American Couple Reacts: Haunting TRUE Story Of Eyam, Derbyshire! Plague Village Of The Damned! *WOW*

American Couple Reacts: Haunting TRUE Story Of Eyam, Derbyshire! Plague Village Of The Damned! WOW This video popped up likely because of Halloween next week. This is a bit different than other things we have done. But we wanted to hear this story & learn about the history of this village in England and what transpired. It made us quite emotional, not what we expected to feel. The Black Death was an absolute horror and yet in this village, it brought out the best in people and of course, the worse in others. Mass respect to the memories of the people of Eyam. We are proud to learn some of their names & inspiring stories. Thank you SO much for watching! If you enjoy our content, please consider subscribing to our channel, it is the BEST way to support our channel and it's FREE! Also, please click the Like button. Thank you for your support! *More Links below...
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[@zinnia2980]

We in the local region have always known about this tragic story and the amazing selflessness of the people who shut themselves and their village off to protect others. Derbyshire is very beautiful and historical.

[@alicea9123]

It's such a scary but touching story.

[@helenwood8482]

It's always amazed me that at a time when people were fleeing plague areas and spreading the disease, these people calmy decided they would not put others at risk. We'll never know how many lives they saved, but I'll bet it was thousands.

[@TheNatashaDebbieShow]

Honestly, probably even more!

[@debbiem7337]

I really think they could have changed the course of the world.If it had got to Sheffield, Leeds, Manchester or London. and from there abroad it could have killed millions . We might not be here today as our ancestors might have been victims. Mind blowing place

[@vanburger]

Being from Derbyshire and quite local to Eyam. The most fascinating thing about the story is what's now known about all the survivors. Almost all the survivors were from a couple of families and all had heritage back to one man. It's now known that all the survivors had an immunity due to their relationship to each other. There is a fascinating documentary which deals with how the sacrifice of Eyam went on to develop how modern medicine now deals with things like quarantine, inoculations, and distance keeping. COVID was a direct beneficiary. The documentary shows these families who to this day live in Eyam.

[@rebekahtaylor6142]

I think I’ve seen that documentary. Did they track down descendants of the survivors and discover something in their DNA which gave them immunity? It was really interesting.

[@vanburger]

@@rebekahtaylor6142 yes that's the one. It was fascinating.

[@stevebagnall1553]

Eyam is about a 30 minute drive from our home, and I have visited it only once. It's eerie, no birds fly over it, no wild life enters it, not even rats. There is a similar deserted village in East Yorkshire that's the same. Just a feeling of utter depression at both locations, both suffered almost total extinction from the Black Death. There is a cemetery opposite St.James Hospital in Leeds, where I was born, that had been created for victims of the disease, nothing, not even dandelions grow there.

[@em-jaytaylor6743]

Those with both genes are also immune to HIV. The only known people with immunity to HIV in the world.

[@catholicbeth2371]

I live quite close to Eyam. Those villagers were total self sacrificing heroes. They knew that the plague was coming but chose to isolate rather than risk spreading the disease to neighbouring villages. THEY ARE NOT THE VILLAGE OF THE DAMMED AND SHOULD BE VIEWED AS SOME HOLLOWEEN GHOST STORY!!! I am certain that their heroic sacrifice earned them a heavenly reward, not damnation. Just as a side issue at the time there was ignorance about what caused the plague. Many doctors thought it was due to bad odours, foul air. They but fragrant herbs in the masks they wore to combat bad vapours,

[@jezfrench9435]

Yep. 'Pocket full of posies'

[@alanmon2690]

"Many doctors thought it was due to bad odours, foul air." I've read many medical books from the 1800s and they still blamed bad air. "Malaria =Bad air", They weren't the damned viillage, they were realists. They had no effective treatment; The most common treatment was Phlebotomy, ie bleeding a pint of blood.

[@bethcushway458]

Kids in England learn about Eyam and the Black Death on the national curriculum. The people of Eyam are seen as National heroes who sacrificed themselves to keep the rest of the country safe. There have been a few documentaries and dramatisations about their amazing story over here. They really were heroes and I can't imagine the fear they went through to make the sacrifice they did❤❤❤❤❤

[@mpol701]

And we had from just hertfordshire regular school trips to Derbyshire for week then one day at Eyam, so went a few times, Eyam, blue john caves, matlock and Buxton and of course bakewell, to get real bakewell tarts

[@maxwellturnbull1903]

@@mpol701 Bakewell Pudding not Bakewell Tarts.

[@mpol701]

@@maxwellturnbull1903 no they are tarts

[@mpol701]

I see there's both puddings are older though never knew that catering college only told us about tarts, been to bakewell and asked for tart got tart, guess should've asked for pudding but never knew

[@maxwellturnbull1903]

@@mpol701 Bakewell Puddings originated from mistake made by a cook working in the kitchen of a hotel in Bakewell. I think that it was the Rutland Hotel, which is in the centre of Bakewell in Derbyshire. The misread the instructions and folded the pastry, which enclosed the jam mixture. Perhaps you believe that the vile flat tarts covered with fondant icing are Bakewell Puddings, they are not, they are Bakewell Tarts. Hope this helps to clarify the situation.

[@janelockwood347]

Margaret’s relatives still live in Eyam. They studied her a few years ago and found she carries a rare gene that ‘protects’ her. It’s the same gene that protects some to not contract AIDS. It’s truly fascinating. I have visited Eyam, it is not many miles from my home, it is full of atmosphere and carries these brave souls memories and history for future generations.

[@sarahealey1780]

This was our baseline for covid. Stay home, keep 6 feet apart, and do what you can to save your neighbours. I know that people have their own opinions about covid, but I know I did my best for my neighbours by wearing masks and being vaccinated, I did what I though best with the information I had at the time.

[@paulh1679]

There was also information at the start supressed by Governments and media that's masks were harmful and the Vaccine was untested so potentially harmful and is now with "the science" proving to be the case. Information was available just had to look harder and withstand the abuse received for daring to ask questions about something so important.

[@therealpbristow]

Thank you for doing so.

[@wendygraham6863]

You did the right thing, thankyou

[@MsGeoffh]

BS it was lab made and exaggerated to make us comply see how far they could take it....neve ever take a mandated vaccine again in my life! Leftoids please do that as good sheep.

[@stephensmith4480]

It happened again during The Spanish Flu Pandemic at the time of the 1St World War. Between 50 and 100 Million people worldwide died of it, 250 Thousand in Britain alone. Lets hope The Covid one is the last that we will ever see. Like you I also did my best to protect people. I was furloughed from work for a year and never saw most of my family for the whole time. I'm just so glad it's over.

[@TonyWilmott]

DO you know the child's nursery rhyme Ring o' Ring o' Roses A pocket full of posies Atishoo, Atishoo We all fall down? I learned this as most do at my mother's knee as an infant. The meaning I learned later. The roses are the red blotches which are an early symptom of plague The posies are the sweet smelling herbs etc which were carried in a vain attempt to stave off the plague Followed by uncontrollable sneezing and death In 1973 the BBC showed a play called 'The Roses of Eyam' you should be able to find it on KZbin - it is an extraordinary dramatisation of the Eyam plague, and has lost nothing of its power over the 50 years since first broadcast.

[@janewalker3921]

I remember seeing that play years ago.

[@user-oo7kd4nu4v]

I know the rhyme ring a ring a roses…But never knew the meaning of the words…

[@gtaylor331]

Doctors in the 16th and 17th Centuries wore these peculiar costumes to protect themselves from the plague. Germs, bacteria etc were of course not understood at the time, more fear was attributed to the bad small associated with the disease. So the masks you remarked upon, with the peculiar nose were designed to hold herbs and flowers, which were thought to ward off the 'badness.' They weren't designed to look 'evil' or 'spooky', but of course, they have that effect.

[@gillfox9899]

The "beak" of the doctor's mask was filled with sweet smelling herbs

[@genm303]

I live in the Peak District just 30 minutes drive from Eyam and have visited a number of times, the sacrifice of those selfless people is so humbling. The museum there is dedicated to them and documents everything, and every person is named. Respect seems a small word to describe what they did but it is more than given. May they all rest in eternal peace.

[@roysimpson9711]

I owned the local newsagency in Eyam in the 70s . Its a wonderful place to live and with a history of such bravery and selflessness in a time when life was so hard anyway. There are people still living in the cottages built at that time Cosy warm dwellings with charm and homeliness . The people who lived there then were friendly and amazing , working locally on farms and quarries If I could turn back time that's where I would go

[@TheNatashaDebbieShow]

That's incredible!! And we would love to visit and pay our respects

[@roysimpson9711]

You would not regret a visit if you had time . In the summer Eyam is welcoming and interesting . In the winter its cold and damp but still has charm . In summer most of the Peak District villages have Carnivals and Well Dressings They have parades and things like Sheep Roasts and visitors flock there . @@TheNatashaDebbieShow

[@r-loc2602]

They should check out Castleton with its caves, Buxton, Tideswell and any of the random surrounding hamlets if they decide to head to Eyam for a taste of old England.

[@roysimpson9711]

​@@r-loc2602All worth a visit just for their history alone

[@sandrahughes8645]

I’ve visited Eyam . It’s definitely worth going. It’s worthwhile during a trip to some of the towns in Derbyshire x

[@fubarghost13akawoz44]

As a Brit I knew the dark side to this part of Monty python’s holy grail joke “bring out your dead…” as it was a part of grave diggers often to collect the dead on a cart to take to mass burial sites but also the part of the “joke” a large majority don’t get is where the old man he carried out was not dead and for a small charge he will be bashed on the head to un’alive them “or like this video shows just buried them before it was over” just another time we Brit’s find comfort in comedy because of tragedy.

[@TheNatashaDebbieShow]

This video popped up likely because of Halloween next week. This is a bit different than other things we have done. But we wanted to hear this story & learn about the history of this village in England and what transpired. It made us quite emotional, not what we expected to feel. The Black Death was an absolute horror and yet in this village, it brought out the best in people and of course, the worst in others. Mass respect to the memories of the people of Eyam. We are proud to learn some of their names & inspiring stories. Thank you SO much for watching! If you enjoy our content, please consider subscribing to our channel, it is the BEST way to support our channel and it's FREE! Also, please click the Like button. Thank you for your support!

[@improvesheffield4824]

I’ve visited Eyam (👍🏼 for the pronunciation Natasha) many times as it’s very local to me. Unfortunately this video didn’t mention the rhyme “Ring a Ring a Roses” which children used to sing about the Black Death. If you visit the village you will see the words on the wrought iron gate of the primary school. Also, the scary pointy mask was filled with Herbs and other plants which were thought to protect the doctor from the supposed ‘foul’ air. The long coat and boots were obviously to protect the skin from flea bites. Looking forward to seeing you react to another of my favourite places to visit in the Peak District, Chatsworth House. Please make sure you learn about the American connection and thanks for posting.

[@space1999]

The doctors would wear the bird beak to avoid getting the plague... they would fill the beak with herbs and spices they believed (wrongly of course) would ward off the disease....

[@space1999]

In victorian times, being buried alive was so common, people used to be buried with a bell above the grave attached to a cord in the coffin... should the person "wake up" they could ring the bell to be rescued... people were employed to sit in graveyards overnight to listen out for the bells... this nightshift is where we get the term "graveyard shift" from....

[@SJ-GodofGnomes21]

So glad you finally did Eyam....we go to the Peak District once a year on holiday and have been here several times.... Please do more Peak District vids

[@user-fq8rs7rz3i]

N&D...... please watch the Timeline video on this subject. Plague and Aids are linked by a mutant gene called ‘Delta 32’, but in a good way. An American scientist discovered this link, which explained why some lived and some died. It’s fascinating and really uplifting. If you can let me know what you think.Rose.

[@jonbroxton7346]

I grew up in Sheffield, one of the cities that they talk about in the video, and I have been to Eyam many times. I actually remember we took a school excursion to Eyam when I was in my first or second year of high school as part of my high school history class, so I learned all about this at a reasonably young age. It's a fascinating place. If you go there now it's actually really really pretty, with a lovely tea room on the main road, lovely architecture of the cottages, and the countryside around there is gorgeous. The cottages where the plague deaths actually happened are all marked with plaques and signs, so you can see exactly what happened where. It's done really tastefully, and is really worth a visit.

[@enkiofsumer8374]

I'm just over the South Yorkshire/North East Derbyshire border from you in Chesterfield. Our schools made the same visits.

[@stalfithrildi5366]

Whenever I visit Eyam I always think of Mrs Leighton taking us in as 8 or 9 year olds and describing the sacrifices made with such passion

[@howardgrice6682]

I live at the foot of the Peak National Park and drive through the area often. If we have foreign visitors I always take them to Eyam and the other surrounding beautiful villages like Bakewell, Matlock and of course Chatsworth House which is absolutely stunning. When you visit Eyam despite all the visitors and traffic it has a serene calmness about it and as you walk through the village and see all the horrors that occurred during that turbulent time it fills you with humilty to realise the absolute sacrifice that these brave and heroic people made. The crow mask was as Debbie said worn by the physician at the time, the nose was filled with aromatic herbs and perfume and a wax coated coat was also worn. There is an old nursery rhyme associated with the plague which some people say has a macabre air about it. "Ring a ring of roses, a pocket full of posies, atishoo, atishoo we all fall down" The ring of rosies is the terrible sores that emerged, the pocket full of posies is the nosegays and scented flowers that were used to freshen the air and the atishoo was the sneezing that occured before death and of course the we all fall down was the inevitable end. Thanks both for this incredible video ❤xx

[@andrewdove2406]

Used to drive through Stoney Middleton and past the road up to Eyam on a regular basis. A few years ago, finally visited Eyam, including the museum - well worth a visit. A couple of years later, researching my family tree, discovered that Rev. Mompesson is my 9x great grandfather...along with a lot of other people, I'm sure!

[@larryfroot]

The strength, courage and humanity of those people who stayed is truly humbling.

[@patriciaabatemarco3834]

I lived in New Mexico, US for 28 years. I was stunned to discover that plague is resident in rodent populations there. The last human death was in 2020. The warnings to be cautious not to do anything that could encourage rodents become more intense. Of course it’s treatable now but you can still die badly.

[@gillfox9899]

Yes there are areas in north America and Russia where bubonic plague is endemic to this day

[@alisoncauser2955]

I used to hike around the peaks and have visited Eyam several 😊times. There was a recent genetics study on the descendants of the Eyam survivors and it found that through the records it was just a few family names that were predisposed to survive. It is leading to studies on genetics and how they on how certain genes help fight disease and virus' it was found that over many generations had married into the same few families which helped that gene survive through to modern day descendants. It is truly a remarkable story of self sacrifice and dreadful loss of life in just one village. Some used four thrives vinegar to try and stave off the infection in bigger cities.

[@QuakerJones268]

I live close by in Chesterfield and although I don't visit Eyam as a tourist, we do go there somtimes to walk our dog on Eyam Moor. The Plague was horrific and the selfless act by the population of that village undoubtedly saved many lives. Chesterfield is a thriving town with its own fascinating history and I often wonder how the town would have evolved (if at all) had the people of Eyam not done what they did. We have a lot to thank them for.

[@enkiofsumer8374]

Ditto. I'm also from Chesterfield, and whenever Natasha and Debbie mention visiting the UK,I always post that it would be an amazing base town to stay. Due to it's central location, perfect transport links and obviously it's own local history, which most people don't realise. Revolution House, The Foljambes, it's Roman town history, it's market town history, the Crooked Spire, the Dambusters training at Derwent dam, Florence Nightingale, George Stephenson, Chatsworth House Haddon Hall, Hardwick Hall, Bolsover Castle, a gateway to the Peak District etc. I feel so privileged to live here, and would never dream of leaving.

[@QuakerJones268]

@@enkiofsumer8374 I left at the ripe old age of 16, joined the Army, travelled the world for 25 years then came back in 2001. There was never any doubt about me returning. I love it here. 1:45min to the Yorkshire Dales, ten mins to the Peak District, 2:30 to the Lake District, same for Snowdonia Like you say, the perfect base.

[@goodshipkaraboudjan]

That was tragic, fascinating and horrifying BUT oddly inspiring though due to the selflessness and resilience. That was a heavy but absolutely worth knowing their story. Love to learn with you two so thanks for finding the video.

[@TheNatashaDebbieShow]

You put it better than we could. Thanks Russell

[@aussiegirl1166]

have heard of this a long time ago, scary how quickly it spread. Recently it was the anniversary of the Aberfan disaster in Wales, such a sad story too and even though it happened two weeks before I was born, it affected my parents greatly (as it did so many in the different countries) and I grew up learning about it and always stopping to remember on the day of the event. It might be something you would like to look at, but it is such a sad story.

[@enkiofsumer8374]

So true. Especially how the school was literally 'swallowed up'. I had family members killed in another mining related tragedy. The Markham pit disaster. Ironically (for this video) this was another Derbyshire tragedy.

[@davidireland4433]

I live about 4 miles from Aberfan and no matter how many times I drive past, the lines of white graves on the hillside is heartbreaking. A very dear friend of mine was raised in Aberfan and always commented how she didn't have many friends as a child. My friend was born just after the disaster, but her older cousin survived because she was off school sick on that terrible day. Sadly we still live under the threat of this happening again. In the past few years several coal tips above the Rhondda have suffered slips or shifted. There is a massive project under way right now to stabilise the Ferndale tip.

[@enkiofsumer8374]

@@davidireland4433 yes, it's certainly tragic when things like this happen in mining communities. Everyone has family or friends who lost loved ones. Also everyone has family or friends who survived these tragedies through the pure luck of being ill, on holiday, swapped shifts with friends etc. My Grandfather was one such survivor of the Markham pit shaft disaster. But when you hear of young children, that's especially difficult to process. Especially (whether rightly or wrongly) when the older generations of miners always had to accept that they may never make it back to the surface. Overlooked heroes that kept our nation thriving. God bless them all. And I'm of the Orgreave generation. Lots of my friends were arrested and beaten by South Yorkshire Police. Absolute animals and liars. Just like at the Hillsborough disaster and the Rotherham child grooming scandals.

[@ashdrive]

Thats what I love about the UK...its full of mystical, magical, historical events..great channel....

[@sandralyttleton]

Im from Staffordshire just next door to you, we spent the day there and it was a very spiritual place, the thought of what the villagers did makes me very proud of them.

[@Granny_Cat_Lady]

I live 15 miles from Eyam, we go there quite often in the summer, it’s a beautiful little place. If you have heard Ring o’Ring o’ Roses, that is the nursery rhyme based on the Bubonic Plague. It’s a very beautiful place, but kind of eerie place ❤

[@DigiDivide]

Massive part of history this. Love that you have touched on this small town in the UK and bought light of it to people. Thank you! Always love your videos, you guys are the cutest. Keep it up!

[@littleannie390]

I have been to Eyam a few times. The first time was on a school trip many years ago. It is a pretty village, very peaceful and atmospheric.

[@Walksandwanders]

Well done, Natasha! Pronouncing the place name correctly as ‘eem’ because most of us here - including me - still pronounce it wrongly as ‘ee-am’. Youth Leader took us there back in the 1970s for a day out. But I don’t think we appreciated the full story back then. The plague doctor disturbs me too, but was a real thing. I explain why they look so scary in a video on my channel - Secret History of Needham Market - where I walk the old ‘Corpse Road’. Great video. Derbyshire and Peak District are beautiful parts of the UK.

[@stalfithrildi5366]

Retaining an older dipthong in words is a standard feature of the South Yorkshire accents, it may be that some of us are just Deedaring it up

[@ceanothus_bluemoon]

Being from the wider area, I've always known about this story. When I was a kid, we would go out in to the Peak District most weekends and were often in Eyam(and at Chatsworth House and grounds). So many paralells to today. If you do visit, the Peak District is a beautiful place, full of gorgeous countryside, pretty villages, country estates etc. Also have a look at Haddon Hall(you will have seen it in several films) which dates back over 900 years, and the village of Castleton and its Blue John mines(a type of fluorite only found in this one location).

[@Heather.C-kiwi-ninja]

What a terrifying time those poor souls must have had. Watching this was really thought provoking and gave me a huge sense of feeling extremely lucky to be alive today in times of modern medicine. Never take things for granted and live every day like it’s your last! 😊 Thanks N & D, I learnt a lot from this video ❤️❤️

[@TheNatashaDebbieShow]

We did too!

[@ffotograffydd]

My 9 times great-grandparents, Elizabeth and Anthony Frith, lived in Eyam at the time of the plague. They, along with three of their children - including my 8 times great-grandmother Anne - survived, but in August 1666 they lost their son, Thomas, and the following day their daughter, also named Elizabeth. Anthony had to bury his children himself in a nearby field. I can’t begin to imagine what they went through, I’m very proud to be a descendant of such brave people.

[@suejames6808]

I visited this village….knowing the tragic but heroic action of the inhabitants who prevented the spread of this devestating ‘plague’ to surrounding communities . My abiding memory of walking the streets of this pretty Derbyshire village, was of seeing the ‘plaques outside cottage after cottage.. telling a brief account of who had lived there, names occupations . ages… and how many had died… particularly the children… This made a deep impression on all who read them… and a lasting Respect for what they agreed to do in the dreadful moment in history….I will never forget…or regret my visit there…Humanity at it’s finest act of love and self sacrifice for others….I did shed tears for all of those died and those who had to ‘carry on’ after the plague subsided…without so many Who perished there…. Bless them all 🙏🙏😢😢

[@mykota2417]

It's near us. Peak District is a great place to do 'shortest' satnav option. The 'B' roads are insane...nice to know others here in derbyshiiirrre are watching you as well as us.

[@emmafaulkner8468]

I think Eyam is one of the required school trips for all primary school kids here in Derbyshire. I remember going when I was 7 or 8. The tale of their sacrifice to save those around them is a local story we learnt about. The rest of the Peak District is also stunning and so beautiful, I am always glad is it only a half hour away.

[@sharonmartin4036]

A century or so later a 'study' was done to attempt to put a number to the people saved by the actions of this village. They used a percentage based calculation and came up with a figure of over 2500. It will never be known how accurate (or not) that calculation was.

[@garymaxfield6904]

The people of Eyam were the real OGs when it comes to lockdowns ❤️

[@MrGettysburg44]

It is generally thought that the Great Fire of London (1666), which started in a bakery in Pudding Lane, destroyed the disease in the City.

[@user-ki6hy2xb1t]

I can't start my day without seeing a Natasha and Debbie video, love you both, Gary from England uk

[@janettelovessarah]

I’m so glad your doing Eyam that’s where I’m born and bred my family still live there and we have ancestors that died in the plaque there names are in the book of records inside the church x

[@susieq9801]

The schoolyard gate in Eyam has dancing children on it and the rhyme "Ring around the rosie (the sores) a pocketful of posies (the fragrant flowers thought to ward off the illness)" ending with "we all fall down"......death. If you visit Chatsworth you will be a very short drive from Eyam. The stained glass in the church depicts the story from the arrival of the bolt of cloth to the results. One window depicts the separation of two lovers on separate sides of the boundary.

[@susanashcroft2674]

I went on a school trip as a child to Chatsworth House which was beautiful(glad you are going to do a video on it) and on our way back we stopped off at Eyam and I can remember how pretty the village was but felt an air of deep sadness... and that's before we were told about it's history. I have always remembered it and as an adult now can see the sacrifices people made within their community, the 'lockdown' they imposed on themselves in order to keep the plague from spreading and as you mention the stone with holes in for the coins to be disinfected in vinegar in a time when medicine was still evolving.

[@hobi1kenobi112]

Eyam is interesting. It tends to get overlooked and downplayed by many modern historians but that place had the jazz, for some reason. 🎉

[@johnbruce2868]

There are thousands of plague villages in the UK. There are 3,000 deserted medieval villages (acronym DMV) in England alone, the majority thought to have been either abandoned or depopulated and never reoccupied during and after the plague and Black Death years. You can still see the outlines of the houses, streets and field systems. They often left the church as the only occupied building.

[@suejames6808]

P.S. ThNkyou both for watching and sharing this history of Eyam …👏😢

[@TheNatashaDebbieShow]

Our pleasure!

[@Midlandsgoat]

I visited Eyam about 2 months ago. A very interesting place with a tragic history. The church is lovely.

[@joyparry9354]

I was fascinated by this from the time I was a child. We visited Eyam with our children and it is an amazing place, full of history and the bravery and dignity of those villagers comes across from the moment you enter it. So much of what they did to try and stop the spread of this was way ahead of the time! Incidentally there is a brilliant play called The Roses of Eyam if you ever get the chance to see it.

[@michelletrudgill4573]

Now that's the kind of history I like and should be taught in schools. I never knew about Eyam. Like you Natasha I would like to lay flowers. This video was so interesting and so sad at the same time. Great find girlies well done. ❤❤

[@nigelbradbury4162]

Actually , it IS taught in schools , being on the national curriculum ... Eyam gets thousands of school kids every year by coachloads ! It gets cold up there in Winter !

[@michelletrudgill4573]

We sang ring a Rose's but didn't know what it was about, I was never taught this when I went to school it was all industrial revolution

[@rainbowsparkle1]

A few years ago, I read an interesting psychology article that discussed the British reaction to Halloween. According to the article, Brits aren't big on Halloween because the traditions such as wearing masks and going house to house for treats (or herbs as it was back then) hark back to plague times and things people needed to do to survive. Apparently, it triggers some kind of cell memory in us which, even though we're unaware of it, is what puts us off Halloween. I wish I could find the article again, but I've never been able to. I don't know how true that stuff is, but it was a great article!

[@The.Android]

Never forgotten my primary school trip to Eyam when I was 6 or 7 years old. Such a picturesque village touched by tragedy, suffering and sacrifice and so relevant today.

[@GillianSmith-ou3xz]

I saw a fascinating programme ( years ago) about how some guys who had outlived their ( several ) partners with Aids and had never had any infection from it---- their immunity was traced back through the maternal line to women who had nursed/ cared for and buried by their own hands the rest of their whole families. The scientists believed they isolated the protective gene. Incredible!

[@williambarnes3868]

Have been to Eyam several times. Took my Boy Scouts there when we were exploring Derbyshire. The story comes to life when you see the houses that these brave people lived, and died, in.

[@mandypotts9090]

Wow , l had only recently heard about Eyam just last year while watching a program about the Black Death but learned many more details from your show this morning, the boundary marker stone still being there conjures up images of the poor brave , selfless people that had stood there . The heartache grief and pain these people suffered makes me grateful for everyone in my life and the knowledge and science that we have nowadays.

[@TheNatashaDebbieShow]

Completely agree!!

[@Space_cadet0007]

This story always gets me emotional, the rich and wealthy left the area to save themselves (of course) But the rector(s) stayed and the average population had nowhere to go anyway but the fact that they quarantined themselves from surrounding villages and from each other amazes me how brave they were and to bury your own dead what affect that must have had on the survivors, most losing all or most of their family. I think they had a strength and resilience you wouldn’t see today

[@debbiebatten6088]

The nursery rhythm "ring a ring of roses, a pocket full of posies, attishoo attishoo, we all fall down" is referring to the black death I believe.

[@rolandgent5754]

used to go there for junior school days out, learning about the black death was pretty normal

[@trendydelquendy]

Something of a mandatory pilgrimage for most kids schooled in Derbyshire. Folk horror for 8-year-olds. At the time people believed smells could pass infection, which explains the Plague Doctor's headgear.

[@christineharding4190]

I visited Eyam a few years ago. It's very moving. This is an exceptionally good, and accurate, video.

[@juliecorby3134]

I was born and bred in Derbyshire and i am very proud of the history of the area. Mining ⛏️, mill works , the invetor of the bouncing bomb lived in Ripley. Lady bower the dam where the 633 squadron practiced the dropping of the bomb. That's just a few. 😊

[@krisjohnson-proctor355]

I went on a school trip to Eyam many (many!) years ago…and was hooked on both Eyam, and history, from that day forth. Such an AMAZING, tragic place…

[@bladeschick1]

Visited here many times, live about an hour away, it's a beautiful Derbyshire village.

[@brianthesnail3815]

I used to live opposite the site of a plague village in Oxfordshire. The village no longer exists. They burned the wooden houses down and dug pits to bury the bodies rather than burying them in the churchyard. The ground was just a grass field when we lived there that has never been ploughed since the plague, somewhat uneven and had sunk where the pits were. The church was next to our house and had been there hundreds of years before the plague arrived. The survivors and newcomers eventually built a new village about a mile away too frightened to rebuild the village near the plague pits. It is likely the plague came to the village and hit it very badly because it was near a bridge that many travellers crossed coming from as far afield as London.

[@Raven44453]

I ve been to Eyam many times , my cousin lives there , some of the people survived the plague because of a gene mutation that made them immune or partially immune , many years later the descendants of the survivors gave samples of their blood which helped in the production off effective AIDS meds , their legacy of saving others lives on

[@aidanodonnell1344]

I watched a documentary a few years ago about an American geneticist who was researching the Ryan epidemic. Apparently many of the descendants of the survivors who are still living in the village share a genetic mutation that confers resistance to the plague. This may have developed as a result of their ancestors exposure to the plague in the 14th century.

[@heathereast-sh9cd]

I'm from Derbyshire,we were also taught of the tragic heroic story of Eyam . I remember coming home from school before being taught of their story telling my dad I was happy in a wrong history paper that i had known one of Henry 8 wives ,because we had learn more American history than British .To which my dad brought it upon himself to take us every Sunday around Derbyshire and learn our history .Eyam was one .I was amazed saddened but also proud of this village without their bravery how many more would have been lost .I'm very grateful of my dad doing this (even though I was a mopey teenager at the time muttering not another trip ).Derbyshire has a lot to offer scenery is stunning, history such as amazing Bess of Hardwick .Hadden Hall Peak district and of course Chatsworth House(check out Christmas it stunning ).I am behond proud to be from here In my eyes this is not Village of the damned but of Heroic selfless hero's how many would do that today a lot moaned at wearing a mask to protect their neiboughs from covid . By they sorry long but loving your channel hugs hx

[@MelanieRuck-dq5uo]

Wow! Natasha pronounced 'Eyam'' perfectly. Quite a lot of people in the rest of Derbyshire cannot do that, let alone in Britain generally! We live quite close.

[@wilsonmurillopalacio6953]

I love history but some facts realy terrifying me, great video anyways. Big hug mujeres hermosas and I'll see you on Sunday.

[@GoblinKing13]

This was probably the first school trip i ever went on the same as every other kid who lives locally.

[@jitaamesuluma9730]

Well we call them heros, they saved So many lives with their sacrifices, I live near there

[@hildajenkins9497]

Such brave people. They knew they were doomed, but cut themselves of to prevent the spread of the disease. If only people had the same sense of responsibility these days.

[@PedroConejo1939]

I grew up in Derbyshire and Eyam was always taught in school as an example of selflessness. The mewling and puking over the restrictions for COVID was profoundly disappointing. Chatsworth will be an interesting watch but I love the caverns around Castleton (quite near Eyam), especially the Speedwell, Peak, the Devil's Arse, and Blue John Caverns. There's some decent videos on them.

[@leiastephenson1575]

Really enjoyed this video ladies, we learnt about the Black Death at school and effected us all knowing our Ancestors had to go through something so awful. I visited York and Lincoln to see some of the exhibits they had on the Black Death and the mask freaks me out as well. It was filled with sweet smelling flowers and herbs if I remember correctly.

[@davidgrainger5378]

I visited Eyam 10 years ago during a tour of Derbyshire. We had a short tour lead by a local guide.

[@Finchie_97]

We as children all sang the nursery rhyme ‘Ring-a Ring-a Roses”, about the pneumonic plague. Knowing that makes it feel rather morbid.

[@user-pf8fs2hi3z]

You should check out the origins of the nursery rhyme Ring A-Ring Roses and why we Bless You when someone sneezes.

[@amedeo4512]

I lived just down the road from here as a kid. If you want to know the experience, watch Kes. Pretty much like our childhood, except when we lived in a haunted house............This story line was used in the UK comedy Ghosts. The US version is quite good too. Yes that's a plague doctor. They thought the disease came from a miasma, the beak of the mask was filled with flowers, as in a posy, to protect them. Ring, a ring a roses......

[@vanessacare2615]

Wow, I learnt a bit about this years ago, so it was nice to get more information on it . Thank you for this video

[@user-ox9ec1id9x]

Mompesson had been a curate at Scalby near Scarborough before he went to Eyam. While there he heard about an epidemic of the plague in Scalby in 1635, so 30 years before, where the people there had also isolated themselves to save the neighbouring places. Goods/money were left on the bridge between Scalby & the neighbouring village of Newby. It was probably not the fleas that passed the plague, but likely pneumonic version passed directly from person to person, it moved to rapidly for fleas, or rats, to have done it. The masks are worn by 'doctors', filled with cloth/hair with vinegar or such, they had no real affect. Some people did survive, by natural immunity.

[@philipdavidson3073]

Thank you ladies for sharing this video. I used to live not far from Eyam, which is a beautiful part of the country with a sad past. It’s important that people know about these things. History is fascinating and I hope lots of people watch this and learn. Thanks again ❤

[@alangauld6079]

We visited Eyam a few years ago. A very moving place. It also has a great cheese shop!

[@rosalindyates7331]

Brilliant reaction video. I had heard about this village some years ago, thank you for bringing it back to my memory. Derbyshire is such a beautiful county. Such a tragic thing to happen in such a lovely place.

[@paulchambers-061]

I'll be driving along the A623 through stoney Middleton and within (I think) a mile of Eyam tomorrow. Lovely part of the world and my favourite peak district road.

[@SuperDebs09]

My family bails from Derbyshire so yes we'd all heard of the tragic but brave people of Eyam and have visited the cottages there which serve as a museum/memorial to those villagers.

[@mrsmaggiesmyth1906]

Hi to my favourite ladies. I live in the Uk, and hadn’t heard of it, up to this week. When another youtube channel put a video on, about this village. I knew about the plague in London, but not here. They also have a well, were people leave coins. It was were they dropped food etc at the time. Best wishes Natasha and Debbie ❤

[@lauras4827]

I love about 50 mins drive away From Eyam, and we visited on a lovely hot sunny day and spent the day looking around and had something to eat in one of the cafes there in the sunshine, a VERY polar opposite to what it would of been like when the Plague was there.. lovely beautiful village with a very Dark sad History. Should do a piece on the Pendle Witches I don't live to far from there and that's always a interesting topic also Sad! X

[@genm303]

Hello Natasha and Debbie! You mentioned that you would be doing a video about Chatsworth House (owned by the Cavendish family) and I thought you may be interested in this. Drone-zone-Media have a great video about Chatsworth and also another about 'JFK's Forgotten Sister' Kathleen, who married into the Cavendish family and is buried in the village of Edensor not far from the house.

[@GazEndo68]

I recommended this to you about 12 months ago lol. It’s a lovely place to visit alongside the rest of the Peak District. I’m fortunate enough to only live about a 45 minute drive from here.

[@valeriewalker3886]

We have a plague bowl between our village Ackworth and Pontefract Town. The plaque hit Ackworth and the people from Pontefract brought provisions to the plague bowl that was filled with vinegar and coins left in it to pay for them. In the fields behind this bowl is where the plaque victims are buried.

[@Ollybus]

Interesting. I live near there and never knew about the plague bowl between Pontefract and Ackworth..

[@valeriewalker3886]

@@Ollybus it's up near the water tower sykes hill not far from the Road . You can see it when you drive past. There's a layby near if you park in it and walk and have a look.

[@Blueseachelles]

I watched a video recent about how one village managed to avoid The Plague. You may be interested in this video for more research into how some people survived it. It appears to come down to genetic mutations - The Plague: How did one village survive? | Riddle of the plague survivors | Timeline

[@johnd6487]

I think I might have seen that as well. It was actually about the same village. While many died, some survived and a group of them have been discovered to have some form of natural immunity

[@jacquieclapperton9758]

I save that too. Didn't the mother who buried her husband and all her children survive despite that?

[@Blueseachelles]

I’m not sure, of the top of my head.

[@williamdom3814]

A few weeks ago my brother who lives in Australia visited England with his Australian wife and toured the country in a campervan. He finished off his holiday with a few days in Nottingham where I live. One of our cousins took us on a mini tour of the Peak District of Derbyshire which took in Chatsworth House and the village of Eyam. I'm 67 years old and this was the first time I had visited the village despite the fact I was born in Matlock not far away. We did learn the story of Eyam at school. PS my brother was born in Chesterfield so we are both Derbyshire lads yet had never been to Eyam.

[@todtiger]

I went there last year with friends who live near there, its stunning.

[@peterwilliamallen1063]

The nursery rhyme " A ring a Ring of roses a pocket full of poses, a tissue, a tissue we all fall down " comes from this village and the saying of " Bless you" when you sneeze comes from the plague time where by if some one sneezed at the time you blessed them in the hope you never got the plague and the term for a doctor " the Beak" is at the time Doctors wore a pointed beak mask over their noses full of pot puree of flower pettle's to mask the smell

[@F11BAR84]

A very moving story and that selfless group really set the standard of how lockdown works. Thank you for sharing the story x

[@gilledwards9302]

I live in a market town in Lincolnshire. In the 1300's the bubonic plague raced north and hit the town. Knowing how important isolation was, the locals put a hollowed stone at a road crossing a mile outside the town. They would pay for goods from nearby uninfected towns by dropping coins into the stone, which was filled with vinegar. The story of Eyam reminded me of this. To this day, the hill into the town is known as "Miles Cross Hill" and the stone remained at the crossroads until late in the last century. I don't know what became of it.

[@malsm8892]

Years ago in a BBC radio production the Archers about a farming community in a fictional village a local hotel owner wanted to have a pool and spar when digging they found a plague pit that was not known about. That group of episodes was in 1960's the anniversary time the show is still on the longest running radio show

[@jennifer5130]

That was fascinating. How did the others manage not to contract the disease?

[@TheNatashaDebbieShow]

Very good question

[@no-oneinparticular7264]

Maybe they had a kind of natural immunity?

[@Ollybus]

I remember watching a documentary a few years back that looked into how those who survived actually managed to do so. From what I remember they looked into the how those who survived were related to each other and found that it was a couple of families had ‘ natural immunity’. I think they managed to identify a particular gene which has been passed down through the ages. The scientists got very excited about this and felt it could help to provide insights into how to treat other infections.

[@wildwine6400]

I actually thought you'd done a video on Eyam round 9 months ago, as I 100% saw the video Biographics did on it but the video seems to be gone now. Flicking through my old comments, I mentioned it as a reply to someone talking about Eyam in your Great Fire of London video. So it didn't just dream that they did one!, and I thought you saw it too as it kinda went viral at the time and I recall rewatching it as a reaction by someone and I thought it was you. I read Simon left Biographics, so maybe that played a part in the video dissapearing

[@philfenn3991]

"Mark from the States" did a reaction to it, so maybe that was the one.

[@steveosborne2297]

I must admit I am actually from Derbyshire (although originally from the north-east of London ) and fairly close to Eyam but I’ve been living in Italy for about six years . Obviously you realise we’ve had tens of thousands of deaths from Covid but once it appeared to be under control we were more relaxed . However there was a severe outbreak and deaths in a village about 15 miles outside of Rome and immediately it was completely isolated . Apart from food , medicine and medical personnel it was off-limits to everyone . So yes at times this sort of thing can still exist

[@faithpearlgenied-a5517]

The narrator was great, I'm going to subscribe to her channel right away. I knew about this vaguely but this video gave me more info, good choice. Thank you.

[@user-uu2yq3tc4j]

Ladies it's Ange this was truly informative thank you

[@sianysiany1]

In Derby not far from Eyam there is a street called blagreaves lane, it was orginally called Black Graves Lane because of all the graves from the black death. There is also Dead Mans Lane which is still called Dead Mans Lane.