Fellow ridiculous historians, thank you for tuning in for this week's classic episode.

We're going back to Victorian England.

I'll just say it with the benefit of retrospect, a very weird, specific, and self-contradicting time.

Oh, big time, as evidenced in our recent episode on flirting, which was, wasn't that Victorian?

Yes, Victorian flirting. Really, really, very, very, very, very interesting. Thanks to our research

associate, Ren, for that one. But this takes us back to April of 1870 when a court case, O.J. Simpson-style

captivated the people of Victorian England.

Fannie and Stella, aka. Frederick Park and Ernest Bolton, were arrested after attending a play

for their refusal to dress according to their assigned gender, let us say.

And it caused a moral panic.

Mm-hmm.

A court case that rocked the land in tire.

We can't wait for you to hear this episode if you haven't yet.

Because, you know, these kinds of moral panic still continue in the modern day.

So there's a lot we can learn from this one.

Oh, not to mention all of the crazy stuff going on in Washington right now with, you know,

trans erasure and just like really horrible revisionist history for a group of people who very much exist and have very much fought for the

right to be treated like human beings. And I think this is a great example of a precedent-setting

case. So let's roll the tape. In Mississippi, Yazoo Clay keeps secrets.

Seven thousand bodies out there or more.

A forgotten asylum cemetery.

It was my family's mystery.

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