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True Weird Stuff

Rest In Peace

True Weird Stuff

Now! Media

Science, History, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.9661 Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2024

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

Today's True Weird Stuff - Rest In Peace

London in the early 1800s had a graveyard problem. A lack of space led to unsanitary burial practices as the smell of rotting corpses and overflowing sewers consumed the city. One such place was Enon Chapel, a church in which the pastor was getting paid to allow bodies to be buried in the chapel's basement. But a man nicknamed "Graveyard Walker" made it his mission to put an end to these filthy practices.

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0:00.0

Hey, true weirdos, at the end of this episode, stick around if you want for a little bonus content and conversation.

0:10.0

Sometimes the only way to get people's attention is by shock.

0:14.9

That was the plan that night in 1842 at a dance hall in London.

0:19.9

What the revelers didn't know was that beneath their feet was a

0:24.3

scene straight out of a nightmare. The man greeting them at the door to the cellar wielded a human

0:30.7

skull in each hand. Once inside, the partygoers were shown by flickering torchlight, the places where the bodies were stacked,

0:40.3

the rooms where the corpses had been quietly dissected, the coffins chopped into splinters.

0:48.0

This place wasn't a crime scene. It was the cellar of what used to be a chapel,

0:54.0

and the grand finale was a peek at the very man who'd taken money from the grieving to bury their dead.

1:01.2

Except he didn't.

1:03.0

He was a pastor who piled the bodies in that chapel cellar and did the unspeakable.

1:09.3

By that night in 1842,

1:12.7

the pastor had been dead for 10 long years.

1:16.1

It was his wizened corpse like a mummy

1:18.6

that the crowd came to see.

1:20.9

And the man who set it all up,

1:23.6

a doctor who helped change forever

1:26.4

how London treated the dead.

1:30.0

Death may be final, but your final resting place?

1:34.4

Maybe not.

1:35.9

Grab your shovel.

1:37.6

We've got a whole cemetery to move.

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