Speaker 1: School of Humans. Oh America, guys, Ugh, the United States
Speaker 1: of America. It's the land of the Free, the home
Speaker 1: of the brave, etc.
Speaker 2: Etc.
Speaker 1: But I would also say that it is a country
Speaker 1: filled with absolute filth. That's right, you found yourself listening
Speaker 1: to a podcast about the filthier side of American history.
Speaker 2: Hello.
Speaker 1: My name's Gabby Watts. I am a podcast producer and
Speaker 1: the former host of a show called Caidavergals, where we
Speaker 1: would look at all the weird ways that people had
Speaker 1: died throughout history. And now I'm bringing you this new
Speaker 1: show called American Filth. It's gonna be a fun time.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be silly, it's gonna be ridiculous. We're gonna
Speaker 1: have some comedic embellishments. But all of this is stuff
Speaker 1: that happened throughout American history, and I think it's just
Speaker 1: as important to celebrate. And you might be thinking to yourself,
Speaker 1: what is filth? Well, filth can just be anything that
Speaker 1: you think is discussing immoral.
Speaker 2: We're gonna have it all.
Speaker 1: We got stories about beast reality, about cannibalism, about in fantaside,
Speaker 1: about UTIs, about gay orgies, about resurrecting vampires, about a
Speaker 1: president cheating on his wife, about another president cheating on
Speaker 1: his wife, about another president cheating on his wife, all
Speaker 1: the Shenanigans happening in the wild West, sex scandals, alcoholics,
Speaker 1: love triangles, a group of sisters who had too much
Speaker 1: hair in my opinion, So let's get into it. This
Speaker 1: is the first episode of American Filth, So let's just
Speaker 1: get right into beast reality. Why don't we Thanks for listening,
Speaker 1: and here we go. I'm cueing our very aggressive theme song.
Speaker 1: This is American Filth, and my name is Gabby Watts.
Speaker 1: Every week I bring you a different filthy story.
Speaker 2: From American history.
Speaker 1: On this first episode, New Haven and the Pig Men,
Speaker 1: we're in the seventeenth century in the New Haven Colony.
Speaker 1: This colony was founded in sixteen thirty eight by a
Speaker 1: merchant named Theophilis Eaton and pere to Minister John Davenport,
Speaker 1: but didn't have a royal charter, so it didn't last
Speaker 1: too long, just until sixteen sixty four when it got
Speaker 1: eaten up by the Connecticut Colony.
Speaker 2: Chomp, chomp, whow. So interesting. I love dates.
Speaker 1: The settlers there, most of them were from the Congregation
Speaker 1: of John Davenport they'd followed him over from England.
Speaker 2: To Amsterdam to Boston.
Speaker 1: And along with these families, in the early sixteen forties
Speaker 1: there was also a great migration of sorts, basically from
Speaker 1: the mid Atlantic colonies up to the northern ones. They
Speaker 1: are all these unmarried dudes who went up there for work,
Speaker 1: just left to their own devices. And you know, you
Speaker 1: never know what a single man left up to his
Speaker 1: own devices might do. Maybe he'll write a manifesto, maybe
Speaker 1: he'll say he's the son of God. Maybe he'll commit
Speaker 1: some buggery. And what is buggery, Well, that is having
Speaker 1: sex with animals. It can also refer to butt sex
Speaker 1: between people, but we're going with the beast reality definition.
Speaker 1: And that was a big no no in the New
Speaker 1: Haven Colony and probably everywhere else too, because under the
Speaker 1: purview of Minister John Davenport, that's a big old sin.
Speaker 1: And in fact, the colony's initial legal system was quote
Speaker 1: that the word of God shall be the only rule
Speaker 1: to be attended unto in ordering the affairs of government
Speaker 1: in this plantation. You know, residents in the New Haven Colony,
Speaker 1: they could be put to death for all sorts of crimes,
Speaker 1: things like adultery, which blasphemy for being a rude teen. Basically,
Speaker 1: everyone on TikTok would have been put to death. And
Speaker 1: they didn't want anyone to commit these sins because they
Speaker 1: did not wish to invoke God's wrath. Obviously, it's a
Speaker 1: new colony, they already.
Speaker 2: Have a lot of challenges.
Speaker 1: Adding God's wrath to the mix would be very inconvenient.
Speaker 1: And buggery, of course, was among these sins, because as
Speaker 1: we all know, you know, we all know this God
Speaker 1: said in Leviticus. Actually I don't know where they quoting
Speaker 1: God or just what this is, just something you're not
Speaker 1: It said in Leviticus basically, if a man lie with
Speaker 1: a beast, he shall surely be put to death, and
Speaker 1: ye shall slay the beast. And the Puritan leaders in
Speaker 1: New Haven were so concerned about this sin that even
Speaker 1: if you didn't do buggery, but just like mentioned it,
Speaker 1: you could get punished. Even ella welling about beast reality
Speaker 1: could get you thrown in jail. That happened in sixteen
Speaker 1: sixty two. There was this young guy named Jeremiah, and
Speaker 1: he made a joke about this other dude named Edmund,
Speaker 1: because what happened was Edmund he'd been praying out in
Speaker 1: the swamp, because you know, God's ear is extra receptive
Speaker 1: in the swamp, and he'd been praying for this lady
Speaker 1: to like him. Back he said, Lord, thou knowest my
Speaker 1: necessity and can'st supply it? Lord, bend and bow her
Speaker 1: will and make her sensible to my condition. And apparently
Speaker 1: he was praying quite loudly in the swamp because Jeremiah
Speaker 1: overheard him. And when someone asked what Edmund was praying about,
Speaker 1: Jeremiah said, it may be his mayor, that God would
Speaker 1: make her more serviceablel his horse. But unfortunately, being an
Speaker 1: edged lord comedian like that was frowned upon back then.
Speaker 1: And the thing is, Edmund's prayer did work. He got
Speaker 1: married to the last he was praying about. But then
Speaker 1: he sued Jeremiah for slander, so the new Haven magistrates
Speaker 1: put him in jail for a while and then eventually
Speaker 1: placed him on a ten pound bond because of behavior.
Speaker 1: But he probably he probably stopped making jokes, So yeah,
Speaker 1: new Haven was having a bit of a moment. As
Speaker 1: the late Princeton professor John M. Murrin said, it was
Speaker 1: a bit of a beast reality panic people were accused
Speaker 1: of buggery even if they weren't caught in the act.
Speaker 1: And that is exactly what happened to a man named
Speaker 1: George Spencer in sixteen forty one. George Spencer was a
Speaker 1: servant to this guy, mister Browning, and George was one
Speaker 1: of those single men who was just you know, milling
Speaker 1: about up to no good. And he had come to
Speaker 1: New Haven from Boston and had already had a run
Speaker 1: with the law because he stole some goods at some.
Speaker 2: Point, and then in New Haven.
Speaker 1: The thing about him is nobody really seemed to like him.
Speaker 1: He was known, as one record said, for profanity, lying, scoffing,
Speaker 1: and just having an all around lewd spirit. And one
Speaker 1: of the worst things about him was that he wasn't
Speaker 1: into God. He might have even been an atheist gasp
Speaker 1: in John Davenport's colony. Oh no, According to the gossip,
Speaker 1: he hadn't been to church in five years, and he
Speaker 1: would only read scripture and pray when his boss, mister
Speaker 1: Browning told him he had to. Basically would threaten to
Speaker 1: beat him up if he didn't do it. And the
Speaker 1: other issue about George was people thought he was a
Speaker 1: real uhgo. He was bald, and he only had one
Speaker 1: functioning eyeball. The other one was all messed up. People
Speaker 1: said it was like a pearl, whitish and deformed. Anyway,
Speaker 1: mister Browning sold one of his lady pigs a sal
Speaker 1: to his neighbor, John Wakeman, and then that sal that
Speaker 1: mister Browning had sold gave birth to a litter of piglets.
Speaker 1: And most of these pigs, I imagine, were excellent pigs,
Speaker 1: just normal lass pigs. But the thing is one of
Speaker 1: the pigs was still born and looked really gross, so
Speaker 1: gross that people started calling the piglet the monster, which
Speaker 1: I feel like is really rude because that piglet wasn't
Speaker 1: even alive. To defend itself, described it like this. It
Speaker 1: had no hair in the whole body. The skin was
Speaker 1: tender and of a reddish white color, like a child's.
Speaker 1: It had but one eye in the middle of the face,
Speaker 1: like some blemished eye of a man. Bald, you say,
Speaker 1: and hm, just one eye that works. Who else do
Speaker 1: we know has those same physical traits? Why none other
Speaker 1: than one eyed baldass George Spencer. You guys can see
Speaker 1: where this is going. The Puritans of Newhaven observed these similarities,
Speaker 1: and they got to thinking that man looks like that
Speaker 1: nasty piglet. And then a good wife Wakeman, the wife
Speaker 1: of the dude who bought the sow from mister Browning. Well,
Speaker 1: according to the court record, she had a vision from God.
Speaker 1: Apparently some hand of God appeared in an impression to
Speaker 1: her spirit indicating that the sow hadn't been pigging like
Speaker 1: a regular pig and that George Spencer had been actor
Speaker 1: in unnatural and abominable filthiness with that sow. Now using
Speaker 1: that evidence, that the stillborn piglet only had one eye
Speaker 1: and looked kind of like a child, and that good
Speaker 1: wife Wakeman got some vibes from God. Obviously, what that
Speaker 1: means is George took a tumble with this sal and
Speaker 1: fathered this piglet. There could be no other explanation. At first,
Speaker 1: George was.
Speaker 2: Like whoa, woa, whoa, whoa.
Speaker 1: I did not solely myself with that sal, but everyone
Speaker 1: was like, sorry, we're gonna have to put you in
Speaker 1: prison because we are suspicious of your buggery. And also
Speaker 1: don't you have like in general elude spirit that definitely
Speaker 1: merits prison time. I wish I lived in this time period.
Speaker 1: So George got locked up. I imagine he was probably
Speaker 1: feeling pretty down in the dumps.
Speaker 2: Not only was he in prison, he was there because of.
Speaker 1: A crime he denied committing where there was really no
Speaker 1: real evidence. The evidence that they did have was that
Speaker 1: he looked like a pig that has hurt your feelings
Speaker 1: a little bit. The only thing George had to accompany
Speaker 1: his dread of the impending trial was the dulcet tones
Speaker 1: of a prison guard whipping another prisoner.
Speaker 2: Prison sounds cool.
Speaker 1: That night, one of the magistrates from New Haven went
Speaker 1: to the prison to get some more information from George.
Speaker 1: The magistrate asked, did you commit that abominable filthiness? And
Speaker 1: George was like, hell no. And then the magistrate asked,
Speaker 1: but when they showed you that ugly ass stillborn piglet,
Speaker 1: did you not take notice of something in it?
Speaker 2: Like you?
Speaker 1: And then George was like, wait, hold on which soal
Speaker 1: are you talking about? And then the magistrate was like,
Speaker 1: you know which one? And then at that point George
Speaker 1: said nothing. So the magistrate continued. He was like, George,
Speaker 1: let me remind you of the scripture because we all
Speaker 1: know you don't read it. He that hideth his sin
Speaker 1: shall not prosper. But he who confesseth and forsaketh his sin,
Speaker 1: shall find mercy. With that in mind, do you feel
Speaker 1: sorry that you're denying this thing that is obviously true,
Speaker 1: because again that lady had visions about it. And now,
Speaker 1: according to the court record, it was at this moment
Speaker 1: that George did confess the magistrate that he had done it,
Speaker 1: and the magistrate was like, I knew it, ha ha ha,
Speaker 1: and he departed. He's like, I'm gonna bring back some
Speaker 1: of my boys tomorrow and get a longer confession. So
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get all the nasty details, write it down
Speaker 1: so I can masturbate to it later.
Speaker 2: Just kidding. He didn't say that.
Speaker 1: Now, the fact that George confessed, some historians have pointed
Speaker 1: to the fact that this doesn't actually mean he did it, because,
Speaker 1: as you heard, the magistrate was just like, hey, if
Speaker 1: you don't confess, you're fucked. If you do, he'll get
Speaker 1: some mercy, and George was probably the Again that sounds
Speaker 1: like a pretty good deal. Actually probably also means I
Speaker 1: won't get whipped like that other prisoner. So over the
Speaker 1: next couple of days, the magistrate came back with his
Speaker 1: other magistrate boys, and that's when George put on a
Speaker 1: little show and gave his full confession. He said, yes,
Speaker 1: I did fuck that sal because remember, I'm going to
Speaker 1: get mercy for saying this. And this is what he
Speaker 1: said about the day of the incident. He said, I
Speaker 1: was at work and the sow came into the stable,
Speaker 1: and then the temptation and the corruption did work, and
Speaker 1: I drove the sow into the stye and then committed
Speaker 1: that filthy ness. He said he was in the stye
Speaker 1: with the sow for a couple of hours at six
Speaker 1: o'clock in the evening when the sun was setting.
Speaker 2: Wow. How romantic.
Speaker 1: Then the magistrates asked how long had the temptation been
Speaker 1: upon your spirit? And George was like, it had been
Speaker 1: upon my spirit for about two or three days, and
Speaker 1: he said he had some workings against it, both from
Speaker 1: the heinousness of the sin and the loathsomeness of the creature.
Speaker 2: He wasn't even attracted to her.
Speaker 1: And then they were like, what was it about the
Speaker 1: pig that affected you? And he said it was the
Speaker 1: whites in the eye, that's right, the whites in the eye,
Speaker 1: not the pupils on the iris, but the white stuff.
Speaker 1: Mm sexy. When he was signing to the magistrates. George
Speaker 1: also admitted to a variety of other sins. You know,
Speaker 1: he called the Lord's day Lady's day. He would lie
Speaker 1: and he just would generally scoff at the ordinances and
Speaker 1: ways of the people of God. George then had the
Speaker 1: prison guard ride up a little bill, a little sign
Speaker 1: for him to hang, and on it he said he
Speaker 1: entreated the prayer of the church, and God on his behalf,
Speaker 1: said he was sorry he had denied his buggery earlier,
Speaker 1: and supposedly, with tears falling from his eyes, he acknowledged
Speaker 1: that Satan had hardened his heart. However, as George sat
Speaker 1: in his prison cell waiting trial, he began to suspect
Speaker 1: that even if he received God's mercy, he probably wasn't
Speaker 1: going to get the mercy of these puritans.
Speaker 2: So on March.
Speaker 1: Second, sixteen forty one, just about a week after he
Speaker 1: was put in prison, George Spencer went to trial, and
Speaker 1: there he denied his confession. Unfortunately for him, though, the
Speaker 1: court had a bunch of people who said that George
Speaker 1: had told them that, oh, yeah, I had a sexual
Speaker 1: rendezvous with that pig. There are these three dudes, all
Speaker 1: named Will who said that George had mentioned his dallions
Speaker 1: with the pig to them, and there are two other
Speaker 1: men who said George had confessed to them. They had
Speaker 1: asked him like, how long were you with the sow,
Speaker 1: and George said, I was with the sow half an
Speaker 1: hour and it was the most terrible half hour of
Speaker 1: my life. And they asked, well, if you had no
Speaker 1: pleasure in it, why were you doing it? And he
Speaker 1: was like, well, I was driven by the power of
Speaker 1: the devil. So all these people are confessing and George
Speaker 1: was just like, fuck, these people, they're lying, they're evil.
Speaker 1: My confession was false. Unfortunately, George denying his confession just
Speaker 1: made the court like him even less. They were like, wow,
Speaker 1: he did this unnatural and terrible thing, and now he's
Speaker 1: really showing his lying spirit. So, having heard the accounts
Speaker 1: and George's general bad attitude, they sentenced George Spencer to death.
Speaker 1: That's right, it's a capital crime. And not only did
Speaker 1: they sentence George to death, they also sentenced the sal
Speaker 1: to death.
Speaker 3: Oh.
Speaker 1: George's execution was not until April of the following year,
Speaker 1: sixteen forty two. It was determined that he would hang
Speaker 1: upon a gallows till he be dead, and the place
Speaker 1: where they're gonna hang him was to be the farthest
Speaker 1: part of the field by the sea side. But first
Speaker 1: the sow was gonna be slain in his sight, being
Speaker 1: run through with a sword.
Speaker 2: He was pretty dramatic. And the reason they killed the
Speaker 2: sow it wasn't just because of Leviticus, but.
Speaker 1: They also at the time believed that if you did
Speaker 1: some buggery with an animal, that means part of the
Speaker 1: human stays inside of it, So if anyone was to
Speaker 1: eat that pig, it would be cannibalism obviously. So indeed
Speaker 1: the sow was slain with the sword, and then George
Speaker 1: was escorted up to the gallows, and while he was there,
Speaker 1: the record says that he began to speak to the
Speaker 1: youth about him, basically telling them to use him as
Speaker 1: an example that they shouldn't neglect and despise the means
Speaker 1: of grace. George also admitted, because of his atheism that
Speaker 1: that justified his sentence as righteous. Then they tightened the
Speaker 1: news around his neck and kicked away the stand, and
Speaker 1: the core wrecker says, now he was ready to die,
Speaker 1: and he must go presently to hell. So much for
Speaker 1: mercy rip George Spencer. Now some ads, we're back, baby.
Speaker 1: I think this is kind of a fun tidbit. But
Speaker 1: in twenty fifteen, George Spencer's case was reviewed by a judge,
Speaker 1: because that's the important work the criminal justice system should
Speaker 1: be doing right now, pardoning a man from sixteen forty one. Anyway,
Speaker 1: but they found that he was not guilty of any crimes,
Speaker 1: as it would have been a biological impossibility for him
Speaker 1: to father that piglet in case you weren't aware of that,
Speaker 1: we can't have kids with pigs or cows or really
Speaker 1: any barnyard creature or critter at all, So stop.
Speaker 2: Trying, okay.
Speaker 1: And the judge of viewing the case also said that
Speaker 1: it was clear that there was lots of coercion in
Speaker 1: this confession. And here's the thing that's like pretty crazy
Speaker 1: about it is that if George Spencer had not confessed,
Speaker 1: he would have not hanged because technically they needed two
Speaker 1: witnesses and one of the witnesses was George, and then
Speaker 1: they said that the other witness was the stillborn pig.
Speaker 1: And there's actually another case that's very similar to this,
Speaker 1: but this time the guy being accused of buggery refused
Speaker 1: to confess, and so he didn't hang. It also happened
Speaker 1: in New Haven, just a few years after George Spencer's death.
Speaker 1: This happened in sixteen forty seven, and the name of
Speaker 1: the guy hence literally Thomas Hogg. Like Thomas Hogg, Like
Speaker 1: George Spencer, Thomas Hogg wasn't well liked by.
Speaker 2: The people of New Haven.
Speaker 1: He was a thief and a liar, but people seemed
Speaker 1: to specifically not like him because sometimes his dick was out,
Speaker 1: like he claimed he had this like hernia and his dick,
Speaker 1: and it made it painful, so sometimes, you know, he
Speaker 1: just had to pull it out. And like mister Spencer,
Speaker 1: mister Hogg was accused of fothering some piglets because again,
Speaker 1: these two pigs that were born, they said that they
Speaker 1: looked like him. His employer said it was a sign
Speaker 1: from God, because one of the pigs was fair and
Speaker 1: white skin like hog, and the other had a head
Speaker 1: like a child's in one eye like him, the bigger
Speaker 1: on the right side. But mister Hogg was like, hmm,
Speaker 1: I did not have sexual relations with that pig. He
Speaker 1: denied it, despite people pressuring him into a confession. He
Speaker 1: was like no, no, no, no, I did not do that.
Speaker 1: So the governor of the New Haven Colony decided to
Speaker 1: conduct an experiment. They needed proof that mister Hog was
Speaker 1: a hogman inlaid with the lady of pigs.
Speaker 2: So this is what they did.
Speaker 1: They brought mister Hogg to the barn where the pigs
Speaker 1: were kept and told him to scratch behind the ear
Speaker 1: of the sows to see if his touch would arouse them.
Speaker 1: Who knows if his dick was in or out at
Speaker 1: this point. Well, he scratched the ear of one pig,
Speaker 1: and wooie, did she get turned on. According to the reports,
Speaker 1: there appeared a working of lust and the sow insomuch
Speaker 1: that she poured out seed before them. I have no
Speaker 1: idea what that means is I feel like maybe means
Speaker 1: the pig was squirting.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: But then they needed more evidence than just one sow,
Speaker 1: so they asked mister Hog to scratch behind the ear
Speaker 1: of another one to see if she would also get aroused.
Speaker 2: But unfortunately, she.
Speaker 1: Must have not found him very attractive and did not
Speaker 1: produce any seed.
Speaker 2: I guess he should have whipped his I don't know.
Speaker 1: Ergo, the results were inconclusive. There is no proof that
Speaker 1: mister Hogg was a sexy man to these pigs. And
Speaker 1: since mister Hogg refused to admit to the crime, they
Speaker 1: couldn't hang him because he had to be his own witness,
Speaker 1: But because no one really seemed to like him, they
Speaker 1: did sentence him to hard labor for just being obnoxious
Speaker 1: aka lying and stealing and having his dick out. Now,
Speaker 1: if anything, the stories of Thomas Hogg and George Spencer
Speaker 1: can teach us that it is very important to be likable,
Speaker 1: otherwise you might be accused of banging a pig, even
Speaker 1: if you're not caught in the act. But unfortunately, in
Speaker 1: New Haven, even being likable is not enough, especially if
Speaker 1: you are caught getting wiggley with that Pigly.
Speaker 2: The last dude we're.
Speaker 1: Talking about today, his name is William Potter and he
Speaker 1: was one of the first people to settle in New Haven.
Speaker 1: He was part of John Davenport's exclusive and Esteemed congregation
Speaker 1: and he was a presecs as the landowner who was
Speaker 1: doing well. He had a wife and a bunch of kids.
Speaker 1: He was respected a family man.
Speaker 2: And this is.
Speaker 1: Towards the end of the New Haven colony being its
Speaker 1: own little colony. This is. In sixteen sixty two, William
Speaker 1: Potter was about sixty and he had recently been excused
Speaker 1: from military service because he was quote a.
Speaker 2: Weak infirmed man.
Speaker 1: But one day, one of his teenage sons was just
Speaker 1: out about on their farm, probably just minding his own business,
Speaker 1: when he came across a horrible site. His daddy, the
Speaker 1: Venerable William Potter, was screwing one of their soals talk
Speaker 1: about childhood trauma. After the sun saw this, he went
Speaker 1: to his mom and was like, Mom, I just saw
Speaker 1: something real bad.
Speaker 2: Dad was out there, balls deep and a piggy.
Speaker 1: By the way, that is not a direct quote, but
Speaker 1: I'm just saying if you had that news and you
Speaker 1: told your mom about it, you'd probably expect them to
Speaker 1: be like, holy hell, that's crazy. But instead, his mom,
Speaker 1: Francis Potter, said to her son, Yeah, your dad does
Speaker 1: that sometimes. What what okay? Apparently Francis Potter had also
Speaker 1: stumbled upon her husband's indiscretions.
Speaker 2: Specifically, about ten years prior, she had.
Speaker 1: Caught him doing a doggie style with a doggie technically
Speaker 1: in the official record their bitch, and he had implored
Speaker 1: her not to tell the authorities. William even hanged the bitch,
Speaker 1: hoping that would undo his sins.
Speaker 2: And release him from the temptation. But now, in.
Speaker 1: Sixteen sixty two, the son and the mom they decided,
Speaker 1: for reasons unknown exactly, they decided that they would confront
Speaker 1: William Potter and officially turn him into the authorities. And
Speaker 1: they knew this accusation would likely lead him to the gallows.
Speaker 1: But you know, they probably didn't want to be awashed
Speaker 1: with his sins. You know, I hate when that happens,
Speaker 1: when you get washed with other people's sins. So, according
Speaker 1: to the court record, the mom and son approached William
Speaker 1: and they said, hey, we saw what you did, and
Speaker 1: we know you did it. And then William, he quote
Speaker 1: stood in a stupid way making denial of what was testified.
Speaker 1: But then his wife was like, hey, remember that if
Speaker 1: you are guilty, God would bring it forth to light.
Speaker 1: Ak even if you don't say anything, God will tell
Speaker 1: on you. He's a big old snitch. And indeed, after
Speaker 1: the son and mom informed one of the magistrates, William
Speaker 1: Potter did confess Joila God hath brought it from his
Speaker 1: own mouth. So William goes to the court room in
Speaker 1: May sixteen sixty two, and he told the magistrates that
Speaker 1: the first time he had had these terrible temptations was
Speaker 1: when he was about eleven years old. But then the
Speaker 1: temptations followed him to New England. When he first arrived
Speaker 1: in the New Haven Colony, he started working on one
Speaker 1: of the magistrates' farms, and while he was at work,
Speaker 1: he did a little moomoo play with a cow. Now
Speaker 1: there's this other dude who was also caught doing buggery
Speaker 1: with a cow at some point, and his accuser called
Speaker 1: it the devil's milking. So William had done some devil's
Speaker 1: milking for sure by right after he had apparently committed
Speaker 1: that act. That was around the same time that ugly
Speaker 1: ass George Spencer had been hanged, and William Potter was
Speaker 1: startled and did not wish to meet the same bait,
Speaker 1: so he tried to resist all the temptations, and yet
Speaker 1: the lust followed him to his own farm, and he
Speaker 1: said that the day his son discovered him, he had
Speaker 1: no heart to speak to him, but was affected with tears.
Speaker 2: Boo who boo who.
Speaker 1: William Potter said that after he had confessed to his
Speaker 1: wife and son, he and his wife walked about their
Speaker 1: farm and William actually pointed out all of the animals
Speaker 1: he had banged. There were some sows, a year old heifer,
Speaker 1: a two year old heifer, a cow, three sheep, his
Speaker 1: late man, and of course the bitch he had already hanged.
Speaker 1: The magistrate conferred, they read William Potter the law, and
Speaker 1: they decided there really could be no other decision than death.
Speaker 1: So William Potter was condemned to hang in the gallows
Speaker 1: until dead, and again all the animals would also be slain,
Speaker 1: and officially he and the animals were executed on June sixth,
Speaker 1: sixteen sixty two.
Speaker 2: What an episode.
Speaker 1: Really have learned a lot about New Haven about bestiality. Obviously, Now,
Speaker 1: people don't get executed for.
Speaker 2: Beastiality in some states. You know, it's a felony.
Speaker 1: Some states is a misdemeanor, and technically it's there is
Speaker 1: no law against it in New Mexico and West Virginia.
Speaker 2: So what But if.
Speaker 1: Any men felt personally victimized during this episode because all
Speaker 1: the cases involved dudes.
Speaker 2: Being executed, don't worry.
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