A Morbid History Tour with Bernadette Banner & Morgan Donner || Boston True Crime

[@rachelmaksy]

Once again thanks to June's Journey for bringing us all together in Boston for the weekend ❤️ If you haven't already, join us in the brand new Detective Lounge update for June's Journey here: pixly.go2cloud.org/SH1W6

[@beckyanderson988]

A molassas tsunami

[@emmaemma6641]

Obsessed by June's journey 😁 As always.. A great video Rachel xxx

[@aubrayofsun]

Rachel Maksy what is the name of your June’s Journey group?

[@BeverleyButterfly]

Rachel Maksy yes thank you June and your journey we needed this collab xx

[@Ms1al]

I really love the video and your outfit! A murder tour is right up my alley lol. What period/style is this outfit?

[@bernadettebanner]

Poor Fancy Boi ☹

[@rachelmaksy]

He was just out there hustlin' 😭🙏

[@angryspaceboi3318]

you and Bernadette giggling all the time is something i did not know i needed in my life

[@beck3138]

@Rachel Maksey I don't know if you know, but those stairs you were standing on while talking about the mollasacre (which is a FANTASTIC name and I'm from Boston and never heard that name before but I LOVE it!) are, supposedly, the stairs that Paul Revere road down during his "midnight ride"! Its mentioned in Longfellow's poem 'Paul Revere's Ride'!

[@nannybells]

this collab is so wonderful

[@pixie9425]

YAAAS!❤ i love this! I want more historical spooky morbid facts/story video's in the future, please! 👻

[@fitbmx7744]

I wonder how many people with Lord knows what sickness have rubbed their faces on the fringes of that lamp in the cafe? 😂😂😂 Loved the video!

[@riot315]

Yes more history please

[@kyoungcosplay]

oh my loved the 'Boo Bitch'

[@baenomin]

i want that michigan block m sweater

[@MamaMidnight98]

Our queens!!!

[@fanofeverything5421]

When i was young i dumped molasses on a cat didnt know it could be deadly

[@CakedCrusader9]

Is it bad that I got ideas for my future tombstone from this and proceeded to get excited about it?...

[@rachelmaksy]

😂❤️❤️❤️

[@zoeleeangelis]

Bernadette: Fashion 👗 Morgan: Hair 🦱 Rachel: MURDER 🔪

[@rachelmaksy]

YES 😂

[@syph3r_63]

Me and my friends... I think I'm the murder one...

[@ceti2453]

She’s a Murderino... we Stan

[@Alchemy818.]

My three brain cells at one am when I’m trying to write my book

[@joyceezyxjs4808]

This collab is like when all your favorite teachers are together in one class just to talk during lunch and because you're a lonely child with no friends you get to have lunch with them and listen to their conversation.

[@rachelmaksy]

😂😂❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@Widdekuu91]

@@Strampunch Same here. Although I did make the most of it. I sat with the teachers often and I was very tall, so one day I took a folder to school, for my papers and I just walked into the teacher's room and started making (free!) copies of my own pictures. I hid them back in the folder, got one of the 6-cup-holders and mumbled to myself; 'Hm..let's see..Katherine, Anne, George, Hank, Debby..." and just filled them with (free!) cups of chocolatemilk. That would have cost me 40 cents per cup if I had bought it at the 'student'-automat. I brought my freshly stolen wares to the class, hoping to get a positive response, but they just took the drinks and ignored me afterwards, as always. I pulled the trick for myself, a couple of times, I loved chocolatemilk. It wasn't untill much later that I was recognised by someone and send out.

[@Sky_The_Daily_Dreamer]

This is so specific and yet I know and have memories of being this child/teen lmao XD

[@dallyinghualian]

very specific. i feel attacked

[@hsmacaraig]

ikrrrr yesssss

[@MorganDonner]

Tiny behind-the-scenes Fun Fact: When you said "The Boston Molassacre", I literally lol'd so hard I almost fell over. So glad that the cameras were pointed at you 😂 Thank you for the amazing adventures around Historic Boston!

[@Susanfuzz]

If you want to know more about the molasses flood, try Stephen Puelo’s Dark Tide. It’s an excellent account

[@e.urbach7780]

There is also a children's chapter book in the I Survived series, called I Survived the Great Molasses Flood. In case you have kids who want to read about it!

[@brookeg5979]

This is my favorite comment across all three videos. I can practically hear you in my head. :)

[@rachelmaksy]

Hahahahahaha YES 😂❤️❤️❤️

[@maryannraley]

Supposedly there are sections of the area that still smell like molasses on a hot day.

[@lizziehartree6687]

and they tried to tell us endgame was the most ambitious crossover event of all time.......

[@peepy5122]

Lizzie Hartree She has the Giorno Giovanna hair too.

[@joshuagaither4866]

Or as Bernadette has put it, "The Rachel Maksy Cinematic Universe". 😅

[@arielzoe437]

“Morbid history murder ghost tour” Yes. Yes, this is what I want, yes.

[@rachelmaksy]

Hahaha I am glad 🙏😂❤️

[@lindaschultz7253]

Love it, wish I was there!

[@CrAzYhairShOw]

Is nobody going to comment on the fact that the “Molassacre” newspaper clipping has another story titled, “Senators hear awful tale of German Orgies”???? 😂😂 8:47

[@Piti_Pingu]

Oh my god I didn't even see this until I read your comment XD

[@statnoise5843]

I don't normally do that many youtube comments (compared to how many I watch) but this was one that made me pause to see if we were just skating past that orrrrrr.....?

[@tiptoes209]

That did catch my eye! The British Navy blockaded Germany and thus controlled significant information coming out of Europe during the time. Both Great Britain, and later America, ran campaigns of misinformation to promote anti-German sentiment. This vilifying of Germans, during and after The Great War, was a means of justifying America's involvement in the conflict and the heavy debts forced onto Germany as the "losers". German Americans were even arrested and held in jail without trial for fear they were spies, and their property seized by the government.

[@Crosshill]

@@tiptoes209 you a cool guy

[@CrAzYhairShOw]

tiptoes209 wow, interesting! Thanks so much for sharing, I’m German American so very interesting to know.

[@maddie8780]

You say "Winged Death Head" is a great band name. May I suggest "Scattered Cadaver"

[@k1tkat-kate]

oh damn!

[@rachelmaksy]

EYYYYY also GENIUS

[@nekkidpossum4397]

SCADÄVER Featuring Random Umlaut! Opening act: THE UMLOUTS (someone please stop me)

[@maddie8780]

@@nekkidpossum4397 I've studied German too long... I read the ä as ae.

[@alex0589]

Metal

[@lavenderlylin]

As a historian, I'm LITERALLY fangirling. OMG! This video was so fun! We STAN educational Rachel!!!!

[@rachelmaksy]

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🤗

[@TheWatercolourNymph]

I've never seen Bernadette act so recklessly. *Bernadette: submerging face in lamp tassels*

[@AmyFaith]

I also lovvvved seeing Bernadette like this - eating Pringles too! 🙌😂

[@TheWatercolourNymph]

@@AmyFaith it was content of the most wholesome variety

[@rachelmaksy]

😂😂

[@VtorHunter]

M for "Morbid Murder Molasses Massacre Tour" (in Massachusetts)

[@rachelmaksy]

YES 🙏😂

[@floramathilda]

You & my fairy death mother, Caitlin Doughty, should collab. She did a whole video on the evolution of headstone imagery!

[@rachelmaksy]

I don't think she knows I exist hahaha! But she's a queen!!

[@grannysquared7140]

"the grossest game of geocaching ever" LOL

[@rachelmaksy]

😎😎😎😎😎

[@randomweirdo7501]

i laughed so hard at that XD and i read this at the same time lmao

[@kateobrien1943]

I LOLed too hard at this that I choked on my tea! Too funny!

[@EileenNestman]

Rachel is taller than Morgan? It's amazing how you assign fake heights to KZbinrs without thinking about it, and weird to see it not be so.

[@learikosontcuit7129]

By the videos: Rachel is so pretty and fun what a perfect human being By the bloopers: the most relatable person ever

[@rachelmaksy]

😂😂😂 you're far too kind!!

[@kateobrien1943]

YES! Accurate. The bits after "byeeeee" are usually my favourite

[@djunaskye6220]

After watching the other two videos in the collab, I was thinking "I bet Rachel's video is going to be the weirdest" and looks like I was right 😂 I love it though!

[@rachelmaksy]

😎😎😎😎😎

[@seanmcgcostumes]

I find it hilarious that a few years ago, Ask A Mortician did a video on grave imagery’s evolution and she also point out how “winged death head” makes the PERFECT hard rock band name. 😂 It just works so well! Loved this video. And they said that Avengers: Infinity War was the best team up ever, pfft.

[@ashleyalexwallace]

A fellow Deathling!!!!!

[@lady00303]

@@ashleyalexwallace another one here.. :)

[@she.is.sleeping]

Yaaas I got that too!!! Saluts, fellow Deathlings ❤

[@ceciliadeabobora9149]

guys IMAGINE a duo of caitlin and Rachel oh my goddd

[@AmyFaith]

Another Deathling here! Caitlin and Rachel are literally my favourite women on KZbin 🙌 I'm so here for all the vintageness, death and comedy 🤘

[@lucyamclarenauthor]

08:47 I want to know more about these “German orgies” the senators heard awful tales of 🧐😂

[@lostbiscuit89]

luce061 right??!!! Imma need to read this article 🤣

[@Kasukilex]

You can find the entire page of the newspaper online. This headline reports some eyewitness' story from World War I, in which he describes the crimes German soldiers committed in Belgium, like burning entire villages to the ground and such. So, it's a very sad story, not something raunchy as we might think today when hearing the word 'orgy'.

[@lucyamclarenauthor]

Kasukilex wow, thank you for letting us know. Jarring evidence of the evolution of language.

[@rachelmaksy]

The WORLD WILL NEVER KNOOOOOWWW

[@tiptoes209]

The British Navy blockaded Germany during the war and thus controlled significant information coming out of Europe about the conflict. Both Great Britain, and later America, ran campaigns of misinformation to promote anti-German sentiment. This vilifying of Germans, during and after The Great War, was a means of justifying America's involvement in the conflict and the heavy debts forced onto Germany as the "losers". German Americans were even arrested and held in jail without trial for fear they were spies, and their property seized by the government.

[@hellooldfriend3223]

Damn what did that tree do to deserve being a murder weapon

[@rachelmaksy]

Right?!

[@Eowyn3Pride]

Well, at a witness or accessory to it...🤐

[@AlexaFaie]

@@Eowyn3Pride I like that you suggested it could have been an accessory to the murder. Like it was actually an Ent who could have just got up and wandered off if it didn't agree to being used to kill people. LOL

[@hailtothefire_]

I wumbo, You wumbo, He she me wumbo, wumbo, Wumboing, We'll have thee wumbo, Wumborama, Wumbology, The study of wumbo? It's first grade, SpongeBob!

[@Caroline28483]

I don't know what to do! Morgan, Rachel, and Bernadette uploaded at the same time so I have the videoes open in different tabs

[@Molscheira]

the struggle is very real!!!

[@rachelmaksy]

Hahahaha 😂❤️❤️

[@NRGFASHIONDESIGNS]

I remember my mother reading a children’s book to me about the molasses flood. Ah, New England 😂

[@heatherfaust7643]

Noelle Rose I think I read that same book in elementary school

[@rachelmaksy]

Hahaha omg whaaat

[@Prionic77]

Yeah, looks like 2 or 3 different kid books on it, including one that came out just last year. One from '85 has a description on Amazon that says: "Patrick has a craving for molasses, until the explosion of a fifty-foot tank fills the streets of Boston with the stuff." I suppose it's a story about being careful what you wish for? An odd and perhaps not the best lesson to take from such a bizarre tragic event lol

[@ElmersGlueTimes2]

Literally as she was talking about it I had a recovered memory of an elementary school teacher reading a picture book about it too! Honestly so glad I'm not the only one

[@peytonp8512]

Noelle Rose me too! growing up in massachusetts, we knew all about the gory stories since elementary school.

[@belladonnabaggins3996]

Ohmygosh, didn't know how fast to click the notifications that just rained down 🥰 This collab and video is going bloody legendary! I've been having a terrible time due to my body being an arse atm, so this is a perfect pick me up. ❤ Your uploads are always a highlight in my week, Thank you Rachel 🥰

[@berkleypearl2363]

Belladonna Baggins I love your username!

[@antonijapupacic5837]

@@berkleypearl2363 I clicked immediately to say that lol love it!

[@merindymorgenson3184]

I also clicked just to say I love your user name.

[@rachelmaksy]

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@Eowyn3Pride]

I love your name!!!🥰

[@cynhanrahan4012]

"the grossest game of geocaching, ever." Rachel wins the internet today with my first real laugh out loud!

[@rachelmaksy]

😂😂❤️❤️❤️

[@samgregory9974]

The QUEENS of costube 😭😭😭 minus meme mom though 😔 but this colab is my dream come true!!

[@rai1879]

Cathy is missing too

[@edwardtheinsane]

Never wanted to be friends with three people more in my life. Ya'll are delightful.

[@victoriansteak5986]

Er mer gerd!!!! First meme mom and now this! AHHH, IM SO EXCITED!!!!!

[@rachelmaksy]

🤗🤗🤗

[@kissmekate14]

"Are you? Are you? coming to the tree? Where they strung up a man, they say that murdered three"

[@clairefazel8470]

😐 my favorite song

[@LisaOrgana]

Loving the Outfit in this Video! Reminds me of a chic-vintage-version of the Weasley Family sweaters!

[@jessw6932]

M for Molly!

[@rachelmaksy]

Hahaha yesss!

[@mistyroller3470]

Holy smokes yes!! Now i need one. M for Misty.

[@conflictpersona8]

I thought the same thing!!! And thought M for Maksy too cute

[@margaretmyres5626]

Loved this from the interviews on Bernadette's channel to the hair style exchange on Morgans and this lovely morbid history tour. It would be amazing if you all could do more together.

[@rachelmaksy]

🤗❤️❤️

[@rabbit6546]

idk about y'all but i feel like i would prefer a tour where the person did minimal research and just vibed their way through information especially with morbid history like be vague with it really give me that Cryptic Ambience

[@rachelmaksy]

😂😂😂😂🙏🙏🙏

[@indiawall9566]

Lol 😂 “😱 Oh my gosh they were ROOMMATES?!?!” 😂😂😂

[@jacquelynmiller4714]

This was amazing. Now I want to see you on an episode of Drunk History.

[@LorChampan]

OH MY GOD YES. drunk murder mystery history with Rachel Maksy

[@vilmalonneborg]

I'm usually asleep when your uploads go live (because of timezones and stuff) so the fact that I get to see this video when it went up has made me almost embarrassingly excited!

[@rachelmaksy]

Hahaha yayy!!!!

[@allyssamccray7380]

Boston and Halifax be like : "Getcha cemeteries! Downtown cemeteries! Super creepy and overcrowded!"

[@heyitstat4227]

you have heard of "toss a coin to your witcher" now be prepared for the all-new exciting "toss a penny to lady Banner"

[@Molscheira]

Truly thank you "June's Journey" for blessing us with these collabs!! I enjoyed all of them so very much

[@ninniepd]

8:47 "Senators hear awful tales of german orgies" ...do I wanna know

[@Ambir91]

Can we apreciate the editing and the effort in making such an interesting video! 😍 500 points to Ravenclaw!!!👏👏👏

[@rachelmaksy]

Thank yoooou 😭😭😭 Definitely taking a break from graphics for a bit hahahaha

[@hannahmcisaac4905]

As a historian who used to work in the North End, I lost my mind when you started talking about the Great Molasses Flood. Signs that it was about to happen were covered up! It was entrenched in Boston politics! It's so fascinating!

[@horseluver2509]

Bernadette’s coins 😂😂 me after any trip to another country tbh I never spend my change cuz I get stressed out about not knowing how much each one is worth

[@Lena-qw8ys]

The stuff they don’t teach you in school ! And I’m from Boston

[@rachelmaksy]

Hahaha RIGHT?? I'm JUST learning the true history of the pilgrims and I've lived here my whole life 😅

[@HRH_Queen_JoJo]

I was thinking the same thing.

[@lilfloss7]

“speaking of butchering” and the edited in “boo!” had me cackling 😂😂😂

[@BananaTheNinja]

After watching all three of your guys' videos, I am convinced I could never dress in old timey fashions cause I would...I would mess with people. I would hang out in like historic-y place or cemeteries and see if I could make people think they saw a ghost XD I really don't think I could restrain myself from doing this.

[@elizabethdee7590]

Wow, the flood of notifications I just got! You were at the top of the list, so you're first!

[@reinematthews7480]

Bernadette looks like Mary Poppins. Love it!

[@nessarolla]

Vintage dress and true crime, two of my interest collide fantastically!

[@bookworm3756]

Your coat looks exactly like my mom's coat when I was young and this is deeply unrelated but it gave me flashbacks to being a child in the 90s

[@docvideo93]

4:19 "The Case of the Scattered Cadaver" which Im assuming was written by Crime Reporter Nancy Drew???

[@Domilyons]

"...So you know there's some Fantasia #%&* going on in there any given moment." I can't! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@cyberneticsquid-godofmassd3759]

just imagine that obituary: Here lies John Doe, killed by a flood of molasses, may he forever rest in peace. XD

[@maryinsanfrancisco]

I've been in Boston in February. I thought I was going to die. My SF Bay Area "layers" were worthless against the New England cold. Also: heated sugar things, like jam or molasses are like hot burning lava. Sticky burning lava that keeps burning your skin as you're trying to get it off. I had... troubles the first time I tried making jam. The molassacre sounds HORRIBLE.

[@leaf5549]

Fun fact: I went to the same high school as John Wilkes Booth. Not the same building; it's been rebuilt twice. And the name has been changed slightly; it was Bel Air Academy when he went there, it's now Bel Air High School.

[@pairoleggs]

I went to Boston and saw all of these sites! My favorite part was the burying grounds and how they had to dig up older bodies to fit the new ones because they ran out of room... ok well it's kind of morbid but I thought it was interesting lol

[@Litharriel]

When you turned away to double-check on when the Elm blew down, it looked kinda like you were asking the pigeons. Now I'm imagining that's how all tour guides get all their obscure information.

[@123marksalot]

I’ve lived in MA all my life and I’ve never heard of the darker side of Boston. It’s so cool thanks for sharing ❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@solveigg]

COLLAB OF THE CENTURY!! Love you girls soo much

[@TheDandyLyonClub]

Holy crap, I live in London and I am Boston bound next weekend. What bad timing on my part. I think running into you, to be able to tell you in person what a huge inspiration you are, it would have made my year. I hope that you are living your best life, exploring and learning. Thank you for all the years of laughter and love. You are a blessing. x

[@hawtdogjeylo5308]

When I saw the word Morbid... I thought of Caitlin from ask a mortician

[@katebrusk]

Fun Molassacre fact: The steel, which was too brittle for construction of the tank, was the same type of steel used for the Titanic. I've come to your lovely videos through Bernadette and Morgan, and I'm so glad! I lived in Boston for a few years and it has a big chunk of my heart. The Molassacre is my favorite piece of strange Bostonian history. If you're ever so lucky to find yourself in Boston again, I highly recommend hopping across the river for a guided ghost tour of Cambridge.

[@rachelmaksy]

Ooooo didn't know that!!!

[@starlitmelody9457]

You need to do more morbid tours 😂 this is amazing

[@iridescentaurora268]

I learned about the Molassacre from Sam O’Nella’s video on the subject. According to his research, if you go to that area of Boston during the summer months, you can still catch a whiff of molasses to this day :)

[@luizahundt]

Yo I got addicted to June’s journey a few months back because of you!! I keep going to my husband like “ohhh they drank my coffee!” or “I need just a hundred more coins to get the farmer’s market and then we can eat lunch” 😂😂 also now I wanna go back to Boston to see all these cool things!

[@rachelmaksy]

Hahaha YESS

[@shaquille_oatmeal6949]

Is it that she only wears that hairstyle around Bernadette and Morgan? DONT GET ME WRONG AS A WANNABE HISTORIAN THIS HAS ME SCREAMING SCREAMS OF JOY

[@mikeymoody05]

Ive never the quirky side of Bernadette before... I feel like that sounds rude, please dont kill me Bernadette

[@alexisflory6496]

The extra bits at the end. Stop making me giggle.

[@AdelaideBeemanWhite]

“Stop here my friends and cast an eye, as you are now, so once was I, as I am now, so must you be, prepare for death, and follow me.”

[@AlexaFaie]

With your profile image this just read like you're a ghost haunting the comments section. LOL

[@juliakra01]

6:49 Fun fact, John Wilkes Booth went to my high school... so my school's only famous alumni killed my favorite president. Yay.

[@bho-lj1jk]

Just subbed because of collab with Karolinskia. And you reward me with this. I feel special

[@lesahanners5057]

The mental imagery of a 35 mph wall of molasses rushing down the street is so nightmare inducing, I'll surely have that one for a while. This was not a sweet death, well actually it was, but...well...you know what I mean. This was a fine tour of a city my ancestors helped found. Unfortunately, their religion made them more stiff and unforgiving than the ridgepole of a roof. Those Bostonian Puritan ancestors tried to hang my Plymouth Colony ancestor, but didn't succeed. I wish you could have gone to Old South Church, 645 Boylston Street, Boston. On the wall of the portico outside, you’ll find three gravestones found during street excavations, including one for accused witch, Captain John Alden (1626-1702). He escaped from jail and returned after the 1692 trials were over. (Yes, this was the Captain John Alden of May Flower fame, and my ancestor.) Thanks for the lovely tour, it was grand fun!

[@norma8794]

I gasped when I saw Bernadette with you!! I like the dark side of history too, this was a really enjoyable video :))

[@yc2877]

We want more of these! You should do a series where you discuss dark topics like murders and ghost stories that aren’t well known while maybe doing a hairstyle from the time Period it’s from

[@liannechu5395]

im so early I don't know what to do with myself

[@rachelmaksy]

😂❤️❤️

[@TomWDW1]

Omni Parker House is also where the Boston Creme Pie was invented!! And the Great Molasses Flood was also made worse by the fact that the molasses would have been slightly warm, leading it to pour faster and to burn people as it went through. The more you know!! Why did June's Journey send you to Boston, specifically, if I can ask??

[@strawberryrae3]

is that a vintage Minnesota gophers sweater? :) love this collab!

[@beautyonabarnbudget]

I think its sooo fuqed that everyone came over to America from England for religious freedom. Then persecuted people for practicing religious freedom. Oof

[@ireymm]

13:50 omg they were roommates

[@christineherrmann205]

Ok, King's Chapel has horrible energy. Every time I walk by I try to do some reiki on it but wow, thanks for the background. North side doesn't have great energy either. I love seeing tourists tottering around them completely oblivious.

[@denatoniumbenzoate8614]

Omg are all the vintage youtubers friends? I need this to be a thing because it's too cute.

[@megansullivan6056]

I love how much you don't take yourself seriously! This was a hoot! The molasses flood is my favorite Boston story. I've heard so many stories of people wearing rubber boots afterwards because even after it was cleaned up the streets were still sticky!

[@milltir]

That creepy bottomless pit you were looking at in King's Chapel is a subway vent. Sometimes it howls when the incredibly screechy green line trains go past.

[@slroberts283]

Love your content. Love you. Love your dog. Your cat looks like she would kill you in your sleep. No one else I'd rather have coffee with.

[@beck3798]

Bernadette in her full historical dress eating pringles was exactly what I didn't know I needed

[@jeanrock3047]

Oh my god! I just was in Boston, and I stayed at the omni parker house, and visited that graveyard! Sheesh! I had no idea.

[@GeeklingNo1]

Y'all should go to Savanna, Georgia. Their haunted tours are awesome!

[@bpeace1100]

So I've lived in Boston my entire life and this is the first time I have ever heard "The Boston Molassacre" (I've always referred to it as the Molasses Disaster ). Then again I don't have a Boston accent either so maybe I'm just not a proper local lol.

[@thisishalloween5589]

Ha I started watching your videos because I wanted to make a oogie boogie costume and the later on realized that I saw Bernadette banner's video and thought you where really cool but forgot to check out your channel

[@amelialeach9507]

Are you, are you coming to the tree, where they strung up a man, they say who murdered 3? Strange things did happen her, no stranger would it be, if we met at midnight, in the hanging tree...