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Podcast: Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories
Episode: 10,000 Human Skeletons Per Year: The Disturbing Truth About The Origin of Medical School Bones
Description: #WDRadio WEEK OF OCT 19, 2025 | In the late 1800s, a journalist uncovered the shocking secret of how medical schools obtained their teaching skeletons: hidden factories in London, Paris, and New York that processed unclaimed morgue bodies and exotic specimens from travelers into 10,000 anatomical skeletons per year, using acid baths, boiling tanks, and skilled anatomists who rarely assembled bones from the same person.==========HOUR ONE: Seeing a lifelike human skeleton in a doctorβs office, especially in the past couple of centuries, was β and in many cases still is - commonplace. But where did one go to get such lifelike skel...