Episode 169: Blood Money

Lore

Aaron Mahnke

True Crime, Ghost, Folklore, Legends, Supernatural, Paranormal, Lore, Monsters, Myth, History, Spooky

4.6 • 46.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2021

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

We’ve all been told to beware things that seem too good to be true, and for good reason. But beyond the world of hucksters and frauds, one special group of people fooled an entire culture, at the cost of hundreds of lives.

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0:00.0	His was a rags to riches sort of story.
0:16.0	Born in the 1650s, William didn't have the easiest start to life.
0:20.2	His first job was working as an apprentice to a nail maker.
0:24.2	Believe me, it was riveting work.
0:26.7	By the 1670s, he was so wealthy he owned a country estate of his own, outside Birmingham,
0:32.8	and life was good for a very long time.
0:36.0	There was, however, always that nagging feeling in the back of his mind, that fear that one
0:41.0	day he might get caught.
0:43.0	You see, William Chaliner didn't earn his fortune the honest way.
0:47.8	No he made his money.
0:49.8	Literally, his business was counter-fitting.
0:53.5	So in the warden of the royal mint started tracking him down, he knew the jig was up.
0:58.5	By 1699, he had been arrested, tried, and sentenced to death by hanging.
1:03.1	Oh, and that warden of the royal mint, he was also a successful and legendary physicist.
1:09.6	His name?
1:10.6	Sir Isaac Newton.
1:12.9	Some things always seem too good to be true.
1:15.8	You know the feeling, right?
1:17.4	That parking spot that turns out to be reserved, the $20 bill in the bushes that ends up being
1:22.7	just a scrap of cash, or that promotion that bumps your pay a little, but doubles your
1:28.1	workload.
1:29.9	Sometimes the silver lining ain't so silver, but as long as it's not a matter of life
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