Author: Miss Cellania / Source: Neatorama
There have been several types of people who made a living by looking for dead bodies. Today we have homicide detectives. In the past, there were the thieves who found the dead to be easy marks, the grave robbers who wanted buried treasure, and the resurrectionists, who would sell corpses to medical schools.
Another group in the 19th century looked for bodies in a perfectly legal manner, because these were the remains of the missing. For each body found in the area of Niagara Falls, they would receive a bounty. An 1895 newspaper article explains why local fishermen would hunt for “floaters.”What makes this possible is the fact that there are…
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