Episode #72: The Hope Street Resurrectionist Scandal & the 1826 Zodiac Back

George’s Dock | Liverpool, 1897 | Wikicommons

7/12/2025: On today’s episode, Valerie recounts the story of a macabre scandal that shocked Georgian Era Liverpool when a devastating discovery was made after examining three foul-smelling 42 gallon casks that had been left the night before at George’s Dock. That discovery led to another, even  more horrific discovery in the cellar of a boy’s school run by a local reverend, and a manhunt for the suspected gang of five ensued. This story is so 1800s it hurts! Next, Amy Jo’s Zodiac Back covers Uranus in Gemini, the 50th Anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence and the US Chiron return, which is both an asteroid and a comet, we look at the charts of Jefferson Davis and Stephen Foster, and touch on the Carrington Event. Yikes!

Liverpool, 1836, S.D.U.K. Antique Map

Resurrectionists (1847), by Hablot Knight Browne

Copy of the Anatomy Act (GB0232/HHB/80/3/1)

English Wine Cask Units by @shxperienced/twitter

Body snatchers at work. A painting on the wall of a public house in Penicuik, Scotland, Kim Traynor - Own work

Kirkdale Prison | Liverpool | Liverpool Picture Book

Planetary retrogrades in 1826 chart

Centaur 2060 Chiron, imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope's FOC imager on 30 March 1996.

Photograph of President of the Confederate States of America Davis (1862)

Stephen Foster’s Birth Chart - July 4th, 1826

Photographic portrait of American composer Stephen Foster

Screenshot of Eclipses occurring in 1826

Sources/Photo Sources

Intro Sources:

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The Hope Street Resurrectionist Scandal Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liverpool

https://www.newspapers.com/image/390538134/?match=1

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smack_(ship)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resurrectionists_in_the_United_Kingdom 

https://mymacabreroadtrip.com/the-hope-street-body-snatching-affair-liverpool/

The Hope Street Resurrectionist Scandal Photo Sources:

https://mymacabreroadtrip.com/the-hope-street-body-snatching-affair-liverpool/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resurrectionists_in_the_United_Kingdom#/media/File:Resurrectionists_by_phiz.png 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_snatching#/media/File:Body_snatchers_at_work,_Old_Crown_Inn,_Penicuik.JPG 

https://www.battlemaps.us/products/liverpool-1836-s-d-u-k-antique-map?srsltid=AfmBOopSuuElbpq_GB6Q07CN3p6OB7jFGDJh5LuQJ7FGty2HBh3fjZ3Y 

https://www.reddit.com/r/Scotch/comments/lsn8dd/cask_sizes_compared/#lightbox 

https://www.highlifehighland.com/highland-archive-centre/wp-content/uploads/sites/124/2021/12/HHB.80.3.1.jpg

1826 Zodiac Back Sources:

https://theastrologypodcast.com/ 

https://alextrenoweth.co.uk/sibley-chart-4/ (sibley chart USA analysis)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2060_Chiron 

heartastrology.com/astrology-of-america-and-the-sibly-chart/ 

https://mooncalendar.astro-seek.com/total-lunar-eclipse-scorpio-full-moon-day-21-may-1826  https://www.astrotheme.com/astrology/Jefferson_Davis https://www.biography.com/political-figures/jefferson-davis 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Christopher_Carrington 

https://www.astro-seek.com/birth-chart/stephen-foster-horoscope https://patrickwatsonastrology.com/a-history-of-pluto-through-the-zodiac/ 

1826 Zodiac Back Photo Sources:

https://www.astro-seek.com/birth-chart/stephen-foster-horoscope https://mooncalendar.astro-seek.com/solar-and-lunar-eclipses-1826?no_mobile=1 https://horoscopes.astro-seek.com/-retrograde-astrology-calendar-1826 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefferson_Davis#/media/File:Jefferson_Davis_1862.jpg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Foster#/media/File:Stephen_Foster.jpg 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2060_Chiron#/media/File:2060_Chiron.jpg