Top 10 True Scary Stories From The DARK AGES
devices that would put you through the
most pain and suffering
all the rules around marriage and what
would happen to you if you committed
high
treason all of that on today's most
amazing top 10 list
coming in at number
10 we have
the judas cradle
if there is anything that the middle
ages were advanced in it was how to
inflict
horrible pain on a person suffering and
fear were great tools to govern people
back then
and anyone in power back then would have
wielded to make sure that everyone was
under their control
one of the ways that they were able to
do this was through the judas cradle
a horrible device that was shaped like a
pyramid it would be placed
under the bum of whoever was unfortunate
enough to be placed upon it
it would be raised into the air and then
weights would be tied to the
feet of the person to pull them down
onto the pyramid so as you can imagine
this sharp wooden pyramid would go
up your butt, this would slowly stretch
you from the bottom until you
ripped open this process would be slow
and painful
just the sight of this thing would
strike fear into your heart but if you
were one of the people in medieval
Europe who was in charge of
administering this punishment
you'd have bathed in their fear bringing
them into the horrible room
with the judas cradle would have
enlightened them to the great darkness
number 9
we have
eating slugs
i mean there wasn't a ton
of food around so sometimes you had to
make do with what you had but the scary the thing about eating slugs is that it
wasn't something you would do
even if you had plenty of grub to go
around see there was a discovery made
back in the dark ages, it was that slugs
could eat a plant known as wolfsbane
for those of you who don't know
wolfsbane has a powerful toxin in it
known as aconite this will give you a
pretty slow and painful death and it
used to be used
all the time but someone saw that there
was a certain species of slug that loved
to munch down
on wolfsbane now this would mean one of
two things
either the slugs were packed full of
aconite and would kill you if you
ingested them
or this would mean that these slugs have
some sort of immunity that would help
them break down the poison
so an experiment was done and a probably A disgusting dish was made called slug
soup after eating the soup it was
revealed that the body would have an
immunity to aconite
i would have hated to be the person who
was the test subject for this experiment
first, you would have to eat a slug and
then you would have to get
poisoned hoping that your last meal
would save your life
and if it didn't the last thing you
would have ever eaten would have been a
slug
okay
coming in at number 8
okay this one isn't really scary
because of how horrible it is
but it's more of how stupid people used
to be and this one is kind of funny so
back when we knew very little about our
reproductive organs it was believed that
there was already a baby in
sperm that a little baby lived in your
sperm and when you made hanky-panky with
the lady you sent it inside her body
where the baby would grow until it was
ready to come out
there were even old drawings of babies
inside sperm, the funny thing is they did
get the shape of sperm right maybe we
just know in our hearts that sperm is a
little raindrop shape
coming in at
number 7
we have the marriage
when
we meet someone now we fall in love and
that will probably lead to
marriage or you'll just have a thing
where you meet up every other weekend
until you both fade to dust but
back in the dark ages, there wasn't the the same kind of love actually people rarely
had to say
and who they got to marry this would
happen when you were
quite young and you would be married off
to strengthen your family
if you fell in love with someone who was
not for much money but your family was
quite wealthy
then you better believe your parents
wouldn't let you marry them why do you
think there are so many stories written
about forbidden love in this way
it's a little scary to think that you
would have such little say over who you
get to be with for the rest
of your life and back then if you got
caught cheating it would probably lead
to jail time
coming in at number 6
if you broke the the law back in the day
just like how you would go to court you
might have to sit in a dungeon for an an extended period of time
before you were seen in court but there
was still some sort of system to give
out justice
but one of the strangest parts about
this was that humans were not the only
ones who had to follow the law
it was animals too there are several
records of animals being taken to court
to figure out if they were guilty of a
crime now you might think this is silly
because it definitely is but the crimes
definitely weren't more often than not
crimes were committed by
pigs and you're about to learn some
stuff about the little pink food source
that might make it hard to look at them
the same way
ever again there are some stories of
pigs killing people and then being taken
to court for murder yeah i could see how
people would want to seek
justice after one of their family
members were murdered by a pig
you would be pretty sour if you came
home one day and one of the people you
love was gone because a pig
got out of its pen and went crazy
coming
at number 5
we have being drunk
all the time
we are lucky enough to live
in a time where it's a lot easier to get
clean drinking water well for some of
the world
it's still shocking how much of the planet don't have access to clean
drinking water and because of this we
know that when you don't drink water
that has been sterilized you can get
very sick well that was definitely the situation back in the dark ages unless
you found some running water
coming down from the mountain there was a
good chance that the water could
kill you or make you very very ill so
people turn to the next best thing boo
see
people knew that because of the alcohol
content that you wouldn't get sick from
drinking beer or wine instead of water
well you would still get hungover but
you wouldn't get cholera i just don't
think that would be the life i would
want to live could you imagine you spend
all night drinking and then you go to
bed you wake up with a splitting
headache because you're so hungover
and then the only thing you have to
drink is more beer i guess life back
then was so hard you wouldn't even
realize that you weren't feeling well
coming in number 4
we have famine
if
clean drinking water didn't kill you
then how hard it was to come by food
might kill you after that there were
several famous famines throughout the
dark ages that led to people getting
very desperate this usually led to
people fighting with one another
and areas being wiped out because there
was not enough food to go around
and there was very little control over
this a slight
change in the weather too much rain or
too little the year being too
hot a fire breaking out and in some
cases bugs on the loose
some sort of sickness or even war could
lead to a poor yield
and massive famine yeah it was not an
easy time to be alive
coming at number 3
we have going to the doctor
there are many ways you can seek help
now if you're not feeling well you could
go to a general practitioner you could
go to a naturopath
if you have some aches and pains you
could go check out an osteopath or a
physiotherapist, there are so
many ways you can get help now but back
in the day going to the doctor
could have been one of the worst things
for your health doctors back then
practiced some pretty primitive ways of
healing people like bloodletting
where they would drain blood from a
person's body because they thought you
had
bad blood it would be like no dude i
need the most blood possible if anything
i want
extra blood well that is probably bad
too but i don't know the signs
something else they would do was trap
henning which was drilling a hole into
the head
which was supposed to help with mental
illness think of a lobotomy but
even more graphic
coming in number 2
there's a lot of ways
people would take you out back then
if you were seen as guilty of a crime
there would be a good chance that you
would be taken to a Gideon and have your
head removed from your body
this was the fastest and easiest way to
get rid of people who were given the
death sentence but
believe it or not those were the lucky
ones it would seem that people who
committed crimes against the crown-like
treason would have a fate
worse than death those people would be
dragged to the streets by a horse
and that wasn't even to kill them that
was just to get them to the place
where their fate would have been
finalized once they arrived
beaten bruised they would have some form
of prolonged painful death like a slow
hanging
pulled by horses disembowelment or all
of the above
the people would be reminded that anyone
who tried to cross the royals would wish
they hadn't
again fear was the best way to keep
people in line and
coming at the number
one
probably one of the most tragic
moments in human history
the hardest correction that any disease
that we know of has ever been able to
hit mankind with
people being extremely unclean rats
running through the streets a lack of
proper sewage
no understanding of cleanliness all of
these things led to the black plague
a disease running through poop and dead
bodies was able to mutate and attach
itself to rats
those rats ran through the streets
endlessly to spread it and nearly every
person in Europe caught it
people would get boils all over their
body their breathing would become
labored they would have blood and pus
leak out of every
inch of them before they passed bodies
were burned in mass to try and contain
the sickness
people thought that it could have been
an act of god something
punishing them for who knows what
eventually, the Europeans were able to
push through this
but not before it took out one-third of
Europe
it's suspected that this wasn't the last
they saw of this plague the London
plague
could have been the same strain of the
sickness as well as several other small
outbreaks that happened
over the next few centuries all right
guys that has been our list thank you
all so much for tuning in, I've been your
host cheddar and we'll catch you on the
next one
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