Post![Rats, Missing Bodies, and Next-Level Funeral Malfeasance [PATRON-EXCLUSIVE]](https://img5.samukata.com/storage/5/os/uy/4e9b88-019e8505-b1b3-7e6b-9707-447aa489b991.jpg)
Let me introduce you to New York's worst funeral home chain.
Caitlin- how dare you run in here willy-nilly and label something "New York's WORST?" How can you be so sure? Well, lets you and I check out this funeral home's Google reviews and dive into a brand spanking new Department of Consumer Protection lawsuit and see how you feel.
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Hey folks,
Were you starting to think we'd never make a full-length documentary again? Well you're not alone–some days I thought that, too. But the siren song of just the right topic got the whole darn team back together.
I don't even remember when I first heard about the HL Hunley submarine (a good bet would be an interesting asi...
2024-05-24 16:04:55 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello, my dears. Is your brain a puddle of 3-day old microwaved mashed potatoes at this hour on a Friday? MINE IS. Especially since I only have a few days left in this month-long research trip and still. so. much. to. do.
Fortunately, the Caitlin from a week ago who made this patron-only offering did NOT have a brain of mildewed carpet ...
2024-04-26 20:40:29 +0000 UTC View Post