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Ghost Town: Strange History, True Crime, & the Paranormal

220: The Paris Morgue

Ghost Town: Strange History, True Crime, & the Paranormal

Jason Horton & Rebecca Leib

True Crime, Unknown, Paranormal, Weird History, Social Sciences, History, Science

3.7928 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. More Ghost Town: https://www.ghosttownpod.com Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/ghosttownpod Instagram: https;//www.instagram.com/ghosttownpod Sources: https://bit.ly/3Kt4smO Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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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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