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WARNING: This episode uses the politically incorrect word \u201cnegro\u201d to describe black Americans. It is not my own choice of language, nor is it my opinion, as it is only used when I am directly quoting what someone wrote or said at the time the events took place. No offense is intended.

IN THIS EPISODE: You wouldn\u2019t think this would be Weird Darkness material, but there is an unsolved mystery here more than 130 years in the making. Dissecting the human nervous system is a taxing task\u2014and in some cases, very little is known about the people whose bodies wound up on anatomists' tables.\xa0In 19th-century Philadelphia, an anatomist dissected and mounted a human nervous system. Now researchers are trying to figure out whose remains are stretched out in a glass case. \xa0And it\u2019s proving to be quite difficult.

SOURCES AND REFERENCES FROM THE EPISODE\u2026
\u201cThe Mysterious Body Donation of Harriet Cole\u201d by Jessica Leigh Hester for AtlasObscura:https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/uw699ka
Weird Darkness theme by Alibi Music Library.
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Originally aired: April 27, 2021

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