July Bonus Episode: Digging Into Exhumed with Aaron Mahnke

**Ash Kelley** (0:01)
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Hey, weirdos. I'm Ash.

**Alaina Urquhart** (2:42)
I'm Alaina.

**Aaron Mahnke** (2:43)
And I'm Aaron.

**Ash Kelley** (2:43)
And this is Morbid.

**Alaina Urquhart** (3:00)
A very special Morbid.

**Ash Kelley** (3:01)
A special Morbid. Welcome, Aaron.

**Aaron Mahnke** (3:03)
Thank you for having me.

**Alaina Urquhart** (3:04)
Thank you for coming.

**Ash Kelley** (3:06)
Weirdos, today we have Aaron Mahnke on the show. You probably know him from his award-winning podcast, Lore, or perhaps the author of some of your favorite titles. And we have exciting news. Your latest book, Exhumed, comes out August 4th. It does.

**SPEAKER_5** (3:19)
So soon.

**Aaron Mahnke** (3:20)
So soon. Too soon.

**Ash Kelley** (3:21)
Congratulations.

**SPEAKER_5** (3:23)
Thank you.

**Aaron Mahnke** (3:24)
Thank you.

**SPEAKER_5** (3:24)
You're welcome.

**Alaina Urquhart** (3:25)
This book is amazing. I got an early copy of it. I feel very fortunate.

**Aaron Mahnke** (3:29)
Yeah, you're on the back.

**Ash Kelley** (3:31)
Oh, that's so cool. I didn't even know that.

**Aaron Mahnke** (3:34)
Right at the top.

**Alaina Urquhart** (3:34)
Oh, look at me. Look at that.

**Aaron Mahnke** (3:36)
You're on there with Amy Bruni.

**Alaina Urquhart** (3:38)
Oh, hell yeah.

**Aaron Mahnke** (3:38)
From Kindred Spirits and Ghost Hunters and Josh Gates.

**Alaina Urquhart** (3:43)
Oh, cool. So good company.

**Aaron Mahnke** (3:45)
Good company.

**Alaina Urquhart** (3:45)
I feel good about that.

**Ash Kelley** (3:46)
The very top.

**Alaina Urquhart** (3:47)
Oh, look at me. Look at you, Big Red.

**Aaron Mahnke** (3:49)
I love it.

**Alaina Urquhart** (3:50)
It's an amazing book. It is like lore on crack. Like it is so much information that is so interesting. It had like my husband started reading it and he was like, this is amazing. He loves it. Yeah, it's phenomenal.

**Aaron Mahnke** (4:06)
Thank you.

**Alaina Urquhart** (4:07)
So good.

**Aaron Mahnke** (4:08)
So years ago, a couple of years after I started Lore, I created a podcast called Unobscured. And the idea was, you know, we spent 30 minutes on a topic on lore, but what if we spent a whole season on the topic? And the first season is on the Salem Witch Trials, which still people listen to like every year, they get questions about it all the time. It was 10 episodes, you know, like 45 minutes a piece. And there was so much fun in spending just all that time exploring a big topic. Like you can really take your time and dig deep and build a house, right? You can take your time. And we did four seasons of that and then I heart canceled it.