Strangest Things Left in Wills

Some people will leave some strange

things

in their

wills

. Let's talk about that. ♪ (musical theme) ♪ - Good morning mythical. - People are born and do you know what happens? - Many

things

. - They die. - Okay, if you just want to push the - Everybody dies, deal with it. -she puts the bookends together and sets it up that way-And you know what? - you can do that. - Did you know? You can't take anything with you but you can leave what you want and that's what a will is for. People create

wills

so you know what they have

left

to a certain person. - And today we are going to teach you how to - write a great will. - No, we are not. - Let's show you some of the...

No. weirdest things that people... (laughs) But let's do it later. - I love that idea for an episode. - Yes. (laughs) - "How to write a will." - Step one, take a pen. - But people have

left

all the children strange - You should write wills with a pen. things to people and we are going to go over some of the

strangest

ones. - Let me tell you about Solomon Sanborn who - (strange voice) Oh, yeah. We've all heard of. He is an American hat maker in Massachusetts. -He Died in 1871.-Sanborn Hats. He was especially proud of the role Massachusetts played in the Revolutionary War. - As it should have been.

And what do you do when you're especially proud of the role Massachusetts has played in a revolutionary war? - You die. No, when you die you stipulate it in your... Oh. - May your skin become drums. - (laughs) Oh, yes. That's what the boy did. -I wanted his skin to become two drums-I like this. and then he gave the drums to a friend of his with the condition that every June 17 at dawn his friend would play the Solomon Sanborn skin drums and he would play the tune Yankee Doodle at. Of course he would. - Bunker Hill to commemorate the famous battle. -Why wouldn't he do it? -Why wouldn't he do it? - And how come you...

I mean, Yankee Doodle... playing the drums isn't that different, you know? - (both beating Yankee Doodle's beat) I mean, if it's in your head you can hear it, but that doesn't... it sounds like a guy beating a drum. You have to have a flute or something. Make a... Like, don't make a flute. -Hey, but listen...-Side note: the rest of his body was donated for medical research and then composted as fertilizer to help the growth of an American elm, his favorite tree. - I love this man and now it is my duty in life - Yes.

It is to have a better will than him. One request is that I would like to have a guitar... made with strings made from my skin... - Your guts. - My guts. - Your guts, like those of a cat. And you learn to play the guitar... awesome classical guitar and move on - a career classical guitarist. - I'm not going to do that because I have to grow my nails. You have a? Oh yeah. John Bowman. He was... He was dead. (Laughter) He died in 1891. His wife and daughters had died before him, and he believed that through some cult practices he could bring them back to life with him.

There is also possible reincarnation involved. I don't know. It's a bit of a strange deal, but the idea was that they could come back to life, so he ordered the servants to continue... he gave them fifty thousand dollars. A trust of fifty thousand dollars, which was a lot of money in 1891. Yes. And he said, "I want you to continue preparing meals every night in our house in case we show up one day. We'll have something to eat." This is weird and bad logic because, A, zombies eat people. They don't eat food. - Hmm. - And ghosts don't eat food.

But if he returned in good faith, they would be hungry. They would be hungry. They did this... - Hungry. - They did this until 1950, Link. They did this for almost 60 years until the money ran out. I just prepare meals and you can still go to this place today. The house is in Cuttingsville, Vermont and they can go there, but they won't have food. - and check it out. They don't make food anymore because they ran out. I wonder if they ate the leftovers. - Know? - Great question, maybe they gave them to - the pigs. - I hope they gave them to someone, - I mean, someone who's alive? - You know those servants ate that food.

Mark Grenwald was executive editor of the Captain America and Ironman comics at Marvel. He died in 1996 and left a rather strange request. His request was to take her cremated remains, her ashes, -Yes, ashes. - mix them with ink and print a comic book run with their tinted ashes. - Elegant. - Elegant? - Yes. - A little morbid-- - Weird, it's weird. I mean putting yourself... Throwing it into a product is great as an artist, but he did it... do it literally, I just don't know if you can sell that. They did it? Yes. - About 4,000 copies of a print - That's pretty impressive.

The Squadron Supreme trade collection contains one of his most memorable series: his ashes as ink. - I mean, but you have to admit that's... that's cool. - Okay... - Don't you want one of those... - I mean, they put a sticker on the front that says "contains the ashes of the publisher's - authentication." - "It contains human remains." - (laughs) Yeah, I mean... - I hope I can get that comic. As long as you know what you're buying, I think it's okay to sell it. I'm doing that too. Add that to my list. You are doing...?

Are you taking notes for my will? I'm making mental notes that I'll discard shortly. How about Fredric Baur? He was an American chemist and food storage technician. He is known for inventing freeze-dried ice cream! Hello! Stop the presses! That's all you need to know how to do: be amazing! - So, astronaut ice cream? Yes, he did that! He also did some other things. So let me guess he wanted to do that to himself. -No.-his body. He also invented Pringles cans. He invented the cylindrical tube that was used to house Pringles. - This guy is a genius. -I'm sure he came up with something cool-he was so cool, he's dead. -by his body. -He died in 2008... well, you be the judge of that, Link.

He decided that his ashes should be placed in a Pringles can and buried. (laughs) - Is that all? - Yes. - I wanted... - New Pringles flavored with human remains! - Blah. - No, they didn't put Pringles in there... it was just... that's cool. - Then a Pringle tin coffin. Put some of my ashes in a Pringles can too. Some of them... My skin is going to be... My insides are going to be... I haven't even thought about what my skin is going to be like. My drums are going to be... My guts are going to be for the guitar.

I'm going to put myself in a can of Pringles and put myself in a book you're writing. - What happens if you die first? - Did you miss one? - Oh, "put me in a book", you mean ink. - And prepare food for me every day. - What did you just ask me? - Just in case I come back. - What will you do if you die? - For me? I'm going to go in a cardboard box, I've already decided. - Ah OK. - This won't change anything I'm doing. - Okay, whatever it takes. Jeremy Bentham, I've heard of this guy.

British philosopher, social reformer, died 1832. He left his entire estate, including himself, to UCL, the University College of London, under one condition. He will be publicly dissected by his doctor friend. (laughs) Add that to the list! You must do it on this show! Gather around, friends. In this episode of Mythical Good Morning we will analyze Rhett because that is what he wanted. (Talking fast) And then burn it and put it in a Pringles can. - (laughs) - No, Jeremy didn't want to burn it, - he wanted just the opposite. -After that he wanted to preserve himself as what he called a "self-icon." -Yes.-Which basically means prop him up and make him look like a living person.

They took his bones and put them back together and stuffed his clothes with hay like he was a scarecrow and then they shrank his face to preserve it and his face looked so grotesque that they replaced it with wax - head and then... - You don't have it! do this, the guy is dead! -You don't have to go ahead with this- It was his wish. - Kind of thing. - Well, I'm-- you know. You can say, "Hey, guys, he had a great idea, not really..." So look at him sitting in this box, this is the auto icon of him, right there. - He's sitting on the box with his hat... - Yes, it looks like an auto icon.

He has a wax face but looks at the real head. The real head was kept in the box between his feet for some years. And then the students would take the head and say: Play volleyball with her? - hold him for ransom and those things were like that - Oh. - start keeping your head elsewhere. the shrunken head, of course, is wearing his own clothes and is now on display at UCL. Like you're a student, you're walking, you see this guy... - You people from London probably... know this. - Oh, definitely. And it is rumored that he attends council meetings and is marked as present but not voting.

There's a website you can go to and you can rotate it, like look at it 360 degrees. So you don't rotate it, but rather rotate a camera around it? - Yes, simply by scrolling an image. - Don't make it spin. No, it's not Jeremy Bentham on a remote control in a closet. But this really comes full circle for me. If I die first, you have to display me right here. Keep doing the show without me. - You can't get a new host. - "What do you think of that, Rhett?" And then one day my head fell off and then I replaced it with a wax head. - Put a wax head. - And listen, listen, and if you die first... - I will put your real head between your feet.

Do that to me. - Is this a sign or are we about to... are we shaking? handshake? For example, let's shake the air. Air tremor. We're shaking for air with these things. We're shaking with air in this one, it's like a promising pinky with an index finger. - Is this too morbid? - Sorry if that's the case, I'm just trying to get away - I love this episode. - a legacy. - I mean, they made a whole website where you can see it from every angle because that's what I felt like I wanted. Well, we want to thank our sponsor Lynda.com/rhettandlink.

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And it's time to spin the wheel of mythology. We have an Instagram full of square pictures of miniature horses! - Every Monday is miniature horse Monday. - Click to see more mythical things, we have another amazing and interesting testament. Beverly Hills hottie Sandra West was buried with something very interesting. Absurd KickStarter project. Well, we would like you to know our plans after our death. - Good. - And how you can be part of it. Well, all you have to do is commit and you will get many rewards because you spend time with us, our real auto icons. - That's right, for $10 you can play a drum made from our skin. - (both) For $20 you can sit on our laps.

We'll be dead, mind you. (Laughs) We'll be dead but you can sit on our lap. - For $30 what do they gain, Link? - The shame associated with the gift of 20 dollars.