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Hahahaha your trying to tell us he. Was not gay or a killer who pays for another man to live in the house that you do not live in unless you're a homosexual or you're using that guy to cover up your killings you get my drift
Simon! I almost didn't recognise you here! It's wonderful to see how much your channel has grown and moreso, the quality of production. Truly wonderful. Cant believe you've been around for so many years and I only found you in several months ago back in 2020!
I volunteered at the Benjamin Franklin House as a tour guide back in 2014. At the beginning out every tour of the house all of the guests would be sat down in the seminar room for a short welcome monologue and introduction by the tour guide. Like Simon said in the video, all the bones are in the seminar room. People were always creeped out to hear that the seminar room was built directly over where all the bodies were buried!
18th and 19th Centuries are a gold mine for plots of the fucked up young adult genre. At least they would be more educational and interesting than things like Twilight or 50 Shades of Grey.
It's well documented that Ben Franklin acquired dead bodies for research. How he disposed to them is now being revealed. The world is full of people like you and it's causing a lot of pain for others to think the way that you do.
@@brianwnc8168 Nobody has Caused more people to Live in pain than the Europeans remember that Before Europeans crawled out of the caves The World was Awesome
whoa watching this in 2019 for the first time and kinda freaked about Simons look. Dude, youve up your style game considerably since this vid.....NICE! :)
I followed the the link to this video from an even older one. I had to double check on that one on wether it was really Simon or not. This one is closer to the modern Simon but still very different.
Hypatia4242 Fair enough, I looked at it as the image compared to where the whole paragraph ended up, but I definitely see your point. I am a big fan of the game review show Zero Puncuation for the very reason you mention. Word for word imagery, its like the extreme of it, and very entertaining.
"A human thighbone sticking out of the dirt" is what he said.. They found a complete skeleton.. And name the person found.. 4 second attention spans are apparently more common than I thought..
Grave robbing was big money, medical researchers needed cadavers to study but human dissection was illegal. Scientists have been paying graverobbers for centuries, even DaVinci used them for his studies, so maybe the son was hired by Franklin, he studied a lot of different scientific subjects.
It was a cult there’s absolutely no reason for the guy to do that these people were rich and could have had others do the dirty work for them. They were kept there for occult purposes and as a trophies.
as much as i have no knowledge of this subject i doubt that there are any hard evidence of this. I automatically assume this is some sort of propaganda to legitimize lgbt by making a historical figure relatable in an effort to normalize lgbt. which in my opinion only hurts it more. I being a fan of liberty do not really care for a person's sexuality. so yawn*
Mike West Trust me, he was the Donald Trump of his time as far as Poon. He beaded contessas, had mistresses and enjoyed the company of much younger females. Ben did not sleep alone. Political Revolutionaries are sexy to women.
When I was in grade school, I learned that Franklin used to take "air baths"(wearing no clothing). I heard acquaintances of his would come calling at his house and find him not wearing clothes. After hearing about dozens of accounts of ritual abuse perpetuated by the rich and powerful, I wouldn't be surprised at all.
So true just imagine the headline Americas first serial killer over 200 years ago not h.h.homes but founding father Benjamin franklin always the best things in life are lies.
fireaza Every home that Franklin owned or rented has had the remains of mutilated women dug up from the floorboards, out of the walls and from the cellars. Including his home in London and a closer look and carefull thought is being given to the very real possibility that he could have been London's famous Jack the Ripper. He coincidentally happened to be in London during every killing.
I have been to the Hell Fire caves in England where the Hell Fire club practiced there freaky rituals and acts they used to do. Many aristocratic elites used to partake in them. Franklin was one of them. So nothing would surprise me.
@@damiangiese-jeanson8874 I don't agree with that.. Western countries are far more free and kind than non western ones.. Well maybe not today with the fascist lockdowns.
@@barrystevens2699 America was founded on religion and slavery, Mexico and South America were founded on slavery and rape of the Aztec people (and before that, they had death pits and decapitated head games). The countries here in Europe are a bit more tame, but still awful France(where I live), Spain, and Italy founded from Rome and all the rape, incest, and murder. Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Germany, Russia, Sweden, Denmark, and Finland founded by the viking pillagers.
I know all about this, I merely just clicked on this video to see if anyone was talking about these secret societies he was a part of, happy I could find at least one enlightened person XD But yeah Franklin was a freak. And most likely, satanic. Haha who would have thought...
@@damiangiese-jeanson8874 Just like every nation and culture in the human race then? Some countrys are still doing slavery and rape and other evils. None of them happen to be Western countries though.
Not sure if the title has been changed since your comment but "The Numerous Bodies Recently Found in Ben Franklin’s Basement" seems pretty accurate to me.
The bodies weren't found recently. They were found in 1998 and it came out that the bones were from an anatomy school when the story first came out in 1998.
Wes Montgomery that is a damn good question. Didn't even pay attention that is changed that....not sure where that even came from. Edited it..thanks for pointing that out. That's what I get for being on RU-vid when I haven't slept in days.
L F yes, and I'm old, and when a video and article on line says something was found recently...I don't expect that it happened 18 years ago. They were implying it was a recent find, to make it sound better. Just because you remember 1998, doesn't make it recent. 18 years is far from recently, by an normal person's point of view. Even if you're 40, that is almost half your lifetime...FAR from recent. They left out the fact that the bones were found in 1998 in both the video and their website article. Because telling the story honestly, that is an OLD story and was solved over 17 years ago, is not as exciting and likely to draw watchers to the video.
I have nothing better to do than trolling thru RU-vid videos and critiquing them on content, age of information and accuracy! Sound like anyone you know?
I went to the University of Vermont, which was founded in the late 1700s. While I was there, the university embarked on a project to renovate the Pomeroy building (build in 1825), which at the time was where our communication classes took place. Long story short, while renovating the the building, they found skeletons buried in the basement. A little research showed that the top floor of the building was used as an anatomy lab back in the early 1800s. Why they chose to dispose of their cadavers in the basement of the building, I guess we’ll never know. But your story reminded me of that.
There’s no reason unless they were 🔪 there. It was relatively cheap back then and easy to just find someone to put them in a paupers grave and police today don’t question the elites they work for them. Only reason to keep them in the basement is to cover something up. Or keep them as 🏆
eh, one of my ancestors was one of the early Knights of Italy. :/ Someone in my family hired a professional to find out because my ancestors would change countries often, making their ethnic origin hard to figure out.
Not saying you are or are not, but it was shown that these so called professionals are not that honest and will show links that do not exist so as to make it look good for whoever is paying them. The only way to find out your own is by doing it yourself.
+Bush did 9/11 well I agree with you on some parts but she is using AD Block in which case no content creator wins. and well in a way he treats this as a job so he should get some cash. would you like if your Boss said what you did today was bullcrap I feel like not paying you.
@Maxwell’s Silver Hammer so i just read all 3 articles out of curiosity and the only points they bring up are that he sat naked in the mornings in his own home(im pretty sure most people spend time naked in their own home), had a tendency to be attracted to older, more sexually mature and experienced women(which is pretty much the opposite of depraved when you consider that it was commonplace to be attracted to barely mature girls at that time in history), and allegedly was apart of a "SeCrEt SoCiEtY" that supposedly mocked traditional religion(lets be honest who doesn't mock traditional religion?) and engaged in the occasional orgy(which i could understand how someone might think of as depraved if they have a very egocentric view of interpersonal sexual relationships), so unless we've redefined the meaning of the phrase "Depraved Pervert" to include anyone who happens to have had more than one sexual partner within their lifetime, i think you may need to find some stronger evidence, because when i think of a "depraved pervert" i usually think of people who are genuinely morally corrupt or wicked in their actions as the definition suggests.
Benjamin Franklin was no doubt deeply involved in it all himself, he was no innocent bystander, he was deeply interested in anything of a scientific nature.
"no innocent bystander" is a very positive statement. Many time that is the only way that science advances. All those people that fought the idea that "God made the world in six days, 6 to 10 thousand years ago" did that.
@HalfBlack | Emcee Slapathot Wow Lol, WAAAAHH! Sorry youre so sensitive, about people disliking your video and mentioning why. Get a tissue. Not everyones gonna like your video,buck up sir. Really,get a hug. What do you do when someone actually insults you? why are you and some isolated weirdo lashing out childishly over over a fair critique? I take it back, Sorry for laughing, get help. Please dont hurt anyone.
Today I Found Out Gosh and golly, blush. I like you too. Of course I did it on purpose. The two grammatical errors were intentional also. Oh I'm sorry. They were not errors, because many people speak that way.
if you were going to use bodies for anatomy purposes. you wouldn't bury them in the basement after you finished with them.....that's just strange and bizarre.....something far more sinister was afoot. .......
@Sarah S: I believe the idea behind Nevin's statement was that if someone tried that same (formally praiseworthy) experiment today, they'd be tossed in jail and vilified in the news and on social media.
@@aftersexhighfives No. You need to prove you'll be treating the animals ethically and that the knowledge gained outweighs the suffering the animals are subjected to. Don't like it? Don't use any medicines. Have fun living to sixty.
Today I Found Out Be cheeky all you want. You know how stupid people are. You do get some degree of credit for not putting it directly in the title. Great vids. I just hate seeing channels I like resort to bait thumbnails and titles. I am apparently not the only viewer to feel that way.
@Redwoodrebelgirl The Hellfire Club IS an occultic secret society. The freemasons are occultic as well and he was definitely a 33rd degree but Hellfire club is enough to know what kind of twisted man he was
BenTDB /The Diamond Block But do perfectly legitimate scientific endeavors need to be buried in a hole inside of a hole until some future generation finds it to ask the question of its legitimacy? You have to admit that it is suspect at best. People don't bury people inside their homes without a desperate need to hide something. Right?
Disappointing - I was rather hoping for a nice, chilling mystery rather than a history lesson. That said, I do find the mental image of Hewson bringing this up with Franklin pretty amusing: "Hey, Ben, is it okay if I bury my corpses in your cellar?" "Are these the type of corpses someone might come looking for?" "Um... I don't *think* so." "Then go ahead, I don't mind. Just put the shovel back in it's proper place when you're done."
Good video as always, but the thumbnail feels a bit clickbaity. Not a lot, but please don't let it become habbit, clickbait image channels are the worst.
Why would you be against video makers using techniques to get views on their videos? It’s literally their job. The thumbnail isn’t a lie and it’s bullshit for people to think they shouldn’t be allowed to use the same exact techniques the mainstream media uses to get their views. If you hate clickbait then you should probably leave the internet because it’s not going anywhere.
Why do I keep finding morons on here defending the nature and necessity of misleading advertisements? Fucking retarded goats. What are you stupid assholes fighting for? A world where you don't have to be oppressed by your own lack of responsibility? The only reason people continue to repeatedly do stupid shit to the detriment of all is because stupid fucking children like to help them do it. Clickbait bad, brain good. Got it? I don't care. Shut the fuck up.
1) I'm a Southerner who's not averse to hunting. 2) I worked for a large animal research facility in Birmingham, Alabama for a time. 3) My younger brother is a type I diabetic who couldn't survive without the life-saving insulin developed through research with pigs. 4) Still, that poor turtle.
Im not a franklin fan but when i remodeled my basement in my baltimore row house i found 3 bodys buried. It very common for old houses. They use to bury there family members under there houses 200 years ago.
Marten Dekker ~I just want to say that I disagree with every point in your critique. In the case of this particular video, most every detail is needed to tell the story - and though not all of those details will be strictly retained - such as exact dates, common beliefs and attitudes of the period and the relationships of the players etc - without their inclusion, a complete understanding of the situation would be impossible. As to the question of the tone of the narrative and whether that delivery is excessively 'dry' or 'matter of fact', I would say that personally, I prefer to hear the facts presented concisely and without any tone of sensationalistic emphasis, allowing the listener to form opinion without any inferred direction imposed by an overly zealous narrator. To each their own I guess~
Really interesting video. I had missed any news of this here in the UK. Just shows what is considered to be newsworthy by todays media. One minor point though, trepanning or "burr hole" surgery is still carried out today and is relatively common. Although it's not used for "releasing devils" it is the usual way to deal with cranial haematoma (blood clots between the skull and brain). I saw these done almost daily as an anaesthetics nurse, never saw any demons escape though ;-). Maybe a list of medieval surgical techniques that are making a come back is in order?
When I first heard about this many years ago, it was specified that they were masses of small bones, like from children. Then the information just disappeared and was impossible to find. Many years go by and now it comes out sanitized as a recent find.
That's what happens to the more credible ufo and alien stories I've heard. One example is the guy who was visited by men in black, at a hotel. Also everything about staged crises and crisis actors gets sanitized.
He was a sick twisted POS. Member of the hellfire club, freemasons, and several other secret societies. The majority of our founding fathers were far from the upstanding citizens history lied in teaching us. People can believe what they want but facts are facts...
My guess would be Ben Franklin would view the advancement of knowledge to be more important than the laws concerning bodies for dissection so, I would think he probably knew what was going on & was willing to look the other way. Just my hunch.
I am wondering the same thing! Perhaps he allowed his body to be used for dissection? I imagine none of his students would enjoy that (well, on second thought perhaps they didn't like him very much and therefore reveled in it, who knows;) though I imagine he would be the sort to donate his body for study, especially with the sort of disease he had.
The bones "belonged" to Hewson, but they weren't his actual bones. Dude is buried in a proper grave in Westminster, according to Google. The guy in the video just worded it really poorly, making it sound like they literally dug him up in Franklin's basement.
It's annoying when the audio drops in quality when you quote someone. Also the generic background music is way too happy and upbeat for a video like this, I think this topic calls for something more gloomy/mysterious. Just my 2 cents.
I suppose that was the intended effect. However it just sounds crappy to me. Imo it would be improved if the previously mentioned background music would be replaced by a vinyl sound effect during these segments. Currently it really breaks the flow of the video, which is a shame because I really like these kinds of topics. Anyway I'm just a dickhead on the internet so wtf do I know.
I remember writing a paper for college, years before the internet fad (cannot find scanned references to the texts today) but well remember that BF was quirky but he ‘took great delight in electrocuting chickens in front of horrified children’, and he suffered from ’logorrhea,’ which is excessive talking and was essentially under armed guard day and night while they concentrated on all that revolution stuff.... he would stop people in the streets and divulge secret information chronically.
He was a 🥣 🔪 and clearly mentally unstable another comment mentioned he walked around naked when people would come over and suggested he may have been into the occult, I don’t see a logical reason to keep bodies in your basement when you could pay the same shady people you bought the bodies from to have them put in unidentified graves for you.
You said Penn University (University of Pennsylvania) and had a picture of Old Main at Pennsylvania State University. Two vastly different institutions.
The picture of a building at 5:43 is NOT from University of Pennsylvania which Franklin founded but is actually the Old Main from Pennsylvania State University! The two names often get confused but come on it says 'Old Main' right in the center of the building.
+Austin Crane That's always key. If you're going to make a title clickbaity, you absolutely have to deliver something good in the content to make it worth people's time. :-)
Wow such a youngster simon xxxx why is it now that when i come up with a question for youtube you always seem to be there with the info i need? I was actually shocked that i hadnt seen this one before but genuinely happy to see a familiar face (it took me a min lol) with a more than recognisable voice to guide me through the facts i so desired xxxx ty fact boi you never let me down!
Because he's on such a high pedestal but you know he impregnated and then used those children against his favorite slave. You know that he was a completely awful man that everyone loves and personally his photo makes my skin crawl.
+Silkendrum Pretty sad that so few of this supposedly 'thinky' crowd seem to have noticed what you have. The percentages for the red and yellow slices are switched.
This was fascinating to me as one day I may have to explain the remains under my own home. On a serious note, if they discovered turtle remains there and if the guy staying there once pumped mercury through a turtle, there might be some serious mercury contamination in that basement.
Simple explanation.... Franklin was a Templar who lended his property to his fellow Templars and they disposed of their dead enemies. The assassins found out about it and ended all the corrupt Templars schemes and then assassinated them and put them in the pit as well. -Future Assassins Creed game.
Science always have moved further than the meek mannered general public. Franklin was definitely a scientist. He does not need to be apologized for, by a by a present day religious fanatic. The simple fact is that once a person is dead, he is gone. And all these cemeteries are full of empty bones. The only thing left of a person after he dies (Excuse me "or she") is the memories of their friends , or enemies.
The prior discovers of electricity... Come over to my house and hold my kite during A lightning storm. It's A great game that I invented! Said Ben F...?
My son is a Historian with a master from Penn State, History has always been my first love and I’m honored he took loves and teaches it!! So it’s fun watching your videos and seeing if you get it right 😂
Well he was a scientist.... Mybe he was studying the human anatomy for further research. The kinda shit that has brought us to were we are today. So thank you Ben good job buddy.
That's what I was hoping to find out. I think maybe he was one of the first people to voluntarily donate his body to medical science seeing as to how that was his life's work.
Is that something that improves audio? I listen to a lot of podcasts and many of them have lousy audio- sometimes it sounds like their in a cave, sometimes the volume from one speaker to the next is so different it's hard to listen to. Do you have any suggestions I can pass along?
Mrhycannon "raises the question" would be correct. To beg the question means that someone has made a conclusion based on a premise that lacks support. Like if I said, "my shoes are awesome because they're cool." I'm begging the question.
And you can bet all the bodies were poor people. Even in death people were treated differently. You'd never get them using middle class or above bodies, just poor people who nobody would miss or care about. Sad.😢
I barely stumbled upon this info and randomly found this video..and then boom! A beardless no glasses Simon! I’ve been listening to him since 2017 😭 this really took me by surprise.
