I for one, hope I die in some freak spud-related accident.. So that my tombstone can read:
"She died as she lived..... Potato" Yeah... that's good stuff Hello!! Today we're doing something:
*Choir of Rachels*: A little bit different! So I guess this is kind of a new format of video Ya girl's getting a little burnt
out from sewing... all the time All.... the time Today, I wanted to talk about death More specifically, Victorian deaths Art thou intrigued?? A while back, I stumbled upon a book called
"The Victorian Book of Death" - Dead- Mmm... fact check myself Nope, okay "The Victorian Book of the Dead" and
with a title like that, You know that I had to read it What harm ever came from reading a
book?? Now in this book, it covers different death practices of the Victorian era More specifically,
there is a whole chapter of strange deaths
*chef's kiss* Most of you know that I am super nosy... that just
happens to include wanting to know how people died The reason I love history so much, even the morbid
fascination with how people died I think is all part of... I just- I love stories and I love humans.. ??
I'm not a lizard person I promise *chuckles in Lizard* Overall hoo-
Hooman experience... Gonna be a long video Human experience
and that includes something we all do someday and that is dying I kind of wish that all tombstones had
on them how people died, I- Is that disrespectful?? Eeehh, I dunno. I for one hope I die in some freak
spud-related accident So that my tombstone can read "She died as she lived.... potato" That long spiel aside, what I thought we would do today is I would read you some of these entries into the really
strange deaths While I kind of do a Victorian look I picked out a Victorian hairstyle that I want to
try I'm not going for 100% historical accuracy here... I never am We're going for "Vaguely Historic" Because I myself am.... Vaguely Historic *Salt-N-Pepa's "Let's Talk About Sex " plays* "Let's Talk About-"
DEATH. That wasn't as funny as
I thought it was going to be My second cup of coffee for the
day, heck ton of bobby pins... my makeup I look like a grandma that's confused
about what time period she belongs to... Before we dive into these strange deaths and the
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Let's get started I already put foundation on because
Woof. I guess we can do eyebrows... Do you ever have one of those mornings where you accidentally catch a glimpse of yourself in the mirror and you're just.... very disappointed That was me this morning So quite obviously, some of these are probably
going to be a little more brutal than others It's kind of in the title of the video so if you
don't enjoy that kind of thing, it's not your cup of tea... here's your last chance So as far as I know, all of these were true and they were featured in victorian newspapers Starting off... nice and strong "Lizards found in girl's stomach" Two live lizards, three and a half inches long,
several smaller ones and a number of lizard eggs *gag noise* were taken from the stomach of Levell Herman, 19,
four days before she died A postmortem examination showed that the wall of the stomach had been
attacked by the animals for several years she had been ill, complaining that something was clawing at
her stomach Specialists were puzzled, until finally, Working on the theory that it was a tapeworm...
found the lizards That sentence in itself is not something I thought I would ever read out loud Miss Herman drank water from spring in which there were lizards Okay. And it is believed that she swallowed the eggs or the young animals at the time and that they grew a while in
her body She craved meat and eggs during the four months of her illness and it is believed she demanded such animal food because the lizards, as well as her body, had to be fed I don't think that's how that works She ate ravenously but weighed only 80 pounds Incidentally, the health officials refused to accept the certificate of death based on the lizard theory December 16, 1910 So. Just to set the tone DescOSTANG. That kind of reminds me of that one
Rugrats episode Unfortunately stayed with me my entire life I think it was Chucky eats
a watermelon seed and they're all like "OooOOOoohh, a full ass watermelon's going to grow
in your stomach" and so they have to shrink themselves and go into Chucky's stomach
to receive the seed What even was Rugrats? I would imagine after fostering these lizard creatures
in your stomach You'd grow quite attached to them.. Get me four pounds of meat...
my babies are HUNGRY That's a little more thick than I... planned them to be... I just get carried away... I start the process by being like 'okay, I'm not going to make them that big today' and then before you know it: THICC. It's fine... Another one.. are we having fun yet? Parrot was a gas fiend At last killed
his owner by tearing off burner while she slept Alice Knott, 23 years old, came to her death yesterday
through the instrumentality Wow. Of her pet parrot, an evil-dispositioned bird Whoever wrote this
obituary was NOT holding back Obit--u--ary... O-bitch-iary Who was cordially detested by everyone except
his mistress He would follow her from room to room and was never happy except in her presence He was generally regarded as a devil His unpopularity was increased by an uncanny habit of pulling the
tips off the gas burners with his strong beak and inhaling the gas until it stupefied him He was a gas fiend, a feathered victim of the gas habit gonna let that one sit for a while Go easy on the poor bird, man... god Doesn't help that uh, my tiktok "For You Page"
is pretty much solely 'birds getting into hijinks' and I'm not mad about it While his young mistress was sleeping yesterday, the parrot took off the lava tip in her
room This time there was no one near to avert the consequences of his deed- This is so dramatic oh my god When Miss Knott's relative, alarmed by her long silence, broke open the door They found her dead... Her little murderer- *laughs* Her little murderer was found half-unconscious
by the door When he found himself succumbing to the gas and was not rescued as usual by his
mistress He realized that something was wrong and he had wit or instinct enough to make
for the door and shove his bill as far as he could underneath it He recovered, and
while the coroner was in the house The malignant little bird was caught trying
to turn on the gas again September 14th, 1899 Brilliant! I can just see her... sleeping
peacefully.. and in the corner all you see is: *Parrot chuckling maniacally* I liked that one Now there's not much eye makeup
in the way of Victorian Styles but I think darken my eyelids a bit - this is Victorian
inspired so, darken it a bit and then add just a tiny brown wing, just to kind of fake the shape of my eyes, and make them look a little bit more cat-like Nothing to get you in the holiday
spirit quite like a murderous parrot Killed by gloves... one of the most
singular cases of poisoning ever recorded A young lady, in perfect health and with the
brightest futures.. before her - wow Read much? Where was I? ....*Deep breaths* Pressure This is like back in the classroom, when you went around the room to take turns with a paragraph and you would do the mental
counting of how many people before you and so you would know which paragraph you're going to get then you practice that paragraph, only to learn that you were slightly off and you have to do the one before OR after it Anyway... She was among the guests invited to a ball and her toilet completed- Invited to a ball and, comma, her toilet completed, comma- She drew on a pair of long gloves reaching
above the elbows Well... I'm going to assume that means something else When I die, put me down for my
bowel movements NOT being recorded in the obituary Thank you very much Scarcely half an hour afterwards, she felt considerable irritation and pain in her arms and hands When returning home, her suffering increased and the following day her hands and arms became covered with sores Which were attributed by the doctor to blood poisoning A week later the poor girl died after a
severe suffering The fatal gloves have been handed over for analysis, the conjecture being that the animal with the skin of which they were made was in some way or other diseased and that the skin
used had been imperfectly cleansed That sucks... A little bit of eyeliner here, I'm gonna need
to focus for this one so forgive my silence That'll do, pig Side note, I got really excited last night, watching the most recent episode of Bob's Burgers and Tina said that! "That'll do pig, sorry- that's from a different movie" Ha Ha.... I do that Alright, blush Heck ton of blush I want to look like Santa Am I holly jolly enough? Killed by paper mache mask... Paint melted and caused
girl's death by blood poisoning Them's the runs Is that a phrase? Or is it "them's the pits"? I mean, both equally suck I would think Little Freida, the 14 year old daughter of- I don't care Is dead at her home as a result of blood poisoning contracted by wearing a paper mache mask at a halloween party she recently gave a number of her young friends At the party, all the children wore masks and there
was much romping 'Sthat what the kids are doing these days? *whispers* Romping. The perspiration on the girl's face melted the paint
on the mask and this contaminated an abrasion on her upper lip November 14th, 1902 Put a little mascara on here.... Do this color and then go over it with some pink Another side note, I started
mountain biking with Nick Nothing quite dries your lips out as much as Feeling the wind in your face A patch of dry skin right on the corner of my lip... forgot how annoying that is You think it's healed, and then you yawn or something or talk a little too boisterously That patch of dry skin is
instantly like: "Surprise bitch, I bet you thought you'd seen the last of me" I feel like the only
way to solve it is to take a vow of silence And I- I can't do that so it's just gonna always be
there Put a little bit of this same cream rouge.. I think we can maybe move on to hair but
before we do that Freak accidents.... ooh Yes, please Receives fatal wound while embracing
girl Singular accident which led to the death of Thomiss- T-Thomish Thomas M Daugherty, had sweetheart in arms
when a needle she wore fatally stabbed him The authorities are of the opinion that the girl is
innocent of murderous intent She says that she had been mending her brother's clothing with a
long needle used hereabouts in mending miner's heavy outer clothing and then on going downtown in the evening, she stuck the needle in the bosom of her dress Daugherty, who had been her sweetheart
hailed her and asked her to take a walk with him He attempted to embrace her and the point of the
needle that was in her dress caught in his vest While the blunt end rested against her corset In the embrace, the needle was forced into his body through the fifth rib November 13th, 1906 Oooof. I mean, to be fair..
I feel like if anyone were to uh, walk anywhere in this vicinity The chances of you getting
a hidden needle in your foot Much like Home Alone... Slim... but definitely not zero percent I feel like to penetrate human skin with a needle, you'd have to be going pretty damn hard Especially for
him not to notice enough to be like: "Hey..... back up" "Let's STOP" That's how I like to embrace my husband...
BODY BUMPS Let's just leave it like this this is- Oh this one's fitting... strangled with her own hair Madeleine Mesner commits- Ooohh-kay Nope, that one's a bummer, not gonna read that one Took poison "for fun" Just for fun, Carrie Madison, age 20 and pretty.... Took a dose of strychnine at the farmhouse
of Frank Richardson in the eastern part of woodbury county
"I took it just for fun" was her
only explanation "I saw it there and I thought... I'd take some just for fun" ....Understood The young woman climbed from the cellar where she took the drug to the kitchen where she told Mrs Richardson of her
act Before anything could be done to relieve her, she was dead May 1st 1907 Okay... so this is kind
of the idea that I'm going for Y'know it kind of just looks like I can just throw up and twist ... In regards to my hair, not an activity It looks like I'm going to leave a lot of the bottom
section out and just curly and then throw up FROW UP Ehhh, we'll see! I feel like with the right amount
of bobby pins, you can accomplish anything Just don't go to... headbutt your lover The circus in town inculcates the lad with a passion for throwing somersaults and for standing on their heads or hands Master Jesse Pratt, aged 11, spent a whole forenoon in somersaulting His bowels became so twisted
and tied into knots, that in 10 days The derangement proved fatal September 16, 1873 That... sucks Singular circumstance, a Baltimore paper states that a girl died recently in Virginia from having bitten
a thread with which she had sewn up a rent made by the- what She had sewn up a rent...
made by the bite of a mad dog... in her apron *Epic Calculation Music* So was she sewing up a wound that a mad dog made? *Wrong Buzzer* ..with the string.. and then she bit the thread and
died Word to the wise, when you're trying to pull a needle through a bunch of fabric and it's really hard with your slippy fingers Don't use your teeth! Why ever not, Rachel?
Oh, I will tell you... I was embroidering something for my new baby niece Pulling the thread because I am an actual
primitive human being who has not learned not to use her teeth to open things I was doing this... felt something hard in my mouth Pulled it out and it was a little bit of tooth Very hard to see...
but right here
Chipped a little bit of tooth off Sewers... ye be warned Except I'm pretty sure everybody already knows not to do that But uh, just in case you needed a
little bit more proof there it is proof... there it is PROOF, there it iiiss. Alright, so
this is kind of the idea but I'm... *mouth noises* Okay, Alright- We're gonna take this section ..
we'll do a little twist-arino here Okay... Alright, alriiight And then same thing with this side... and then! Actually I kind of want to braid this... Okay I'm gonna do a little twist here I have no idea what that looks like I guess that's kind of Victorian looking So I fixed my bangs a little This is kind of just....
Doing what it wants, so we're just gonna leave that alone But the back
looks something like this Now I know what you're thinking... but Rachel...
it is December! And to that I say.... okay So we'll do a couple more... I think I'm just about
through with Book of the Dead entries... um A lot of them have to do with y'know, just really
bummer stuff so.. Y'know, we're just trying to keep it light and uh, merry So I looked up a quick article that's pretty much the same thing England 1875, a mouse dashed suddenly onto a
work table in a South London factory Into the general commotion which followed, a gallant young
man stepped forward and seized the rodent For a glorious moment, he was the savior of the women
who'd scattered The mouse slipped out of his grasp, ran up his sleeve and scurried out again at the
open neck of his shirt In his surprise, his mouth was agape In ITS surprise, the mouse dashed in In his continued surprise, the man swallowed The mouse uh, began to tear and bite inside the man's throat
and chest Unfortunate fellow died after a little time in horrible agony Ain't that the rats *Clears throat* Crushed
by his own invention Sam Wardell couldn't afford to oversleep, he lit the street lights in the
evening and needed to be up early to put them out again at dawn It wasn't a job for slobs He took a standard alarm clock and supercharged it, adding a "Wallace and Gromit" style embellishment to ensure that he woke up in time
This is what I need... First, he connected the clock by a wire to a catch
he fitted to a shelf in his room Then he placed a 10-pound stone on the shelf When the alarm struck,
the shelf fell and the stone crashed to the floor On Christmas Eve, he invited some friends around
for a party and he cleared his room of furniture to make space When they left, he dragged his
bed into the room He was tired and didn't pay much attention to where he put it A five o'clock the next morning, the alarm sounded, the shelf fell The stone dropped straight onto sleeping Wardell's
head So one last one.... Laughed himself to death Farmer Wesley Parsons, he was joking with friends
in Laurel, Indiana in 1893 when he was seized by fits of uncontainable laughter and he couldn't stop He laughed for nearly an hour when he began hiccuping Two hours later, he died from exhaustion Can you imagine being the group of friends in that situation? Like how long until it becomes a
little concerning? We're laughing.... we're laughing *whispers* Is he okay? Got a mustache??? Oh... very Victorian I think that about wraps it
up for today I had fun So this kind of format a video I think I want to try to start
doing more of in between my big projects So let me know if there are any specific topics
you would like me to do some research on and some reading on and report back I feel like it's kind of a new format of Youtube videos a lot of people are doing where Y'know, it's almost like a podcast where you're presented with information and you can learn some stuff! And meanwhile we can
do a look of some sort So here is the finished ~look~ Thank you once again Hunt a Killer for
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Be careful y'all Don't get impaled by any needles, watch your creatures of the aviary kind Very closely tonight Don't eat any wizards Just generally... maybe don't live in Victorian
times Byyyye! Rarely it may be thought- oh...
What? Oh No I don't want that one where's my brown??? Take these little sausages out Uh............... what gettin' flashbacks to middle school
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