Jason Gaston

THEY DRANK CORPSE JUICE.

And somehow, that sentence is historically accurate.

Deep beneath Farleigh Hungerford Castle in Somerset, England, there is a crypt containing a collection of incredibly rare human-shaped lead coffins. Inside are members of the Hungerford family who have been dead for centuries.

But in the 1800s, tourists apparently decided that simply LOOKING at the coffins wasn't enough.

According to English Heritage, holes were drilled into some of the coffins and adventurous visitors were offered samples of the preserving spirit inside — liquid that had been sitting in there WITH THE CORPSES.

English Heritage actually describes it as "corpse-infused spirit."

Because apparently tourism in Victorian England occasionally included drinking the dead.

In this video, we're exploring the bizarre true history of Farleigh Hungerford Castle, its extraordinary anthropoid coffins, why members of the Hungerford family were preserved this way, and how a historic crypt somehow became home to possibly the most disgusting tourist experience I've ever encountered.

This isn't folklore. It isn't a ghost story. And I desperately wish somebody had made it up.

So grab a drink — preferably one that has NEVER contained a human body — and join me for one of the strangest pieces of macabre history we've covered this Halloween season.

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📚 SOURCES / FURTHER READING

English Heritage — Farleigh Hungerford Castle: Marital Strife and Coffins
https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/farleigh-hungerford-castle/history/marital-strife-and-coffins/

English Heritage — Farleigh Hungerford Castle
https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/farleigh-hungerford-castle/

English Heritage — History of Farleigh Hungerford Castle
https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/farleigh-hungerford-castle/history/

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