Does binging on true crime stories leave you feeling a little gross? Try a guilt-free serving of "Holy Shit!" a true (ish) crime podcast dedicated to the gruesome murders of saints who were martyrs.
Each episode will introduce you to a brave soul who took one for their team in a particularly horrific way—and you have complete permission to indulge in the disturbing! These legendary victims of yore are chilling in heaven, and they're totally cool with us passing time with the deaths that earned them halos. Everyone likes to be appreciated for their hard work, even ancient saints.
Let's relive the terrible time these hallowed individuals once had on Earth!
Sera Phim is a current writer and former Catholic school student. She spent a good chunk of her childhood reading disturbing saint biographies for homework, studying paintings of martyrs getting beheaded/stabbed/impaled for the Art History portion of the Academic Decathlon, and intermittently staring up at a bloody man nailed to a cross while trying to color and do math in peace.
Anyway, now she's a true crime fan!