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Episode 253: Buried Alive

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How to Make Sure Someone Is Really Dead

In between 1720 and 1722, there was a great plague in Marseille. 50,000 people died of this plague. Two corpses were found at this site that had long brass pins inserted under their big toes,. And this was another old timey way to make sure someone was really dead.

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