Burke and Hare - The Anatomy Murderers
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I have actually met Mr Burke.. he was hanging around in the Anatomy Department of Edinburgh University..
or at least his skeleton is!
:+)
Up the close and down the stair,
In the hoose wi Burke and Hare.
Burke’s the butcher, Hare’s the thief, Knox the man that buys the beef.
Burke and Hare they were a pair, killed a wife and didnae care.
Then they put her in a box, and sent her off tae Dr. Knox.
Not exactly historical, but as much as most nursery rhymes are. Lots of them have horrible origins.
As a kid, my older sister informed my friends and I that, "ring around the rosy" was about the plague. As 6 year olds, we had no idea what that meant and were joyfully screaming, "we've got the plague" while dancing around until finally spanked.
Apparently, the plague was still a sensitive topic for the adults, or (more likely) they were sick to death of the inane repetition during cocktail hour...
@greenmean1 Champion!
@@christineparis5607 many interpretations of the rhyme...one being that the “rosie” is just a plain rosebush, the "ashes" is really "achoo" due to pollen and falling down is due to the excessive sneezing.
@@LadyWhinesalot hm
Not heard this since I was a bairn.
Jeez the family tree sure houses some interesting characters XD
Day of the big Oof
You’re telling me
Yeah your telling me lol
The sins of our fathers, eh?
Think William hare is linked to my tree too, yep its a thing.
One overlooked tidbit: A his execution, Burke was met with shouts of "Burke him!"
According to legend, that was also the cry of the mobs who pursued Hare after the trial.
Surprised he wasn't shouting for it too, given the alternative was hanging sober.
WOooo
Wow, the irony of ending up being executed and dissected for the crime of murdering people to sell for dissection.
They died like they lived.
Victor Frankenstein was one of our customers.
He died doing what he loved
"navvy" - navigational engineer - road/rail/canal digger - (inland navigation routes)
peace (from the UK)
As an Irishman, Simon's pronunciation of Tyrone and Armagh has me 😂
Absolute mad lad
And Docherty 🙃
The Armagh pronunciation could have been avoided if they'd got the county correct, Newry is in county Down.
West Newry is in armagh and the east is in county Down
And navy for navie😂
@@screwthistheresnone I believe he was from Scarva not far from Newry, which would be in the Down region, but just on the border between the two.
Excellent work Biographics, also can you do a video about Francois "Papa Doc" Duvalier, the brutal dictator of Haiti.
vasil kokinovski ooo good one!
That would be good one! I hope to see this idea come to fruition!
These lads are full force mad.
Law of attraction
Good one
William Hare was sent to Tasmania, where after a few short years he was released and became the father of a large brood of children. Consequently, there are a huge number of his descendents currently residing in that small Australian state who can all claim to be related to the infamous malefactor!
DSW
Not so! Read all the books. He is thought to have returned to Ireland. Evidence strongly suggests he is buried in a village graveyard there.
12:30 Burke to the boy - "I was wondering what would break first, your spirit or your body."
Burke and Hare were a terrible pair
Their deeds were beyond belief
They worked underground in Edinburgh Town
The cruelest kind of thief.
Cool
Hey, Simon your videos have become a running gag between my boyfriend and I. In the last few months when I've discovered your channels (this one and TopTenz) I kinda binged them between shifts, while working on knitting projects, and even on my trip to texas to see said boyfriend. So in all of that my boyfriend began getting used hearing your videos in the background. I often have them playing at night because I need some sort of sound, I grew up in a very noisy household silence unnerves me (those with a big family can agree). The running gag is my boyfriend saying, "Oh I hear Simon, want to return to him other than talking to me." He's never actually mad, just does it to poke fun.
Nette Marie So how’s new doing now, with Simon’s six additional channels? lol
"History, one life at a time."
Meanwhile I'm watching a video about a more than one person.
Okay, 2 people at a time for this one. Kudos for noticing our tagline!
SmashPortal oh stop it
Simon and vsauce have never been seen in the same room. Coincidence? I think not. Hotel? Trivargo
Remember when no one could tell Clark Kent was Superman because he had glasses on? It's the same deal when Vsauce puts on a British accent ;)
V sauce has better hair
Same for Babish...
I am so happy I discovered this channel, along with their other channels. Its informative, entertaining, and personal. Even after grad school, this channel gives me the feel of my favorite professor back in community college, where things are down to earth and personable.
1:25 - Chapter 1 - Early years
2:30 - Chapter 2 - Anatomy in the UK
5:50 - Chapter 3 - The madness begins
7:50 - Chapter 4 - Folie à deux
9:50 - Chapter 5 - Mary Patterson
12:45 - Chapter 6 - James Wilson
14:30 - Chapter 7 - The jig is up
16:40 - Chapter 8 - The trial begins
17:35 - Chapter 9 - In the aftermath of murder
I know I've asked this before, but could you guys please do one in Madam de Pompadour??
Rylee Laviano there’s a doctor who episode on her and that’s the extent of my knowledge on her :$ *proceeds to google search*
Rylee Laviano “the art of pleasure is a serious business”.
@@amandab3946 I was going to make a Doctor Who joke... but you beat me to the reference! :')
I know Simon is British but I want to say that his voice is like a warm glass of a fine Irish whiskey
Super interesting, I love the macabre topics that you cover and I hope to see more! Super awesome as always and you have one of the best narrative voices on youtube, love you Simon keep up the great work 😎
FYI, Tyrone is pronounced closer to tie-rone to rhyme with bone and the gh in Armagh is not gutteral. It's just are-ma
Depends on what part of the world on how you pronounce English words. You gave the American pronunciation. Simon is from England.
Also it's Nav-E not navy
@@schandler4958 except they are not English words.They are Irish words.different language and alphabet and Blink S is right.
yep and its pronounced Daw-her-tee.
@@schandler4958 nope, not in this case mate. From the UK and I've never heard someone say naavy over nae vy
As always Simon I am never ceased to be amazed at not only the detail into which you delve but also how well you recount these detailed stories
Good writing helps.
@@Biographics you all do a great job. Thank y'all for the effort and perfection!
@@Biographics Do Franco. I keep asking this, and so do many others.
Hello Biographics team: You are one of the most interesting channels on RUclips and was wondering if you could please do one on Mikhail Gorbachev. It’s no secret that your audience is interested in history, and I feel like many people who weren’t alive in the late ‘80s don’t know who he is or how influential he was. He is I.M.O. one of the most important and controversial figures of the 20th century, who saw the fall of the Soviet Union when it was not expected and he has a very unique life to tell, and an odd relationship with a U.S. president that was quite bizarre. Keep up the good work!
This would be a great idea for a subject
I like how he just casually throws in at the end that Hare's "tanned skin was used to bind a pocket book". WTF
Never heard of these! Very interesting video. Keep up the good work.
SIGMUND FREUD VIDEO PLEASE
Loved the video!
There's already a couple of videos about him on his other channels plus this one. Subscribe and go to the home page and scroll down.
Paulo Oliveira he’s already covered him.
is your mom hot?
@@pickettywitchoriginal cant find the video
Paulo Oliveira my mistake,sorry!! You’re right he was covered in top tenz not bio’s,Same presenter got my brain twisted I guess 🤷🏻♀️🤷🏻♀️
Aha, the best way to end an evening.
Feed the addiction to Biographics, every day!
Great work, Keep it up!
Burke and Haire' exploits are explained in detail in the non-fiction novel "Devil in the White City."
A video about Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden or about Charles XII of Sweden would be lit, every vid makes my day.
@Sisyphos TM No, both died in battle.
@Sisyphos TM yeah.
Or Charles Xl - here in the town I live he still is known as just "the King". He was our founding father
@Simon whistler. Brilliant narration. As a surgeon who qualified at Edinburgh I can say that this story is almost folklore to all would be surgeons. It also illustrates the difficulty of learning anatomy in the early days and the demand was met with in a macbre fashion by the Irish two. Not just in the 19 th century but even to this day Edinburgh & Glasgow remain two pioneering medical centres and seats of knowledge for students and surgeons in the western world.
Not a fan of the serial killers in general, but definitely respect the work you've put into this one. Still great for those who enjoy this kind of thing.
In high school we read a collection of short stories by Robert Louis Stevenson. Featuring the story, "The Body Snatcher." About guess what. And then there is an episode of TV's "Night Gallery," also about body snatching. The "Night Gallery" is the better version. At least to me. But the best short story featuring characters based on these two is by Harlan Ellison. Can't remember the title, but the body snatchers are only incidental, because the story is really about a woman with a very special set of eyes. Eyes that enable her to see the moment of a person's death. Strangely enough, this made her a target of rich, bored thrill seekers, who wanted to try those eyes for themselves. And if you don't mind a spoiler alert (SPOILER ALERT!!!).............................
-the ending is actually a happy one. Unusual for Harlan Ellison. Though perhaps a better word would be, a just one. Not unusual for Ellison.
This episode lends even more credence to the theory that Jack the Ripper may have been a doctor studying how the organs worked in a live person...his subjects being prostitutes no one would miss...
A great surprise! The Edinburgh Dungeon has a room dedicated to the Burke and Hare murders for visitors.
They really do use the "Disneyland" concept for their attractions, don't they?😅
@@christineparis5607 Never been to Disnyeland, so I can't say. I do know that it was fun though.
@@HobbiesofaVampire
Growing up in California in the 60s, Disneyland was a second home to me. I actually had my very first death experience while staying at the Disneyland hotel as a four or five year old. I was chasing my sister around the pool while my dad read the paper. He didn't notice that I had slipped off into the deep end and was drowning. My older sister jumped in to save me, but she couldn't swim either. Someone finally noticed and I came to barfing water poolside while ten people slapped my back, head, shoulders whatever they could reach. My mom, even though she heard the heavily revised version of why dad was not actually watching us, as he had been deputized to do, pretty shrewdly guessed the scenario and made my dads life a living hell for awhile. He meant well, but never learned because only two years later, while hiking a dormant, but still alive volcanoes at Lassen National park, he accidentally let me slip at the edge of the cone and only barely caught me by the back of my jacket while my feet hung over the edge of boiling mud....it was great....
@@christineparis5607 Oh, I'm sorry. That wasn't what I meant. I thought you were referring to the kinds of attractions and rides at Disneyland and their quality.
OMG! I loved this segment in Brainfood! It's one of those subjects that I love listening to over and over. ^_^
Great channel Simon!!! Very interesting stuff 😃😃
fantastic video as always!
Whoa! £500 back then was quite an amount difficult to resist. I can imagine the undertaker with a relative who wanted just "one last look" at their loved one, coming up with all manner of reasons this wasn't for the best...🤦🏻♀️ I think it will not be easy to get that museum of Hunter's work to give up that exhibit. Sad but true 😕
As a scottie lass I'm already familiar with the tale of these mad boiz yet I'm still watching these awesome documentaries about them
Very interesting! As always!
"Ressurectionist : A robber of literally the lowest sort, one who steals from carrion worms. One who steals from the grave and sells to the young doctor that which the old doctor supplied the mortician." - Bierce
The show Lore on Amazon Prime told this story really well in season 2.
@Starr Child Me too. The Cleary episode made me feel so sad. I believe in the fae.
Great video, and the pacing seems better than in others of your vids that I've watched recently. I felt like I could breathe and absorb the information during the pauses for "chapter breaks". I love your longer presentations because you give good value and do solid research, though it's useful to deliver your wisdom as a stream rather than an avalanche. Thumbs up several times!
"Anatomy In The Uk", hahaha!!! Pun non intended, but that one killed me!
Great video as always.
Great channel with lots of interesting stories. How about the great Pharaos like Rameses II ? Or some composers like Mahler and Shostakovitch ?
Love your channel but just gotta say, Tye-Rone and Ar-Ma (sorry, I'm Irish!)
Dau-her-tee. Ga-la-her. There's loads. Im not mad about patriotism or the language but I'll get my back up for some reason. Its just game banter i guess!
I was listening to this while doing some stuff around my apartment, and I came clear across the room to sit down and go to the comment section to say "It's bloody Tye-Rone and Ar-MAH, you feckin eejit!"
It's leviOsa not leviosA
oh perry
@DigsNWhoosh here man, paddy is a word the English used against us, back during the "no black, no dogs, no irish" signs. Not really too big a deal nowadays, but its still moatly only used in negative connotations (like plastic paddy).
Just a heads up, no big deal. Try not to use that word is all
i was hoping you would do this one
You should made a biography on Britain's most violet prisoner, Charles Bronson
NightstalkerBTK Always thought he was purple😀
Absolute mad lads
The murder of "Joseph" was re-enacted by Boris Karloff in The Body Snatcher (1945) when he suffocated Bela Lugosi (playing a rather dim character named Joseph. Karloff even sings the Burke & Hare song. Great movie.
That portrait of knox looks like he's working on a prototype winter soldier arm
Edit: Burke later used the ol' "breaking the bat" technique on the kid.
Being from Nicaragua I would like to see any of these:
Rubén Darío - Poet and diplomat who is considered the "Prince of Castilian Letters" and undisputed father of the modernism literary movement.
William Walker: American born filibuster who attempted to take over Latin America and who usurped the Presidency of Nicaragua in 1856.
August C Sandino - Fought the US Marines who withdrew out of the country and whose name is used as by the socialist movement that toppled the 40 year family dictatorship that had him killed.
Thanks for the consideration and keep up the great work!
just got home from edinburgh and there’s actually a tour that goes through the close (now it’s like underground) where they killed their victims. if you’re ever there, i’d highly recommend checking it out :)
One could say they were... absolute mad lads....
Absolute mad lads.
The word 'Navvy' is pronounced N-a-vvy not n-A(ay)-vvy as it is the shortened form of navigator or navigational engineer.
it's pronounced Na-Vi (Navvies), 1 shilling = 5 pence, £7 10s = £7.50, another great video :)
One shilling was equal to 12 pence. Twenty shillings comprised a pound. There were 240 pence to the pound.
Don't get me wrong I love this channel and I am genuinely ecstatic when a new notification email hits my inbox but are you guys just picking up the best from Count Dankula's mad lad series? :P
I had never heard of this Count person before today and neither had the writer. Maybe Simon had, I don't know. -Shell
@@Biographics Ah it doesn't matter. This is just I think the third time you guys have did a similar topic after he has, Mad Jack Church Hill on today I found out, shoko yasahara and now these guys. Not complaining at all heard a more serious take on it is fantastic
Very interesting video
Edinburgh was leading the world in those days, medicine without question, it was *a* global leader also in technology and many sciences like physics.
Excellent, I'm elderly, Scottish from Edinburgh, but live in Argentina. So obviously know about Burke and Hare. You should also do others from Edinburgh, such as the Porteous riots, and the Blue Blanket, mob rule, that would also be very interesting, especially for people who know nothing about it. Keep up the good work, 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
There are a few film adaptations of this duo’s life - Simon Pegg is in one 🙂
Really good content. If you go to Edinburgh, they talk about these crimes in a tour of the city.
Thank you .
GRUESOMELY amazing.
Little do people know the real Invasion of the Body Snatchers happened decades ago.
Great video.
All I can think though, is I need to rewatch "I sale the dead". Great movie, and a very funny take on a grusome buseness.
You should do murder mystery crimes more often!!!
Great video. Just finished watching billy the kid video as well. Will you ever do a video on Jesse James? Would love to see that. Keep up the great work.
I was just wondering as a suggestion, bios on the trio Mary, Percy Shelly and Lord Byron. Truly intriguing people.
Preserving the body in whisky for 3 months....ah, found my final resting place. Guess it’s time to get started.
I love your videos
There’s an inner thing in every man,
Do you know this thing my friend?
It has withstood the blows of a million years,
And will do so to the end.
It was born when time did not exist,
And it grew up out of life,
It cut down evil’s strangling vines,
Like a slashing searing knife.
It lit fires when fires were not,
And burnt the mind of man,
Tempering leadened hearts to steel,
From the time that time began.
It wept by the waters of Babylon,
And when all men were a loss,
It screeched in writhing agony,
And it hung bleeding from the Cross.
It died in Rome by lion and sword,
And in defiant cruel array,
When the deathly word was ‘Spartacus’
Along the Appian Way.
It marched with Wat the Tyler’s poor,
And frightened lord and king,
And it was emblazoned in their deathly stare,
As e’er a living thing.
It smiled in holy innocence,
Before conquistadors of old,
So meek and tame and unaware,
Of the deathly power of gold.
It burst forth through pitiful Paris streets,
And stormed the old Bastille,
And marched upon the serpent’s head,
And crushed it ‘neath its heel.
It died in blood on Buffalo Plains,
And starved by moons of rain,
Its heart was buried in Wounded Knee,
But it will come to rise again.
It screamed aloud by Kerry lakes,
As it was knelt upon the ground,
And it died in great defiance,
As they coldly shot it down.
It is found in every light of hope,
It knows no bounds nor space
It has risen in red and black and white,
It is there in every race.
It lies in the hearts of heroes dead,
It screams in tyrants’ eyes,
It has reached the peak of mountains high,
It comes searing ‘cross the skies.
It lights the dark of this prison cell,
It thunders forth its might,
It is ‘the undauntable thought’, my friend,
That thought that says ‘I’m right!’
- Bobby Sands
Best way to suggest a poet!
Exactly who we want to see next!
Do it, make the vid! JUST DO IT, SIMON!
❤️❤️❤️
@@suzannewilliam-james9744 We need that video made ASAP.
There is now a 1960's grey office block built on the old site of William Hares lodging house. Just off Lady Lawson street / west port Edinburgh.
The 2010 Burke and Hare movie was hilarious. Simon Pegg and Andy Serkis played the mains and a lot of other good actors too. Also quite liked the 1972 version as well.
Weirdly enough, i love your crime videos.
Knowing Burke and hare came from my home country one town down the road from me is both amazing and scary
There's an old Boris Karloff movie that reminds me of this.
"The Body Snatcher," based on the story by Robert Louis Stevenson - which was, in turn, inspired by the history of Burke and Hare.
Being a Scottish crininology student im familair witht this story but this has to be the best video ive seen on it yet. Keep up the great eork 👍
Simon pls make one about Jose Rizal. Thank you
Burke & Hare > the early NHS?
It might not be the case anymore but a few years ago when I went to Edinburgh Anatomy Museum that they only allow viewings of Burkes skeleton a few times of the year.
Absolutely fascinating place to visit and learn of medical history over the years
Madness turn mad. Nice work. Would be interesting to hear from you of Siegmund Freud and Karl Gustav Jung.
Very interesting! Thank you.
Hey dude, congratulations on your channels' successes. I could see you giving encouraging heartwarming life advice akin to Mr Rogers, instead of just narrating the lives of murderers.
"Bastard verdict"! Had to laugh at that!😁
Hell hath no fury for what’s to come to those who commit such atrocities ...
Simon! Have you done the biography on James Whitey Bulger, yet? I know there's plenty of material out there on him but I want to see it done by Biographics!
Ur grate at what u do
Freud next please... Love the videos!
Just watch the film about him and Jung. The one with Keira Knightley. You'll learn everything you never wanted to know...
What’s the name?
Embarked on one of the most gruesome killing sprees...
„Oh God“
...In the History..
„Oh no“
...of Scotland.
„Oh, ok. doesn’t sound that bad now“
This is extreme;y terrifying to me it could have happened to me. I have no family and I live alone and they could have done this to me and nobody would have noticed. How could they have been so cruel. If you don't have any money anybody can do anything to you they want. I hope there are good people out there in the world who look out for the marginalized people.
I saw Burke and Hare movie with Simon Pegg and Andy Serkis.
That movie was totally crazy. It was comedy with lots of dark humour.
And with a Proclaimers song at the end.
We must know what happened to the Burke skin pocketbook
its on display in the surgeons hall museum in edinburgh. i saw it last year
Absolute mad lads...
Please do a video about Hideki Tōjō
“As he was now a pariah of the Scottish medical world, he later moved to London” 🤣
Mild jump scare alert for headphone and earphone users @ 5:47
Also, there's a good laugh when Simon tries to say "Authorities," @ 13:58 / 13:59 it's stupid to point out, but it made me giggle :3
Oddly enough, Burke and Hare "appear" as wax figures in an hour-long episode of the original "Twilight Zone" series entitled "The New Exhibit". Not surprisingly, they were joined by Jack the
If you ever visit Edinburgh there’s a museum with books and things that they made out of human skin. Pretty gruesome but also cool
Down the close an up the stair
But n Ben wiv Burke & Hare
Burke is the butcher, Hare is the thief
Knox is the man who buys the beef
Anon street tale of B & H