Life During the Black Death Was Pure Horror

Half the people you knew, gone in a single summer. That was the reality for anyone alive in Europe when the plague hit in 1347, and the way it killed them was genuinely horrifying. This video is about what living through it actually felt like, the swellings, the smell, the bodies piling up faster than anyone could bury them, parents abandoning their own children out of pure terror. We get into the eyewitness accounts, the mass graves they've since dug up, the people burned alive over it, and a few things you were probably taught that turn out to be completely wrong. If you’d like to support the channel, you can become a Patreon member here:   / eternalmysteries   Timestamps: 0:00 The Plague Arrives in Europe 13:14 Horror of the Disease 24:47 Agnolo di Tura 58:08 Fear, Religion, and Mass Hysteria 1:26:45 Black Death in the Countryside 1:34:46 Survivors & Legacy