What Alaina Urquhart has said about Flaying

2 quotes · 1 episode · May 14, 2026

Alaina Urquhart, Co-host of Morbid, autopsy technician and author of the Butcher novels, has been quoted on Flaying 2 times in 1 episode of Morbid, most recently on May 14, 2026. Each quote below is verbatim and links to the moment it was said.

In their words

  • Urquhart explained flaying is especially painful because tearing rather than cutting shreds nerve endings.

    “Flaying involves tearing the skin away from the muscle, not cutting it”

    Morbid: Episode Revisit: Torture (May 14, 2026) · Listen from 1:11:50

  • Urquhart said flaying victims could die of hypothermia or infection because skin regulates temperature and protects the body.

    “your skin is the biggest and one of the most vital organs in the human body”

    Morbid: Episode Revisit: Torture (May 14, 2026) · Listen from 1:12:51

Episodes

  • Episode Revisit: Torture

    Morbid · May 14, 2026 · 1 h 21 min

    Morbid hosts Ash Kelley and Alaina Urquhart revisit their early episode on historical torture devices, from the brazen bull and iron maiden to flaying.

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