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Unobscured

iHeartPodcasts and Grim & Mild

History, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.7 • 8K Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Victorian journalists had learned the lesson well: true crime sells. They were investigators, but they were storytellers too. And the story they told was meant to shock middle class London, as much as it was meant to inform. Not a hard job when the news was this horrifying.

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0:00.0	On the podcast, Haunted Road, we examine the history of the world's most notoriously haunted
0:05.7	sites and talk to people who've experienced the supernatural there first-hand.
0:10.3	Those ghosts are still wandering those halls waiting for someone to come in and talk to them.
0:14.3	Join me, host Amy Bruney from Television's Kindred Spirits and Ghost Hunters for a tour of
0:19.7	history, true crime, and of course, ghost stories.
0:23.4	Listen to Haunted Road, season four on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever
0:27.8	you listen to your favorite shows.
0:31.8	Welcome to Unobscured, a production of iHeartRadio and Aaron Minky.
0:37.6	The story was already coming into focus.
0:40.5	It was Friday, August 31st of 1888.
0:43.8	One of the newest papers in London, The Star, had an incredible report published on page
0:48.3	three of its evening edition.
0:50.4	Polly Nichols had been killed in the cold hours of that morning, but a journalist for the
0:54.7	paper had already been allowed into the mortuary where her body was waiting to be examined.
0:59.1	A day before the doctor would conduct Polly's full autopsy.
1:03.3	The horror and sensation caused by Martha Taberim's death had just begun to calm when, in
1:08.6	the words of the paper, another discovery is made.
1:12.3	And one even more shocking.
1:14.0	The paper had no qualms about blasting out the details of her murder, either.
1:18.1	Like other sensational stories of the day, it meant to draw in readers by horrifying them,
1:22.9	by provoking outrage.
1:25.7	The Star didn't publish the author's name, but the choice of words would leave a terrible
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