This week Jamie tells Leo the Story of Vlad Dracula who is, you guessed it, the real life inspiration for the infamous Dracula...... honestly I think Vlad is worse! Sit back and grab a body bag, I mean beverage and join us for another file of The Darkives.

Sources:

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vlad-the-Impaler

https://www.livescience.com/40843-real-dracula-vlad-the-impaler.html

https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/the-origins-of-dracula-vlad-the-impaler/

https://www.executedtoday.com/2011/04/17/1457-the-wallachian-boyars/

https://www.executedtoday.com/2010/08/24/1460-amlas-vlad-dracula-impaled/

https://www.historyhit.com/facts-about-vlad-the-impaler/

Theme music: Ways of the Wizard

Composed by: Geoff Harvey

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Used with permission Thank you Geoff!

In this weeks episode we discuss WWII experiments in Manchuria, Unit 731 carried out some of history’s most grotesque human experimentation and toyed with the idea of plague bombs. Discover the chilling truth about the atrocities the world tried to forget. welcome to another episode of The Darkives.

Listener discretion advised: these events are as disturbing as they are important to remember.

Sources:

• https://www.pacificatrocities.org/human-experimentation.html
• https://www.montana.edu/historybug/yersiniaessays/shama.html
• https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4487829/
• https://www.ethos.hku.hk/hidden-horrors-of-harbin

Theme music: Ways of the Wizard

Composed by: Geoff Harvey

Licensed through: Pixabay

Used with permission, Thank you Geoff!

Jamie and Leo cover a Roman Empire court trial where the prosecutor dug up and tried a corpse!... I'd hate to be that defense attorney. Join us while we discover the story of Pope Formosus in yet another chapter of... The Darkives.

Sources:

• https://historymedieval.com/pope-formosus-trial-in-the-cadaver-synod/
• https://lost-in-history.com/the-macabre-corpse-trial-of-pope-formosus/
• https://www.britannica.com/biography/Formosus

Theme music: Ways of the Wizard

Composed by: Geoff Harvey

Licensed through Pixabay

Used with permission, Thank you Geoff!.

Jamie and Leo cover treatments for ailments throughout history. Learn how well milk worked as blood, what a tobacco enema is, the origins of snake oil and a couple more treatments involving mummies, blood and whale carcasses. Lets delve into another chapter of The Darkives.

P.s. we are aware of the weird audio in this episode but it is fixed in the upcoming episodes. Thanks for understanding!

Sources:

• https://www.aamc.org/news/grave-errors-spooky-cures-and-creepy-medical-missteps-past
• https://www.massmed.org/About/MMS-Leadership/History/The-Blood-in-Surgery---A-Historical-and-Critical-Study/
• https://gizmodo.com/blowing-smoke-up-your-ass-used-to-be-literal-1578620709

Theme music: Ways of the Wizard

Composed by: Geoff Harvey

Licensed through: Pixabay

Used with permission. Thank you Geoff!

Jamie and Leo cover Pennhurst and the dark history of abuse and neglect hidden behind the facade of a self sustaining school and hospital. Learn about the atrocities hidden from the public eye for almost 60 years and how it was exposed.

Sources:

http://www.preservepennhurst.org/default.aspx?pg=93

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPlblHK5c6Y&t=4s

Theme music: Ways of the Wizard

Composed by: Geoff Harvey

Licensed through Pixabay

Used with permission. Thank you Geoff!