July 23, 2025 • 67 mins
We're back from our summer hiatus with a bang! Join us as we dive into the world of unusual and bizarre historical deaths. From the infamous Euphort Latrine Disaster to the peculiar Segway fatality, to Gil's favorite, the legendary London Beer Flood.
ALL OUR LINKS: https://bcr.link/s
PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/BlackCatReport
Beer, Boos and Boogeymen (B3): https://ghost.beer/
CONNECT:
Email: contact@blackcat.report
Submit Episode Ideas: https://bcr.link/ideas
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/black_cat_report/
SOURCES:
https://allthatsinteresting.com/erfurt-latrine-disaster
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erfurt_latrine_disaster
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clement_Vallandigham
https://www.tba.org/?pg=LawBlog&blAction=showEntry&blogEntry=13146
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimi_Heselden
https://thehistorypress.co.uk/article/the-london-beer-flood/
https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofBritain/The-London-Beer-Flood-of-1814/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Beer_Flood
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Hayes_(jockey)
Mark as Played
Transcript
Episode Transcript
Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
(00:01):
There's shit everywhere, drowning in the thick, smelly
sludge. You can't get out.
It's smothering you. And just as you move your hands
to find a gun in the pocket, would it be better to end it
all? Maybe.
But just as you get that thoughtout of your head, you hear an
(00:22):
explosion. and beer starts filling up the spaces in between
the sludge. All you can do is sink faster.
It's almost over. This is the end.
Or is it? Welcome to the Black Cat Report
(01:11):
in episode 135, fresh off our summer random hiatus.
I am Joey and with me is the mightiest, the brightest, the
fightiest, and the top flightiest, Gil.
Hello everybody. Hope you all have been well.
(01:33):
God, we've missed Black Cat Report.
We've missed all of you. That hiatus, Kicked my hiate
ass, that's for sure. Yeah, but we missed you guys and
we're so glad to be- we see you pulling into the livestream
right now. We're glad that you all are
here. not going to continue the Palmyra Atoll series this week,
(01:57):
but we will be doing it next week.
We'll be finishing up. We wanted to put in a little bit
of a small palette cleanser, if you can call it that with the
beginning. ah It's basically horrifically funny deaths and we
can laugh at those, I think so. mean, they're dead.
Why would they care? That's what I always say. um
(02:17):
We're just going to assume they don't have families and that
people didn't like them. And then it'll be fine.
You know, morally, it'll be okay.
Yeah. are recent. yeah, we'll have fun with that one.
But today, yeesh, we're going todelve into some unusual deaths
throughout history from medievaltimes all the way up until now.
(02:41):
Also, if you were looking for updates, far as beer booze and
bogeyman and all things BCR stick through the episode and
we'll get to them right at the end.
You ready to go? think I'm ready.
I'm ready to celebrate our anniversary with Def.
Exactly, I feel like that was the perfect way to do it.
(03:04):
We're going to start our first unusual death throughout history
with a more of a smelly death, Iguess, as I kind of prefaced in
the intro. Probably one of the worst smelly
deaths in history. This was called the Euphort
Latrine Disaster, or in German, Euphorte Latrinistus.
So pardon my German, I tried my best, but it literally means
(03:28):
latrine disaster. in July. don'twant to be associated with
anything that has the title which includes latrine disaster
Those words should never go together I'm excited Oh my god
(03:49):
White Castle could you imagine something called the White
Castle latrine disaster, bro Dude, I'm pretty sure that this
was part of it. um I'm pretty sure that's everyone's house
after White Castle um Well, you know, their toilet, I guess.
Kraken the porcelain. This is giving us a whole new
(04:11):
name. Why do you think they call them
sliders? um In July 1184 AD, in the
German city of Ithet, which at the time was part of the Holy
Roman Empire, the Empire of the 6th uh who
(05:10):
hence Stülfen dynasty. There's a lot of German,
Germanic names that I'm going toalso struggle through.
Yep. Thank you. doing great.
Full confidence. Just blitz that pronunciation,
sir. Exactly.
And there also are a lot of KingHenry's throughout the history.
So King Richard the Lion, Henry the fourth, fifth, sixth,
seventh, eighth, ninth, tenth, eleventh, a billion of them.
(05:33):
Very common name. During his rule, there was a
conflict that erupted between Conrad of Wittels...
Again, Wittelsbach, who was the Archbishop of Mainz, also known
as Conrad the First. and Ludwig III, who was the land grave of
Thuringia. yeah, sorry, excuse for Max. will say excuse me for
(05:58):
struggling through these names of Germanic places. ah You
can... To learn how to pronounce these
things. for those of y'all that don't know, Max is an incredible
human being. Lives in Germany, does uh
translations, and teaches, I want to say he teaches uh German
(06:21):
folks English. Very astute, very solid in
English. He has been volunteering for...
ever and we've been struggling to find something to meet his
volunteering wishes. uh He's been wanting to find a great UFO
series that he can help translate for the first time
into English for us. So if you know any cases that
(06:44):
are like that, any ah hypnosis tapes or anything like that, we
have quite literally a professional translator ready to
go with Max and we've been looking. ah But yeah, I do
imagine Max at home just being like, 999!
Svynohun! Joey!
Never hit me! Anyways, we love you Max. in way
(07:10):
better English than me. uh, yeah.
Yeah. So what my dad said when he
visited Germany, he was like, they spoke way better English
than we did. He's like, they just, they know
how to speak. Um, and they also know a million
languages. Well, the land grave, which
basically this guy was is basically like just under a
(07:32):
Duke, but above the class of counts.
So it's kind of just like. almost a landlord or somebody
with a bunch of different housesaround maybe almost a castle,
but not quite. Um, so has a good bit of power,
but not on the line of Kings. The dispute in itself was
basically just a small land dispute, which happened all the
(07:53):
time. And we look to today, it still
happens. Well, King Heinrich VI wanted to
settle this dispute and get all the people aligned like under
him. While King Heinrich made his way
through the territory, he sent out messengers to each of the
nobles in the area on both sidesof the dispute to gather at St.
Peter's Church. The St.
(08:15):
Peter's Church was one, it really wasn't the only surviving
churches, but it was close enough. like the grounds of it
survived from the period before,but it did burn mostly down in
the year 1080. So it was actually rebuilt in
between the years 1103 and 1147.So a few years before the
(08:37):
disaster happened is just about 37 years rebuilt before until
the disaster itself happened. Well, there were many, many
pretty famous nobles at the timethat arrived at this place.
And Heinrich von Schwarzberg, Hesse Gozmer von Siegenstein,
(08:59):
Frederick von Abendeg, Abendberg.
Baccaro von Wartburg, Berlinger von Mellingen were all these
people they gathered here. And apparently at the time,
yeah, John von Jolvy uh also gathered here on the second day.
Well, after they were all calledand they all gathered, they all
(09:19):
gathered on the second floor of the cathedral's provost office.
Well, it's not quite known how many people were there, but It
is known that there were over a hundred people.
So I would say there's probably like 200 to 300 people at this
place. Maybe 200, I would say closer
to. The newly built church should
(09:42):
have held them all, but due to the combined weight of all the
people on the second floor of the church, all their basic
medieval weaponry there, walkingaround with all the squires and
stuff, the church floor gave way, and over 100 people fell
down right into the depths. Yes.
(10:06):
Oh, there's it. You can't see I'm grabbing the
mic arm. That's why it's moving there. my
God, dude. Fuck, this is good.
Okay, you this is gonna be a series.
Um, we we need to do a series onwhen church goes bad um, because
(10:29):
Dude there there is one place which apparently has the pit of
hell in it. Um, I I want to say it's along
the russian border. It's like one of the countries
the borders along russia or something like that.
Anyways, it's in eastern europe where we're Yeah, yeah, um There
is a large floor made um above this cathedral and the pit is
(10:54):
apparently not known to have a bottom.
And so they basically built a floor over this giant hell pit
that has all these mysteries andall this shit wrapped around it.
um I don't know, but sure. um But it's like.
(11:14):
It's the pit and the pentagram. That's what it basically is.
I watched a long, long documentary that was horribly
translated ah about this spot, and then I forgot to do it for
an episode. But this has happened multiple
times, where entire congregations have fallen a lot
(11:35):
like Lucifer. all I'm saying. Yes, yeah.
But then the Nazis... the Nazis at the time, or around the time
of the Nazis taking over random parts of Europe, um they went
in, took over the castle, and that's one of the places they
were doing their crazy occult shit at, was at this castle,
where in the center of the castle um was this church that
(12:00):
had a floor put over top of a bottomless pit that was supposed
to keep vampires and shit up. But this is like a real place
that exists in the world. um Throwing it out there?
Throwing it out. Throwing it out there.
And Jayden points something out.He said, hear me out.
BCR field trip to the pit. Jayden, fuck yes.
(12:24):
This is why we do the show. Yep, and I have horrible fear of
heights. It's true, but not depth.
You know what, actually, I scubadived for a few times and I
loved it. Well, as all these people
(12:45):
gathered there, the floor below them cracked and everybody fell
on over 100 people. During this time, bathrooms were
basically holes in the floor anddown below the holes in the
floor was just an open area dug out with shovels similar to a
pit. but in this time period, it's supposed to go and flow out
(13:08):
into the moat. But, and this problem, there's
no way to get down there to clean it out.
They would have to be lowered down in there, but then they
would get stuck and it'd be really bad.
So latrine systems would just fill up with no way to get rid
of the shit, the piss, everything down there.
And I can only imagine the horrifying smell. because of the
(13:32):
diet of the people during the middle ages of how bad it would
be to be stuck down there. Back to the story.
In between, depending on where you read, 600 to 800 people,
maybe a little over, fell into the latrine as the floor gave
(13:53):
way. oh Stop right there. Um, floor was giving way.
Yet somehow they fell down the space that was only big enough
for poop. No, no, underneath the house,
it's a latrine. So like it's there's a bathroom
(14:15):
where is one round hole and thenit all slides downhill and goes
into this one place underneath the house.
As I said earlier, they dug out trenches underneath the place
underneath the church. That's where all the poop goes.
And it got stuck in this one little area of the underneath
where they were. And the floor gave way and they
(14:36):
fell in. Honestly, I'd pay $1,200 a month
for that, for a house like that in Nashville.
That's... For a studio apartment in
Nashville with like a pit plumbing, I'm here for it.
That's on the low end too. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's
(14:56):
affordable. It's a good deal.
Well, some of them might have died due to the fall itself,
maybe hitting to the rock walls or the iron or the parts of the
wall that fell, but most of themdied after being suffocated by
the pool of shit and piss they fell into.
If you can imagine with me, put on your shit-filled glasses and
(15:20):
putting yourself in their shit-filled boots.
As you stand arguing with another medieval lord, the
wooden and iron floor that you're standing on starts
creaking, creaking, creaking, and you look around and then it
gives way to nothing but poop. And as you fall into it, the
(15:42):
liquid and partly solid excrement surrounds your body
and then slowly envelops you into the depths.
The poop surrounds your neck andthen slowly starts to rise up to
your mouth. You can't help but gasp for air
as the excrement goes into your mouth and then into your nose.
It makes you puke as you add to the liquid putrefaction that
(16:07):
surrounds you. Then you just have no more air.
And as you die, you shit yourself and it just adds to
what's in the latrine. I had to go depth into it
because You guys want this. They want to, they get mad when
you don't go into explicit detail. know and that's how a
(16:27):
hundred of these people died. They fell into a shit pit with
Nothing to save them, but there were two people who survived.
Okay, two people you got some Before you get to the survivors,
um how disappointed would you beif you did the fucking the
(16:55):
ancestry.com or 23andMe, like you did the DNA match.
And they're like, yeah, your family almost went extinct in
the great uh shit pit catastrophe of 1200.
And you're just like, you know what, genealogy kinda sucks
actually, I'm not interested. Yeah, I'm done.
(17:16):
I don't want to know who survived.
Well, I mean, if you survived though, you went through a lot
of shit. Your genes went through a lot of
shit. you realize how much shit my family went through to have
me? And it's true, they did.
Mm-hmm damn. It's like it's like a Titanic on
(17:39):
land Honestly, it's kind of likethe Titanic on land, but with
poop more poop than the Titanic poop tannic. um There was two
people that survived. They didn't actually go into the
poop though. That's how they actually
survived this. The king, luckily, and the
(18:00):
archbishop who was one of the people who started it all
survived by hanging on. They were talking off to the
side and they were sitting in this window alcove that's kind
of stone, kind of iron. and theyuh they like held on for dear
life basically on these rails that are like hold that are
(18:24):
barely holding on and they're sitting there until towns people
I guess the firefighters are like the other nights at the
time came running with ladders the farther fighters came
running with ladders to basically be like we'll get you
king we'll get you archbishop we'll save you and they got him
right before they They're they couldn't hold on anymore and
(18:46):
like grab them basically yank them out and those were the only
two survivors that we know of so.
And this is what happens when you don't pay Your porta potty
bills y'all seriously they will fuck you up because you're
always wondering you know like what happens if I do the whole
(19:09):
like rent-a-john thing and like I don't pay my bill What are
they gonna do about it? This is what they do about it
Yeah, yep, yep, yep If you have a crawl space, it's going to be
a shit space. Yep. crap space now, baby.
Mm-hmm. And not just for your old
furniture and old clothes. Well, that was the end of that
(19:32):
one. The two surviving people,
everyone else died in a shit-covered grave.
To be fair, ain't nobody diggingthose people out.
They just rebuilt over them. They went, you know what?
We're good. Do you think they like, do you
think like they're their family members?
Uh, it's been long enough. It's been almost a thousand
(19:56):
years. Um, almost a thousand years. do
you think that the family like prayed every time they pooped?
You're just like, dear aunt Margaret, I hope you're doing
well. We had your biscuit recipe this
evening. I think you'd use too much lard
(20:22):
in it. I hope this message reaches you
well. That you're swimming with the
angels. And if you don't like poop
jokes, get the fuck away from this episode.
This won't be for you if you can't tell by now.
(20:42):
Yes. with poop jokes. You don't want to know how many
unusual deaths were because of shit.
Because of poop, because of shit.
Not like, they had a heart attack while pooping.
That's a whole nother, like Elvis.
That's a whole nother thing. This is people drowning in poop.
(21:06):
Honestly, the closest I've ever come to faith has been sitting
on the toilet. Like, I don't blame anybody for
that, you know what I'm saying? I've had some moments where it's
like, am expelling Satan. I am actively involved in an
exorcism, right? I am actively involved in a
(21:28):
freaking exorcism sometimes. I am losing my soul.
Alright, and I'm finding God in those moments. um So I will
never make fun of somebody for, you know, kicking the can on the
can. I'm never gonna make fun of
somebody for that. You know, we've all been there.
We've all been there. mostly after White Castle.
(21:50):
This episode is brought to you by White Castle.
Guaranteed to turn your castle brown.
You've seen those new mixtures of like KFC, Taco Bell and like
what's the other one that they're two together?
Oh, bro. Yeah.
The morgue in White Castle, I think, is one that I saw.
(22:10):
Well, let's get to our next unusual death in history.
This guy is named Clement Laird Valingdegum during the Civil
War. Yeah, he's...
Well, yeah, yeah. Clement?
Clement. His name's Clement. gonna call
him Clement because the rest of his name is just, I'm not even.
(22:32):
As somebody named Gil Guaranteedto have a messed up death.
There's no way I'm allowed to die normal and if I do that's on
normal You know what I'm saying guaranteed fact and if you're
named Clement Bro, just write your will now.
That's all I'm saying guy's a funny death, so it kind of works
out, guess. Yeah, 1857 to 1863 for your home
(23:01):
state, Gil. Ohio.
Another Ohioan. It's just not an episode without
somehow Ohio getting involved every fucking time.
Mm-hmm. This guy, Clement. yeah, please
(23:21):
get out. This guy, Clement, was fiercely
adamant against the principles and issues of the Republican
Party. So, he probably ended up
pro-John Wilkes Booth, since he really, really hated Abraham
Lincoln. One of the principles he took
issue with most was how the Republican Party became
(23:44):
anti-slavery. Of course, he was pro-slavery.
God damn it. Yeah, was fiercely for slavery
and idealized the southern way of life.
Yeah, he's not a good guy. God this is so accurate to Ohio
Eventually, he became the leaderof the Midwest Democrats, which
would eventually become called the Copperheads.
(24:06):
The Copperheads didn't want to fight the war.
They also didn't want to punish the South because were like the
North started the war. They didn't want to even be in
the war. They just wanted to stay out of
it. During the war, Clement fought
the administration of President Abraham Lincoln at every turn,
trying to stop it and then attacking Lincoln for what he
(24:28):
viewed as destroying the Constitution with Lincoln's
suspension of habeas corpus, andalso the destroying, in his
view, the civil liberties. On 1863, just before Gettysburg,
he made numerous speeches against the war and government.
There in that time, he became the most hated man in the North
(24:51):
because he was just, everyone hated this guy.
That? That might be the most proud
I've ever been of an Ohioan, honestly.
Like that's, that's impressive because you also have, you have
New York. Okay.
That's a whole, you know, thing.Uh, you have, you have New
(25:11):
Jersey. Right.
Okay. Hello.
Right. You have Detroit. and you have
probably the most hated state ofall.
New Hampshire. Because they have. that, yeah.
they have they have failed to answer a single question about
(25:32):
what happened to old Hampshire Why does nobody talk about this
Joey? I'm just wondering what the fuck
happened to old Hampshire It's in the UK.
Just like old York. Just like old York.
Old York is in the UK. Everything that's new was
(25:52):
originally in the UK. You seem like...
Jaden, nobody on this podcast would dare diss New York.
Actually, and I'm going to say this, I really have to point
this out as I scroll across the room.
It's part of his action figure-ness. um Hearing?
I'm listening. Ohio is so bad, other than the
(26:15):
fact that in Northwest Ohio, theofficial way to say hello to
somebody is with a middle finger.
That's just how you wave. And I need to point this out to
somebody in the future who's going to be like, I can't
believe that one host was makingfun of a- Bitch, I'm from Ohio.
Fuck you. Okay, I'm allowed to make fun of
(26:36):
my home state. Anyways, back to my diatribe.
Yeah, Ohio is so bad that when Ifinally went to New York City, I
thought everyone was nice. That is how bad Northwest Ohio
is because all I had heard is about how rude New Yorkers are,
(26:56):
how they're assholes, how they're...
I got there and I was like, thisis some of the nicest people on
the fucking planet. I love New York. so much I think
the people are absolutely incredible I love them if they
don't want anything to do with you they'll just say it thank
you for not wasting anyone's time I appreciate that shit so
(27:18):
much so I will never talk shit about New York ever ever ever
ever I'll just admit you know weall got some calluses that's all
I'm saying you know but it's to protect us from the cold that's
all so sorry Joey go ahead we just had to give a New York
moment cuz New York deserves They're awesome. and Billy Joel.
(27:39):
In May of that year of 1863, Clement was arrested by military
authorities for expressing treasonable sympathy to the
enemy, which he was doing the whole time.
He was sentenced to imprisonment.
However, soon after that, his sentence was commuted, actually
(27:59):
commuted by Abraham Lincoln to just banishment to the South.
He was like, you like the South?He was like, we'll just go the
fucking south. I don't want you up here.
I don't want to deal with you. He was aggressively progressive.
uh funny thing about it is how he got, Abraham Lincoln was
(28:22):
murdered. They were thinking that he was
punishing, going to punish the South and was going to basically
rip the South apart. And he was just like, I'm just
going to get rid of slavery. He's like, I'm not doing
anything else. Yeah. eh Remember the first
thing that I said that I've beensticking to?
That's it, man. I'm just trying to enjoy this
play here. Yeah, it was a real hit
(28:45):
exploder. Well, during this time, Klemic
grew bored of his exile in the South, as most do, and then made
his way to Canada. Most likely, it didn't say where
he went, but most likely he wentto Montreal because there was a
hotbed of Confederate spies in Montreal.
Funny enough that the British were helping out the South in
(29:07):
the war too. In 1864, could not stay away.
He returned to Ohio illegally because obviously he was
banished from the North. That's the only time in history
anybody has said that sentence Joey.
(29:28):
You just, you just broke the internet by saying he could not
stay away from Ohio and he returned.
No one has ever said that. We are breaking grounds here
today. All right.
And not just the kind in churches where people die in
shit pits, but we are breaking ground.
(29:48):
Breaking Ohio in ground Virgin, Ohio in territory, but when he
got back there a little bit before he ran for governor, but
he lost the governorship becausethe basically in the Civil War
the South was like crushing it and and this is like just active
(30:09):
history just real quick. The South was crushing it.
They were going up there like cool.
We can't win this if we keep fighting.
We got to go to the North and wegot to win a battle on the
Northern ground, basically to say, please stop messing with
us. And then once they, their
biggest battle was Gettysburg. And once Gettysburg happened,
the South started losing basically.
(30:30):
And then Vicksburg happened in the South was like starting to
be like, okay, we're getting crud.
We're starting to get pushed back and starting to get crushed
because of this. turn like Northern sympathies were
basically like, instead of beinglike, we don't want to be in the
war anymore. They went to like, we're
actually winning. We have a chance to win this
let's like win. And so they started being like,
(30:51):
okay, cool. We're from the North.
Yeah, we're going to stop slavery.
And it kind of, it happened likethat.
And because of that, him runningfor governor with his tendencies
to win. Tendencies that he's like, we
don't want to be in the war. He lost because the tie, the
turning of that tide. Well.
I was just gonna say that's the most American thing ever and you
(31:14):
can see it fully on display every four years at the Olympics
where all of a sudden Americans are like water polo is the best
goddamn sport in this fucking country along with women's
soccer and curling and it's justlike Americans don't give a
single fucking are actually all for cutting all funding to
(31:35):
everything until they start to see somebody winning and they're
like, bro I've been the biggest fan my whole fucking life.
Like that is so quintessentiallyAmeri- Mm-hmm.
I'm on board. you watch, I watchany Olympic game like America,
America, yeah, we're going. We're gonna win the gold.
Yeah. What did you just say about
that? Yeah, I'm like, yes. getting
(31:58):
back into it, because he had passed the Ohio bar and became a
lawyer before he became a politician, he was able to act
as a lawyer, and this would eventually be his downfall.
He became the defense attorney for a man named Tom McGeehan,
who was on trial for murder. Well, on Tuesday, June 6th,
(32:19):
we're going way forward because he had a bunch of stuff happen
in his life. on 1871, the trial began.
It was going terribly bad and Clement decided that to prove
that his client was basically innocent, he would have to do a
full live recreation of the man shooting himself instead of
(32:44):
being murdered. You can see where this is going.
I need to know real quick. My god, alright, hold on one
second. I'm having an audio issue here
and I'm just getting rid of one of my... one of my earbuds which
is disorienting me. More than the alcohol.
Just said something. real quick.Okay, so the person who has to
(33:07):
do the recreation is this, uh, this southern sucking
motherfucker. That's down with slavery, right?
That's... Okay.
Just making sure. So the person that's about to do
what you're about to tell us they're about to do is the piece
of shit who fled south and slashgot a presidential order during
(33:29):
a fucking civil war to be like, yeah, just go there, whatever.
I don't care, get the fuck out. Like, it's that dude.
Yeah. Okay, cool.
So, just putting that out there.yeah, yeah.
Just thank you for, thank you for clarifying that because
there's no sympathy with this guy.
Southern sympathies for slavery.No sympathy.
(33:50):
Well, on June 16th, 10 days after the trial started, after
the court had adjourned for the day, Clement and his team took a
gun, basically took a revolver into the countryside and fired
it into a piece of cloth. They were trying to find
gunpowder residue and changing distances to see where the
gunpowder residue would actuallystick to the cloth.
(34:14):
Yeah. So basically just to, just to go
real quick through this, he's trying to prove that his client
did not shoot the man, that the guy actually shot himself in
like a little bar scuffle, right?
So this is basically like the gist of it.
Well, that evening after he did the gunpowder residue check, he
placed a loaded gun right next to the unloaded gun that he was
(34:37):
gonna use for the trial. That is the safest place to put
a loaded gun because the unloaded gun, everybody knows
this, the unloaded gun, well, especially on the cast of like,
or on the set of Rust, like Al Baldwin learned this perfectly,
this is the safest thing you cando.
You take the unloaded gun and you put it next to the loaded
gun. And what a lot of people don't
(34:58):
know is the unloaded gun will teach the loaded gun how to be
more safe. You know what I'm saying?
It's like the AA program for guns, basically.
Ammo's anonymous. the next morning, he was heading out to
(35:19):
court. Basically, he's like, okay, this
is my time. He placed the gun into his
pocket to take to court for the demonstration straight into his
pocket. The day of the trial, he thought
it was his moment to shine. He said, ladies and gentlemen of
the court, I will prove to you that this was accidental
shooting and not murder. I will now demonstrate how Tom
(35:44):
the deceased had accidentally shot himself while drawing a
pistol as he tried to arise fromthe floor.
Clement took the pistol from theprior day from the bureau and
put it in his right pants pocket.
He then slowly pulled the gun out. cocking it as he pulled it
(36:07):
out as He got to the exact position which he assumed the
pistol was when he claims that Myers weapon discharge.
He said There that's the way Myers held it and then pulled
the trigger The gun then fired and the courtroom heard a half
suppressed sound of a gunshot Clement then exclaimed my god
(36:31):
I've shot myself and then he stumbled over towards the wall
trying to hold himself up and then collapsed down the wall.
Mmm. This guy shot himself with a
loaded gun trying to defend a man who had actually shot
another man during a gambling dispute.
He was trying to prove that thiswas a fake, this was a suicide
(36:54):
gun, you know, basically shot himself and killed himself and
not a murder. Clement died less than 12 hours
later because of the gunshot wound.
As for the jury, they actually immediately acquitted Tom
McGeehan, saying that, of coursethe guy shot himself, the lawyer
(37:17):
just proved it. HAHAHA Say what you want about
Ohioans. We make two things very well.
Lawyers and ghosts. Alright, we are so good.
He became both of us, uh a lawyer and a ghost. dear God ah
(37:47):
did not last long and Mageean was shot through a window of his
saloon by an unknown killer about two years later.
It was the lawyers ghost trying to reenact to his friends how he
died okay, so basically I was incourt It was really crazy and
all of sudden it was oh fuck Ha ha ha.
(38:09):
Yeah, that is hilarious. He killed himself with his own
gun that he was trying to prove shot himself.
Very unusual death. Damn good lawyer.
Damn, I mean, he gave his life to be proven innocent.
So this guy was literally going to be proven guilty until that
he did this. Ohioans will do anything,
(38:32):
anything to get out of Ohio. And whether that is learning how
to invent airplanes, being the first person on the moon, being
the first person to orbit earth,it is like, well, not the first,
but the point is getting as far the fuck away as possible.
Going to Washington DC to try tomake Ohio more habitable for the
(38:53):
longest time. The most amount of presidents
came from Ohio. um We have a long, rich history of getting
the fuck out. That's a fact.
True fact there. That's the end.
This next one, we're going to flip over the ocean and go to
(39:14):
the UK. It's going to also be more
modern day than usual. James William Hesselden was born
on March 27th of 1948 and eventually became a coal miner.
He then lost that job due to theunion strikes in the 1980s.
So I'm just prefacing this because you can kind of see
(39:37):
where it comes from. Yeah.
This is in the UK, right? This is in the UK.
Dude, I need to find that movie.That's a fucking awesome
history, if we ever get a chance.
I might do it for like a political BCR bootleg movie
night. um There's some really good documentaries, really good
movies about the cold strikes inthe UK.
(39:57):
Sounds boring, but pretty fucking awesome when you watch
it. Like it's like actually like, oh
shit, like this is, it's fuckingintense.
Sorry, just to interrupt there, y'all.
If you like paranormal shit and you don't like history, Do you
even like paranormal history? shit?
Do you? Bean?
Do you? Do you?
(40:21):
I didn't know that. Yeah, you do know that.
Gil sometimes just like, please stop prefacing with history.
We know how a shovel works. Okay.
I know what. Yeah, but do you realize when it
went from flat to spade shaped like who invented what bro?
Okay, hold on a second. We all we have to start with
(40:42):
silly putty. Okay, so if you look at that
This episode is about Bigfoot Joey shot the fuck up.
No, I'm just kidding Yeah. We dug up Bigfoot's bones with
the spade-headed shovel, so we gotta go into the background of
that. But anyways. we used the wrong
shape shovel? Anyway- That's why I broke the
(41:04):
bones, got smaller, not big foot, little foot. um Well,
because of basically saving up lot of that coal miner money, he
used some of that money he had saved up to open a workshop.
Initially, starting it as a sandblasting business.
Well, in 1989, he started the Hesco Bastion Company to build
(41:26):
his creation. Basically a form of wire and
mesh barrier that he patented himself that could be he
initially said this is going to be used for flood barriers or
walls basically like stop Hurricane Katrina from
happening, but a very good thingto use for well instead of the
emergency management, which theywere built for they started
(41:48):
becoming favorites among armies around the world for blast
barriers and basically mobile walls as they always do.
They also were used to help in the hurricane Katrina relief
though. did kind of, they did use those and he donated a bunch
of those. Um, so we're going to say this
guy is not a bad guy. he did a lot of donations and I do want
(42:12):
to preface this too, because he did, he donated a lot of his
money and he had some really good quotes of like, if you
can't give money back to people,then why have it?
there's some really good, like good quotes on this guy.
So, Oh, you can laugh at him. Uh, it's also modern day, please
laugh. cause it's just ironic. Well, on Christmas day in 2009,
(42:33):
Jimmy purchased the Segway company as a new kind of
investment for himself. If you guys don't know what
Segways are, I don't know how you've not seen a Segway.
There are those big motor scooter things that just like
you stand on top of and you can take tours on very weird things.
would never use them because they look very silly.
(42:55):
Cool. Not more than a year afterwards,
on September 26th 2010, Jimmy was riding an off-road Segway
near Thorpe Arch, which is in Wetherby in Leeds, United
Kingdom, with his dog. Because of the enormity of the
Segway, he was driving of the company that he just purchased,
(43:16):
he had to reverse out of the wayof another person who was also
walking his dog. They were coming the opposite
way. As he reversed, he went too far
and fell off the cliff into the river wharf, which was just
below and died. The segue of this basically on
(43:37):
top of a segue of the company that he just purchased.
It was the segue to his journey to the other side, I guess.
Um, which is very sad for this guy, but it's just so ironic
that he bought this company. And the only reason he probably
died is because he was on a segue of the company that he
bought. It's actually sadder than I was
(43:57):
telling it and then I thought itwould be.
I'm not laughing at the segue guy.
He seems like a decent human being.
He just wanted people to be lazier.
And I appreciate that. Yeah, as somebody who loves to
be lazy, full support. I have a lot of support. just a
(44:18):
sad ironic death. Really?
Yeah. Way to bring it down, Joey.
Let's bring it back up. One of our last, yeah, let's
segue into this one called our last unusual death in history or
deaths in history. We're going to stay in the UK
and talk about the London beer flood.
This is a perking up Gills ears.Yeah, this is one of those
(44:43):
things where it's like, man, if I could have been there in
history, things would have went different.
Like this is my moment. Now, you all can probably see
where this is going because of the name.
Also, it hits close to home for us because Asheville is also
Beer City, USA with a crap ton of micro and macro breweries in
and around us. I guess regulations are a little
(45:07):
better nowadays, but not saying that this couldn't probably
happen. Well, an eight.
It's sitting at the bottom. Sitting at the bottom near
Highland with your mouth open like it's coming.
Well, in 1810, the Horseshoe Brewery, which stood in the
corner of Great Russell Street and Tottenham Court Road in
(45:31):
London, built a 22 foot high fermentation tank.
The tank itself could hold more than 300,000 gallons of beer.
Right? So it was equal to about 3,500
wooden barrels of brown. Nice.
Brown Porter ale, which actuallydon't really like Brown Porter
ale. It's too dark.
Yeah. if it's free, if it's likestreet free, you know, if it if
(45:56):
it if it's a curb score, literally here for it. that's a
lot of beer. On October 17th of 1814, just
four years after the tank had been built, so I had a good long
life, I guess, for the most part, a storehouse clerk named
George Crick inspected the tank and found out that one of the
(46:20):
700 pound iron hoop rings had slipped off the cask. it's not
as... Yeah.
It took an inspection for somebody to realize a 700 pound
metal ring was missing. It took, it took a literal
(46:40):
inspection. Okay, whatever. the point is a
700. Do I need to Google Image Search
what a 700 pound metal ring looks like?
I don't know, I've never seen one, but I can't imagine it's
the size of a key ring. That thing has to be fucking
(47:02):
huge. How do you walk by the same spot
every day with little Jiminy Cricket, whoever the fuck is out
there, man, Mr. Mr. Can I have some porter for my sick mother?
No, no, Timmy. Oh, Mr. You know she's got the
shakes. I know she's got the shakes.
Who do you think gave it to her?Oh, mister, you're so crude.
(47:23):
And it's like, how do you not every day you walk by this
fucking massive barrel in town and there's a 700 pound metal
ring missing and you don't notice.
This motherfucker. No, I know, but I'm.
(47:46):
People had to be put. This is why they have don't
drink labels on bleach. It's motherfuckers like this.
Wasting ink. I don't know.
You hit a soft spot for me. That's all I'm saying.
This is bullshit. pound iron rings are a very big soft spot
(48:06):
for you. Well. you can't work without.
As I was trying to explain, thiswas normal because the enormity
of the tank. This happened about two to three
times a year, which is not good.Honestly, that's not a 700 pound
ring. Flipping off a tank is not good,
but this is the 1800s. They're like, it's normal. uh If
(48:29):
there's a crack in it, just use flex seal, spitting it. don't
know. They're just anything to not
have to pay to fix this, basically. and just pray.
Yeah? yeah.
Go to the shit church, grab somepoop, put it on there, stop it
right up. Even though, well, getting back
(48:52):
into it, even though the tank was completely full, Crick's
boss still told him, meh, don't worry about it.
It's normal. I'll have it fixed eventually.
I've already put in a call into people across the town at the
other brewery. They'll be here soon.
This was 4.30 PM, right? And so Crick's like, okay, well,
(49:12):
he's already got somebody comingto fix it.
I guess it's fine. Well, about an hour later.
After Crick had notified his boss at around 5.30 PM, he heard
a massive explosion from the store room and he's just like,
shit. Well, the tank exploded and
there was huge holes in the tankand it started releasing hot,
(49:37):
hot fermenting beer with such a force that the vat burst into
splinters and the wall of the brewery crumbled.
This wasn't the only cast that broke due to the massive
explosion. Pieces of the tank flew off and
hit valves and parts of the other casks and knock those out.
(49:59):
So basically most of this whole brewery is exploding. huh.
And the walls weren't built verywell.
So 320,000 gallons were releasedinto the streets.
That's a lot of beer. hold on hold on 320,000 Yeah. 320.
(50:29):
Mm-hmm. Well, adding to this, it's
boiling hot fermenting beer. So it bubbled and rushed through
the narrow streets surrounding the brewery.
It swamped everyone in its path.Now this is the 1800s and the
areas around the brewery weren'tproperly created to have
(50:49):
drainage. So there's nowhere for this beer
to go. Right?
Son of a bitch. Jesus Christ. uh on top of
tables, furniture clung to anything they could to save
(51:10):
themselves. Basically because it's just like
it's a flood. They're being flooded with beer.
And, you know, if you bathe in beer for long enough, you could
die. You get alcohol poisoning.
So they're trying to get up and get, and Gil does it every day.
(51:31):
Well, the first victims of the flood were Mary Banfield and her
and y'all thought I was crazy Swimming along spitting it out
in a little stream This is life for me.
The first victims of the flood were Mary Banfield and her
(51:54):
four-year-old daughter Hannah who were sitting down to tea.
I'm so sad. The second victim I think might
have been the most tragic because the mother, Anna
Seville, and four other people were killed as they were having
an Irish wake for her two-year-old son who had just
died the day before. okay Hold on back up That's the most
(52:21):
fitting way I've ever heard of people dying at an Irish fucking
wake No, I don't feel bad for No, no back up I don't feel bad
I'm sorry Nope. Nope.
(52:48):
No. that much beer for the week.Also, how the fuck do you
organize a wake within 24 hours?God damn like that's insane
Yeah, no, I don't feel bad. I don't feel bad about this.
don't I'm sorry. I know that's Yeah Well maybe
(53:11):
you'll feel bad for this next person, Gil.
A teenage servant named Eleanor Cooper, who was at the time
working at the Tavis Stock Arms pub, was trapped and instantly
killed by the tidal wave while Eleanor was working washing pots
and pans at the outdoor pump. You should feel bad about that
one. He was working at a pub.
Look, all I'm saying is these people...
(53:36):
He was a child working at the pub.
Clearly... No, I...
I'm gonna put it this way. These people were dressed for
it. Alright, they want it.
They wanted that be murdered by beer.
Obviously, any traumatic death is never a good thing, but there
(53:59):
are better ways to have not a good thing happen and in an
apocalyptic amount of here over 200 and something thousand Look,
look I have said many things on record as we as Joey has as we
have hundreds of hours recorded and if this is how I die and
(54:23):
anyone cries about it. You don't know me and you never
loved me to begin with. I'm saying that, I'm saying
that. It's very strong opinion.
Yeah, no, for the love of God, that is hilarious.
Like, a group of people get drowned in an Irish wake from a
(54:46):
flood of... What?
I didn't realize how ironic it was till you repeated it back.
as I was writing it, was like, Iwas like, that's really, really
sad. And then as you say it, then I
was like, wait a second, that's actually pretty, that's actually
pretty funny. Please continue.
I need to hear about every single death that happened from
(55:09):
this beer incident. This is incredible. all in all
eight women and children that died during the London beer
flood. No men died during it.
Well, and the reason I think that this happened because the
UK 1800s, it's 5.30 PM. What really happened was all the
men were working and this is theexplosion at the tenement
(55:32):
housing. So I think that that's why no
men died in the flood of beer. Yeah, well, crazily, every
person that worked at the Horseshoe Brewery survived.
Like none of them died. Though four of the workers were
hurt and had to be rescued, but none of them died, even though
the place crumbled down and broke around them, which is
(55:54):
pretty crazy. Yeah, well, most people though,
as Gil probably was thinking about and said earlier, they
brought whatever container and anything they could use to pick
up all this fermenting booze. They did that so much so that
there was a random report a few days later that there was a
(56:15):
ninth victim in this disaster. The report said he died of
alcohol poisoning. uh I believe there probably was a lot more
victims because of the alcohol poisoning. my great, great,
great, great uncle who was great.
Yeah. do think that afterwards there probably was some indirect
(56:36):
victims of this flood too. There was some indirect victims
because all the houses at the bottom of them, their tenement
housing at the begin with, they started rotting because of all
the beer and people didn't cleanthis out of their basement.
I mean, like there's they're notcleaning this stuff up.
So basically, I think a lot of the houses crashed and fell.
(56:56):
They all fell right into the latrines and we had a 1800
style. or 1800s style latrine death.
I've been around the frats and the fraternities and all that
shit. I've partied outside of OSU, in
(57:17):
OSU, on St. Patrick's Day. nothing here
surprises me. That's all I'm saying.
This just sounds like the OSU versus Michigan game.
That's what this sounds like. Yeah, yeah, I don't.
(57:40):
I don't feel bad for anyone thatdied in this situation, Joe.
I'm gonna be honest. Okay.
Bold. Well, as the most American part
of this, the second most American part of this, the
disaster, they were actually taken to court.
The brewery was taken to court for the lives lost.
(58:05):
The disaster was ruled to be an act of God, which means nobody
was responsible. And that was also my great great
great great great uncle who was the judge in this case saying.
Well. was asleep. I was beer. my God. to do that.
(58:37):
Gil just died, uh he died as thedrunk judge.
What's funny is the flood itselfcost the brewery around 23,000
pounds or 1.25 million pounds today because of everything
pretty much being destroyed, butthey recouped most of the money
from the excise duty they had paid on the beer itself.
(59:02):
So it's a whole tax thing in theUK.
They were, basically got refunded all that exercise duty
because of the beer they lost. And then they were given money
by the government to help them save their business.
And they didn't go bankrupt. from all of our stories and
there are many ways to die. Before we end, have one more.
(59:24):
It's usual death. So I can end on a positive note
as possible, right? We're going to talk about a man
named Frank Hayes. It's a little quick story before
we finish. Frank Hayes was an American
horse jockey. He was 22 during his last race.
(59:45):
And he actually had never won a race before in his life.
Right. During this day, he was riding
the 20 to one outsider, sweet kiss as a jockey at this time,
you had to trim down to a very, very light weight in order to
meet the weight requirements. So you can actually jockey the
(01:00:08):
race, right? He started this point at
weighing 142 pounds and then went down. to 130 in a matter of
two days. That's 12 pounds in two days.
So you got to do some serious shedding, puking, whatever, you
know, basically getting everything out of your body to
(01:00:30):
lose that much weight. Mm.
As he was the jockey in the raceand he made the last turn to the
finish line, Hayes slunk down inthe saddle.
He had a heart attack in the last part of the race due to
losing so much weight and all that, all that on his heart.
(01:00:52):
What is crazy. Yeah.
What is crazy is the horse stillkept going and actually won the
race. He won the horse race
posthumously, even after death, joining such acclaimed fame as
Heath Ledger winning his award posthumously.
That's the last story of day of unusual deaths throughout the
(01:01:15):
history. Damn.
I'm here for it, Joey, was fan fucking plastic.
Before we go and get into our CTAs today, me and Gil talked
earlier, we really wanted to give the biggest, especially
(01:01:35):
because it's about deaths, the biggest heartfelt love to the
Prince of Darkness himself, OzzyOsbourne.
He just passed away like a week,two weeks right after his last
concert. I guess he just felt like he was
done. had been saying for the uhlongest time he thought he was
(01:01:58):
going to die on stage at his last concert.
Like for months leading up to his last concert, he was telling
everybody, everybody's like, fuck, he just said he's gonna
die on stage. And he's hungry.
Like it was for the longest timehe had been saying that and
(01:02:21):
yeah, pretty goddamn close. Um, and you know that I will
say, and I'm, I'm not, um, not ablack Sabbath fan by any stretch
of the imagination. It's not that I'm like anti
black Sabbath or anything like that.
It's just like, respect the music. hear it.
I think it's excellent, but I don't put it on when I'm by
(01:02:42):
myself and like really get down with it.
But I can hear good music and appreciate it, at least I like
to think to. And Ozzy and, you know, all of
Black Sabbath... incredible music.
I know they're incredibly talented.
And here's the thing. You know that the Prince of
Darkness was a good person because he didn't have a long
life. Only bad people live forever.
(01:03:04):
It's a fact. Sorry.
Throwing it out there. Check it.
Dick Cheney, still alive. But, um...
Yeah. Ozzy was a great person. uh He
us know early in the day. Well, BCR is back after our
(01:03:26):
three to four weeks summer hiatus and we will be getting
these episodes back out to you ASAP.
This episode itself, it's going online tonight because today is
our three year anniversary to the day.
We've been going for three years. want to thank you all for
(01:03:46):
tuning in with us, finding us, bearing with us through all the
stuff that's happened, the hurricanes, the different people
being on the podcast, all this stuff.
Thank you for loving us. Music up.
Yeah. Start it over. give us like,
follow, review wherever you get your podcasts.
(01:04:06):
Also, if you have any good topics that you think we do a
great job in covering, send themin to us via our IG, via DM, or
to our email, contact at blackcat.report.
Also, we will be having our beer, booze, and boogeymen
weekly live streams called Paranormal Happy Hour.
On Friday, you can see it on YouTube, it was Gil and Damien,
(01:04:29):
and they did a fantastic job. were so good at it.
I Chris and her this week, we got a lot to live up to.
We are super excited about this and it's going to be super fun.
It'll be airing on literally random social and live stream
channels. So you will know the day of
(01:04:50):
where it's going to be airing. Last week was YouTube.
Am I correct about that? Go live stream on YouTube.
Probably. Yeah, it did.
Well, this week, I think it might be Instagram, but you
won't know until the day of. Give us a follow on Patreon as
you can get some awesome perks. They're like our member shout
(01:05:12):
out. All you got to do is sign up
because we can't do this withoutyou.
Gil, you got any extras? Got anything you want to say?
Yeah, I just want to say you guys are really great and we
have not given our Patreon shoutouts, which Joey, want to say we
(01:05:33):
have. new members of Patreon. Joey, do you want to sound off
and give those shoutouts? Because I don't have the script
in front of me. I do. got it right here.
Our few newest ones that signed up.
Oscar, Amandine, Stephanie, backto our old people that we love.
(01:05:54):
Harry Carey, Tristan, Bud, Don, Thomas, Little Mystery, Bobby,
Betsybae, Lucas, Tim, Dee, Max, Ian, Morgan, Dragon Paul from
the Star Blood Chronicles podcast, Tim Miller from
Miller's Monsters, Marissa, Gavin, fearless leader of the
(01:06:16):
chicken cult, Rachel, Av, Jaden,Jackie, Yellow Bear, Dwayne aka
Snatchtwad, Alyssa, Bree, Michael Extreme, Kristen from
the Paranorm Girl Podcast, James, and most importantly, our
sexiest, sexiest, sexiest producer.
(01:06:42):
Happy Kitty! Thank you all for listening and
we will see you next week. Bye, we love you all.
Bye.
There's shit everywhere, drowning in the thick, smelly
sludge. You can't get out.
It's smothering you. And just as you move your hands
to find a gun in the pocket, would it be better to end it
all? Maybe.
But just as you get that thoughtout of your head, you hear an
(00:22):
explosion. and beer starts filling up the spaces in between
the sludge. All you can do is sink faster.
It's almost over. This is the end.
Or is it? Welcome to the Black Cat Report
(01:11):
in episode 135, fresh off our summer random hiatus.
I am Joey and with me is the mightiest, the brightest, the
fightiest, and the top flightiest, Gil.
Hello everybody. Hope you all have been well.
(01:33):
God, we've missed Black Cat Report.
We've missed all of you. That hiatus, Kicked my hiate
ass, that's for sure. Yeah, but we missed you guys and
we're so glad to be- we see you pulling into the livestream
right now. We're glad that you all are
here. not going to continue the Palmyra Atoll series this week,
(01:57):
but we will be doing it next week.
We'll be finishing up. We wanted to put in a little bit
of a small palette cleanser, if you can call it that with the
beginning. ah It's basically horrifically funny deaths and we
can laugh at those, I think so. mean, they're dead.
Why would they care? That's what I always say. um
(02:17):
We're just going to assume they don't have families and that
people didn't like them. And then it'll be fine.
You know, morally, it'll be okay.
Yeah. are recent. yeah, we'll have fun with that one.
But today, yeesh, we're going todelve into some unusual deaths
throughout history from medievaltimes all the way up until now.
(02:41):
Also, if you were looking for updates, far as beer booze and
bogeyman and all things BCR stick through the episode and
we'll get to them right at the end.
You ready to go? think I'm ready.
I'm ready to celebrate our anniversary with Def.
Exactly, I feel like that was the perfect way to do it.
(03:04):
We're going to start our first unusual death throughout history
with a more of a smelly death, Iguess, as I kind of prefaced in
the intro. Probably one of the worst smelly
deaths in history. This was called the Euphort
Latrine Disaster, or in German, Euphorte Latrinistus.
So pardon my German, I tried my best, but it literally means
(03:28):
latrine disaster. in July. don'twant to be associated with
anything that has the title which includes latrine disaster
Those words should never go together I'm excited Oh my god
(03:49):
White Castle could you imagine something called the White
Castle latrine disaster, bro Dude, I'm pretty sure that this
was part of it. um I'm pretty sure that's everyone's house
after White Castle um Well, you know, their toilet, I guess.
Kraken the porcelain. This is giving us a whole new
(04:11):
name. Why do you think they call them
sliders? um In July 1184 AD, in the
German city of Ithet, which at the time was part of the Holy
Roman Empire, the Empire of the 6th uh who
(05:10):
hence Stülfen dynasty. There's a lot of German,
Germanic names that I'm going toalso struggle through.
Yep. Thank you. doing great.
Full confidence. Just blitz that pronunciation,
sir. Exactly.
And there also are a lot of KingHenry's throughout the history.
So King Richard the Lion, Henry the fourth, fifth, sixth,
seventh, eighth, ninth, tenth, eleventh, a billion of them.
(05:33):
Very common name. During his rule, there was a
conflict that erupted between Conrad of Wittels...
Again, Wittelsbach, who was the Archbishop of Mainz, also known
as Conrad the First. and Ludwig III, who was the land grave of
Thuringia. yeah, sorry, excuse for Max. will say excuse me for
(05:58):
struggling through these names of Germanic places. ah You
can... To learn how to pronounce these
things. for those of y'all that don't know, Max is an incredible
human being. Lives in Germany, does uh
translations, and teaches, I want to say he teaches uh German
(06:21):
folks English. Very astute, very solid in
English. He has been volunteering for...
ever and we've been struggling to find something to meet his
volunteering wishes. uh He's been wanting to find a great UFO
series that he can help translate for the first time
into English for us. So if you know any cases that
(06:44):
are like that, any ah hypnosis tapes or anything like that, we
have quite literally a professional translator ready to
go with Max and we've been looking. ah But yeah, I do
imagine Max at home just being like, 999!
Svynohun! Joey!
Never hit me! Anyways, we love you Max. in way
(07:10):
better English than me. uh, yeah.
Yeah. So what my dad said when he
visited Germany, he was like, they spoke way better English
than we did. He's like, they just, they know
how to speak. Um, and they also know a million
languages. Well, the land grave, which
basically this guy was is basically like just under a
(07:32):
Duke, but above the class of counts.
So it's kind of just like. almost a landlord or somebody
with a bunch of different housesaround maybe almost a castle,
but not quite. Um, so has a good bit of power,
but not on the line of Kings. The dispute in itself was
basically just a small land dispute, which happened all the
(07:53):
time. And we look to today, it still
happens. Well, King Heinrich VI wanted to
settle this dispute and get all the people aligned like under
him. While King Heinrich made his way
through the territory, he sent out messengers to each of the
nobles in the area on both sidesof the dispute to gather at St.
Peter's Church. The St.
(08:15):
Peter's Church was one, it really wasn't the only surviving
churches, but it was close enough. like the grounds of it
survived from the period before,but it did burn mostly down in
the year 1080. So it was actually rebuilt in
between the years 1103 and 1147.So a few years before the
(08:37):
disaster happened is just about 37 years rebuilt before until
the disaster itself happened. Well, there were many, many
pretty famous nobles at the timethat arrived at this place.
And Heinrich von Schwarzberg, Hesse Gozmer von Siegenstein,
(08:59):
Frederick von Abendeg, Abendberg.
Baccaro von Wartburg, Berlinger von Mellingen were all these
people they gathered here. And apparently at the time,
yeah, John von Jolvy uh also gathered here on the second day.
Well, after they were all calledand they all gathered, they all
(09:19):
gathered on the second floor of the cathedral's provost office.
Well, it's not quite known how many people were there, but It
is known that there were over a hundred people.
So I would say there's probably like 200 to 300 people at this
place. Maybe 200, I would say closer
to. The newly built church should
(09:42):
have held them all, but due to the combined weight of all the
people on the second floor of the church, all their basic
medieval weaponry there, walkingaround with all the squires and
stuff, the church floor gave way, and over 100 people fell
down right into the depths. Yes.
(10:06):
Oh, there's it. You can't see I'm grabbing the
mic arm. That's why it's moving there. my
God, dude. Fuck, this is good.
Okay, you this is gonna be a series.
Um, we we need to do a series onwhen church goes bad um, because
(10:29):
Dude there there is one place which apparently has the pit of
hell in it. Um, I I want to say it's along
the russian border. It's like one of the countries
the borders along russia or something like that.
Anyways, it's in eastern europe where we're Yeah, yeah, um There
is a large floor made um above this cathedral and the pit is
(10:54):
apparently not known to have a bottom.
And so they basically built a floor over this giant hell pit
that has all these mysteries andall this shit wrapped around it.
um I don't know, but sure. um But it's like.
(11:14):
It's the pit and the pentagram. That's what it basically is.
I watched a long, long documentary that was horribly
translated ah about this spot, and then I forgot to do it for
an episode. But this has happened multiple
times, where entire congregations have fallen a lot
(11:35):
like Lucifer. all I'm saying. Yes, yeah.
But then the Nazis... the Nazis at the time, or around the time
of the Nazis taking over random parts of Europe, um they went
in, took over the castle, and that's one of the places they
were doing their crazy occult shit at, was at this castle,
where in the center of the castle um was this church that
(12:00):
had a floor put over top of a bottomless pit that was supposed
to keep vampires and shit up. But this is like a real place
that exists in the world. um Throwing it out there?
Throwing it out. Throwing it out there.
And Jayden points something out.He said, hear me out.
BCR field trip to the pit. Jayden, fuck yes.
(12:24):
This is why we do the show. Yep, and I have horrible fear of
heights. It's true, but not depth.
You know what, actually, I scubadived for a few times and I
loved it. Well, as all these people
(12:45):
gathered there, the floor below them cracked and everybody fell
on over 100 people. During this time, bathrooms were
basically holes in the floor anddown below the holes in the
floor was just an open area dug out with shovels similar to a
pit. but in this time period, it's supposed to go and flow out
(13:08):
into the moat. But, and this problem, there's
no way to get down there to clean it out.
They would have to be lowered down in there, but then they
would get stuck and it'd be really bad.
So latrine systems would just fill up with no way to get rid
of the shit, the piss, everything down there.
And I can only imagine the horrifying smell. because of the
(13:32):
diet of the people during the middle ages of how bad it would
be to be stuck down there. Back to the story.
In between, depending on where you read, 600 to 800 people,
maybe a little over, fell into the latrine as the floor gave
(13:53):
way. oh Stop right there. Um, floor was giving way.
Yet somehow they fell down the space that was only big enough
for poop. No, no, underneath the house,
it's a latrine. So like it's there's a bathroom
(14:15):
where is one round hole and thenit all slides downhill and goes
into this one place underneath the house.
As I said earlier, they dug out trenches underneath the place
underneath the church. That's where all the poop goes.
And it got stuck in this one little area of the underneath
where they were. And the floor gave way and they
(14:36):
fell in. Honestly, I'd pay $1,200 a month
for that, for a house like that in Nashville.
That's... For a studio apartment in
Nashville with like a pit plumbing, I'm here for it.
That's on the low end too. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's
(14:56):
affordable. It's a good deal.
Well, some of them might have died due to the fall itself,
maybe hitting to the rock walls or the iron or the parts of the
wall that fell, but most of themdied after being suffocated by
the pool of shit and piss they fell into.
If you can imagine with me, put on your shit-filled glasses and
(15:20):
putting yourself in their shit-filled boots.
As you stand arguing with another medieval lord, the
wooden and iron floor that you're standing on starts
creaking, creaking, creaking, and you look around and then it
gives way to nothing but poop. And as you fall into it, the
(15:42):
liquid and partly solid excrement surrounds your body
and then slowly envelops you into the depths.
The poop surrounds your neck andthen slowly starts to rise up to
your mouth. You can't help but gasp for air
as the excrement goes into your mouth and then into your nose.
It makes you puke as you add to the liquid putrefaction that
(16:07):
surrounds you. Then you just have no more air.
And as you die, you shit yourself and it just adds to
what's in the latrine. I had to go depth into it
because You guys want this. They want to, they get mad when
you don't go into explicit detail. know and that's how a
(16:27):
hundred of these people died. They fell into a shit pit with
Nothing to save them, but there were two people who survived.
Okay, two people you got some Before you get to the survivors,
um how disappointed would you beif you did the fucking the
(16:55):
ancestry.com or 23andMe, like you did the DNA match.
And they're like, yeah, your family almost went extinct in
the great uh shit pit catastrophe of 1200.
And you're just like, you know what, genealogy kinda sucks
actually, I'm not interested. Yeah, I'm done.
(17:16):
I don't want to know who survived.
Well, I mean, if you survived though, you went through a lot
of shit. Your genes went through a lot of
shit. you realize how much shit my family went through to have
me? And it's true, they did.
Mm-hmm damn. It's like it's like a Titanic on
(17:39):
land Honestly, it's kind of likethe Titanic on land, but with
poop more poop than the Titanic poop tannic. um There was two
people that survived. They didn't actually go into the
poop though. That's how they actually
survived this. The king, luckily, and the
(18:00):
archbishop who was one of the people who started it all
survived by hanging on. They were talking off to the
side and they were sitting in this window alcove that's kind
of stone, kind of iron. and theyuh they like held on for dear
life basically on these rails that are like hold that are
(18:24):
barely holding on and they're sitting there until towns people
I guess the firefighters are like the other nights at the
time came running with ladders the farther fighters came
running with ladders to basically be like we'll get you
king we'll get you archbishop we'll save you and they got him
right before they They're they couldn't hold on anymore and
(18:46):
like grab them basically yank them out and those were the only
two survivors that we know of so.
And this is what happens when you don't pay Your porta potty
bills y'all seriously they will fuck you up because you're
always wondering you know like what happens if I do the whole
(19:09):
like rent-a-john thing and like I don't pay my bill What are
they gonna do about it? This is what they do about it
Yeah, yep, yep, yep If you have a crawl space, it's going to be
a shit space. Yep. crap space now, baby.
Mm-hmm. And not just for your old
furniture and old clothes. Well, that was the end of that
(19:32):
one. The two surviving people,
everyone else died in a shit-covered grave.
To be fair, ain't nobody diggingthose people out.
They just rebuilt over them. They went, you know what?
We're good. Do you think they like, do you
think like they're their family members?
Uh, it's been long enough. It's been almost a thousand
(19:56):
years. Um, almost a thousand years. do
you think that the family like prayed every time they pooped?
You're just like, dear aunt Margaret, I hope you're doing
well. We had your biscuit recipe this
evening. I think you'd use too much lard
(20:22):
in it. I hope this message reaches you
well. That you're swimming with the
angels. And if you don't like poop
jokes, get the fuck away from this episode.
This won't be for you if you can't tell by now.
(20:42):
Yes. with poop jokes. You don't want to know how many
unusual deaths were because of shit.
Because of poop, because of shit.
Not like, they had a heart attack while pooping.
That's a whole nother, like Elvis.
That's a whole nother thing. This is people drowning in poop.
(21:06):
Honestly, the closest I've ever come to faith has been sitting
on the toilet. Like, I don't blame anybody for
that, you know what I'm saying? I've had some moments where it's
like, am expelling Satan. I am actively involved in an
exorcism, right? I am actively involved in a
(21:28):
freaking exorcism sometimes. I am losing my soul.
Alright, and I'm finding God in those moments. um So I will
never make fun of somebody for, you know, kicking the can on the
can. I'm never gonna make fun of
somebody for that. You know, we've all been there.
We've all been there. mostly after White Castle.
(21:50):
This episode is brought to you by White Castle.
Guaranteed to turn your castle brown.
You've seen those new mixtures of like KFC, Taco Bell and like
what's the other one that they're two together?
Oh, bro. Yeah.
The morgue in White Castle, I think, is one that I saw.
(22:10):
Well, let's get to our next unusual death in history.
This guy is named Clement Laird Valingdegum during the Civil
War. Yeah, he's...
Well, yeah, yeah. Clement?
Clement. His name's Clement. gonna call
him Clement because the rest of his name is just, I'm not even.
(22:32):
As somebody named Gil Guaranteedto have a messed up death.
There's no way I'm allowed to die normal and if I do that's on
normal You know what I'm saying guaranteed fact and if you're
named Clement Bro, just write your will now.
That's all I'm saying guy's a funny death, so it kind of works
out, guess. Yeah, 1857 to 1863 for your home
(23:01):
state, Gil. Ohio.
Another Ohioan. It's just not an episode without
somehow Ohio getting involved every fucking time.
Mm-hmm. This guy, Clement. yeah, please
(23:21):
get out. This guy, Clement, was fiercely
adamant against the principles and issues of the Republican
Party. So, he probably ended up
pro-John Wilkes Booth, since he really, really hated Abraham
Lincoln. One of the principles he took
issue with most was how the Republican Party became
(23:44):
anti-slavery. Of course, he was pro-slavery.
God damn it. Yeah, was fiercely for slavery
and idealized the southern way of life.
Yeah, he's not a good guy. God this is so accurate to Ohio
Eventually, he became the leaderof the Midwest Democrats, which
would eventually become called the Copperheads.
(24:06):
The Copperheads didn't want to fight the war.
They also didn't want to punish the South because were like the
North started the war. They didn't want to even be in
the war. They just wanted to stay out of
it. During the war, Clement fought
the administration of President Abraham Lincoln at every turn,
trying to stop it and then attacking Lincoln for what he
(24:28):
viewed as destroying the Constitution with Lincoln's
suspension of habeas corpus, andalso the destroying, in his
view, the civil liberties. On 1863, just before Gettysburg,
he made numerous speeches against the war and government.
There in that time, he became the most hated man in the North
(24:51):
because he was just, everyone hated this guy.
That? That might be the most proud
I've ever been of an Ohioan, honestly.
Like that's, that's impressive because you also have, you have
New York. Okay.
That's a whole, you know, thing.Uh, you have, you have New
(25:11):
Jersey. Right.
Okay. Hello.
Right. You have Detroit. and you have
probably the most hated state ofall.
New Hampshire. Because they have. that, yeah.
they have they have failed to answer a single question about
(25:32):
what happened to old Hampshire Why does nobody talk about this
Joey? I'm just wondering what the fuck
happened to old Hampshire It's in the UK.
Just like old York. Just like old York.
Old York is in the UK. Everything that's new was
(25:52):
originally in the UK. You seem like...
Jaden, nobody on this podcast would dare diss New York.
Actually, and I'm going to say this, I really have to point
this out as I scroll across the room.
It's part of his action figure-ness. um Hearing?
I'm listening. Ohio is so bad, other than the
(26:15):
fact that in Northwest Ohio, theofficial way to say hello to
somebody is with a middle finger.
That's just how you wave. And I need to point this out to
somebody in the future who's going to be like, I can't
believe that one host was makingfun of a- Bitch, I'm from Ohio.
Fuck you. Okay, I'm allowed to make fun of
(26:36):
my home state. Anyways, back to my diatribe.
Yeah, Ohio is so bad that when Ifinally went to New York City, I
thought everyone was nice. That is how bad Northwest Ohio
is because all I had heard is about how rude New Yorkers are,
(26:56):
how they're assholes, how they're...
I got there and I was like, thisis some of the nicest people on
the fucking planet. I love New York. so much I think
the people are absolutely incredible I love them if they
don't want anything to do with you they'll just say it thank
you for not wasting anyone's time I appreciate that shit so
(27:18):
much so I will never talk shit about New York ever ever ever
ever I'll just admit you know weall got some calluses that's all
I'm saying you know but it's to protect us from the cold that's
all so sorry Joey go ahead we just had to give a New York
moment cuz New York deserves They're awesome. and Billy Joel.
(27:39):
In May of that year of 1863, Clement was arrested by military
authorities for expressing treasonable sympathy to the
enemy, which he was doing the whole time.
He was sentenced to imprisonment.
However, soon after that, his sentence was commuted, actually
(27:59):
commuted by Abraham Lincoln to just banishment to the South.
He was like, you like the South?He was like, we'll just go the
fucking south. I don't want you up here.
I don't want to deal with you. He was aggressively progressive.
uh funny thing about it is how he got, Abraham Lincoln was
(28:22):
murdered. They were thinking that he was
punishing, going to punish the South and was going to basically
rip the South apart. And he was just like, I'm just
going to get rid of slavery. He's like, I'm not doing
anything else. Yeah. eh Remember the first
thing that I said that I've beensticking to?
That's it, man. I'm just trying to enjoy this
play here. Yeah, it was a real hit
(28:45):
exploder. Well, during this time, Klemic
grew bored of his exile in the South, as most do, and then made
his way to Canada. Most likely, it didn't say where
he went, but most likely he wentto Montreal because there was a
hotbed of Confederate spies in Montreal.
Funny enough that the British were helping out the South in
(29:07):
the war too. In 1864, could not stay away.
He returned to Ohio illegally because obviously he was
banished from the North. That's the only time in history
anybody has said that sentence Joey.
(29:28):
You just, you just broke the internet by saying he could not
stay away from Ohio and he returned.
No one has ever said that. We are breaking grounds here
today. All right.
And not just the kind in churches where people die in
shit pits, but we are breaking ground.
(29:48):
Breaking Ohio in ground Virgin, Ohio in territory, but when he
got back there a little bit before he ran for governor, but
he lost the governorship becausethe basically in the Civil War
the South was like crushing it and and this is like just active
(30:09):
history just real quick. The South was crushing it.
They were going up there like cool.
We can't win this if we keep fighting.
We got to go to the North and wegot to win a battle on the
Northern ground, basically to say, please stop messing with
us. And then once they, their
biggest battle was Gettysburg. And once Gettysburg happened,
the South started losing basically.
(30:30):
And then Vicksburg happened in the South was like starting to
be like, okay, we're getting crud.
We're starting to get pushed back and starting to get crushed
because of this. turn like Northern sympathies were
basically like, instead of beinglike, we don't want to be in the
war anymore. They went to like, we're
actually winning. We have a chance to win this
let's like win. And so they started being like,
(30:51):
okay, cool. We're from the North.
Yeah, we're going to stop slavery.
And it kind of, it happened likethat.
And because of that, him runningfor governor with his tendencies
to win. Tendencies that he's like, we
don't want to be in the war. He lost because the tie, the
turning of that tide. Well.
I was just gonna say that's the most American thing ever and you
(31:14):
can see it fully on display every four years at the Olympics
where all of a sudden Americans are like water polo is the best
goddamn sport in this fucking country along with women's
soccer and curling and it's justlike Americans don't give a
single fucking are actually all for cutting all funding to
(31:35):
everything until they start to see somebody winning and they're
like, bro I've been the biggest fan my whole fucking life.
Like that is so quintessentiallyAmeri- Mm-hmm.
I'm on board. you watch, I watchany Olympic game like America,
America, yeah, we're going. We're gonna win the gold.
Yeah. What did you just say about
that? Yeah, I'm like, yes. getting
(31:58):
back into it, because he had passed the Ohio bar and became a
lawyer before he became a politician, he was able to act
as a lawyer, and this would eventually be his downfall.
He became the defense attorney for a man named Tom McGeehan,
who was on trial for murder. Well, on Tuesday, June 6th,
(32:19):
we're going way forward because he had a bunch of stuff happen
in his life. on 1871, the trial began.
It was going terribly bad and Clement decided that to prove
that his client was basically innocent, he would have to do a
full live recreation of the man shooting himself instead of
(32:44):
being murdered. You can see where this is going.
I need to know real quick. My god, alright, hold on one
second. I'm having an audio issue here
and I'm just getting rid of one of my... one of my earbuds which
is disorienting me. More than the alcohol.
Just said something. real quick.Okay, so the person who has to
(33:07):
do the recreation is this, uh, this southern sucking
motherfucker. That's down with slavery, right?
That's... Okay.
Just making sure. So the person that's about to do
what you're about to tell us they're about to do is the piece
of shit who fled south and slashgot a presidential order during
(33:29):
a fucking civil war to be like, yeah, just go there, whatever.
I don't care, get the fuck out. Like, it's that dude.
Yeah. Okay, cool.
So, just putting that out there.yeah, yeah.
Just thank you for, thank you for clarifying that because
there's no sympathy with this guy.
Southern sympathies for slavery.No sympathy.
(33:50):
Well, on June 16th, 10 days after the trial started, after
the court had adjourned for the day, Clement and his team took a
gun, basically took a revolver into the countryside and fired
it into a piece of cloth. They were trying to find
gunpowder residue and changing distances to see where the
gunpowder residue would actuallystick to the cloth.
(34:14):
Yeah. So basically just to, just to go
real quick through this, he's trying to prove that his client
did not shoot the man, that the guy actually shot himself in
like a little bar scuffle, right?
So this is basically like the gist of it.
Well, that evening after he did the gunpowder residue check, he
placed a loaded gun right next to the unloaded gun that he was
(34:37):
gonna use for the trial. That is the safest place to put
a loaded gun because the unloaded gun, everybody knows
this, the unloaded gun, well, especially on the cast of like,
or on the set of Rust, like Al Baldwin learned this perfectly,
this is the safest thing you cando.
You take the unloaded gun and you put it next to the loaded
gun. And what a lot of people don't
(34:58):
know is the unloaded gun will teach the loaded gun how to be
more safe. You know what I'm saying?
It's like the AA program for guns, basically.
Ammo's anonymous. the next morning, he was heading out to
(35:19):
court. Basically, he's like, okay, this
is my time. He placed the gun into his
pocket to take to court for the demonstration straight into his
pocket. The day of the trial, he thought
it was his moment to shine. He said, ladies and gentlemen of
the court, I will prove to you that this was accidental
shooting and not murder. I will now demonstrate how Tom
(35:44):
the deceased had accidentally shot himself while drawing a
pistol as he tried to arise fromthe floor.
Clement took the pistol from theprior day from the bureau and
put it in his right pants pocket.
He then slowly pulled the gun out. cocking it as he pulled it
(36:07):
out as He got to the exact position which he assumed the
pistol was when he claims that Myers weapon discharge.
He said There that's the way Myers held it and then pulled
the trigger The gun then fired and the courtroom heard a half
suppressed sound of a gunshot Clement then exclaimed my god
(36:31):
I've shot myself and then he stumbled over towards the wall
trying to hold himself up and then collapsed down the wall.
Mmm. This guy shot himself with a
loaded gun trying to defend a man who had actually shot
another man during a gambling dispute.
He was trying to prove that thiswas a fake, this was a suicide
(36:54):
gun, you know, basically shot himself and killed himself and
not a murder. Clement died less than 12 hours
later because of the gunshot wound.
As for the jury, they actually immediately acquitted Tom
McGeehan, saying that, of coursethe guy shot himself, the lawyer
(37:17):
just proved it. HAHAHA Say what you want about
Ohioans. We make two things very well.
Lawyers and ghosts. Alright, we are so good.
He became both of us, uh a lawyer and a ghost. dear God ah
(37:47):
did not last long and Mageean was shot through a window of his
saloon by an unknown killer about two years later.
It was the lawyers ghost trying to reenact to his friends how he
died okay, so basically I was incourt It was really crazy and
all of sudden it was oh fuck Ha ha ha.
(38:09):
Yeah, that is hilarious. He killed himself with his own
gun that he was trying to prove shot himself.
Very unusual death. Damn good lawyer.
Damn, I mean, he gave his life to be proven innocent.
So this guy was literally going to be proven guilty until that
he did this. Ohioans will do anything,
(38:32):
anything to get out of Ohio. And whether that is learning how
to invent airplanes, being the first person on the moon, being
the first person to orbit earth,it is like, well, not the first,
but the point is getting as far the fuck away as possible.
Going to Washington DC to try tomake Ohio more habitable for the
(38:53):
longest time. The most amount of presidents
came from Ohio. um We have a long, rich history of getting
the fuck out. That's a fact.
True fact there. That's the end.
This next one, we're going to flip over the ocean and go to
(39:14):
the UK. It's going to also be more
modern day than usual. James William Hesselden was born
on March 27th of 1948 and eventually became a coal miner.
He then lost that job due to theunion strikes in the 1980s.
So I'm just prefacing this because you can kind of see
(39:37):
where it comes from. Yeah.
This is in the UK, right? This is in the UK.
Dude, I need to find that movie.That's a fucking awesome
history, if we ever get a chance.
I might do it for like a political BCR bootleg movie
night. um There's some really good documentaries, really good
movies about the cold strikes inthe UK.
(39:57):
Sounds boring, but pretty fucking awesome when you watch
it. Like it's like actually like, oh
shit, like this is, it's fuckingintense.
Sorry, just to interrupt there, y'all.
If you like paranormal shit and you don't like history, Do you
even like paranormal history? shit?
Do you? Bean?
Do you? Do you?
(40:21):
I didn't know that. Yeah, you do know that.
Gil sometimes just like, please stop prefacing with history.
We know how a shovel works. Okay.
I know what. Yeah, but do you realize when it
went from flat to spade shaped like who invented what bro?
Okay, hold on a second. We all we have to start with
(40:42):
silly putty. Okay, so if you look at that
This episode is about Bigfoot Joey shot the fuck up.
No, I'm just kidding Yeah. We dug up Bigfoot's bones with
the spade-headed shovel, so we gotta go into the background of
that. But anyways. we used the wrong
shape shovel? Anyway- That's why I broke the
(41:04):
bones, got smaller, not big foot, little foot. um Well,
because of basically saving up lot of that coal miner money, he
used some of that money he had saved up to open a workshop.
Initially, starting it as a sandblasting business.
Well, in 1989, he started the Hesco Bastion Company to build
(41:26):
his creation. Basically a form of wire and
mesh barrier that he patented himself that could be he
initially said this is going to be used for flood barriers or
walls basically like stop Hurricane Katrina from
happening, but a very good thingto use for well instead of the
emergency management, which theywere built for they started
(41:48):
becoming favorites among armies around the world for blast
barriers and basically mobile walls as they always do.
They also were used to help in the hurricane Katrina relief
though. did kind of, they did use those and he donated a bunch
of those. Um, so we're going to say this
guy is not a bad guy. he did a lot of donations and I do want
(42:12):
to preface this too, because he did, he donated a lot of his
money and he had some really good quotes of like, if you
can't give money back to people,then why have it?
there's some really good, like good quotes on this guy.
So, Oh, you can laugh at him. Uh, it's also modern day, please
laugh. cause it's just ironic. Well, on Christmas day in 2009,
(42:33):
Jimmy purchased the Segway company as a new kind of
investment for himself. If you guys don't know what
Segways are, I don't know how you've not seen a Segway.
There are those big motor scooter things that just like
you stand on top of and you can take tours on very weird things.
would never use them because they look very silly.
(42:55):
Cool. Not more than a year afterwards,
on September 26th 2010, Jimmy was riding an off-road Segway
near Thorpe Arch, which is in Wetherby in Leeds, United
Kingdom, with his dog. Because of the enormity of the
Segway, he was driving of the company that he just purchased,
(43:16):
he had to reverse out of the wayof another person who was also
walking his dog. They were coming the opposite
way. As he reversed, he went too far
and fell off the cliff into the river wharf, which was just
below and died. The segue of this basically on
(43:37):
top of a segue of the company that he just purchased.
It was the segue to his journey to the other side, I guess.
Um, which is very sad for this guy, but it's just so ironic
that he bought this company. And the only reason he probably
died is because he was on a segue of the company that he
bought. It's actually sadder than I was
(43:57):
telling it and then I thought itwould be.
I'm not laughing at the segue guy.
He seems like a decent human being.
He just wanted people to be lazier.
And I appreciate that. Yeah, as somebody who loves to
be lazy, full support. I have a lot of support. just a
(44:18):
sad ironic death. Really?
Yeah. Way to bring it down, Joey.
Let's bring it back up. One of our last, yeah, let's
segue into this one called our last unusual death in history or
deaths in history. We're going to stay in the UK
and talk about the London beer flood.
This is a perking up Gills ears.Yeah, this is one of those
(44:43):
things where it's like, man, if I could have been there in
history, things would have went different.
Like this is my moment. Now, you all can probably see
where this is going because of the name.
Also, it hits close to home for us because Asheville is also
Beer City, USA with a crap ton of micro and macro breweries in
and around us. I guess regulations are a little
(45:07):
better nowadays, but not saying that this couldn't probably
happen. Well, an eight.
It's sitting at the bottom. Sitting at the bottom near
Highland with your mouth open like it's coming.
Well, in 1810, the Horseshoe Brewery, which stood in the
corner of Great Russell Street and Tottenham Court Road in
(45:31):
London, built a 22 foot high fermentation tank.
The tank itself could hold more than 300,000 gallons of beer.
Right? So it was equal to about 3,500
wooden barrels of brown. Nice.
Brown Porter ale, which actuallydon't really like Brown Porter
ale. It's too dark.
Yeah. if it's free, if it's likestreet free, you know, if it if
(45:56):
it if it's a curb score, literally here for it. that's a
lot of beer. On October 17th of 1814, just
four years after the tank had been built, so I had a good long
life, I guess, for the most part, a storehouse clerk named
George Crick inspected the tank and found out that one of the
(46:20):
700 pound iron hoop rings had slipped off the cask. it's not
as... Yeah.
It took an inspection for somebody to realize a 700 pound
metal ring was missing. It took, it took a literal
(46:40):
inspection. Okay, whatever. the point is a
700. Do I need to Google Image Search
what a 700 pound metal ring looks like?
I don't know, I've never seen one, but I can't imagine it's
the size of a key ring. That thing has to be fucking
(47:02):
huge. How do you walk by the same spot
every day with little Jiminy Cricket, whoever the fuck is out
there, man, Mr. Mr. Can I have some porter for my sick mother?
No, no, Timmy. Oh, Mr. You know she's got the
shakes. I know she's got the shakes.
Who do you think gave it to her?Oh, mister, you're so crude.
(47:23):
And it's like, how do you not every day you walk by this
fucking massive barrel in town and there's a 700 pound metal
ring missing and you don't notice.
This motherfucker. No, I know, but I'm.
(47:46):
People had to be put. This is why they have don't
drink labels on bleach. It's motherfuckers like this.
Wasting ink. I don't know.
You hit a soft spot for me. That's all I'm saying.
This is bullshit. pound iron rings are a very big soft spot
(48:06):
for you. Well. you can't work without.
As I was trying to explain, thiswas normal because the enormity
of the tank. This happened about two to three
times a year, which is not good.Honestly, that's not a 700 pound
ring. Flipping off a tank is not good,
but this is the 1800s. They're like, it's normal. uh If
(48:29):
there's a crack in it, just use flex seal, spitting it. don't
know. They're just anything to not
have to pay to fix this, basically. and just pray.
Yeah? yeah.
Go to the shit church, grab somepoop, put it on there, stop it
right up. Even though, well, getting back
(48:52):
into it, even though the tank was completely full, Crick's
boss still told him, meh, don't worry about it.
It's normal. I'll have it fixed eventually.
I've already put in a call into people across the town at the
other brewery. They'll be here soon.
This was 4.30 PM, right? And so Crick's like, okay, well,
(49:12):
he's already got somebody comingto fix it.
I guess it's fine. Well, about an hour later.
After Crick had notified his boss at around 5.30 PM, he heard
a massive explosion from the store room and he's just like,
shit. Well, the tank exploded and
there was huge holes in the tankand it started releasing hot,
(49:37):
hot fermenting beer with such a force that the vat burst into
splinters and the wall of the brewery crumbled.
This wasn't the only cast that broke due to the massive
explosion. Pieces of the tank flew off and
hit valves and parts of the other casks and knock those out.
(49:59):
So basically most of this whole brewery is exploding. huh.
And the walls weren't built verywell.
So 320,000 gallons were releasedinto the streets.
That's a lot of beer. hold on hold on 320,000 Yeah. 320.
(50:29):
Mm-hmm. Well, adding to this, it's
boiling hot fermenting beer. So it bubbled and rushed through
the narrow streets surrounding the brewery.
It swamped everyone in its path.Now this is the 1800s and the
areas around the brewery weren'tproperly created to have
(50:49):
drainage. So there's nowhere for this beer
to go. Right?
Son of a bitch. Jesus Christ. uh on top of
tables, furniture clung to anything they could to save
(51:10):
themselves. Basically because it's just like
it's a flood. They're being flooded with beer.
And, you know, if you bathe in beer for long enough, you could
die. You get alcohol poisoning.
So they're trying to get up and get, and Gil does it every day.
(51:31):
Well, the first victims of the flood were Mary Banfield and her
and y'all thought I was crazy Swimming along spitting it out
in a little stream This is life for me.
The first victims of the flood were Mary Banfield and her
(51:54):
four-year-old daughter Hannah who were sitting down to tea.
I'm so sad. The second victim I think might
have been the most tragic because the mother, Anna
Seville, and four other people were killed as they were having
an Irish wake for her two-year-old son who had just
died the day before. okay Hold on back up That's the most
(52:21):
fitting way I've ever heard of people dying at an Irish fucking
wake No, I don't feel bad for No, no back up I don't feel bad
I'm sorry Nope. Nope.
(52:48):
No. that much beer for the week.Also, how the fuck do you
organize a wake within 24 hours?God damn like that's insane
Yeah, no, I don't feel bad. I don't feel bad about this.
don't I'm sorry. I know that's Yeah Well maybe
(53:11):
you'll feel bad for this next person, Gil.
A teenage servant named Eleanor Cooper, who was at the time
working at the Tavis Stock Arms pub, was trapped and instantly
killed by the tidal wave while Eleanor was working washing pots
and pans at the outdoor pump. You should feel bad about that
one. He was working at a pub.
Look, all I'm saying is these people...
(53:36):
He was a child working at the pub.
Clearly... No, I...
I'm gonna put it this way. These people were dressed for
it. Alright, they want it.
They wanted that be murdered by beer.
Obviously, any traumatic death is never a good thing, but there
(53:59):
are better ways to have not a good thing happen and in an
apocalyptic amount of here over 200 and something thousand Look,
look I have said many things on record as we as Joey has as we
have hundreds of hours recorded and if this is how I die and
(54:23):
anyone cries about it. You don't know me and you never
loved me to begin with. I'm saying that, I'm saying
that. It's very strong opinion.
Yeah, no, for the love of God, that is hilarious.
Like, a group of people get drowned in an Irish wake from a
(54:46):
flood of... What?
I didn't realize how ironic it was till you repeated it back.
as I was writing it, was like, Iwas like, that's really, really
sad. And then as you say it, then I
was like, wait a second, that's actually pretty, that's actually
pretty funny. Please continue.
I need to hear about every single death that happened from
(55:09):
this beer incident. This is incredible. all in all
eight women and children that died during the London beer
flood. No men died during it.
Well, and the reason I think that this happened because the
UK 1800s, it's 5.30 PM. What really happened was all the
men were working and this is theexplosion at the tenement
(55:32):
housing. So I think that that's why no
men died in the flood of beer. Yeah, well, crazily, every
person that worked at the Horseshoe Brewery survived.
Like none of them died. Though four of the workers were
hurt and had to be rescued, but none of them died, even though
the place crumbled down and broke around them, which is
(55:54):
pretty crazy. Yeah, well, most people though,
as Gil probably was thinking about and said earlier, they
brought whatever container and anything they could use to pick
up all this fermenting booze. They did that so much so that
there was a random report a few days later that there was a
(56:15):
ninth victim in this disaster. The report said he died of
alcohol poisoning. uh I believe there probably was a lot more
victims because of the alcohol poisoning. my great, great,
great, great uncle who was great.
Yeah. do think that afterwards there probably was some indirect
(56:36):
victims of this flood too. There was some indirect victims
because all the houses at the bottom of them, their tenement
housing at the begin with, they started rotting because of all
the beer and people didn't cleanthis out of their basement.
I mean, like there's they're notcleaning this stuff up.
So basically, I think a lot of the houses crashed and fell.
(56:56):
They all fell right into the latrines and we had a 1800
style. or 1800s style latrine death.
I've been around the frats and the fraternities and all that
shit. I've partied outside of OSU, in
(57:17):
OSU, on St. Patrick's Day. nothing here
surprises me. That's all I'm saying.
This just sounds like the OSU versus Michigan game.
That's what this sounds like. Yeah, yeah, I don't.
(57:40):
I don't feel bad for anyone thatdied in this situation, Joe.
I'm gonna be honest. Okay.
Bold. Well, as the most American part
of this, the second most American part of this, the
disaster, they were actually taken to court.
The brewery was taken to court for the lives lost.
(58:05):
The disaster was ruled to be an act of God, which means nobody
was responsible. And that was also my great great
great great great uncle who was the judge in this case saying.
Well. was asleep. I was beer. my God. to do that.
(58:37):
Gil just died, uh he died as thedrunk judge.
What's funny is the flood itselfcost the brewery around 23,000
pounds or 1.25 million pounds today because of everything
pretty much being destroyed, butthey recouped most of the money
from the excise duty they had paid on the beer itself.
(59:02):
So it's a whole tax thing in theUK.
They were, basically got refunded all that exercise duty
because of the beer they lost. And then they were given money
by the government to help them save their business.
And they didn't go bankrupt. from all of our stories and
there are many ways to die. Before we end, have one more.
(59:24):
It's usual death. So I can end on a positive note
as possible, right? We're going to talk about a man
named Frank Hayes. It's a little quick story before
we finish. Frank Hayes was an American
horse jockey. He was 22 during his last race.
(59:45):
And he actually had never won a race before in his life.
Right. During this day, he was riding
the 20 to one outsider, sweet kiss as a jockey at this time,
you had to trim down to a very, very light weight in order to
meet the weight requirements. So you can actually jockey the
(01:00:08):
race, right? He started this point at
weighing 142 pounds and then went down. to 130 in a matter of
two days. That's 12 pounds in two days.
So you got to do some serious shedding, puking, whatever, you
know, basically getting everything out of your body to
(01:00:30):
lose that much weight. Mm.
As he was the jockey in the raceand he made the last turn to the
finish line, Hayes slunk down inthe saddle.
He had a heart attack in the last part of the race due to
losing so much weight and all that, all that on his heart.
(01:00:52):
What is crazy. Yeah.
What is crazy is the horse stillkept going and actually won the
race. He won the horse race
posthumously, even after death, joining such acclaimed fame as
Heath Ledger winning his award posthumously.
That's the last story of day of unusual deaths throughout the
(01:01:15):
history. Damn.
I'm here for it, Joey, was fan fucking plastic.
Before we go and get into our CTAs today, me and Gil talked
earlier, we really wanted to give the biggest, especially
(01:01:35):
because it's about deaths, the biggest heartfelt love to the
Prince of Darkness himself, OzzyOsbourne.
He just passed away like a week,two weeks right after his last
concert. I guess he just felt like he was
done. had been saying for the uhlongest time he thought he was
(01:01:58):
going to die on stage at his last concert.
Like for months leading up to his last concert, he was telling
everybody, everybody's like, fuck, he just said he's gonna
die on stage. And he's hungry.
Like it was for the longest timehe had been saying that and
(01:02:21):
yeah, pretty goddamn close. Um, and you know that I will
say, and I'm, I'm not, um, not ablack Sabbath fan by any stretch
of the imagination. It's not that I'm like anti
black Sabbath or anything like that.
It's just like, respect the music. hear it.
I think it's excellent, but I don't put it on when I'm by
(01:02:42):
myself and like really get down with it.
But I can hear good music and appreciate it, at least I like
to think to. And Ozzy and, you know, all of
Black Sabbath... incredible music.
I know they're incredibly talented.
And here's the thing. You know that the Prince of
Darkness was a good person because he didn't have a long
life. Only bad people live forever.
(01:03:04):
It's a fact. Sorry.
Throwing it out there. Check it.
Dick Cheney, still alive. But, um...
Yeah. Ozzy was a great person. uh He
us know early in the day. Well, BCR is back after our
(01:03:26):
three to four weeks summer hiatus and we will be getting
these episodes back out to you ASAP.
This episode itself, it's going online tonight because today is
our three year anniversary to the day.
We've been going for three years. want to thank you all for
(01:03:46):
tuning in with us, finding us, bearing with us through all the
stuff that's happened, the hurricanes, the different people
being on the podcast, all this stuff.
Thank you for loving us. Music up.
Yeah. Start it over. give us like,
follow, review wherever you get your podcasts.
(01:04:06):
Also, if you have any good topics that you think we do a
great job in covering, send themin to us via our IG, via DM, or
to our email, contact at blackcat.report.
Also, we will be having our beer, booze, and boogeymen
weekly live streams called Paranormal Happy Hour.
On Friday, you can see it on YouTube, it was Gil and Damien,
(01:04:29):
and they did a fantastic job. were so good at it.
I Chris and her this week, we got a lot to live up to.
We are super excited about this and it's going to be super fun.
It'll be airing on literally random social and live stream
channels. So you will know the day of
(01:04:50):
where it's going to be airing. Last week was YouTube.
Am I correct about that? Go live stream on YouTube.
Probably. Yeah, it did.
Well, this week, I think it might be Instagram, but you
won't know until the day of. Give us a follow on Patreon as
you can get some awesome perks. They're like our member shout
(01:05:12):
out. All you got to do is sign up
because we can't do this withoutyou.
Gil, you got any extras? Got anything you want to say?
Yeah, I just want to say you guys are really great and we
have not given our Patreon shoutouts, which Joey, want to say we
(01:05:33):
have. new members of Patreon. Joey, do you want to sound off
and give those shoutouts? Because I don't have the script
in front of me. I do. got it right here.
Our few newest ones that signed up.
Oscar, Amandine, Stephanie, backto our old people that we love.
(01:05:54):
Harry Carey, Tristan, Bud, Don, Thomas, Little Mystery, Bobby,
Betsybae, Lucas, Tim, Dee, Max, Ian, Morgan, Dragon Paul from
the Star Blood Chronicles podcast, Tim Miller from
Miller's Monsters, Marissa, Gavin, fearless leader of the
(01:06:16):
chicken cult, Rachel, Av, Jaden,Jackie, Yellow Bear, Dwayne aka
Snatchtwad, Alyssa, Bree, Michael Extreme, Kristen from
the Paranorm Girl Podcast, James, and most importantly, our
sexiest, sexiest, sexiest producer.
(01:06:42):
Happy Kitty! Thank you all for listening and
we will see you next week. Bye, we love you all.
Bye.
Popular Podcasts
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
I’m Jay Shetty host of On Purpose the worlds #1 Mental Health podcast and I’m so grateful you found us. I started this podcast 5 years ago to invite you into conversations and workshops that are designed to help make you happier, healthier and more healed. I believe that when you (yes you) feel seen, heard and understood you’re able to deal with relationship struggles, work challenges and life’s ups and downs with more ease and grace. I interview experts, celebrities, thought leaders and athletes so that we can grow our mindset, build better habits and uncover a side of them we’ve never seen before. New episodes every Monday and Friday. Your support means the world to me and I don’t take it for granted — click the follow button and leave a review to help us spread the love with On Purpose. I can’t wait for you to listen to your first or 500th episode!
Dateline NBC
Current and classic episodes, featuring compelling true-crime mysteries, powerful documentaries and in-depth investigations. Special Summer Offer: Exclusively on Apple Podcasts, try our Dateline Premium subscription completely free for one month! With Dateline Premium, you get every episode ad-free plus exclusive bonus content.
24/7 News: The Latest
The latest news in 4 minutes updated every hour, every day.