220: The Paris Morgue
Ghost Town: Strange History, True Crime, & the Paranormal
Ghost Town
3.7 • 938 Ratings
🗓️ 31 August 2022
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
In the 19th century, the Paris morgue was a grim, yet popular tourist attraction.
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| 1:00.5 | The final stages of death. I'm Jason Horton. I'm Rebecca Leeb and this is ghost town |
| 1:21.7 | In August of 1886 Parisians read in the local newspaper |
| 1:25.3 | Le Journal illustrate about Enfant de la rue de Vert Bois a tragic tale of a four-year-old girl with a single mysterious |
| 1:33.2 | bruise on her hand they were riveted obsessed so they rushed to see the story unfold |
| 1:39.3 | pushing their way through our long lines horrible traffic street fights and criminal pick pockets |
| 1:45.7 | to see Enfant de la rue de Vert Bois themselves |
| 1:49.6 | I know what you're thinking. Is it a play a famous portrait? |
| 1:53.6 | No well not really. In the five days after Le Journal illustrate broke the story of L'Enfant |
| 2:00.1 | everyone flocked to a curtained exhibition room. They're behind a thick glass wall sat the body |
| 2:06.5 | of the four-year-old propped up posed in a tiny dress. There were other bodies next to her |
| 2:13.1 | some naked with a sheet for modesty some fully clothed. This display of actualized death |
| 2:20.1 | was some of the darkest and most popular entertainment of the time and we're talking about the mid-18th |
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