Welcome to Lore Legends, a subset of lore episodes that explore the strange tales we whisper in the dark,

even if they can't always be proven by the history books.

So if you're ready, let's begin. There are some jobs that most of us would never want to do no matter how down on our luck we might be.

Honestly, history is full of these unpleasant tasks.

Chambermaids, coal miners, street cleaners, there are almost too many to name.

And yet for as bad as most of those jobs were, very few had a worse than the nightsoilman.

These people were responsible for disposing of human waste, also known as night soil.

Before the advent of indoor plumbing, the night soil men were the ones who kept the sewers,

and therefore the streets and the

night soilmen work the late shift.

In the dead of night they would lower themselves into dark sess pools filled

with waste and they would shovel it out.

After collecting it all, they sold the excrement to farmers as fertilizer.

But not everyone always made it that far.

You see, it wasn't unheard of for night's

well meant to lose their footing and quite literally drown in a pit of

waste. Fortunately they were paid well for their troubles and the pay is

almost certainly what kept them coming back for more, because it definitely

was not the smell.

But as terrible as all that sounds, there was one profession that made even sloshing

through cesspools sound like a walk in the park.

Like others it was an occupation that required a strong stomach, a weak nose and the

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