How Andreas Vesalius Proved Women Have Just as Many Teeth as Men
Andreas Vesalius (Andries van Wesel) was a 16th-century Flemish anatomist whose work revolutionized the study of the human body. And he was able to do so because he was also a body snatcher -- and tho...
21 Juni 202229min
Dr. Joseph Warren: American Revolutionist and Secret Spunker
No one truly knows the identities of those who participated in the Boston Tea Party, but one man’s name always ends up on the usual suspects list -- and that's Dr. Joseph Warren: physician and revolut...
14 Juni 202225min
Lead By Crime Boss James “Big Jim” Kennally
The first attempt at snatching and ransoming Abraham Lincoln's body was in 1876. It didn’t work out, as you’ll see. But it wasn’t the only attempt at snatching Lincoln’s remains -- and, as it turns, n...
7 Juni 202228min
Meet the So-Called Night Doctors: Chris Baker and Grandison Harris
The stories of both Chris Baker and Grandison Harris take place during the American Civil War and period of Reconstruction. Both were body snatchers, or night doctors as they were known in the south, ...
30 Maj 202234min
William Cunningham, the Ghoul of Cincinnati
Resurrectionist William Cunningham was actively stealing bodies from grave sites around Cincinnati from 1855 to 1871. He was well known, and he was something of a legend. He once returned to the same ...
24 Maj 202223min
Cranioklepty, Skulduggery, and the Time of Phrenology
Snatching bodies from graves to sell them to medical and anatomy schools was once a super-common reason for disinterring corpses, but it’s definitely not the only reason people have disturbed the dead...
17 Maj 202228min
Meet John Hunter, the Patron Saint of Body Snatchers
So far in our season of body snatching, we’ve been looking at things mainly from the point of view of the snatcher. But we’re going to change that up a little. Scottish surgeon John Hunter was “the pa...
10 Maj 202228min
Burke, Hare, and the Anatomy Murders of Edinburgh
Contrary to popular belief, the famous body-snatching duo of William Burke and William Hare were not actually body snatchers. They never robbed graves at all -- they had their own way of supplying ana...
3 Maj 202224min
