History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The Mind · Diane Student
TGIY Ep. 21 - Raising the Dead
·39 min·3 clips
Giovanni Aldini used electricity to make a dead criminal's body twitch and contort, horrifying witnesses.
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A brisk tour from modern medicine to Frankenstein and scripture, with death treated as both mystery and warning.
History Goes Bump keeps circling a blunt question: what happens when people try to force life where death has already settled in. It opens in modern medicine, then drifts back through electricity, Frankenstein, and the old impulse to make creation a human project.
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Want a spooky history lesson about resurrection, science, scripture, and what people hoped death might surrender?
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