Elite facts presents 10 creepy facts
about Victorian London 10 vignette so
back then there was no internet no
television and no cinemas the only form
of entertainment was to just dress up an
odd clothing and pose in front of your
family while taking turns this sounds
innocent but can you imagine your
grandmother dressing up as a geek wood
nymph and posing on a table in the
living room while everyone claps and
applauds no you can't and you shouldn't
the idea is just downright creepy but
there was nothing else to do for fun so
this activity was perfectly normal
during the Victorian era 9 food nowadays
England has some pretty decent food but
if you even dared to look at what was on
the menu back in the Victorian era odds
are you'd be blowing chunks in the
nearest bathroom just thinking about it
back in those days there was no such
thing as waste as the Victorians loved
Oakville and ate virtually every part of
an animal every part now this may not
seem entirely creepy if you are a food
fanatic but for the average person the
idea of something on a bowl of brains
heart or testicles is just plain
nauseating to say the very least another
famous dish from the Victorian era was
turtle soup the turtle was considered
above all else for its green jello like
fat which was used to flavor the soup
made from the long boiled stringy flesh
of the animal turtle soup is still
considered a delicacy today but it's
just kind of messed up considering that
Turtles these days are commonly kept as
x8 poor houses poor houses were
facilities created by the government
where the poor infirm or mentally ill
could live these facilities were filthy
and always filled with other people that
were deemed unwanted by society many of
the people who lived in the poor houses
were required to work too
due to the cost of their board and it
was not uncommon for whole families to
live together with other families in the
communal environment 7 memento mori
death photography was better known in
Victorian times by the Latin phrase
memento mori
which means remember you shall die in
the Victorian era photography was an
invention that was still in development
get it and it was considered to be
extremely costly if you wanted a photo
session when a loved one died their
relatives would sometimes have a
photograph taken of the corpse and
opposed that in most cases would include
other family members for a vast majority
of Victorians this was the only time
they would spring for a photograph and
in these photographs the effect of life
was sometimes added by either propping
the subjects eyes open before taking the
photo or painting pupils on to the
photographic print after the picture was
developed and many early images have a
rosy tint added to the cheeks of the
corpse when it came to photos of
deceased adults they were most commonly
posed in chairs or even braced on
specially designed frames flowers were
also a common crop in post-mortem
photography it's all just way too creepy
to even comprehend count yourself lucky
we don't still do this nowadays 6 P
supers the one thing people tend to
think of when they think about Victorian
era London is the thick fog that
engulfed in London during the Victorian
era was famed for its P supers these
were fog so thick that you could barely
see through them these P supers were
caused by a combination of fog from the
river tames and smoke from the coal
fires that were a very important part of
life back in those days even though
they're most commonly associated with
the Victorian era London had suffered
from these P supers for centuries in
1306 King Edward the first banned coal
fires because of the smog and in 1952 a
reported 12,000 Londoners died due to
the smog causing the government to pass
the clean
Air Act which created smog free zones
the Victorian atmosphere was greatly
enhanced by the thick smog and it was
due to this creepy environment that the
acts of people like Jack the Ripper were
made possible by impact of Gothic
literature aside from the creepy pastime
of dressing up and posing for the family
or with the family after you're dead the
only other form of entertainment people
hide back then was Gothic literature
although entertaining it did have an
impact on people's daily lives as novels
such as Dracula made people legitimately
afraid of their dead loved ones coming
back as vampires so scared in fact that
they would bury their deceased family
members facedown so that if they were to
come back to life they would keep
digging further into the earth instead
of up and out of the casket that was the
logic anyway in many instances they also
placed the cage over their grave
paranoid people were easy to scare back
then bull boracic acid and milk in 1882
tests on 20,000 milk samples showed that
a fifth of it had been adulterated
however much of this was done not by
manufacturers but by the buyers
themselves more acid acid was thought to
purify the milk removing the sour taste
from milk that had gone past its prime
well people who did this were wrong
small amounts of Barossa Cassie can
cause nausea vomiting abdominal pain and
diarrhea even more particularly
dangerous was what the boracic acid
concealed before pasteurization milk
often contained bovine TB which would
flourish in the bacterial friendly
environment created by the substance
bovine TB damaged internal organs and
the milk drinkers spines leading to
horrific spinal deformities three
grave-digging for grief during those
days old coffins were smashed and sold
as firewood to poor peasants at a cheap
price this is just one of the many
examples of grave diggers looking to
take
Vantage of both Cemetery overcrowding
and the poor in need to surgery even
today
surgery is still a pretty scary thought
but in the Victorian era it was a
complete nightmare no matter what
surgery you were getting back then most
patients died during and after surgery
anyway so if you needed it
odds are you'd have to write your will
in advance regardless of whether or not
you survived going through the surgery
itself was pure hell because back then
there was no anesthetic no pain killers
to relieve the pain afterwards and no
electric equipment to reduce the
duration of an operation listen here's
an example of what a patient had to go
through just imagine a fully conscious
man who's already in excruciating pain
due to a badly broken leg II suffered
after falling between a train and the
platform at nearby Kings Cross now as he
lies on the operating table in the
operating room he looks over in total
horror at the collection of knives saws
and needles that lie alongside him
obviously the patient can't move or
anything in order to keep the surgeon
from botching an incision so the patient
has to be tied down by Liston clamps to
keep his hands across his thigh back
then they had to witness themselves
getting diced and cut open and sometimes
even seeing their own body parts getting
removed which back then was far too
common of a treatment as we said pure
nightmare one woman Jack the Ripper so
as if everything we previously mentioned
wasn't scary enough how about having a
mysterious serial killer roaming
Whitechapel making people's lives even
worse than it was already London was
terrorized during the Victorian era by
the mysterious Jack the Ripper using the
previously mentioned pea-soup fog is a
way of covering his identity and
sneaking up on his victims
the rippers death toll tallied up to
five or more prostitutes working in the
east
newspapers whose circulation had been
growing during this era bestowed
widespread and enduring notoriety on the
killer because of the savagery of the
attacks and the failure of the police to
capture the murderer because the
killer's identity has never been
confirmed and most likely never will be
the legend surrounding the murders has
become a combination of genuine
historical research folklore and pseudo
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