![]() ![]() ![]() “There were two ‘peaks’ to the body snatching trade: the last decades of the 18th century and the first of the 19th, and then again around 1826-28, just before Burke and Hare were caught for the murders they committed in Edinburgh,” explains Suzie Lennox, author of Bodysnatchers: Digging Up the Untold Stories of Britain’s Resurrection Men. Grave robbers have become something of a gothic cliché, a trope of horror films and stories, yet during the 18th and 19th centuries body snatching was not only very real but incredibly common. As his spade strikes the coffin lid, he grins malevolently – he’ll be paid handsomely tonight. The cemetery is as quiet as the grave, except for a lone figure silently shovelling earth, digging deep for the casket buried below. ![]()
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