Radiation sickness really can bring the symptoms of your nightmares… Knowing that the company that is responsible for it knew about the dangers makes my blood boil
Most companies of that era utilized radioactive materials like radium and touted them as Health Products. A great many items we're marketed and used to the detriment of many many people. There was a health drink that contained radium it was radium water this guy got so addicted to it he drank it by the bottle needless to say his face fall off and then he died. Lots and lots of people died or got radiation poisoning not just chicks with paint brushes
@@queenche1106 actually it was brought up to their attention after the first wave of radiation poisoning but they ignored it and continued the business
And to paint their lips, teeth, eyebrows, etc while in the factory since nobody has told them it was super radioactive. Also they had to use their lips to thin the pencils everytime they used so it wouldn't mess the numbers in the clocks.
Had a great aunt that did this job, she told my father that she never licked the brush because she thought her mother would tell her that was gross and unladylike. Saved her from a lot worse health problems.
@@ess531 they really really aren't. Besides it's just the sort of thing I'd imagine my own friends doing, barring any thought of thd stuff being radiated of course. I remember one high school dance I went to where the students where cutting open their glows ticks and using it as face paint and leaving glow in the dark handprints on the walls. Adults can be just as silly
Radium was actually seen also as a cure for medicine so a man (I forgot his name) took a teaspoon of radium a day and this was recommended by a doctor. He did feel better somehow and began taking more than a teaspoon a day. Eventually his spine started to hurt lot and his bones. One day when he went to the dentist, a touch made him jaw break.
Ebenezer McBurney Byers was a wealthy American socialite, sportsman, and industrialist. He won the 1906 U.S. Amateur in golf. He earned notoriety in the early 1930s when he died from multiple radiation-induced cancers after consuming Radithor, a popular patent medicine made from radium dissolved in water.
Yea and in that story when his jaw fell they needed to do surgery for totally removing it and holes later on started to form in his skull . It's so sad bc he was young and it was doctor's idea
The reason that the radium girls story has stuck with me is because I once saw a duo (speech acting thing) about it and it literally sent chills down my spine. The two girls played some of the girls and told their story.
Not to mention these where photos that were Meant to be seen for the sake of bringing awareness at the time as everyone was painting themselves and their own teeth with the stuff for that "Soft Glow", even consuming it when using their lips to refine the brushes they used so they wouldn't mess up the numbers on the clocks they were painting.
Just a small correction, they knew that the paint contained radium and that's partially why they took the job, at the time radium was thought to be a miracle drug that could cure anything and had only health-giving properties, radium was given in water, injections, makeup and more. They didn't realize they were killing themselves, they even thought the opposite. So many lives were lost before they realized what was happening many years later.
we did a play on this story in my school’s threatre program!! it was so fun to work on, but we did have to actually eat the paint for the parts…luckily it wasn’t ACTUAL radiation paint. we even had a radium girl attend one of our shows!
@@moreespressolessdepresso6834 At the show my school did they used something with dish soap (I can’t remember what, I didn’t do the show, only heard the stories) to make it glow- so safe to put on their bodies but not necessarily pleasant to lick lol. It’s all acting
The higher-ups were telling everyone these young women had syphilis, so a lot of them didn't come forward right away when they got sick too and they were using this as nail polish as well.
@@ChildofYAH Don’t get confused with the government and individual companies. The government has everything to lose by lying and misinforming, companies don’t have an entire country to lose.
I think about this every day myself. I constantly draw a mental line back generations, and think about how, 200 years ago, the world was only just beginning to turn into the one of today
@@StaticYonder the creator does not have creator. It existed just like that. For example: A Painter and a drawing. The product is the drawing and the creator of the drawing is the painter. Nothing more. I know it's hard to believe that the creator is the end but it works like that. I also doubt that there's probably something that created the creator because it doest make sense;however, as I said "it works just like that." The creator is the beginning and the ending - just remember this
@@alexbread9522 1. Prove it 2. If the creator is the beginning and the end, why have a creator? Makes more sense to just say thats how the universe works. Your paint analogy doesn't work because the painter or creator didnt create the canvas, it was already there, meaning hes not the divine creator because the canvas isnt his The universe has no creator, if it does, we'll never know it
My science teacher actually told us about the first one. Somebody asked about how people found out that radium was glow in the dark, and my teacher told this story.
The girls also paint their lips, teeth, eyebrows, etc while in the factory, since nobody has told them it was super radioactive. Also they had to use their lips to thin the pencils everytime they used so it wouldn't mess the numbers in the clocks.
No, they knew that it was radioactive, at the time they thought it was healthy, and there were products like radium water that were supposed to make you live longer
@@probablyahuman6850 honestly no, male workers there knew of it and at the time, women weren't given proper education so they weren't aware of what even radiation was. So people used that to their own advantage and sent women in these factories. I'm not sure about wether they told them of the consequences or not, but I feel like they didn't.
@@avuaronar6815 they were encouraged to use it. There are many, wonderful documentaries based around these women and they are all HEARTBREAKING stories
@@clownrat5759 encouraging is definetely the right word for what happened to them tbh.. although I've only watched a couple of documentaries so I'm not so sure abt everything.
@@avuaronar6815 The higher-ups eventually found out it was making people sick but they didn’t tell the girls or reveal it to the public so they could keep profiting off of it, and that’s where the syphilis lie came in. These were young girls of a poor background in a time women weren’t “supposed” to be working, they were already villanized by society so the lie that they were sexually indecent was easily believed unfortunately.
Fun fact about the lipstick killer: The man they arrested was actually only 17 y/o and only confessed ONCE after days in police custody within round the clock berating, interrogation, and the police straight up telling him he did and and already admitted it. No food or water. No sleep. Just a scared kid. After that point he maintained his innocence even while spending decades in prison. It's a very sad case and I believe the man they incarcerated is completely innocent.
I agree I wholeheartedly believe William was innocent. It amazes me that after another man who was a nurse and already in prison for CM of his own daughter in another state years after the Chicago murders, the police totally disregarded it just because they already had William in custody.
The "radium girls" weren't aware that the paint they used was dangerous at all. They weren't told to wet the brush with their mouths. They did it like most painters of tiny fine things do. At first the company wasn't aware of the dangers of radium. They didn't hire them knowing they would die. What they actually did was everything possible to cover up the fact that the women were suffering and inevitably dying. They hid the information from the ladies after they found out. They paid to keep it all secret. Many women were paid off while they were literally falling apart. It was a horrible thing. They painted their nails with it. They even painted their lips with it. No clue they were killing themselves and the people they contacted daily. It's a very sad bit of history.
Not to be that person but that's why it said *weren't* not *aren't* . NOW we get to learn about it. But at the time higher ups would say those girls had syphilis or other at that time "shameful" things about the girls, that they put it upon themselves and stuff. This was a reason why most of them didn't come forward at first.
The women were not told to lick the paint brush, one of the girls figured out that rolling the paint brush on her lip made a finer point and saved time , in production and the boss agreed and encouraged it.
bro i hate these types of videos. “you weren’t meant to see this” as if the cameraman was like: “yeah this one will never be seen again” there’s literally no reason i shouldn’t have seen these photos
for this video you “weren’t meant to see” it because people weren’t meant to see the effects of radioactive poisoning on the girls at the time period of the photos
@@bunnywavyxx9524 but they were never genuinely hidden from the public. if it were the effects of a secret weapon at the time, then i actually wasn’t supposed to see it. but that’s not what this is.
@@SafeBurrito5465 it's more also an emphasis on how the people those girls worked for tried to hide the fact that whatever happened to them, happened because of the material their company used to work with. They said stuff like "the girls have syphilis". So no you weren't meant to see these effects at that time or atleast weren't meant to know, as a costumer for example, that what is seen on the photo was the effect of the material used for your clocks. It makes sense really to say "you weren't meant to see". What wouldn't make sense is "you aren't meant to see", since we now have the luxury of knowledge and know what happened.
If that's true I feel bad for the guy. Self control problems suck especially when they get _this_ bad! I hope he got some kind of help or at least evaluation :(
@@caki4695 i wouldn't feel bad for this guy at all, mental health isn't an excuse for murder in the slightest. Hope he gets the death penalty if he didnt already
I would definitely recommend the book “Radium Girls”. It shows many different accounts of girls who suffered during this time due to radiation poisoning.
The fact that she had to say before I unalive more… CZcams cannot be that serious with the guidelines like seriously we’re not even allowed to say the word kill anymore?
@@tyler449 Some people have a personality disorder which causes for them to have what they believe to be a more powerful evil person who lives inside of them. In most cases, this "person" has a hunger or desire to reek havoc on the world by killing people instantly with their attacks. In others, it calls for a much slower attack which ends up in cases like this. In very few case, the person feels like they can't stop themselves but are scared to turn themselves in so they leave messages or, like in one case, dial 911 anonymously and confess to their crime in hopes of feeling better
I own a really good book about this!! It’s pretty cheap and it’s really well put together (though it is kind of a long read)! It’s called The Radium Girls : The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women by Kate Moore
I read this for school! Really information and it details how the families suffered as well. The women's husband's really did try to help them and it was heartbreaking about hearing the stories of everyone going into debt.
It's sad that Mollie Maggia died at just 24 because of the radium paint. She was too young to die and also, her jaw had to be removed from her body because of the radium. Fly high Mollie Maggia 🕊️
they actually did know it was Radium, however they didn't understand that that was the cause of all the health problems they were experiencing. the book called "Radium Girls" goes into extreme depth. the girls actually loved the idea of using Radium, as when the powdered pigment used in the dial paints got on their clothes and hair and teeth, they liked how it glowed in the dark. the boss at the time said that it wasn't dangerous, however, the scientist who had the specimen actually burnt at massive hole through his jacket whole overseas to deliver a speech about the substance, and he had also damaged his hand and had a giant burn on his side, as the radiation from the specimen he collected was so powerful even in small quantities. the girl who had the tooth ache eventually completely lost her jaw, but because she was adamant it wasn't the Radium, the doctors assigned to her said it was syphilis, and she later died from those injuries. one other girl lost her hair, one girl lost her finger nails, one lost eyesight, one lost the ability to have children, and one other girl had completely lost her ability to walk. the scientists at the time didn't want to disclose the dangers of said specimen because the women working finally had a pay equal to men and were directly supporting the veterans during the war. such a sad story, but I highly recommend you read Radium girls. it is very graphic, so if you are easily frightened, squeamish, etc, it isn't something you should partlae in. but thank you for talkin about this!!!!! 💙
I read that book, such and interesting but sad story, very inspiring how even though they were suffering so much they still fought in court. The book also mention an interesting thing which is, it seemed the more they did the worse it got
I was looking through some old shit in my grandma's house a couple days back and found a clock that glowed in the dark. Didn't think much of it and threwit into a landfill nearby... Oh no.....
Dude the radium girls used it for nail polish AND makeup because they were told it was good for you, they kept giving them doctors from the company that told them they had syphilis so they wouldn’t tell
I did a play for this. Kathryn thought that Phosphorus was in the paint. That's what made it glow. True story, one of the girls had a nightmare where all of the factory workers were coughing up blood and black stuff around their eyes. Her friends with blood on her shirt and stuff. Phossy jaw and all that stuff is incorporated with it. They painted their teeth, face and nails with it.
The first one reminds me of something I watched about women getting phossy jaw In matchmaking factories, they were exposed to and worked with white phosphorous, which over time cause necrosis.
dude what. youtube would take the video down 😭😭 even then, who cares? why are people getting triggered over words nowadays. the english language isn't fucked, the snowflakes who think they're english majors are
CZcams's guidelines and rules are the reason people have to censor themselves or come up with different ways of saying things. It's not because she's trying to sugar-coat it, she just would be at risk of possibly getting the video flagged, or even taken down. CZcams wants everything to be "family freindly". It's bullshit in my opinion
To correct a few things up, they did know it was radium. They worked there because in their time it was said that the radium was supposed to help you feel better and make you healthy. They would put radium all over their body to look over. The company knew that it was dangerous but kept on letting them work there. Hope this help!
They originally only used radium for military clocks and watches until it became so popular due to its glow in the dark properties, they started using it for everything. Not only was there radium make up, they used it to produce a multitude of daily things like dinnerware, childrens toys, paint, creams, anything you could possibly use to make something glow or have a unique color, would have some form of radium in it. Its why so many people died from it, not only did women die from licking paint brushes, they died for a beauty regimen too.
Radiation sickness really can bring the symptoms of your nightmares… Knowing that the company that is responsible for it knew about the dangers makes my blood boil
Most companies of that era utilized radioactive materials like radium and touted them as Health Products. A great many items we're marketed and used to the detriment of many many people. There was a health drink that contained radium it was radium water this guy got so addicted to it he drank it by the bottle needless to say his face fall off and then he died. Lots and lots of people died or got radiation poisoning not just chicks with paint brushes
They knew??
Around that time nobody knew radium was harmful
@@kaisynleach4223 name??
@@queenche1106 actually it was brought up to their attention after the first wave of radiation poisoning but they ignored it and continued the business
I changed this because ya’ll are being children.
Jesus Christ
Omg what that's bad I feel so bad for them
And to paint their lips, teeth, eyebrows, etc while in the factory since nobody has told them it was super radioactive.
Also they had to use their lips to thin the pencils everytime they used so it wouldn't mess the numbers in the clocks.
As well as makeup and decorations on clothing
Trust the Government! They only want to take care of you!
Radium is safe. Totally safe... Don't be anti-science!
Not me reading "For heavens sake eat me-" 💀
LMAO SAME BAHAHA
Me too!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Lol
Its "for heavens sake *catch* me"
I read that to
“Snap girl, I think you dropped something. My jaw”
Wha-
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JAIL 💀💀💀
STOP😭
NO YOU DID NOT
Had a great aunt that did this job, she told my father that she never licked the brush because she thought her mother would tell her that was gross and unladylike. Saved her from a lot worse health problems.
That's insane that something so mundane as not being ladylike saved her from even worse trauma
🧢
@@pinkmosey get some b*tches
@@pinkmosey pipe down mosey no one cares about your emojis
@@pinkmosey how would you know?
theyd also paint it onto their teeth and in their hair when they went out at night theyd glow and stand out.
So you’re basically telling me the radium girls were the first OG ravers?
Imagine the guys they'd kissed 😬
@@jessicaable5095 lmao they are joking
@@ess531 no they arent
@@ess531 they really really aren't. Besides it's just the sort of thing I'd imagine my own friends doing, barring any thought of thd stuff being radiated of course. I remember one high school dance I went to where the students where cutting open their glows ticks and using it as face paint and leaving glow in the dark handprints on the walls. Adults can be just as silly
Radium was actually seen also as a cure for medicine so a man (I forgot his name) took a teaspoon of radium a day and this was recommended by a doctor. He did feel better somehow and began taking more than a teaspoon a day. Eventually his spine started to hurt lot and his bones. One day when he went to the dentist, a touch made him jaw break.
I heard this story before
Shitty doctor
Probably the placebo effect, you convince yourself it's working so you feel better when in reality it's doing nothing or making you worse.
Ebenezer McBurney Byers was a wealthy American socialite, sportsman, and industrialist. He won the 1906 U.S. Amateur in golf. He earned notoriety in the early 1930s when he died from multiple radiation-induced cancers after consuming Radithor, a popular patent medicine made from radium dissolved in water.
Yea and in that story when his jaw fell they needed to do surgery for totally removing it and holes later on started to form in his skull . It's so sad bc he was young and it was doctor's idea
The reason that the radium girls story has stuck with me is because I once saw a duo (speech acting thing) about it and it literally sent chills down my spine. The two girls played some of the girls and told their story.
Do you know if there's a video anywhere of this? I love this story and watch everything about it
Just to let you know their bones are still glowing in their coffins to this day
No I'm gonna dream about that
their bones are gone to ashs now
@@scxrletparker314 no
@@kyrcamille9106 look it up their bones glow and there are picture online of them
@@yesyesyes666
Any key words? Idk what to search about or should i just seach about the radium girls coffin?
“You weren’t meant to see”
*proceeds to see them*
"MY EYES!!"
Well i guess now i need to go blind 😎
Actually we weren’t meant to see these, it’s just popped up in our fyp
Yes!!! Stop adding that stupid clickbait, ppl sound stupid trying to sound smart!
Not to mention these where photos that were Meant to be seen for the sake of bringing awareness at the time as everyone was painting themselves and their own teeth with the stuff for that "Soft Glow", even consuming it when using their lips to refine the brushes they used so they wouldn't mess up the numbers on the clocks they were painting.
Just a small correction, they knew that the paint contained radium and that's partially why they took the job, at the time radium was thought to be a miracle drug that could cure anything and had only health-giving properties, radium was given in water, injections, makeup and more. They didn't realize they were killing themselves, they even thought the opposite. So many lives were lost before they realized what was happening many years later.
we did a play on this story in my school’s threatre program!! it was so fun to work on, but we did have to actually eat the paint for the parts…luckily it wasn’t ACTUAL radiation paint. we even had a radium girl attend one of our shows!
was it edible paint, or just regular paint? Because if it was just regular then that isn’t just supposed to be consumed lol
@@moreespressolessdepresso6834 At the show my school did they used something with dish soap (I can’t remember what, I didn’t do the show, only heard the stories) to make it glow- so safe to put on their bodies but not necessarily pleasant to lick lol. It’s all acting
I love watching the schools do radium girls!!
The higher-ups were telling everyone these young women had syphilis, so a lot of them didn't come forward right away when they got sick too and they were using this as nail polish as well.
Wow 😮
Yikes! Someone said that they used this on eyebrows and teeth, though I’m unsure if that’s true.
The government lies about EVERYTHING, don't put your trust in them
@@ChildofYAH Don’t get confused with the government and individual companies. The government has everything to lose by lying and misinforming, companies don’t have an entire country to lose.
thanks for the info its really helpful also I am your 3k like😎
You ever wonder how our ancestors survived long enough for you to be created. Every time I hear about the past I think "I would not have survived"
I think about this every day myself. I constantly draw a mental line back generations, and think about how, 200 years ago, the world was only just beginning to turn into the one of today
The MOST HIGH CREATOR of EVERYTHING is the reason for EVERYTHING!
@@LuvDaSkinUAreIn So what created the creator?
@@StaticYonder the creator does not have creator. It existed just like that.
For example: A Painter and a drawing. The product is the drawing and the creator of the drawing is the painter. Nothing more.
I know it's hard to believe that the creator is the end but it works like that. I also doubt that there's probably something that created the creator because it doest make sense;however, as I said "it works just like that."
The creator is the beginning and the ending - just remember this
@@alexbread9522
1. Prove it
2. If the creator is the beginning and the end, why have a creator? Makes more sense to just say thats how the universe works. Your paint analogy doesn't work because the painter or creator didnt create the canvas, it was already there, meaning hes not the divine creator because the canvas isnt his
The universe has no creator, if it does, we'll never know it
My science teacher actually told us about the first one. Somebody asked about how people found out that radium was glow in the dark, and my teacher told this story.
This takes the idiom "my jaw dropped to the floor" to a whole another level
JAIL☠️
Ha
Ha
Ha.
STOP 💀 💀 💀
the cell welcomes you
My god
If you look at the Radium girl you can see a tear streaming down from her eye to her cheek :(
I see it
That’s the side of her nose. Very sad but there’s no tear
The girls also paint their lips, teeth, eyebrows, etc while in the factory, since nobody has told them it was super radioactive.
Also they had to use their lips to thin the pencils everytime they used so it wouldn't mess the numbers in the clocks.
No, they knew that it was radioactive, at the time they thought it was healthy, and there were products like radium water that were supposed to make you live longer
@@probablyahuman6850 honestly no, male workers there knew of it and at the time, women weren't given proper education so they weren't aware of what even radiation was. So people used that to their own advantage and sent women in these factories. I'm not sure about wether they told them of the consequences or not, but I feel like they didn't.
@@avuaronar6815 they were encouraged to use it. There are many, wonderful documentaries based around these women and they are all HEARTBREAKING stories
@@clownrat5759 encouraging is definetely the right word for what happened to them tbh.. although I've only watched a couple of documentaries so I'm not so sure abt everything.
@@avuaronar6815 The higher-ups eventually found out it was making people sick but they didn’t tell the girls or reveal it to the public so they could keep profiting off of it, and that’s where the syphilis lie came in. These were young girls of a poor background in a time women weren’t “supposed” to be working, they were already villanized by society so the lie that they were sexually indecent was easily believed unfortunately.
Fun fact about the lipstick killer:
The man they arrested was actually only 17 y/o and only confessed ONCE after days in police custody within round the clock berating, interrogation, and the police straight up telling him he did and and already admitted it. No food or water. No sleep. Just a scared kid.
After that point he maintained his innocence even while spending decades in prison.
It's a very sad case and I believe the man they incarcerated is completely innocent.
They tortured him
They beat him and told him that if he doesn't confess and gets convicted without confession he'll be executed
I agree I wholeheartedly believe William was innocent. It amazes me that after another man who was a nurse and already in prison for CM of his own daughter in another state years after the Chicago murders, the police totally disregarded it just because they already had William in custody.
The "radium girls" weren't aware that the paint they used was dangerous at all. They weren't told to wet the brush with their mouths. They did it like most painters of tiny fine things do. At first the company wasn't aware of the dangers of radium. They didn't hire them knowing they would die. What they actually did was everything possible to cover up the fact that the women were suffering and inevitably dying. They hid the information from the ladies after they found out. They paid to keep it all secret. Many women were paid off while they were literally falling apart. It was a horrible thing. They painted their nails with it. They even painted their lips with it. No clue they were killing themselves and the people they contacted daily. It's a very sad bit of history.
"You weren't meant to see"
-has already learned in history class-
Not to be that person but that's why it said *weren't* not *aren't* . NOW we get to learn about it. But at the time higher ups would say those girls had syphilis or other at that time "shameful" things about the girls, that they put it upon themselves and stuff. This was a reason why most of them didn't come forward at first.
"you weren't meant to see" well someone took the pictures specifically for the world to see
I feel so bad for the last one cause it’s clear that he wants to stop but can’t control himself
The women were not told to lick the paint brush, one of the girls figured out that rolling the paint brush on her lip made a finer point and saved time , in production and the boss agreed and encouraged it.
"L + your jaw fell off"
-some guy at 1916
"Ratio" - Some guy in 1918 probably
@@therussianbullfrog3975 counter ratio -some guy probably in 1920
@@therussianbullfrog3975 you mean radio 😭
@@neri1249 no?
@@therussianbullfrog3975
radium
"For hEAvenS SAke eAteh me BeFore 1 Rill more I eAmmot eontrol myselF"
Edit: y'all are so creative lmfao💀💀
Omg yes😂 that’s what I thought too at first lmao
it's reminding me of the killer from criminal minds, he left the same message on the wall, maybe they got the idea from there🤔it's interesting
When the serial killer failed preschool
@@Zephur0s LMFAO💀
@@fay27 yeah I saw it also from another movie movies and tv shows often base a lot of their killers off of famous real life killers
Her: "photos you weren't meant to see"
Also her: * proceeds to show them anyways *
Crazy right?? Like I bet he broke some rules going through old classified files online! 🥴
bro i hate these types of videos. “you weren’t meant to see this” as if the cameraman was like: “yeah this one will never be seen again” there’s literally no reason i shouldn’t have seen these photos
I interpreted it as “this is something so tragic that it never should have happened”, but I do see your point as well
for this video you “weren’t meant to see” it because people weren’t meant to see the effects of radioactive poisoning on the girls at the time period of the photos
@@bunnywavyxx9524 but they were never genuinely hidden from the public. if it were the effects of a secret weapon at the time, then i actually wasn’t supposed to see it. but that’s not what this is.
@@SafeBurrito5465 it's more also an emphasis on how the people those girls worked for tried to hide the fact that whatever happened to them, happened because of the material their company used to work with. They said stuff like "the girls have syphilis". So no you weren't meant to see these effects at that time or atleast weren't meant to know, as a costumer for example, that what is seen on the photo was the effect of the material used for your clocks. It makes sense really to say "you weren't meant to see". What wouldn't make sense is "you aren't meant to see", since we now have the luxury of knowledge and know what happened.
I think it just add excitement’too awful to even look at’
“For heavens sake catch me before I uNaLive more I cannot control myself”
if I'm not mistaken, doesn't it say kill more?🤔
I'm searching for this cmt
@@adrianerice8629 yeah it does, but due to TikTok’s rules, you can’t say kill or other “violent” words, so ppl have to get creative
If that's true I feel bad for the guy. Self control problems suck especially when they get _this_ bad! I hope he got some kind of help or at least evaluation :(
@@caki4695 i wouldn't feel bad for this guy at all, mental health isn't an excuse for murder in the slightest. Hope he gets the death penalty if he didnt already
That first photo is jaw-dropping.
Hahahah good one
I would definitely recommend the book “Radium Girls”. It shows many different accounts of girls who suffered during this time due to radiation poisoning.
I Remember Hearing About Them.... Some Of Them Come Home After Working There Covered In SO Much Radio Active Material Theyre Husbands Said They Glew
Glew lol that's cute
No such word as grew, its glowed- past tense.
Very sad story, all this for profit
They started to actually shine, which is why so much women took the job and put it on their clothes & bodies.
@@deborahklinlger8565 Funny I Never Said Grew. But Thank You For Reading My Comment Fully BEFORE Responding 😂
@@meowrchl97 Im Glad Those Women Were Funny For You
She says un alive that threw me off
probably to not get demonitized
Metaphysically Challenged.
tiktok guidelines yk
Is that what she said?.lol..thanks now i can sleep
@Leviathan that's cheesier
I remember when the hands of alarm clocks had that green glow-in-the dark paint... as a kid, I was fascinated by it...
*I was part of the Theatre Drama our school: RADIUM GIRLS*
MY SCHOOL DID THAT SHOW
The fact that she had to say before I unalive more… CZcams cannot be that serious with the guidelines like seriously we’re not even allowed to say the word kill anymore?
I'm sure the software cannot understand and differentiate context, so it just picks the word
it’s from tiktok their guidelines are strict
@@vimto2838 Are they?
Careful you could be shadow banned. Had to create a new account cos they wouldnt respond.
What is the World coming too??
If this was what my teachers taught in history I wouldn't sleep in class
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The idea of a killer wanting himself to be caught cause of his suffering is very disturbing
I'm so glad to be living in an era where we're aware of the dangers of radiation. What a horrifying way to go
The poor guy literally sent a cry for help at the end. The man was truly insane. But what happened to these girls is truly heartbreaking
idk cause if he cared that much why didnt he just turn himself in
@@tyler449 Some people have a personality disorder which causes for them to have what they believe to be a more powerful evil person who lives inside of them. In most cases, this "person" has a hunger or desire to reek havoc on the world by killing people instantly with their attacks. In others, it calls for a much slower attack which ends up in cases like this. In very few case, the person feels like they can't stop themselves but are scared to turn themselves in so they leave messages or, like in one case, dial 911 anonymously and confess to their crime in hopes of feeling better
@@justuravergekpopluvinfeminist ohhh thanks for the info didnt know that
I own a really good book about this!! It’s pretty cheap and it’s really well put together (though it is kind of a long read)! It’s called The Radium Girls : The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women by Kate Moore
I read it for a book report and honestly it was the best informational book I’ve ever read!!
I was looking for a cool book to read, thanks for the idea mate
It’s amazing but pretty long
I read this for school! Really information and it details how the families suffered as well. The women's husband's really did try to help them and it was heartbreaking about hearing the stories of everyone going into debt.
@@doot3316 if you call this theme cool than you''re pretty cold blooded lol. cause its actually more a real life horror/thriller.
I’ve watched so many off these I’m never sleeping again
It's sad that Mollie Maggia died at just 24 because of the radium paint. She was too young to die and also, her jaw had to be removed from her body because of the radium. Fly high Mollie Maggia 🕊️
"Before I unalive more" absolutely knocked me out
The first one is messed up and the second one is too close to where I live- goodbye-💀😭
they actually did know it was Radium, however they didn't understand that that was the cause of all the health problems they were experiencing. the book called "Radium Girls" goes into extreme depth. the girls actually loved the idea of using Radium, as when the powdered pigment used in the dial paints got on their clothes and hair and teeth, they liked how it glowed in the dark. the boss at the time said that it wasn't dangerous, however, the scientist who had the specimen actually burnt at massive hole through his jacket whole overseas to deliver a speech about the substance, and he had also damaged his hand and had a giant burn on his side, as the radiation from the specimen he collected was so powerful even in small quantities. the girl who had the tooth ache eventually completely lost her jaw, but because she was adamant it wasn't the Radium, the doctors assigned to her said it was syphilis, and she later died from those injuries. one other girl lost her hair, one girl lost her finger nails, one lost eyesight, one lost the ability to have children, and one other girl had completely lost her ability to walk. the scientists at the time didn't want to disclose the dangers of said specimen because the women working finally had a pay equal to men and were directly supporting the veterans during the war. such a sad story, but I highly recommend you read Radium girls. it is very graphic, so if you are easily frightened, squeamish, etc, it isn't something you should partlae in. but thank you for talkin about this!!!!! 💙
Wow that’s so sad
I read that book, such and interesting but sad story, very inspiring how even though they were suffering so much they still fought in court. The book also mention an interesting thing which is, it seemed the more they did the worse it got
Very similar to what could be happening now with the kvid vaccines, they won't reveal the actual damage until in too late 🤷🏻♀️
thank you for writing that i read the whole thing, very interesting im gonna go research it now
the factory also tried to hide the scandal by saying that the girls had syphillis, so the favtory was open fir many more years
Not only did they eat it, but on break they would use it was makeup and make faces in the dark. There’s a book about them, it’s actually really good.
Fun fact: The people who painted the clocks with radium also painted their teeth with the same paint as a sort of built-in flashlight
The "unalive" gets me everytime
it's so unnecessary.
@@WinterStones she did it to not get demonetized
@@ahulluws soft generation, i guess
@@ahulluws Anybody who gets "Triggered" by the word kill needs serious therapy, not molycoddling. "Unalive" means literally the same thing
@@ahulluws people with ptsd from war don’t get triggered by the word kill so why should a bunch of teenage girls
I was looking through some old shit in my grandma's house a couple days back and found a clock that glowed in the dark. Didn't think much of it and threwit into a landfill nearby... Oh no.....
"in Chicago"
Me currently in Chicago: ... Looks like I'm not sleeping tonight
U forgot to mention the paintbrushes were using radium which is a million times more radioactive than even uranium.
Srry, my bad. The 2nd one had me confused, thought it says 'eaten'😔
Same 💀
Man fr combined cursive with regular writing
We did a one act play named “These Shining Lives” and it was about the girls and it was so good but so sad
We did that at my school also
The radium girls would a be a *killer* band name.
That girl took “my jaw dropped” too far.
That second scene I’ve seen in criminal minds. Very interesting!
Seems like DID..
What the hell is wrong that adults can't say words like rape, murder, kill, suicide ect.?
CZcams demonetization
Me part way through -
"RADIOACTIVE, RADIOACTIVE"
"Before i unalive more"
I want to know since what day people started using unalive
Can’t say “kill” on TikTok
@@tastemypie1 Tik tok is hella strict i swear to god, even in children's cartoons they use "kill" 💀
"photo's from history you waren't ment to see!!!"
*Literally shows us*
Dude the radium girls used it for nail polish AND makeup because they were told it was good for you, they kept giving them doctors from the company that told them they had syphilis so they wouldn’t tell
they wore their evening dresses to work so after they got done with work they went out and their dresses glowed while they danced~
Fun fact they were told that it was OK to ingest the radium because it would make them prettier
“Un-alive”???? If the words says “Kill”, fucking say it!
CZcams won’t allow it
I did a play for this. Kathryn thought that Phosphorus was in the paint. That's what made it glow. True story, one of the girls had a nightmare where all of the factory workers were coughing up blood and black stuff around their eyes. Her friends with blood on her shirt and stuff. Phossy jaw and all that stuff is incorporated with it. They painted their teeth, face and nails with it.
Teeth:lost
Jaw:dropped
Literally rolled my eyes at “before I unalive more”
Our school play this year was radium girls
Same!
same! i was irene and ms wiley!
*wait wut..*
Bailey sarien has a. Good podcast episode that gives the whole story
The serial killer one is giving me Jeff the killer vibes
The first one reminds me of something I watched about women getting phossy jaw
In matchmaking factories, they were exposed to and worked with white phosphorous, which over time cause necrosis.
Her: photos you weren’t meant to see
Also her: shows them to us
These photos were shown at the time, as was the writing on the wall. You saying that we weren’t meant to see these is ridiculous.
Don’t forget the radium girls also used the paint as face paint 😺
Fun fact radium is one of the most radioactive liquids in the world
Did she really say “unalive more” like kill is a forbidden word..
I never really get the "..you were never meant to see." in videos. When they've always been out there to see.
That second one makes me think of a criminal minds show
That mention from the lipstick killer also got used in Criminal Minds too
Ohhh yeah this story was featured in the “1000 Ways to Die” show
They have a whole movie based on this n Netflix! “Radium Girls”
“Follow for more”💀💀💀
Woah the radium is deadly, what a Jaw Dropping fact.
💀
Poor women tragic. May they rest in peace.
I liked this video til “unalive”
Social media can’t do this shit to language man.
CZcams doesn’t allow it bruh 💀
okayyy? youtube’s not gonna just go “oh okay sorry bro let me change that”
dude what. youtube would take the video down 😭😭 even then, who cares? why are people getting triggered over words nowadays. the english language isn't fucked, the snowflakes who think they're english majors are
@@KarutoZoaldyeck CZcams doesn't???
@@KarutoZoaldyeck I thought it was a TikTok thing
No way! The Radium girls story has actually been turned into a play and I am in it rn!!
Really???
The first one is jaw dropping
😳🤣
That woman took "my jaw dropped" too seriously
Your makeup looks so good
What's wrong with saying the word "Kill" if you're going to be covering scary shit, don't try to candy coat it.
CZcams's guidelines and rules are the reason people have to censor themselves or come up with different ways of saying things. It's not because she's trying to sugar-coat it, she just would be at risk of possibly getting the video flagged, or even taken down. CZcams wants everything to be "family freindly". It's bullshit in my opinion
CZcams doesn’t allow it, the content creator will get demonetized
they knew the paint had radium in it, it was actually an incredible find they just didn't know how dangerous it was
1. Looks like Peter Griffin
"girl lost almost all her teeth"
The picture: has teeth
Her: “Photos from history that you weren’t meant to see!” Me:well don’t show us then-
Bro took my jaw dropped to whole nother level
To correct a few things up, they did know it was radium. They worked there because in their time it was said that the radium was supposed to help you feel better and make you healthy. They would put radium all over their body to look over. The company knew that it was dangerous but kept on letting them work there.
Hope this help!
“uNaLiVe”
omg my grandparents had one of these clocks
They originally only used radium for military clocks and watches until it became so popular due to its glow in the dark properties, they started using it for everything.
Not only was there radium make up, they used it to produce a multitude of daily things like dinnerware, childrens toys, paint, creams, anything you could possibly use to make something glow or have a unique color, would have some form of radium in it.
Its why so many people died from it, not only did women die from licking paint brushes, they died for a beauty regimen too.
Your eyeliner is on point queen.PERIODt😌
"photos from history you weren't meant to see"
alr bet *scrolls*
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