WEBVTT - Colonial New Haven's Bestiality Problem 0:00:08.285 --> 0:00:17.085 School of Humans. Oh America, guys, Ugh, the United States 0:00:17.125 --> 0:00:19.845 of America. It's the land of the Free, the home 0:00:19.885 --> 0:00:21.045 of the brave, etc. 0:00:21.605 --> 0:00:21.845 Etc. 0:00:23.205 --> 0:00:25.445 But I would also say that it is a country 0:00:25.485 --> 0:00:31.925 filled with absolute filth. That's right, you found yourself listening 0:00:31.925 --> 0:00:34.765 to a podcast about the filthier side of American history. 0:00:35.805 --> 0:00:36.085 Hello. 0:00:36.165 --> 0:00:39.165 My name's Gabby Watts. I am a podcast producer and 0:00:39.205 --> 0:00:42.485 the former host of a show called Caidavergals, where we 0:00:42.485 --> 0:00:44.005 would look at all the weird ways that people had 0:00:44.005 --> 0:00:46.325 died throughout history. And now I'm bringing you this new 0:00:46.365 --> 0:00:49.165 show called American Filth. It's gonna be a fun time. 0:00:49.245 --> 0:00:51.725 It's gonna be silly, it's gonna be ridiculous. We're gonna 0:00:51.765 --> 0:00:54.885 have some comedic embellishments. But all of this is stuff 0:00:54.885 --> 0:00:57.605 that happened throughout American history, and I think it's just 0:00:57.645 --> 0:01:02.605 as important to celebrate. And you might be thinking to yourself, 0:01:03.045 --> 0:01:06.045 what is filth? Well, filth can just be anything that 0:01:06.125 --> 0:01:07.965 you think is discussing immoral. 0:01:08.485 --> 0:01:09.325 We're gonna have it all. 0:01:09.565 --> 0:01:14.125 We got stories about beast reality, about cannibalism, about in fantaside, 0:01:14.205 --> 0:01:20.325 about UTIs, about gay orgies, about resurrecting vampires, about a 0:01:20.445 --> 0:01:24.325 president cheating on his wife, about another president cheating on 0:01:24.365 --> 0:01:28.205 his wife, about another president cheating on his wife, all 0:01:28.245 --> 0:01:33.365 the Shenanigans happening in the wild West, sex scandals, alcoholics, 0:01:33.645 --> 0:01:37.005 love triangles, a group of sisters who had too much 0:01:37.045 --> 0:01:40.725 hair in my opinion, So let's get into it. This 0:01:40.765 --> 0:01:43.565 is the first episode of American Filth, So let's just 0:01:43.605 --> 0:01:46.845 get right into beast reality. Why don't we Thanks for listening, 0:01:47.485 --> 0:01:50.245 and here we go. I'm cueing our very aggressive theme song. 0:01:56.045 --> 0:01:58.645 This is American Filth, and my name is Gabby Watts. 0:01:58.725 --> 0:02:01.565 Every week I bring you a different filthy story. 0:02:01.285 --> 0:02:02.565 From American history. 0:02:03.485 --> 0:02:07.285 On this first episode, New Haven and the Pig Men, 0:02:21.245 --> 0:02:24.565 we're in the seventeenth century in the New Haven Colony. 0:02:24.805 --> 0:02:27.365 This colony was founded in sixteen thirty eight by a 0:02:27.405 --> 0:02:32.045 merchant named Theophilis Eaton and pere to Minister John Davenport, 0:02:32.565 --> 0:02:34.525 but didn't have a royal charter, so it didn't last 0:02:34.565 --> 0:02:37.525 too long, just until sixteen sixty four when it got 0:02:37.565 --> 0:02:39.165 eaten up by the Connecticut Colony. 0:02:39.245 --> 0:02:43.365 Chomp, chomp, whow. So interesting. I love dates. 0:02:44.365 --> 0:02:47.285 The settlers there, most of them were from the Congregation 0:02:47.365 --> 0:02:50.565 of John Davenport they'd followed him over from England. 0:02:50.325 --> 0:02:51.525 To Amsterdam to Boston. 0:02:53.165 --> 0:02:55.805 And along with these families, in the early sixteen forties 0:02:55.845 --> 0:03:00.565 there was also a great migration of sorts, basically from 0:03:00.565 --> 0:03:03.645 the mid Atlantic colonies up to the northern ones. They 0:03:03.685 --> 0:03:06.805 are all these unmarried dudes who went up there for work, 0:03:08.605 --> 0:03:11.205 just left to their own devices. And you know, you 0:03:11.285 --> 0:03:13.005 never know what a single man left up to his 0:03:13.045 --> 0:03:18.045 own devices might do. Maybe he'll write a manifesto, maybe 0:03:18.045 --> 0:03:21.165 he'll say he's the son of God. Maybe he'll commit 0:03:21.205 --> 0:03:24.805 some buggery. And what is buggery, Well, that is having 0:03:24.845 --> 0:03:29.085 sex with animals. It can also refer to butt sex 0:03:29.085 --> 0:03:32.245 between people, but we're going with the beast reality definition. 0:03:35.565 --> 0:03:37.485 And that was a big no no in the New 0:03:37.525 --> 0:03:42.485 Haven Colony and probably everywhere else too, because under the 0:03:42.485 --> 0:03:45.645 purview of Minister John Davenport, that's a big old sin. 0:03:46.685 --> 0:03:50.245 And in fact, the colony's initial legal system was quote 0:03:50.325 --> 0:03:52.765 that the word of God shall be the only rule 0:03:52.845 --> 0:03:56.245 to be attended unto in ordering the affairs of government 0:03:56.325 --> 0:04:01.285 in this plantation. You know, residents in the New Haven Colony, 0:04:01.285 --> 0:04:03.605 they could be put to death for all sorts of crimes, 0:04:04.005 --> 0:04:08.765 things like adultery, which blasphemy for being a rude teen. Basically, 0:04:08.845 --> 0:04:12.645 everyone on TikTok would have been put to death. And 0:04:12.685 --> 0:04:15.085 they didn't want anyone to commit these sins because they 0:04:15.085 --> 0:04:17.965 did not wish to invoke God's wrath. Obviously, it's a 0:04:18.005 --> 0:04:19.805 new colony, they already. 0:04:19.525 --> 0:04:20.645 Have a lot of challenges. 0:04:21.605 --> 0:04:25.005 Adding God's wrath to the mix would be very inconvenient. 0:04:26.965 --> 0:04:29.925 And buggery, of course, was among these sins, because as 0:04:29.965 --> 0:04:32.485 we all know, you know, we all know this God 0:04:32.565 --> 0:04:35.725 said in Leviticus. Actually I don't know where they quoting 0:04:35.765 --> 0:04:37.525 God or just what this is, just something you're not 0:04:37.565 --> 0:04:40.125 It said in Leviticus basically, if a man lie with 0:04:40.205 --> 0:04:43.165 a beast, he shall surely be put to death, and 0:04:43.285 --> 0:04:47.885 ye shall slay the beast. And the Puritan leaders in 0:04:48.005 --> 0:04:51.365 New Haven were so concerned about this sin that even 0:04:51.565 --> 0:04:54.125 if you didn't do buggery, but just like mentioned it, 0:04:54.165 --> 0:04:57.845 you could get punished. Even ella welling about beast reality 0:04:57.845 --> 0:05:01.445 could get you thrown in jail. That happened in sixteen 0:05:01.485 --> 0:05:04.605 sixty two. There was this young guy named Jeremiah, and 0:05:04.645 --> 0:05:07.085 he made a joke about this other dude named Edmund, 0:05:07.205 --> 0:05:10.125 because what happened was Edmund he'd been praying out in 0:05:10.165 --> 0:05:13.845 the swamp, because you know, God's ear is extra receptive 0:05:14.085 --> 0:05:16.645 in the swamp, and he'd been praying for this lady 0:05:16.685 --> 0:05:20.005 to like him. Back he said, Lord, thou knowest my 0:05:20.165 --> 0:05:23.645 necessity and can'st supply it? Lord, bend and bow her 0:05:23.685 --> 0:05:29.165 will and make her sensible to my condition. And apparently 0:05:29.165 --> 0:05:32.005 he was praying quite loudly in the swamp because Jeremiah 0:05:32.045 --> 0:05:35.205 overheard him. And when someone asked what Edmund was praying about, 0:05:35.325 --> 0:05:39.005 Jeremiah said, it may be his mayor, that God would 0:05:39.085 --> 0:05:48.045 make her more serviceablel his horse. But unfortunately, being an 0:05:48.125 --> 0:05:51.045 edged lord comedian like that was frowned upon back then. 0:05:51.605 --> 0:05:53.805 And the thing is, Edmund's prayer did work. He got 0:05:53.805 --> 0:05:56.325 married to the last he was praying about. But then 0:05:56.365 --> 0:06:00.725 he sued Jeremiah for slander, so the new Haven magistrates 0:06:00.725 --> 0:06:02.885 put him in jail for a while and then eventually 0:06:02.925 --> 0:06:06.205 placed him on a ten pound bond because of behavior. 0:06:06.365 --> 0:06:10.165 But he probably he probably stopped making jokes, So yeah, 0:06:10.245 --> 0:06:12.725 new Haven was having a bit of a moment. As 0:06:12.805 --> 0:06:15.605 the late Princeton professor John M. Murrin said, it was 0:06:15.645 --> 0:06:19.485 a bit of a beast reality panic people were accused 0:06:19.525 --> 0:06:22.085 of buggery even if they weren't caught in the act. 0:06:22.525 --> 0:06:24.725 And that is exactly what happened to a man named 0:06:24.765 --> 0:06:30.565 George Spencer in sixteen forty one. George Spencer was a 0:06:30.605 --> 0:06:34.085 servant to this guy, mister Browning, and George was one 0:06:34.125 --> 0:06:36.005 of those single men who was just you know, milling 0:06:36.045 --> 0:06:38.125 about up to no good. And he had come to 0:06:38.165 --> 0:06:40.685 New Haven from Boston and had already had a run 0:06:40.805 --> 0:06:43.085 with the law because he stole some goods at some. 0:06:43.205 --> 0:06:45.285 Point, and then in New Haven. 0:06:45.325 --> 0:06:48.245 The thing about him is nobody really seemed to like him. 0:06:48.605 --> 0:06:52.245 He was known, as one record said, for profanity, lying, scoffing, 0:06:52.325 --> 0:06:56.325 and just having an all around lewd spirit. And one 0:06:56.325 --> 0:06:58.605 of the worst things about him was that he wasn't 0:06:58.605 --> 0:07:02.005 into God. He might have even been an atheist gasp 0:07:02.445 --> 0:07:07.485 in John Davenport's colony. Oh no, According to the gossip, 0:07:07.525 --> 0:07:09.965 he hadn't been to church in five years, and he 0:07:10.005 --> 0:07:12.565 would only read scripture and pray when his boss, mister 0:07:12.605 --> 0:07:15.405 Browning told him he had to. Basically would threaten to 0:07:15.445 --> 0:07:17.925 beat him up if he didn't do it. And the 0:07:17.965 --> 0:07:20.285 other issue about George was people thought he was a 0:07:20.325 --> 0:07:23.765 real uhgo. He was bald, and he only had one 0:07:23.845 --> 0:07:27.045 functioning eyeball. The other one was all messed up. People 0:07:27.045 --> 0:07:36.245 said it was like a pearl, whitish and deformed. Anyway, 0:07:36.285 --> 0:07:38.565 mister Browning sold one of his lady pigs a sal 0:07:38.725 --> 0:07:43.085 to his neighbor, John Wakeman, and then that sal that 0:07:43.125 --> 0:07:46.365 mister Browning had sold gave birth to a litter of piglets. 0:07:47.405 --> 0:07:49.965 And most of these pigs, I imagine, were excellent pigs, 0:07:50.365 --> 0:07:53.525 just normal lass pigs. But the thing is one of 0:07:53.525 --> 0:07:56.685 the pigs was still born and looked really gross, so 0:07:56.845 --> 0:08:00.445 gross that people started calling the piglet the monster, which 0:08:00.485 --> 0:08:02.525 I feel like is really rude because that piglet wasn't 0:08:02.525 --> 0:08:06.765 even alive. To defend itself, described it like this. It 0:08:06.805 --> 0:08:09.125 had no hair in the whole body. The skin was 0:08:09.245 --> 0:08:12.325 tender and of a reddish white color, like a child's. 0:08:12.965 --> 0:08:15.205 It had but one eye in the middle of the face, 0:08:15.325 --> 0:08:20.565 like some blemished eye of a man. Bald, you say, 0:08:20.845 --> 0:08:24.845 and hm, just one eye that works. Who else do 0:08:24.885 --> 0:08:29.605 we know has those same physical traits? Why none other 0:08:29.725 --> 0:08:34.165 than one eyed baldass George Spencer. You guys can see 0:08:34.165 --> 0:08:38.005 where this is going. The Puritans of Newhaven observed these similarities, 0:08:38.085 --> 0:08:40.525 and they got to thinking that man looks like that 0:08:40.725 --> 0:08:45.125 nasty piglet. And then a good wife Wakeman, the wife 0:08:45.205 --> 0:08:48.445 of the dude who bought the sow from mister Browning. Well, 0:08:48.485 --> 0:08:51.365 according to the court record, she had a vision from God. 0:08:51.845 --> 0:08:54.645 Apparently some hand of God appeared in an impression to 0:08:54.685 --> 0:08:57.765 her spirit indicating that the sow hadn't been pigging like 0:08:57.805 --> 0:09:01.165 a regular pig and that George Spencer had been actor 0:09:01.325 --> 0:09:10.405 in unnatural and abominable filthiness with that sow. Now using 0:09:10.445 --> 0:09:13.405 that evidence, that the stillborn piglet only had one eye 0:09:13.485 --> 0:09:15.565 and looked kind of like a child, and that good 0:09:15.605 --> 0:09:19.565 wife Wakeman got some vibes from God. Obviously, what that 0:09:19.645 --> 0:09:22.845 means is George took a tumble with this sal and 0:09:23.165 --> 0:09:28.925 fathered this piglet. There could be no other explanation. At first, 0:09:28.925 --> 0:09:29.485 George was. 0:09:29.445 --> 0:09:30.605 Like whoa, woa, whoa, whoa. 0:09:30.645 --> 0:09:33.285 I did not solely myself with that sal, but everyone 0:09:33.405 --> 0:09:35.565 was like, sorry, we're gonna have to put you in 0:09:35.645 --> 0:09:39.525 prison because we are suspicious of your buggery. And also 0:09:39.805 --> 0:09:44.085 don't you have like in general elude spirit that definitely 0:09:44.125 --> 0:09:48.205 merits prison time. I wish I lived in this time period. 0:09:50.965 --> 0:09:55.445 So George got locked up. I imagine he was probably 0:09:55.445 --> 0:09:57.125 feeling pretty down in the dumps. 0:09:57.445 --> 0:10:00.125 Not only was he in prison, he was there because of. 0:10:00.085 --> 0:10:03.925 A crime he denied committing where there was really no 0:10:04.605 --> 0:10:08.325 real evidence. The evidence that they did have was that 0:10:08.525 --> 0:10:12.165 he looked like a pig that has hurt your feelings 0:10:12.165 --> 0:10:15.005 a little bit. The only thing George had to accompany 0:10:15.045 --> 0:10:18.125 his dread of the impending trial was the dulcet tones 0:10:18.165 --> 0:10:20.205 of a prison guard whipping another prisoner. 0:10:20.365 --> 0:10:21.325 Prison sounds cool. 0:10:29.965 --> 0:10:32.525 That night, one of the magistrates from New Haven went 0:10:32.565 --> 0:10:40.285 to the prison to get some more information from George. 0:10:40.805 --> 0:10:43.965 The magistrate asked, did you commit that abominable filthiness? And 0:10:44.005 --> 0:10:47.405 George was like, hell no. And then the magistrate asked, 0:10:47.565 --> 0:10:50.085 but when they showed you that ugly ass stillborn piglet, 0:10:50.125 --> 0:10:52.405 did you not take notice of something in it? 0:10:52.725 --> 0:10:53.165 Like you? 0:10:54.165 --> 0:10:56.205 And then George was like, wait, hold on which soal 0:10:56.285 --> 0:10:58.925 are you talking about? And then the magistrate was like, 0:10:59.405 --> 0:11:02.605 you know which one? And then at that point George 0:11:02.645 --> 0:11:08.045 said nothing. So the magistrate continued. He was like, George, 0:11:08.125 --> 0:11:10.245 let me remind you of the scripture because we all 0:11:10.285 --> 0:11:13.325 know you don't read it. He that hideth his sin 0:11:13.445 --> 0:11:18.325 shall not prosper. But he who confesseth and forsaketh his sin, 0:11:18.765 --> 0:11:22.205 shall find mercy. With that in mind, do you feel 0:11:22.285 --> 0:11:25.325 sorry that you're denying this thing that is obviously true, 0:11:25.405 --> 0:11:29.045 because again that lady had visions about it. And now, 0:11:29.085 --> 0:11:31.085 according to the court record, it was at this moment 0:11:31.125 --> 0:11:34.445 that George did confess the magistrate that he had done it, 0:11:35.325 --> 0:11:37.965 and the magistrate was like, I knew it, ha ha ha, 0:11:38.165 --> 0:11:39.925 and he departed. He's like, I'm gonna bring back some 0:11:40.005 --> 0:11:42.485 of my boys tomorrow and get a longer confession. So 0:11:42.525 --> 0:11:44.525 I'm gonna get all the nasty details, write it down 0:11:44.605 --> 0:11:45.885 so I can masturbate to it later. 0:11:46.005 --> 0:11:47.365 Just kidding. He didn't say that. 0:11:48.445 --> 0:11:51.565 Now, the fact that George confessed, some historians have pointed 0:11:51.645 --> 0:11:55.765 to the fact that this doesn't actually mean he did it, because, 0:11:55.845 --> 0:11:58.525 as you heard, the magistrate was just like, hey, if 0:11:58.565 --> 0:12:03.285 you don't confess, you're fucked. If you do, he'll get 0:12:03.285 --> 0:12:06.805 some mercy, and George was probably the Again that sounds 0:12:06.805 --> 0:12:09.605 like a pretty good deal. Actually probably also means I 0:12:09.645 --> 0:12:19.485 won't get whipped like that other prisoner. So over the 0:12:19.525 --> 0:12:21.445 next couple of days, the magistrate came back with his 0:12:21.485 --> 0:12:24.205 other magistrate boys, and that's when George put on a 0:12:24.205 --> 0:12:28.565 little show and gave his full confession. He said, yes, 0:12:28.725 --> 0:12:31.645 I did fuck that sal because remember, I'm going to 0:12:31.645 --> 0:12:35.125 get mercy for saying this. And this is what he 0:12:35.165 --> 0:12:37.245 said about the day of the incident. He said, I 0:12:37.285 --> 0:12:39.725 was at work and the sow came into the stable, 0:12:40.165 --> 0:12:43.485 and then the temptation and the corruption did work, and 0:12:43.605 --> 0:12:46.405 I drove the sow into the stye and then committed 0:12:46.485 --> 0:12:52.125 that filthy ness. He said he was in the stye 0:12:52.165 --> 0:12:54.445 with the sow for a couple of hours at six 0:12:54.485 --> 0:12:57.445 o'clock in the evening when the sun was setting. 0:12:57.485 --> 0:12:58.765 Wow. How romantic. 0:12:59.965 --> 0:13:04.005 Then the magistrates asked how long had the temptation been 0:13:04.085 --> 0:13:06.885 upon your spirit? And George was like, it had been 0:13:06.965 --> 0:13:09.685 upon my spirit for about two or three days, and 0:13:09.725 --> 0:13:12.645 he said he had some workings against it, both from 0:13:12.685 --> 0:13:16.005 the heinousness of the sin and the loathsomeness of the creature. 0:13:16.085 --> 0:13:17.365 He wasn't even attracted to her. 0:13:18.365 --> 0:13:19.845 And then they were like, what was it about the 0:13:19.845 --> 0:13:24.525 pig that affected you? And he said it was the 0:13:24.565 --> 0:13:28.525 whites in the eye, that's right, the whites in the eye, 0:13:28.525 --> 0:13:30.605 not the pupils on the iris, but the white stuff. 0:13:31.605 --> 0:13:40.645 Mm sexy. When he was signing to the magistrates. George 0:13:40.645 --> 0:13:43.325 also admitted to a variety of other sins. You know, 0:13:43.445 --> 0:13:46.205 he called the Lord's day Lady's day. He would lie 0:13:46.245 --> 0:13:49.725 and he just would generally scoff at the ordinances and 0:13:49.805 --> 0:13:55.925 ways of the people of God. George then had the 0:13:55.925 --> 0:14:00.085 prison guard ride up a little bill, a little sign 0:14:00.205 --> 0:14:04.165 for him to hang, and on it he said he 0:14:04.565 --> 0:14:07.645 entreated the prayer of the church, and God on his behalf, 0:14:08.085 --> 0:14:11.325 said he was sorry he had denied his buggery earlier, 0:14:12.165 --> 0:14:16.005 and supposedly, with tears falling from his eyes, he acknowledged 0:14:16.045 --> 0:14:23.125 that Satan had hardened his heart. However, as George sat 0:14:23.165 --> 0:14:26.885 in his prison cell waiting trial, he began to suspect 0:14:26.885 --> 0:14:30.725 that even if he received God's mercy, he probably wasn't 0:14:30.765 --> 0:14:34.525 going to get the mercy of these puritans. 0:14:35.845 --> 0:14:37.045 So on March. 0:14:36.845 --> 0:14:39.605 Second, sixteen forty one, just about a week after he 0:14:39.645 --> 0:14:45.725 was put in prison, George Spencer went to trial, and 0:14:45.805 --> 0:14:56.045 there he denied his confession. Unfortunately for him, though, the 0:14:56.045 --> 0:14:58.485 court had a bunch of people who said that George 0:14:58.485 --> 0:15:00.565 had told them that, oh, yeah, I had a sexual 0:15:00.565 --> 0:15:04.125 rendezvous with that pig. There are these three dudes, all 0:15:04.205 --> 0:15:07.165 named Will who said that George had mentioned his dallions 0:15:07.205 --> 0:15:09.525 with the pig to them, and there are two other 0:15:09.565 --> 0:15:12.365 men who said George had confessed to them. They had 0:15:12.405 --> 0:15:14.365 asked him like, how long were you with the sow, 0:15:14.405 --> 0:15:16.325 and George said, I was with the sow half an 0:15:16.365 --> 0:15:18.685 hour and it was the most terrible half hour of 0:15:18.725 --> 0:15:21.805 my life. And they asked, well, if you had no 0:15:21.845 --> 0:15:24.965 pleasure in it, why were you doing it? And he 0:15:25.085 --> 0:15:26.725 was like, well, I was driven by the power of 0:15:26.765 --> 0:15:31.245 the devil. So all these people are confessing and George 0:15:31.285 --> 0:15:34.125 was just like, fuck, these people, they're lying, they're evil. 0:15:34.205 --> 0:15:39.325 My confession was false. Unfortunately, George denying his confession just 0:15:39.325 --> 0:15:42.285 made the court like him even less. They were like, wow, 0:15:42.325 --> 0:15:45.285 he did this unnatural and terrible thing, and now he's 0:15:45.325 --> 0:15:50.005 really showing his lying spirit. So, having heard the accounts 0:15:50.045 --> 0:15:55.005 and George's general bad attitude, they sentenced George Spencer to death. 0:15:55.245 --> 0:15:59.285 That's right, it's a capital crime. And not only did 0:15:59.285 --> 0:16:02.645 they sentence George to death, they also sentenced the sal 0:16:02.725 --> 0:16:03.165 to death. 0:16:03.765 --> 0:16:15.125 Oh. 0:16:15.485 --> 0:16:18.325 George's execution was not until April of the following year, 0:16:18.405 --> 0:16:21.925 sixteen forty two. It was determined that he would hang 0:16:22.005 --> 0:16:25.125 upon a gallows till he be dead, and the place 0:16:25.125 --> 0:16:27.645 where they're gonna hang him was to be the farthest 0:16:27.685 --> 0:16:31.165 part of the field by the sea side. But first 0:16:31.245 --> 0:16:34.525 the sow was gonna be slain in his sight, being 0:16:34.605 --> 0:16:35.765 run through with a sword. 0:16:37.285 --> 0:16:40.125 He was pretty dramatic. And the reason they killed the 0:16:40.165 --> 0:16:42.885 sow it wasn't just because of Leviticus, but. 0:16:42.845 --> 0:16:44.685 They also at the time believed that if you did 0:16:44.725 --> 0:16:47.125 some buggery with an animal, that means part of the 0:16:47.205 --> 0:16:50.125 human stays inside of it, So if anyone was to 0:16:50.125 --> 0:16:57.125 eat that pig, it would be cannibalism obviously. So indeed 0:16:57.165 --> 0:16:59.725 the sow was slain with the sword, and then George 0:16:59.765 --> 0:17:02.965 was escorted up to the gallows, and while he was there, 0:17:03.125 --> 0:17:05.125 the record says that he began to speak to the 0:17:05.165 --> 0:17:08.765 youth about him, basically telling them to use him as 0:17:08.805 --> 0:17:12.725 an example that they shouldn't neglect and despise the means 0:17:12.725 --> 0:17:18.085 of grace. George also admitted, because of his atheism that 0:17:18.085 --> 0:17:22.965 that justified his sentence as righteous. Then they tightened the 0:17:22.965 --> 0:17:26.325 news around his neck and kicked away the stand, and 0:17:26.365 --> 0:17:29.085 the core wrecker says, now he was ready to die, 0:17:29.525 --> 0:17:33.205 and he must go presently to hell. So much for 0:17:33.325 --> 0:17:49.365 mercy rip George Spencer. Now some ads, we're back, baby. 0:17:50.405 --> 0:17:52.485 I think this is kind of a fun tidbit. But 0:17:52.685 --> 0:17:56.485 in twenty fifteen, George Spencer's case was reviewed by a judge, 0:17:56.965 --> 0:18:00.205 because that's the important work the criminal justice system should 0:18:00.285 --> 0:18:03.685 be doing right now, pardoning a man from sixteen forty one. Anyway, 0:18:04.165 --> 0:18:06.925 but they found that he was not guilty of any crimes, 0:18:07.245 --> 0:18:10.245 as it would have been a biological impossibility for him 0:18:10.245 --> 0:18:14.485 to father that piglet in case you weren't aware of that, 0:18:14.525 --> 0:18:16.885 we can't have kids with pigs or cows or really 0:18:16.925 --> 0:18:20.125 any barnyard creature or critter at all, So stop. 0:18:19.885 --> 0:18:20.605 Trying, okay. 0:18:21.285 --> 0:18:23.165 And the judge of viewing the case also said that 0:18:23.285 --> 0:18:26.245 it was clear that there was lots of coercion in 0:18:26.285 --> 0:18:31.645 this confession. And here's the thing that's like pretty crazy 0:18:31.685 --> 0:18:34.725 about it is that if George Spencer had not confessed, 0:18:35.325 --> 0:18:38.605 he would have not hanged because technically they needed two 0:18:38.605 --> 0:18:42.285 witnesses and one of the witnesses was George, and then 0:18:42.365 --> 0:18:45.365 they said that the other witness was the stillborn pig. 0:18:46.765 --> 0:18:49.005 And there's actually another case that's very similar to this, 0:18:49.325 --> 0:18:53.885 but this time the guy being accused of buggery refused 0:18:53.925 --> 0:18:58.925 to confess, and so he didn't hang. It also happened 0:18:58.925 --> 0:19:01.485 in New Haven, just a few years after George Spencer's death. 0:19:01.485 --> 0:19:04.485 This happened in sixteen forty seven, and the name of 0:19:04.525 --> 0:19:11.325 the guy hence literally Thomas Hogg. Like Thomas Hogg, Like 0:19:11.405 --> 0:19:14.365 George Spencer, Thomas Hogg wasn't well liked by. 0:19:14.285 --> 0:19:15.285 The people of New Haven. 0:19:15.485 --> 0:19:18.125 He was a thief and a liar, but people seemed 0:19:18.165 --> 0:19:20.925 to specifically not like him because sometimes his dick was out, 0:19:21.605 --> 0:19:23.805 like he claimed he had this like hernia and his dick, 0:19:23.845 --> 0:19:25.525 and it made it painful, so sometimes, you know, he 0:19:25.645 --> 0:19:31.285 just had to pull it out. And like mister Spencer, 0:19:31.405 --> 0:19:34.565 mister Hogg was accused of fothering some piglets because again, 0:19:35.525 --> 0:19:37.765 these two pigs that were born, they said that they 0:19:37.805 --> 0:19:41.205 looked like him. His employer said it was a sign 0:19:41.205 --> 0:19:43.085 from God, because one of the pigs was fair and 0:19:43.165 --> 0:19:46.405 white skin like hog, and the other had a head 0:19:46.445 --> 0:19:49.085 like a child's in one eye like him, the bigger 0:19:49.125 --> 0:19:52.565 on the right side. But mister Hogg was like, hmm, 0:19:52.685 --> 0:19:55.965 I did not have sexual relations with that pig. He 0:19:56.085 --> 0:19:59.445 denied it, despite people pressuring him into a confession. He 0:19:59.525 --> 0:20:01.165 was like no, no, no, no, I did not do that. 0:20:02.845 --> 0:20:05.125 So the governor of the New Haven Colony decided to 0:20:05.125 --> 0:20:08.365 conduct an experiment. They needed proof that mister Hog was 0:20:08.405 --> 0:20:10.405 a hogman inlaid with the lady of pigs. 0:20:10.685 --> 0:20:13.845 So this is what they did. 0:20:14.885 --> 0:20:17.285 They brought mister Hogg to the barn where the pigs 0:20:17.325 --> 0:20:19.805 were kept and told him to scratch behind the ear 0:20:19.885 --> 0:20:23.205 of the sows to see if his touch would arouse them. 0:20:24.325 --> 0:20:26.325 Who knows if his dick was in or out at 0:20:26.325 --> 0:20:31.005 this point. Well, he scratched the ear of one pig, 0:20:31.045 --> 0:20:35.005 and wooie, did she get turned on. According to the reports, 0:20:35.205 --> 0:20:38.165 there appeared a working of lust and the sow insomuch 0:20:38.205 --> 0:20:42.285 that she poured out seed before them. I have no 0:20:42.325 --> 0:20:44.125 idea what that means is I feel like maybe means 0:20:44.125 --> 0:20:44.885 the pig was squirting. 0:20:44.885 --> 0:20:45.325 I don't know. 0:20:48.685 --> 0:20:50.965 But then they needed more evidence than just one sow, 0:20:51.045 --> 0:20:53.045 so they asked mister Hog to scratch behind the ear 0:20:53.045 --> 0:20:55.925 of another one to see if she would also get aroused. 0:20:58.725 --> 0:21:00.045 But unfortunately, she. 0:21:00.085 --> 0:21:02.205 Must have not found him very attractive and did not 0:21:02.245 --> 0:21:03.205 produce any seed. 0:21:04.445 --> 0:21:06.405 I guess he should have whipped his I don't know. 0:21:10.325 --> 0:21:13.085 Ergo, the results were inconclusive. There is no proof that 0:21:13.085 --> 0:21:16.205 mister Hogg was a sexy man to these pigs. And 0:21:16.245 --> 0:21:18.405 since mister Hogg refused to admit to the crime, they 0:21:18.405 --> 0:21:21.325 couldn't hang him because he had to be his own witness, 0:21:22.685 --> 0:21:24.445 But because no one really seemed to like him, they 0:21:24.485 --> 0:21:27.245 did sentence him to hard labor for just being obnoxious 0:21:27.285 --> 0:21:32.485 aka lying and stealing and having his dick out. Now, 0:21:32.485 --> 0:21:35.045 if anything, the stories of Thomas Hogg and George Spencer 0:21:35.045 --> 0:21:37.645 can teach us that it is very important to be likable, 0:21:37.965 --> 0:21:41.165 otherwise you might be accused of banging a pig, even 0:21:41.245 --> 0:21:44.325 if you're not caught in the act. But unfortunately, in 0:21:44.445 --> 0:21:48.485 New Haven, even being likable is not enough, especially if 0:21:48.525 --> 0:21:51.405 you are caught getting wiggley with that Pigly. 0:21:54.045 --> 0:21:55.045 The last dude we're. 0:21:54.885 --> 0:21:57.645 Talking about today, his name is William Potter and he 0:21:57.685 --> 0:21:59.685 was one of the first people to settle in New Haven. 0:22:00.045 --> 0:22:03.925 He was part of John Davenport's exclusive and Esteemed congregation 0:22:04.525 --> 0:22:07.205 and he was a presecs as the landowner who was 0:22:07.245 --> 0:22:09.525 doing well. He had a wife and a bunch of kids. 0:22:09.525 --> 0:22:11.685 He was respected a family man. 0:22:13.165 --> 0:22:13.765 And this is. 0:22:13.725 --> 0:22:16.005 Towards the end of the New Haven colony being its 0:22:16.045 --> 0:22:20.125 own little colony. This is. In sixteen sixty two, William 0:22:20.125 --> 0:22:22.885 Potter was about sixty and he had recently been excused 0:22:22.925 --> 0:22:25.965 from military service because he was quote a. 0:22:25.925 --> 0:22:27.565 Weak infirmed man. 0:22:31.205 --> 0:22:33.205 But one day, one of his teenage sons was just 0:22:33.245 --> 0:22:35.965 out about on their farm, probably just minding his own business, 0:22:36.405 --> 0:22:39.405 when he came across a horrible site. His daddy, the 0:22:39.645 --> 0:22:43.725 Venerable William Potter, was screwing one of their soals talk 0:22:43.765 --> 0:22:49.525 about childhood trauma. After the sun saw this, he went 0:22:49.565 --> 0:22:51.285 to his mom and was like, Mom, I just saw 0:22:51.325 --> 0:22:52.325 something real bad. 0:22:52.485 --> 0:22:54.845 Dad was out there, balls deep and a piggy. 0:22:56.285 --> 0:22:57.845 By the way, that is not a direct quote, but 0:22:58.685 --> 0:23:00.645 I'm just saying if you had that news and you 0:23:00.725 --> 0:23:02.645 told your mom about it, you'd probably expect them to 0:23:02.645 --> 0:23:05.365 be like, holy hell, that's crazy. But instead, his mom, 0:23:05.525 --> 0:23:08.405 Francis Potter, said to her son, Yeah, your dad does 0:23:08.445 --> 0:23:14.885 that sometimes. What what okay? Apparently Francis Potter had also 0:23:14.965 --> 0:23:17.165 stumbled upon her husband's indiscretions. 0:23:17.205 --> 0:23:19.965 Specifically, about ten years prior, she had. 0:23:19.805 --> 0:23:22.805 Caught him doing a doggie style with a doggie technically 0:23:22.925 --> 0:23:26.285 in the official record their bitch, and he had implored 0:23:26.325 --> 0:23:30.285 her not to tell the authorities. William even hanged the bitch, 0:23:30.485 --> 0:23:32.485