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The Burke and Hare Murders
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During the 19th Century the Scottish capital of Edinburgh was leading the way in medical advancements.
None more so than in the study of the anatomy of the human body, but this in turn lead to a severe shortage of corpses for teaching and research purposes.
But for Burke and Hare this was a money making opportunity..
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Christian H. Miles
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Sources:
Journal of Practical Medicine, Volume 3 London Medical Gazette Collection
The Court of Cacus, or the Story of Burke and Hare. By Leighton, Alexander (1861).
The History of Burke & Hare & of the Resurrectionist Times By George Mac Gregor
The Study of Anatomy in Britain, 1700-1900 By Fiona Hutton
Trial of William Burke and Helen M'Dougal. By Charles Kirkpatrick (1829).
@Simplehistory 5 жыл бұрын
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@NemechekFan87 5 жыл бұрын
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@JimmyCasket84 5 жыл бұрын
Make a aircraft carrier and battle of midway and battle of jutland
@dp28784u 5 жыл бұрын
Simple History Do a video on the French Revolution please, I don’t get it.
@Bandaid_Brigade 5 жыл бұрын
How about the Zodiac killer. Always a fun one
@cptjackpl8690 5 жыл бұрын
Jack the ripper?
@calvaryfrank5561 5 жыл бұрын
Hare was actually blinded after his identity was descoverd in a factory in England and was pushed in a vat of chemicals making him a blind begger just in case you didn't know
@Simplehistory 5 жыл бұрын
Speculation :)
@mikeyholland150 5 жыл бұрын
@@Simplehistory u should do like jack the ripper for crime related or if u wanna do more military related videos maybe Desmond doss won the medal of Honor in ww2 without firing a weapon once
@rednation149 5 жыл бұрын
Simple History yeah do Jack the Ripper it should do good for this time of month
@phantomaviator1318 5 жыл бұрын
You should make a half hour movie about Charles Brown and Franz Stigler.
@jordanpiatt4435 5 жыл бұрын
You I was going to predict that he was jack the ripper
@grindstone4910 5 жыл бұрын
"This skeleton is still on display" Ok, that's makes sense with the anatomy teaching stuff and all "As is his deathmask" A bit grim, but you know goes with the skeleton. "And a book made of his skin" WHAT THE
@mccabber24 5 жыл бұрын
Hare done Burke real dirty like that.
@weldonwin 5 жыл бұрын
Did you really expect honor and loyalty to one's friends after they'd murdered at least 16 people in the name of profit?
@delta-76 5 жыл бұрын
@@weldonwin r/whooosh
@melihozturk1868 5 жыл бұрын
thats what you get from the story? the guys killed 16people and thats what took your attention
@kuroe4369 5 жыл бұрын
Lmao stop taking this comment seriously,it was a joke.
@YngThdre 4 жыл бұрын
❌🧢
@gustavovillegas5909 5 жыл бұрын
They made a book out of that dude's skin WTF
@ChuckNorrisUltra 5 жыл бұрын
There's a few books covered in human skin.
@esterargatha6293 5 жыл бұрын
@@ChuckNorrisUltra really???
@ChuckNorrisUltra 5 жыл бұрын
@@esterargatha6293 Unfortunately, yes. I think there's even a Wiki page on them.
@WRGOP 5 жыл бұрын
Thats Scotland for yah :)
@beru7036 5 жыл бұрын
Im afraid to even touch them. 😨
@mrcarrot5697 5 жыл бұрын
Can you do Jonestown? The 40th Anniversary of the Mass Suicide is next month
@AgentDanielCross 5 жыл бұрын
Now that sounds interesting. Jim Jones and his pathway to insanity.
@Fishmanglitz 5 жыл бұрын
The source of the phrase "Dont drink the Kool-Aide"
@theporkiestpie8416 5 жыл бұрын
This.
@wolftone4994 5 жыл бұрын
Yes please do this simple history
@28ebdh3udnav 5 жыл бұрын
I thought that died a long time ago.
@Simplehistory 5 жыл бұрын
To 'Turn the King's evidence' as was offered to Hare: Providing evidence in court implicating other parties involved in the crime for which you have been charged, in order to receive a reduced sentence or to avoid prosecution altogether.'
@Newdivide 5 жыл бұрын
Simple History hi can you do more murder history? Like this one? If so, can you do Jack the Ripper and the zodiac killer next? Thks
@sammyafe4197 5 жыл бұрын
New favorite campfire story for negligent rent payers
@user-hx4yl9bq8t 5 жыл бұрын
How did you got that rank emoji into your name?
@rev7913 5 жыл бұрын
Yeh how did you get it
@heiljandal1329 5 жыл бұрын
He paid some moolah on patreon
@weedwagon7949 5 жыл бұрын
He joined the channel
@woodlandcreature8857 5 жыл бұрын
Thank you for pronouncing Edinburgh properly ❤️
@magnuspeacock5857 5 жыл бұрын
YES! -A Leither
@woodlandcreature8857 5 жыл бұрын
@@magnuspeacock5857 if I hear "Edinburg" one more time I might kill someone
@magnuspeacock5857 5 жыл бұрын
@@woodlandcreature8857 it is better than Edinboro.
@HaloJumper7 5 жыл бұрын
The Auld Reeky
@Mipeal 5 жыл бұрын
Edinbruh?
@raak3197 5 жыл бұрын
Is there still a demand for corpses? Asking for a friend.
@kristijanmedved6066 5 жыл бұрын
Reek Rääk yeah.. Its called assassination
@tylerwarden2515 5 жыл бұрын
How much is your friend asking?my friend is asking
@brianlam257 5 жыл бұрын
Huge demand for organs
@raak3197 5 жыл бұрын
Oh yeah, I forgot Asia exists, thanks for reminding me.
@brianlam257 5 жыл бұрын
Are you sure only Asians need organs to live?
@glacier1253 5 жыл бұрын
Jack the Ripper next?
@lordpeanutbutter5075 5 жыл бұрын
I was about to say that!!
@anynomoussucker823 5 жыл бұрын
I've heard about that infamous killer for like 30 times now. Atleast give some consideration on the others
@angelsirena1580 5 жыл бұрын
That's cool.
@isaiahlee2902 5 жыл бұрын
"How pleased you are to chop away, Jack, the Ripper!" I hope someone gets this reference...
@clemoverent0600 5 жыл бұрын
Isaiah Lee Assasins creed Syndicate?
@scotibot7450 5 жыл бұрын
Burke's remains and artefacts are at the museum as stated but are not on public display. The trade in graverobbing was severely stifled by security measures at graveyards in Edinburgh. From nightwatchmen to mort cages (some of which can still be seen at greyfriars kirkyard) but a common method was for the family of the deceased to rent a large stone slab and place it over the grave. The idea being that after a month the body would be decomposed enough to be useless to the university at which point the slab would be removed and then leased to the next bereaved family
@uncleruckus714 5 жыл бұрын
5:24 damn, the Scots can be savage when it comes to the judicial system
@kaedyngraham1860 5 жыл бұрын
Can you do something on Operation Desert Storm or the Bosnia War? That would be cool
@Simplehistory 5 жыл бұрын
yep we need to explore more modern stuff too
@kovak4576 5 жыл бұрын
Oh nice
@kaedyngraham1860 5 жыл бұрын
@@Simplehistory damn you actually replied! Nice
@stefannotchev7209 5 жыл бұрын
4:13 newspapers. Causing trouble since... forever
@PowahSlapEntertainmint 5 жыл бұрын
Sounds like they found themselves in a Hare-y situation.
@outtolunch7437 5 жыл бұрын
PowahSlap Entertainmint Wow your early.
@livewell3129 5 жыл бұрын
PowahSlap Entertainmint what cowardly murderers' I'd say...preying on the women and weak.
@chudlink 5 жыл бұрын
can u stop being everywhere please
@JohnDoe-rw5dx 5 жыл бұрын
Who are you
@vault-tecrep8565 5 жыл бұрын
PowahSlap Entertainmint t-hare-ibble joke
@yoyogabby43 5 жыл бұрын
Can you do more World war 2 histroy
@fredrikerlandsson5091 5 жыл бұрын
"Fun" fact: A variant of strangulation is called Burking named after this fellow. Courtesy of my former professor in forensics. /MD Thanks for an awsome chanel, a must for every history buff!
@tomthebeast1872 4 жыл бұрын
“And despite a popular belief the two never robbed graves” The thumbnail: *burke and hare digging up a grave*
@logmeistercy3801 5 жыл бұрын
There's a lesson that can be learned from this video and that is stay well away from Scottish judges and their twisted humour
@maxkosterlitzky6597 5 жыл бұрын
You need to make a Tuskegee Airmen and Navajo code talkers video
@diegoalvarez3807 5 жыл бұрын
Also the Mexican Expeditionary Force within the USAAF, Aztec Eagles
@Rafael-lr4gn 5 жыл бұрын
Brazilian expedicionary force in italy 1944. An FAB brazilian air force using p47
@fredwallace1754 5 жыл бұрын
I believe that guy who went to the the English border could of have been Jack the ripper
@biggvshavtivsdickvsii8541 5 жыл бұрын
The floating eyes in the bottle got me. 👀
@joshuasafranca8309 5 жыл бұрын
2:43 My new wallpaper
@J_Araw 5 жыл бұрын
Joshua Safranca lol you do you
@lidulkadut 5 жыл бұрын
Galactic Music of The Milky Way wtf
@merilazic9070 5 жыл бұрын
Can you do the yougslavian civil war
@attiepollard7847 5 жыл бұрын
Man that war is a two part story and too complicated.
@daehkcidemos 5 жыл бұрын
Attie Pollard I watched a vid about it I didn’t understand a single thing
@erich2780 5 жыл бұрын
I never heard about that but now I do
@luayon 5 жыл бұрын
Wow, wheres yougslavia? I bet theres good beaches there for tanning!
@davidkrvavac4149 5 жыл бұрын
Bilo bi dobro!
@cloroxboi4870 5 жыл бұрын
I’m addicted to this channel
@_Super_Hans_ 5 жыл бұрын
You didn't explain why Hare was given immunity
@FRN2013 5 жыл бұрын
4:32 "Hare confessed to his and Burke's involvement in all the murders..." It's implied that he was given immunity in exchange for testimony against Burke. But you're right; the video should have made that clear.
@mussabsaleem1718 5 жыл бұрын
Ty for the answer. I was wondering that too :)
@MrBizteck 5 жыл бұрын
Because the authorities weren't convinced the could get a prosecution on them both the flipped Hare to guarantee at least one would be found guilty. Bit like the mobsters that testified against the mob when they were caught.
@johnlewis3777 4 жыл бұрын
He pulled a 69 n got him n his wife off
@johnlewis3777 4 жыл бұрын
He pulled a 69 n got him n his wife off
@tgwoclan661 5 жыл бұрын
The quality of the videos improve so much! Love it
@MoonlightDawnMoolightDawn 4 жыл бұрын
The story of the Burke and Hare Murders inspired The Body Snatcher by Robert Louis Stevenson which in turn inspired the 1945 film The Body Snatcher starring Boris Karloff, Henry Daniell and Bela Lugosi. Great film btw!
@acommonsoldier8607 5 жыл бұрын
This is a spooky video for a spooky month. *Clever*
@Simplehistory 5 жыл бұрын
Spooky 👻
@acommonsoldier8607 5 жыл бұрын
**Spooked**
@DaveVistosi 4 жыл бұрын
*oof*
@checkmyplaylist6879 5 жыл бұрын
Spooky Scary Murderers!
@darkblood626 5 жыл бұрын
Send shivers down your spine
@just-a-silly-goofy-guy 5 жыл бұрын
Hare? Like a rabbit?
@berbo4063 5 жыл бұрын
kremit the frog I’m here....
@lilnade9096 5 жыл бұрын
3:30 When you didn’t even pull your pants down and the FBI is already at your door
@windows9058 5 жыл бұрын
18s: nice!more bodies,more experiment 20s: i guest virus are airborne?
@mentalcupcakes8142 5 жыл бұрын
Loved the video you guys should do a video on the Doctors Revolution in 1777 (I think) it's really fascinating
@fredricknoe3114 5 жыл бұрын
4:19 I bet the judge snickered.
@xxitz_adianzxx823 5 жыл бұрын
How long it takes to you to make a video? they are awesome , well made and really interesting!
@bg1052 5 жыл бұрын
1:12 wow. 4 pounds back then is 504.01 pounds to day, or 634.47 dollars.
@bg1052 5 жыл бұрын
Today*
@Canipoly 5 жыл бұрын
Hey, can you guys do an episode on Barrage Balloons?
@kingy463 5 жыл бұрын
You guys are awesome keep it up!
@m0ther_bra1ned12 5 жыл бұрын
They put his skeleton on display!? HAHAHAHAHAHA! XD I found that hilarious.
@Simplehistory 5 жыл бұрын
ironic isn't it
@magnuspeacock5857 5 жыл бұрын
@@Simplehistory we Scots love dark humour
@DaveVistosi 4 жыл бұрын
Simple History please answer me! I am new on this channel you win a new subscriber :-)
@andrewcincotta3150 5 жыл бұрын
You should do a video on John Paul Jones
@somerandomperson6856 5 жыл бұрын
Do a peaky blinders history episode
@nakuljohri1 5 жыл бұрын
One thing which isn't mentioned here is that there exists a term called as BURKING. It is derived from the method Burke and Hare used to kill their victims. One of the men would smother the victim with a pillow held firmly over the face while sitting on the victims chest and the other would drag the victim across the room with the other man still sitting atop his chest. The weight of the man on the victim's chest would prevent his chest from expanding thus limiting respiration and of course the pillow would prevent the victim from breathing through the mouth and the nostrils. The victim used to die mainly because of traumatic asphyxia.... Sad but true..!
@takeawaykitty. 4 жыл бұрын
16 lives for just ~$20,000USD adjusted for inflation.
@jonathansotelo4877 3 жыл бұрын
Couple of suckers. Can make more than 20k with one corpse if you sell the organs properly.
@Pokelemon3434 3 жыл бұрын
@@jonathansotelo4877 your forgetting this is before organ transplants where a thing
@jonathansotelo4877 3 жыл бұрын
@@Pokelemon3434 Myeah, I was mostly trying to act snide over nothing. It's all pretty fucked up.
@SoCalWhiteBoi 3 жыл бұрын
I mean, if you want to kill people and get paid at the same time, just be a hitman. There are plenty of rich folk out there that'll pay $100K to have their rivals killed. JS
@patryka.9215 5 жыл бұрын
"And orphans" lmfao love scottish law 😂😂
@saivenkatesh3418 5 жыл бұрын
Damn! We learned this as a case study in forensic medicine during med school. This is gruesome!
@stefannotchev7209 5 жыл бұрын
They should totally make a movie from this it would be so good
@HistoryHouseProductions 5 жыл бұрын
Knox got some killer glasses
@TheRobloxExpert 5 жыл бұрын
Remember to do the 100th anniversary of the ending of WW1
@dwithashotgun1505 5 жыл бұрын
2:05 that's disturbing
@theocos17 2 жыл бұрын
I live near a park that has an old hotel that Burke and Hare stayed in !
@jamestown8398 5 жыл бұрын
1:31 Robot Knox is also a serial killer. Just look at that grin!
@harrydeer7820 5 жыл бұрын
Scary. Btw Hi from past guys
@harrydeer7820 5 жыл бұрын
@Panda man yeah xD
@professionaldouchebag6609 5 жыл бұрын
@Panda man I'm from the future.
@gjbee1284 5 жыл бұрын
Mabey do one on self propelled artillery
@diegoalvarez3807 5 жыл бұрын
Artillery Only
@equarg 5 жыл бұрын
Wow. I have heard of this. Thanks for animating it. Did not know about the wives involvemt. May the innocent who died RIP.
@grzegorzpaka9957 5 жыл бұрын
Great video as always!
@ChristelVibezz 5 жыл бұрын
I love this channel❤
@thatoneguy3155 5 жыл бұрын
How about The Zodiac Killer?
@vipex9865 5 жыл бұрын
I have a project for this thanks! You really helped me.
@ChopTopSawyer 4 жыл бұрын
I remember couple years back I watching horrible histories and the Burke and hare song came on. This video made me think of that song lol.
@thatonentfthatdressedupthe7122 5 жыл бұрын
1:48 Sounds like an scp sounds to me :P
@cryo2156 5 жыл бұрын
Can you do the battle of hill 3234 next?
@kingmichealthefirstofroman2278 3 жыл бұрын
Burke’s the butcher hare’s the theif knox’s the boy who buys the beef
@nanay400 5 жыл бұрын
Wix gotta be sponsoring almost every medieval,military etc vids
@JOSEJOSESITO 5 жыл бұрын
This is why we need *COMMUNISM* *STARVATION INTENSIFIES*
@HazzaBlast 5 жыл бұрын
That's not how it works
@NeyoSteel 5 жыл бұрын
Communism means more starvation
@deservate8299 5 жыл бұрын
Yugoslavia worked... and it was communist..
@brido97 5 жыл бұрын
Comedy gold mate Thank you for the chuckle
@brido97 5 жыл бұрын
Nebel Werfer great name btw
@XBOXGamerPro7281 5 жыл бұрын
History of Halloween
@Simplehistory 5 жыл бұрын
🎃 writing the script
@XBOXGamerPro7281 5 жыл бұрын
@@Simplehistory That was a fast reply!
@DaveVistosi 4 жыл бұрын
Simple History reply me :-)
@djbro3724 5 жыл бұрын
YES! Been waiting on this!
@XYZ_is_taken 3 жыл бұрын
Fun fact: Burke and Blair the scrap dealers from TUGS are inspired from Burke and Hare
@itsyaboibenjones4279 5 жыл бұрын
This comment section: 10% random stuff 5% Simple History 20% jokes about 'hare' 60% MEMES 3% actual history 2%not sure 1% this comment
@daftpanther1718 5 жыл бұрын
HE SAID EDINBURGH RIGHT!!!
@sanswithoutsans Жыл бұрын
William Burke's descendant would go on to make bioweapons for a pharmaceutical company many years later.
@shishmerf 5 жыл бұрын
Please keep the theme for the rest of the month, makes for great content for the season.
@michelles9524 3 жыл бұрын
5:03 bruh
@handaman112 4 жыл бұрын
Wow, what a rat @ 4:24.
@sviatoslavs.1305 5 жыл бұрын
Professor: *[still cheers them for a new corpse]* And only after hearing "Edinburg" and "advancements" everyone notices that British accent. Battle of Hamburger Hill goes next. Just please.
@joebuzz1443 5 жыл бұрын
I like that Your videos are long at atleast 5 minutes long!
@ghostcreeper243 5 жыл бұрын
What about jack the Ripper
@attiepollard7847 5 жыл бұрын
He killed People and was Never seen again the end
@KnightSlasher 5 жыл бұрын
What a cover up
@leoorduna2199 2 жыл бұрын
This would make a great psychological horror film.
@iceman5882 5 жыл бұрын
2:10 its kinder surprise for old medical times
@vladimirlenin9120 5 жыл бұрын
The already know about this because of horrible histories
@Huy-G-Le 4 жыл бұрын
Hare: *See some poor, non-British peoples* Also Hate:It’s a free real estate.
@kevburke 5 жыл бұрын
As a Burke, I get a sinister sense of pride from this.
@1981deloreanfan 5 жыл бұрын
On the British tv series Tugs, the characters Burke and Blair are based on this infamous duo. They are ship scrap dealers who are constantly looking for sentient ship to scrap for money.
@jacktribble5253 3 жыл бұрын
Well. That's just creepy all the way around. There seemed to be a lot of morbid crimes right around this point, all kinds of weirdness.
@nathanparker8604 5 жыл бұрын
That Shed 17 music is just bringing PTSD.
@Aaleg 2 жыл бұрын
“Give me rent” “Over my dead body”
@ujansengupta7990 5 жыл бұрын
Simple history videos should replace boring history textbooks.
@GMKGoji01 5 жыл бұрын
Eeesh! So that's how Halloween became a holiday?!
@amangcandelaria3988 5 жыл бұрын
Bodies:*exist* Doctor:*its free real estate*
@isaacgoh2649 5 жыл бұрын
This history video let me can't sleep at night.
@rajpawar9343 5 жыл бұрын
Whoa very long and the music made it more intense.
@tenseitan8081 Жыл бұрын
Happy Haloween!
@ErikBramsen 5 жыл бұрын
Congratulations to your animation team.
@acrid2695 5 жыл бұрын
I hope that KZfaq is paying you guys well
@imdeadinside2726 4 жыл бұрын
1:05 Mans sold a body over £441.81
@Wykletypl 4 жыл бұрын
So the mastermind of the murders was not punished for the crimes, but his friend, who assisted him, did... Justice, indeed...
@nukacola5672 5 жыл бұрын
The next spooky episode could be about the bodies of soldiers propped up to scare the enemy and the soldier who was ripped and stretched on a tree and left to hang like a bed sheet (there's a photo of it) in the winter war
@ashergrisanti 5 жыл бұрын
You guys should do another world war 2 tech on the IS-2 and T-34-85
@underconstruction6436 5 жыл бұрын
Last murder was on Halloween eh? I refuse to believe that these guys didn’t have the best Halloween spirit.