Mariana van Zeller
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
But that all happens, a lot of this, of the for-profit body trade because of lack of regulations.
And there's not enough laws out there.
Where the Wild West, every other country has these laws, and we don't because it's all about money.
How can we make money out of people's donating, people's, you know, wanting to donate?
We heard of skulls being sold for $5,000.
So we met with a funeral director that brought us a pen like this, and inside the pen there was a little human skull.
And he told us all about how it works, like how they were β
selling again instead of cremating the bodies they were selling their parts there was a skin wallets being sold online for two thousand five hundred dollars a tongue can go for a thousand dollars a human tongue a human tongue this is part of the oddities market where people like to have human parts also like have it in formaldehyde on their mantelpiece or something yeah and make wallets out of skin tattooed skin goes for more money christ
You can buy them online.
You can find them.
They're group services.
No, I don't think so.
I mean, I think the skulls are definitely real, but a lot of it is like mixed with other things.
But it's interesting.
So the Facebook groups that we got access to were sort of secret.
That's one of the guys we tried researching out to, the guy with the... Allegedly trafficking stolen human remains.
And that's the Harvard Medical School.
The person working at the morgue was selling some of their body parts and procuring, also buying from that other guy.