Honestly I think at this point weird history should have its own Netflix show or something. I love every video. And your voice reminds me a lot of the narrator from forensic files
I remember back to the time in primary school, our headmaster told us a story about a man who was branded with the letters ST, meaning sheep thief. He said that the man moved to a a area, lived a good life and the locals thought ST meant saint.
Great content as always. One minor point-the pics of women having their heads shaved was not related to the use of the stocks and/or pillory. Those photos were taken in the immediate aftermath of VE Day in preciously Nazi-occupied countries, to punish and humiliate women alleged to have consorted with enemy soldiers. If a woman was suspected of having a sexual relationship with any Nazi occupier, regardless whether said “relationship” was consensual, they were branded as being disloyal to their nation by providing aid and “comfort” to the enemy.
As somewhat who visited Colonial Williamsburg I saw one thing about the stocks not mentioned. While it seems that it would be more comfortable sitting in the stocks than standing in the pillory think again. The benches were about the width of a balance beam and fashioned to a point like a roof of a house.
I understand getting punished for crimes if the punishments fit the crimes, but that's sadistic and too extreme in a lot of cases! I feel sorry for the people who suffered through that.
Social Media is way worst. Many young adults and children commit suicide because of online bullying, and those people never were found guilty of any crime to deserve the harassment. At least with the stocks the people did crimes and were found guilty.
I hate the idea of shaming a woman solely because she slept with a man that occupied her country for 6 years. You have to take into account how sexually open the french were too. Some women weren't married, so its hard to say they had affairs.. unless the german soldiers were married.
@@jrmckim Let me grant you some clarity in your ignorant life. 1. Most french women were raped, coerced into sex or offered money for it. Then shamed by their french countrymen. 2. Some french men merely accused women for sleeping with the enemy because the french women refused their own advances. Like incels. 3. Some french women DID sleep with germans but mostly for food, water or clothes. Stop living in a fantasy world.
I agree, this guy has the best narrating voice. I couldn’t believe it when I heard about the pandemic and 2020 and I forget what country he said use the stocks. I thought that was so funny. Not only that, but the town in 1989 wanted to build them too. Wow, thought this was done along time ago.
In Portugal, we used "pelourinhos" or "picotas" (the ancient name) for exhibiting the criminals and punish them. They resemble those Greek columns and they were placed in front of the city council or the main square of the municipality. If you come here, you'll see a lot of them in small towns and they are all styled differently to distinguish them from the ones of the other cities. It is a form of pillory, but it is made from stone and does not have holes or anything, even though the purpose is the same.
It's now believed that his plane, while flying at low altitude across the English Channel from England to the continent, was it by a bomb that had been dropped (or jettisoned") by an Allied bomber flying at normal altitude back to England.
I’ve always found the life of chimney sweepers in England so interesting. They were usually children and mistreated but would love a deep dive in this. Feel like there’s more to the story.
I've been in the pillory!! It was painful!!! My back, neck, throat, then it hit the back of my thighs and knees and then I just ached all over.. an d I was only in them about 5 minutes!!!!! And I was about 12 (I was 5'9 at that age)
You know what id be interested in is if you take all your audio and up load it to a podcast form so i can learn while i cant watch like at work or driving it would make lots happy and make more revenue for weird history
You know, if the stocks were still around today, public drunkeness would be considerably lower 😂 Plus it would be a great family day out to throw some tomatoes.
@RiverNinja20 that's because I'm American and not qualified to comment on those countries, nor do I particularly care. In US it's legal to purchase politicians also, which puts us at a somewhat unique status.
When I was still a kid, in rural Philippines, 1980s. Our village used to have a jail made of wood placed in plaza center. By the way "plazas" are like the main square, it is in between a Catholic Church and the town hall/ city hall. So the purpose of that jail was to shame the drunkards, scandalous people, petty criminals, and sometimes gambling addicted couples. We even had moving jails following a Catholic processions, to catch drunks and 'addicts' -they usually harm the old folks and women. I can't imagine that today, it' all illegal now to jail somebody without proper trial.
Talking about nailing ears, the phrase "it's a rip off" originated in Glasgow In a market in an area that's now called the trongate. If a trader was caught cheating someone he'd be nailed by the ears to the door of the building where witches were held before they were publicly hanged (a building which is still there) and the only way the rogue trader could escape would be to rip their earlobes to free themselves from the nails and when anyone saw a trader with ripped earlobes they wouldn't deal with them because they were known to have cheated people in the past and were therefore untrustworthy
So if you were in there for a long time, did someone bring you food and water so you didn't die? I'm not even going to ask what happened if you had to use the toilet...😫
the most recent use of pillory in my city had the local vicar take everyone to the pub while the victim was in the stocks. there he'd get everyone drunk and riled up about what "this bastard" had allegedly done, then at closing time they'd all go out and beat the living shit out of the person in the pillory, often leaving them to die from their injuries.
Can you do a video on: about crystal! How are they created! Are who are the first want to find a crystal cave? What did the first crystal look like? I think that would be soooo interesting!!! 🙏🏽
I was “sentenced” to a couple hrs in the stocks at a renfaire I worked at back in the early 80s . Worst punishment I got was a couple hrs of tickle torture. Brutal as it was in comparison, I consider myself lucky that’s all I went through 😂
I think the stocks would be a very suiting punishment for criminals here in the USA. Now, there is virtually no punishment for many serious crimes that have real victims.
One thing to remember when considering these punishments is that prisons weren't really available and therefore there was no such thing as a prison sentence. So crimes were often punished by corparal means ie bodily harm such as floggings, branding - which served as a type of criminal record, and the use of stocks. More serious crimes (which might not be seen as that serious today) or repitition of relatively minor offences, often meant the gallows.
You didn't show the sitting arrangement for the stocks. I saw in Colonial Williamsburg that the seat for the stocks was a lateral triangular iron bar that they had to sit on all day.
Having ANOTHER Weird History meal! Having Beef Broth (Swanson)*†...while watching this Weird History video! The #1 ingredient is beef stock...perfect for watching a video about the stocks! * Inspired from the Weird History video "How Has SPAM Stayed So Popular?," which has meat stock in it. † Cooked it in a pot and eating it out of my rainbow bowl!
I may be wrong, but there is still a pillory that has been preserved in York, Maine. I grew up near there and would drive by it quite often. I wonder if it's the same one Thomas Withers was in. That would be cool.
The narrator always does a great job, and his dry humor is very hilarious in my opinion. (It's similar to the dry humor. Found within TMNT during the 1980S). #TurtlePower.
The stocks sound like heaven compared to some other forms of punishments us kind humans have come up with.
Blasphemy would get me how much time
That's insane.
@@eddiesroom1868 you might have been offed for blasphemy back then
@@shamoblamo9625 free speech is fun, Jesus did it, why can't I?
Yeah there’s no shortage of cruelty to man from man
This guy has one of the best narrating voices..
This is the only informative channel I don't fall asleep too.
Testatent carusoe
Indeed. I could watch and listen to anything he says for hours
Ya he’s got a great voice for narration 👍
Agreed. Don’t know why, but this dude’s voice brings me back to my high school days.
Human cruelty really has no limits.
I mean honestly it’s not that cruel. Some of the “crimes” are ridiculous though.
stock market crash creates bag holders
@@TheRealDill93 ...having your ears nailed to restrict movement, having them potentially cut off, and getting branded isn't cruel?
Yes, I also killed your minecraft pet for saying ez in a game.
@@milk-li1vm oh it can be much worse if the mob wants to do some more "discouraged things".
Id be interested to learn about laws and punishments in ancient egypt!
Huh… never thought of that before, but that’s really interesting!
Ill like to see laws and punishment in viking comminities
th-cam.com/video/JwMmIOs3TYg/w-d-xo.html
Here's punishment in ancient Egypt via Nutty History, but I'm always interested in learning more.
Absolutely! That would be Awesome🤘💙
Scaphism
One of my favourite channels weird history , I like the topics and the narrator I hope he never changes !!!
It would take a lot of videos to get used to a new narrator.
Noooo! Our narrator can never leave!! I don’t care if he read the dictionary out loud, I’d listen to him every day!
Honestly I think at this point weird history should have its own Netflix show or something. I love every video. And your voice reminds me a lot of the narrator from forensic files
I remember back to the time in primary school, our headmaster told us a story about a man who was branded with the letters ST, meaning sheep thief. He said that the man moved to a a area, lived a good life and the locals thought ST meant saint.
That would actually make sense.
Great content as always. One minor point-the pics of women having their heads shaved was not related to the use of the stocks and/or pillory. Those photos were taken in the immediate aftermath of VE Day in preciously Nazi-occupied countries, to punish and humiliate women alleged to have consorted with enemy soldiers. If a woman was suspected of having a sexual relationship with any Nazi occupier, regardless whether said “relationship” was consensual, they were branded as being disloyal to their nation by providing aid and “comfort” to the enemy.
As somewhat who visited Colonial Williamsburg I saw one thing about the stocks not mentioned. While it seems that it would be more comfortable sitting in the stocks than standing in the pillory think again. The benches were about the width of a balance beam and fashioned to a point like a roof of a house.
Ouch!
I understand getting punished for crimes if the punishments fit the crimes, but that's sadistic and too extreme in a lot of cases! I feel sorry for the people who suffered through that.
Social Media is way worst. Many young adults and children commit suicide because of online bullying, and those people never were found guilty of any crime to deserve the harassment. At least with the stocks the people did crimes and were found guilty.
@@Skitdora2010 they can both be bad.
Future generations will say that about us, too.
@@wholeNwon current generations already do
"I'm free! I'm free!"
[CLINK]
"Dangit!"
Was this off Scooby-Doo
Ik I seen it b4 lol
@@Sierralovescharles hunchback of notre dame
Hunchback of notre dame reference!!! I love that movie
@@ChuckNorris924 omg lol I should've known, tyy
I love that when I watch this channel, I'm going to get all information about the subject. Plus the presenter is pretty funny at times.
Ok, ok, you convinced me. It was really not good idea to invest in stocks.
... no.... no, no, no, no, no. 😆😆😆👍
Brilliant
They're due for a comeback I would hold.
Could you imagine asking for a raise and ending up in the stocks for a month..?
Happened to me at work last week… still have 3 weeks to go 😩
@@peterpuller7984 Yes, but at least you're allowed to use your phone or whatever. And, presumably, you still get paid. Win-win.
Must have been a government employee
The women shown having their heads shaved were French women who had affairs with German soldiers during WWII.
Good
Allegedly. They were accused by incel french men who were envious of Germans
@@nasrinv good? you're sick.
I hate the idea of shaming a woman solely because she slept with a man that occupied her country for 6 years. You have to take into account how sexually open the french were too.
Some women weren't married, so its hard to say they had affairs.. unless the german soldiers were married.
@@jrmckim Let me grant you some clarity in your ignorant life.
1. Most french women were raped, coerced into sex or offered money for it. Then shamed by their french countrymen.
2. Some french men merely accused women for sleeping with the enemy because the french women refused their own advances. Like incels.
3. Some french women DID sleep with germans but mostly for food, water or clothes.
Stop living in a fantasy world.
I agree, this guy has the best narrating voice. I couldn’t believe it when I heard about the pandemic and 2020 and I forget what country he said use the stocks. I thought that was so funny.
Not only that, but the town in 1989 wanted to build them too. Wow, thought this was done along time ago.
Nice piercings, where did you get them done?
At the Pillory.
I see what you did there
The Pillory? Cool, I’ll look that place up on Yelp.
Great name for a tat shop?
When you wanna take your Bad Girl piercing game to a new level
I love you weird history ! Thank you for helping my sleepless nights be filled with knowledge my friend
I can't believe I can watch videos like this for free. Great work as always
Weird history never disappoints… Thanks for the video
I love this channel.....the narrator is awesome
"Don't call it a comeback! I've been here for years!" -The Stocks
Momma said lock you up , I’m gonna lock you up.
@@darthdaddy6983 nice
Didnt expect to find a LL Cool J reference on this comment thread... it is appreciated!
I love this channel ❤ xoxoxo the weird is where I like to linger lol
We're all weird in our own wonderful ways!
In Portugal, we used "pelourinhos" or "picotas" (the ancient name) for exhibiting the criminals and punish them. They resemble those Greek columns and they were placed in front of the city council or the main square of the municipality. If you come here, you'll see a lot of them in small towns and they are all styled differently to distinguish them from the ones of the other cities. It is a form of pillory, but it is made from stone and does not have holes or anything, even though the purpose is the same.
"You violated QUARANTINE!... so we're gonna put you in the stocks!"
"Hey! These leg holes aren't six feet apart!"🙄
"But it was just some cake for my birthday."
I would like you to do a story on Glen Miller and how he disappeared in the prime of big band music.
Uhhhh
Mark Felton already did.
It's now believed that his plane, while flying at low altitude across the English Channel from England to the continent, was it by a bomb that had been dropped (or jettisoned") by an Allied bomber flying at normal altitude back to England.
A+ video!
LOVE IT! What a unique and enlightening history!
Great work researching and presenting…thanks for the perfect movie reference at the end, nicely delivered.🖤🇨🇦
I’ve always found the life of chimney sweepers in England so interesting. They were usually children and mistreated but would love a deep dive in this. Feel like there’s more to the story.
Lock, stocks, and Two Smokin' Barrels.
nicolARSE
Some would find this arousing..Old School S&M at its finest😆
You're not wrong 😌
I was thinking this the entire time . Surely this type of holding someone lead to well NVM
I bought one of these it cost me $450 and it's amazing and it chains to my ceiling.
i would lmao
Love to see you’re representing Arkansas. I’m from Searcy #501. We celebrate horrific torture.
Love the Gordon Lightfoot reference.
Saw him a few years ago and his voice was choice!
Dig the show, great entertainment while learning something new.
I've been in the pillory!! It was painful!!! My back, neck, throat, then it hit the back of my thighs and knees and then I just ached all over.. an d I was only in them about 5 minutes!!!!! And I was about 12 (I was 5'9 at that age)
@@PaulBaumer417 I was in Salem MA
You know what id be interested in is if you take all your audio and up load it to a podcast form so i can learn while i cant watch like at work or driving it would make lots happy and make more revenue for weird history
You know, if the stocks were still around today, public drunkeness would be considerably lower 😂 Plus it would be a great family day out to throw some tomatoes.
If you were sauced it probably just be a laugh ^^
@@BergenDev get dragged out of the crowd to join the person already in the stocks haha
what's wrong about being drunk in public?
@@carlosandleon Suppose it depends on the situation and time of the day 🤪
Make sure they're rotten 😉👍🏾
Imagine investing in stocks then being locked in.
That's what happens when you have paper hands.
Clever!
@@KK4CNM this reddit stonk thing is so dumb
I just love listening to him. Anymore that's all I listen to. Great voice...
In my country, in recent decades, owr indigenous people put in stocks a politician that lied to them👌
If all politicians could be put in the stocks and pillory for lying think how different elections would be.
Too kind for corrupt US politicians
@RiverNinja20 not even remotely what I said. Keep working on your English.
@RiverNinja20 that's because I'm American and not qualified to comment on those countries, nor do I particularly care. In US it's legal to purchase politicians also, which puts us at a somewhat unique status.
When I was still a kid, in rural Philippines, 1980s. Our village used to have a jail made of wood placed in plaza center. By the way "plazas" are like the main square, it is in between a Catholic Church and the town hall/ city hall. So the purpose of that jail was to shame the drunkards, scandalous people, petty criminals, and sometimes gambling addicted couples. We even had moving jails following a Catholic processions, to catch drunks and 'addicts' -they usually harm the old folks and women. I can't imagine that today, it' all illegal now to jail somebody without proper trial.
Would love to have seen the conversation Dafoe had with his buddies afterwards, and whether or not he got a cut of the sales.😂
How dare you break quarantine and get together!
Puts them in stocks so they are together anyway.
riiiiight. lol
7:30 those are photos of the French people in 1944-45 shaving the heads of French women who were accused of sleeping with Nazis.
I'm waaaaay too late to the party here but gotta ask...did someone seriously throw a cat (4:45)?
@WeirdHistory please include a list of the songs used in this video. They're beautiful but unfortunately I can't find them anywhere
Bring back the pillory!!! That would be amazing!
Yes. It's great to see people suffering.
"Irony"
@@cineclips381 They're criminals and assholes. Let them suffer a little bit!
@@SaviorInTheSun
I hope you don't include the homosexuals because they were mentioned too.
Absolutely not! Just convicted criminals and adulterers.
@@SaviorInTheSun You’ll go first.
Talking about nailing ears, the phrase "it's a rip off" originated in Glasgow In a market in an area that's now called the trongate. If a trader was caught cheating someone he'd be nailed by the ears to the door of the building where witches were held before they were publicly hanged (a building which is still there) and the only way the rogue trader could escape would be to rip their earlobes to free themselves from the nails and when anyone saw a trader with ripped earlobes they wouldn't deal with them because they were known to have cheated people in the past and were therefore untrustworthy
😳😳😨😨😨
Nimrod is a very interesting character to do sometime
I can think of a number of bureaucrats and politicians that would deserve some time in the pillory.
Clearly, we should bring back the stocks for financial crimes on Wall Street, though. I mean... right?
Never gonna happen when they always get bailed out by the government for robbing average citizens
"Lock them in the stonks!"
@@miroslavhoudek7085 😂😂😂
Interesting🤔
I was gonna say I'm ok with this for abusers... That also counts!
More likely it would be brought back by the political establishment for crimes against the party.
This was so interesting,thank you.
I enjoy the Passive Humor of this channel in there videos
Yeah good video! Always entertaining
Getting your ears nailed to a pillory is a hell of a way to pierce your ears.
While we're on the topic of medieval torture devices I would like to know the history of the Brazen Bull or Keelhauling
If I'd been put in the stocks or pillary, I think I'd have burnt down every church & tavern in town after getting out.
👍👍 love this channel
Love the fallout 4 pic of the pillary lol
Honestly thought this was going to be about the stock market
So if you were in there for a long time, did someone bring you food and water so you didn't die? I'm not even going to ask what happened if you had to use the toilet...😫
the most recent use of pillory in my city had the local vicar take everyone to the pub while the victim was in the stocks. there he'd get everyone drunk and riled up about what "this bastard" had allegedly done, then at closing time they'd all go out and beat the living shit out of the person in the pillory, often leaving them to die from their injuries.
@@ESPmrBrough well, that’s horrible. I hope the recent generations in your town have evolved into less barbaric people!
@@ESPmrBrough Borat has entered the chat.
@@FantomKat british borat lol
@ Laurie Penner, Idk....I'd enjoy finding out, by being a subject!
Can you do a video on: about crystal! How are they created! Are who are the first want to find a crystal cave? What did the first crystal look like? I think that would be soooo interesting!!! 🙏🏽
It’s common sight to see these old stocks still in situ in practically every village in England.
Thank you for this video ! 🌻
Welp.... new fear unlocked. My nose hurts now
So weird
As I recall, when in the stocks it was not a nice wide seat as pictured, but a narrow edge of a board to make the victim even more uncomfortable.
I was “sentenced” to a couple hrs in the stocks at a renfaire I worked at back in the early 80s . Worst punishment I got was a couple hrs of tickle torture. Brutal as it was in comparison, I consider myself lucky that’s all I went through 😂
couple hours, ey?
@@FemboyFootboy brutal
@@gilmourwaters I bet you loved it
@@gilmourwaters Id give you more than a couple of hours though, privately 😋😋
@@FemboyFootboy more of a love / hate relationship 🦶🪶
How about a video on tickle torture?
😏
Can you do a video on scolds bridles
3:06
Oh no, another settlement needs my help!
I think the stocks would be a very suiting punishment for criminals here in the USA. Now, there is virtually no punishment for many serious crimes that have real victims.
We need to bring this back. Bet things clean up quick
Best narrator on TH-cam 🖤
Who knew this invention would one day be in adults movies, parties, clubs for pleasure... and consensual engagement.
This guys narrating voice is perfect!
Thanks for this! ⛓️
1:41 At least domestic violence was a crime. And punished by public violence.
How common were the "old ball and chain"? Where, when, and how often were they used?
I wouldn't be surprised if this is brought back again.
I wish we had this today, it would be so busy the trees and stock production would be working 24 /7 ,365
Ears nailed to the stock. Ouch.
One thing to remember when considering these punishments is that prisons weren't really available and therefore there was no such thing as a prison sentence. So crimes were often punished by corparal means ie bodily harm such as floggings, branding - which served as a type of criminal record, and the use of stocks. More serious crimes (which might not be seen as that serious today) or repitition of relatively minor offences, often meant the gallows.
I thought this was going to be about the stocks on Wall Street. This is much more interesting.
Interesting. Stocks. Stock market. _Now_ the long chain of spammers/spambots in one comment makes perfect sense.
@@uuouuo5480 I see those on almost every video.
Could you do a video about the Trojan Horse?
Ahh if only the stocks were around now.. imagine all the prankster youtubers we could fit in them...😈
And the people who use dumb emojis!
rickrollers especially
I’d rather put the politicians in them.
You didn't show the sitting arrangement for the stocks. I saw in Colonial Williamsburg that the seat for the stocks was a lateral triangular iron bar that they had to sit on all day.
We need these punishments back ASAP!
Would you still say that if you ended up in the stocks.
lol
Having ANOTHER Weird History meal!
Having Beef Broth (Swanson)*†...while watching this Weird History video!
The #1 ingredient is beef stock...perfect for watching a video about the stocks!
* Inspired from the Weird History video "How Has SPAM Stayed So Popular?," which has meat stock in it.
† Cooked it in a pot and eating it out of my rainbow bowl!
“Quick, hide Gordon Lightfoot!” 😂
Whoever writes your scripts deserves a pay bump for that one. 🙌
We need this back.
The stocks never really were abolished in 1839. They were used during the civil war. Andersonville famous POW camp used them.
By all accounts, Andersonville was a nightmare. Stocks were the least of their worries.
I may be wrong, but there is still a pillory that has been preserved in York, Maine. I grew up near there and would drive by it quite often. I wonder if it's the same one Thomas Withers was in. That would be cool.
I’d like to know more about breaking on the wheel and the history behind that!
Pillory boy from outlander has made an appearance!
Columbia: let’s punish people for getting together and spreading covid by locking them together for hours.
The narrator always does a great job, and his dry humor is very hilarious in my opinion. (It's similar to the dry humor. Found within TMNT during the 1980S). #TurtlePower.
would be great to see a video where punished people exacted revenge on the public who partook in events of shaving his head, throwing stuff, etc..
I still remember when Poor Richard was put in stocks in Pepper's Adventure in Time.
4:08 an early example of the Streisand effect lol
All the politicians need sticking in stocks and pillaries