Podcast:Stuff You Should Know Published On: Tue Oct 27 2026 Description: Cultures have come up with lots of personifications of death: Young and attractive? Yes. Riding a black buffalo? Check. Covered in tongues and eyeballs? Uh-huh. But in the West there’s only been one go-to soul taker for hundreds of years: The Grim Reaper.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.