Ep. 11 - The Resurrectionists
The Conspirators Podcast
The Conspirators Podcast
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 19 September 2016
⏱️ 19 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This episode is brought to you by Pepsi Max. Christmas is great, but there's loads of ways to make it better. |
| 0:08.0 | Like sneaking some chili into the gravy for some extra oint, or building a playlist that will even get your |
| 0:14.8 | none up on the table or just cracking open an ice cold Pepsi Max. |
| 0:20.1 | Christmas. |
| 0:23.0 | Better with Pepsi Max. |
| 0:28.0 | From 1757 to 775, a four-story |
| 0:39.2 | from 1757 to 1775, a four-story Georgian house at 36 Craven Street near London's Trafalgar Square, was home to none other than Ben Franklin. During his stay in the home, Franklin was the colonial ambassador to England, |
| 0:47.0 | and he was often visited there by some of the leading figures in politics, science, and philosophy. |
| 0:52.0 | By 1998, the home was a top... politics, science, and philosophy. |
| 0:53.5 | By 1998, the home was a tottering wreck, and a group called the Friends of the Benjamin |
| 0:58.4 | Franklin House began restoration work to bring the building back to its former glory. |
| 1:04.0 | About a month into construction, a worker named Jim Field made a completely unexpected discovery |
| 1:09.1 | after digging into a small underground pit in a windowless basement room. |
| 1:13.8 | Poking out of the rubble was a human thigh bone. |
| 1:18.6 | The police and coroner were notified and excavation continued. By the time digging was done more than 1,200 pieces of bone were discovered. |
| 1:27.0 | There were all ages of human remains from infants to the elderly, |
| 1:31.0 | and several of the bones bore drill marks and had been sawed and chopped through. |
| 1:36.7 | Now before you go jumping to conclusions, one of the founding fathers of the United States |
| 1:40.6 | probably wasn't a serial killer. But that doesn't mean there wasn't |
| 1:45.1 | any criminal activity that went on in that basement. During Franklin's time |
| 1:50.6 | living at the Craven house he gave his best friend William |
| 1:53.2 | Houston, a science student, a safe place to perform human anatomy experiments at a time |
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