Marked Safe: A Disaster Podcast

Our Bodies Are Haunted Houses: Aggie Bonfire Collapse

06 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week, we reach climax, Heather is probably banging, Brianne is willing to lecture anyone at all, Melanie plays a reverse Uno card, we're tir...

Gruesome Contingencies: Cruise Ship Incidents Part 3

30 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Melanie curates a playlist, Brianne has cheese-based anxiety, Melanie is still on her normalization bullshit, we explore portals, Brianne i...

Coming Was An Understatement: The Great Molasses Flood

23 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week, we match each other's bad energy, the bracket has a slappin' bop, we deliver the content people want, Melanie only has one pull-q...

Other Things We Don't Need To Normalize: Cruise Ship Incidents Part 2

16 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week, we strike a deal with listeners, Melanie gets stroked, Brianne is infuriated by the bracket match-up, Melanie wants to normalize wiener goo...

Something You Don't Want To Dangle: Schoharie Limousine Crash

09 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week, we get serious about listener story minisodes, Brianne has threatening opinions, the Disney song bracket has a very tough match-up, clickba...

The Pigeon to Uber Scale: Cruise Ship Incidents

02 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Brianne establishes dominance, Melanie gains a superstition, a birthday party gets RSVPed with a hard yes, cats run wild, things go hinky, ...

A Dead Mouse on Your Pillow: Silver Bridge Collapse

23 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week, we address the pettiest things we've ever done, a bridge slithers like a snake, life is messy, someone enters the Eamon McIntyre testi...

I Was Born in a Pair of Pants: Sylvestre Matuschka, Disaster Fetishist

16 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Melanie starts a rumor about Brianne's death, the bat dresses come out of the closet, Melanie jinxes everyone repeatedly, the cursed M...

Off-air

09 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Barely Even Friends: Zoo & Aquarium Disasters Part 2

26 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Melanie has a gift and a burden, we reminisce about the smells that wouldn't leave us, the Midwestern food bracket prepares for a savo...

HGTV Ethical Makeovers: Zoo & Aquarium Disasters Part 1

19 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Brianne throws herself a curveball in Midwestern food brackets, Melanie matches energy, some maintenance staff have excessive job responsib...

Figure It Out, Amanda!: Apple Watch Survival Stories

12 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Melanie's the ho, the midwest abandons God, Brianne gets a little defensive, Melanie has advice about boning, Captain Nash saves a lif...

Sweet Summer Scientist: Spontaneous Human Combustion

15 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

SHOW NOTESThis week, we break some news too terrible even for a bat dress, two yummy sandwiches go head to head, Melanie adds to the Quicksand Irratio...

You Should Be Panicking: 1999 Bridge Creek–Moore Tornado

08 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

SHOW NOTESMelanie isn't nervous but Brianne has stage fright, Melanie doesn't want her sex tape released, Brianne has her most controversial...

Heave and Hump: Niagra Falls Ice Bridge Disaster

01 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week, we write wedding vows, the battle of the beef goes down, a miniature shantytown full of miniature shopkeepers appears, we briefly achieve m...

Dry Your Tears with Piles of Cash: The Cocoanut Grove Fire

24 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Ava has concerns about Black Friday, we revisit Momo and raise theories on Jerry's whereabouts, Brianne's villain origin story is...

You're Automatically Haunted: Lighthouse Disasters

17 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Melanie does a cemetery crawl, Brianne gets inspired by pettiness beyond the grave, alligator feet present a setback for the anti-smoking l...

What Boy Wouldn't?: Urban Legends Part 2

10 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

AUDIO DISCLAIMER: Melanie is at it again - she attempted a new recording set-up and the audio did not work out as planned. We've learned our less...

Monstrosities Abounded: Urban Legends

03 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Brianne throws a wrench in the Midwestern food bracket on day one, Melanie is forcibly drafted into the world of hot takes, we investigate ...

Butts to Nuts: Waverly Hills Sanatorium

27 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Melanie wants to listen to the podcast in space with Jeff Bezos, Brianne aspires to chaotic good behavior, the Florida man bracket crashes ...

Happy Birthday, It's an Asylum Fire: Seacliff Insane Asylum

20 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Melanie is WRONG, a bet is made, the Wendy's alligator goes out to pasture, TAG is an evil puppeteer, miners are poetic, history loves...

Here for the Party: Yoshihiro Hattori

13 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week, we put on our gray business suits and campaign in Ohio, Brianne reveals herself to be a villain, an alligator in someone's pants emerg...

See You Next Week!

06 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

You're Not Supposed to Just Manifest This Sh*t: Verrückt

29 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week, we learn how to be good citizens, an alligator is thrown through a fast food window, we cave to a year and a half of requests, pot gets fra...

Red Cross First Date: Hyatt Regency Skywalk Collapse

22 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Melanie puts out feelers for cross-stitching listeners, puppy justice takes over Florida, we petition to bring back the name Constance, Mel...

Nonsense Things Slowly Become Rational: Laura Van Ryn & Whitney Cerak

15 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week, hurricane life continues, Melanie addresses her fake divorce, a Florida man won't be kink-shamed, and comas are complicated.Content wa...

Manic Pixie Businesswoman: Hurricane Ida

10 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Tiktok changes the game, Brianne leaves the podcast a bad review, an army of turtles defeats everyone, Melanie takes it all, Brianne will f...

Hurricane Holdup

08 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Ducks Unlimited: Carwash Incidents

01 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Melanie is marked safe, a man is a member of a very important organization, Dave dies, we cover the most horrifying thing we've ever c...

Stop Your Laughing: Minamata Disease

25 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week, we don our emotional bat dresses, there's an alligator in someone's pants, a corporation is totally upstanding, murderous sludge ...

Still Dear, Suddenly Not Quite So Departed: The Hardin Cemetery Disaster

18 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week, we have bones to pick with each other, a man goes to extreme lengths to fight for his right to party, the "show me" state shows &...

The Fullest and Most Intentional Disrespect: Lava Lamp Incidents

11 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week, MELANIE IS BACK, Brianne is haunted by a koala, Florida man bracket kicks off, Melanie loves chaotic men, everyone is naked, lava lamps cau...

Angry Angry Lemon Angry: Kim Saenz

05 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week, The Audio Guy is our final guest star and doesn't want to be a beaver, someone is a loser ghost, a barefoot medieval knight does a som...

The Birthday and the Squonk

04 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Both Allen and the Bear Were Startled: Alaska Disasters

28 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week, we have our third out of four guest stars, Jo has shady text messages, a town is built on stilts, Alaska proves a point to science, avalanc...

Good News & Bad News

21 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Here is What Happened at the Natatorium: Olympic Diving Tea & Tragedy

14 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Mandi is willing and even ready to fight a chicken to the death, divers attempt the "Dive of Death" with mixed results, a diver f...

I Bet I Would Have Some Nipples to Point: The Lazarus Phenomenon

07 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week, we have our first guest star since Melanie got her ultimate disaster relief, Atlantis wants finger nipples and to eat her cat, Marked Safe ...

You're Sorry and I'm Welcome: Titanic Extravaganza Part 3

30 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Melanie records her last episode before maternity leave, TAG (The Audio Guy) chimes in, we ponder what a Florida Man baby would be like, th...

Disaster Zoomies: Titanic Extravaganza Part 2

23 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Melanie's labor is a disaster, Brianne makes one of the most controversial cryptid hot takes yet, a Carpathia passenger is an unapolog...

We Are All Wild to Go: The Victoria Hall Disaster

16 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Brianne podcasts on nighttime cough syrup, Melanie poops her pants in Australia, the cryptid bracket gets to the final four, Brianne hates ...

This is Gonna Be Awkward, Let's Break the Ice: Titanic Extravaganza Part 1

09 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Melanie is gonna have a baby and the southerners are unimpressed, The Audio Guy requests a specific head in a box, Chicago Mothman battles ...

Legs Crossed, Knives Up: Labor & Delivery Compilation

02 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Melanie ventures into the worst part of 2007 internet, the wendigo finally gets his day in court, Brianne would rather get eaten than deal ...

Life is Just a String of Detour Montages: Meeley's Life and Death

26 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

 This week, we complete each other, dingbats go up against melon heads, a little girl wants to smash a glass ceiling, Brianne has some unresolved gif...

A Smash Cake for Your Ear Holes: Marked Safe by the Numbers

25 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

We've officially been a podcast for ONE YEAR! To celebrate, we wanted to record a little rundown of our first year in numbers, from ghosts in the...

Panic at the Ballet: 807 Walnut Street

19 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week, we enter Jeremy Bearimy time, Bigfoot faces off against sentient pants, Melanie gets high-brow on us and continues with her favorite chaoti...

The Limits of the Possible: Scuba Diving

12 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week, discombobulation abounds, we start the hairdo pocket revolution, cryptid teeth arrive in the mail, Brianne does not want a head in the box,...

Descending Into Worse Stuff: Saturation Diving

05 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Melanie and Brianne contemplate mortality, Melanie crosses her legs to keep Baby John Mellencamp in, a cryptid has an elaborate backstory, ...

The Details of How She Lived: See You Next Week

28 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

We aren't able to record this week, but we have an older episode you should check out today.

Do You Have That Sinking Feeling?: The Kentucky Compilation

21 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Brianne plans a chair operation, the cryptid bracket continues with another lake snake versus an angry mountain monster, Melanie denies her...

It Shouldn't Have Happened: ValuJet Flight 592

14 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week, the cryptid bracket kicks off, Brianne plans to catch a lonely meshekenabek from a local lake, an elderly airline fleet causes catastrophic...

The Best Strip Mall Castle You've Ever Seen in Your Life: The Count Dante Story, Part 2

07 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week, the true cure for hiccups is unveiled, somebody spots a flying baby, the king of animals is crowned, listeners have a chance to win a crypt...

Count Dante Walked So Joe Exotic Could Run: The Count Dante Story, Part 1

31 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

SHOW NOTESContent warnings:Vague old-timey racism, particularly violent martial arts, one joke about drugs, poor treatment of exotic animals, bombings...

Headlights Rained From the Sky: The Skyway Bridge Collapse

24 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

SHOW NOTESContent warnings:Child abandonment, possible rabid animal, bridge collapse, severe weather, ship collision, car accident(s), threatened drow...

Pancake Houses Between 1 and 6AM: Nine Heroes

17 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

SHOW NOTESContent warnings:Snakes, wasps, animals killing each other in nature, violence in war, IED, fire, human being on fire, graphic description o...

A How-to Guide for Boomers and Melanies: Death by Coconut

10 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

SHOW NOTESContent warnings:Death by accidental gunshot wound, vague discussion of shark attacks, death by falling projectile, a couple euphemistic dir...

Answered in the Dark: Five Heroes

03 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

SHOW NOTESContent warnings:Racism in the military, stereotype of black men as sexual predators, gun violence in the context of war, grenades, bludgeon...

A Great Deal of Treatment for Bad Blood: The Tuskegee Experiment

17 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

SHOW NOTESContent warnings:Institutional/medical racism, COVID-19/vaccine hesitancy, syphilis, brief and euphemistic adult jokeLinks:40 Years of Human...

Shut the F*ck Up, Lucy: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927

10 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Audio disclaimer: For my birthday this year, Melanie wanted to make sure I shone for this episode and recorded with the wrong microphone. The Audio Gu...

I Am Not a White Supremacist, and I Love Armadillos: The Tylenol Murders

03 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

SHOW NOTESContent warnings:White supremacists (in the context of their existence and that we dislike them), ghosts/paranormal, passing mention of exor...

A Bat Dress of an Episode: The St. Mary's Orphanage Disaster

27 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Content warnings:Having COVID-19, endangered animals, brief reference to children dying in a fire in previous episode, very brief mentions of miscarri...

Melanie Isn't Marked Safe

20 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

You Don't Have to Really Say it Like That: Air Florida Flight 90

13 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

SHOW NOTESContent warnings:Pigs eating people, animal death, plane crash with fatalities, water rescue, hypothermia, broken arms, loss of spouse/SO, l...

All the Hungriest Escalators with Something to Prove: Escalator Accidents

06 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

SHOW NOTESContent warnings:Death of birds, deer hunting, discussion of mortality and grief, crushing death of an adolescent around 22:00-24:00, strang...

Never Back Down From a Street Fight: A Sh*tty Goodbye to 2020

29 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

SHOW NOTESContent warnings:Poop, birds, plane emergency landing, mention of pornography, brief mentions of vomitLinks:12 Ben & Jerry's Ice Cr...

Backed Up (By a Day)

29 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Let Your Kids Spread Their Wings at the Oceaneer Club: The Laroche Family

22 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

SHOW NOTESContent warnings:Racism, vaguely mentioned premature birth, specific children in theoretical peril, frostbite, loss of spouse, death by drow...

The Mitten Thing: 1913 Italian Hall Disaster

15 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

SHOW NOTESContent warnings:Elephant hunting, brief mention of murder-suicide, old-timey racism, lung disease, feces, violent strike-breaking, dire pov...

Weird Flex but Okay: Balloonfest '86

08 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

SHOW NOTESContent warnings:Drowning, water search, missing peopleLinks:25 years ago, thousands watched a balloon launch on Public SquareBalloonfest &a...

He Just Loved Firetrucks: The Our Lady of the Angels School Fire

01 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

SHOW NOTESContent warning: this episode discusses the large-scale death of children in moderate detail.BACK IN THE DAY: EPISODE 9 | OUR LADY OF THE AN...

Everyone's the Asshole: Black Friday Incidents

24 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Brianne will never be prepared, friend gangs are not happening, Joann Fabrics is not having a good run, Melanie is judging people, Target o...

Friends of Recovering Huffers: The Mississauga Train Derailment

17 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Melanie covers the cutest disaster ever, a model has his dick out, Brianne has a zombie bite, cartographers are sneaky, Hazel plays hockey,...

Bad News...Good News

10 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The Floor is Lava: Centralia, Pennsylvania

03 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Melanie kicks things off with bad puns, we love Butterfingers for all the wrong reasons, Melanie strikes out on Halloween drugs, Brianne wi...

Purely Frictional: The "Poltergeist" Movie Curse

27 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

SHOW NOTESContent warnings:Sleep paralysis, paranormal stuff, poltergeist activity, clowns, accidental non-fatal strangulation, misuse of human remain...

Dolphins Made of Darkness: The Hat Man

20 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week, we come close to free-balling an episode, Brianne has a horrific encounter while on her sleep bullshit, Curious George lightens the mood, w...

Bad Things Were Gonna Happen To You: The Exorcist Film Curse

13 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Aunt Vada's dad is not having it, we envision a possessed child as Roland Schitt and a ghost as Lin-Manuel Miranda, and a sadistic dir...

A Good Way for Someone To Get Pregnant on a Hay Bale: The Spooky Episode

06 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Brianne returns from the dead, we speculate about our nemeses, Brianne coaches Melanie on how to care less, a haunted house surprise does n...

Read the Room: The #freebritney Movement, Part 2

29 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week, our Britney episodes conclude even as Britney's plight does not, weird interviews about, and emojis tip off fans that something is ami...

Britney Cake: The #freebritney Movement, Part 1

22 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Melanie goes totally spooky with it and meets her put-together neighbors in a Britney t-shirt, Midwesterners are polite aloof little goblin...

Turtles in the Water, Tortoise on the Land: The Sixth Extinction Event

15 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Melanie doesn't know the safe word (because it's really The Audio Guy guest starring), TAG victim blames dinosaurs, frogs are dyi...

The Safe Word is Bubbles: The Faithway Drive Disaster

08 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week, the day all podcasters dread arrives, Melanie encounters a choad in the wild, we set a demon safeword, a bedroom disappears in an instant, ...

Spring, Summer, Fall, Halloween, & Winter: The Imperial Sugar Refinery Explosion

01 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Brianne is cooked medium well and wants to be a freelance brain surgeon, Adelaide gives a bird presentation, Melanie gets slammed by a hurr...

You Have The Best...Titles: The Richmond Hill Explosion

25 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Melanie is evacuating a hurricane double-whammy, Brianne hits up Taco Bell in her wedding dress, Melanie is inspired to step up her jammy g...

There's Eighty Billion Gallons Headed for Us: The Teton Dam Collapse

17 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Brianne and Melanie go back to the podcast coal mines, Melanie discovers that she's a ghost, we get a Drunk Melanie Math Lesson, a 5,0...

A Freak Deal & A Gory Story: Russell Lee Phillips

11 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Brianne doesn't have malaria, Melanie buys a house full of demons, a squeamish firefights meets a terrible end, Brianne is mad about c...

Hookie

04 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Bad news - no new episode this week. Good news - lots of stuff coming up for the ten dollar patreons! Marked Safe is on a one week hiatus. Sorry horri...

I Like My Queens Petty: Scheele's Green

28 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Melanie tells us about a guy named Carl, there's an old-timey inventor brawl, discoveries are licked, pompous assholes are always cele...

Get back on board, for F---’s sake: The Costa Concordia Disaster

21 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Brianne peaks in episode 11, we all get a villain to cathartically blame, a ship full of 13s is doomed from the start, an off-duty captain ...

The Water Turned Red with Blood: The Black December Shark Attacks

14 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Brianne finally watches Hamilton, something brushes a leg underwater, there's a whole explosives hospital, a shark turns somersaults i...

That Eagle Has COVID: Fireworks Incidents

07 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Melanie bites off more fireworks than she can chew, fireworks warehouses detonate, a hot dog is replaced with TNT, a fire department takes ...

He Was Wearing His Finest Pajama Pants: Pokemon Go Incidents

29 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week, newlywed Melanie lives in a city with lawless drive-thru daiquiri shacks, we unpack the etymology of a gross old-timey phrase, Melanie play...

A Bad Dream I Wouldn't Have Even Thought to Have: Elevator Accidents

23 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Brianne has to make her own daiquiri at great personal risk, Melanie plans a meeting in Japan, a welfare clerk, some gold miners, a surgery...

A Bunch of F***ing Useless Meatloafs: The Monongah Mine Disaster

16 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Melanie unbuttons it, we educate the public and ourselves about chicken testicles, Melanie gets the gift of goat murder for her wedding, a mining comp...

This Shambling Corpse of a Rollercoaster: Amusement Park Disasters Part 2

09 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Brianne offers a charcuterie board of amusement park accidents, a wholesome dad saves the day, we clarify that water is wet, teenage lifegu...

I Don't Know Why, I Had to Look: The Arkansas B-47 Crash

02 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week, we have a delightful guest speaker, Melanie does math, Marked Safe is a hostile work environment, we make Melanie's aunts join our Pat...

Maybe We're All Just Horrible Ghouls: Amusement Park Disasters Part I

26 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week, a security guard deserves a raise, Busch Gardens leans into some horrifying PR, Brianne ventures into the underbelly of the internet for re...

Relax, Have a Beignet, Stop Being So Modern: Hard Rock Hotel Collapse

26 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Brianne has a haunted attic, audio was still finding its sea legs, gentrification ruins everything, a building collapses, and developers dr...

A Big Creaky Danger Machine: Indiana State Fair Collapse

26 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week, we start a podcast, Melanie fingers her soil, some mom groups implode, shortcuts are taken, a prayer circle saves some celebrities but no o...