Joseph Scott Morgan

Tim.

The reason it's so historic is it has been a waterway that has been used since prior to Roman colonization in England.

goes back thousands of years and just beneath the surface there is all kinds of history that that can be found there you know old pilings they have found where the Rome Romans had constructed bridges you can find broken old clay pipes out there

And every now and then you'll find things like weapons and spoons and things that have just been tossed over just from the centuries of use.

But every now and then you'll come across something even more interesting in the Thames.

Sometimes you'll find broken people perhaps floating in the Thames.

Today on Body Bags, that's what we're going to discuss.

A person apparently so broken that they decided to throw themselves off of a bridge into the Thames, not to take their own life, but perhaps because they had taken the life of

of others.

I'm Joseph Scott Morgan, and this is Body Bags.

Dave, there was a time in London where you could not get near the Thames.

It had such a foul odor.

Really?

Yeah, and a lot of it has to do with raw sewage that had poured in there and all these sorts of things.

One of the most fascinating things that I absolutely adore about the Thames is that if you travel along the river, you'll come to what would have been a little village at one point in time, but now it's all part of London, called Greenwich.

And we've heard of Greenwich, Connecticut, right?

Well, Greenwich is actually where Greenwich Mean Time comes from.

It's literally where time starts, right?

And I've been to the museum multiple times.

They've actually got the original measurements for the imperial inch, the imperial foot, the imperial yard.