In our most morbid episode yet, we step into the eerie shadows of Victorian graveyards, where the dead couldn’t always rest in peace. Clara tells Sabrina about the grim and ghastly practice of body snatching, an illicit trade that supplied fresh corpses to the booming field of medical science. So if you’re steadfast enough (and not eating lunch), grab a shovel and a lantern, and meet us in the cemetery at midnight to dig up some seriously disturbing history…

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Mcdreeamie Musings - Medical school medieval style

Smithsonian - In Need of Cadavers, 19th-Century Medical Students Raided Baltimore’s Graves

University of Cambridge - ​​The body snatchers: corpse and effect

Vancouver Police Museum - Cadavers, Corpses, and Bodysnatchers: A Brief History of Medical Dissection

Owlcation - The Resurrection Men: Body Snatching in 19th-Century Britain

Canada’s History - Anatomically Incorrect: Bodysnatching in the 19th Century

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