The Lip-Smacking (Un)Dead of Early Europe

In this episode, we’re diving into the Schmatzenden Todten, aka the dead who supposedly could not mind their own business and kept chewing from beyond the grave while everyone in Europe was losing their minds. What started as plague-era panic, religious drama, and the absolutely miserable mechanics of decomposition somehow turned into one of history’s most unsettling undead (and maybe even vampire) trends, which is honestly rude behavior for a corpse and deeply on brand for the 1500s.Edited by Maxwell Holechek