January 18, 2019 • 52 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
From UFOs to psychic powers and government conspiracies. History is
riddled with unexplained events. You can turn back now or
learn the stuff they don't want you to know. Hello,
(00:24):
welcome back to the show. My name is Matt, my
name is Nol. They called me Ben. We are joined
with our returning the fourth member of our fourth member
of our podcast enterprise. Uh, folks, give a hand for
super producer Paul Decant, who has just just come back
(00:45):
to Atlanta from some adventures abroad which I don't know
how much we want to disclose on air. Yeah, he's saying, stop, stop,
stop talking. Okay, let's make it sorry throat kind of
finger across the throat, hint, take it most of portantly.
You are you, You are here that makes this stuff
they don't want you to know. Hold everything, hold the phone,
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stop the presses. This is a part two episode, which
means that if you want to get the whole bang
for your creepy buck today, you'll want to listen to
Famous Tombs Part one and then Famous Tums Part one
has some pretty pretty crazy insights. While you're there, you
may also want to listen to our Jengis Khan episode
(01:28):
which inspired all of this. I have one quick Paul,
can we get like a breaking news sound cue? Perfect?
One quick clarification we want to make when we did
our we did our episode on the Ants cult in
the Czech Republic. Uh, we had some currumb case. Yes,
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that's correct, thank you. We had some confusion. We didn't
explicit lea say it. Both of the boys in that
case did in fact survive, and I believe it was
me at some point who said I believe one of
them died. It's a translation error on my part. So
to be clear, there is a little bit of a
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happy ending for those kids. They did. They did make it.
This survived and into adulthood. They've got Facebook's the whole line. Yeah,
just in case you survived that episode. Uh, because it
is a it is an early one. Um. But yeah,
that's that's thank you man. That's important to know. Oh
thanks to everyone on Twitter and Instagram and Facebook and
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so on who wrote to us to ask for clarification
or point that out without further ado. Assuming you've heard
Famous Tombs, Part one, here's where it gets crazy. We're
starting right with getting crazy at the top. Well, this
was originally supposed to be just one episode. Now it's true.
Let's let's break it down. There are a lot of
people that died, a lot more people than our current
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living and well, not that have ever lived, because obviously
if you had died, you lived in spoiler alert, everyone
who's alive right now gonna die, possibly probably, but not definitely.
And also it's hard to bury everybody. Not everybody was buried,
so only some of the most important people are going
to have tombs that remain from hundreds of years ago.
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That's where we find ourselves. And even those tombs didn't
fare as well as their creators had hoped, right look
upon my works, you mighty, and so on. So it's strange.
There there is one surprise that I found that maybe
we can save till the end. But let's let's start
with um, let's start with lost grave sites. Right, was
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that where that was where we were earlier? Right, I
think we had a whole category to start fresh with.
So Wolfgang other day as Mozart, you've you've probably heard
of it, right, Mozart in the Jungle, Mozart in the City.
I was confusing with Beethoven for no good reason. Beethoven's
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the one who went death yea. Mozart was like the
magic flute did sauba flute. He was also he was
living a wild rock star life. I didn't know this,
but he had tons of mistresses. His wife actually kicked
him out of the of the house they shared together.
And there was a great comic us on a recent
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Netflix series who described Mozart's lifestyle and pointed out how
difficult it would be in the time of which he
lived for your wife to kick you out of that house.
Like the bar for behavior given, you know, patriarchal attitudes
was so low that you really had to be going
ham and Bacon. You know. I've never seen Amadeus. It's great. Yeah, yeah,
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it's a good film. Saliary that was like his nemesis. Okay,
they were beefed up apparently. Yeah, it's been a while
since I saw it, but it's master full performance. I think. Yeah,
it's no Police Academy for but what is exactly you know?
I mean even Police Academy didn't have their stride until
well after Police Academy three. What happened in four? What
(05:13):
Happened in four? You have to watch it? Really, Yeah,
it's just I don't want to cheapen the cinematic experience
for you. They all kind of run together in my mind.
I may have only seen I may have only ever
seen Police Academy one. WHOA, I'm sorry, dude, I fired No,
we should get together and watch those and then just
watch all of them. Then not stop and watch all
the Naked Gun series. There's only two Naked Gun movies.
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I'm so sorry. They all kind of blur together in
my mind there and then watch Amadeus, which is sort
of the spiritual companion piece, two Naked Gun thirty three
and a third and Police Academy for and then get
back to Last Tunes Part two. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart remains
one of the most influential classical composers of all time.
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That's not hyperbole. The guy was just that good. Uh.
He died on December five in sev And maybe this
is unfamiliar to a lot of people, but the circumstances
of his death remain murky today, and there are over
a hundred theories about what happened. Well, especially for someone
that you know, I'm see is a long time ago,
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but it's not that long ago. It's not as though
there wasn't somebody looking at his body after his death
and going there that's probably this. But again, when you're
dealing with something about poison or something that kills you
internally in and then it's probably a lot more difficult. Yeah,
a ton of people thought he had been poisoned because
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again and he was living wild. He probably had a
lot of that, perhaps spurned lovers, but it may have
sought revenge. Maybe he contracted something from his wild lifestyle.
That's possible, quite possible. Yeah, maybe he just had. You know,
at this time in human street, it's disturbingly easy for
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what we would consider a common everyday infection to grow
unchecked and kill you, you know, like an infectious disease
like rheumatic fever. So on. So Mozart died, and that
is where our story about Mozart begins off to a
great note. I the records seemed indicate that he was
sealed in a wooden coffin and buried in a plot
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along with four to five other people, and that there
was a wooden marker used to identify this technically speaking
mass grave. That is so strange to me that he
didn't wasn't in like um a place that was venerated
a little bit more. Um m hm, very strange. But anyway,
this idea that he was, you know, perhaps buried with
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several other people gave rise to the commonly accepted myth
that he was buried in a popper's grave what was
known as a popper's grave at the time, a a
less wealthy person's grave, specifically because of the debts that
he accrued over the course of his pretty crazy life
that we talked about. Probably wasn't like party debts. Yeah,
I mean, those royalties never got to come in for Mozart, really,
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that's true. And didn't he largely exist on kind of
a like a patronage kind of model when he was alive? Yeah,
I believe so ye artists model, so he is. He's
buried not the best financial situation. And this idea, this
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idea of in turing our loved ones with four to
five other people, might today be something that we associate
with poverty or with crime, you know what I mean,
Like that's how merciless government or a drug cartel, if
those things are still different today, that's how they would
bury people. That's now decent folks bury people, right, But
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this was the standard practice for middle income families at
the time. This his death is murky and unexplained for it,
his burial was surprisingly normal, right, So the burial of
groups of people in one grave was organized um and
dignified UM, and it differed significantly from the images of
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large open pits now that you think of when the
term mass grave gets thrown around. Mozart may not have
died rich, but he was admired UM. He had friends
and they came to his widow's aid. They helped her
pay his debts and his funeral costs. There was many
large grave side gatherings and grand funerals um were not
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really a thing to do in Vienna during this period,
so Mozart's burial was likely very simple. But a church
service was certainly held in his honor, and he was
buried as a man of his social standing would have
been at the time. UM. At this point Mozart had
a grave. However, at some stage during the next five
to fifteen years, his plot was dug up to make
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room for more burials. Yeah, this is a practice they
picked up combating epidemics and plagues did and eventually we
have to make more room for the dead so that
the living can live. The bones were reinterred, they may
have been crushed to reduce their size, and as a
consequence of this, the position of Mozart's grave was lost. Again.
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This we're paying more attention to this because it was Mozart,
this amazing composer. This was also fairly common practice for
someone living in Vienna at the time, and some historians
have suggested that maybe there's a little bit of a
pr spin here, a bit of post mortem propaganda. And
I've never heard this at all before. Really, yeah, this
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was this was new to me as well. Uh. The
idea is that Mozart's widow constants may have encouraged the
pauper's burial story or even started it, uh to make
the public more interested in her husband's work and then
to come see her perform Mozart's pieces is compositions. It
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sounds like something that you might hear about in the
social media age, where you, you know, you start a
video or something about, oh my gosh, my loved one
died and they were just put here and these are
the terrible circumstances that we're going through. But check this out.
While I sing this song that my loved one that
just died wrote that you can find on iTunes right now. Yeah. Yeah,
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and we know, okay, we know that's quite possible depending
on what you're your base level estimation of human ethics
might be, you know, and there are a lot of
there are a lot of circumstances that are probably lost
to history. We do know that grave space was at
a premium back then. It's still a problem that local
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um municipal organizations in the area have to worry about, frankly,
and people were given one grave for a few years,
then moved to an all purpose smaller area. But here's
here's one strange thing. We may have lost Mozart's grave,
but someone may have his skull. Is it Nicholas Cage, Yeah,
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he has it in his pyramid, right next to his
t rex skull. No, it's okay, let's let's get to
the real thing here. It's called the Salzburg Mozarteum. That's
kind of cool. Mozarteum. Mozart stas right in Salzburg. Yes,
they were presented with this pretty morbid gift at one point,
and it's supposedly Mozart skull. Interesting but surely unconfirmed, unconfirmed
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but looking good. Yeah, who who the the skull belonged
to someone who died in a way that's consistent with
Mozart symptoms before death. What were those buttons we talked
about in the last Thomas Paine Thomas Paine buttons. It's
kind of like a thing where you could probably confirm
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roughly the age of the skull and how this person
met their end, but don't We also not really know
how Mozart die. There was no trauma to the skull
or anything. It was Yeah, he had symptoms that were
he had symptoms upon which we could build a couple
of theories for death. Poison doesn't really check out in
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this scenario. But here's how the story goes. And this
is already sort of a legend. Allegedly, a grave digger,
during the reorganization of Mozart's original grave, was struck by
a pang of conscience and said, I, you know, I
can't let Mozart's skull go gently into that good night, rage, rage, etcetera.
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And he took the skull. He stole it. Essentially scientific
testing so far as not being able to confer hurm
or deny that the skull belonged to Mozart. But and
this goes back to what you were asking. No, there's
evidence on the skull to determine that whomever originally was
the I guess possessor of the skull, whosever skull it was,
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they died due to something called chronic hamatoma, which would
be consistent with some of mozart symptoms Before death. He
had a lot of swelling. He had things that look
like maybe not an infection in the kidneys, but his
kidneys were We're not working correctly now. Even now, there's
several medical theories about the exact cause of his death,
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but people who are using the skull as a basis
for those theories have to admit no one, No one
is on shirts Mozart skull yet. Yeah, because you'd have
to have another part of the body right to test
that you could confirm was Mozart, to get some DNA
from that or maybe a descendant. Could you do that?
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Otherwise you're using genetic genealogy trying to maybe fit in
within a family tree somewhere. Uh. Interesting, I wonder are
there any descendants of Mozart alive and kicking? Are you
a descendant of Mozart? Let us know not the other show,
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but there might be a lot more children and most
art than than they're aware, just because of those wild
times he was having. M It looks like Mozart's to
surviving sons died without descendants that we know of. And
this is the end of mozart story, but not our show. Uh,
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stay tuned, will take a brief break for a word
from our sponsors. We're back. Okay. So Mozart has a
lot of legends surrounding his death. But as we saw
when you when you scrutinize this, a lot of it's normal,
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other than the fact that someone apparently stole a skull
and have they've been passing year round for three years. Uh.
This next tale concerned someone who is purposely buried in
secret and hopes that their body would never be found.
And it's a guy named Attila the Hun. But who
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is that? Who is that? You know? Well, you've definitely
heard the name before, but you may only know the
broad outlines of Oh that it's Antila Hun. That sounds familiar.
It's kind of like that uh Genghis guy, right, not
that Jengas dude, But it sounds like the Genghis guy
for sure. Um. But even the most prominent scholars in
the field, people who would actually be studying someone like
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Until the hun Consider this person Until an international man
of mystery of sorts. Not necessarily in Austin powers, but
you know, uh, get in that same ballpark. Yeah, this,
this guy who appears to have come just out of
the blue or at least his origins or somewhat murky,
became an incredibly terrifying and dangerous conqueror in the early
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fifth century. He led a group of a group of
communities that were allied together that we're collectively known as
the Huntick Empire, and they terrorized the Eastern and Western
Roman empires. And I have the ideas of communities terrorizing
an empire like that, Like is this like some would
be considered clans, some would be tribes, some would be
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bands exactly, would be conscripted slaves exactly. It's just a
really interesting way to frame it, because ultimately that's what
those groups are. It's a community of people working together
for goals. It just happens to be to terrorize in
not quite as vicious as your local h o A
from what I will stand, right, but at least the
h o A stays in one place I think that
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George Lucas was inspired by Until the Hunt when he
named Jabba the Hut. I think it's quite possible. Yeah,
I think it's quite possible. I should ask him. Yeah,
he's kind of hard to get to. He lives in
a compound. He doesn't really go outside very much. Job
of the Hut. People are still mad about those prequels.
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I read a very this. This has not too much
to do with today's episode, but just a side note
because they don't think we can make a full episode
about this. There's a fantastic fan theory slash conspiracy theory
regarding jar Jar Binks and the prequels. The argument being
that jar Jar Binks, when Lucas still like control of
the franchise, was originally intended to be revealed as a
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Sith lord. You heard that man familiar with that one,
and he was literally the key to everything in that
first movie and what eventually he was going to be
the key to everything in the whole series. Man, George
really liked that character, didn't he He doubled down, you
know what I mean. There's to each their own, but
he doubled down. You can see some videos arguing this theory,
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and I gotta admit I'm not persuaded, but it made
you think he certainly ended up being a sith lord
in our minds, yes, yes, the sith lord in our minds,
in our hearts, in our hearts. Yeah. So the jar Jar,
like Untila the Hunt, may well played a mysterious role
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in history. We know, we know a pretty good bit
about the movements of Attila and co movements of the Hun,
and we know about their military campaigns, but most of
the information about Attila himself comes from his enemies at
the time, which we run into a lot. You know,
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people people who hunt witches are writing about which is
they're not going to say the nicest thing about which
is right. And most of hunting literature compound is the
problem because it was passed down orally, so people were
just telling stories to each other, playing telephone again, and
bit by bit that stuff disappeared or got absorbed into
other empires. People still don't agree on exactly where Attila
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the Hun was from, and they also don't really know
what he looked like except for one description, like one
paragraph from one guy who went to the court. And
people have made entire academic careers off off that paragraph.
But fast forward. Here's a conqueror, uh, not not quite
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as successful probably as Alexander the Great, but a huge
threat to the Roman Empires at the time. And then
he died, and then he died, and that's where our
story begins. Every yes, exactly again, oh man um. He
died sometime in March at a feast celebrate eating his
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latest marriage, and people are still arguing about exactly how
he died surprise, surprise, to this day. And there are
four prevailing theories about this. Theory. Number one is that
in the midst of this sire uh, this revelry and
of course some heavy drinking that accompany, he suffered a
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severe nose bleed and choked to death in a drunken,
bloody stupor gross. Do you want to hear the theory?
Number two? Remember the Children of the Corn Too movie. Oh,
I could not tell you anything about that. Well, I
just remember there's one part where they have like a
voodoo doll of this woman and they stick a knife
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in her nose and she gets like a she bleeds
to death from a nose bleed. That's kind of how
I picture this going down. Okay, here's theory number two,
Um that possibly again we're talking about heavy drinking at
the party and something there was a complication because of this.
But in this case, it's internal bleeding, something called esophageal varices,
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where these dilated veins in the lower part of the
esophagus in your your neck there but lower a little bit,
they rupture, leading to death by bleeding out hemorrhage essentially.
Ah okay, So like he either bled out in the
nasal area or in the throat area. That's what we
just coughing up blood. Yeah, so either way, this was
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super messy. Yeah, it's choking essentially, you can't breathe. Yeah.
There's this other theory that was recorded about eighty years
after his death by a Roman chronicler named Marcellinus. And
in that report he says Attila, king of the Huns
and ravager of the provinces of Europe, was pierced by
the hand and blade of his wife. So he said, yeah,
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it's art his wife killed him. He had just picked
up he was celebrating, Uh, this his latest marriage. I
think we had said earlier he married pretty frequently. These
were political um alliances at times, and I'm sure in
at least a few cases these were not consensual marriages. Yeah, Marsilian, Marsilian, Marsillian,
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Marsillus Marcellinus did not mention which wife, that's true. I
think we assumed it was his latest wife for a
recent uh. And then that last theory is that he
was assassinated by Roman officials, which is just a natural
thing you would assume, because he was a terrorist in
their eyes, you know what I mean, who couldn't quite
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be caught? So and what were Roman officials good for
if not plotting assassinations? How's kind of their thing? And
it is a big party where there's a lot of
heavy drinking. Again a little bit of that poison if
you looked like he was choking. Yeah, And so they
say he's dead. He explode, blood exploded out of his
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face somehow, don't no further questions. It's time to bury him.
So they get a trip bowl. Um, I guess a
triple leveled or triple shelled coffin. First it's encased in gold,
and that's to show everybody that he was a baller, no, literally,
that he was wealthy and glorious. Is that at the
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is that at the core? So between him there's nothing
between him and the gold essentially, right, okay, right, and
then over the gold silver to show that he's down
with the moon and the river, that he shares kinship
with him, right, and then finally iron to show that
he was most importantly, most outwardly a tough, tough dude.
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So they put some thought into it, but with a
heart of gold, but with a heart of gold quite so,
just so. And this this is strange because here's where
the story takes a turn. Myth and fact get very
difficult to differentiate from this point on. Yeah, it's true, um,
Han engineer is um. They had those at the time
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are said to have diverted the Tisa River long enough
to dry up the main river bed where Attila was
entombed in this magnificent sarcophagus. So then the the waters
were released and they flooded back over the grave site. Um.
And this is this is the thing we've heard about. Actually,
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I think this was the case with the burial of
Jengis Khan as well. And the folks that bore his
casket to sarcophagus to that site were then murdered unequivocally.
And it's possible they may have even known that that
was going to happen, that they were like down with that,
just for the absolute privilege and honor of being able
to carry their their glorious leader to his final resting place.
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At least their immediate family might know maybe or it's
probably secret, right, Yeah, maybe they weren't told, uh, but
they had to know if something was up right. The
sarcophagus stood out, And I appreciate you pointing out the
similarities with Jengis Khan because there's also that river legend
about the Khan, right, So maybe these stories got combined
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over time, but that is I mean, I love that
idea that somewhere at the bottom of a river that's
where rests. It also points to a possible cultural or
ancestral commonality between uh, the the Hunt community and the
Mongol community some sort you know, at least in this
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funereal practice. So yeah, as you said, no details ever emerged.
Where exactly is he buried? We don't know. We've heard
that he's at the bottom of this river, right, sleeping
with the fishes, sleeping under the fishes technically because that
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heavy coffin would have sank and quite possibly with untold treasures, right, Yeah,
it does make you want to somehow I'll find a
way to travel a river and just like with a
metal detector or something. Hey, yeah, I love uncharted man
untold treasures. But let's speculate. You think there was some
like nice neck pieces in there, some chains. Weapon definitely
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like is lucky not lucky, but you know whatever is prized,
sword or spear or something. Yeah, probably varied in full armor, jewels?
Why possibly? Yeah, encrusted. I love it when things are encrusted.
Maybe maybe worked bone carved, bone stones, things like that. Yeah.
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Maybe a bed bath and beyond card? No, not good enough.
Can you imagine how much money until the hun or
Jenkis Conn or somebody would have on a bed bath
and beyond card. I don't think they paid for things, Yeah,
that's true. I think they would just ride the horse
in and go reeving. Yeah, but who knows. Maybe if
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they had a coupon that would change it. Maybe if
they say, well off, it's virtually free. Anyway, that's how
we fixed the world and stop everybody from hurting each
other and being so mad, build bed bath and beyond
and just give everybody gift cards. Oh man, I don't
you know. I think I knock that mail or that
they send out just because it is so ubiquitous, Like
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do you get them at your houses? Of course? Yeah,
I am a human being and you have a bed, bath,
and beyond. I've always wondered what the beyond. I guess
beyond just all the non bed and bath related items kitchen. Yeah, well,
it really depends on the intonation you use when you
hit beyond. I think I've mentioned this before, but this
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is particularly appropriate for this episode. In my hometown, there's
a store called Caskets and More. Remember that, Okay, I see,
and it's again it's the intonation. Yeah, but I think
with Caskets and More it's it's a little more said ster.
I love it though, And the fact that Attila the
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Hunt's grave site is lost to history until somebody diverts
a river just to see what what voracity there may
be to this story. Uh, that still hasn't stopped cities, villages,
and towns in the area from advertising themselves as the
genuine location of the grave of Attila the Hunt. So
if you'd like to suspend your disbelief just a bit,
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feel free to travel to Hungary and then snap a
selfie in front of any variety of here lies until
of the hunt signs. You know what I mean, I'm there, Yeah,
just pointed you know what, They just pointed a river.
It's so it's so morbid. But if you think about it,
someone has died in every river on this planet. I
hope I didn't just ruin rivers for everyone. Maybe not
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every creek, but every river. The water keeps flowing, So
here we go. That one doesn't bother me as much.
Lakes still though, lakes did um Chef Scott Benjamin about
this before we go to break We did an episode
years and years back about how many cars have been
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found in lakes when they dry up just even fifteen
ft from the shoreline. It's disturbing. It's way more than
you think, and just in the US, far far more.
Al Right, Well, let's go to the lake everybody, No,
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you know, UM, I don't want to go on a tangent.
But Lakeland near up near where I grew up, there's
some there's some creepiness of that lake because as man
made it's all, you know, it was flooded and everything.
There are no natural lakes in Georgia, and they everyone
talks about how there's supposedly a church down there and everything,
and they're all these legends about what's at the bottom
of this really murky, gross looking lake. That is wonderful
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and I love Lakelyan near and go visit if you
get a chance. But it just has this creepy quality
to it. But I believe they're some sand to that
matt because there were structures there that were flooded. That's
a true story, right, yeah, but some of it is
a little far fetched in my eyes. Even if you
look back at the historical record. Some of the things
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that come out are pure legend. But they're fun. I
don't you know what. Let's have a creepy conversation about
this off air while we're playing a word from our sponsor. Okay, No,
that's fine, Yeah, yeah, I just agree to disagree. I'm
(31:37):
I'm okay with that. A right. No, I think you're
both wrong. Sorry, you had to see that. We have
to remember that we're friends. We can't let these off
air conversations tear our friendship apart. You're right. Let me
apply a little bit more of this mats on Death's
door right now. And he's still here for you. By you,
I mean you the listeners. He reminds me in many
(32:00):
ways of Sir Francis Drake. Oh me too, I remind myself. Okay, Uh, Well,
who's other than minding everyone vaguely of of our pal
Matt Frederick. Who is Sir Francis Drake. Well, he was
this fifty six year old guy that apparently unfortunately died.
(32:21):
He was born in fifteen forty. He lived until January fifteen,
nineties six. Uh, and he was an English explorer who
was involved in things such as you might know of piracy,
illicit slave trading. Uh. He also became the second person
ever to circumnavigate the globe. But his name. When you
hear Sir Francis Drake, you a lot of times, if
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you're not a big history buff, you just imagine in
my head this explorer. Um this I'm speaking personally here
because his name has been mentioned in so many video
games and all these things. But a lot of times
you don't get the context, the full context at least
of what somebody like this their life and what they did. Yeah,
(33:04):
he did quite a bit. He sailed around the globe
when that was a big deal. Still is right, it
still is. Uh. He was acquainted with the Halls of Power.
Is definitely not a not a great person, so don't
fall for a lot of the romanticization you may read
(33:26):
about Drake. His circumnavigation was also a pirate mission technically,
well in a way. It almost kind of had to
be in this weird, messed up way, But I guess
that's idea. That's the idea of I need to get supplies.
However I can get supplies. Oh and this is good
foreshadowing of what happens to him, because his expedition was
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officially a journey for knowledge of voyage of Discovery, but
he also had a secret agreement with Queen Elizabeth that
along the way on this quote unquote voyage of dis jovery,
he would attack and assault and terrorized the Spanish any
way that he could, particularly if it meant disrupting their
(34:10):
shipping roots. So as soon as they got into this
Pacific uh, he almost made it more of a priority
to plunder Spanish ships and rob ports than he did
to actually go all the way around the world, and
he he stole a lot of stuff. He eventually returned
(34:31):
home from that trip as the world's most wealthy pirate.
He got knighted too, for his efforts right by the queen,
he got knighted as well, UH, and the Spanish king
put a massive price on his head from because from
fifteen seventy until the end of his life, this guy
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is out to get the Spanish, and King Philip the
Second UH offered a bounty of twenty gets for his head.
That was the equivalent of millions of dollars today when
he came back from his worldwide um piracy escapades. You're right, Matt,
he was knighted. And then in eight he participated the
(35:17):
English defeat of the Spanish Armada, and he went on
to become a tremendously influential figure in his even in
his own day. Uh. And then he died, and that
is where our story begins in fifteen at least with
this one, we do know how he died. He died
of dysentery. So no one's like secretly poisoned, no one's
(35:39):
like exploding blood face. He went out Oregon trail style.
He went out Oregon trail style. He did, he really did.
And he never got to Oregon, No, not without trying.
So what did they do? Because the Spanish were on
their backs. They hated this guy so much and for
very good reason that they were actively searching for his
(36:00):
corpse because they wanted to like do stuff to it
and then get the bounty from King Philip show bring him,
like bring him the head, but let's do some stuff
to it first. Sure. So Drake had a burial at
sea UM, as was custom for a sailor type such
as himself. Um. He was buried in a leadlined coffin
(36:23):
near the bay of a Portabello um a few miles
off the coastline. It is supposed that his final resting
place is near the wrecks of two British ships, the
Elizabeth and the delight Um, which scuttled in Portobello Bay. Yeah. Yeah,
he was planning on this in advance. He said, if
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I die, when I die, sink the ships sink me,
to bury me in a coffin in the dark depths
of the ocean, because I do not want those Spaniards
to get their hands on me. He was also buried
in full armor for his request, because he really did
(37:04):
like his His plan was that if these chips were
purposely stuttled, if he were buried at sea in a
leadline coffin to keep his remains from somehow rising right
as they decay and separate, that he would be able
to prevent the Spanish from finding and desecrating his remains.
And that was his genuine fear. Like have you ever
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anyone listening, have you ever been at a point in
your life where you think there are people who are
interested enough in your death that they would desecrate your body.
I don't know. That seems strange. Yeah, that's that's out there.
But in his case, yeah, people would definitely want to
desecrate his body. Like those those people are living very
(37:50):
high stakes lives. Yeah, definitely. Um, well, yeah, I guess
the whole point. I mean, I didn't even realize that
you could seal. I guess. Yeah, it's obvious you could
seal of a coffin at that point in time in history. Um,
a leadlined coffin. Actually get that much of a seal
where water isn't going to seep in, where um the
(38:10):
way it is going to keep him at the bottom.
That's um, that's intense. Francis Drake, excuse me, sir, that's right.
That man sailed around the world robbing people blind. I
can't forget about that. Fast forward to two thousand eleven.
There's a guy who owns sports teams. He's also a
pirate enthusiast. He reads a book about Francis Drake and
(38:36):
he says, you know what, I'm going to find this
fleet and this guy's body. This pirate enthusiast and sports
team owners named Pat Crochet like Jim Crochy, and he
claimed that he and a team of his treasure hunters
had discovered two ships off the coast of Panama, and
(39:01):
the ships that they found they believed to be the
Elizabeth and the Delight, which would mentioned earlier Noll Elizabeth
being a tons ship and Delight being a fifty tons ship.
And as you know, most speculation places Drake's body and
conference somewhere in that area, and they focused on Portobello
(39:21):
Bay after they hired a guy named Trevor McHenry two
pinpoint areas where the ships might have gone down, but
very quickly they ran into a gray area. When it
comes to the protection of British shipwrecks, when it comes
to anything from the Age of Empire, that's right under
the Protection of Military Remains Act of nineteen six. British
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Naval vessels anywhere in the world are protected from exploitation. However,
there's one little caveat here. The the Act only covers
certain ships which sunk since nineteen fourteen, and only British
citizens can be prosecuted under it, which is a bit
of a problem right there. So there's a lot of
history and ships that sailed before nineteen fourteen. And if
(40:07):
it's only British citizens, anybody else who's outside coming in
doesn't have to even worry about this. Yeah, So this
is where they get to an interesting thing. I'm there's
an organization called the Joint Nautical Archaeology Policy Committee sexy
name right, he's still my heart, uh, and they have
been pressing the United Kingdom's government for years to ratify
(40:31):
some international agreements on the protection of what they would
call underwater cultural heritage, you know what I mean. So
the guy in charge of the Joint Nautical Archaeology Policy Committee,
it's got him Robert Yorke. I don't know if he's
a relation to Tom, but he told the BBC if
these are Drake ships, they are presumably sovereign and immune.
(40:53):
So why isn't the British government telling these people to
go away? If we ratified the Convention, we can make
sure they were puperly conserved and looked after. But Panama
did ratify the convention, so it's government might act to
protect the wrecks of the ship. And what they mean
when they say protect direct is not not to allow
(41:15):
someone to attempt an excavation or to a to attempt
an analysis of this site just because they want to.
You know, you have to have government approval, which can
be really really difficult, as we saw in our previous
episode exploring the lives and burials of Nefertid and Cleopatra.
(41:39):
People in the modern day, very very difficult time trying
to get government approval for any ancient site. And it
makes sense. You don't want everybody to be able to
just go somewhere and start digging, right. And as of
this recording, it's weird because this was reported in two
thousand eleven and we tried, but we couldn't find much
(42:00):
new information. So as of this recording, it appears Drake's
body has yet to surface and his secrets, whatever they
may be, remain safe in his watery grave. We just
need somebody to go rogue and just go down there
and find it. Against all the government's wishes. Just go
and do it. Nicolas Cage, Yes, we're we're invoking you
(42:25):
and or who else is famous for playing like Frogman
and the Navy Seals and stuff. Oh, we need um
the body Ventura, that's who we need. Yeah, we need
Jesse to go down there, and maybe Jason Statham can
come the rock. We should just assemble a crack team
of action um stars, just the expendables. Go find Sir
(42:49):
Francis Drake. Please. I would watch it. It would be
a different direction from then. I would definitely watch it. Uh.
And that's that's where the story of Drake's body ends
for now. But so far we have just been looking
at the graves of famous dudes. There is another mysterious
(43:10):
lost grave here in the United States in uh New England. Yeah,
here's here's here's the broad Strokes. Mary Dyer I was
born Mary Barrett Um in sixteen eleven. She was an
English teacher and a Colonial American Puritan who became a
Quaker and who was hanged in the Boston, Massachusetts Bay
(43:33):
Colony for repeatedly defying a Puritan law the banned Quakers
from the colony. Um. She is one of the four
executed Quakers known as the Boston and Martyrs. It's it's
a true story. It might not be familiar to a
lot of people because she may not be famous in
the current celebrity since you know, she's not an Instagram, right,
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But Mary Dyer was a tremendously important person in the
world of religious freedom during her lifetime. Her sin was
converting from Puritanism to Quakerism, primarily because of these doctrinal differences.
Quakers believed that people could interface directly with God or
(44:20):
here directly from God without needing um and a middle
a middle layer, an intermediary like a clergyman or something.
It's funny in twenty nineteen, that doesn't seem like that
big of a deal or that big of a difference,
But my goodness, that is an entire paradigm shift for
the power structure. Yeah, right, dangerous for dangerous for her
(44:45):
and this, yeah, this was a huge idea. It threatened
the authority of the church leaders and they they were
so threatened of this that they had already banned Quakers
from living in Massachusetts. Dire went into exile and Rhode Island,
but then she returned to Boston to support two friends
who were imprisoned for their beliefs. All three were sentenced
(45:05):
to death, but then at the last moment they said, no,
you're just banished. Get out of town, don't return like
the beginning of the Witch, except Mary Dyer came back
again speaking out for religious freedom. So she eventually was
put to death. She was hanged. She was buried in
an unmarked plot in the sixt sixty and today we
(45:29):
still don't know where the grave is. Was she buried,
as some had said in Boston commons. Was her body
stolen and in turned on a family farm. Was it
put to the wind? No one knows. Nobody knows. And
then we have just one last thing. This is the
(45:51):
thing that I don't know about, you guys. It surprised
me when I learned about it. Steve Jobs is buried
in an unmarked grave. His family and he specifically requested,
now we can't worship him. Now you still can look
at my thing. Just yeah, just we all worship him.
(46:12):
We worship him constantly, and we look at our phones
all day long. And these are these laptops in front
of us, or are our watches? It's the worry was
that people would go to his grave and either maybe
desecrate it or just try to leave their own intrusive tributes.
The thing is, this isn't this is in Silicon Valley.
So many people feel that they have discovered the exact location,
(46:36):
and they will swear it's confirmed it's in a cemetery.
Do you think if they did give him a grave
it would have been made entirely of glass. I don't know.
It's like like the Apple store. It would have looked
like an Apple store. Oh, I mean maybe in a way.
Then that's that's on brand. I guess alright, p Steve
jobs and that guy certainly was an innovator. But if
(46:57):
you have you read any of some of his quotes,
terrible person seemed like a real, real terrible person, real
Meani falsely used handicap license that like car tags too,
so we could park in handicap spaces. Um, I'm trying
to provide a counterpoint somewhere in here. Kids, he doesn't
acknowledge Steve Waugh kick puppies experience, right? Was Wosniac? Okay?
(47:24):
How was he the nicer? Yeah? Everybody's weird in their
own way, right. I guess we'll do a show on
Apple in the future. Tell us your Steve Jobs secrets.
You know what else? You know what else? Everyone is
in their own way, man, Special, that's right, Special. I
was gonna bring up some Mr Rogers. Yeah, now that's
a serious R. I p Steve Jobs. I mean, I
(47:47):
like my iPhone, but I could take him or leave it.
Mr Rogers, that guy was a national treasure. Unfortunately, um
fortunately we know Mr Rogers the location of his resting
place For the rest of these and again we've just
scratched the surface here. The question remains, will we ever
find any of these graves? You know? In some cases yeah,
(48:10):
in other cases absolutely not, because the people have been
scattered into the wind, the remains have been made into buttons,
their remains have been stolen by secret societies. That is
true again checkout episode one. But we have to end
on some questions. Uh, you know we asked these earlier.
What benefits do these searches have for modern human human civilization?
(48:33):
Is this a waste of money? Should we focus on
feeding the people who are starving to death? Now? Are
loaded questions? I know, I know, or because we can
spend it the other way? Or um, are we investing
in the future by learning more about the past. Those
are very I think they're both very strong arguments. Sure,
I asked this question we did the Jengas con episode.
(48:54):
I it feels to me very much like a waste
of time, like who cares? But then you pointed out
very correctly, Ben, that it does. There are artifacts that
could teach us things about the past that are there
to be discovered potentially. Um. I was more hung up
on the idea of having to know, having to have
the answers and understand, you know, be in control in
(49:15):
some way. But I see both sides. I think you
guys are forgetting about all the gold. There's a lot
of gold and gets silver buried under these rivers and
next to the ships. We got to find that gold.
Maybe the heart of the ocean is down there. Maybe. Well,
(49:37):
don't don't lose hope, though, because as for the odds
of finding these long forgotten resting places and these corpses
that have disappeared, uh, we can end on a somewhat
less bleak note. We do find these things. I can't
believe I've forgot to mention this last episode, we recently
discovered another famous royal body, King Richard the Third, himself
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the Hunchback of Shakespearean fame. His body was lost to
antiquity until two thousand twelve when somebody found it underneath
the parking lot. It's that's not a joke, that's not kidding. Yeah,
that's real. That's real. He also didn't really have a hunchback. Um.
This kind of thing has occurred a couple of times,
(50:22):
not necessarily with a king over someone of this statue,
but an interesting unmarked grave that was found underneath a
building somewhere where there's just been a building for a
couple of decades and it just happened to get cemented
over or in this you know whatever case bricked over
or would it over? Would it over? Paved over, bricked over?
(50:46):
Whatever it is built a top. Yeah, and this is
in a way an inspiring optimistic thing. We want to
hear your stories and we want to hear what your
take is. Is this worthwhile? Is this waste of time?
There is clearly more out there? What what are some
of the mysteries maybe in your neck at the Global
(51:08):
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Famous Tombs Part one and then Famous Tums Part one
has some pretty pretty crazy insights. While you're there, you
may also want to listen to our Jengis Khan episode
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One quick clarification we want to make when we did
our we did our episode on the Ants cult in
the Czech Republic. Uh, we had some currumb case. Yes,
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that's correct, thank you. We had some confusion. We didn't
explicit lea say it. Both of the boys in that
case did in fact survive, and I believe it was
me at some point who said I believe one of
them died. It's a translation error on my part. So
to be clear, there is a little bit of a
(02:15):
happy ending for those kids. They did. They did make it.
This survived and into adulthood. They've got Facebook's the whole line. Yeah,
just in case you survived that episode. Uh, because it
is a it is an early one. Um. But yeah,
that's that's thank you man. That's important to know. Oh
thanks to everyone on Twitter and Instagram and Facebook and
(02:37):
so on who wrote to us to ask for clarification
or point that out without further ado. Assuming you've heard
Famous Tombs, Part one, here's where it gets crazy. We're
starting right with getting crazy at the top. Well, this
was originally supposed to be just one episode. Now it's true.
Let's let's break it down. There are a lot of
people that died, a lot more people than our current
(03:00):
living and well, not that have ever lived, because obviously
if you had died, you lived in spoiler alert, everyone
who's alive right now gonna die, possibly probably, but not definitely.
And also it's hard to bury everybody. Not everybody was buried,
so only some of the most important people are going
to have tombs that remain from hundreds of years ago.
(03:22):
That's where we find ourselves. And even those tombs didn't
fare as well as their creators had hoped, right look
upon my works, you mighty, and so on. So it's strange.
There there is one surprise that I found that maybe
we can save till the end. But let's let's start
with um, let's start with lost grave sites. Right, was
(03:43):
that where that was where we were earlier? Right, I
think we had a whole category to start fresh with.
So Wolfgang other day as Mozart, you've you've probably heard
of it, right, Mozart in the Jungle, Mozart in the City.
I was confusing with Beethoven for no good reason. Beethoven's
(04:04):
the one who went death yea. Mozart was like the
magic flute did sauba flute. He was also he was
living a wild rock star life. I didn't know this,
but he had tons of mistresses. His wife actually kicked
him out of the of the house they shared together.
And there was a great comic us on a recent
(04:26):
Netflix series who described Mozart's lifestyle and pointed out how
difficult it would be in the time of which he
lived for your wife to kick you out of that house.
Like the bar for behavior given, you know, patriarchal attitudes
was so low that you really had to be going
ham and Bacon. You know. I've never seen Amadeus. It's great. Yeah, yeah,
(04:50):
it's a good film. Saliary that was like his nemesis. Okay,
they were beefed up apparently. Yeah, it's been a while
since I saw it, but it's master full performance. I think. Yeah,
it's no Police Academy for but what is exactly you know?
I mean even Police Academy didn't have their stride until
well after Police Academy three. What happened in four? What
(05:13):
Happened in four? You have to watch it? Really, Yeah,
it's just I don't want to cheapen the cinematic experience
for you. They all kind of run together in my mind.
I may have only seen I may have only ever
seen Police Academy one. WHOA, I'm sorry, dude, I fired No,
we should get together and watch those and then just
watch all of them. Then not stop and watch all
the Naked Gun series. There's only two Naked Gun movies.
(05:38):
I'm so sorry. They all kind of blur together in
my mind there and then watch Amadeus, which is sort
of the spiritual companion piece, two Naked Gun thirty three
and a third and Police Academy for and then get
back to Last Tunes Part two. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart remains
one of the most influential classical composers of all time.
(06:00):
That's not hyperbole. The guy was just that good. Uh.
He died on December five in sev And maybe this
is unfamiliar to a lot of people, but the circumstances
of his death remain murky today, and there are over
a hundred theories about what happened. Well, especially for someone
that you know, I'm see is a long time ago,
(06:22):
but it's not that long ago. It's not as though
there wasn't somebody looking at his body after his death
and going there that's probably this. But again, when you're
dealing with something about poison or something that kills you
internally in and then it's probably a lot more difficult. Yeah,
a ton of people thought he had been poisoned because
(06:42):
again and he was living wild. He probably had a
lot of that, perhaps spurned lovers, but it may have
sought revenge. Maybe he contracted something from his wild lifestyle.
That's possible, quite possible. Yeah, maybe he just had. You know,
at this time in human street, it's disturbingly easy for
(07:03):
what we would consider a common everyday infection to grow
unchecked and kill you, you know, like an infectious disease
like rheumatic fever. So on. So Mozart died, and that
is where our story about Mozart begins off to a
great note. I the records seemed indicate that he was
sealed in a wooden coffin and buried in a plot
(07:25):
along with four to five other people, and that there
was a wooden marker used to identify this technically speaking
mass grave. That is so strange to me that he
didn't wasn't in like um a place that was venerated
a little bit more. Um m hm, very strange. But anyway,
this idea that he was, you know, perhaps buried with
(07:47):
several other people gave rise to the commonly accepted myth
that he was buried in a popper's grave what was
known as a popper's grave at the time, a a
less wealthy person's grave, specifically because of the debts that
he accrued over the course of his pretty crazy life
that we talked about. Probably wasn't like party debts. Yeah,
I mean, those royalties never got to come in for Mozart, really,
(08:10):
that's true. And didn't he largely exist on kind of
a like a patronage kind of model when he was alive? Yeah,
I believe so ye artists model, so he is. He's
buried not the best financial situation. And this idea, this
(08:31):
idea of in turing our loved ones with four to
five other people, might today be something that we associate
with poverty or with crime, you know what I mean,
Like that's how merciless government or a drug cartel, if
those things are still different today, that's how they would
bury people. That's now decent folks bury people, right, But
(08:53):
this was the standard practice for middle income families at
the time. This his death is murky and unexplained for it,
his burial was surprisingly normal, right, So the burial of
groups of people in one grave was organized um and
dignified UM, and it differed significantly from the images of
(09:16):
large open pits now that you think of when the
term mass grave gets thrown around. Mozart may not have
died rich, but he was admired UM. He had friends
and they came to his widow's aid. They helped her
pay his debts and his funeral costs. There was many
large grave side gatherings and grand funerals um were not
(09:37):
really a thing to do in Vienna during this period,
so Mozart's burial was likely very simple. But a church
service was certainly held in his honor, and he was
buried as a man of his social standing would have
been at the time. UM. At this point Mozart had
a grave. However, at some stage during the next five
to fifteen years, his plot was dug up to make
(10:00):
room for more burials. Yeah, this is a practice they
picked up combating epidemics and plagues did and eventually we
have to make more room for the dead so that
the living can live. The bones were reinterred, they may
have been crushed to reduce their size, and as a
consequence of this, the position of Mozart's grave was lost. Again.
(10:24):
This we're paying more attention to this because it was Mozart,
this amazing composer. This was also fairly common practice for
someone living in Vienna at the time, and some historians
have suggested that maybe there's a little bit of a
pr spin here, a bit of post mortem propaganda. And
I've never heard this at all before. Really, yeah, this
(10:46):
was this was new to me as well. Uh. The
idea is that Mozart's widow constants may have encouraged the
pauper's burial story or even started it, uh to make
the public more interested in her husband's work and then
to come see her perform Mozart's pieces is compositions. It
(11:11):
sounds like something that you might hear about in the
social media age, where you, you know, you start a
video or something about, oh my gosh, my loved one
died and they were just put here and these are
the terrible circumstances that we're going through. But check this out.
While I sing this song that my loved one that
just died wrote that you can find on iTunes right now. Yeah. Yeah,
(11:35):
and we know, okay, we know that's quite possible depending
on what you're your base level estimation of human ethics
might be, you know, and there are a lot of
there are a lot of circumstances that are probably lost
to history. We do know that grave space was at
a premium back then. It's still a problem that local
(11:56):
um municipal organizations in the area have to worry about, frankly,
and people were given one grave for a few years,
then moved to an all purpose smaller area. But here's
here's one strange thing. We may have lost Mozart's grave,
but someone may have his skull. Is it Nicholas Cage, Yeah,
(12:20):
he has it in his pyramid, right next to his
t rex skull. No, it's okay, let's let's get to
the real thing here. It's called the Salzburg Mozarteum. That's
kind of cool. Mozarteum. Mozart stas right in Salzburg. Yes,
they were presented with this pretty morbid gift at one point,
and it's supposedly Mozart skull. Interesting but surely unconfirmed, unconfirmed
(12:45):
but looking good. Yeah, who who the the skull belonged
to someone who died in a way that's consistent with
Mozart symptoms before death. What were those buttons we talked
about in the last Thomas Paine Thomas Paine buttons. It's
kind of like a thing where you could probably confirm
(13:05):
roughly the age of the skull and how this person
met their end, but don't We also not really know
how Mozart die. There was no trauma to the skull
or anything. It was Yeah, he had symptoms that were
he had symptoms upon which we could build a couple
of theories for death. Poison doesn't really check out in
(13:27):
this scenario. But here's how the story goes. And this
is already sort of a legend. Allegedly, a grave digger,
during the reorganization of Mozart's original grave, was struck by
a pang of conscience and said, I, you know, I
can't let Mozart's skull go gently into that good night, rage, rage, etcetera.
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And he took the skull. He stole it. Essentially scientific
testing so far as not being able to confer hurm
or deny that the skull belonged to Mozart. But and
this goes back to what you were asking. No, there's
evidence on the skull to determine that whomever originally was
the I guess possessor of the skull, whosever skull it was,
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they died due to something called chronic hamatoma, which would
be consistent with some of mozart symptoms Before death. He
had a lot of swelling. He had things that look
like maybe not an infection in the kidneys, but his
kidneys were We're not working correctly now. Even now, there's
several medical theories about the exact cause of his death,
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but people who are using the skull as a basis
for those theories have to admit no one, No one
is on shirts Mozart skull yet. Yeah, because you'd have
to have another part of the body right to test
that you could confirm was Mozart, to get some DNA
from that or maybe a descendant. Could you do that?
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Otherwise you're using genetic genealogy trying to maybe fit in
within a family tree somewhere. Uh. Interesting, I wonder are
there any descendants of Mozart alive and kicking? Are you
a descendant of Mozart? Let us know not the other show,
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but there might be a lot more children and most
art than than they're aware, just because of those wild
times he was having. M It looks like Mozart's to
surviving sons died without descendants that we know of. And
this is the end of mozart story, but not our show. Uh,
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stay tuned, will take a brief break for a word
from our sponsors. We're back. Okay. So Mozart has a
lot of legends surrounding his death. But as we saw
when you when you scrutinize this, a lot of it's normal,
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other than the fact that someone apparently stole a skull
and have they've been passing year round for three years. Uh.
This next tale concerned someone who is purposely buried in
secret and hopes that their body would never be found.
And it's a guy named Attila the Hun. But who
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is that? Who is that? You know? Well, you've definitely
heard the name before, but you may only know the
broad outlines of Oh that it's Antila Hun. That sounds familiar.
It's kind of like that uh Genghis guy, right, not
that Jengas dude, But it sounds like the Genghis guy
for sure. Um. But even the most prominent scholars in
the field, people who would actually be studying someone like
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Until the hun Consider this person Until an international man
of mystery of sorts. Not necessarily in Austin powers, but
you know, uh, get in that same ballpark. Yeah, this,
this guy who appears to have come just out of
the blue or at least his origins or somewhat murky,
became an incredibly terrifying and dangerous conqueror in the early
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fifth century. He led a group of a group of
communities that were allied together that we're collectively known as
the Huntick Empire, and they terrorized the Eastern and Western
Roman empires. And I have the ideas of communities terrorizing
an empire like that, Like is this like some would
be considered clans, some would be tribes, some would be
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bands exactly, would be conscripted slaves exactly. It's just a
really interesting way to frame it, because ultimately that's what
those groups are. It's a community of people working together
for goals. It just happens to be to terrorize in
not quite as vicious as your local h o A
from what I will stand, right, but at least the
h o A stays in one place I think that
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George Lucas was inspired by Until the Hunt when he
named Jabba the Hut. I think it's quite possible. Yeah,
I think it's quite possible. I should ask him. Yeah,
he's kind of hard to get to. He lives in
a compound. He doesn't really go outside very much. Job
of the Hut. People are still mad about those prequels.
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I read a very this. This has not too much
to do with today's episode, but just a side note
because they don't think we can make a full episode
about this. There's a fantastic fan theory slash conspiracy theory
regarding jar Jar Binks and the prequels. The argument being
that jar Jar Binks, when Lucas still like control of
the franchise, was originally intended to be revealed as a
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Sith lord. You heard that man familiar with that one,
and he was literally the key to everything in that
first movie and what eventually he was going to be
the key to everything in the whole series. Man, George
really liked that character, didn't he He doubled down, you
know what I mean. There's to each their own, but
he doubled down. You can see some videos arguing this theory,
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and I gotta admit I'm not persuaded, but it made
you think he certainly ended up being a sith lord
in our minds, yes, yes, the sith lord in our minds,
in our hearts, in our hearts. Yeah. So the jar Jar,
like Untila the Hunt, may well played a mysterious role
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in history. We know, we know a pretty good bit
about the movements of Attila and co movements of the Hun,
and we know about their military campaigns, but most of
the information about Attila himself comes from his enemies at
the time, which we run into a lot. You know,
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people people who hunt witches are writing about which is
they're not going to say the nicest thing about which
is right. And most of hunting literature compound is the
problem because it was passed down orally, so people were
just telling stories to each other, playing telephone again, and
bit by bit that stuff disappeared or got absorbed into
other empires. People still don't agree on exactly where Attila
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the Hun was from, and they also don't really know
what he looked like except for one description, like one
paragraph from one guy who went to the court. And
people have made entire academic careers off off that paragraph.
But fast forward. Here's a conqueror, uh, not not quite
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as successful probably as Alexander the Great, but a huge
threat to the Roman Empires at the time. And then
he died, and then he died, and that's where our
story begins. Every yes, exactly again, oh man um. He
died sometime in March at a feast celebrate eating his
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latest marriage, and people are still arguing about exactly how
he died surprise, surprise, to this day. And there are
four prevailing theories about this. Theory. Number one is that
in the midst of this sire uh, this revelry and
of course some heavy drinking that accompany, he suffered a
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severe nose bleed and choked to death in a drunken,
bloody stupor gross. Do you want to hear the theory?
Number two? Remember the Children of the Corn Too movie. Oh,
I could not tell you anything about that. Well, I
just remember there's one part where they have like a
voodoo doll of this woman and they stick a knife
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in her nose and she gets like a she bleeds
to death from a nose bleed. That's kind of how
I picture this going down. Okay, here's theory number two,
Um that possibly again we're talking about heavy drinking at
the party and something there was a complication because of this.
But in this case, it's internal bleeding, something called esophageal varices,
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where these dilated veins in the lower part of the
esophagus in your your neck there but lower a little bit,
they rupture, leading to death by bleeding out hemorrhage essentially.
Ah okay, So like he either bled out in the
nasal area or in the throat area. That's what we
just coughing up blood. Yeah, so either way, this was
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super messy. Yeah, it's choking essentially, you can't breathe. Yeah.
There's this other theory that was recorded about eighty years
after his death by a Roman chronicler named Marcellinus. And
in that report he says Attila, king of the Huns
and ravager of the provinces of Europe, was pierced by
the hand and blade of his wife. So he said, yeah,
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it's art his wife killed him. He had just picked
up he was celebrating, Uh, this his latest marriage. I
think we had said earlier he married pretty frequently. These
were political um alliances at times, and I'm sure in
at least a few cases these were not consensual marriages. Yeah, Marsilian, Marsilian, Marsillian,
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Marsillus Marcellinus did not mention which wife, that's true. I
think we assumed it was his latest wife for a
recent uh. And then that last theory is that he
was assassinated by Roman officials, which is just a natural
thing you would assume, because he was a terrorist in
their eyes, you know what I mean, who couldn't quite
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be caught? So and what were Roman officials good for
if not plotting assassinations? How's kind of their thing? And
it is a big party where there's a lot of
heavy drinking. Again a little bit of that poison if
you looked like he was choking. Yeah, And so they
say he's dead. He explode, blood exploded out of his
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face somehow, don't no further questions. It's time to bury him.
So they get a trip bowl. Um, I guess a
triple leveled or triple shelled coffin. First it's encased in gold,
and that's to show everybody that he was a baller, no, literally,
that he was wealthy and glorious. Is that at the
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is that at the core? So between him there's nothing
between him and the gold essentially, right, okay, right, and
then over the gold silver to show that he's down
with the moon and the river, that he shares kinship
with him, right, and then finally iron to show that
he was most importantly, most outwardly a tough, tough dude.
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So they put some thought into it, but with a
heart of gold, but with a heart of gold quite so,
just so. And this this is strange because here's where
the story takes a turn. Myth and fact get very
difficult to differentiate from this point on. Yeah, it's true, um,
Han engineer is um. They had those at the time
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are said to have diverted the Tisa River long enough
to dry up the main river bed where Attila was
entombed in this magnificent sarcophagus. So then the the waters
were released and they flooded back over the grave site. Um.
And this is this is the thing we've heard about. Actually,
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I think this was the case with the burial of
Jengis Khan as well. And the folks that bore his
casket to sarcophagus to that site were then murdered unequivocally.
And it's possible they may have even known that that
was going to happen, that they were like down with that,
just for the absolute privilege and honor of being able
to carry their their glorious leader to his final resting place.
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At least their immediate family might know maybe or it's
probably secret, right, Yeah, maybe they weren't told, uh, but
they had to know if something was up right. The
sarcophagus stood out, And I appreciate you pointing out the
similarities with Jengis Khan because there's also that river legend
about the Khan, right, So maybe these stories got combined
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over time, but that is I mean, I love that
idea that somewhere at the bottom of a river that's
where rests. It also points to a possible cultural or
ancestral commonality between uh, the the Hunt community and the
Mongol community some sort you know, at least in this
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funereal practice. So yeah, as you said, no details ever emerged.
Where exactly is he buried? We don't know. We've heard
that he's at the bottom of this river, right, sleeping
with the fishes, sleeping under the fishes technically because that
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heavy coffin would have sank and quite possibly with untold treasures, right, Yeah,
it does make you want to somehow I'll find a
way to travel a river and just like with a
metal detector or something. Hey, yeah, I love uncharted man
untold treasures. But let's speculate. You think there was some
like nice neck pieces in there, some chains. Weapon definitely
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like is lucky not lucky, but you know whatever is prized,
sword or spear or something. Yeah, probably varied in full armor, jewels?
Why possibly? Yeah, encrusted. I love it when things are encrusted.
Maybe maybe worked bone carved, bone stones, things like that. Yeah.
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Maybe a bed bath and beyond card? No, not good enough.
Can you imagine how much money until the hun or
Jenkis Conn or somebody would have on a bed bath
and beyond card. I don't think they paid for things, Yeah,
that's true. I think they would just ride the horse
in and go reeving. Yeah, but who knows. Maybe if
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they had a coupon that would change it. Maybe if
they say, well off, it's virtually free. Anyway, that's how
we fixed the world and stop everybody from hurting each
other and being so mad, build bed bath and beyond
and just give everybody gift cards. Oh man, I don't
you know. I think I knock that mail or that
they send out just because it is so ubiquitous, Like
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do you get them at your houses? Of course? Yeah,
I am a human being and you have a bed, bath,
and beyond. I've always wondered what the beyond. I guess
beyond just all the non bed and bath related items kitchen. Yeah, well,
it really depends on the intonation you use when you
hit beyond. I think I've mentioned this before, but this
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is particularly appropriate for this episode. In my hometown, there's
a store called Caskets and More. Remember that, Okay, I see,
and it's again it's the intonation. Yeah, but I think
with Caskets and More it's it's a little more said ster.
I love it though, And the fact that Attila the
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Hunt's grave site is lost to history until somebody diverts
a river just to see what what voracity there may
be to this story. Uh, that still hasn't stopped cities, villages,
and towns in the area from advertising themselves as the
genuine location of the grave of Attila the Hunt. So
if you'd like to suspend your disbelief just a bit,
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feel free to travel to Hungary and then snap a
selfie in front of any variety of here lies until
of the hunt signs. You know what I mean, I'm there, Yeah,
just pointed you know what, They just pointed a river.
It's so it's so morbid. But if you think about it,
someone has died in every river on this planet. I
hope I didn't just ruin rivers for everyone. Maybe not
(29:50):
every creek, but every river. The water keeps flowing, So
here we go. That one doesn't bother me as much.
Lakes still though, lakes did um Chef Scott Benjamin about
this before we go to break We did an episode
years and years back about how many cars have been
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found in lakes when they dry up just even fifteen
ft from the shoreline. It's disturbing. It's way more than
you think, and just in the US, far far more.
Al Right, Well, let's go to the lake everybody, No,
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you know, UM, I don't want to go on a tangent.
But Lakeland near up near where I grew up, there's
some there's some creepiness of that lake because as man
made it's all, you know, it was flooded and everything.
There are no natural lakes in Georgia, and they everyone
talks about how there's supposedly a church down there and everything,
and they're all these legends about what's at the bottom
of this really murky, gross looking lake. That is wonderful
(30:52):
and I love Lakelyan near and go visit if you
get a chance. But it just has this creepy quality
to it. But I believe they're some sand to that
matt because there were structures there that were flooded. That's
a true story, right, yeah, but some of it is
a little far fetched in my eyes. Even if you
look back at the historical record. Some of the things
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that come out are pure legend. But they're fun. I
don't you know what. Let's have a creepy conversation about
this off air while we're playing a word from our sponsor. Okay, No,
that's fine, Yeah, yeah, I just agree to disagree. I'm
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I'm okay with that. A right. No, I think you're
both wrong. Sorry, you had to see that. We have
to remember that we're friends. We can't let these off
air conversations tear our friendship apart. You're right. Let me
apply a little bit more of this mats on Death's
door right now. And he's still here for you. By you,
I mean you the listeners. He reminds me in many
(32:00):
ways of Sir Francis Drake. Oh me too, I remind myself. Okay, Uh, Well,
who's other than minding everyone vaguely of of our pal
Matt Frederick. Who is Sir Francis Drake. Well, he was
this fifty six year old guy that apparently unfortunately died.
(32:21):
He was born in fifteen forty. He lived until January fifteen,
nineties six. Uh, and he was an English explorer who
was involved in things such as you might know of piracy,
illicit slave trading. Uh. He also became the second person
ever to circumnavigate the globe. But his name. When you
hear Sir Francis Drake, you a lot of times, if
(32:44):
you're not a big history buff, you just imagine in
my head this explorer. Um this I'm speaking personally here
because his name has been mentioned in so many video
games and all these things. But a lot of times
you don't get the context, the full context at least
of what somebody like this their life and what they did. Yeah,
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he did quite a bit. He sailed around the globe
when that was a big deal. Still is right, it
still is. Uh. He was acquainted with the Halls of Power.
Is definitely not a not a great person, so don't
fall for a lot of the romanticization you may read
(33:26):
about Drake. His circumnavigation was also a pirate mission technically,
well in a way. It almost kind of had to
be in this weird, messed up way, But I guess
that's idea. That's the idea of I need to get supplies.
However I can get supplies. Oh and this is good
foreshadowing of what happens to him, because his expedition was
(33:47):
officially a journey for knowledge of voyage of Discovery, but
he also had a secret agreement with Queen Elizabeth that
along the way on this quote unquote voyage of dis jovery,
he would attack and assault and terrorized the Spanish any
way that he could, particularly if it meant disrupting their
(34:10):
shipping roots. So as soon as they got into this
Pacific uh, he almost made it more of a priority
to plunder Spanish ships and rob ports than he did
to actually go all the way around the world, and
he he stole a lot of stuff. He eventually returned
(34:31):
home from that trip as the world's most wealthy pirate.
He got knighted too, for his efforts right by the queen,
he got knighted as well, UH, and the Spanish king
put a massive price on his head from because from
fifteen seventy until the end of his life, this guy
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is out to get the Spanish, and King Philip the
Second UH offered a bounty of twenty gets for his head.
That was the equivalent of millions of dollars today when
he came back from his worldwide um piracy escapades. You're right, Matt,
he was knighted. And then in eight he participated the
(35:17):
English defeat of the Spanish Armada, and he went on
to become a tremendously influential figure in his even in
his own day. Uh. And then he died, and that
is where our story begins in fifteen at least with
this one, we do know how he died. He died
of dysentery. So no one's like secretly poisoned, no one's
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like exploding blood face. He went out Oregon trail style.
He went out Oregon trail style. He did, he really did.
And he never got to Oregon, No, not without trying.
So what did they do? Because the Spanish were on
their backs. They hated this guy so much and for
very good reason that they were actively searching for his
(36:00):
corpse because they wanted to like do stuff to it
and then get the bounty from King Philip show bring him,
like bring him the head, but let's do some stuff
to it first. Sure. So Drake had a burial at
sea UM, as was custom for a sailor type such
as himself. Um. He was buried in a leadlined coffin
(36:23):
near the bay of a Portabello um a few miles
off the coastline. It is supposed that his final resting
place is near the wrecks of two British ships, the
Elizabeth and the delight Um, which scuttled in Portobello Bay. Yeah. Yeah,
he was planning on this in advance. He said, if
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I die, when I die, sink the ships sink me,
to bury me in a coffin in the dark depths
of the ocean, because I do not want those Spaniards
to get their hands on me. He was also buried
in full armor for his request, because he really did
(37:04):
like his His plan was that if these chips were
purposely stuttled, if he were buried at sea in a
leadline coffin to keep his remains from somehow rising right
as they decay and separate, that he would be able
to prevent the Spanish from finding and desecrating his remains.
And that was his genuine fear. Like have you ever
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anyone listening, have you ever been at a point in
your life where you think there are people who are
interested enough in your death that they would desecrate your body.
I don't know. That seems strange. Yeah, that's that's out there.
But in his case, yeah, people would definitely want to
desecrate his body. Like those those people are living very
(37:50):
high stakes lives. Yeah, definitely. Um, well, yeah, I guess
the whole point. I mean, I didn't even realize that
you could seal. I guess. Yeah, it's obvious you could
seal of a coffin at that point in time in history. Um,
a leadlined coffin. Actually get that much of a seal
where water isn't going to seep in, where um the
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way it is going to keep him at the bottom.
That's um, that's intense. Francis Drake, excuse me, sir, that's right.
That man sailed around the world robbing people blind. I
can't forget about that. Fast forward to two thousand eleven.
There's a guy who owns sports teams. He's also a
pirate enthusiast. He reads a book about Francis Drake and
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he says, you know what, I'm going to find this
fleet and this guy's body. This pirate enthusiast and sports
team owners named Pat Crochet like Jim Crochy, and he
claimed that he and a team of his treasure hunters
had discovered two ships off the coast of Panama, and
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the ships that they found they believed to be the
Elizabeth and the Delight, which would mentioned earlier Noll Elizabeth
being a tons ship and Delight being a fifty tons ship.
And as you know, most speculation places Drake's body and
conference somewhere in that area, and they focused on Portobello
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Bay after they hired a guy named Trevor McHenry two
pinpoint areas where the ships might have gone down, but
very quickly they ran into a gray area. When it
comes to the protection of British shipwrecks, when it comes
to anything from the Age of Empire, that's right under
the Protection of Military Remains Act of nineteen six. British
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Naval vessels anywhere in the world are protected from exploitation. However,
there's one little caveat here. The the Act only covers
certain ships which sunk since nineteen fourteen, and only British
citizens can be prosecuted under it, which is a bit
of a problem right there. So there's a lot of
history and ships that sailed before nineteen fourteen. And if
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it's only British citizens, anybody else who's outside coming in
doesn't have to even worry about this. Yeah, So this
is where they get to an interesting thing. I'm there's
an organization called the Joint Nautical Archaeology Policy Committee sexy
name right, he's still my heart, uh, and they have
been pressing the United Kingdom's government for years to ratify
(40:31):
some international agreements on the protection of what they would
call underwater cultural heritage, you know what I mean. So
the guy in charge of the Joint Nautical Archaeology Policy Committee,
it's got him Robert Yorke. I don't know if he's
a relation to Tom, but he told the BBC if
these are Drake ships, they are presumably sovereign and immune.
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So why isn't the British government telling these people to
go away? If we ratified the Convention, we can make
sure they were puperly conserved and looked after. But Panama
did ratify the convention, so it's government might act to
protect the wrecks of the ship. And what they mean
when they say protect direct is not not to allow
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someone to attempt an excavation or to a to attempt
an analysis of this site just because they want to.
You know, you have to have government approval, which can
be really really difficult, as we saw in our previous
episode exploring the lives and burials of Nefertid and Cleopatra.
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People in the modern day, very very difficult time trying
to get government approval for any ancient site. And it
makes sense. You don't want everybody to be able to
just go somewhere and start digging, right. And as of
this recording, it's weird because this was reported in two
thousand eleven and we tried, but we couldn't find much
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new information. So as of this recording, it appears Drake's
body has yet to surface and his secrets, whatever they
may be, remain safe in his watery grave. We just
need somebody to go rogue and just go down there
and find it. Against all the government's wishes. Just go
and do it. Nicolas Cage, Yes, we're we're invoking you
(42:25):
and or who else is famous for playing like Frogman
and the Navy Seals and stuff. Oh, we need um
the body Ventura, that's who we need. Yeah, we need
Jesse to go down there, and maybe Jason Statham can
come the rock. We should just assemble a crack team
of action um stars, just the expendables. Go find Sir
(42:49):
Francis Drake. Please. I would watch it. It would be
a different direction from then. I would definitely watch it. Uh.
And that's that's where the story of Drake's body ends
for now. But so far we have just been looking
at the graves of famous dudes. There is another mysterious
(43:10):
lost grave here in the United States in uh New England. Yeah,
here's here's here's the broad Strokes. Mary Dyer I was
born Mary Barrett Um in sixteen eleven. She was an
English teacher and a Colonial American Puritan who became a
Quaker and who was hanged in the Boston, Massachusetts Bay
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Colony for repeatedly defying a Puritan law the banned Quakers
from the colony. Um. She is one of the four
executed Quakers known as the Boston and Martyrs. It's it's
a true story. It might not be familiar to a
lot of people because she may not be famous in
the current celebrity since you know, she's not an Instagram, right,
(43:56):
But Mary Dyer was a tremendously important person in the
world of religious freedom during her lifetime. Her sin was
converting from Puritanism to Quakerism, primarily because of these doctrinal differences.
Quakers believed that people could interface directly with God or
(44:20):
here directly from God without needing um and a middle
a middle layer, an intermediary like a clergyman or something.
It's funny in twenty nineteen, that doesn't seem like that
big of a deal or that big of a difference,
But my goodness, that is an entire paradigm shift for
the power structure. Yeah, right, dangerous for dangerous for her
(44:45):
and this, yeah, this was a huge idea. It threatened
the authority of the church leaders and they they were
so threatened of this that they had already banned Quakers
from living in Massachusetts. Dire went into exile and Rhode Island,
but then she returned to Boston to support two friends
who were imprisoned for their beliefs. All three were sentenced
(45:05):
to death, but then at the last moment they said, no,
you're just banished. Get out of town, don't return like
the beginning of the Witch, except Mary Dyer came back
again speaking out for religious freedom. So she eventually was
put to death. She was hanged. She was buried in
an unmarked plot in the sixt sixty and today we
(45:29):
still don't know where the grave is. Was she buried,
as some had said in Boston commons. Was her body
stolen and in turned on a family farm. Was it
put to the wind? No one knows. Nobody knows. And
then we have just one last thing. This is the
(45:51):
thing that I don't know about, you guys. It surprised
me when I learned about it. Steve Jobs is buried
in an unmarked grave. His family and he specifically requested,
now we can't worship him. Now you still can look
at my thing. Just yeah, just we all worship him.
(46:12):
We worship him constantly, and we look at our phones
all day long. And these are these laptops in front
of us, or are our watches? It's the worry was
that people would go to his grave and either maybe
desecrate it or just try to leave their own intrusive tributes.
The thing is, this isn't this is in Silicon Valley.
So many people feel that they have discovered the exact location,
(46:36):
and they will swear it's confirmed it's in a cemetery.
Do you think if they did give him a grave
it would have been made entirely of glass. I don't know.
It's like like the Apple store. It would have looked
like an Apple store. Oh, I mean maybe in a way.
Then that's that's on brand. I guess alright, p Steve
jobs and that guy certainly was an innovator. But if
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you have you read any of some of his quotes,
terrible person seemed like a real, real terrible person, real
Meani falsely used handicap license that like car tags too,
so we could park in handicap spaces. Um, I'm trying
to provide a counterpoint somewhere in here. Kids, he doesn't
acknowledge Steve Waugh kick puppies experience, right? Was Wosniac? Okay?
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How was he the nicer? Yeah? Everybody's weird in their
own way, right. I guess we'll do a show on
Apple in the future. Tell us your Steve Jobs secrets.
You know what else? You know what else? Everyone is
in their own way, man, Special, that's right, Special. I
was gonna bring up some Mr Rogers. Yeah, now that's
a serious R. I p Steve Jobs. I mean, I
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like my iPhone, but I could take him or leave it.
Mr Rogers, that guy was a national treasure. Unfortunately, um
fortunately we know Mr Rogers the location of his resting
place For the rest of these and again we've just
scratched the surface here. The question remains, will we ever
find any of these graves? You know? In some cases yeah,
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in other cases absolutely not, because the people have been
scattered into the wind, the remains have been made into buttons,
their remains have been stolen by secret societies. That is
true again checkout episode one. But we have to end
on some questions. Uh, you know we asked these earlier.
What benefits do these searches have for modern human human civilization?
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Is this a waste of money? Should we focus on
feeding the people who are starving to death? Now? Are
loaded questions? I know, I know, or because we can
spend it the other way? Or um, are we investing
in the future by learning more about the past. Those
are very I think they're both very strong arguments. Sure,
I asked this question we did the Jengas con episode.
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I it feels to me very much like a waste
of time, like who cares? But then you pointed out
very correctly, Ben, that it does. There are artifacts that
could teach us things about the past that are there
to be discovered potentially. Um. I was more hung up
on the idea of having to know, having to have
the answers and understand, you know, be in control in
(49:15):
some way. But I see both sides. I think you
guys are forgetting about all the gold. There's a lot
of gold and gets silver buried under these rivers and
next to the ships. We got to find that gold.
Maybe the heart of the ocean is down there. Maybe. Well,
(49:37):
don't don't lose hope, though, because as for the odds
of finding these long forgotten resting places and these corpses
that have disappeared, uh, we can end on a somewhat
less bleak note. We do find these things. I can't
believe I've forgot to mention this last episode, we recently
discovered another famous royal body, King Richard the Third, himself
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the Hunchback of Shakespearean fame. His body was lost to
antiquity until two thousand twelve when somebody found it underneath
the parking lot. It's that's not a joke, that's not kidding. Yeah,
that's real. That's real. He also didn't really have a hunchback. Um.
This kind of thing has occurred a couple of times,
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not necessarily with a king over someone of this statue,
but an interesting unmarked grave that was found underneath a
building somewhere where there's just been a building for a
couple of decades and it just happened to get cemented
over or in this you know whatever case bricked over
or would it over? Would it over? Paved over, bricked over?
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Whatever it is built a top. Yeah, and this is
in a way an inspiring optimistic thing. We want to
hear your stories and we want to hear what your
take is. Is this worthwhile? Is this waste of time?
There is clearly more out there? What what are some
of the mysteries maybe in your neck at the Global
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Woods or if you were a treasure hunter, an adventurer,
an archaeologist, what would be your number one quest? What
would be your Oak Island money pit for instance, and why.
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Are we do for another voicemail episode? Those are probably?
Hopefully I think we should knock one out. I like it.
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Let's make a six parter? Yeah, sure, why not? We'll
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