I’m in NYC and very much aware of Rikers violence, paperwork that guards deliberately sent in after deadline passed. Crazy to think and a list of other stuff through the years. Rikers is a dreaded word here. Yet this version of Rikers is the Kinder, Gentle version. Lol. Yes. Ppl need to know why it’s still called “the tombs”
I first heard of Hart Island when I went down a Disney rabbit hole. Bobby Driscoll, Peter Pan's model and voice actor, is buried there. Child stars often live tragic lives, but his is among the saddest to me. I'm surprised there isn't a book or movie about his life.
Ask a mortician also talked about Hart Island in her video on "Handling the Coronavirus Dead in New York." If anyone else is interested in learning more about the subject of what to do with the deceased during a pandemic. I know that mass trench burials bring up unpleasant images for people. But, it was interesting to learn why they are necessary at times, without sensationalizing the practice.
I'll endorse this rec. Caitlin handles the topic with her trademark respectful humor, making the heavy topic much more ingestible. I love how much her content reminds me of the high-quality documentaries from way back in the day.
I knew I have heard about this island and now that you mentioned Caitlin I remembered. Also, now I am dreaming of a Dark History/ Ask a Mortician collab🤞
Would you ever do an episode on underground cities around the US? There’s one under Indianapolis and one under Seattle, but there’s a lot more of them. I think you’d find it interesting.
@@amykitchen6602 Yeah! There’s lots of them around the US! You can even take tours for the one in Indianapolis, and I’m sure many others offer tours as well.
The one in Seattle is actually called Seattle Underground. They built the current city on top of after the last really big earthquake not the Nisqually earthquake in 2001. I have lived in Bremerton for 36 years which is an hour ferry ride from Seattle. I have never been to Seattle Underground but I hear it’s okay but it’s also filled with a lot of homeless people as well. It’s a tourist attraction as well and there are supposedly shops there too.
Thank you for educating us, always. History has always been so boring to me but you’ve sparked a genuine sense of curiosity in us all. We love you, Queen.
It's so crazy to me learning about things like this, as someone who suffers with borderline personality disorder and has major 'episodes' and it's crazy to think that things like this could have been my reality and was for so many .
Fellow person with BPD here, I totally feel you. The mistreatment of the mentally ill and disabled throughout history is just sickening. Of course none of them were getting better, they weren't actually receiving help.
The story of the lady whose daughter died broke my heart. I lost my daughter 6 years ago late in my pregnancy. The trauma of that alone who beyond words, let alone then not being able to lay them to rest!! Completely disgraceful, I hope things are a little easier now she knows where she is.
I'm so sorry for your loss. Several months ago I lost my son 36yrs old to the fentynal epidemic after being clean for 5yrs. I'm in ohio and he was back home in Nevada. It was terrible not being able to say goodbye, kiss his head 😢. My daughter was on her way there (from ohio) to help her grandpa get his home health nurse ect set up. My brave strong girl had to identify and get him cremated. My bbf helped her. I can never repay either one for bringing my boy home to me.😢
I'm a new Yorker. The refrigerator trucks are practically synonymous with c19 to many of us. So is Heart Island. Thank you for covering this piece of NY dark history.
Watching this felt very surreal. We are actually living through this dark chapter of history, and it isn't over. Prayers for all the buried beloved in Hart Island, and I hope their families are given the closure they deserve.
Fun fact. My hubby & I own a tattoo shop and our daughter started learning at age 5. She has since decided to not continue but it was the sweetest thing to share with her. When she was in 4th grade she did a report on the history of tattooing & tattoo machines. My hubby has been tattooing for over 30 years & he’s never tattooed me. He also manufactures machines. This episode was awesome.
I withdrew from school while getting a masters in history because people treated me weird for trying to shed light on ACTUAL HISTORY. I was constantly given death glares for my “views.” Bailey you give me hope and have created a platform for sharing the dark and chaotic past of America. Love you for that
You should deep dive the mass grave in Canada, Bailey. The remains of more than 1,000 people, mostly children, have been discovered on the grounds of three former residential schools in two Canadian provinces since May. In late June, the remains of 751 people, mainly Indigenous children, were discovered at the site of a former school in the province of Saskatchewan, a Canadian Indigenous group said.
I've been a bit sad bc I'm working full hours and making my thesis at the same time, I just want to give up and sleep, you are one of the people that motivates me to keep going with all of this, thank you bailey❤
Being originally from New York I have heard of Hart Island, but even I never realized the full scope of how many bodies and horrors were going on there. Thanks for sharing this, and may those poor souls rest in peace and may their relations find comfort in finally eventually getting a chance to pay their respects.
I am so glad you did a Dark History episode on this island. I remember coming across the article mentioning the mass burial in the island. It was my 1st time learning about the mass burials. It was so heartbreaking hearing about the bodies that weren't claimed. RIP to all those people. 😢
day 3 of suggesting an episode about the OCEAN! i’d love to hear any stories you can dig up about crazy things that have been discovered under the sea or maybe bermuda triangle stuff 🫣🌊
You literally would’ve been my favorite teacher if you were one 💕 you keep me focused with your humor and the way you say things is literally how my brain interprets. I adore you and thank you for teaching us what school never did 🙏🏻
I still can't make up my mind if I get more excited for MM&M or Dark History! I love them both! As always you are a rockstar and stay true to you! Love you! ❤️🐝🌻❤️
Even though I knew the history of this island I still watch because, we’ll, it’s BAILEY! She makes history so much better. Oh, and the makeup today is 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
I spent so much of my childhood on City Island staring at what I thought was a cool little jungle across the water. It’s so crazy to learn about things like this
@baileysarian - Nellie Bly needs to be a Dark History subject. She wasn’t the darkness- but she exposed SO MANY horrific underbellies as one of the first female investigative reporters. Her topics would make an AWESOME episode!
I live in NYC and I remember walking past a hospital and seeing that big white truck for the bodies during Covid.. It literally scared the 💩💩 outta me no lie! Hart Island is known to us NYers we always knew thats where you end up if you're a John/Jane Doe. Another great vid girly!❤❤❤❤
I lost my daughter in a similar way. I remember just wanting to take her home but knowing there was a process and her body had to be released to the funeral home. I remember calling the hospital and them telling me her body was transported to the funeral home and me asking the man 5x was he sure and the calling the funeral home and making sure my baby was okay I had her cremated so she could come home. I’m crying 😢 just thinking about those moments and how devastated I would have been if my baby was just gone and I didn’t know where
After listening to the podcast I checked out the website for Hart Island and WOW. I can't lie, the website is very organized with the amount of deceased they have there. It was actually very surreal and moving
I have it open to look at...I'm just gobsmacked that NY ... the 'gleaming city that never sleeps', has no respect for the 'untouchables'... No one gave birth hoping to raise a homeless person. Somewhere their dream was derailed...It is not always entirely their own fault. Sometimes a bitter president, with the morals of a grifter make it impossible to get off the streets, when you're under 18, and both parents were carried off by a completely preventable 'covid19' pandemic....You can't trust the government. WE are the government....Kind of a catch 22...Then you realize nearly 32% of voters in America would continue in the direction of "every man for himself'...If you are weak, or disabled, then it is no fault of theirs if you die...It's Darwinism. I don't want to live by social darwinism. 68% of voting Americans have a strong sense, that if we allow the 38% to rule, we will continue to sink below the Second World Status we are (no national health plan that's viable, millions on the streets, everywhere)... I like to think humans have the same capacity to be empathetic, and compassionate, as monkeys do. When we know better, we do better... Do better New York.
@@utxdoniyou should go dig individual gravesites for everyone. Instead of telling others to do better, you should go and do better yourself. Lead by example. I want to see you out there with a shovel.
@@l.d.8697 What an odd response to someone clearly wanting the world to be a better place. How is one person going to do the job an entire city government can't handle. jesus.
Thank you so much for doing this episode! I worked the pandemic in NYC from March until May 2020. The hospital I was at had more resources than some of the others. What we experienced is beyond words. We had 11 refrigerated trucks behind our hospital alone, full. We ran out of essential medications to keep people sedated. We ran out of body bags. At peak in NYC, if you were a pulseless trauma of any age or a cardiac arrest from home, EMS was ordered to bring you to the coroner’s office because no hospital would accept you, we didn’t have the beds. The healthcare works I worked along side were incredible. The citizens of New York City never failed to cheer for us at shift change, every night I went into work. I worked COVID in other cities, I spoke to friends who traveled across the country, and we all say that what we experienced in NYC was unlike anything else. The truth needs exposed; what these people went through can’t be swept under the rug. I didn’t learn about the mass graves until I watched the documentary, The First Wave, on Hulu. If you haven’t seen it, watch it. I love your channel. Thanks again ❤️
I absolutely love the topics you bring to light, as tragic as they are. Hiding the past has brought nothing but ignorance. Keep hiding it, we're doomed to repeat it.
Fascinating as ever Bailey. Those poor babies, deceased adults, prisoners who had to work there and last but not least the bereaved. Something like the Ground Zero memorial would be appropriate and a centre truthfully documenting the island's history. Go Melinda!
TY Bailey for making my day💕, and for all you do for us all, ur soooo appreciated.😢 In 1986 my Grandma had a blood transfusion and died of Aids by 1989, so a lot of us at least been touched by an epidemic b4 this fkd pandemic. Every decade has life changing situations as far back as I remember, so we'll get thru it together😘💕💕
No matter the episode and no matter how deeply you dive it always Sparks my curiosity. Something about the episode or something you say reminds me of something else I've read or heard which makes me rabbit hole into something else. I adore everything you do. Stay safe!!!!
I am in upstate NY and I'll never forget them temporarily burying Covid victims. But we still required refrigerator trucks because bodies stacked up so quickly 😢. Such a horrific time in our lives.
It doesn't look like a heart 😅. I think it speaks volumes that inmates who buried the dead are the only ones (so far) who have been able to acknowledg that they are there with a monument. Almost as if the forgotten and marginalised, who have burried the forgotten and marginalised, want them to be remembered.
Many cemeteries all over the country have many unmarked graves. When I was researching my ancestry, I found that most cemeteries I contacted had my ancestors unmarked. Example: Dunmore Cemetery in Scranton, PA had family headstones, however individual burials from the 1800's & early 1900's had none. Seemed to be a common thing back then.
During times of great loss, (eg: pandemics, epidemics, war etc) they often would just do a family plot stone and not individual markers in many cemeteries. It was more economical for a family who was burying a handful of family members and still allowed people to know they were there, together.
I love the fact that after following your channel since a few years ago , you never change and always stay true to your heart. Thank you so much. I LOVE YOUR CHANNEL!!!!!
My uncle was sentenced to a life imprisonment at Rikers. He got out due to his extremely bad health and them not wanting to deal with his doctors visits and medication requirements. He talked about his friends on body detail, they're prisoners but they are people. It does affect them badly.
My ex boyfriend was on Rikers as a teenager and on burial detail. In the 70s they had the adolescents do the burials. He described some pretty horrifying sights.
I love you!!! Your one of the people you believe and stand up and get to the rabbit hole . Lol Listening to you is like listening to a friend..... Your an angel
Yes she would rock her own show on netflix. But so glad i can enjoy her right here on utube. I dont have any of the steaming services. Almost dont have a place to sit and watch her. Thank u baliey!1💜💜💜
I had the pleasure of visiting my baby at Hart Island in the fall of 2019. I too didn't know what happened to my baby after the hospital deeming her to be unviable, decided to let her "expire naturally" (Their words.)A school then took her body without my consent and placed her in a preserving liquid to study her. When my funeral home went to pick up her body, they told me her skin had been burned by the liquid and I would have to have a closed casket. Furious, I told the funeral home to do whatever they want with the body. My baby passed away on June 1st and was buried at the island in the month of October. I don't know what they did with her body during those months but I can guess. I am a member of the Hart Island Project and I LOVE the way they allow us to give dignity to our loved ones. Hart Island also takes bodies donated to science after schools and facilities are done with them. Thanks for another informative video!
My twin brothers were buried there. My poor mom has suffered for over 35 years wondering where they were buried. I was able to find out that it was at this island but no specific information.
I'm sorry for your loss and the injustice your family is going trough. I hope people can gather and maybe make the authority give the information or at least show the respect to the people buried on the island and families like yours.
So sorry that your mom had to suffer for so long not knowing where her children were buried at. I'm glad you were able to at least get a little bit of information to help her feel better. Too bad you weren't able to find out specific information.
Thank you. They have a database where you can search names, dates and so forth but they didn’t document where my brothers were buried. It was careless and cruel. They tossed them away like nothing.
@@mmbovilladardh that's awful. I'm glad you were at least able to bring your mom some peace that her twin boys are resting somewhere. You are a wonderful child (you may not be a literal child, but you are her child and I didn't want to say son or daughter since I wasn't sure which gender you are).
This story reminds me of the Island of Spinalonga near Crete, Greece. The islands has a long history and ended up as the place they would ban people with Leprosy to, hence the nickname of the island, The Island of the Living Dead. I visited the island years ago, it made a lasting impression on me.
My dad was a correction officer at Rikers Island from 1977 to 1998 and he said he has to go to Hart Island quite often to bury bodies inmates that had no family especially during the AIDS era
Loved this episode. Thank you for teaching us so much! I think a dark history episode on tuberculosis would be great! It's still a huge problem currently, but a lot of people don't know that.
A Dark History on SeaWorld would be amazing if you ever get the time! 😁❤️
YESSSSSSS
ditto!
Yes!
Please!!!!!!!!!
YESSS!
A Rikers Island episode would be so cool! Probably multi part since its got such a storied history
What happened in Doveland? Is it googlable? Ima look it up.
I’m in NYC and very much aware of Rikers violence, paperwork that guards deliberately sent in after deadline passed. Crazy to think and a list of other stuff through the years. Rikers is a dreaded word here. Yet this version of Rikers is the Kinder, Gentle version. Lol. Yes. Ppl need to know why it’s still called “the tombs”
And Alcatraz!
Yes agree
Been there did that,Lol 😅
Can you please do a dark history on the history of childbirth?
It’s fascinating and you always have the best facts!
Yes! All the way up to today where in America… black women are more likely to die during childbirth
Yes! The history of obstetrics especially is....😳 Thats what chainsaws were designed for. 😱
Absolutelyyyy
YESSSS
Yessssssss please
I first heard of Hart Island when I went down a Disney rabbit hole. Bobby Driscoll, Peter Pan's model and voice actor, is buried there. Child stars often live tragic lives, but his is among the saddest to me. I'm surprised there isn't a book or movie about his life.
Haven’t heard his story , time to do some research!! Thanks for this!!
Ask a mortician also talked about Hart Island in her video on "Handling the Coronavirus Dead in New York." If anyone else is interested in learning more about the subject of what to do with the deceased during a pandemic. I know that mass trench burials bring up unpleasant images for people. But, it was interesting to learn why they are necessary at times, without sensationalizing the practice.
I love Caitlin -- I'll go check that out. Thanks.
I'll endorse this rec. Caitlin handles the topic with her trademark respectful humor, making the heavy topic much more ingestible. I love how much her content reminds me of the high-quality documentaries from way back in the day.
I came here to see if anyone commented that bc I was like hold up I think Caitlin touched on this at one point.
i love caitlin!!!! ask a mortician fans are in the muthafricken chat
I knew I have heard about this island and now that you mentioned Caitlin I remembered.
Also, now I am dreaming of a Dark History/ Ask a Mortician collab🤞
My heart breaks for the forgotten people on Hart Island 😢
Would you ever do an episode on underground cities around the US? There’s one under Indianapolis and one under Seattle, but there’s a lot more of them. I think you’d find it interesting.
underground cities?!
@@amykitchen6602 Yeah! There’s lots of them around the US! You can even take tours for the one in Indianapolis, and I’m sure many others offer tours as well.
It’s how they transport children for trafficking purposes
I would love for Bailey to do a Dark History on underground towns or even just the streets that are underground.
The one in Seattle is actually called Seattle Underground. They built the current city on top of after the last really big earthquake not the Nisqually earthquake in 2001. I have lived in Bremerton for 36 years which is an hour ferry ride from Seattle. I have never been to Seattle Underground but I hear it’s okay but it’s also filled with a lot of homeless people as well. It’s a tourist attraction as well and there are supposedly shops there too.
If she had her own Netflix series I would binge watch everything of hers in a day and beg for more episodes lol 😂
Umm no don't support netflix
Yeah if watch it also
@@Lavendermoon77why not?
Would never pay Netflix a single cent.
@@lindakuhlman7776Kiki yo I’ll LDIipeeiiplds a
Thank you for educating us, always. History has always been so boring to me but you’ve sparked a genuine sense of curiosity in us all. We love you, Queen.
Same for me! I second this ❤
Same sorta, I love history but Bailey's team always finds the best things to cover!!
Bailey actually puts real effort into the sponsorships every time there is one. appreciation
This is so devastating, and heart breaking. The souls of the people on heart island deserve to be remembered.
It's so crazy to me learning about things like this, as someone who suffers with borderline personality disorder and has major 'episodes' and it's crazy to think that things like this could have been my reality and was for so many .
Fellow person with BPD here, I totally feel you. The mistreatment of the mentally ill and disabled throughout history is just sickening. Of course none of them were getting better, they weren't actually receiving help.
The story of the lady whose daughter died broke my heart. I lost my daughter 6 years ago late in my pregnancy. The trauma of that alone who beyond words, let alone then not being able to lay them to rest!! Completely disgraceful, I hope things are a little easier now she knows where she is.
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Peace and healing to you.
I’m so sorry for your loss ❤
I'm so sorry for your loss. Several months ago I lost my son 36yrs old to the fentynal epidemic after being clean for 5yrs. I'm in ohio and he was back home in Nevada. It was terrible not being able to say goodbye, kiss his head 😢. My daughter was on her way there (from ohio) to help her grandpa get his home health nurse ect set up. My brave strong girl had to identify and get him cremated. My bbf helped her. I can never repay either one for bringing my boy home to me.😢
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I'm a new Yorker. The refrigerator trucks are practically synonymous with c19 to many of us. So is Heart Island. Thank you for covering this piece of NY dark history.
Like how hard would it have been for New York to mark these graves?! My heart goes out to the family members.
I thought about that, but 150 years later, how impossible will it be to match them? They might have to do a million dna tests!
They should have burnt the bodies and named the ones they did know on a plaque.
like , I don't know, like how hard that would, like...be
Mark the graves of unknown people? How exactly?
And now they're gonna encourage people to stomp all over them too... for money
Watching this felt very surreal. We are actually living through this dark chapter of history, and it isn't over. Prayers for all the buried beloved in Hart Island, and I hope their families are given the closure they deserve.
Fun fact. My hubby & I own a tattoo shop and our daughter started learning at age 5. She has since decided to not continue but it was the sweetest thing to share with her. When she was in 4th grade she did a report on the history of tattooing & tattoo machines. My hubby has been tattooing for over 30 years & he’s never tattooed me. He also manufactures machines. This episode was awesome.
"..what does an island with a bunch of dead bodies need? A tilt-a-whirl! 😁" 😂😂 I love Bailey so much
☠️☠️☠️I love it, a creepy amusement park😆🥁😆
Would love an episode about towns disappearing like Doveland, Wisconsin!! 💜
Pardon? Towns disappear?
Yep I just looked it up on google and first thing that popped up was legend about the disappearance of Doveland Wisconsin
Like aliens or? How would a town disappear? Natural disaster?
You mean there's been more than one Roanoke?👀I have so many questions!
And like Paradise Kentucky
I withdrew from school while getting a masters in history because people treated me weird for trying to shed light on ACTUAL HISTORY. I was constantly given death glares for my “views.” Bailey you give me hope and have created a platform for sharing the dark and chaotic past of America. Love you for that
You should deep dive the mass grave in Canada, Bailey. The remains of more than 1,000 people, mostly children, have been discovered on the grounds of three former residential schools in two Canadian provinces since May. In late June, the remains of 751 people, mainly Indigenous children, were discovered at the site of a former school in the province of Saskatchewan, a Canadian Indigenous group said.
She’s done this sad story already 🫤 truly tragic
I watched a documentary on thar
@@angelaryder7777what's the title? lol
I've been a bit sad bc I'm working full hours and making my thesis at the same time, I just want to give up and sleep, you are one of the people that motivates me to keep going with all of this, thank you bailey❤
Being originally from New York I have heard of Hart Island, but even I never realized the full scope of how many bodies and horrors were going on there. Thanks for sharing this, and may those poor souls rest in peace and may their relations find comfort in finally eventually getting a chance to pay their respects.
I am so glad you did a Dark History episode on this island. I remember coming across the article mentioning the mass burial in the island. It was my 1st time learning about the mass burials. It was so heartbreaking hearing about the bodies that weren't claimed. RIP to all those people. 😢
Its insane to think there are just mass graves full of bodies! As a mother i would be furious if i were that woman.
day 3 of suggesting an episode about the OCEAN! i’d love to hear any stories you can dig up about crazy things that have been discovered under the sea or maybe bermuda triangle stuff 🫣🌊
You literally would’ve been my favorite teacher if you were one 💕 you keep me focused with your humor and the way you say things is literally how my brain interprets. I adore you and thank you for teaching us what school never did 🙏🏻
You’re almost at 7 MILLION Bailey!! Ive been watching you for years now so it’s cool to see that number grow. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Never heard of Hart Island before but now I want to go and pay my respect to those who are buried.
@@EL-pw2ky why is it dumb if that is what that person wants to do let that person do that your dumb worry about someone else😅😅😅😅
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I’d like to hear the dark history of Riker’s Island, and some other prisons around the country.
Eastern State!
I still can't make up my mind if I get more excited for MM&M or Dark History! I love them both! As always you are a rockstar and stay true to you! Love you! ❤️🐝🌻❤️
I just found your channel today and you are now added to my list of RUclipsrs I listen to everyday when I’m working..great storytelling!!
Same here! 🇦🇺❤️
Even though I knew the history of this island I still watch because, we’ll, it’s BAILEY! She makes history so much better. Oh, and the makeup today is 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
UNfreakingREAL! You need a Dark History Television Show asap!!
I spent so much of my childhood on City Island staring at what I thought was a cool little jungle across the water. It’s so crazy to learn about things like this
@baileysarian - Nellie Bly needs to be a Dark History subject. She wasn’t the darkness- but she exposed SO MANY horrific underbellies as one of the first female investigative reporters. Her topics would make an AWESOME episode!
I live in NYC and I remember walking past a hospital and seeing that big white truck for the bodies during Covid.. It literally scared the 💩💩 outta me no lie! Hart Island is known to us NYers we always knew thats where you end up if you're a John/Jane Doe. Another great vid girly!❤❤❤❤
For whatever else could be said...that place would make for a great ghost hunt. Holy Shamoinagans ! Scary AF
it makes me feel like i have friends when bailey says hi friends:) i feel loved 🥰
Me too!❤
I lost my daughter in a similar way. I remember just wanting to take her home but knowing there was a process and her body had to be released to the funeral home. I remember calling the hospital and them telling me her body was transported to the funeral home and me asking the man 5x was he sure and the calling the funeral home and making sure my baby was okay I had her cremated so she could come home. I’m crying 😢 just thinking about those moments and how devastated I would have been if my baby was just gone and I didn’t know where
Bailey your makeup slayed in this episode, I can't stop looking at your eyes ❤❤
I sincerely hope that these souls are at peace and I hope their families find peace.
Mondays and Thursdays are my favorite days thanks to Bailey ❤
As always, you provide sensitive information in a sensitive, yet informational way. Thank you.
Another Happy Dark History Day to all. …and I’m a native New Yorker. Thank you for educating everyone on Hart Island. 🙏🏽
As a born and raised New Yorker, you've taught me (and my husband also a ride or die NYer) something we didn't know about our own city!
Bailey that Smokey eye look is gorg-EOUS. ❤😍
After listening to the podcast I checked out the website for Hart Island and WOW. I can't lie, the website is very organized with the amount of deceased they have there. It was actually very surreal and moving
I have it open to look at...I'm just gobsmacked that NY ... the 'gleaming city that never sleeps', has no respect for the 'untouchables'...
No one gave birth hoping to raise a homeless person. Somewhere their dream was derailed...It is not always entirely their own fault. Sometimes a bitter president, with the morals of a grifter make it impossible to get off the streets, when you're under 18, and both parents were carried off by a completely preventable 'covid19' pandemic....You can't trust the government. WE are the government....Kind of a catch 22...Then you realize nearly 32% of voters in America would continue in the direction of "every man for himself'...If you are weak, or disabled, then it is no fault of theirs if you die...It's Darwinism.
I don't want to live by social darwinism. 68% of voting Americans have a strong sense, that if we allow the 38% to rule, we will continue to sink below the Second World Status we are (no national health plan that's viable, millions on the streets, everywhere)...
I like to think humans have the same capacity to be empathetic, and compassionate, as monkeys do. When we know better, we do better...
Do better New York.
@@utxdoni ❤
@@utxdoniyou should go dig individual gravesites for everyone. Instead of telling others to do better, you should go and do better yourself. Lead by example. I want to see you out there with a shovel.
@@l.d.8697 What an odd response to someone clearly wanting the world to be a better place. How is one person going to do the job an entire city government can't handle. jesus.
Thank you so much for doing this episode! I worked the pandemic in NYC from March until May 2020. The hospital I was at had more resources than some of the others. What we experienced is beyond words. We had 11 refrigerated trucks behind our hospital alone, full. We ran out of essential medications to keep people sedated. We ran out of body bags. At peak in NYC, if you were a pulseless trauma of any age or a cardiac arrest from home, EMS was ordered to bring you to the coroner’s office because no hospital would accept you, we didn’t have the beds. The healthcare works I worked along side were incredible. The citizens of New York City never failed to cheer for us at shift change, every night I went into work. I worked COVID in other cities, I spoke to friends who traveled across the country, and we all say that what we experienced in NYC was unlike anything else. The truth needs exposed; what these people went through can’t be swept under the rug.
I didn’t learn about the mass graves until I watched the documentary, The First Wave, on Hulu. If you haven’t seen it, watch it.
I love your channel. Thanks again ❤️
FOR ONCE IN MY LIFE I AM EARLYYYY😍😍😍
samee 😭
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Me too!
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It gives me hope for humanity that Bailey is the biggest star on RUclips because her content is educational. She is so cool.
I LOVE these videos. I never feel like "she just missed so much"
Thank you for working so hard Bailey and team!
I absolutely love the topics you bring to light, as tragic as they are. Hiding the past has brought nothing but ignorance. Keep hiding it, we're doomed to repeat it.
Yesssss who else is early and loves some Dark History!!!!! ❤ we love you Bailey!!!
Fascinating as ever Bailey. Those poor babies, deceased adults, prisoners who had to work there and last but not least the bereaved. Something like the Ground Zero memorial would be appropriate and a centre truthfully documenting the island's history. Go Melinda!
TY Bailey for making my day💕, and for all you do for us all, ur soooo appreciated.😢 In 1986 my Grandma had a blood transfusion and died of Aids by 1989, so a lot of us at least been touched by an epidemic b4 this fkd pandemic. Every decade has life changing situations as far back as I remember, so we'll get thru it together😘💕💕
No matter the episode and no matter how deeply you dive it always Sparks my curiosity. Something about the episode or something you say reminds me of something else I've read or heard which makes me rabbit hole into something else. I adore everything you do. Stay safe!!!!
Sooo sad 😞 I really hope all families are able to eventually see their loved ones resting spot and leave flowers 🌸 just very sad 😞
I am in upstate NY and I'll never forget them temporarily burying Covid victims. But we still required refrigerator trucks because bodies stacked up so quickly 😢. Such a horrific time in our lives.
It doesn't look like a heart 😅. I think it speaks volumes that inmates who buried the dead are the only ones (so far) who have been able to acknowledg that they are there with a monument. Almost as if the forgotten and marginalised, who have burried the forgotten and marginalised, want them to be remembered.
Bailey, this episode BROKE me 😢 “All history is current”
Please do dark history on FGM. As someone who has experienced it. I’m always curious to hear the backstory of how it started and spread awareness
What fgm if u dont mind me asking x
@cookie2012hmw guessing she means female genital mutilation 😣
@Hollie Woodward * female gental mutation -
@lllyv I'm so sorry to hear you've experienced this🖤
@@get.sassyxd oh yes i remember x
I had no idea about this, I knew of the island but not much. This is heartbreaking, thank you for bringing light to this situation.
Many cemeteries all over the country have many unmarked graves. When I was researching my ancestry, I found that most cemeteries I contacted had my ancestors unmarked. Example: Dunmore Cemetery in Scranton, PA had family headstones, however individual burials from the 1800's & early 1900's had none. Seemed to be a common thing back then.
During times of great loss, (eg: pandemics, epidemics, war etc) they often would just do a family plot stone and not individual markers in many cemeteries. It was more economical for a family who was burying a handful of family members and still allowed people to know they were there, together.
bailey plsss do a dark history on different mexican scary folktales/ myths!!
This is the type of Dark History I want to hear! 😊
Forever asking for a video on White Star Line, and Violet Jessop💕
your makeup looks are always SO STUNNING i’m mindblown 😍
This was one of the best episodes of Dark History yet!! Something so little known about outside of the city but so important none the less
Wow, born in queens and raised in the bronx and I didn't even know all of the history of Hart Island 😅
Thank for all the knowledge Bailey 🙏 😊
Had you heard of it as potters field?
Excellent video. Thank you for educating us on this. Those buried there definitely deserve a proper memorial or monument.
My favorite part of the week is the new Dark History episode ❤❤
its so heartbreaking
Thank you for always expanding my knowledge on historic happenings, Bailey
I love the fact that after following your channel since a few years ago , you never change and always stay true to your heart. Thank you so much. I LOVE YOUR CHANNEL!!!!!
The Dark History of Adrenochrome would be super dark.
My uncle was sentenced to a life imprisonment at Rikers. He got out due to his extremely bad health and them not wanting to deal with his doctors visits and medication requirements. He talked about his friends on body detail, they're prisoners but they are people. It does affect them badly.
My ex boyfriend was on Rikers as a teenager and on burial detail. In the 70s they had the adolescents do the burials. He described some pretty horrifying sights.
I love you!!! Your one of the people you believe and stand up and get to the rabbit hole . Lol Listening to you is like listening to a friend..... Your an angel
this is a literal representation of skeletons on a closet. :O thanks Bailey, it was mind blowing.
Yes she would rock her own show on netflix. But so glad i can enjoy her right here on utube. I dont have any of the steaming services. Almost dont have a place to sit and watch her. Thank u baliey!1💜💜💜
I think it's called Hart Island after the male deer, the hart. It kind of looks like a jumping hart. 😅
I was born and raised in Brooklyn, NY and I'm learning things I never knew about my city from Bailey 🤯
Sponsorship is a bit intense.
gotta get that bag
I had the pleasure of visiting my baby at Hart Island in the fall of 2019. I too didn't know what happened to my baby after the hospital deeming her to be unviable, decided to let her "expire naturally" (Their words.)A school then took her body without my consent and placed her in a preserving liquid to study her. When my funeral home went to pick up her body, they told me her skin had been burned by the liquid and I would have to have a closed casket. Furious, I told the funeral home to do whatever they want with the body.
My baby passed away on June 1st and was buried at the island in the month of October. I don't know what they did with her body during those months but I can guess.
I am a member of the Hart Island Project and I LOVE the way they allow us to give dignity to our loved ones.
Hart Island also takes bodies donated to science after schools and facilities are done with them.
Thanks for another informative video!
My twin brothers were buried there. My poor mom has suffered for over 35 years wondering where they were buried. I was able to find out that it was at this island but no specific information.
I'm sorry for your loss and the injustice your family is going trough. I hope people can gather and maybe make the authority give the information or at least show the respect to the people buried on the island and families like yours.
So sorry that your mom had to suffer for so long not knowing where her children were buried at. I'm glad you were able to at least get a little bit of information to help her feel better. Too bad you weren't able to find out specific information.
Thank you. They have a database where you can search names, dates and so forth but they didn’t document where my brothers were buried. It was careless and cruel. They tossed them away like nothing.
@@mmbovilladardh that's awful. I'm glad you were at least able to bring your mom some peace that her twin boys are resting somewhere. You are a wonderful child (you may not be a literal child, but you are her child and I didn't want to say son or daughter since I wasn't sure which gender you are).
My condolences. I am glad you were able to learn where they are.
Bronx girl here. I used to hear about Potters Field all the time when I was younger, so interesting to hear you talking about it!
Looks like a heart WHERE!? 😅
This story reminds me of the Island of Spinalonga near Crete, Greece. The islands has a long history and ended up as the place they would ban people with Leprosy to, hence the nickname of the island, The Island of the Living Dead. I visited the island years ago, it made a lasting impression on me.
Am i the only one who doesn't think that island looks anything like a heart (hart)
My dad was a correction officer at Rikers Island from 1977 to 1998 and he said he has to go to Hart Island quite often to bury bodies inmates that had no family especially during the AIDS era
am i the only one that thinks hart island does NOT look like a heart??
No, I'm with you! I thought it looked like a flying creature of sorts.
Yeah I stared at it like, what?
Could have been named after stag/deer/hart. Or who knows :-) You’re not the only one.
I can't see it either 🤷🏻♀
I vote for Pygmy Shark Island because that's exactly what it looks like.
Dude. Bailey needs an award for reporting and activism
So many ads dude
I love how you matched your shadow to the dark teal of your blouse. Amazing look!!
Dark History on Trans people?
Loved this episode. Thank you for teaching us so much! I think a dark history episode on tuberculosis would be great! It's still a huge problem currently, but a lot of people don't know that.
Oh Bailey, I adore your post so much. You hit on things that everyone should know but no one tell us. Thank you beautiful lady!
Pleaseeeee do a dark history on morgues, embalming and the whole "female workers preferred". ❤ awesome episode as always!
Clam digger here! Raised on City Island So glad You are doing this!
born & raised in NY & never heard of the history behind Hart island..thank you for shedding light on this!! so interesting🫶🏼