Why Reading This Book Will Kill You
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- Опубликовано: 19 авг 2022
- This is the most deadly book that has ever been printed, and it's still around today! If reading it doesn't kill you, it can make your life very miserable indeed unless you take extreme care.
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Kedzie, Dr. Robert C. "Shadows from the walls of death: facts and inferences prefacing a book of specimens of arsenical wall papers," 1874.
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The Mad Hatter from Lewis Carol’s “Alice” books is also another fictional creation resulting from this poisonous scandal. The top hats produced during that period contained arsenic in their trimming and it had a habit of making the wearer mentally deteriorate and go insane - hense the idiom “mad as a hatter”. It might also explain why most depictions of Carol’s Hatter have him wearing a green hat.
Good point, but she already made a video about that.
Oh. I must’ve missed that one.
In addition to there already being a video about that, wasn't the poison mercury? Unless there was both mercury AND arsenic used in hats. Actually that wouldn't really surprise me.
It could’ve been, though I don’t recall it turning the hats green like certain depictions attributed to the hatters.
@@castonyoung7514 I heard it was lead, but I'm not sure exactly what it was.
"If I had nickle for everytime a book about going insane concerned the color yellow, I'd have two nickles. Which isn't a lot but it's weird it happened twice right?"
Maybe wallpaper is the reason HP Lovecraft had so many psychological issues.
I think the Addams Family would love that wallpaper, maybe not for the color, but for the poison. They are probably the only people who wouldn't be killed by it.
Maybe Morticia Addams would use the book as a shopping catalog.
Surprisingly, arsenic is harmless in small amounts like those found in apples or certain medications. As for the Addams Family, I have a theory that either they take it in small amounts to help with heart issues and/ or they gradually built up an immunity to it.
Ok, I got a question. I’m confused. So is the book poisoned or does it just talk about poison
@@Ihavepinkhairrn both.
@@MsSharkDemon y is it poisoned tho
@@Ihavepinkhairrn I assume it was to hammer in the point that even a small amount is dangerous.
It kinda shocking how much toxic stuff was used back then in everyday objects back when i was a kid i almost got mercury poisoning from an old children's toy that had beads of mercury in it that i found in my grandparents drawers in the guest room they ended up giving it to a local museum but i got very spooked when i was told i could of died if it had broken..... awesome video btw :}
Really puts into perspective why life expectancy was so low back then.
What kind of toy was it?
@@nickchambers3142 All i can rember is it was made of wood with a glass case lid and you had to kinda shimmy as many beads of mercury into the divets in the wood and get them to stay there whilst you wrangled the rest. The mercury could of very well be spilt everywhere if the glass ever smashed....
Microplastics, my friend. Our history is a constant struggle to not get poisoned due to our technology.
Jst think what we are using now that ppl in thr future will look back and wonder how we were so stupid... thats why i never make fun of ppl who question things like 5g... history repeats itself and so many things were sold as safe that caused millions to die
A poisonous book… it sounds so farfetched, yet terrifying, I can’t even imagine this being in existence yet I wanna steer clear to be safe now 😅
It's true which is so crazy! Us humans even just touching any sort of toxins like mercury, arsenic etc can be so detrimental just by a touch!
If we even touch mercury, it can lead to death hours later. There's many scientists who have lost their lives this way unfortunately. It's beyond belief that these things are real. Earth is a very terrifying place!
It really is not farfetched, everything can be wastly poisenous. The earlyest true red and yellow pigments where arsenic based and got used in books and skripts, wallpaint, oil paintings.. Lead got used in red paint beside the well known white that also got massively used in cosmetics beside the artistic use.
Mercury got used in felting and everything made from felt.
Other greens like malachit are poisenous too, though not as badly.
Old wood is very often highly contaminated with biocides you can not get rid of to save your life. You can lower the concentration with an immense effort taken, but the wood is soaked to the core, the poison will migrate back to rhe surface...
Probably every thing in a museum, especially animal materials are most likely extreamly poisoness, they used cyanid components as a biocid for pelts!
In old wood framed windows, there might be asbest in the kit holding the glass in place.
Arsenic was not just in wallpapers, it was in everything. Children's toys, cloths and it was not only green stuff either. Arsenic was used to prevent other colors from fading all to soon and well as formerly mentioned, there are way more colors you can get from arsenic, like the old yellow and red......
The modern equivalent of arsenic wallpaper is microplastics in everything we eat.
...AND then there are people like ME, who somehow suddenly WANT A COPY OF THAT BOOK!!! haha... ;o)
That was my thoughts about the yellow wallpaper too. I remember reading it back in highschool and had known about the arsenic that had been used back in the day. Napoleon had quite a lot himself in his bedroom. But for the story, one take I took was that maybe she shredded it away and tossed it out. Her escape made possible by not being exposed to it any further and her health thereby improving. Not the intended take from the story, but maybe closer to a literal one.
As for this particular book, arsenic was the poison used in the film and book upon which it was based, The Name Of The Rose. Poisoned pages to kill the reader of a particular book that a certain individual didn't want people to know existed and therefore never read. Hidden away, though occasionally turning up and leaving dead monks in its wake. So when you mentioned an actual book that would literally kill, I sort of guessed it would have something to do with arsenic.
Name Of The Rose sounds really interesting, it has *me* intrigued. It sounds like it would be great for Dominic Noble to do a LiA on.
The oldest true yellow pigment was arsenic based! It was used in book and wallpaintings since forever for it could processed quite eaesely from a stone.
The yellow also often gets called Kings yellow
I thought about "The Name of the Rose," too, when I saw the title.
@@searchingfororion You might find the movie interesting, by the same title. Sean Connery did a pretty solid role, and there were a few other notable names involved. It's been years, so I'm not 100% on its fidelity to the book, but if you're going to do one first and then the other, I generally recommend the movie first, since reading the book usually only ever sets you up for disappointment... while the other way around tends to tease you a little with the visuals of the movie and the books "go deeper" for a little better understanding of the characters in their inner growths and arcs... ;o)
@@gnarthdarkanen7464 I appreciate the recommendation. I have mixed feelings about Sean Connery (mostly because of him as a person) but I *do* want to give it a look.
Thanks for bringing back to this thread because my memory is mush.
Arsenic was also used to dye fabrics, so their curtains, furniture, and clothes could also contribute to their sickness
Somehow "Old Lace" and Cary Grant come to mind, too... you might find the connection interesting (and a little bit fun)... haha ;o)
I saw a documentary about killer homes from the Victorian, the Tudor, and the Post War eras in the UK, and poisonous wallpaper was on the list. I think the host even looked at this very book, as it had samples of toxic wallpapers as well.
And that explains why they weren't all green, but were also blue and yellow. I learned something new~
You really have to feel for the scientist who finds out what is killing so many people, and then proceeds to compile samples of it at his own risk, so people can recognize it all around them. You'd kinda hope people today would be that selfless.
I was at first like, what on earth could you write that would lead people to die. Then you said that it was poisoned so that makes much more sense😅. Also is it bad that I'm curious about the book that'll drive you to insanity?
I’m curious about the one that’ll drive you crazy too. I need someone to write a book review of it lol
There are some videos on it you can look into but they'll typically vary as it's only brought up in the work - because it falls into one of those HP Lovecraft 'incomprehensible to the human mind' niches he does so well.
In the collection abitfrank references (which made it into the cultural intrigue), the only accounts of The King in Yellow are typically by individuals who have (or are interacting with people) already succumbed to the madness.
Obviously, this complicates things since it's entirely up to the reader to decipher what is significant, what is just ramblings of a person who has lost their mind, and (in some cases) what is bias/misinformation/misinterpretation from the narrator. Even *then* you have to do the same with all of the other stories to begin a vague outline.
I know that probably didn't come through well because it's hard to describe something that was engineered to be hard to describe, but I tried.
If I remember correctly, the channel that did the best breakdown of this was Illuminati or a name/symbol very similar.
TLDR: The King in Yellow only exists in the minds of H.P Lovecraft characters that have already lost their minds and can only be theorized about. He intentionally never wrote anything straightforward about it.
Yeah when I read the title I thought she was going to talk about a story which has a book in it that the contents in it cases people to commit suicide but nope not what i was expecting
In German, a lot of poisonous colours still remain in the names of (more or less) well known hues, like "Giftgrün" (Poison-green), "Schwefelgelb" (sulphur-yellow) or "Bleiweiß" (lead-white)
A poisoned book concept immediately reminds me of "In the name of the rose" were the church intentionally poisoned possibly heretical books by Aristotle who proposed it was ok to make (pause for dramatic effect) Religious Jokes
Yes I was thinking of The Name of the Rose as well.
I loved the green seeping effect you used throughout the video for visual emphasis and foreshadowing.
I must say for all my theories, I did not expect *that* - I'm still trying to decipher the mental gymnastics of not even following his own advice regarding the subject. 👀
Examples were meant to help I imagine. He likely thought the dosage would be small enough to not harm considering many would have entire wallpapers.
They didn't have color photography back then, and the idea was that people could see the exact tones to know if they were from arsenic pigments. The only way to have that was with real samples.
The King in Yellow is a really fine fellow, waiting out the rain, from behind a window pane, writing out sign’s, in fine lines.
Saying don't do something is the same as specifically requesting them to do it. People use warnings as guidelines on being stubborn.
Your videos make my day when feeling lonely, keep up the great work!
Same!
Pretty cool! I’m always fascinated by stuff from the Victorian period. (I was thinking that this would somehow be about Marie Curie’s journal or something, being coated in Radium and all… don’t know why I thought that.) though what I don’t understand is why he didn’t realize that putting those samples into the book would be dangerous as well…
You should do a collab video with Strawberry Nightmare wherein you both tell a horror story from two perspectives, such as two people who think the other is a monster due to the 'accidents' which lead them to meet (i.e. one is drenched mud and twigs from falling down a hill while the other is covered in blood after a car crash) unaware a third monster set it all up to tenderise them with fear and eat them
Wow I thought this video was going in a completely different direction but I enjoyed it very much! I learned someone fascinating and new!
That actually reminds me of an episode of “1000 Ways to Die.”
A woman who’d stolen a green Victorian dress wore it to a St Patrick’s Day party. During the party, she was sprayed with beer, resulting in a fatal poisoning.
Hi abitfrank! I love you! I subscribed because of the Coraline content because that's like... childhood. I love all your content though! I just want you to know I appreciate the work you put in! Thanks, take care! 😊💜🤍
I second that😁
Huh! I was expecting this to somehow be tied to Mary Curie's notebooks, haha. Had no idea about this case. Thank you.
I am so glad you covered this. This is one of my favorite macabre topics. Makes me wonder what common things we have today that people will talk about like this in the future
I actually remember learning this a few years ago and the wall paper still haunts me
I have never heard this story before! This was so interesting and well done, exactly why I love this channel! Keep up the great work! 😁👍
Yeah it's called a math book, death by boredom
It contains arsenic
This might be my favorite video of yours that I have seen and I'm sharing it with friends.
Very well done
This is incredibly interesting!!! I have always loved the story The Yellow Wallpaper and this has only added more depth to it for me.
As soon as I saw the green motifs in the images on screen I was thinking arsenic
This sounds so interesting love your videos 🙂
I kinda want to purchase the two books you mentioned first, my mental health is already in shambles theirs nothing to break
Yikes, even your punctuation and spelling is deteriorating! :P
@@SandJosieph yep I used the wrong there
The National Library of Medicine has digitized their copy and it can be found online. Arsenic is also a concern in the glazes of ceramics among other things. And Scheele's green, a copper arsenate was used a coloring agent in sweets. It was used as an insecticide into the 1930s as well. Most famously in terms of the wallpaper use, it's thought that the green paint in his room in St. Helena was a contributor to his dead as fungus growing on the walls in the damp climate would have leached the arsenic out. There is also argument for the ider that as it was used as a embalming agent that the large amount in his hair was due to attempts to preserve the body.
Although using paint probably was better than arsenic- paced wallpaper, I can imagine it wasn't that much better since a lot of it was lead based at the time
Author: This book will kill you!
Some dude: Incredible! How does it work?
Author: It's from Chernobyl.
A voice this soothing on a video like this should be criminal... I love it.
such cool video pls keep the magic and horror in your videos up . love you🥰😊
They even used it to colour food or icing on pastries that were often sent home with parents for their children
Fun fact: arsenic isn't just a pretty dye, it's also a useful mordant-a chemical used to set the dye to keep the color from fading. As such, it was fully possible to have a wallpaper with little to no visible arsenic dyes, but with enough arsenic that the dust from the wallpaper was still dangerous
One very popular yellow dye was called Orpiment or Auripigmentum. It's a beautiful but highly toxic mineral that is very soft and easy to make into water or oil based paint. It fell out of use in the 19th century, partly due to its toxicity, but also because of it's incompatibility with lead and copper based pigments.
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Very interesting video! - this is why victorians were so keen on sea air.
Please do stories again, I miss them
fascinating, love these
I knew about the wallpaper and the arsenic posioning from those time. and how hard companies fought to prevent arsenic from being banned. did you know at one point it was used as a cure for sore throats? but i actually never heard of this book.
That was really interesting!
Now I have a mad and unreasonable want to read that book. What do the patterns look like under light with ones own eyes instead of a screen?
your voice is so nice to listen to, ever thought about doing asmr like maybe reading a book?
She has a channel called ABitLate where she reads stories
I want to read this listening to Gloomy Sunday on a loop!
FYI arsenic wasn’t just in green wallpaper! It was actually in many many different colors and wallpaper brands
I think she said so at 6:50
I read "The Yellow Wallpaper" in a college lit class. I freaking love that story!
Never thought paper could literally kill someone though. I never knew arsenic was used in inks and dyes, but I've read and watched enough mystery stories to know how deadly it is. It's scary. We don't know what kinds of dangerous things could be around us all the time that we just haven't discovered is dangerous.
Don't forget that it wasn't just wall paper arsenic was used to color. There's a lovely video by Nicole Rudoph that documents how it was used to color fabric as well
Ah the green and the yellow is all I need to see to know why. Actually visited a gallery that featured pieces based on this
I love these videos
And here I was, thinking you were going to talk about Madame Curie's research notebook and her recipe book.
This reminds me of a story about monks mysteriously dying with black spot on their tonuge and finger.
I never heard about that till now
very interesting i love this video
I wish you could subscribe multiple times. because this video was super cool. Thanks Abitfrank!
I thought we were getting the Curie’s lab notebooks which are highly radioactive but this was really cool.
This is even better, than a cursed book! I was not disappointed!
Don't you love how easy it is to get poisoned?
I wonder how many people died from this book. When I read the title of this video, I thought this would be about Goethe's _The Sorrows of Young Werther_ ( _Die Leiden des jungen Werther_ ), which sparked a self-del*tion wave in the late 18th century in Europe.
Now im wanting a video about Gloomy Sunday, the Hungarian song that reportedly drove multiple people (including the composer) to suicide
we had to read the yellow wall paper for a class in college the story was quite depressing 🤣😅
Anyone else thought she was going to talk about the Necronomicon? 😅 Seriously though, this is pretty scary! Being poisoned in their own homes without even knowing... 😨
I love the King in Yellow, but I feel like I never see it talked about.
You know what will look great with those bright colors? Candy and I wish that was a joke.
Thanks for the post.Gotta love cursed 📖 😀😀
That's wild.
The Leviticus Passage refers specifically to a contamination of leprosy. Context is everything, but still interesting that the book starts with that Passage.
Bibical leprosy is pale white skin as in the cases of Naaman Miriam and Gehazi....
@@lunarlight3594 Minister for the last 25+ years, thanks.
@@michaelbarclay5016 So then you're aware of the lie then? That black skin is the curse when all the angels the Most High and Jesus are described as having skin the color of dark stones such as beryl onyx jasper or burnt or burnished bronze?
@@lunarlight3594 I'm aware that Jesus was Jewish, but I fail to see what that has to do with spread of leprosy as relates to the Passage referred. So, unless you have something substantive, Book, Chapter, Verse, I'm not inclined to follow you down an unprofitable rabbit hole.
@@michaelbarclay5016 Pale white skin is a curse from God.
my mom and i have a alergic reaction to dust and mites, so yeah, you can say reading old books can kill you XD.
Still we read. Nice video.
I knew what was coming when I heard poison and saw green wallpaper.
I learned that arsenic would be better than mustard gas for a project I got in mind.
~Tucker
This was super interesting
I want to bring this to my nonexistent reading group
Arsenic has other pretty pigments like Red, blue and green
AYY NEW VIDEO!
yum. Arsenic and asbestos death home, painted in lead with radium accents.
Wait if I already lost my mind what would happen if I read it or if I ever hold it ? 🙄😮
Oh I thought this was one of those existential problem books that tended to cause suicide. I remember running into some very ugly truths in gnostic books passed down from rulers of old that talked about population control measures in the Roman era by "savage" cultures that did human sacrifice. Some unsettling truths about the good and evil of killing people for the greater good and what "greater good" even means. I don't recommend people look into that, the truth's aren't valuable for everyday life and they are very depressing.
Big Ol' Timey Wallpaper (TM) - "Pshaw, arsenic isn't THAT dangerous."
Dr. Robert C. Kedzie - "Dare you to read my book."
Reads the Tittle: It will?!
yellow wall prepare is familiar too backrooms maybe these monsters in backrooms were just mental problem the only real thing it the endless maze
Arsenic was such a nice material. Sad it is toxic.
The minute i saw the green cover....I knew.
Is it weird if I want to read the king in yellow now?
The beginning part about the women reminded me of 2020 ngl
Wait if abitfrank is telling us what is in the book.......
ight where can I get it
Your voice and your avatar are so pleasant and nice, and yet...
I see where bedrooms got it's inspiration
Considering all the stuff we used as medicine and makeup I'm surprised we're still here.
I'm not sure about this, and don't get mad at me if I'm wrong (please), but isn't the backrooms wallpaper based off the book 'The Yellow Wallpaper'?
He’s a professor yet he put paper with arsenic in his book telling people that their wall papers are poisonous because of arsenic
It's a true fact they didn't know that the chemicals in the wallpaper has a poisonous intent
How did I know it was arsenic?
This was interesting
arsenic, then lead, then nuclear, then asbestos, then microplastic. we're not really changing lol
Scheele’s green