Raising the Dead, Part 2

The Strange and Unusual Podcast

Alyson Horrocks | Morbid Network

True Crime, Society & Culture, Exhibit C, History

4.7 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2017

⏱️ 67 minutes

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As we continue exploring the world of necromancy in part 2, we peek into how scientific advances and spectacle factored into the practice during the 19th and early 20th centuries. Frankenstein, Spiritualism, and the Golden Age of Magic created an entertaining, thought-provocating, creepy, and playful atmosphere for raising the dead, which was irresistible for millions. And today it's still irresistible, as we still make use of relics from those exciting and macabre times. ******* Music: Halloween Parade by Sam Haynes Source: https://samhaynes1.bandcamp.com/track/halloween-parade Artist: https://samhaynes1.bandcamp.com Undercover Vampire Policeman by Chris Zabriskie is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Source: http://chriszabriskie.com/uvp/ Artist: http://chriszabriskie.com/ Darkest Child by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100783 Artist: http://incompetech.com/ Ghost Dance by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100573 Artist: http://incompetech.com/

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0:09.0	You're listening to a morbid network podcast. It was on a dreary night of November that I beheld the accomplishment of my toils.
0:29.6	With an anxiety that almost amounted to agony, I collected the instruments of life around me, that I might
0:37.0	infuse a spark of being into the lifeless thing that lay at my feet.
0:47.0	It was already one in the morning. The rain patted dismally against the panes,
0:51.0	and my candle was nearly burnt out.
0:53.0	When, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light,
0:57.0	I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open.
1:00.0	It breathed hard, and a convulsive motion agitated its limbs.
1:07.0	How can I describe my emotions at this catastrophe?
1:12.0	Or how delineate the wretch whom with such infinite pains and care I
1:16.2	had endeavored to form.
1:19.7	His limbs were in proportion, and I had selected his features as beautiful.
1:24.0	Beautiful, great God!
1:26.4	His yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneath.
1:31.1	His hair was of a lustrous black and flowing, his teeth of a pearly whiteness, but these luxuriances only
1:37.5	formed a more horrid contrast with his watery eyes that seemed almost of the same color as the Dunwhite sockets in which they were set.
1:46.6	His shriveled complexion and straight black lips.
1:50.6	The different accidents of life are not so changeable as the feelings of human nature.
1:55.0	I had worked hard for nearly two years for the sole purpose of infusing life into an inanimate body.
2:04.0	For this I had deprived myself of rest and health.
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