Today's episode is dedicated to the corpse of Pope Formosus. Never has there been such a journey for a corpse. In the year 897, in which five different Popes all served tenure, the middle Pope Formosus had passed away and was laid to rest. Thus, begins a long and strange trip for the Corpse of this Holy Man. Laid to rest with all the pomp and circumstance of the Leader of the Holy Roman Catholic Church, the Corpse of Formosus would be dug up after only resting a few weeks and put on trial by a political opponent, Pope Steven IV, who had ascended to the Papacy himself at this point. The Corpse of Pope Formosus was then dressed in royal robes and presented to the court where it presumably swore an oath and most definitely was the subject of rigorous questioning by Pope Steven himself. After the Corpse was found summarily guilty of all charges, Pope Steven, himself, cut off 3 fingers of the hand of said Corpse of former Pope Formosus. Then the Corpse was stripped of it's Papacy, Exiled and thrown into a river. After washing ashore, former followers of the actual Pope Formosus and not just his corpse would go down to the riverside and touch the Corpse of Pope Formosus and hopefully receive blessings from it. With the trial of the Corpse of Formosus causing quite a stir, the people revolted and overthrew Pope Steven IV and the next Pope wanting to appease the supporters of the Actual Pope Formosus (not the Corpse) then reinstated his papacy, picked the body up from the river, dressed it back in royal robes, and gave it a proper burial befitting a Pope. Rest assured when the Corpse of former Pope Formosus returned to the graveyard, boy did he has a story to tell the other corpses. As a result of this trial to this day the Catholic Church has a standing rule to not prosecute dead corpses.