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Body snatcher. Grave robber. Mad scientist. Brilliant surgeon. And did he really hang the corpse of his daughter in Mark Twain Cave? Plus the ghosts of the Gratiot Street Prison. Delve into the macabre world of St. Louis\'s Dr. Joseph Nash McDowell with Victoria Cosner and Lorelei Shannon, authors of Missouri\'s Mad Doctor McDowell. \\xa0

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In this episode:\\xa0

• Episode Preview :00
• The Halloween Crash! Happy \\u201cNew Year!\\u201d (not really) 2:43
• Introduction of Missouri\\u2019s Mad Doctor McDowell: Confederates, Cadavers and Macabre Medicine by today\\u2019s guests, authors Victoria Cosner and Lorelei Shannon 4:32
• Victoria Cosner Bio 6:14
• Victoria was previously on episode 7 of the podcast, where we chatted about their book, Mad Madame Lalaurie.
• Lorelei Shannon Bio 7:16
• The conversation about Mad Dr. McDowell begins! 7:53
• Who was the doctor? Was he a good person? 9:50
• Where did he get his early medical fascination from? Dr. Ephraim McDowell \\u2013 Uncle to Dr. Joseph Nash McDowell 13:21
• McDowell\\u2019s medical students were expected to supply their own cadavers, forcing them to participate in grave robbing/bodysnatching. 16:24
• The ghost of McDowell\\u2019s mother! 19:14
• Union troops confiscated some crazy things from the McDowell Medical College. 20:24
• The horrors of the Gratiot Street Prison, formally the McDowell Medical College. 23:40
• How exactly does one \\u201cbodysnatch\\u201d? 24:34
• What was Dr. McDowell up to between the years of 1827 and 1838? 27:05
• Did the fact that he lost so many children at a young age lead to his fascination with body preservation? 28:51
• McDowell hung the corpse of his daughter Amanda in Hannibal, Missouri\\u2019s Mark Twain Cave. 29:37
• McDowell was a spiritualist and attended a demonstration by the famous Fox Sisters when they came through St. Louis. 35:27
• More on the building, the stories of hauntings, and the Purina lot in St. Louis. 37:33
• What about this story creeps Victoria and Lorelei out the most? 42:15
• Has Dr. McDowell kind of been forgotten? 46:40
• McDowell and surgery during the Civil War. 47:34
• Paranerd hashtag No. 1!\\xa051:05

• Another audio issue of Tim Prasil\\u2019s Spectral Edition! (Coffin Mark \\u2013 Changing Ghost \\u2013 Big Frog) 51:45
• Another iTunes review! This one from Darcy in Canada! Thank you! 56:10
• Paranerd hashtag No. 2! 58:55
• Easter Egg 59:42

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For more on Victoria, Lorelei, and Mad Doctor McDowell:

Mad Doctor McDowell Website

Get the book on Amazon

Mad Doctor McDowell on Facebook

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