- today, we check into the murder hotel.- let's talk about that. ♪ (theme music) ♪ - good mythical morning!- okay. halloween time is what it is. and one of the reasons i likehalloween time... - what it is.- ...is because i think it's one of the few times that it's acceptable tobe entertained by gruesome and - wicked things.- oh, yeah, of course you do. you know, you just get a little bit everyyear, and then you go back to normal life. okay. you go back to hiding the fact thatyou revel...
- in the name --- ...in all these demented things... - ...for the rest of the year.- yes. in the name of gruesome and wicked things, i'm gonna be talking aboutamerica's first serial killer. - i'm gonna scare your pants off.- not literally. - tie 'em up tight. um...- i don't have a drawstring today. tie those drawstrings on your sweatpantsup, because they might come off. - (laughing)- but don't worry. we're gonna cleanse palette, your scare palette, by having alittle physical challenge at the end - of this episode.- all right, physical challenge to wrap
- up. i'll look forward to that.- okay, so here here he is. (rhett) dr. holmes. henry howard holmes. (link) doesn't look like a serial killerto me. (rhett) no! i mean, i've never seena serial killer... (link) looks like a dude who needs amustache trim. (rhett) oh, no. he needs to let that thingkeep going. but this guy just looks like a normal guy with a mustache and a hat.but this a very demented individual, as you will soon learn. first of all, hewas born as herman webster mudgett. - i mean, there's your problem.- mudgett.
if you're looking for motive, last nameof "mudgett." he took care of that quickly. - changed his name to henry howard holmes.- okay. - he liked the triple h thing.- that is scary. then at age 19, he went to university ofmichigan -- shout out! -- medical school. this is where things get very, veryout of hand. - mm.- okay. this guy was innovative. he had quite ahead on his shoulders, because he thought, "i'm in medical school.gotta find a way to pay for it. i got an idea. you know what i'm gonnado? i've got access to these cadavers."
- those are dead people.- dead people. and what he did is he set up fakeinsurance policies to people who didn't exist. late 1800s. you can get away withanything. so real insurance policiesfor fake people. - people -- just make up a name.- okay. - then he would take one of these bodies...- "his name is cadaver!" - "yeah, this guy, mr. cadaver."- (laughing) he would take one o the cadavers andhe would disfigure its face with acid. - eugh.- and then he would stage the death.
and then he would go to the insurancepeople and be like... "you know that policy i just took outon mr. cadaver?" - "well, here he is!"- "lo and behold his acid face!" - and he would collect up to $12,000...- wow! which is $285,000 in today's dollars.so he made a lot of money. and then what did he do with all thismoney? - what did he do with all this money?- well, he built the murder castle! - did it say that on the sign, because...- probably not. that was a nickname, and you'll see in a second why it wascalled that. 1893, chicago world's fair.
huge celebration of human innovationin industry. a couple of things debuted - there: the ferris wheel, the hamburger...- ooh! - aunt jemima! i don't know if she...- i love her! ...made an appearance, or if the syrupwas invited at that point. - let's say the syrup.- or "sare-up," as somebody i know says. - i don't understand that.- "somebody!" i won't mention their name. anyway, hebuilds this hotel. all these people coming to chicago. he says, "i'm gonna builda hotel." he builds a three-story hotel. - it's your wife, isn't it.- no, it's somebody related to my wife.
- don't make me say it.- okay, okay. totally normal first floor, like a drugstore and a place to check into the hotel. - okay, i'm cool with that.- and then the upper two floors of the hotel... is where he murdered people. i mean, how so? it's like stick your headin the mini-fridge and like wham, or... - (crew laughing offscreen)- he would lure people in there. mostly... - yeah, don't take...- "take a look in the mini-fridge! i don't know. maybe see if yourhead fits." i don't think there were mini-fridges.but if there were mini-fridges at that
time, it would have been the kind ofhead you stuck your head into when he would cut it off. because this dudewould -- mostly women. mostly young - women would come check into this hotel.- okay. and then he would lead them up to theirroom. they would go into their room that could only open from the outside.and then we would turn on gas and listen to them die on the otherside of the door. ooh! so it was a gas chamber with adouble bed in it. that was one of the ways that he killedpeople. he did multiple things. it was just like this maze oftorture rooms and...
- well, how to you...- ...gas chambers. how do you build something like that?i mean, that's not code, brother. he would hire and fire people workingfor him over and over again so nobody ever picked up. they'd be like, "i don'tknow, the mini-fridge looks like a - guillotine, but...- (laughing) ...i'm outta here, 'causei got fired today." "all i did was build the back of thefridge, not the blade of the fridge." - right, so nobody suspected anything.- oh. - there were like, "he just kinda weird."- hm.
but then, at the bottom in the basement,he had a human disassembly factory where he would take -- 'cause, again, he's anentrepreneurial kind of guy -- he would take the bodies. he would skinthe people... - oh, dude...- ...in the basement, and then he would take their organs and sell them on theblack market. you know a thing or two - about that, don't you, link?- not really. - yeah, you were pretty horrible at that.- (link and crew offscreen laughing) but he would sell the organs becausehe's got a medical background. he's still -- "hey, i'm just a doctor.i'm just a doctor. i'm not a murderer."
okay, so he did this for six months.and, by the way, during this time, he was also married to three women. - at once? yes, at once?- well, yes, because he was only 29, but by that time, he had beenmarried to three women that he never got divorced from. he just moved onto thenext one and never got divorced from the previous one. and had two children.wouldn't you have liked to have him for - a father. okay, the world's fair ends- no. after six months. he goes and triessomething new: an insurance scheme where they're gonna fake the death ofcertain guy. instead of faking the death
of that guy, he just kills him. and threeof his children. sick guy. the other guy, the third guy involved inthis thing, turns him in. he ends up confessing to the killings and 27additional murders. but a lot of people thing that he killedup to 200 people. - 200 people!- but while he was in custody, that's when they went and the police found themurder castle, and that's how we know - about it.- well, this sounds like a movie that - i will not watch.- it will be be a movie, because there's a rumor that dicaprio and scorsese areteaming up to do something called
"the devil in the white city," which isbased on a screenplay by erik larson, - which is this guy. and...- the guy who wrote the... - a book. it's a book. not a screenplay.- the guy who wrote the far side? - erik larson?- (laughing) no, not the far side. - and this is also...- it's, like, just drawings of a... ...serial killer. leonardo dicapis on this! yes! and this is also what americanhorror story hotel, this season, is - loosely based on, is this guy.- lady gaga. lady gaga is this guy.no. that's not who it works.
- (crew laughing offscreen)- anyway, so when he was convicted, he was quoted as saying to police,"i was born with the devil in me. i could not help the fact that i wasa murder no more than the poet could help the inspiration to sing. i was bornwith the evil one standing as my sponsor, beside the bed where i was ushered intothe world, and he has been with me - ever since."- observation one: poets don't sing. - observation two: he had a sponsor!- yeah, sponsored by satan! (laughing) good for him!everybody needs a sponsor. - we know that.- okay, well, my actual intention was to
get you feeling a little uneasy so i couldtake advantage and win this last - challenge.- ooh, physical challenge time. it's time for the airheads bitescan't stop, won't stop challenge! as you know, each week we've beencompeting against each other in a ridiculous challenge to see whocan last the longest. today is our fourth and final challenge,so one of us will be declared the winner, and next week, that person will get tosit on beanbag with a bunny while wearing a blue tuxedo, eating bacon, as his buddytells him a bedtime story about how - awesome he is in a british accent.- today's challenge is called...
...plank 'n' stank. all right, in this challenge, we're gonnabe planking on our forearms while stanks are introduced under our noses.and the first man to fall out of his plank - loses.- all right. let's assume the position. (both grunting) it's been a while since i've beendown here. okay, yeah. thanks for cleaning thefloor for first, guys. - all right. ready.- (stevie offscreen) here we go... - ...3, 2, 1, go!- ♪ (rock music) ♪
- plank!- ugh, we're planking. and now here comes the stank. - oh, gosh. that is unpleasant.- woo! cheesy. - and i'm a cheese lover.- what is that? my lower back's - already hurting a little bit.- i'm doing the shake a little bit. - i got quite a plank to keep up here.- yeah, you do. i can't see the end of your plank.it's waaaay back there! this is a super-plank situation.oh, gosh! ugh! gosh! is that a bag of fish?
(slow motion coughing) - (gagging)- oh, hold on now! whoa! - are you seriously... (laughing)- yes! (laughing) - you're gagging?!- yes, it's horrible! - it's not that bad!- do you smell it? that's rancid. oh, yeah. oh, gosh, i smell it.(gruffly) but i'm gonna make it though. - i'm a stanky planker.- ugh! the problem is i'm breathingmore deeply. ah! a lot of things hurt! a lot ofthings hurt. mm.
what is that? cotton balls? - gosh, my stomach hurts.- oh! oh! it hit me. - what is that?- (stevie offscreen) coyote urine. - (unison) coyote urine?!- (rhett laughing) - jinx!- (both grunting) - gosh! oh, baby!- oh, i'm feeling burn from the - coyote "yurn!"- oh, now he's putting it all in. (grunting) i think i'm dislocating my back.you don't seem like you're (gasp)
struggling! and they put that freakingfish right in my face. ugh! i don't! oh, gosh!you're not struggling enough! what's wrong with you?!ugh! ooh! (rhett grunting) i think i'm gonna hurt myselfpermanently. - (crew laughing offscreen)- augh! (incorrect buzzer) yeah! yeah! i tied it up! well, airheadsbites may have long-lasting flavor, but you don't have long-lasting plank-stank-standing ability. - (link) i win this challenge.- (whooshes)
- okay. you won that one.- boom shakalaka! but that just means that we're tiedtwo-to-two... - yeah.- ...overall in this whole challenge. so we both get to experience the amazingprize next week, link. all right, we'll work that out. thanks forliking, commenting, and subscribing. and thanks for airheads bites forsponsoring this episode. - you know what time it is.- my name is nick from chicago, illinois, and it's time to spinthe wheel of mythicality! airheads bites have the same tangy,bold flavors and chew of airheads but
are now in easy-to-eat, bite-sized pieces!to find airheads bites at a store near you, click on the linkin the description. and click through to good mythical more,where we will play the serial killer - guessing game!- mm! - lots of fun to be had there.- nobody's gonna die. - (police siren)- (rhett) "good cop, bad cop: - serial teddy bear unstuffer!"- hey, man. thanks for coming... in today. you know, we just wanted toask you a few questions about... - hey, punk! i see you with...- ...those teddy bears. you know?
i see that pair of scissors. what'd youdo with those scissors? - i know what you did!- i love scissors as much as the next - guy. but i mean, did you...- people like you make me (slap) - crazy!- stick 'em into the bear, i mean... - i wanna take you... mm!- you can tell me. i wanna rip your arms out by theirsockets! did you give a little cutty-cutty to theteddy bear-bear? i wanna treat you like a teddy bear.the way that you treat teddy bears! - and that's not nice!- so i take that as a yes?
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