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Benjamin Franklins Dark Secret The Grisly Truth Hiding in His London Home

For nearly two decades leading up to the signing of the Declaration of Independence Benjamin Franklin lived in London in a house on 36 Craven Street More than 200 years later 15 bodies were found in the basement buried in a secret windowless room beneath the garden Remnants of more than a dozen bodies said Benjamin Franklin's house Forensic investigation showed that the bones dated to Franklin's day The most plausible explanation is not mass murder but an anatomy school run by Benjamin's young friend and protege William Houston Okay anatomy was still in its infancy but the day's social and ethical mores frowned upon it A steady supply of human bodies was hard to come by legally so Houston Hunter and Fields other pioneers had to turn to grave robbing