The Glitter of the Dead

"Ever wonder where Glitter comes from? No? Well now you'll always wonder With Chelsea's story about where it comes from and who is using it. Cristina gives us a deep history lesson on the positive reasons to steal a body. The Resurrectionists really had a thing going for hundreds of years."

Presented by: Chelsea
Category: Conspiracy

We're going off the assumption that you know what glitter is. If not, it's shiny pieces of debris-usually plastic, but sometimes seaweed-used to make things sparkly.

There are precisely two places in the United States that produce glitter. Both are in New Jersey. In 2018, the New York times interviewed the representative of one, Glitterex, who said she knew what industry was the biggest buyer of glitter, but refused to say what it was. This led to internet speculation as to what the industry was. The major theories include:


 * Toothpaste
 * Food/Drink Cans
 * Rocket Fuel
 * Money

Takeaway: There's mysteries in everything.

Presented by: Cristina
Category: Conspiracy

One of the long standing traditions in human history is the practice of body snatching. There's always a use for dead bodies, sometimes but artists (including Da Vinci!) but mostly by medical students who need too practice their surgery.

In the early 18th century, there were few bodies available for study in the United Kingdom, but that changed when the Parliament legalized the dissection of those executed by the death penalty. However, even this was not enough to fill the demand. So universities and doctors started paying grave robbers to bring them bodies.

The most famous of these were Burke and Hare, who ultimately resorted to murder to gather bodies. This was somehow easier than digging them up. The fallout of the case enough to change the law and allow medical students to get bodies more easily.

Takeaway: Anything can be a business.

Trivia

 * Patreon skit: Symptoms of a disease.