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🗓️ 15 August 2024
⏱️ 48 minutes
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The Carnegie Museum of Natural History is one of the most storied institutions of its kind in the United States, and it's chockful of priceless objects from across the span of history and the globe. However... investigators recently discovered a grisly secret hidden within one of the dioramas. Join Ben and Noel as they explore the macabre secret of the Carnegie Museum in today's Classic episode.
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0:00.0 | Ridiculous historians, thank you as always so much for tuning in. This is a classic episode for you. |
0:07.6 | Some of us are on the road, some of us are on adventures, but before we go, you know we couldn't leave you without a |
0:15.8 | dope beat to step to and been Bullen joined with our super producer Max Williams, Max, |
0:22.1 | there are corpses in diaramas, or there were. |
0:26.0 | There were or are they still in diaramas? |
0:29.0 | So when I saw the title of this one, so little behind the scenes, |
0:32.0 | these episodes are from before I worked on the show so I'm |
0:35.2 | learning these normally with like you know the listeners but uh it reminded me of when we did the |
0:40.7 | crash test dummies episode a couple years back. |
0:43.4 | Where it was like, oh, they used corpses in the past |
0:45.5 | to test them. |
0:46.5 | And then the answer was, they still use corpses. |
0:49.1 | Are they still using corpses in dioramas, Ben? |
0:52.2 | Well, I'm glad you asked, Max, because if they are, it is not sanctioned today. |
0:59.1 | However, in this classic episode, we're going to learn how the Carnegie Museum of Natural History |
1:07.3 | did use corpses in diaramas if you're interested in learning about more strange uses for corpses, check out |
1:16.3 | the earlier car stuff episode on the Grizzly history of Crash Test Dummies, as well as our ridiculous history episode on the same subject. |
1:25.2 | For now, folks, if you get squiggled out by things that are a little bit macabre, then this episode might not be for you, but for everybody else, |
1:38.4 | welcome to ridiculous history. |
1:42.3 | Hi, I'm Molly Conger, host of Weird Little Guys, a new podcast from Cool Zone Media on |
1:46.0 | I Heart Radio. |
1:47.0 | I've spent almost a decade researching right-wing extremism, digging into the lives of people |
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