Hollywood Baby Snatcher - Georgia Tann & Tennessee Children's Home Society | Historical True Crime

[@AaronD87]

How bold do you have to be to put the kids photos in the paper, knowing that would be the quickest way for them to be identified by their parents… We know where she is now, but too bad she got to skip out on justice on earth first…

[@historyandhearsay]

Yeah… it’s hard to imagine all of the people who got away with this! But her especially!

[@JoMarieM]

My guess is that she did this with kids from families who were too poor to hire lawyers to get their kids back, and who also lacked the legal skills to fight her. So even if the families DID recognize their kids in the newspapers, there probably wasn't much, if anything, they could do to get their children back, because Georgia had too much support for her dirty deeds. And if the kids were old enough to be aware of what was happening to them, their protests went unheeded. And Georgia just kept getting richer and richer off of these poor kids. Just a terrible situation all around!

[@Th1nk1n6]

Not done watching the video, but it got me to do a little searching. Harry U. Scruggs, attorney for the Children's Home, in his submission to the Memphis Board of Adjustment wrote: "There will be no playgrounds or anything that would create noises or disturbances." Maybe this is hindsight, but those words are foreboding and eerie.

[@historyandhearsay]

How wow! Yeah… that should have been a red flag to get their attention 🤯 (if they noticed that in advance)

[@anaclayton5838]

Georgia Tann stole my great great grandfather from his family and adopted him out to another in Ms. Found this out when doing geneology research recently.

[@historyandhearsay]

WOW! That is so wild, sorry for your family =(

[@HeatherCox-e7v]

😲

[@K9Equine23]

The book "Before We Were Yours" is heartbreaking. Recommend it 100%

[@historyandhearsay]

@@K9Equine23 yes!😭

[@freudianslip2010]

Loved this book!

[@Pigstarpatch]

Yes loved the book also.

[@Littleone124]

Such a good book!

[@shannahcook-chevier5153]

Came to say this! Before and After by Lisa Wingate follows and documents real life stories

[@MM-ij5eu]

Before we were yours is a book about 5 children who taken by her. It was a great book but so incredibly sad

[@historyandhearsay]

Yes, I found out about that one when I did another video related to this situation! I really need to read it, I’ve heard it’s really good!!

[@deannahicks6755]

You just got a new subscriber. You did an amazing job telling this story. It's crazy to know she got away with all of this. Ric Flair was abducted by her as an infant and his parents were told he died. His real birth name is Fred Phillips.

[@historyandhearsay]

Thank you so much! Wow! These stories out of that home are so sad! But it's nice that some families got a little bit of closure, even if it was many years later

[@sandraphillips5091]

It could be possible that the Sodder kids (who disappeared after a house fire in 1945) somehow fell into the clutches of Georgia Tann. The tragedy happened in Fayetteville WV but a waitress at a diner in Charleston claimed to have seen the kids in the company of four adults and the group got into a car with Florida license tags. Perhaps the kids were abducted and taken out of state by the perpetrators and were turned over to Tann on the trip south. There did seem to be criminal involvement surrounding the case.

[@historyandhearsay]

@@sandraphillips5091 yes! I did a video on that case also! (Actually how I discovered Georgia’s story) but I don’t think it was her, after my research - though I can’t rule it out (obviously) Its an intriguing theory for sure! Here is that episode : kzbin.info/www/bejne/n56VpJtmqtysmqs

[@brunetteone4082]

This was disgusting 😢. You now have a new subscriber, though. I love how you clearly spoke all of these details. Thank you for such a great video.

[@historyandhearsay]

@@brunetteone4082 it broke my heart to learn about it 😭 thank you! Happy to have you here!

[@katherinepadron0628]

There are actually still adult adoptiins. I'm 40, and we're planning on my step-father to adopt me. He's been "dad" since i was 14, and my bio-father (or, as I like to call him, my "sperm donor"), has never been a dad to me.

[@historyandhearsay]

@@katherinepadron0628 I’ve heard of people doing that! So sweet! 💕

[@nuttybar9]

She charged 1,000 for my mother and that was in 1930.

[@historyandhearsay]

So wild!

[@tonyplaysthemambo]

My great-grandmother and her siblings were sent into the foster care system due to poverty in the 1920s and 1930s. Just about every thing bad that could happen to a kid happened to them, but Mamaw always said she actually got off pretty lucky only being beaten up constantly, treated as slave labor, and assaulted only a few times. One of her sisters was "adopted" by a couple that trafficked so badly that when she became a mother as a teenager, she didn't realize trafficking your own kids was abnormal. She in turn trafficked both of her own daughters until they ran away from her in their own teens.

[@historyandhearsay]

@@tonyplaysthemambo that’s heartbreaking 💔

[@shopsshire9282]

Remember first hearing about this disgusting woman on unsolved mysteries and the female judge that went along with her and rubber stamped all her illegal adoptions.

[@historyandhearsay]

Yes! The amount of officials that went along with her was just so disgusting!

[@tdjk4]

such a wicked woman! I had a dear friend who was adopted from this wicked woman. She had such a hard life after she got older. May my dear friend Mae Rest in Peace.

[@historyandhearsay]

@@tdjk4 😭

[@thisis_chavez]

Prayers for all the victims

[@war5561]

This channel is criminally under subscribed

[@historyandhearsay]

@@war5561 haha! Thank you! :)

[@Laurie03]

This is beyond horrible! How could anyone do this? Greed is evil!

[@historyandhearsay]

It really is 😭

[@JoMarieM]

There have been so many instances of kids in children's homes being mistreated in the past, that it's unreal. In Canada in the 1940s, there was an orphanage where hundreds of healthy, normal kids were labeled as mentally handicapped, just so that the nuns caring for them could get more money from the government. These poor kids grew up believing that something was wrong with them, and often didn't find out until they were grown up that they were not mentally handicapped, after all. As for this story, I can't imagine how many families were destroyed because of Georgia Tann, with kids stolen from parents who actually WANTED them, and some of whom passed away before their parents ever found out what REALLY happened to their children. And some of the children who were considered "unadoptable" in some way, were left to die, if Georgia thought that she wouldn't make any money off of them. To Georgia, children were apparently just products, not human beings with thoughts and feelings. She may have seemed to escape judgement in this life -- but God will certainly not allow her to escape it in the next!

[@historyandhearsay]

@@JoMarieM that’s all I could think when I was making this video! GOD will take care of Georgia! Because she truly was a disgusting human being & it’s frustrating that she wasn’t held accountable, but it’s good to know that at least! I’m heart broke for all of these families! So pointless & sickening … so many lives ruined for a little bit of $$

[@Littleone124]

I read a book on the orphanage you are talking about. It was a great read but so heartbreaking. The home was located in Quebec IIRC. Neurotypical children were brought up in this orphanage to believe they were mentally handicapped. To make matters worse, the orphanage was also an asylum for the mentally and physically handicapped. The children would have to take care of the residents who were true asylum patients by bathing them and such. All to save money by conjoining an orphanage with an insane asylum. What kind of monster comes up with this kind of idea?

[@historyandhearsay]

@@Littleone124 wow! I hadn’t heard of that one!!

[@meghanjohnson9584]

Wow, I’m so glad I found you ❤ your videos are amazing. Reminds me of Bailey Sarian’s dark history.

[@historyandhearsay]

Thank you so much! :)

[@deondralarry4253]

New Subscriber…Lovely Storytelling !! I Ended Up Here With The True Story , I Saw An Shorts Video That Said She Was An Nurse.

[@historyandhearsay]

Thank you! So glad you enjoyed it!!

[@KathiJones-r9y]

She stole my double first cousin right out of the hospital when she was born

[@historyandhearsay]

@@KathiJones-r9y 😭

[@lauradougherty8426]

That just makes me sick. Both of my grandmothers were adopted

[@historyandhearsay]

@@lauradougherty8426 heartbreaking for the kids in this story 😭 I hope your grandmothers had good lives! 💕

[@OurLargeFamilyLife]

I was literally thinking the same thing about the 5 children in the house that burned down. Especially if there were wealthy Jewish families looking for childre

[@historyandhearsay]

@@OurLargeFamilyLife yes they were so many rumors that she was the one who took them! (Or someone in her organization)

[@anonfornow359]

500 children dead, many abused!!! And taken from loving parents🥺😭 has there been any efforts to exhume the bodies/search the childrens home property?

[@historyandhearsay]

Not that I’ve ever heard of

[@jcsmithunlimited]

Ric Flair was one of the stolen childhood by Georgia Tann

[@historyandhearsay]

Oh wow, I didn’t know that! I heard that some famous people had been stolen through her network! But didn’t have many names

[@maryriser7836]

She is the reason our adoption laws are so bad.

[@historyandhearsay]

I can’t imagine how someone is so evil! Thank you for watching!

[@izabellestevens4584]

Random idea you could use for future videos: the Salem witch trials, the Jamestown colony cannibalism, how they believe they have discovered what happened to Amelia Earhart, what happened to Catherine Parr’s body after death, Leo Major and the battle of Zwolle, Giulia Tofana

[@izabellestevens4584]

Oh also the thalidomide babies!

[@historyandhearsay]

Thank you! I was thinking about doing the thalidomide babies as one of my next few videos, but hadn’t considered the others, just will add them to my ideas list! Thank you! :)

[@Sobeknjord]

Sad, heard of this before. Sadly Senu open and open adoptions are not, to my knowledge, legally enforceable so potential adoptive parents can say it will stay open and often it’s close after the baby is signed off to the new parents. Where they grow up not knowing their medical history or biological lineage which is sad.

[@historyandhearsay]

That is sad 😔

[@dancingdingo]

How appalling!😮

[@historyandhearsay]

@@dancingdingo right!?

[@tigger8935]

I'm here because a Tann survivor commented on my PDiddy video.

[@historyandhearsay]

@@tigger8935 oh wow!

[@cryptiecreep]

I love your videos on the history of adoption and crime therein. I know it's a dark topic, but the history of child welfare is one of my Special Interests and I think it's important that people know about it. Unfortunately, the road to progress is almost always paved with the bones of those who came before us.

[@historyandhearsay]

@@cryptiecreep so true!💕 and thank you ☺️

[@ChristinasHome]

Such a sad story

[@historyandhearsay]

Yes :(

[@desiree3488]

I was born in Memphis, Tennessee in Shelby County but in 1965 when I did a 23 and me test it showed me people that I don’t even know as my close relative. I’m afraid to check any further.

[@historyandhearsay]

@@desiree3488 oh wow!

[@isabelle8836]

I know this true story, I really hope the siblings found each other or their parents

[@historyandhearsay]

@@isabelle8836 😭💕

[@eunicestone6532]

Poor children, out of wedlock or babies born out ofbwedlock were simply just taken. So sad. I was 16 when i had my first baby and thank god my parents let me keep her. They ddif make me marry the father but i was threatened that i eas going to a home for unwed mothers. I was so scared to desth.

[@historyandhearsay]

@@eunicestone6532 😭 I’m so sorry you went through that, it must have been so scary! My mom got pregnant at 16 & my dad was 18 (with my oldest sibling), they got married, but luckily it turned out to be a very happy marriage for them, they made 51 years this year 💕

[@Kekeliz]

Idk if they were together since she got pregnant and she wasn’t married so it sounds like she was into men if they were together maybe she was bi cuz if they were together that would be like cheating on Georgia Also Georgia is crazy and bold ur taunting families by putting their kids in the newspaper they know their children I would’ve tried to break in the house and get my kid back then skip town so they couldn’t throw me in jail cuz if there’s an ad in the paper that means there’s a location I would go down trying to get my kid back if need be and it didn’t sound like she had any bodyguards there to stop u

[@historyandhearsay]

@@Kekeliz yeah, I thought the same. The “adoption” could have just been about passing on her money

[@Kekeliz]

@@historyandhearsay Makes sense

[@ryann2710]

S A’d ?

[@historyandhearsay]

It’s “KZbin language” for: Sexual assault - if I say it in a video they will demonetize the video - which then means it doesn’t get pushed out & no one sees it 🙈 (meaning, the video would only get like a 10th of the views that it would get if I just didn’t say the word ) sadly, there are many words like that.. KZbinrs have to create a new language to get around it, it’s so dumb!

[@historyandhearsay]

Sometimes they won’t even let us stay in the comments, it really just depends on the mood of the AI lol

[@mightydragon663]

I do enjoy listening to your videos, but I was upset that you used "S"A'ed" in place of Sexual Abuse. Call it what it is "Sexual Abuse"! Words have power. By not calling it what it is, you create a sense of shame among victims of Sexual Abuse. If it is too taboo to say it, it's too taboo to talk about it and get help.

[@historyandhearsay]

You must be new to this side of KZbin. So I will explain: I 100% agree with you, I wish we could all be adults & speak freely like adults. But KZbin likes to censor people a LOT they will not let us use adult words. KZbin will completely demonetize my videos if I say the words outright! Once a video is demonetized- that means they don’t allow ads or limit ads, the issue is not so much the money from ads, but they fact that “no ads” means KZbin doesn’t care to show the video to people, because they aren’t making money off of it. My videos were I have said what I wanted to despite KZbin will get about 1/10th of my normal views - sometimes it can’t be helped, because I want to talk about a subject that KZbin doesn’t like - if you talk about Hilter or Nazi’s at all, those are big no-no’s. Sadly they want to stop creators from taking about these subjects. Sometimes KZbin will even kick people off KZbin for continuing to make certain videos- Check out any large channel that talks about these subjects, true crime, SA cases, etc & you will notice they all have “code words” that’s why they say things like “end it all” or “unalive” not beifsss they aren’t adults willing to tlsk like adults, but besides KZbin won’t let them be adults and will immediately throttle it even take down video with the word m*rder or sui*cide mentioned in the video. So you should contact KZbin & let them know about you feel about it. Maybe suggest they get help, because I agree with you!

[@historyandhearsay]

Here is a video of another history creator complaining about it: kzbin.info/www/bejne/iZ-zo4mkZ5mXiqcsi=X0VyS-Qv8-60Njyx

[@mightydragon663]

@@historyandhearsay thank you for the information. ☺️

[@mightydragon663]

@@historyandhearsay that sucks out the door. It really bothers me to hear about that kind of censorship. It is just wrong. Yes, I will contact KZbin and give them a piece of my mind and probably I will stop my subscription.

[@Catinthedesert]

KZbin will block channels that use the actual graphic words so they must be nicknamed.