Some of history’s most famous people had remarkably eventful afterlives.
Charlie Chaplin’s corpse was stolen from his grave and held for ransom. Thomas Paine was dug up and carried across the Atlantic. Pieces of Beethoven and Schubert disappeared in the name of science. And René Descartes somehow ended up buried without his head.
In this episode, we uncover the bizarre true history of famous corpses that were stolen, moved, studied, scattered and lost. Along the way, we meet grave robbers, obsessive admirers, ambitious scientists and restless ghosts, and discover why a final resting place isn’t always quite so final.
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