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Victorian STANDING Corpse Photographs?



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39 responses to “Victorian STANDING Corpse Photographs?”

  1. Only last week I found out Maj. Greg Boyington of BLACK SHEEP SQUADRON fame was NEVER nicknamed "Pappy!" Now THIS ….what NEXT?!
    Ahh, well, you are still delightfully Warped, Caitly, with your mannerism, faces …..HHMMMPH!!! at the end …
    NYUK, NYUK, NYUK!!! 😀

  2. wow you got great great videos . I was little bit disappointed when you didn't add saint Bernadette incorrupt or. not incorrupt
    Abraham Lincoln body was revealed one photo was taken soon after they exhumed and relocate his body. . please please please can you create a video of are saints incorrupt or not ? part 2 with Saint Bernadette is or is not incorrupt pleaseeee ;✌😎🐱💜💛💚

  3. In Puerto Rico, some families have their dead loved ones proped standing, or in other case i saw on top of a motor cicle like he was riding it! there is quite a few cases of standing dead corpses at funeral homes. can you talk about it in a future ?

  4. My family, on my mother’s side, still has postmortem photos taken. As long as I can remember, and as recently as last month. They don’t pose the corpse but they do have a photographer at the funeral.

  5. I have seen pictures not only on the Internet, but in a book or 2 or magazine or newspaper article somewhere about this supposed practice. Indeed I had thought it macabre even for the Victorian Era. Queen Victoria was known for a strict adherence to a personal, conservative comportment, and it is my belief neither she nor the Victorian society would countenance such a practice.

  8. You are so so awesome…. I love your honesty. I am trying to watch all your videos so i do not die dumb.. I want to know my honest options as well as less lethal ways to be buried in order to not harm the environment… I have also been reading about well basically being frozen then they turn on the vibrator so that our body turns to basically powder and then we can be kept or buried in a hole with a new tree and so on.. Thank you for all you do to keep us informed.

  9. When my father decided to go to photography school he had to do a photo with an antique camera and I can tell you from experience sitting in the chair in the outdoor setting even with sunglasses and being leaned slightly in an effort to be more comfortable, it felt like one of the longest minutes of my life.

  14. I saw the strangest post-mortem photograph. I saw it years ago and haven't found it again since so I'm going from memory here. So, if it surfaces and I have details wrong, I'll own up to that. But, recall it being a Victorian-era post-mortem photograph of a blanket draped over furniture with rocks and tree branches scattered around it, like a makeshift theater set made out of household objects. In the middle of this a clearly dead child had been placed laying on his back at the bottom of the "hill" with arms splayed out and one leg was thrown up over the hill so it looked like the child was falling. I've seen a lot of post-mortem photographs but this one was unique. My only guess is the child died in a fall and this was their way of commemorating it. But, that's just a guess. Has anyone else seen a post mortom recreating the way someone died? Has anyone else seen this photo? Any other ideas about what it might have been?

  20. that's not that too I was so intrigued in the list irtem pics so now I wndr I'd the saints incorruot bodies r real or waxed or if actor actresses anyvartist of there bodies r real… I'm so bumbed… but the crazy props from Puerto Rico something to look into

  25. Frankly, it's gruesome, but then, the Victorian era was responsible for a whole cacophony of ill-advised social pursuits…of all the eras, this has to be the most abhorrent …..& as Caitlin states, physics denies any such concept of supporting a dead weight with flimsy bars & rods…. QED

  30. My grandmother did die in India in the 1930's and she is dead in the photograph and being held up by her husbands, hands, so it must have been done, now and then. We know for a fact she was dead at time, because family remembers, since they hadn't had a photograph ever taken of her they had to do it post mortem. She was an 80lb, 4'10 women and her husband was very tall. She was quite obviously dead in photo. Flopping neck, and head having to be completely held up. So, I think in some very rate cases it was done, but not to the degree people claim

  32. Kind if a tangent, I'm currently on a binge run of your channel and i saw a recomended video of an unsolved mystery of an unidentified dead child. I clicked and then realized it was by Buzzfeed. Needless to say it was garbage and featured two self obsessed douche bros being incredibly desrespectful about the dead kid, and it was unfunny to boot. The comments section was rife with idiots defending them from the handful of people that pointed out how tasteless it was, the attitute and ignorance of these people towards death was night and day to the audience you've cultivated. Point is Buzzfeed is trash and their viewership are the lowest common denominators. F*ck you Buzzfeed, you are cancer and i want my pageview back.

  33. Postmortem photography in the Victorian Era did exist, but the pictures known for fact to be of dead people were most often people who were famous in some way, particularly famous outlaws. One example I can give off the top of my head, is that in 1876, the James-Younger Gang decided to rob a bank in Northfield Minnesota. The townspeople had received word beforehand that this robbery would be taking place, and they armed themselves properly. When the gang showed up, they were ambushed by the townspeople and the robbery was a failure. Two gang members were killed in the shootout that ensued, Clell Miller and Bill Chadwell. A third member, Charlie Pitts, was also killed a few weeks later when a posse caught up with the gang. Photos were taken of the three dead outlaws, as well as the three Younger brothers, who were caught and sent to prison.

    Here are links to the pictures and story:
    http://www.mnopedia.org/multimedia/dead-and-captured-northfield-raid-gang-members
    http://www.mnopedia.org/event/northfield-bank-raid

  34. The stands you mention indeed were to keep the living still during long exposures. HOWEVER death photography was an actual thing and it is often identifiable on the photo itself. You usually are good with research; this one erroneously debunks a real practice. Far be it from me to say buzzfeed is a good source for anything, but if they said the earth was round would your friend use that as evidence the earth is flat?

  35. Are you saying that all postmortem images are all living?
    I don't agree with your assumption, maybe most are alive but some postmortem images are real.
    The only reason I know this is because at my dad's funeral, my grandma started snapping pictures, totally freaking out me and my mom.
    I was stunned so I asked her why she was taking pictures, she said that was when she was young sometimes the picture at the funeral was the first and last picture they ever had of their loved one. Years later I found postmortem images on the Utah State Photo Archive… like this: https://tinyurl.com/ydadkwjw this is just one of many.

  39. I never knew it wasnt a thing. I did make a comment in my sophomore science class about something similar though. The teacher had a shower rod (for some reason that i am unaware of) the person sitting next to me asked what it was for, i blirted out "to put through dead bodies so they sit up when you take pictures of them". Looking back thats a really graphic picture and after the teacher heard that he called me creepy and quite literally didnt talk to me for a week.

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