Famous Remains: The Story of Three Cadavers
HTML-код
- Опубликовано: 1 окт 2024
- The strange story of what happened to three famous people, Oliver Cromwell, Catherine Parr and George 'Big Nose' Parrot, after they had shuffled off their mortal coil, illustrates our convoluted history of, and reaction to, mortal remains.
This is original content based on research by The History Guy. Images in the Public Domain are carefully selected and provide illustration. As very few images of the actual event are available in the Public Domain, images of similar objects and events are used for illustration.
Certain photos courtesy the Carbon County Museum, Rawlins Wyoming: www.carboncoun...
You can purchase the bow tie worn in this episode at The Tie Bar:
www.thetiebar....
All events are portrayed in historical context and for educational purposes. No images or content are primarily intended to shock and disgust. Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Non censuram.
Find The History Guy at:
Facebook: / thehistoryguyyt
Patreon: / thehistoryguy
Please send suggestions for future episodes: Suggestions@TheHistoryGuy.net
The History Guy: History Deserves to Be Remembered is the place to find short snippets of forgotten history from five to fifteen minutes long. If you like history too, this is the channel for you.
Subscribe for more forgotten history: / @thehistoryguychannel .
Awesome The History Guy merchandise is available at:
teespring.com/...
Script by THG
#history #thehistoryguy #cadaver
Some years ago, I was one of a group of Scout Leaders invited to take tea with the Dean of Windsor after a service in St George's chapel in Windsor Castle. Sitting around an ancient, scarred, oak table in his apartments, we were treated to sandwiches, strawberries and cream and being a young 'history guy' I commented on the historic setting in which the Dean lived. He happily revealed that the table from which we ate had been used to carry the beheaded body of Charles 1st from the scaffold. I peered closely at the dark stains in absolute awe😁
🤢
Don't lie; you licked the table, didn't you?
C*O*O*L!!!
@@crazybarryfamwhat?!
"Shuffled off their mortal coil" ... Monty Python "Dead parrot sketch" came to mind, great phraseology.
If you hadn't nailed him to his perch he'd be pushing up the daisies...
@@TheHistoryGuyChannel He most certainly was an "ex-Parrot", not merely pining for the fjords....
Love the Parrot sketch, but “mortal coil” is from Shakespeare... Hamlet. (I had to look it up to make sure...)
I never wanted to be a pet shoppe owner...
I thought it was sleeping
There are also some other odd happenings with bodies. One is Elmer McCurdy. He was also an old outlaw in the Old West. His body was on display in the undertaker's office because no one claimed him. Then he toured the county as a sideshow attraction before coming to an amusement park in CA. There he was discovered by accident when filming an episode of the Million Dollar Man. He spent more time above ground dead than alive. Another interesting one is William Quantrill who was a guerilla warfare leader during the Civil War against the Union. He has three graves in three different states with body parts in all three. I have visited these graves myself. They certainly have a story worth telling as well!
I remember that! I think he was found in The Pike amusement area of downtown Long Beach Ca.. Sadly long gone, but it was still around when I attended Long Beach State University. That story, or even one about The Pike, once one of many old seaside resorts in California (most of which are gone now) would make another good story for The History Guy.
@@briane3657 He should do it although there are some videos on him on youtube! ;)
McCurdy was the one I was rooting for in first place .
Long roll McCurdy…. ;)
I sent an email to Caitlin Doughty of A Good Death fame. Interested in seeing what she would have to say about it. Maybe a future collaboration between The History Guy and Caitlin?
Hannibal Lecter: "I must visit that museum in Wyoming, need some new ideas for some old friends."
A couple of quibbles: The Wars of the Three Kingdoms wasn't 'a phase of the English Civil Wars'- its an alternative term for them that accurately reflects the fact that fierce fighting occurred in Scotland and Ireland as well (also Wales, but for historical reasons, Wales was considered part of the Kingdom of England). Also Cromwell wasn't the only person to sign Charles I's death warrant- 59 people in all signed it. Cromwell just came in for particular attention as he made himself dictator in the King's stead. Charles II originally promised an amnesty for the surviving regicides, but quickly went back on his word and had as many of those surviving killed as he could. As well as those executed for treason in England, several of those who fled abroad to escape Charles were assassinated by his spies or fanatical royalists.
Technically, there is a distinction between coffins and caskets. The steel boxes sold by funeral homes today are caskets.
Coffins are more fun this time of year. They are the 6-sided boxes which were popular for burial, usually associated with the 19th century. Dracula sleeps in a coffin.
Holly Martins was told that Harry Lime was taken away in a coffin but this was a mistake on the part of Karl, the porter.
Hey, these are stories that belong on Caitlin Doughty's "Ask A Mortician" channel! See her "Iconic Corpse" series. Maybe there's an opportunity for some collaboration?
@Starr Child, you're literally correct: the stories aren't owned by anyone. But Ask A Mortician is a great channel for content on death and treatment of the dead after death. These stories would be appropriate fare on her channel, and there could be a great opportunity for The History Guy and Ask A Mortician to collaborate on telling more of the stories of these people.
Hell
@@TheTwinangels, huh? What is that comment supposed to mean?
@@johndemeritt3460
Google
Caitlin Doughty
Ask a Mortician
@@davidlium9338, been there, done that, and subscribed. Ask A Mortician is one of our favorite RUclips Channels, and we've watched most (though probably not quite all) of her content.
I still think a collaboration between The History Guy and Ask A Mortician: Caitlin recently did a collaboration with Dr. Emily Zarka on PBS Digital's Monstrum regarding The Grim Reaper. It was great! Even if they never mentioned Grim from The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy . . . .
The section on Big Nose George made my morning. I'm from Wyoming and am very familiar with the story. One of my favorite newspaper quotes from that era came from the report of the lynching by Bill Nye of the Laramie Boomerang:
"A letter written from the east and addressed to this office asks if we can give any information as to the whereabouts of Big Nose George. We cannot give any definite information, but the last seen of him he was standing on a flour barrel near a telegraph pole, and a man with a stopwatch was standing near him and preparing to kick the flour barrel from under him. It is thought that the man with abnormal nasal protuberance has gone somewhere by telegraph."
Bill Nye is related to the science guy.
The American WW2 Submarine USS Tang and Richard H. O'Kane might would make a good video for you.
Humans are weird...
Great video once again. I grew up in Wyoming, and lived in Rawlins (Carbon County) in the 90's. I have heard these stories of Big Nose George many times, and have seen these "artifacts" in the Carbon County Museum.
The shoes made from the skin from 'Big Nose' must have been on loan to the Riverton, WY museum, because I remember seeing them on a school field trip around thirty years ago.
I don't often post things anymore. That being said I love your show and your presentation is awesome. I can tell you were a salesperson you have a silver tongue LOL. You get right to the heart of each matter and everything that I've known or done research on myself you have been 100% accurate. Thank you and thanks to mrs. History guy also ! 👍😃
Your style and presentation seems so much like CBS Sunday Morning, why have they not brought you in for weekly historical recaps? Would be epic. Great work as always.
I eagerly await their call...
@@TheHistoryGuyChannel Over to you #CBSSunday make it happen! This guy is fantastic.
And now the REST of the history...!
@@TheHistoryGuyChannel Please no! I'd like to think you have too much integrity to work for that outfit.
@@TheHistoryGuyChannel I agree with terry boyer. You're too good for CBS. What would you do if CBS told you to re-write history to fit their political agenda?
Our Final Jeopardy answer is...
"He was capable of holding,... pencils, cigarette ashes and a door open.. using only, the top of his head."
Underrated comment here lol
Well, as soon as he bragged about the murders, he WAS in jeopardy, sooo...
A comment on celebrity as much as anything. Give an excited crowd the body of any notorious modern celebrity, and you might see something equally bizarre.
Woo hoo #1
Katharine Parre caught the eye of Henry VIII? Why, did it fall out?
"I lost my husband this last week." "Did you look behind the couch?"
"To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune, to lose both looks like carelessness'. Oscar Wilde
I believe Henry the Eighth had a falling out with many of his wives...and the Catholic church... and France...
Divorced, Beheaded, Died,
Divorced, Beheaded, Survived
@@bretthess6376 I've heard of chicks losing their heads over guys, but damn...
@@emilyadams3228 Henry Tudor was ambitious....
He wanted to get ahead in life....
And he didn't care whose they were.
Aren't we naughty bunnies, though?
Tsk, tsk
I guess that Mr Parrot had a sole after all. Two of them in fact.
He left big shoes to fill.
George Parrot strikes me as a bit of a heel, actually....
Ya think he was Shoe-ish?
Cromwell's head sure got a-round...
A-ha! A roundhead, I see what you did there. Good one.
Clown
Would haved liked to been in that bar
@@paulherzog9605 Yer pint would've had a good head on it.
I mean, the last guy was still being useful there at the end.
Doors do need to be stopped...
@@TheHistoryGuyChannel And ashes do need to be trayed.
Good point. Being a pair of shoes is a very fitting end.
His head (or at a least part of it) was perhaps more useful in death than it ever was in life.
@@eugenetswong So, George 'Big Nose' Parrot, had a sole after all. :-)
We should not BURY this sort of knowledge, its history that deserved to be remembered. ;)
That is why I pick over the bones of history...
Y'all're gonna be the death of me!
@@TheHistoryGuyChannel Forgetting it would be a GRAVE error.
This is history to die for...if that isn't too grave a statement to make.
@@6point5by55 careful with c19 around you dont want people COFIN on you.
The most wholesome RUclipsr
That would be John Townsend.
Good old Wyoming, can't find a tree when ya need one...
I love the story about Jeremy Bentham's cadaver. Also a quite interesting one as well.
Sometime in the future for a Halloween store you might do the history of Thieves oil. It was a combination of natural oils that during the Black Death that thieves claimed work while they were digging up the dead and robbing the rich. Quite a fascinating story. Keep up the great work
lol when I saw THC I thought this dude smoked weed
Thank you
Fascinating Episode, the tale of Big Nose Parrot reminds me of a documentary shown on the BBC sometime in the 1980's (I think) concerning the discovery of the remains of an outlaw who was embalmed after his death and who ended up in a ghost train and was discovered whilst a film crew were filming an episode of the Six Million Doller Man. I can't remember the outlaw's name or the circumstances of his death but as a post script to your episode I thought you may be interested.
Elmer McCurdy. Two movies and a long career in a funhouse! He was more successful in death than he was in life!
Remember seeing that on television seems people thought he was a wood carving.
Elmer McCurdy is his name. He was above the ground dead longer than he was above the ground alive. I have been to his grave as well as William Quantrill. He is another odd one with three graves in three states and body parts in all three.
I hope it was after his death that he was embalmed; the alternative would be rather gruesome.
Many thanks for the information. One thing which has come to mind is that his remains were toxic as the embalming fluid at the time contained arsenic!
John Bradshaw is my ancestor, our branch of the family decided to change the name after his posthumous execution to distance themselves from him. They removed 1 whole letter!!!
Our family had a tif over something years ago and some of them are now Logsdon’s (my parents’ line) and some of them are Longsdons. They also subtracted one letter.
Might put you on a different page of the phone book, at least!
He got married to the widow next door and she’d been married 7 times before he’s Henry the 8 th he is he is. Second verse same as the first
Ah good ole Herman's Hermits!!!
Little bit louder little bit worse
The little skulls on the bowtie made my day.
These 3 stories have a high halloween atmosphere about them. I see an Edgar Allen Poe's The Raven setting :-)
No. "The Tell-tale Heart" maybe . . .
Nah, he did a Poe-themed video once, & it flopped, so he said "Nevermore."
Very interesting! Thank you! and I don't know if you have already spoke about 1933 Soviet Ukraine where the people were so hungry they resorted to cannibalism? It's referred to as Holodomor. And the knowledge of what was going on was suppressed by the soviet government for decades. The victims almost never get spoken about and I just think they deserve to be remembered
Don't all good stories involve cadavers?
Should do a cross over with Ask a Mortian, Icon Corpses.
Great video..One small point. In usage here in England the letter c in proboscis is silent but clearly American usage differs.
Also Sudeley Castle in Gloucestershire is pronounced "SOODLY"
🤔About 4:30 I was expecting an "Alas, poor Oliver..."😺
"Ruffians and Drunkards"? Na, England haste nar to see such a fellow.
We tend to want to make the treatment of the corpse either our last loving statement or our last revenge--very little in the middle.
I really appreciate the little windows into life you bring us. Please do a story on the lost / misplaced remains of the great naval hero John Paul Jones and his eventual return to America.
The body of this content is head over heels over history and is to be dissected into other things that deserve to be remembered.
Autopsy-Turvy
Da dum tsss.
Your segments never fail to inform and entertain...To you I say...🖖👍B💪...
I love this show! Keep up the great work History Guy! Thank you.
One more subject we can lay to rest.
Hi 🙋♀️ this is a really nice 👍🏻
Dear THG, could you possibly include captions on your content? My husband and I have hearing impairment. It seems that most of your recent episodes have "unavailable" captioning. We love your channel and don't want to miss anything. 🤓
His "Oranges and Forgotten History", about 3 days ago, had captions! Yay!
Oliver Cromwell is my 10 greats uncle. ...Warts & all!
Richard Rich is back there in my line, so I’ve read. I suppose it could well be inaccurate, but... it figures.
We are related to anyone if you go back far enough.
There are many wild stories about how people were buried in past centuries. Look at the composer Chopin, his corpse rest in Pere Lachaise Cem. (Not far from Jim Morrison) but they buried his heart in Warsaw in his family's plot. Guess it wasn't uncommon back then. Personally I'm waiting to hear that someone is selling Soylent Green at Safeway's... If you've seen that classic SF movie dealing with the question of corpses ☺️
It is ironic that the most celebrated composer of all time was buried in a mass grave. His music lives on and many stories have been written about him. The cause of his death is the source of many of the tales about him. The strange death and burial of W.A. Mozart is also history worth remembering.
I believe Mozart's remains were found several years back during the digging of a foundation for a building. He was positively I.D.d by genetic comparison to known relatives. It was determined he died of botulism from spoiled pickled pork, along with hundreds of other people.
Girl Outings Today: Let's take some Instagram photos that make use look like models.
Girl Outings In The Past: Hey, is that a coffin? Let's dig it up and see whose inside.
The Roman Catholic Church did that quite a lot too, digging up the buried remains of folks that had passed (sometimes in terms of years or decades) to be burned at the stake, for heresy or perhaps something that they might have called 'heresy.' In Galileo Galilei's case, while he was not burned at the stake for being a Heretic, he did spend the last years under house arrest. Turned out that this case of 'heresy,' according to several PBS' NOVAs and also a number of PBS documentaries, was in fact a proven case of being 'pretty smart.' Might be a lesson or two in there... somewhere?
it's the third video without subtitles (auto generated), it's a pity, it helps a lot non native english speakers.
the litteral translation of "after they had shuffled off their mortal coil," in french is hilarious : after they switched off their mortal bobbins
Subtitles are enabled on our end. They sometimes take a while to generate.
@@TheHistoryGuyChannel Thank you.
The old Wyoming state prison museum is definitely worth a visit, if you ever find yourself in Rawlins. (Most people just tear through on the interstate--and for good reason--but it gets closed by bad weather on a pretty regular basis. Get supper at Anong's Thai restaurant while you're in town :P )
I thoroughly enjoyed the 'bits' of history presented in this story as well as your skull and crossbones bow tie. Very fitting.
So mobs grabbed all types of people for hanging, not just certain ones like they're trying to teach my kids at school.
I-80 already exists between New York and Detroit...
I thought I had clicked on Caitlin Doughty's channel.
According to Caitlin of the RUclips "Ask a Mortician", people used to perform home burials, even had photographs taken of, AND WITH, loved ones, In various cultures around the world, even today, some keep the remains of their dear departed in their own homes, FOREVER, to be displayed and loved, just as in life. She has a fascinating channel all about death and burial traditions in the United States and around the world. Things like the Jewish, and other religions, custom of rapid burial of an un-embalmed deceased to the lavish steel coffin in a concrete mausoleum of some sects. (As explained, this does NOT keep the body in a lifelike persona, but simply causes the body to decompose at a reduced rate, eventually to break down as much as any one simply thrown into a pauper's grave would.
Personally, both my wife and myself elected to be cremated after we pass, so as to; one - not leave an expensive debt on our children, and two - to not take up valuable land with an ever-increasing number of dead needing a "resting place". Cremation limits your remains to a couple of pounds of DNA-Free sterile bone dust and chips. (In fact, someone wanting to confirm that the "ashes" in an urn were those of his dear mother, tried to have a DNA match performed on them was disappointed when they turned out to be DNA-Free after the cremation.) She has even had a TED Talk about her show.
To me, death is as fascinating as life. I watch her show as often as I do yours, (at least once a week.)
Hey @TheHistoryGuy - check out Ask a Mortician. She's done some great stuff on famous corpses in history (as well as just being awesome and informative).
One of my favorite cadaver stories has to do with Colonel William Shy. Killed during the Battle of Nashville during the Civil War his remains "reemerged" over a century later and helped lead to the development of modern forensic science and body farms.
More like history that deserves to be dismembered.
Famous Remains. Iconic Corpses you could say.
Last night I took some pictures in an old house from the 1800'a and I haven't looked throuh all the pics yet but I know I have one ghost picture so far. It was taken on the second floor I an old bathroom.
Looking in the window is a guy or a women eighter in a suite or dress I can see what looks like two arms and the hands seem to be holding a necklace and you really can see the left eye looking very sternly at the cammra as it staires at me, the right eye is a round blur. I put the picture on my screen 😁
Outstanding! I would love to see it! I have seen ghosts in at least four different occasions. I have also had a variety of "paranormal" experiences. Please contact me. Don't worry, while my shoes are made of leather, it does not come from large-nosed outlaws.
More evidence that cremation is the best way to go! (Cue "Dust in the Wind", by Kansas).
I think I hear a 327 Turbo-Fire in the distance... or is it a 502?
Ewwwww.
MT he should of caught on main Street ,,BOZEMAN
Big Georg
His shoes skin are still their
CNR of black and main Street
Well, Halloween is only 10 days away, so....thanks for the creepy vibes!
Pleeeeeeease do a collaboration with Ask A Mortician when you can!
Just too good.....like all excellent history teachers, you are a great storyteller (raconteur??)
🎼The things you do for love 🎼of History Guy and History Gal. And your little cat too!
I wonder if History Guy locks the door now so that History Cat cannot make cameo appearances? I miss the Cat!
Thank you.
This is amazing. I had no idea that this had happened. I always thought that Charles II had dealt with the living regicides only.
wow... those folks realy took revenge seriously!!
How terribly disrespectful people were to Queen Catherine’s remains. Those were adults, playing with her body. Bizarre.
This was around the same time as when wealthy people ate/ingested mummies, so I’d certainly believe it
You forgot to mention the story about Elmer J. McCurdy.
those shoes are so much worse than even his skull as an ashtray. Better than any of a wide variety of deaths, of course, since he was beyond caring. But still, human leather. iiiccckkk And _wearing_ it. Bit of a taboo in my culture, that's for sure
Finally! Someone in RUclips pronouncing macabre properly
I got a speeding ticket on I80 heading East in carbon county. Don’t worry it was an 83 in a 55
Why do you have a skull? Who is it? Where did you get it?
It is a Halloween prop made of Styrofoam.
Wow, that was a strange but interesting episode! Thanks Professor!
In England for many years, the corpse of muderer's were given to the antomists for disection. Also , missed a point here, Pirates! They were hung in chains to deter others.
Today's History Guy has been sponsored by Nike: when you have a hankerin' for criminal-skin shoes, you don't ask for permission: you JUST DO IT!
thanks
St. Louis local here. So happy I found this channel ❤️
Ed Gein approves of this video.
And, there is the comment i knew I'd see!
First Big Nose Cate and now Big Nose George, i beat them all History Guy! ;)
Im not even joking either, check the avatar baby
This has got to be one of the best sites on RUclips. It's great !
Did you see his video about the B-25 bomber that crashed into the middle of the Empire state building yet???;)
It happened in 1945
...nothing to lose your head over, is it?
We all get our turn in the box, we just hope it is later rather than sooner.
Leave it to a democrat to wear human skin shoes.
Greetings from nova Scotia, thank you for another great video. I never miss any of your videos, I rarely comment...this video, more so perhaps than others highlight what a BORN teacher you are, I am thankful for the time you put into your videos,and the talent you kindly share with us,the " maxim manus lavet "
Remember things like this the next time someone mentions people having respect for others "in the old days."
Yes, like most things, it varies.
I'm sure you hear it all the time but a podcast in your manner would be one of the most amazing pieces of media conceived.
In the works
@@TheHistoryGuyChannel Incredible, I know what I'm telling my Co-Workers about today!
I work at a medical device company, where parts of cadavers of those who have donated their bodies to science, are used to train doctors.
I believe this channel has done a video on use of cadavers in a medical setting in the past, and how those bodies are attained.
History that deserves to be dismembered.
Lets be honest tho, those shoes were niiiice
@ Ash Lilburne, with a name like Ash Lilburne, I’d have thought you would much prefer the skull cap! 🤷♂️😂
@@Aaron_Hanson/videos We don't see quality cigarette related humor like that enough these days
🤣, you are so wrong for that .
In the times of Catherine , one shoe would have used his nose for the shoe tip . The other , well its not a perfect match but I would assume close . But on cold days , the other shoe would have nearly disappeared .
The variety of topics covered on this channel is staggering! It's one of the many reasons why I love it so much!
The new Paul Harvey. Thank you!
"shuffled off their mortal coils" - I'm dead...