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The original Invasion of the Body Snatchers is considered to be an allegory for McCarthyism
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Many screen writers, directors, and producers reacted to the second Red Scare and the Hollywood blacklist by making movies that had thinly veiled anti-Red Scare message, such as Invasion of the Body Snatchers and The Thing.
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About 'Cemetery Guns', which in the 1800s were set up with tripwires around graves to protect them against body snatchers. Some were fixed around the neck of a corpse & bolted to the bottom of a coffin.
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The “Coffin Torpedo”—a small shotgun secured inside the lid of a coffin to “prevent the unauthorized resurrection of the dead.” The shotgun fired lead balls at whoever pried the lid open and were used as an experimental deterrent to the rising tide of body snatchers in the late 1800s.
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The Butcher of Plainfield, was an murderer and body snatcher. Authorities discovered that Gein had exhumed corpses from local graveyards and fashioned trophies and keepsakes from their bones and skin.
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There is an "Ed Gein Skin Chair" - a chair covered in fake skin and body parts, inspired by the infamous american murderer/body snatcher Edward Gein.
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The dead body of John Scott Harrison (who was President William Henry Harrison's son *and* President Benjamin Harrison's father), was snatched by body snatchers from the funeral home and later was found hanging from a rope under a trap door at Ohio Medical College.
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Cadaver theft was so bad in the 19th century that a special cage called a Mortsafe was sometimes erected on top of gravesites to prevent would-be body snatchers
