Why Does This Grave Have a Cage On It?

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me: "this seems like a good video to watch while eating lunch"

11:33 "Rather than stealing the bodies of already dead people, the body snatchers started to make dead people" your dialogue delivery is 10/10 my man

An interesting side-effect of the graverobbing were the grave cages that soon started rumors that the covered graves were to keep suspected vampires from rising . Funny how things come about .

When I was 10 years old my doctor was retiring and I had always talked about this skull he had on a shelf in his office. He decided to give it to me and along with the skull he had all the information on who the person was, when they died and where they were buried. All the written information was in very legible format so done by someone with education and was dated May 4, 1831.

Stealing corpses because there's not enough bodies to experiment on, sounds like a movie plot

Imagine being a medical student whose love one was just buried only to see them in the amphitheater

The bells next to head stones i found interesting too. The story of the cages people spread was always "its people who got scared of zombies and people coming back from the dead!" which then leads you to being buried alive. Victorians put bells and cords down to the coffin so if you "woke up" underground, you could ring the bell and get the attention of the graveyard groundsman.

The fact his body and now skeleton was and are used for the very practice he contributed to is poetic justice 😂

why does this grave have a cage around it: cause people are dying to get in

In 2020, the real "irony" here is that the cage itself would have value in being scrap metal with metals prices going back up again.

Don't know how I found this guy. I'm glad I did, he's always got something weird and interesting to watch!!

"My friend is terminally ill." "Great, when is he going to die...I mean that's so sad, how long does the poor fellow have?"

Didn’t expect James May to have been a murderer in a previous life. Although he is pretty scary while wielding a machete.

I lived on a farm in Scotland as a young teenager, we had a space next to the house, behind the garage. In that space was a sizable stone built structure with wrought iron bars across the top. It also had a cast iron plate that marked this grave of one of the previous landowners and his female 'servant'! This was built during the heyday of the infamous Burke & Hare!

The 'Let the bodies hit the floor' has taken a whole new meaning.

4:56 that dammit, scared the hell outta me. 😒

When I was a clergyman in Nashville in the '70s, I learned that after a burial, it was the custom for some family members to remain at the grave for three days and nights. The reason: when the Vanderbilt Medical school opened, the students had to provide their own cadavers. The custom persisted long after the school began providing cadavers for the students.

This remind me of the time in Mumbay the English wanted to eradicate cobras, so they paid for them to be killed, which led to people breeding cobras for profit.

Another anatomy lecture theatre you can see is still being used by pre clinical medical students to this day in the University of Edinburgh's Anatomy building (the anatomy lecture theatre). Once you've been there you'll actually recognise it in quite a few films and TV shows as there aren't many of those places left in the world! As a bonus you can also meet Burk referred to in your video. After his excecution his body was given to the medical school and his skeleton is in the anatomy resource centre in the same building as the anatomy lecture theatre in a display cabinet to this day! His Skeleton is NOT in surgeons hal unless it has been moved very recently from the resource centre. But Burk's skin is in surgeons hall (which is probably why you thought the skeleton was there when researching the video) his skin was turned into leather and they have several anatomy textbooks bound in leather from Burk's skin and a wallet made with leather from his face if memory serves...