Why Does This Grave Have a Cage On It?

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[@axialcompressorturbojet]

no problem

[@pest9448]

3 hours ago wtf he’s a time traveler

[@narutohenaruto]

@@pest9448 😂😂

[@vincentrodriguez4557]

Dude your fucking HOTTTT!!!❤️❤️❤️🤦🏻‍♂️🔥🔥🔥

[@SirMemesalotThe3rd]

No

[@TheRealGuywithoutaMustache]

Stealing corpses because there's not enough bodies to experiment on, sounds like a movie plot

[@FallingFeeling212]

Honestly Yea

[@harseeratlakhanpal8123]

How the hell are you in the comments of every KZbin video I watch 😭

[@EsotericBibleSecrets]

I mean... human centipede was a movie that got made, along with 2 sequels.

[@FallingFeeling212]

@@EsotericBibleSecrets Yea but those were shit imo south park did it better lmao anyways victorian london and maybe a ficonal story of a man who tries to stop this epidemic of stolen corpses for grieving people kinda like a detective but soon clashes with another person who is doing this for the better of science and research honestly sounds like a good foundation for a movie. Also, I'm not sure if you play video games but there was a game call assassins creed syndicate and it took place in Victorian London and you gotta kill this guy in side of the place that looked exactly like the pictures in this vid

[@adlib0950]

bro istg ure on this and ure on fking aot anime videos as well jesus christ

[@TheDanaYiShow]

me: "this seems like a good video to watch while eating lunch"

[@Kenny-zt2gb]

i was eating

[@stacysealemusicandgreenthu7078]

I agree. Try long pig

[@Ming1975]

Strange, I'm eating lunch watching this too.

[@p.samaykumar7102]

I was having Breakfast

[@jakubrosinski1291]

I always watch thoughty2 while eating breakfast

[@mary-anneswanson8445]

An interesting side-effect of the graverobbing were the grave cages that soon started rumors that the covered graves were to keep suspected vampires from rising . Funny how things come about .

[@bloodybones63]

There was also a rig made that entailed a bell outside of the grave attached to a string or chain that entered the coffin, as so many were afraid of being buried alive. I guess coroners had minimum training back when.

[@jennastewart7290]

@@bloodybones63 Embalming wasn't really a thing back in the day, if your pulse and breathing were shallow enough or you were in a coma you could be accidentally considered dead if you weren't. Sometimes they'd stick needles and things under someone's big-toe nail to see if the person was dead or nahh. 😬

[@bloodybones63]

@@jennastewart7290 Yeah, that was the point of my post.

[@breezedarkstorm7420]

Or zombies lol

[@breezedarkstorm7420]

@@bloodybones63 people have woken up in the morgue in modern times too.

[@SkipMDMan]

When I was 10 years old my doctor was retiring and I had always talked about this skull he had on a shelf in his office. He decided to give it to me and along with the skull he had all the information on who the person was, when they died and where they were buried. All the written information was in very legible format so done by someone with education and was dated May 4, 1831.

[@bloodybones63]

Do you still have it?

[@SkipMDMan]

@@bloodybones63 Of course. Can't get rid of him now, he's been with me for too long!

[@geno9456]

Lucky, I never got a skull from my doctor

[@biffmalibu3733]

My friend George has a skull in a medical bag in the back of his barn. Imagine my surprise when I opened that bag and found it. His older brother was a doctor and he inherited it when he died. George turns 97 in May.

[@Relatune]

Oooo my birthday (not 1831 just may 4th)

[@penguin3864]

why does this grave have a cage around it: cause people are dying to get in

[@charliemiskwaabineshii9001]

Lol..funny.

[@mce1159]

Take my like and leave

[@helencobler]

Ok. Thays

[@RamadaArtist]

Under.Rated.

[@yukia.8188]

🙌🏻

[@sartajhanspal5604]

11:33 "Rather than stealing the bodies of already dead people, the body snatchers started to *make* dead people" your dialogue delivery is 10/10 my man

[@horsey8765]

Wow 750 likes but no comments

[@Just_a_piece_of_bread]

@@horsey8765 ayo, hey there!

[@rosemdenye449]

He has an accent ofcourse

[@jjba3571]

Ok, no joking here in my country this happen, like in the 90s early 2000s, in barranquilla colombia, the watchmen of a university that happen to have medicine field killed homeless men so he could sell the bodies to the university so medicine students could have bodies to work on, obviously the students didnt knew where all this freash bodies came from, however the university was involved somehow, they put the blame on the watchmen of the night shift and he went to prision from murder. Univeristy claim they never susped where bodies can from, was a total scandal!!!! They even mocked the incident for many carnival to comes and play like a guard killing homeless.... oh btw they only discover the incident cuz one victim play death until he could scape, at the begginig they didnt believe him for being homeless but that end up being in the news

[@australien9455]

@@jjba3571 Wow!

[@instathrill8845]

The bells next to head stones i found interesting too. The story of the cages people spread was always "its people who got scared of zombies and people coming back from the dead!" which then leads you to being buried alive. Victorians put bells and cords down to the coffin so if you "woke up" underground, you could ring the bell and get the attention of the graveyard groundsman.

[@milesipka]

That actually formed the plot to a murder mystery novel Mary Higgins Clark wrote back in the 1990s... Book was titled "Moonlight Becomes You". I remember reading it back in the late 1990s, on one of those Reader's Digest Condensed Editions books.

[@UHDGamers-re2xj]

The fact his body and now skeleton was and are used for the very practice he contributed to is poetic justice 😂

[@Crypt0fin]

In 2020, the real "irony" here is that the cage itself would have value in being scrap metal with metals prices going back up again.

[@sssleon3320]

I see what you did there ;) haha

[@magnusm4]

When is the video coming on scavengers hunting abandoned ww2 tanks in the woods for scraps and materials for transistor chips?

[@monad_tcp]

@@magnusm4 don't talk about transistors. people are literally plotting invading Taiwan like it happened to Kuwait for oil, but now to get hold of microchip factories. this are pretty serious, but this is insider's knowledge, can't talk more.

[@targard.quantumfrack6854]

@@monad_tcp Most likely invade countries with the right rare minerals. We need to go space mining asap.

[@oxyrisin]

Clever.

[@TheQrow88]

Imagine being a medical student whose love one was just buried only to see them in the amphitheater

[@VestinVestin]

Fellow students would probably tease him about her figure or something...

[@tylermartini7847]

@@VestinVestin haha thats Weird to say

[@Kalani_Saiko]

"I'm sorry for being in a rough spot right now, my mum just died" "Oh don't be upset, she's right there!"

[@lindadetamore252]

There was an episode of Night Gallery that was about this subject.

[@Kalani_Saiko]

@@lindadetamore252 oml

[@chrismcintyre1632]

Don't know how I found this guy. I'm glad I did, he's always got something weird and interesting to watch!!

[@in.meraki]

4:56 that dammit, scared the hell outta me. 😒

[@obesebasu6769]

Didn’t expect James May to have been a murderer in a previous life. Although he is pretty scary while wielding a machete.

[@frans1225]

Thank god im not who think about captain slow 🤣🤣🤣

[@danisyx5804]

It's always the quiet ones

[@artifects03]

"I like the vents in my car lined up, and if somebody moves them... I get really angry" -James may

[@andregon4366]

@@artifects03 The words of a murderer.

[@polarisdsmb2015]

at least hamster is immortal

[@patrickmcdonald8513]

This remind me of the time in Mumbay the English wanted to eradicate cobras, so they paid for them to be killed, which led to people breeding cobras for profit.

[@mariagrace817]

Crazy right?

[@equarg]

Wow. That would NOT fly today.

[@sunnyjim1355]

Similar thing with early fossil hunters in Java who told the locals they would pay X amount for each fossil they brought them.. so when they found any they would break them up into smaller pieces.

[@carolgibson-wilson4354]

Ingenious!

[@epiendless1128]

Terry Pratchett was undoubtedly aware of this: "Shortly before the Patrician came to power there was a terrible plague of rats. The city council countered it by offering twenty pence for every rat tail. This did, for a week or two, reduce the number of rats-and then people were suddenly queueing up with tails, the city treasury was being drained, and no one seemed to be doing much work. And there still seemed to be a lot of rats around. Lord Vetinari had listened carefully while the problem was explained, and had solved the thing with one memorable phrase which said a lot about him, about the folly of bounty offers, and about the natural instinct of Ankh-Morporkians in any situation involving money: “Tax the rat farms.”"

[@f8keuser]

The 'Let the bodies hit the floor' has taken a whole new meaning.

[@warrenphillips69]

I always think of the film The One.

[@iaincampbell4422]

Another anatomy lecture theatre you can see is still being used by pre clinical medical students to this day in the University of Edinburgh's Anatomy building (the anatomy lecture theatre). Once you've been there you'll actually recognise it in quite a few films and TV shows as there aren't many of those places left in the world! As a bonus you can also meet Burk referred to in your video. After his excecution his body was given to the medical school and his skeleton is in the anatomy resource centre in the same building as the anatomy lecture theatre in a display cabinet to this day! His Skeleton is NOT in surgeons hal unless it has been moved very recently from the resource centre. But Burk's skin is in surgeons hall (which is probably why you thought the skeleton was there when researching the video) his skin was turned into leather and they have several anatomy textbooks bound in leather from Burk's skin and a wallet made with leather from his face if memory serves...

[@alexroca6981]

I lived on a farm in Scotland as a young teenager, we had a space next to the house, behind the garage. In that space was a sizable stone built structure with wrought iron bars across the top. It also had a cast iron plate that marked this grave of one of the previous landowners and his female 'servant'! This was built during the heyday of the infamous Burke & Hare!

[@-topic9506]

that is actually fascinating, thank you for this

[@Heather-xm9ul]

It's so interesting how wildly different the histories of our properties are in different countries. The whole neighborhood I live in used to be fallow "farmland" and the houses were built in the mid 80s. But maybe (not likely) if we dig around the yard, we might find artifacts left from when the Hohokam lived in this region.

[@ppppppppp64]

@@Heather-xm9ul where I’m from in upstate New York you can find Iroquois artifacts in pretty much any forest you walk into (and dig into)

[@Zoogore6777]

Maybe they were too wasteful with the cadavers they already had if they kept running out.🙄

[@andrewkoastephens210]

Steampunk kid says: “I wish I lived in Victorian England” So we sent him back in time. After entering the tavern he’d dreamt of, he was knocked on the head and sold to the navy where he was forced into govt sanctioned slavery. Not sure what happened after that. Either he spent all his meagre “wages” from the navy by renting a room for a week and ended up in the poorhouse where he died of starvation because he had no family to bring him food, or perhaps got cholera from drinking poop tainted water, or might have been killed for his body to be sold. We do know that eventually a medical student cut up his corpse and took notes.

[@epiendless1128]

In my experience, Steampunks are very clear on the horrors and social injustice of that age which they do not want to replicate in their alternate past. :-) Apparently there IS a steampunk side-culture that insists "Steampunk must be set in Victorian London and dwell entirely on class-stuggle, and anything else isn't Steampunk". They tend to be left fuming in the wake of the majority who are just having a great time being splendid to each other, and would not entertain racist or collonial attiudes. Except to Martians. Remember Woking, and burn the tentacled bastards!

[@boudicaastorm4540]

He might also have gotten fed bread with literal Plaster of Paris baked into it because flour was more expensive at the time. Absolute History has some interesting info on strange and dangerous things Victorians in London used to do.

[@the_once-and-future_king.]

Actually the 'press gangs' were mostly fiction. Even if you signed there was a grace period where you could opt to leave. If you didn't go along willingly the recruiter didn't get paid.

[@damienpepper2254]

@@epiendless1128 No, remember Horsell Common.

[@damienpepper2254]

@@the_once-and-future_king. I doubt if opting to leave was always a peaceful choice to make. Also, is you're real name Arthur by any chance ? Just asking, my liege.

[@shakainohakai5256]

An astonishing youtuber that doesn't get tied up in any drama. Round of applause! You are my favorite youtuber now Thoughty, mainly because I feel like I am at school, but an exceedingly less amount of boredom! Great Job!

[@joeshmoe8539]

If I'll be honest, just by listening to his videos is some sort of podcast. It has podcast potential, and I just adore it.

[@crystalm4324]

I love how these Burkers got all the punishment, yet all the Doctors and Administrators suffered nothing for creating the whole market for dead bodies!!

[@Ebbagull]

The ones selling the bodies were part of the lower classes, the ones buying were upper class. It's as simple as that. 🤷🏼‍♀️

[@laqu.]

@@Ebbagull or that they didn’t actually know or cause the murders. The causers and opportunists were the killers, the doctors could’ve known and then should’ve gotten punishment if proven

[@BLAQFiniks]

@@laqu. then they were lousy doctors if they could not spot a murdered corps from that who died naturally... and not report it too... Like church basically sayed doctors are the devil incarnate, I honestly could not think how any sane person could cut & chop fellow human... and don't try to go on "doctors saving lives" thing, especially nowadays... when human organs are in such demand, aka basically, doctors now do the same thing their Victorian counterparts did~ 😕

[@targard.quantumfrack6854]

@@BLAQFiniks wat?

[@BLAQFiniks]

@@targard.quantumfrack6854 illegal organ transplantation is very pressing issue... and very hush-hush one too.

[@jamesedwards3571]

When I was a clergyman in Nashville in the '70s, I learned that after a burial, it was the custom for some family members to remain at the grave for three days and nights. The reason: when the Vanderbilt Medical school opened, the students had to provide their own cadavers. The custom persisted long after the school began providing cadavers for the students.

[@watchstuff5679]

1970's? I'm a bit confused

[@leahmueller4193]

@@watchstuff5679 opened in 1874

[@helenr4300]

folk traditions continue long after the original reasons are no longer relevant, or after the memory of the reason.

[@oliverb2794]

literally a perfect set of villainous characters to add to a future story/game. The Burke and Hare Inn

[@eiffiedarkness649]

There was a similar case in old America with this guy called H H Holmes who did the exact same thing as them and it was made into a book/game called Have You Seen Claudia? It’s actually a pretty good story tbh despite being on a dress up game app I recommend it.

[@gennymikel4296]

"My friend is terminally ill." "Great, when is he going to die...I mean that's so sad, how long does the poor fellow have?"

[@luxeayt6694]

Original Title: Why Did People Steal Corpses in Victorian Britain?

[@victorialord7650]

What do you mean??

[@wilfordbrimley1506]

@@KD-kl4sx sometimes he still does

[@itarry4]

@@victorialord7650 he changes the title a lot so if people go back through his catalogue of videos they might not realise they've seen it before and watch some again. Many channels do it to try to up their view numbers or hopi the new title will react better with the search...

[@spddiesel]

I clicked on "Why were corpses worth so much in Victorian Britain?" but watched "Why did ordinary people steal corpses in Victorian Britain?"

[@yuppers1]

He's probably checking to see which title generates more clicks

[@zwenkwiel816]

I want a cage around my grave with a sign saying "please do not feed"

[@Sammy-dushi]

😂😂😂why do u wanne come back

[@chadnewfield8866]

That's funny 😹

[@CheddarCheeseRebirthed]

please don't feed indeed

[@brianpinion5844]

as crazy as that may sound i was in jail with boy that killed his girlfriend in ohio but he stuck her in storm drain and went to mcdonalds everyday and took her food untill they figured it out, dude was weird ,but hes out now , he was 18 then did 20 yrs back in newark now ,people doing life without parole for POT!! POT!!! i guess

[@jedzoku]

The zombie

[@kapuzinergruft]

Thoughty2 speaks very freely and brings about a very educative and entertaining program. Many thumbs up! Großartig. I wouldn't be surprized if he gets an offer coming from the BBC.

[@harrydawes9161]

Imagine dying for stealing bread

[@klausgartenstiel4586]

"they're in a better place now. the soap factory."

[@Maven0666]

:)

[@elliegotfredson3712]

Ironically, they were hung for stealing a bar of soap.

[@elavke5441]

No that's just gross. Like that one skin care product they used to sell. It had placenta in it

[@zazethe6553]

@@elavke5441 in Paris there were so many deaths, they had to make soap from them.

[@brumhelldah917]

@@elavke5441 what about the Roland one with human fat cells

[@al145]

"The graverobber's work is never done..."

[@teentraveler1790]

Yes, that's what he said. In the video.

[@nghtspawn651]

OK cool, you quoted the video, but like wtf goes through your head when you watch? Like: "Hey, I'mma take something remotely funny from the video and type it out in the comments. Haha I am so funny and smart!"

[@ilose7834]

@@nghtspawn651 You sound way too pressed about a youtube comment

[@wiskyr6510]

@@nghtspawn651 I think people just like sharing their enjoyment for the line

[@froglifes6829]

@@nghtspawn651 Atleast he isnt commenting "first" or some stupid stuff like that

[@Player24]

*16:43**, that guy getting hanged.* *Everyone there: AYO THIS NEW SONG IS FIRE.*

[@w.a4856]

I kinda thought I knew this story already, 😂 Boy, was I wrong! Extraordinarily well done! Thanks :)

[@bon7029]

"the anatomy act targeted the poor" Doesn't everything that is undesirable?

[@lisaroy9538]

So people should do the things that raise them out of poverty....

[@bon7029]

@@lisaroy9538 yep. How dare poor city dwellers in the 1800s not magically raise themselves out of poverty despite a system set up specifically to pin them down. People think they have it bad today. Today is a cakewalk compared to the 1800s

[@majesticmajestic7058]

@@bon7029 Different perspective and time but it still doesn't change the fact that people have it bad.

[@bon7029]

@@majesticmajestic7058 some do, in some parts of the world 1800s England would be heaven. In most developed countries, people tweet about how bad their lives are from their brand new phones while they relax in an air conditioned. Building with a minimal chance of anything worse than a minor inconvenience happening to them.

[@Kodaiva]

@@J-ManProductions but radiation doesn’t cause mutations

[@ikitclaw7146]

The weirder and darker his stories get, the more he seems to enjoy them.... and so do i...

[@hiddencorner]

uh oh lol

[@EnrichKoch]

How he felt after saying that😈

[@quantavious2721]

Okay nathan

[@HyperLinkRedacted]

"and so do i..." ... IIIII just wanna tell you how Im feeling...

[@xAdrianHGx]

@@HyperLinkRedacted gonna make you understand-

[@critical_always]

Rediscovered this channel and love the stories and style in which they are presented.

[@TheParanormalDetectives]

Our very first paranormal investigation we did for our channel comes from a really small graveyard, which has one of these mortsafes in. Quite rare as there's not many around now!

[@Sumirevins]

Thoughty2: "Why did people steal corpses in Victorian era?" Me: "That is one of the least weirdest thing people did Back then Believe me"

[@sel1736]

😂

[@moonbaseolympia8887]

👽

[@stan5555]

This channel keeps teaching me that Europe has the weirdest history out of all of the continents.

[@jackdurden466]

@John Barber I think it’s been redone to the correct spelling. Funny though, I had many courses in college I wish I could have buried for another to take.

[@shaymorcormick8743]

Ya that entire era was just totally fecked.

[@lisabuss8260]

I can't thank you enough for the gift of mental health you've given me over this past year. Your dry sense of humour and your narration makes your presentations that much more engaging and distracting from the world around us. I enjoy you and your personality so much that I will actually sit through your commercials. I would much rather have you pitch products to me that are regular commercial. Keep up the good work you are excellent And only getting better all the time.

[@Terri_MacKay]

I discovered a few channels over the last year that really helped with my depression and anxiety. Due to a health issue, I've basically been housebound since last March, and the pandemic has certainly done my mental health no favours. With very few options to pass the time, I've been watching a lot of YT, and it's been a literal lifesaver. Aside from older channels like this one, I've found some channels that their creators started simply for something to do during lockdown, and they've become incredibly popular. For instance, Tasting History With Max Miller...after only one year, he's been able to make his channel his full-time job, he's done some very interesting collaborations, and he's currently writing a cookbook. Not bad for something that started out as a hobby to pass the time. I think that there are a lot of people who don't give YT content creators enough credit. They think it's all music videos, prank channels, and teenaged vloggers. I've introduced quite a few people to YT, and they're surprised how many channels are making high quality, well researched, well presented videos on topics like history, general science, physics, math, astronomy, music history (Professor of Rock is a must watch channel for any classic rock music fan), and true crime.

[@majesticmajestic7058]

Better than watching television.

[@galadriel3134]

For mental health I like Gangaji and Eckhart Tölle

[@krissyburke5050]

I did visit the Old Operating Theatre! It was so interesting (technical theatre major studying abroad in London. They wanted to take us to a theatre we never would expect)

[@Navyuncle]

At a local cemetery, Robert Wadlow's grave was sealed with concrete to prevent his body from being stolen.

[@vladimirputin6274]

"And the act remained in force, until 1984." Wait a minute...

[@Laffy-ix5xy]

That's what I thought. He didn't say what happened after that.

[@SuperReznative]

@@Laffy-ix5xy hmm

[@bullstemmerding5926]

Yeah thoughty2 what??

[@zellafae]

Now I’m curious

[@meman6964]

If you are a tissue or organ donor, find out what happens to your body. Harvest of organs to save the life of some living person is noble. Drs do the harvest, but tissue harvest ☠️☠️

[@f1ex999]

The Victorian Era was my favourite for English literature! Especially love Jekyll&Hyde

[@willhuey4891]

bram stokers dracula was another victorian era novel too.

[@karlsebastiansollenhag8802]

Same. I love that stuff. He wrote treasure island also. Just like your Mom.

[@marleymorningstar3671]

@Brad Grant she wasn't completely beat either. She could get it. 😂

[@paulstewart6293]

Saturday night Sunday morning. Read that. Silleto.

[@skippythetubrat]

For me it's Kipling.

[@soouG.]

A random guy in my reccomendations made a 21 and a half minute video about why a grave has a cage around it, that's REAL dedication. i haven't seen you around yet (or the video) but consider this a complement

[@Fenris77]

16:55 Now THAT'S poetic justice if ever there were! Including how the other man got his just come uppance...

[@livewireOrourke]

"They're stealing bodies from the graves. One day they'll get yours." "Hell no. Over my dead body!" "Well, yeah, that's how it works."

[@allaniadall9686]

That's a good pun/skit.

[@walterfechter8080]

"Could be worse -- could be raining." -- Igor (Marty Feldman)

[@chrisp9046]

“Wasn’t your hump on the other side?”

[@satanofficial3902]

Fun fact... the burning of Castle Frankenstein by angry villagers with torches and pitchforks is what inspired Igor to later compose the now famous and beloved Firebird Suite. While working at Castle Frankenstein, Igor had been taking a correspondence course in music composition.

[@satanofficial3902]

Fact checkers say..."Correct!"

[@Pluggit1953]

@@chrisp9046 What hump?

[@mrduckling1995]

**Explains horrific event** Legit 2 seconds afterwards: Well anyways play this dope game yeah its pretty good

[@staticbuilds7613]

Reminds me of that story where a class went to a place where they saw a brain in a jar. Well that brain had the same name as one of their class mates who previously died. Without the parents knowing they basically "harvested" this teenager. Don't remember if it's a true story or not but heard it somewhere on here before.

[@Tushar.Guptaa]

On tonight's episode: James May goes hunting.

[@AndrewHalliwell]

Who knew captain Slow had such a dark past? He seems like such a nice amiable fellow...

[@Tushar.Guptaa]

@@AndrewHalliwell why do you think he drives a dacia sandero... Big boot = more loot

[@randomprojectsusa5196]

Why does James seem like the kind of person to have done that if he lived back then...

[@MURDOCK1500]

"Who's have thought. James May aka captain slow. A body snatcher and murderer? And on that bombshell.....Good night"

[@popindosin228]

I knew all Lancia lovers are maniacs

[@RAMBO14001]

Best part about this video was the party-hard crowd at every execution sight 😂

[@clareharrison3361]

Thank you, that was more in depth than I have heard before. 👍

[@Fischjesicht]

These videos must take a lot of work and time to produce. Appreciated!

[@elfinshell4758]

I shouldn’t judge, but I really don’t understand the fear of being dissected after death. Chop me up fam, use whatever you can and the rest pop it into a modest green burial. It’s just my meat that’s left behind.

[@CDN_Bookmouse]

People who are religious sometimes believe that your body needs to be whole to enter heaven or to be resurrected when jesus comes back or whatever. It's a spiritual fear.

[@itarry4]

It's all about resurrection etc.... They believe that you need the whole body to get resurrected... Ignoring the fact that most bodies decompose....

[@mothmaru]

@@itarry4 that’s strange. It says when resurrection comes you’re given a whole new body soooo?

[@ELCinWYO]

@@mothmaru Different religions have different beliefs on resurrection. Even different Christian religions. Me personally? Donate to medicine or throw in a hole. Nothing fancy. My beliefs don't include the need for a body.

[@itarry4]

@@mothmaru remember that people often couldn't read the bible themselves and even the versions they had told to them could be very different from the versions we have today. Maybe they were taught that you got back the body you'd left behind when you were buried. The belief that you needed a whole body for resurrection was a very old one.

[@informationyes]

Imagine having a body in your house and suddenly finding it gone, thats a horror movie fright

[@hugh.g.rection5906]

imagine not having a body in your house lol

[@nenechonlisboa4127]

Hey ! This is the first time I see one of your videos, I stumbled upon it :) Really interesting video, well built and a gorgeous voice to listen to :) Many thanks :)

[@RDLondon2023]

Just saw this video last week but the thumbnail made me watch it again!! Well you know the best way to learn something is repetition😉

[@TheGD370]

in Virginia, USA there’s a silver lined tomb that holds a “vampire“

[@redsk94king79]

😅😅😅😅😅

[@deborahcuster8142]

yes, and that one is called the '' I.R.S. '' .

[@davidarundel6187]

Don't mock. Some Humans, are energy Theives aka Vampires - there's one in the neighbourhood, & has a family, & yes, all are Vampires - Energy Theives.

[@ember-brandt]

Where in Virginia???

[@orionthehunter217]

@@davidarundel6187 What's wrong with wanting to suck your energy? Some people pay for that you know.

[@glendanison3064]

I have heard a story that here in the US, some "resurrection men" would hide bodies in barrels of whiskey, to smuggle and preserve them. Afterwards, the whiskey was sold for consumption and was the origin of the term rotgut whiskey. I don't believe this , but it's one of those legends you wish were true.

[@geraldfriend256]

Mmm this Scotch tastes like peat.Or is it Peter? Cool story nonetheless

[@HellNoMoreBiden]

I've also heard of that so I call it true of the times. It tasted like you know what.

[@dilluminatient]

They preserved Napoleons body in brandy till it got back to France. Needless to say by the time the ship got back home the sailors drank all the brandy!

[@glendanison3064]

@@geraldfriend256 Thank you for the laugh. I appreciate clever humor.

[@glendanison3064]

@@dilluminatient So that was the original St. Remy.

[@advictoriam3106]

"Was Victorian Britain rife with necrophiliacs? Probably." That is the most savage "probably" I've ever heard haha

[@juanjosesanchez4095]

16:40 that part with the crowd makes me laugh so hard. Those people are dancing like they are in a concert while they are hanging the man

[@bigred1502]

"people used to steal corpse's all the time. Light racer is a sci Fi game that is . . . " Like dude, that was definitely the worst transition to a sponsor ever, but ngl I loved it

[@phenom1153]

8:22 I love how hw came out of the coffin

[@jaynewton5278]

Hahahahaha that's top that one. 👌

[@picklikeapro6952]

I’ve learned more from this channel than in my 16 years of schooling.

[@zrebbesh]

My grandmother had a bible with a lot of blank pages where genealogical information and notes were written. It mentions one ancestor who was supposedly buried "in three fathoms of earth" to protect against body snatchers. I think that means sixteen feet deep? Enough, I suppose, to make sure that someone else would be easier to dig up. I don't know how much that burial cost.

[@doggedout]

Thoughty seems unusually..gleeful .about this story. Somebody check his basement.

[@flvnn.mp4]

They say whoever goes to check his basement never return...

[@jaynewton5278]

Hahaha that's top that one i tell ya. Thought that meself. 😅😅😅😅😅😅

[@PMA65537]

Do we need another lock for the canal?

[@chrisj3059]

I have been watching Thoughty2's videos for quite some time now and I really gotta commend his passion and presentation. Way to go, Arran!

[@FallingFeeling212]

He was that kid who always had the best book reports.

[@StrifeNinja]

Good Evening Thoughty 2, I very much enjoy your content and you're my favourite History Teacher. Keep up what you're doing brother! J

[@Fenris77]

8:57 That is absolutely APPALLING! 9:50 EASt end? Now I start to wonder... 11:31 Aokay now a pattern emerges. Could a certain famous serial killer in fact have been many?

[@incredibleflameboy]

Thoughty2: "The bodies had to be very fresh" Me: Calm down Herbert West

[@jaynewton5278]

The fresher the better eh. Not like I go robbing graves but hey. 😁😁

[@davis4555]

Great reference!

[@thenomadrhodes]

Move your dead bones bones bones

[@kilyaded7332]

Rumor says Hell House was built on top of that unmarked cemetary...

[@imouse3246]

They removed the headstones, but didn't move the bodies.

[@Puddin205]

I like how one of the members of the gang is called “James May” now… doesn’t that ring a bell?

[@gorila1968]

If corpses was so valuable in previous centuries you can imagine how much more valuable are organs today and how many crimes are committed daily for such far more profitable trade

[@maryhildreth754]

About ten years ago, a friend who worked in a lab at a medical school sent me a photo of a sign she had put up in the lab. It said "Please tidy your cadaver before leaving". I printed that out and stuck it on the fridge, which confused the hell out of the kids.

[@zer0deaths862]

Why is there a cage covering the grave? Because the deceased are still serving the remaining 200 years of their 400 year prison sentence.

[@brah8121]

💀

[@quitafarlo8625]

🤦🏾‍♀️🤣🤣🤣

[@helenr4300]

As the usual technique was to break through only at the head end and drag the body out that way, metal collars attaching corpse to the coffin were used. Lessw showy than the cage but still effective as made it easier to go to another body

[@user-qw6pb4ub8p]

Hello Helen, how are you doing today, hope you’re fine and safe from the Virus??

[@absolutemattlad2701]

19:35 I'll never be able to watch an episode of top gear the same now I know the horrible things James has done

[@manishd2532]

"Meet the people who stole dead bodies" Nah, I'm fine.

[@ykshay]

I'm here at the front door, open up

[@iqceo4276]

let us in coward

[@alexsm3882]

Hey bud, I need a place to stay, the wife kicked me out...

[@note5068]

Burke in a nutshell: To know the cadevar, you must become the cadevar

[@pierrelaboom4026]

Another very well done piece! Cheers!

[@fortheworldsecuritysystems1609]

I like the way you talk, I mean that, You have such a peaceful sound to your speech, puts me in a good place. Have an awesome day and then some.

[@kyleking7718]

I remember learning about this when I took a trip to Edinburgh. Lots of caged old graves

[@Valigarmanda]

Bodysnatcher: my profession is very stomach-upsetting Tosher: oh, is it now?

[@tell-me-a-story-]

Burk and hair- “Well If It IsN’t ThE CoNsAqUeNcEs Of My oWn ActiOnS.”

[@user-qw6pb4ub8p]

Hello Mariah, how are you doing today, hope you’re fine and safe from the Virus??

[@calebchanda569]

When he said bodysnatchers, radiohead came straight to mind😂

[@donm5354]

LONDON: "BODIES !!! BODIES !!! Fresh BODIES !!! Get yours while supplies last!!!"

[@ashn333]

I’m finding nothing has changed ethically through history, this all still happens but we make it look shinier or hide it.

[@mariagrace817]

It more true of organs but then again tou do have so many legitimate donations of bodies and organs live donations and postmortem. Hey it's a great argument for the use of stem cells because the things you can make would almost put organ donation to a bare minimum but we do still need to study corpses unfortunately. There are fully donated forensic corpse farms where they study dead bodies know various exposed elements to record the differential in decomp. Pretty cool huh?

[@ashn333]

Maria Grace that is pretty fascinating, the history or medicine is pretty fascinating in general but stuff like this? I’ve never given too much thought about cadavers and how we have donor systems set up until today

[@bromptondevice7685]

A coffin maker once told me that the shape of a coffin was developed because of body snatchers. Originally they used to dig only at the feet end of the grave, break away the end of the casket and pull the body out by the feet. So the coffin was designed to make this almost impossible because it fits the shape if the body more closely and the shoulders and crossed arms get stuck. In the end of course, it just meant that the grave robbers had to work a little harder.

[@jamesgittins6752]

I don't mean to be brutally honest but I cannot watch your videos your voice does my head in at the same time they are so intellectual and interesting and I really want to continue watching

[@Smokey420Greenleaf]

burking is acomplished by kneeling or otherwise putting a heavy weight on the victim's chest then letting muscle fatigue slowly suffocate them. has nothing to do with bare hands. burke used to kill his victims by laying on top of them until they stopped struggling.

[@alexsm3882]

Would've never figured that to work

[@starrchild1080]

I was going to comment the exact same thing. It was a way of killing someone that didn't leave a trace.

[@supersolomob422]

2:07 "Because the game is full of subtle references to sci-fi classics such as Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy-" A little reference to the reference in this channel's name, referenception

[@andrewkrespov87]

This guy is the kind that is always creeping out his kids with scary tales before bedtime

[@wqatch]

John Bishop in this video looks a lot like Mumbo Jumbo Kind of acted the same way as Mumbo Jumbo did in Hermitcraft Season 8...

[@briantodd3190]

Loved your video as always , I recommend checking out the BBC`s coverage of the HS2 digs at St James` and in Birmingham . In St James` they found over 50 burials that had been vivisected including one missing its spinal column , hands and feet several trepannings and curiously , several where the skull had been trepanned and the brain subsequently replaced with some sort of an object , even a sherry glass . Sometimes the entirely missing head / leg or whatever was replaced with a brick or a rock which has to imply that the bodies were "got at" BEFORE they were buried . Apparently the robbers only exposed the top part of the coffin and removed the corpse by putting a rope under the shoulders and simply hauling it out . This led to one burial where the corpse had an iron collar bolted over the corpses neck , several with iron straps around the outside of the coffin , at least one like "your" iron coffin and many other types .

[@kozu3884]

honestly im happy that you get sponsored every vid cause we dont have to watch ads that often

[@DEVILTAZ35]

I keep getting an ad break just as he is about to say goodbye lol.

[@bubbercakes528]

What’s truly horrifying is that cemeteries still exist. The are such a waste of our earth’s limited space: plus the burying of all of those toxic chemicals.

[@georgelabauve3469]

I think Hitchhikers Guide to the galaxy is my favorite sci-fi comedy of all time.

[@janbosik8953]

19:32 Oh no, James May was involved? Do Clarkson and Hammond know?

[@marcusgarvey8388]

See you in Spain lads!

[@jannetteberends8730]

My mother leaved her body to science. When she died people came to transport her body. They drove away out the little neighborhood she lived in. They drove in walking speed, with one man walking beside the car. That was the most beautiful funeral of my life.

[@CissyBrazil]

Love your animations and accompanied sound effects. 😁