Meet John Hunter, the Patron Saint of Body Snatchers

Meet John Hunter, the Patron Saint of Body Sn...

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Cranioklepty, Skulduggery, and the Time of Phrenology

Snatching bodies from graves to sell them to medical and anatomy schools was once a super-common reason for disinterring corpses, but it’s definitely not the only reason people have disturbed the dead. And as strange as this may sound, it turns out many people have had their skul ...  Show more

William Cunningham, the Ghoul of Cincinnati

Resurrectionist William Cunningham was actively stealing bodies from grave sites around Cincinnati from 1855 to 1871. He was well known, and he was something of a legend. He once returned to the same gravesite at which he had earlier been caught digging – after he’d bought those ...  Show more

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